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Chapter 122 Heart Furnace
"Brother Kan, are you planning to transform your war spirit?" Niu Er understood immediately and said after a moment's hesitation, "We need to plan this carefully."

At this point, Niu Er and others' evaluation of Su Daoshan has reached a new level.

At the same time, everyone has almost solved some of the previous doubts.

Generally speaking, the first thing a novice should do when entering the spiritual realm is to ensure that he can obtain a certain amount of spiritual essence. In the spiritual realm, spiritual essence is the source and power of everything. Not only does it consume spiritual essence to enter the spiritual realm, but every point of combat power improvement of the extraordinary warrior requires spiritual essence as a foundation.

Take Su Daoshan’s recent battle for example.

Before, everyone still didn't understand how he, as a newcomer, could survive the attack of a 10-meter-long tiger-striped mastiff without any damage. But after seeing the pile of spiritual fruits he casually took out, the answer was clear.

This kid directly improved the combat power of the Tao Seed!
You know, it is very difficult for a super warrior to improve his Dao seed combat power, but it is also very easy. The key lies in the spiritual essence.

In a word, the fighting power of Dao Seed is fed by the spiritual essence. Before the Dao Seed is 200 meters high, every time the fighting power is increased by one meter, 1000 spiritual essences are needed for irrigation. To increase the fighting power by five meters, spiritual essences are needed. This does not include the consumption every time entering the spiritual realm, the daily cultivation of fighting spirits, the use of strange arts, the feeding of secret weapons, the heart furnace refining weapons, and the climbing of Tiandao Mountain to improve the realm.

This is also the reason why Ao Jiu, who was only at the third level, had to endure for more than ten years before he could improve his combat power to nine meters.

It's not that he doesn't want to improve, it's just that spiritual energy is difficult to obtain and consumes a lot of energy, so he is powerless.

Moreover, the Dao Seed's combat power is not just a matter of raising it. Everyone's real combat power depends on many other things. If the Dao Seed's combat power is raised alone, but other shortcomings cannot keep up, it will only be a waste of spiritual essence.

As for the newbies improving their combat power, it is even more difficult. Most newbies can only improve their combat power by one meter in the first one or two years of coming to the Spirit Realm. This is also because they are lucky and gain something every time they enter the Spirit Realm.

If one is unlucky, he would be thankful if he could accumulate dozens of spiritual essences and enter the spiritual realm twice more in a year.

But what if you have spiritual energy in your hands?
That will be different!

No one knew what kind of adventure it was that the newcomer had, nor how long he had been in the spiritual realm. But he could easily take out 200 spiritual essences and dare to promise to support the spiritual essence consumption of so many people, so he obviously had a lot of spiritual essences in his hands.

If he spent six hundred and eight hundred spiritual essences to improve his combat power, and his own Dao Seed grade reached the sixth level, or even the seventh level... then it would not be surprising if he could raise his Dao Seed to ten meters of combat power and withstand the attack of that tiger-striped mad mastiff.

However, it is a waste for a newcomer to upgrade his Dao Seed to ten meters. If you want to improve your combat power, the simplest and most direct way is to transform the Dao Seed into a combat spirit!

Therefore, it was not surprising at all for Niu Er and others that Su Daoshan had such an idea.

Now that everyone has become a tribe of brothers, how to find a good beast soul, everyone is naturally very concerned. Apart from anything else, just talking about fighting against the Huangzhulin tribe, it is equivalent to immediately having an additional combat power second only to Niu Er.

"Speaking of beast souls, we in the Gurong tribe do have some in stock, but they are all the souls of second-level spirit beasts. They are not suitable for you, brother..." Niu Er frowned and thought.

"Don't mention our junk, Niu Er," Ma San said, "With Brother Kan's talent, a level 3 spirit beast is a waste. We must at least find a level 4 spirit beast!"

Everyone nodded.

Because everyone's initial Dao seed rank is a secret, it is not convenient for everyone to ask. But if this brother Kan reaches the seventh level as everyone guessed, then he is a genius-level talent no matter where he is.

With such qualifications, using the souls of spirit beasts below level four to transform into fighting spirits will not be enough to bring out his strongest fighting power.

You know, the higher the quality of the original Tao seed, the stronger the combat power of the war spirit.

For example, Su Daoshan also uses a level three tiger-striped mastiff as a war spirit, and it also has a combat power of ten meters. If he fights against the warrior from the Huangzhulin tribe, he can easily defeat the opponent.

After all, the original grade is fused with the essence of the Dao essence, which is the essence of the spiritual essence. With the same one meter of combat power, one meter of the Dao essence is much higher than one meter of the spiritual essence. It is also because of this that it is difficult for ordinary spirit beast souls to exert the combat power of the Dao essence. Only high-level spirit beast souls, which fuse with more powerful combat spirits, can bring this original grade advantage to the extreme.

"Don't I know this?" Niu Er glared at Ma San unhappily. "The problem is that in this land outside the domain, level 3 spirit beasts are considered extremely powerful. Level 4 spirit beasts are even more powerful than other beasts. And they never appear in the spiritual veins. If you want to find one, you have to go deep into the mountains. What's more troublesome is that although level 4 spirit beasts have a high starting point, they are of different types, and not all of them are suitable."

He waved his hands impatiently at Ma San and said, "Brother Kan needs to improve his combat power as soon as possible, so we might as well find a suitable one first. Anyway, as long as we don't invest too much spiritual energy in the combat spirit, we can change it in the future."

Hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.

Everyone's battle spirit is not fixed. When everyone first enters the spiritual realm, they are in the outer land with thin spiritual essence. The highest level of spirit beasts they can encounter is only the fourth level spirit beast. When they go around the outer land and fight, spirit beasts below the fourth level may be enough. But if they really enter the fifth or fourth spiritual realm in the future, the combat power of battle spirits of this level will not be enough.

Therefore, although war spirits can be cultivated and become stronger and stronger, generally speaking, warriors will not invest too much effort in low-level war spirits. Just like raising a chicken, even if it is raised to the size of an ostrich, it is still just a chicken. It cannot become a tiger.

Everyone would rather use it temporarily, and then after entering a higher spiritual realm, capture a more powerful spirit beast soul to replace it. Only when you meet a war spirit worth cultivating, will you be willing to invest resources to cultivate it.

According to Niu Er, if Su Daoshan was only transforming into a fighting spirit to deal with the Huangzhulin tribe at this stage, there was really no need to bother looking for a level 4 spirit beast. A level 3 spirit beast would be enough to exert its combat power.

However, Ma San was stubborn and loved to argue with others. He knew that what Niu Er said was reasonable, but he said unconvincedly: "That may not be the case. You can use a spirit demon instead of a spirit beast to kill your brother."

"How can that be possible!" Everyone objected. Niu Er scolded, "Ma San, it's not enough that you have gone astray yourself, do you want to take Brother Kan as well?"

"Oh?" Su Daoshan became interested and asked, "Is there any meaning behind this?"

Niu Er glared at Ma San, then explained to Su Daoshan.

It turns out that Dao Seeds can transform into war spirits, not only with spirit beast souls, but also with spirit monsters. The giant tree war spirit driven by Ma San that Su Daoshan saw before was created by Ma San fusing spirit monsters.

The origin of the spirit monster is the disciples of Wu Che, the big banyan tree in the ancient banyan tribe.

It must be said that the fighting power of the giant tree war spirit is indeed very strong. Ma San's own talent is not outstanding, but with the help of this giant tree war spirit, he has become an indispensable member of the ancient banyan tribe's caretaker team.

The reason why everyone was able to hold out for so long was all thanks to his battle spirit. The spirit demon battle spirit was much stronger than the spirit beast battle spirit at the beginning.

However, the Spiritual Demon Battle Spirit has a flaw, that is, once the Dao Seed and the Spiritual Demon are fused, they can no longer be replaced. If you want to improve the combat power of the Battle Spirit, you can only continue to invest resources to raise it.

If you just hang out outside the domain, everyone is a low-level war spirit, maybe it's okay. But in the future, when you enter the spirit domain, others can directly replace the fifth or even sixth level spirit beast, but you need to cultivate the war spirit little by little, and the energy and spiritual essence consumed will be a terrifying number.

Niu Er finished speaking and said, "Brother Kan, don't listen to him. If you really merge with the spirit monster, you will regret it in the future. Unless you can meet the chosen spirit monster..."

"What is the chosen spiritual demon?" Su Daoshan asked curiously.

"The so-called chosen spirit monster is a spirit monster that is particularly compatible with you. Once you meet it, not only is it willing, but your Dao Seed is also willing. The two are like magnets, attracting each other, and you can't even control it. Your Dao Seed will merge with it." Niu Er said, "The war spirit born in this situation is blessed by the will of the spirit realm. Not only is it powerful, but its future development is limitless. It is the chosen one."

There is also this kind of… Su Daoshan was fascinated by what he heard. After pondering for a while, he asked Ma San: “Besides being stronger than the spirit beast spirit, does the spirit demon war spirit have any other advantages?”

Ma San said: "Spiritual monsters are intelligent. They can communicate with their masters, are smart and flexible, and are considerate. Moreover, refining weapons with their heart furnaces can achieve twice the result with half the effort."

Niu Er and others also nodded in approval.

After all, spirit beasts are spirit beasts, and the intelligence of war spirits formed after merging with Dao seeds is not very high. Although warriors are essentially controlling their own Dao seeds, in fact, in battle, war spirits often do not react that quickly and do not have much subjectivity. As for judgment and independent thinking and strategy, that is even worse.

On the contrary, the spirit monster is an intelligent creature in the spirit realm. Not to mention its own strength, its IQ alone is hundreds of blocks ahead of the spirit beasts.

As if he couldn't hold back the urge to show off, Ma San said to Su Daoshan: "Brother, now that you have joined our tribe, you are one family. I won't hide anything from you..."

As he said this, he glanced at Niu Er, who nodded.

Ma San released his giant tree war spirit. It was not in combat mode. At this moment, the giant tree war spirit was only a little over a person tall. It looked like a miniature pet.

Ma San pointed at one of the giant tree war spirit's arms and said proudly, "Brother, what does this arm look like?"

Su Daoshan looked intently, and saw that the giant tree seemed to be showing him an arm composed of forked branches and entwined vines, which gradually turned into the shape of a bow.

"Bow and arrow?" Su Daoshan asked in surprise.

Ma San smiled proudly and said, "Brother Kan has good eyesight. This is the bow and arrow that I spent two hundred spiritual essences to refine. It will be ready in no time. This is the secret weapon of our Gurong tribe. If it's not Brother Kan and Brother Jiudou, no one else should know about it."

Su Daoshan walked around the giant tree war spirit several times, and the more he looked, the brighter his eyes became.

Long before he knew that Dao seeds had the function of refining tools in the heart furnace, Su Daoshan had had a very detailed understanding of this. Not only had he read the book "Records of Strange Sects and Martial Arts" almost to pieces, he had also asked Ao Jiu many related questions in the spiritual realm before.

The so-called heart furnace refining, in a word, is to create something out of nothing.

The spiritual world is the underlying world of the real Lanzhuo Continent. Therefore, under the dominance of the spiritual will, warriors can use the heart furnace power of the Tao Seed to refine anything that can be reproduced in the real world.

For example, bows and arrows.

As long as the refiner knows how to make a bow and understands the principles of the bow and arrow, he can refine it in the spiritual realm through the heart furnace function of the Tao Seed.

The Heart Furnace is an empty space. As the name implies, it is a furnace with the heart. And the things to be refined do not require real materials. As long as it is something in the real world, the warrior can visualize it through visualization.

Even after being successfully refined, such things will not actually appear in the spiritual world.

What emerges are the functions and characteristics of such a thing!
And these functions and features will be able to be used by war spirits!

Take the bow and arrow that Ma San refined for example. Once successful, his giant tree war spirit can use one arm to transform into a bow and arrow and shoot arrows. This means that this giant tree, which moves slowly but has a terrifying size and strength, has the ability to attack from a distance.

This almost perfectly makes up for the shortcomings of the giant tree.

Su Daoshan could imagine what would happen if the battle broke out again. If the opponent thought the giant tree moved slowly and could casually adopt a consumption tactic on the periphery like before, but was suddenly hit by an arrow from the giant tree, what would happen?

By then, the giant tree would shoot arrows like beads, and the other people who had been hiding in the protection range of the giant tree would take advantage of the situation to rush out. Even with the strength of the Huangzhulin tribe, they would suffer a great loss.

There is no doubt that this is the secret weapon of the Gurong tribe.

Just as Ma San said, if he and Ao Jiu had not rescued them and joined the tribe, they would never reveal this secret to outsiders.

"Awesome!" Su Daoshan excitedly gave a thumbs up. As early as when he learned about the function of the heart furnace, he had some ideas about his future war spirit in his mind. Now seeing this giant tree, it confirmed his thoughts, and the idea in his heart became more firm and intense.

You know, for the people in this world, what they can imagine is what exists in reality. For example, when Ma San needs to give the giant tree the ability to attack from a distance, the first thing he thinks of is the bow and arrow.

But according to the rules of the Heart Furnace, the things that can be refined may not have appeared in the real world. As long as it is allowed by the real material and rules, something that may appear, even if it does not exist now, can be refined in the Spirit Realm!
"But," Su Daoshan asked Ma San curiously, "Ma San, why don't you make a fire gun?"

"Brother Kan, you don't understand this. Although the fire gun is new, its shooting distance is too short. How can it be as powerful as a strong bow?" Ma San smiled and said disapprovingly, "In order to open this heart furnace, I went to find a bow-making master to learn it."

Su Daoshan nodded and laughed, thinking leisurely in his heart.

"Wait until I refine it, and you'll know what long-range attack is!"

(End of this chapter)