Douluo: Martial Soul Research Diary

Chapter 206 Mirror Beast

Among soul skills, there are also differences in strength.

Leaving aside absurd settings like divine skills, among the soul skills, there are several with remarkably strong mechanisms.

For example, the Evil-Eyed White Tiger's system soul skills: White Tiger Protective Barrier - White Tiger Vajra Transformation - White Tiger Demon God Transformation, all attribute bonuses by percentage:

50/100/150, and this type of soul skill can be stacked.

In its ultimate state, it can triple its base attributes, making it incomparably powerful.
"Blue Silver Grass doesn't work for the White Tiger system's soul skill combinations."

Davis, the eldest prince of the Star Luo Empire, possesses both talent and hard work.

However, because the third soul skill was chosen to be Earthquake Shock, the amplification system was broken, and the growth ceiling was not as high as Dai Mubai's.

During the finals of the Elite Soul Master Competition, Han Tao's martial soul briefly reached the level of [Blue Silver], and Tang San happened to be there.

"Blue Silver Grass Soul Master, you have one chance to reshape your Soul Rings."

"Once my theoretical knowledge is strong enough, perhaps I can take advantage of this opportunity to reshape my spirit rings and find the [Blue Silver Triple Transformation] unique to Blue Silver Grass."

Aside from the Evil-Eyed White Tiger's soul ring system, there are two soul skills with extremely strong mechanics in the ten-thousand-year to fifty-thousand-year range.

One is Oscar's Mirror Sausage, which comes from the Mirror Beast in the Frozen Forest. It can master all the Soul Master's Soul Ring skills based on the Soul Master's blood, making it an incredibly powerful mechanism.

One is Zhu Zhuqing's Netherworld Possession, an amplification-type soul skill that significantly increases defense and attack penetration. Moreover, Netherworld Possession has an incredible effect: it increases the soul master's evasion probability by 50%.

Standing there, after much deliberation, Han Tao finally made up his mind: "I'll choose the Mirror Beast."

A top-tier plant-type martial soul possesses relatively strong self-bearing capacity, making it fully capable of absorbing animal-type soul rings and gaining even stronger soul ring effects.

Animal-type spirit rings have a much higher spirit ring strength and origin strength than plant-type spirit beasts.

But
Weak plant-type spirit rings cannot absorb animal-type spirit rings, for example, Tang San.
Given the lack of strength in the basic dimensions, Blue Silver Grass has extremely limited capacity to bear direction, and animal-type spirit rings will occupy this part of the evolutionary space.

(The basic dimensions of Blue Silver Grass are derived from the adaptations to swords, hammers, shocks, pressure, and devouring.)

After completing the basic five-dimensional adaptation, the Blue Silver Grass's strength will reach 0.6, while its toxin orientation will only be 0.2, which is the difference between a medium-level and a top-level martial soul.

Han Tao explored the evolutionary path of the Dark Blue Silver Grass and mastered the actual power of "fusion with the Martial Soul Body", which is why he obtained a 0.2 toxin targeting.

Based on the current state of Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.
After completing full adaptation to the five-dimensional realm, the soul ring obtained from the Azure Phosphorous Serpent King was used to promote the growth system of Azure Phosphorous Serpent—Azure Phosphorous Serpent King—Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.
With the utmost favor of fate, and with extreme difficulty, he was able to achieve a targeted evolution of 0.1.
But there was no room for further progress.

The key issue is that Yu Xiaogang won't tell him what it means to "understand the essence of a martial soul and master its origin," let alone understand the essence of Blue Silver Grass: "adaptation."

Or a higher-level theory, which integrates the martial soul itself with the basic five dimensions of Blue Silver Grass.

The northern border of the Heavenly Dou Empire, an extremely cold forest.

For this "Mirror Beast," Han Tao invited two big shots from the sect.

Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi stood tall in the sky, their postures calm and elegant.

Having mastered the power of the microscopic realm, Ning Fengzhi could naturally follow Ning Rongrong's example and acquire the power to fly.

Of course, Han Tao could also use his soul bone skill to soar through the sky, but he didn't plan to reveal it for the time being. After all, it was a 100,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor soul bone, and it would be bad if Tang Hao noticed it.

"The eight treasures transform into crystal, and the eight treasures have names. The eighth is: Spirit!"

In the sky, the glass tower rotated and spun, and a specific beam of light was directed at Sword Douluo, causing his mental power to increase.

Sword Douluo is a level 95 Title Douluo. The limit of his mental detection range is ten kilometers, which will be extended to eighteen kilometers (radius) with Ning Fengzhi's blessing.

(Adding some settings)
The original setting states that a level 95 mental power can detect a distance of 10 kilometers, and a level 99 mental power can detect a distance of 25 kilometers. However, for global detection, mental power is equivalent to the detection range, but the unit of global range is cubic, not length.

Based on this calculation, a level 99 person's mental strength would be 15.625 times that of a level 95 person, which is clearly unreasonable.

Therefore, the spiritual detection of a Title Douluo is not a global detection, but rather an exploration using a planar, extreme-length scan method (similar to radar).

Therefore, the limit radius being equivalent to the magnitude of mental power makes everything seem reasonable.
The frigid forests of the North are vast, at least for Han Tao, but they are somewhat limited by the flight speed and mental detection range of a Title Douluo.

Before long, Sword Douluo found the corresponding target.

"The Mirror Beast is located 13 kilometers to the north!"

Han Tao was quite far away, but fortunately, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was large and powerful, and had no shortage of soul tools for transmitting messages, so Han Tao received the information immediately.

Follow the coordinates provided by Sword Douluo and proceed in the indicated direction.

Fifteen minutes later, Han Tao arrived at the location of the Mirror Beast.

A 20,000-year-old Mirror Beast is extremely difficult for an ordinary mercenary team to deal with, but it is far from enough for a peak Douluo Soul Master.

"Make your move!" Sword Douluo said coldly.

Han Tao took out a finely crafted broadsword from his package, just about to sever the head of the Mirror Beast.
But suddenly he hesitated. This soul beast had a soul bone. If he cut off its head, would it damage the integrity of the soul bone?
A mirror image of the skull, as depicted in the original work, but that may not be the case now.

Out of caution, Han Tao decided to poison it to death.

"Sword Douluo, please use your soul power to suppress and help me solidify the poison in the poison barrier."

With readily available helpers available nowadays, things are much easier.

"Why not just use a knife? Why use poison to kill a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast? What's with all the fear of death?"

His tone was aloof, but his actions never stopped. Under normal circumstances, he really couldn't understand Han Tao's purpose.

Using soul power to compress and solidify the Azure Phosphorus Toxin, it was injected into the Mirror Beast's body as the arrow was fired.

The power of solid phosphorus poison is extremely strong; even a 50,000-year-old soul beast might not be able to withstand it, let alone a 20,000-year-old mirror beast.

In the blink of an eye, the Mirror Beast died.

A dark, black spirit ring floated out from the corpse of the spirit beast.

Han Tao sat down cross-legged and began absorbing the spirit ring of the Mirror Beast.

"Hmph, soul tremor?"

The Distraction Control Technique was further refined, causing the original three spiritual entities to split again, reorganizing into five unevenly sized parts.

At the same time, the spiritual body is damaged, and spiritual power gradually diminishes.
This is not a problem. Once we get back, Ye Lingling can use the Concentration Technique to heal the injuries to the spiritual body.

Then, Han Tao felt a few scattered faint lights coming from the head of the Mirror Beast.

"Soul Bone, a mirror skull from ten thousand years ago!"

It didn't appear in any other location; it remained the same as in the original work, a mirror image of the skull.

Moreover, Han Tao could also sense that this ten-thousand-year-old mirror skull actually formed a specific linkage with his own illusionary wisdom skull.
A certain attraction stirred within Han Tao, leading to a conjecture:
"Similar to the Vast Ocean Universe Cover and the Skull of Wisdom Condensed by Spirit, as well as the Qiluo Tulip and the Eight-Petaled Fairy Orchid, both soul bones belong to the system soul bones."

"It seems... it can be pieced together and fused?"

(End of this chapter)