Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 18 Tang San's First Soul Skill

"Level 17!"

Matthew's voice trembled, his face filled with shock. "A five-hundred-year-old spirit ring is that powerful? Or is your spirit mutated too much? This is completely illogical!"

"Perhaps the Thousand Roots Banyan is truly a perfect match for my martial soul. During the absorption process, I felt all the energy in the spirit ring being refined by me, and even actively merging into my Blue Silver Grass," Tang San began to exaggerate... no, to explain, since this wasn't exactly a lie. "Therefore, my Blue Silver Grass evolved... Moreover, during the absorption of the spirit ring, I felt a continuous flow of energy from heaven and earth merging into my body until it reached a state of saturation."

"The spirit ring and the martial soul are extremely compatible, with almost zero repulsion; the martial soul evolved during the process of absorbing the spirit ring, causing the energy of heaven and earth to converge on your body." After Tang San's explanation, Matthew finally calmed down and began to consider this possibility—looking at Tang San's changed appearance again, he couldn't help but believe it.

After all, what child's appearance would change so drastically after absorbing a spirit ring?

It must have drawn upon the energy of heaven and earth to transform the body.

"Little San, I don't even know what to say. At this rate, you'll probably become a Great Soul Master in less than a year, right?" Su Yuntao really hoped that his Lone Wolf Martial Soul could also mutate. "In this world, nobles rely on heredity, and commoners rely on mutation. Otherwise, it's very difficult to get ahead."

However, Su Yuntao did not feel jealousy or anything like that.

When the gap is too large, one can only look up to them.

Besides, Tang San awakened his martial soul with my help, so he should call me Brother Tao.

Hey!

Once Tang San becomes famous throughout the Douluo Continent, I, as a Great Soul Master, will have something to brag about—"Even Title Douluos will have to call me Brother Tao!"

Unlike Su Yuntao, who fantasized about the future, Sisi was much more practical, showing concern for Tang San's soul skills: "Little San, what are your soul skills? Tell me, let's see what Blue Silver Grass's first soul skill will be?"

Tang San released his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

Suddenly, a blue silver grass, taller than before, sprouted from the palm of his right hand. Its leaves were more lush, and the veins on them were tinged with silver.

The moment the martial spirit was released, it exuded a life force, and Su Yuntao and Sisi felt their cells become active again.

The elderly Matthew felt as if he had become nine years younger, and his body was much stronger.

"Such a rich aura of life force, Xiao Tang, you wouldn't happen to want to become a healing-type Soul Master, would you?" When Matthew was young, he had seen healing-type Martial Souls. The methods of those healing Soul Masters mainly involved releasing water, light, or similar forms of life force.

But none of them have the same vitality as Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.

This hasn't even used its soul skill yet, and the life force it's emitting is already so dense. If it were to unleash its soul skill, it would be incredible.

However, the Blue Silver Grass martial soul doesn't seem to have the ability to project energy, and neither does the Thousand Root Banyan.

"The most outstanding feature of Blue Silver Grass is its vitality, so I naturally want to enhance its vitality attribute. However, calling it a healing type isn't entirely accurate; I'm going for a support type." Tang San nodded. "Of course, because Blue Silver Grass has a tenacious vitality, and with the Thousand Banyan Spirit Rings compensating for the deficiencies in my martial soul, it's not like I can't go for a control type."

"However, I think the seven major categories that Soul Masters are currently classified into on the mainland are somewhat crude, and they could be classified in a more detailed way."

"Just like support, some Soul Masters add healing Soul Skills or amplification Soul Skills to their Martial Soul, so they can't be completely called healing-type... cough, that's a digression, it's related to the theory I'm going to present later, so please allow me to keep you in suspense for now..."

"Next, I will use my first soul skill on you: Endless Recovery."

Su Yuntao asked, "How do we conduct the experiment?"

"Brother Tao, use your second soul skill on this open space and exhaust all your soul power," Tang San instructed.

"it is good."

Su Yuntao's martial soul possessed him, his second soul ring lit up, and six sharp Vajra wolf claws grew from his fists. All his soul power was concentrated on them, causing energy-shaped claw blades over a meter long to appear on his ten-centimeter-long wolf claws.

"go!"

With a powerful flick, six energy blades shot out, carving six trenches about five meters deep into the ground.

After using this soul skill, Su Yuntao's legs trembled, and he collapsed to the ground, looking utterly dejected.

Sisi quickly went to help him up.

At this moment, Tang San also used his first soul skill. A leaf grew from the Blue Silver Grass in his hand, wrapped around Su Yuntao's body, and injected a surge of energy.

Instantly, Su Yuntao's face flushed red at a visible speed, his soul power recovered by half, he was able to stand up on his own, and even his physical strength was restored.

"Incredible! My physical strength has recovered, and even my soul power has recovered by nearly half, and—" Su Yuntao was astonished, and he felt that his soul power was still being replenished continuously. He estimated that it wouldn't be long before his soul power was fully restored. "Little San, does this soul skill of yours consume a lot of your soul power?"

"Not much. If I don't consider my own soul power recovery, I can use it more than fifty times," Tang San said. "However, this soul skill can also restore my own soul power, but it can't be used indefinitely. After all, physical strength also requires energy, and this energy can't replace food."

All I can say is that it lasts longer!

Moreover, the Blue Silver Grass also inherited the resilience of the Thousand-Root Banyan!

"So, in other words, you can actually use this soul skill until you faint from hunger?" Matthew felt his worldview had been completely shattered, and he even had a ghostly feeling.

Tang San's first soul skill can heal others as well as himself, and it has been used more than fifty times.

That's practically a divine skill!

If Tang San were to be able to split multiple Blue Silver Grass leaves at once in the future, simultaneously healing multiple people, even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda would be no match!

"Xiao Tang, how many people can you reply to at the same time right now?" Matthew asked.

"Thanks to the large number of branches at the top of the Thousand Banyan Tree, my Martial Soul inherited this characteristic. As long as my Soul Power is sufficient, the number of Blue Silver Grass leaves that can be separated can be infinite."

"However, given that I'm currently only level seventeen, in my best-case scenario—"

As Tang San spoke, he activated his soul power, and the Blue Silver Grass in his hand split into hundreds and thousands of long leaves, densely packed, making Matthew's scalp tingle.

With just this one soul skill, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is far inferior.

Of course, there are also drawbacks.

The only way to recover is to have the Blue Silver Grass Brain wrapped around a person's body. If there are too many, they may become entangled and trap themselves.

This is not as convenient as the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, whose amplification is manifested as light, making it difficult to interrupt.

"This is indeed a divine support skill. Theoretically, you can support thousands of people at the same time, but where does your enormous energy come from?" Unlike Matthew and Su Yuntao's shock at Tang San's soul skill, Sisi thought of a question she couldn't understand, which also made Matthew and Su Yuntao stunned.

Right!

Can a level 17 soul power be considered immense?

Su Yuntao is a Great Soul Master, after all. Could it be that the energy he recovered was generated out of thin air?

If so, the value of this skill will rise to another level.

Su Yuntao's soul power was level 24. After his soul power was fully restored, Tang San seemed to have no energy expenditure at all. It was only the separation of hundreds or thousands of blue silver leaves that had caused him to consume a lot of energy.

But this soul skill could also affect him, instantly restoring his soul power.

"This is the characteristic of my first soul skill: it does not require the complete consumption of my own soul power."

Tang San explained, "After releasing this soul skill, my martial soul will be able to continuously draw a certain energy from the earth, which will then be transformed through my martial soul and soul rings and transmitted to your bodies to help you recover."

"Simply put, my soul skill is like a factory that processes the earth's energy. Because Blue Silver Grass consumes very little soul power, once this soul skill is used, the earth's power can be converted into energy to restore you."

Su Yuntao was full of questions and asked awkwardly, "Could you explain it in simpler terms? I don't quite understand. Could you use something simple to make a comparison?"

Tang San sighed and said, "You know about soul-guided lamps, those kinds of life-saving soul-guided devices, right?"

"I know that. I have one at home. It's for lighting and it's very convenient." Su Yuntao nodded.

"The Soul Guiding Lamp, although it's a soul tool, and the manufacturing method hasn't been lost, is different from storage soul tools. Ordinary people without soul power can use it; they just need to press a switch," Tang San said. "So, how does an ordinary person without soul power make the Soul Guiding Lamp light up?"

Su Yuntao still didn't understand, but he tentatively asked, "Because the switch was pressed?"

"Although you answered correctly, you probably don't understand the specific principles." Tang San decided to explain in more detail, saying, "There are three factors that allow the Soul Guidance Lamp to light up. First, the Soul Guidance Lamp has a device that can store soul power, which is the energy source; the reason the bulb can light up is because the Soul Guidance Lamp has a structure set up inside, and when soul power is input, it can emit light."

"When an ordinary person makes the soul guide lamp light up, they simply press a button, which is like a switch."

"Don't you think this is similar to how a Soul Master uses Soul Rings to unleash Soul Skills?"

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Off topic:

Soul tools, soul rings, soul masters.

There should be a connection between the three. I personally estimate that the reason why soul tools were developed was because people in the past in Douluo Continent studied the principles of soul masters using soul rings, summarized the corresponding attribute routes, and then applied them to artifacts.

However, in the Douluo Continent during the first Douluo era, most of the methods for making soul tools were lost, with only those for everyday use remaining.

The reason for its loss is unknown. It may be due to the influence of the gods, or it may be due to the rejection by the native soul masters of Douluo Continent. After all, soul masters on Douluo Continent tend to reject offensive soul tools, feeling that they are not their own power.

(End of this chapter)