Douluo Continent: Starting with Self-Created Soul Rings.

Chapter 37 So That's How It Is

"Xiao Yi, your question is excellent!"

"Many Soul Masters cultivate by simply following the paths of their predecessors, but never think about why!"

"There are very few people in the Soul Master world who know the answers to these questions, but I happen to know a little about them!"

Qian Xunji then praised Gu Ziyi and said with a smile.

Upon hearing that Qian Xunji actually knew, Gu Ziyi immediately perked up.

"Teacher, please tell me quickly!"

Bibi Dong immediately started urging them on.

Gu Ziyi suddenly realized that having Bibi Dong by his side was quite nice; she was practically the best mouth double!

"The reason we Soul Masters need to absorb Soul Rings from Soul Beasts isn't just to increase Soul Power and Soul Skills, but primarily to evolve our Martial Soul!"

"As for Soul Masters condensing their own Soul Rings, it's been too long ago and the records aren't very clear. We only know that a few hundred thousand years ago, a few Soul Masters explored and created their own methods for condensing Soul Rings. However, most of the Soul Rings condensed by Soul Masters themselves didn't have Soul Skills, and the quality of the Soul Rings was too low, far inferior to those hunted from Soul Beasts!"

"More importantly, simply condensing your own spirit rings doesn't lead to the evolution of your martial spirit!"

"So gradually, no more Soul Masters condensed their own Soul Rings!"

"As for the method of condensing one's own spirit rings, it has long been lost!"

"This proved to be the right choice, because tens of thousands of years ago, the quality of a Soul Master's Martial Soul was not as strong as it is now!"

"The various powerful martial spirits we have today are all gradually passed down from generation to generation of soul masters through absorbing soul beast soul rings and evolving!"

Qian Xunji's simple explanation quickly gave Gu Ziyi and Bibi Dong a clear understanding.

It has a profound sense of witnessing history!

It was another kind of inexplicable shock!

It was as if I could see countless predecessors who followed one after another, striving for the development of martial spirits.

Gu Ziyi felt a chill run down his spine. It turned out that the most important thing about absorbing the soul beast's soul ring was for the evolution of the martial soul.

It turns out that some Soul Masters had created their own Soul Rings before, but they were later phased out.

Was his method of creating his own spirit rings wrong?

No... Self-formed soul rings can improve in quality, and in the long run, they are no less valuable than soul beast soul rings.

"I see, the teacher is really amazing!"

Gu Ziyi looked at Qian Xunji with feigned admiration, then asked another question: "Teacher, I have another question. When did advanced meditation techniques appear? Have they always existed before?"

"Advanced meditation techniques? No, they're relatively recent, dating back thousands of years!"

Qian Xunji smiled slightly upon hearing this, and then answered Gu Ziyi's question with ease.

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No wonder, no wonder the method of self-condensing soul rings was lost. It turns out that there was no advanced meditation technique back then, so those soul masters who successfully condensed their own soul rings didn't know that they could improve the quality of their soul rings.

Hearing Qian Xunji's words, Gu Ziyi breathed a long sigh of relief, finally understanding.

Without the advent of advanced meditation techniques, self-forming soul rings would clearly be the wrong path.

But we are no longer in ancient times. Times have changed, and roads that were once impassable are now passable.

Gu Ziyi even had a feeling.

It is thanks to the efforts of so many generations, who have worked tirelessly to develop and evolve martial spirits, that we have so many powerful martial spirits in this era.

It can be said that apart from those low-quality martial souls, the other martial souls have developed to a relatively mature stage.

At this point, if those high-quality martial souls were to condense their own soul rings, they would definitely no longer be without soul skills.

Especially the two martial souls that Gu Ziyi knew, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and the Nine Heart Begonia, no matter what kind of soul beast or soul ring they absorbed, the soul skills they obtained were the same.

In other words, they no longer need to absorb anything from the spirit beast's spirit ring; they only need to absorb the energy from the spirit beast's spirit ring.

Therefore, high-quality martial souls that condense their own soul rings will definitely have soul skills.

These high-quality Spirit Hall Soul Masters will have better self-formed Soul Rings.

Because self-formed spirit rings allow for better control over spirit skills and can also improve the quality of spirit rings, as long as the quality of the spirit rings is improved in the later stages, it will definitely be more promising than absorbing spirit beast spirit rings.

Especially for those top-tier martial souls that have evolved to their limit, absorbing soul beast soul rings can only add soul skills with different characteristics to their martial souls, and can no longer bring about much evolution to their martial souls.

When the path of seeking external solutions reaches its end, it's time to turn inward and seek internal solutions.

Extract your own martial spirit characteristics, strengthen yourself, purify yourself, and seek new breakthroughs starting from yourself.

After browsing through a large number of records collected by the Spirit Hall, Gu Ziyi became even more convinced of this.

In the past, top-tier martial souls appeared one after another, but ultimately none of them were able to be passed down indefinitely.

Because their martial soul evolution has reached its limit, they need to seek a breakthrough from within themselves. Absorbing soul beast soul rings would not be beneficial to the evolution of their martial soul, and might even cause a decline in the quality of their descendants' martial souls due to incompatibility with their own.

Of course, divinely bestowed martial souls are another matter.

"It seems that my martial soul is indeed extraordinary. To possess a soul skill, and such a special one at that, the martial soul itself must be quite remarkable."

Gu Ziyi was thus once again certain of the special nature of his martial soul, but he didn't know why he had only level 1 innate soul power when he awakened it.

"There were no martial souls like talismans before, so it must have mutated!"

"Could it be that my time travel caused my original paper martial spirit to mutate into a talisman? Did I bring this talisman martial spirit with me?"

"If that's the case, it makes sense. My soul is rather special, which could have caused my martial soul to mutate!"

"Moreover, it's highly likely that the original owner of this body had a useless paper spirit with no spirit power. Then, on the first day I woke up, I underwent spirit awakening. My spirit hadn't absorbed enough spirit power to fully develop, so my innate spirit power is only level 1!"

"Damn, if that's really the case, I'd rather wait a year before awakening!"

After confirming the extraordinary nature of his martial soul, Gu Ziyi understood why his innate soul power was so low.

And why is the quality of the martial soul so low? It's because it hasn't fully developed yet; in fact, it could be said that it was awakened right after birth.

Why do the natives here wait until they're six years old to awaken their martial soul? It's because they need it to develop!

As for why his first soul skill was a Taoist skill like the Purification Mantra, Gu Ziyi was not sure at the moment.

I wasn't a Taoist in my previous life; I only knew that talismans were used by Taoists.

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(End of this chapter)