Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 381 The Origin of Martial Souls: Unknown

As his spirit returned to his body, Tang San stretched and found Gu Yuena sitting in his lap, her eyes closed, sleeping peacefully, in a state of quiet meditation.

"Seriously, you've decided to rely on me as your 'cushion,' huh?"

He carefully picked up Gu Yuena and carried her to her room, gently placing her on the bed and covering her with a light blanket.

"The conflict between soul beasts and humans is not so easy to resolve..."

"With such an irresponsible ruler, the future of soul beasts is bleak. Not to mention, not all soul beasts submit to the Silver Dragon King. The Dragon God is not the ancestor of all soul beasts. At most, he was the first soul beast to reach the God King realm. However, he suppressed other soul beasts afterward, and their awe of the Dragon God was engraved in their bloodline genes and passed down."

"And that Dragon God even established the rule that 'no soul beast can become a god if the Dragon God does not appear'... Isn't that just to prevent a very few special beings among other types of soul beasts from surpassing the dragon race?"

"The Dragon God bears more than 60 percent of the responsibility for the failure of the Soul Beasts to develop."

"However, it is precisely this rule that has given humanity the opportunity to develop... their enemies are my 'heroes'..."

A while after Tang San left the room, Gu Yuena opened her eyes, looked around, and wondered, "How did I get here? I was clearly in Tang San's arms... If someone touches me, I should be able to sense it, so how come I don't feel anything at all? Tang San must have improved again. I really don't know where his limit is."

After getting out of bed and dressed, Gu Yuena went straight to the study, where she found Tang San reading the books he had brought back from the Golden Ancient Tree.

"What are you looking at? Weren't all the books at the Golden Tree, the information about martial soul cultivation and soul tools, destroyed by the Dragon God?" Gu Yuena asked.

"Awake?" Tang San pushed aside the "Martial Soul Encyclopedia: Golden Calendar 2024" he was looking at, and beckoned Gu Yuena over.

"Please, I'm not really a child." Gu Yuena pouted, hating being treated like a child, but her body still obediently went over.

After all, the Silver Dragon King, whose true form had fallen into a deep sleep due to severe injuries not long after his birth, was in some ways just a child, rather than a fully mature adult.

Therefore, as long as you have the ability to keep her in check and provide her with proper guidance, she is just a slightly naughty child.

"You've lived for so long, do you know how many types of martial souls there are?" Tang San asked.

"have no idea."

Gu Yuena was speechless, feeling that Tang San was doing it on purpose. After all, she had been asleep the whole time, so how would she know how many types of martial souls there were?

Besides, you yourself have written a book called "The Evolution of Martial Souls." Martial Souls will slowly change due to changes in the human living environment and their own pursuit of a better life, not to mention those mutated types.

However, if we're talking about the sheer number of martial souls, she does know a bit about beast martial souls. She removed soul beasts like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which were descended by divine power. Then she also removed the Silver Dragon King and the Golden Dragon King. So, there should be as many types of beast martial souls as there are soul beasts on the continent.

Anyway, he's not interested in that kind of thing.

"Do you know that weapon spirits and beast spirits can transform into each other? I think some powerful weapon spirits are transformed from beast spirits. The Spirit Hall has a Serpent Spear Douluo, and I have you in front of me." Tang San revealed his true intentions. "The Serpent Spear Douluo can't be found; he's on a mission outside. As for you... I'm not sure if this is relevant, but your Silver Dragon Spear has the characteristics of a silver dragon. I suppose the transformation between them can't be made up out of thin air; it needs to follow certain rules."

"Hmm, that's true." Gu Yuena had also considered disguising her martial soul as something completely unrelated to the silver dragon's true form, but in the end, she found that as long as she brought her own origin, she would definitely have the characteristics of the silver dragon. "There are many reasons for how martial souls are formed, but as for how this thing came about, I can only be sure that it was not given by the gods, but rather a gift from this world to mankind."

"As for the reasons for the fixed form of a martial soul, I can say two things, such as: the combination of a 100,000-year-old soul beast in human form and a strong desire for something."

"You've also done some research on this last point. Martial spirits have a kind of spirituality and can respond to people's hearts. When a martial spirit is not yet fully formed, this kind of strong desire is the most effective."

"But it is estimated that only the first generation of humans who first possessed a martial soul had such a privilege. After all, once a martial soul is fixed, it is more difficult to change it compared to ordinary people."

Tang San nodded and asked, "If all the humans on the continent today are descendants of the Golden Civilization, is it possible that the Golden Civilization discovered the essence of Martial Souls and could freely modify them?"

The reason for asking this question is that after becoming a Soul Saint, Tang San further investigated the Clear Sky Hammer and discovered that it could transform from a hammer state into a chimera state, not only because of Austin Griffin.

Within the Clear Sky Hammer, there is inherently an equation for transforming a weapon spirit into a beast spirit.

The same applies to the Blue Silver Emperor!

For example, Tang San studied Lan Yinzi's Blue Silver Overlord Spear a little and found that it was another form of the Blue Silver Emperor—a soul skill, which was just a display of the skills that the martial soul could originally have.

Although there are few examples at present, it is certain that some powerful weapon spirits may have been transformed from more powerful weapon spirits.

Whether it's a 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast or a human, their martial souls, in order to fulfill their own wishes, begin to evolve towards the strongest state imagined by soul masters.

Of course, the most crucial point here is not the strength of the martial spirit, which is only a basic condition. What truly determines whether a martial spirit can evolve is the inner desire of a person, that is, the soul.

If Tang San could thoroughly understand this point, he felt he would be able to control the ability to arbitrarily bestow martial souls upon others, and even arbitrarily modify their martial souls.

"So that's what you were thinking." Gu Yuena finally understood Tang San's purpose, but in the end, she shook her head. "How greedy, actually wanting to control the essence of a martial soul, but—"

"Hehe, I'll help you. After all, just thinking about being able to replace the martial soul of someone you don't like in the future is quite interesting."

Of course, Gu Yuena wasn't just thinking about playing pranks in the future. She was considering that some 100,000-year-old soul beasts might not survive the Heavenly Tribulation and choose to transform into human form. She could then bestow upon them martial souls to help them better disguise their identities.

After all, not every transformed soul beast can master the method of concealing its aura in one go. If it didn't encounter someone like Tang San, it would probably be finished.

As the ruler of all soul beasts, I must consider these guys' situation.

Gu Yuena muttered to herself, "I'm so great!"

Tang San: "..."

(End of this chapter)