Douluo Continent: The Heavenly Book Transforms into Mortals

Chapter 33 Xiao Zhan's Advice (Please add to your favorites!!!)

"Wind Element"

As Su Wen began to develop his ability to control the wind element, he discovered something different.

The gap between their control over the fire element is quite large.

"Xiao Wen, you have a higher level of control over the wind element, which makes your practice easier. It's not because your soul skills have a different focus," Xiao Zhan explained to Su Wen.

"Your martial spirit is ultimately a book-based martial spirit."

Books are countered by the element of fire.

Su Wen nodded, indicating his understanding.

The fact that he was able to gain a certain degree of affinity for the fire element under the tempering of the Three-Eyed Phantom Fox's spirit rings is probably largely due to the enhancement of his spirit itself by his first spirit ring.

Otherwise, even if the Three-Eyed Illusionary Fox possesses fire attributes, it would be difficult to modify its martial soul and give it an affinity for fire elements.

Wind element is not so difficult; the soul rings can more thoroughly modify the martial soul and have a higher affinity.

"My suggestion is that you first hone your control over wind elements and your ability to compress and exploit fire."

As for integrating the Flame Fist and adapting to a higher level of flame, Xiao Zhan did not recommend it.

Although it's not possible to fully unleash the power of the Flame Fist for the time being, this is the most cost-effective arrangement.

"Until you overcome the fact that your martial spirit fears fire, it will be very difficult for your body to increase its resistance to fire. Even the fire formed from your own soul power will be difficult to adapt to, let alone the fire transformed from the energy of heaven and earth."

Xiao Zhan shook his head.

Su Wen's talent was a little too high, which disrupted many of his teaching plans, and he forgot about it for a moment.

"My suggestion is to use your next two spirit rings to solve this problem. First, you need to overcome your spirit's fear of fire so that you can start the next stage of training for Flame Fist as soon as possible. I suggest you try it when you get your third spirit ring."

Then you'll acquire a soul skill that converts soul power into flames. Although it overlaps somewhat with the second soul skill, flames converted from soul power are less harmful to soul masters, and resistance increases faster. Furthermore, the two soul skills can be used simultaneously; the combination of internal and external flame conversion might even result in greater power.

Even his path to becoming a fire demon was not smooth sailing; it required the cooperation of each soul ring to continuously evolve his book-type martial soul and adapt to the path he was taking.

"The fear of fire is actually the essence of the book spirit. Paper fears fire, just like plant-type spirit masters fear fire."

Upon hearing this, Su Wen naturally already had an idea.

The body is forged from ice and fire.

The abilities of fire immunity and ice immunity are very important to his martial soul.

However, Xiao Zhan offered another way.

"Energization".

"Energize?"

"That's right, use spirit rings to transform the martial spirit into an energy form."

Even if it is fully released and visualized, it is still an energy structure, not paper.

In this way, the restraint of fire can also be avoided.

"Uncle Zhan, you have this kind of soul skill?"

"That's right."

Xiao Zhan obtained such a spirit ring by chance and successfully completed this step.

"But even now, Lao Bai and I haven't figured out a more stable way to obtain these kinds of soul skills, so if you have better ideas, I won't force you to follow my path."

Su Wen fell into deep thought.

The soul skills that soul rings grant to a martial soul all originate from the power of the martial soul.

This is a theory that Su Wen has given in the past, and he also believes it to be true. In fact, to be more precise, it is that martial souls have this potential.

Only when the conditions are met and one has the ability can one unleash the corresponding soul skill.

Ultimately, everything boils down to the Martial Soul; otherwise, Soul Rings are nothing but rootless duckweed.

After listening to Xiao Zhan's suggestions on the development of the Book Martial Soul, Su Wen felt that he had a deeper understanding of the role of Soul Rings.

The characteristics of a martial soul can be altered through spirit rings.

The power of a spirit ring is integrated into the spirit and can also modify the spirit. Su Wen's initial understanding of this was more inclined to believe that it would strengthen the same characteristics that the spirit also possesses.

He overlooked the additional characteristics that spirit rings bestow upon martial souls.

"Elemental affinity is actually an additional effect of the Three-Eyed Phantom Fox's soul ring."

Even if it doesn't manifest as a soul skill, a soul ring can still modify a martial soul.

However, Su Wen's process of absorbing spirit rings is different from that of ordinary spirit masters. His absorption is more thorough, and the spirit rings transform his spirit more completely.

This is also the reason why he can obtain other traits of his soul rings besides soul skills.

Others have to rely on luck, but he's different; he can have it all.

"In that case, the process of absorbing spirit rings also needs further research. If we could intervene in the transformation of spirit rings on martial souls, we could more subtly control the direction of the transformation."

Of course, this goal cannot be achieved in the short term.

"Uncle Zhan, I understand. I will cultivate to level 30 as soon as possible and find a way to overcome the fact that my martial soul is afraid of fire."

Although Xiao Zhan's suggestion was good, Su Wen did not adopt it.

He has a way to overcome his fear of fire, so he can choose his third spirit ring according to his own ideas.

However, Su Wen felt he needed to rethink the specific plans for his third spirit ring.

"First, hone your skills in controlling wind elements and compressing and extracting fire."

Actually, it's not just these two points. Su Wen's true second soul skill is control, the control of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. He is also trying to develop the ability to mobilize spiritual energy.

For example, it can be used during cultivation to stimulate the cultivation speed of soul power by using a higher concentration of external spiritual energy.

Although he couldn't unleash the full power of his Flame Fist, Su Wen didn't give up.

"This means that in the short term I can focus entirely on improving my mage skills."

Su Wen had been studying the compression and explosiveness of flames; these techniques weren't limited to Flame Fist. Xiao Zhan's use of them was simply due to his fifth soul skill, Fire Demon Body, which was better suited for close-range burst damage.

"Wind element, fire element, mage."

Su Wen had many ideas in his mind about how to use the two elements, waiting to be verified.

Of course, before these ideas can be tested, we need to try developing flight techniques first.

"Airflow propulsion is the simplest and easiest to achieve, and it is very convenient for acceleration, but it is not suitable for conventional flight."

Despite saying that, Su Wen didn't hesitate at all.

First, the ability to fly was developed using airflow propulsion.

Whether it's convenient to maintain flight by using airflow propulsion is a matter for the next step.

Having adapted to the process of transforming the primordial energy of heaven and earth into wind elements and generating powerful wind force, Su Wen also began to experiment.

"Haha, it really works!"

Su Wen breathed a sigh of relief as his feet left the ground.

Great, the initial development is going very smoothly.

He didn't act rashly; attempting flight required caution. Otherwise, falling from a great height would result in serious injury, if not death, which would severely disrupt his cultivation rhythm.

Sure enough, Su Wen soon lost control of the wind and began to sway.

(End of this chapter)