Douluo Continent: Taking Tang San to fight Gangzi

Chapter 42 Thesis

Since he began to discipline himself, Xiao Lin's physical and mental strength have been steadily increasing.

Even his cultivation of soul power didn't slacken; in fact, it was even faster than before.

Xiao Lin couldn't explain why, perhaps it was because he felt a sense of urgency.

Because he wanted to perfect his physical strength before reaching level 20.

Although he had the Dragon Staff to help him absorb the impact of the soul ring, Xiao Lin never fought a battle unprepared.

Especially after nearly getting into trouble the first time he absorbed a spirit ring, Xiao Lin became even more cautious.

He didn't even want to say anything like, "If you can't absorb it, you can just give up."

As Xiao Lin spent his days in the academy, he finished reading the new books and planned to write his second thesis while he was changing books this time.

While the other students were in class, Xiao Lin wrote down the title of his paper in the dormitory.

Shocking! A Method for Absorbing Soul Rings Beyond Limits!

Still using the familiar sensationalist headline, Xiao Lin wasn't going to give up on this kind of clickbait headline.

And this time, he's prepared to write something serious.

Write a 6,000-word paper.

Xiao Lin began to write.

As we all know, since Yu Xiaogang released the optimal age limit for absorbing spirit rings, almost everyone has accepted his theory. But today, I, Lin Dong, have a different perspective. The optimal age limit for absorbing spirit rings over the past few decades should also change.

Below is my research on the optimal age for Soul Masters to absorb Soul Rings.

Author: Lin Dong.

Mentor: Tian Diao Douluo.

After recalling some details, Xiao Lin, just like in his previous paper, started by letting the data speak for itself.

According to Lin Dong's investigation of 1503 Soul Masters, he found that Soul Masters who had absorbed their first Soul Ring around four hundred years ago generally appeared in the following groups of people.

The first type is geniuses from powerful beast spirit families; the second type is geniuses from powerful weapon spirit families; and the third type is beast spirit masters among commoner geniuses.

Of these three types of Soul Masters, they accounted for approximately 13% in Lin Dong's survey data, but the proportion of those who absorbed four-hundred-year-old Soul Rings was over 98%.

Moreover, among commoner geniuses, beast spirit masters only account for 8% of the above three types of people.

I couldn't help but wonder, do Soul Masters who want to absorb Soul Rings of around four hundred years have to join certain families? Do they have to be geniuses?

impossible!

Lin Dong discovered that the so-called genius soul masters from these great families did not represent their true talents.

As everyone knows, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang is the worst of the worst, but his two spirit rings are hundred-year spirit rings, spirit rings that are close to the limit of absorption.

Lin Dong's investigation revealed that this master's first spirit ring had a lifespan of about four hundred years.

It is obvious that large families have ways to increase the time required to absorb a spirit ring, or at least a way to guarantee the absorption of the first spirit ring after four hundred years.

Considering that Yu Xiaogang came from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and that they had a special method of medicinal bathing, Lin Dong suspected that this was their method.

However, speculation is just speculation. Lin Dong also investigated the geniuses of several other families.

Elephant Armor Clan, the Power Clan, the Dai Family of the Star Luo Empire, the Zhu Family of the Star Luo Empire, and so on.

Unsurprisingly, the members of these families all had a first spirit ring that was four hundred years old.

The conclusion reached was that it is quite normal for families with beast spirits to absorb their first spirit ring in about four hundred years.

Following closely behind was the powerful weapon spirit family.

Lin Dong then took the initiative to learn about the Clear Sky Sect. As the strongest weapon spirit sect, the Clear Sky Sect members are very fond of forging iron, refining it into steel. They even have a powerful self-created spirit skill, the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, which is very good for physical training.

These examples prove that it's not a problem for members of these large families to absorb four-hundred-year-old soul rings.

So here's the question: why is it that when a commoner genius, who is also a beast-type soul master, absorbs so much less of the four hundred years of soul power for their first soul ring?

Furthermore, no ordinary Soul Masters with Weapon Martial Souls made the list. Is it simply because they didn't have the opportunity to find Soul Beasts with 400 years of cultivation?

No, it's all because the physical qualities of Soul Masters from powerful families are different from those of ordinary Soul Masters.

So, is it possible that it's related to the quality of the martial soul?

That's not possible.

As geniuses, many ordinary geniuses possess innate soul power that surpasses that of scions of powerful families, and their martial souls are naturally not much weaker than those of scions of powerful families.

Some geniuses possess martial souls that surpass those of scions from powerful families.

Therefore, the reason why a Beast Spirit Soul Master can absorb the first Soul Ring after four hundred years must be because of his superior physical qualities.

Because Soul Masters with Beast Martial Souls are influenced by the Martial Soul Power and the Martial Soul itself, their physical attributes are stronger than those of ordinary Weapon Martial Soul Soul Masters.

Excluding blacksmithing families like the Haotian Sect.

Here, Lin Dong can state that the data is absolutely true and reliable, and much of the data comes from information collected by the Spirit Hall and from people Lin Dong knows.

Xiao Lin paused at this point.

No problem. Although he has never met Bibi Dong, he knows her and some of the titled Douluo of the Spirit Hall. How could their spirit rings not be of the maximum age limit?

Do we even need to check this data?

Not only Bibi Dong, but also Qian Xunji, who has already died, is one of his data.

No problem, all of these more than a thousand data points are genuine.

Moreover, Xiao Lin also deduced from the result and revealed many truths.

The medicinal bath of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan is real, and the blacksmithing of the Clear Sky Clan is real too.

It's perfectly normal for the Clear Sky Hammer to become heavier and for Soul Masters to become stronger.

After roughly completing the first example, Xiao Lin began writing the second one.

In addition, Lin Dong discovered a new secret.

The secret is that in the past, the optimal age for Soul Rings was much shorter than it is now.

Data are as follows:

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These two examples basically prove that the optimal age for a Soul Master to absorb a Soul Ring is changing and getting higher and higher.

It's practically undeniable that the lifespan of a spirit ring is related to physical attributes.

Xiao Lin put down his pen, but finally decided to add another piece of data.

Finally, Xiao Lin also wrote an example about a good disciple (that is, Tang San from another timeline, referred to as Xiao Yan in the following text).

On the draft paper: Xiao Yan is the son of a titled Douluo from a large family, but due to various reasons, he has lived alone since childhood, lonely and pitiful, and his body is extremely thin.

However, his talent was extraordinary; he possessed a plant-type martial soul with innate full soul power, and subsequently became my disciple.

When I helped him absorb his first spirit ring, a 400-year-old Mandragora Serpent, I found that he had unusual difficulty absorbing it. He almost had an accident when facing the impact of the spirit ring's spirit power, which made me break out in a cold sweat.

But in the end, he succeeded.

If it weren't for Xiao Yan's innate talent of full soul power, his extraordinary willpower to live alone, and the fact that he absorbed the power for so long, I would doubt that he would have failed.

This further convinced Lin Dong that physical fitness is the key to absorbing powerful spirit rings.

Now, under my care, Xiao Yan is no longer malnourished and is very healthy.

When absorbing the second spirit ring, he encountered no obstacles this time and absorbed the spirit ring of the maximum age almost perfectly, even exceeding it in some aspects.

Finally, based on the examples above, my conjecture can be proven: the time limit for a Soul Master to absorb Soul Rings must be affected by their physical condition.

The higher one's physical fitness, the higher the age of the spirit rings one can absorb, and the easier it is to absorb them.

Furthermore, the biggest advantage of having twin martial souls is that after the first martial soul has perfectly absorbed the soul ring, the second martial soul can directly absorb a soul ring that is over ten thousand years old.

This aligns with the principle that the higher one's physical fitness, the longer the lifespan of the spirit rings one can absorb. Nowadays, spirit masters' physical fitness is getting stronger and stronger, and the optimal lifespan for absorbing spirit rings can be pushed back much earlier.

If I'm not mistaken, someone will inevitably be able to obtain the first spirit ring with a 500-year limit and the second spirit ring with a 1000-year limit in the future.

Xiao Lin wrote a nearly six-thousand-word paper, which flowed very smoothly, and said that one sentence was absolutely right.

Writing a thesis is like taking a dump; the more water you use, the faster you can do it.

This kind of garbage paper would never have passed Xiao Lin in his previous life, but so what? This is Douluo Continent, and what he said really is the truth.

Believe it or not, Xiao Lin is going to absorb his second soul ring, which is a thousand years old.

If you really don't believe it, go ask the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan about their medicinal bath, or ask Xiao Yan or another Tang San.

After organizing the paper, Xiao Lin checked it over and, finding no flaws, placed it into his storage soul tool.

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