#18 - The Essence of Martial Soul

Author: Yu Xiaogang.

Yu?

Could the author be a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?

The moment Quan Yi saw the name, he thought of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

This was one of the Seven Great Sects, one of the Three Upper Sects, and one of the most powerful families on the Douluo Continent. The inherited spirit—the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon—was even more renowned, hailed as the number one beast spirit on the continent.

He opened the book.

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This included comparisons between different spirits, as well as comparisons between the same spirits.

What shocked Quan Yi was that this level of data collection was impossible to achieve with one person's strength alone.

As expected of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, not only was their strength powerful, but they also had such deep insights in spirit research.

With both wisdom and strength, Quan Yi felt a hint of fear towards the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Quan Yi continued reading, but he found that the author did not associate spirit quality with physical fitness.

This meant that Yu Xiaogang believed that spirits were innate and could not be changed.

It also meant that he was still stuck in the mindset of innate talent.

From this, Quan Yi also understood that the author's upper limit had already been set here.

The author had not yet realized the influence of physical fitness on the formation of spirits.

But even so, this research conclusion was a huge breakthrough.

Humanity is constantly approaching the truth step by step.

But what Quan Yi didn't know was that his spirit awakening was not only affected by physical fitness, but also had deeper reasons.

First of all, Quan Yi's experience was difficult to replicate. Because Quan Yi's awakening had an element of luck.

Quan Yi's luck was the mutated spirit.

If Quan Yi had inherited the Hand Armor spirit, then no matter how much Quan Yi strengthened his body, the upper limit of the spirit would be there. Although it would be enhanced, it would not be possible to reach the level of full innate spirit power. The same was true for the Blazing Sun Lion.

But because both parents' spirits were mutated spirits, the Black Iron Hand Armor was mutated from White Gloves, and the Blazing Sun Lion was also mutated from an ordinary lion.

The parents' spirits had a certain degree of variability. Affected by this, Quan Yi's spirit was also moving in the direction of mutation.

Most spirit mutations are towards negative mutations. Just like the product of consanguineous marriage, the probability of defects is very high.

Mutation represents this uncertainty, but it also represents opportunity.

In the process of spirit formation, Quan Yi continuously provided energy to the spirit by strengthening his body and ingesting spirit beast meat, which had a positive effect on the mutating spirit.

In the end, an extremely powerful spirit was born.

Of course, because it was impossible to observe, Quan Yi himself was not aware of this. However, Quan Yi's efforts and wisdom allowed him to firmly grasp an opportunity that even the gods could not foresee.

Quan Yi was a little puzzled at this moment as to why this book was placed in a remote corner.

But thinking about the solidified and rigid thinking of the spirit master community, Quan Yi also understood what was going on.

Even in his previous life, the emergence of new ideas was still accompanied by a lot of controversy and would not be easily accepted by the world.

Not to mention this Middle Ages.

Novel ideas will always be resisted by the majority of people.

Quan Yi stopped thinking and continued reading.

He found that this scholar's theoretical research was very interesting. Although some were "outrageous," they were actually very reasonable.

For example, the spirit mimicry theory. He proposed that under certain conditions, plant spirits could absorb spirit rings from non-plant spirit beasts, and beast spirits could also absorb spirit rings from plant spirit beasts.

As well as heterologous spirit fusion, different spirits can perform spirit fusion skills.

These two can actually be combined to think about.

Heterologous spirit fusion involves spirit fusion skills.

Two spirits that can complement each other can perform spirit fusion to unleash skills that are greater than one plus one.

But heterologous spirits, that is, spirits that are not very related, can actually achieve spirit fusion.

This means that spirits can absorb only the elements they need, while avoiding the influence of other elements.

Combined with the spirit mimicry theory, if the spirit ring of a non-plant spirit beast only has elements that a plant spirit can absorb, then the plant spirit can completely absorb the spirit ring of the non-plant spirit beast.

The reverse is also true.

Spirit rings, in the final analysis, are energy bodies, and spirits are also energy bodies condensed from spirit power.

Absorbing spirit rings is like one energy body absorbing the energy of another energy body. As long as the energy does not conflict with the energy, then anything is possible.

Don't be misled by the so-called external appearance, but look at the essence by abandoning the phenomenon.

Thinking of this, Quan Yi excitedly wanted to jump up, just like Archimedes discovering the existence of buoyancy in the bathtub.

Quan Yi developed a great curiosity about the author of this book.

The author's whimsy and broad knowledge helped Quan Yi completely open his horizons.

Quan Yi immediately thought of borrowing this book. No, he wanted to buy a new one.

Quan Yi immediately walked to the library reception desk. The person in charge of the reception was a little boy of about ten years old, who should be a senior student.

"Hello, can I borrow this book?"

Quan Yi raised his hand and pointed to the book in his hand.

The little boy looked up and said, "Yes, after borrowing it, please do not damage the book and return it within a week."

Then, he took out a booklet.

"Please fill out the registration form, write down your name, class, book title, and the date of borrowing."

Quan Yi was stunned for a moment.

"Senior, I'm a freshman, and I haven't been assigned to a class yet."

The little boy didn't expect Quan Yi to be a freshman. This classmate who looked about the same age as himself was actually a freshman.

"Oh, then you can write down your dormitory number. If you don't return it by then, I need to use the information above to urge you to return the book." At this time, the little boy paused.

"However, you shouldn't do that."

Quan Yi was a little surprised: "Why?"

A shrewd light flashed in the little boy's eyes.

"Coming to the library to borrow books before the official start of school shows that you are eager to learn. People like you must cherish books very much. Moreover, there are very few students borrowing books throughout the academy. Even if someone doesn't return the book, it can be easily found."

Unexpectedly, a child of ten years old could have such insights.

Quan Yi immediately asked the other party's name. The other party's name was Zhang Ming.

He was a work-study student at the academy, responsible for the management of the library.

Quan Yi had seen information about work-study students in the guide. The academy would recruit commoner spirit masters who could cultivate and waive their tuition fees.

Quan Yi felt that it was not a bad thing to get to know him.

After talking with Zhang Ming, Quan Yi raised a question.

"Senior Zhang, I don't know where I can buy this book. I want to buy a new one."

Quan Yi pushed the book in his hand in front of Zhang Ming to see if the other party had any channels.

After Zhang Ming carefully looked at the cover of the book, he said with some surprise: "Yu Xiaogang! Why would you want to buy his book?"