Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 330 The Fourth Awakening of the Body Martial Soul

"My Lord Earl!"

The catwoman was indeed Reimu. Upon seeing Tang San, she immediately trotted over, her steps light and quick, like a sprite in the wind. "Is it really you? It's been over two years! Am I dreaming?"

Just as Reimu was about to lean in, a small, fair hand reached out and blocked her budding chest, saying, "Hey, it's only been two years! No need to get so excited!"

In the time perception of soul beasts, two years is equivalent to only two days, which is not worth mentioning.

Of course, Gu Yuena did this because she didn't want Tang San to come into contact with too many women, lest the harem fall into chaos and she, as his "master," would have to help resolve the situation.

[Sigh, I'm really taking responsibility, but what can I do? Tang San is practically my subject.]

Lingmeng calmed down by now, but her eyes were filled with resentment as she looked at Gu Yuena: This little girl is clearly younger than me, but she already knows how to "protect her master" and can stay by the Earl's side all year round. I'm so envious.

However, the proper etiquette must still be observed: "Welcome home, dear Earl."

"Ahem, no need for the prefix, it sounds a bit too formal, I'm not used to it." Tang San smiled, took out the unopened Sprite and handed it over, then looked at the twelve people with their original martial souls.

Since true martial souls are rare, it must have taken a lot of effort for Lingxi, Lingmeng, and the others to find these twelve. Perhaps even the major and minor families of Tiandou City secretly helped them after they found out.

"What are their names?" Tang San asked.

"My lord, they were all bought from the slave market. Because their awakened martial spirits were not from either of their parents' generation, and most of them had zero innate soul power, their biological parents suspected they weren't their own children, or the local villagers considered them unlucky. Most of them were abandoned when they were young, so they didn't have names." Reimu sipped her Sprite and sighed. "After buying them, I gave them code names, A1, A2, and so on, up to A12."

"Greetings, Your Excellency!" x12

Twelve people walked over, men and women, their steps were synchronized, clearly indicating that they had received rigorous training.

"Not bad aura." Tang San noticed that these people all had some bloodthirsty aura on them, and they had all killed people. Before being bought by Lingxi and Lingmeng, they must have had their own stories.

However, none of these twelve people had high soul power. The strongest one only had level nine soul power, and the weakest one only had level two soul power.

However, the advantage of the original spirit is that as long as the body is well-nourished, the cultivation speed can be increased. After all, according to his theory, there is an affinity between the spirit and the person. The original spirit is a part of oneself. Even if one's subjective consciousness rejects the original spirit, one will not think of abandoning a part of one's own body.

Compared to other beast spirits and weapon spirits, the body spirit, while lacking inherent attack, defense, and support abilities, is uniquely advantageous in cultivation—as long as the right method is found.

Unfortunately, in this era, most children who awaken their own martial spirit either die young or feel it's useless and give up cultivation, following the old path of their parents' generation at home.

However, one thing cannot be denied: cultivators of the main body martial soul consume a lot of resources, especially in terms of qi and blood, which must be constantly strengthened, requiring far more resources than ordinary soul masters.

"Let me give you all a code name." Tang San thought for a while and named the twelve people according to the twelve earthly branches: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.

"Lord Earl Xie!"

The twelve were overjoyed, as this meant they had been recognized by Earl Silverblue.

Although it still sounds like some kind of code name, it sounds better than names like "A1" or "A2".

Tang San then checked the martial souls of the twelve people one by one and found that most of their original martial souls were not very powerful, or rather, most of them were indeed not suitable for combat.

Rat: Nose; Ox: Left arm; Tiger: Right hand; Rabbit: Ear; Dragon: Right foot; Snake: Tongue; Horse: Waist; Sheep: Hair; Monkey: Heart; Rooster: Skin; Dog: Mouth; Pig: Bones.

Leaving aside the enhancements that spirit rings provide to a martial soul, for the vast majority of spirit masters, spirit skills are still the most important. The spirit skills that a spirit ring grants to a martial soul, excluding special cases (such as the sacrifice of a 100,000-year-old spirit beast or special spirit beasts), can all be considered derivatives of the abilities that the martial soul can perform.

The drawback of the original spirit is that it is relatively mediocre, or rather, unique, so much so that the spirit master does not know what kind of spirit ring to attach in order to achieve the greatest improvement.

In Tang San's eyes, his original spirit has only one special ability. In addition to adding spirit rings, in addition to enhancing that single advantage, he also needs to find a matching self-created spirit skill to unleash its true power.

Otherwise, under the same level: in terms of sense of smell, the nose martial soul is inferior to the canine beast martial soul; in terms of eyesight, the eye martial soul is inferior to the eagle beast martial soul; in terms of attack power, martial souls such as arms, hands, and legs are inferior to ordinary farm tools.

Although the original martial soul can awaken a second time, other martial souls can also evolve by adding soul rings... The records of the Golden Civilization also contain research on the original martial soul:

Compared to other types of martial souls, the original martial soul has similar properties to a martial soul that has evolved to its ultimate attribute. However, the difference is that most original martial souls have a low lower limit, but the original martial soul has the same characteristics as an ultimate attribute martial soul (because it has reached the limit, it cannot be further improved without the intervention of beings above level 100). Adding a spirit ring cannot make the original martial soul evolve. In fact, the improvement of the martial soul itself comes from the enhancement of its own physical qualities, rather than the enhancement of the martial soul by receiving the bonus from the spirit ring.

Therefore, in most cases, after obtaining a spirit ring, the owner of the original spirit can only acquire spirit skills, while the energy within the spirit ring is retained by the original spirit in the hope of enabling a secondary awakening (evolution) in the future.

Based on the results of current experiments, the main body martial soul can be awakened four times. Generally speaking, the first time is during the seventh ring stage when the soul master has the true form of the martial soul, and the main body martial soul also shows its true form at this stage, completing the second awakening.

The second time is when a Soul Master reaches the Title Douluo level. At this level, their physical body changes under the nourishment of Soul Power, and their Martial Soul naturally strengthens as well.

The third time, at the watershed of level 95, breaking through this watershed will allow the Soul Master to enter a completely new realm, and the original Martial Soul will naturally evolve along with it.

The last time will be when you break through level 100—

Unfortunately, only this little bit of relevant information was preserved; the rest had been destroyed by the Dragon God. The only way to obtain it is after defeating a large mech surrounding the Golden Ancient Tree…

Among these twelve people, the strongest is Shen Hou, a woman with level nine soul power. Her martial soul is her heart. She is the youngest, only sixteen years old, but her blood and qi are the strongest among them.

From the perspective of a Soul Master, none of them are suitable for cultivation and will not amount to much. However, for Tang San, these original martial souls are excellent research materials... no, they should be very outstanding talents. As long as appropriate cultivation methods are created for them, they will surely make rapid progress.

The Monkey, whose martial soul is the heart; the Pig, whose martial soul is the bones; and the Rooster, whose martial soul is the skin—these three are all relatively complete body organs in their original martial soul form.

Shenhou, in particular, after activating his martial spirit, directly covered the original location of his heart, and the thumping sound was extremely loud. Moreover, the blood vessels around his body also lit up, and red and blue blood vessels appeared on his skin, making him look extremely mysterious and extraordinary.

The Shenhou's martial spirit is not just the heart, but also the arteries and veins connected to the heart.

It is foreseeable that if Shenhou had enough food to replenish his nutrition before awakening his martial soul, his innate soul power would not be low. It is just a pity that most of the children who awaken their own martial soul are commoners, and most of them are born in relatively remote villages. They do not have such good conditions, so they are naturally unable to show their own style.

"How does Your Excellency plan to train this group?"

At dinner, Lingxi and Lingmeng brought the dishes they had prepared to the table, and Lingmeng asked...

"I can't stay here for more than a few days. It would be troublesome to bring them all to Wuhun City, since my schedule is usually quite full." Tang San thought for a while and said, "We'll split them into four groups. The first group will come with me to Wuhun City, where I will teach Sanyue. After that, they'll come back, and so on."

"That's a good idea, but what if one of them runs away?" Reimu said with some concern.

"If they ran away, it's just a case of being destined to be apart, and it's not a loss for us... By the way, you should have returned the indenture to them, right?" Tang San suddenly asked.

"Not yet." Lingxi shook her head, went upstairs, took down the indentures of the twelve people, and said, "I think the Earl should give them to us personally."

"That's kind of you." Tang San knew Lingxi was considering his prestige, so he accepted her kindness, but then said, "However, it's unnecessary. In the future, when we buy slaves, we can just return the indenture. We can treat them as employees. There's no need to do that. I'm afraid that one day I'll get used to it and change my original intention, especially—"

His upper dantian still contains the "greed, anger, and ignorance" in a three-headed, six-armed state, so he needs to be even more vigilant about all his actions to avoid being unknowingly influenced.

Even Electrolux couldn't see through that thing!

"I understand." Lingxi nodded, indicating that she would definitely give it to him in advance next time, but in her heart she was thinking that she must say: This is Earl Silverblue's order!

Only in this way will those people feel grateful!

Hey ~

The Earl is just too kind...

(End of this chapter)