Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 33 Reorganizing the Seven Major Systems

After receiving Tang San's promise, Wang Sheng spent almost all his remaining time cultivating his soul power, persisting no matter how tedious the meditation was.

Unlike the ethereal cultivation depicted in the novels Tang San read in his previous life, meditation cultivation is an extremely tedious process.

Meditation, simply put, is closing your eyes and sensing the martial spirit within your body. Essentially, it's a process of hypnotizing yourself, focusing your attention on the martial spirit within your body, thereby activating the martial spirit and drawing energy from heaven and earth.

In the world of Soul Masters, the higher the innate Soul Power of a Martial Soul Awakening, the better one's cultivation talent.

Based on the meditation method for cultivating martial souls, Tang San felt that the level of innate soul power represented the efficiency of the martial soul's response to his own mental power.

From level one to level ten, the higher the innate soul power of a martial soul, the faster it can sense the human's own spiritual power.

Taking the release and retraction of a martial soul as an example, the innate soul power of an awakened martial soul cannot be measured, and the release and retraction require a certain amount of time. However, an awakened martial soul has innate soul power, and the release and retraction are relatively easy.

Although with practice one can release and retract a martial spirit in an instant, there is indeed a time difference in the release and retraction of the martial spirit at the moment of awakening.

From this perspective, the amount of innate soul power of a martial soul represents the degree of affinity the martial soul has for the awakened individual.

Like the farmers in various villages, they have always hoped to awaken a powerful martial spirit, rather than a hoe, sickle, hammer, pots and pans.

The more someone tries to rely on a good martial soul to get ahead, the lower their affinity with these ordinary martial souls becomes.

This can also be explained by looking at those top-grade martial souls.

After all, the Clear Sky Hammer, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex are all top-tier martial souls, right?

Even though they can awaken the same martial soul, each person possesses different innate soul power.

This cannot be explained simply by saying "the quality of martial souls is different".

Even though the members of these families have almost the same bloodline and people at the same level receive almost the same treatment, why do they have different innate soul power when they awaken the same martial soul?

Excluding those special cases of mutation, the reason is most likely:

The martial spirit is related to each person's personality, or to put it more mysteriously, to their soul. The martial spirit has a certain degree of compatibility with each person's soul.

This wasn't something Tang San imagined out of thin air. After all, the cultivation system in Douluo Continent looks like a large-scale, real-life online game, and the gods in the God Realm test their successors by rewarding them with affinity. Only when one reaches 100% affinity can one become a god.

For Tang San, who had read "Douluo Continent" in his previous life, isn't the concept of a Martial Soul quite similar to that of a "god"?

Of course, the above is just Tang San's speculation. It is definitely not something he can publish now. After all, if he dares to write the word "affinity", Bibi Dong of the Spirit Hall will really send someone to find him, or even come in person, to see if he has obtained some divine inheritance or found relevant information.

In the blink of an eye, another half month passed, and Tang San finally completed his first theoretical study on martial souls and soul masters, mainly discussing the self-positioning of soul masters—

As is well known, Soul Masters are classified into seven categories based on the characteristics of their Martial Souls: Power Attack, Agility Attack, Control, Defense, Healing, Support, and Food.

However, this division is actually too crude.

For example, in the offensive type, some Soul Masters can launch long-range energy attacks, covering the entire area, or single-target long-range attacks, while others cannot launch any energy attacks and can only use fists and feet to attack.

The Power Attack type alone can be divided into long-range Power Attack, mid-range Power Attack, and close-range Power Attack. Power Attack type Soul Masters can play different roles by being assigned different Martial Souls to deal with different enemies.

Agility-based attacks can be broadly divided into two categories: one where the martial soul is offensive, and the other where the martial soul cannot unleash any offensive soul skills and only pursues speed.

The latter type, in particular, is completely unsuitable for regulated competitions like Soul Battle. However, speed is power. As long as this type of Soul Master is fast enough that others cannot see them or react in time, then the enemy's life is in the control of this type of Soul Master. With just a poisoned dagger, they can become the strongest assassins. Note: This type of Soul Master is suitable for one-on-one combat. If there is a large family, it is best not to think about assassination, as it will likely cause a feud and lead to the annihilation of the entire family.

However, if there is a large group of family members, then the best role for this type of Soul Master is to become a scout, because if they are so fast that the enemy cannot see, sense, or react, then the intelligence of the hostile forces will be in the hands of this type of family. Note: Unfortunately, it seems that no one has thought of this.

Control systems include physical control and energy control. Martial Souls possess different attributes, and the methods of control also vary...

In a detailed and comprehensive manner, Tang San categorized the existing seven systems, even including the healing and food systems under the support system.

In his view, there is no need to categorize martial souls separately just because their main function is healing or whether they can be eaten, since their function is to provide support, right?

For example, if a food-type Soul Master creates food that can be used to treat illnesses and repair injuries, would they be considered a food-type or a healing-type Soul Master? Or perhaps both?

This kind of embellishment of such Soul Masters is rather absurd.

If someone were to have a wild imagination, a healing spirit could also be used for control. For example, if a spirit skill can heal wounds and make them heal quickly, then it must accelerate cell division at the wound site. If used on a healthy person, could it accelerate their aging and thus weaken their physical strength?

Can healing-type Soul Masters be categorized as either control-type or offensive-type?

At least, according to Tang San's own Blue Silver Grass tests, this is the case, except that Blue Silver Grass also infuses life force when restoring someone's condition.

This is something other healing spirits can't do; they use spirit skills that consume their own spirit power, unlike him who can draw on the power of the earth.

Having written nearly 200,000 words, Tang San compiled an entire book, referencing numerous cases from previous Soul Master Competitions and noting which competition and event it was, making it sufficiently convincing.

They even used numerous cases from the autobiographies of Soul Masters collected by the Spirit Hall to corroborate the benefits that a Soul Master's detailed positioning brings to the entire team.

When Tang San bound dozens of sheets of paper into a book and handed it to Master Matthew, his eyes almost bulged out: "Little Tang, isn't this a bit too much?"

"Back then, the master published a research paper on martial spirits, which included those ten theories, and it was only about a thousand words long. You could publish a book on that."

Tang San said, "I am not that master. It is just my imagination. There is no evidence at all. After I stated my point of view, I also added a lot of existing arguments. These can be found in the Spirit Hall and the public library. I also marked the source. Everyone can go and look up those existing books."

Matthew asked, puzzled, "Isn't this taking things a bit too seriously?"

"This is the least we can do to respect those who have summarized the past. I want to be famous, but I can't deny the efforts of those who came before me. The results they collected should be known to others," Tang San said very seriously. "This is not my achievement alone. It is because of the efforts of those who came before me that I have been able to save a lot of time. To put it bluntly, I am just an analyst, a summarizer, and a generalist in this regard, helping others to better understand their own position."

Hearing Tang San say this, Matthew was filled with respect and realized that he had not misjudged Tang San. This Tang San was a hundred times, a thousand times stronger than Yu Xiaogang.

That guy incorporated universally accepted common sense into his theory, and then added a few more theories that had no common cases whatsoever, making it a complete joke.

Although Tang San considered himself merely a summarizer of the theories he wrote, Matthew knew the value of the content after reading just the first page.

This involves a more detailed classification of Soul Masters!

Moreover, it contains a large number of case studies, which are much more substantial than the ten dry theories of that so-called master Yu Xiaogang.

The affinity between a martial spirit and a person...

It's a prelude.

(End of this chapter)