Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 171 Can I switch back?

No, are you kidding?
If his hands weren't occupied, Chen Ping would have rubbed his eyes hard to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

The patterns inside the spirit ring have changed, so the spirit skill must change accordingly. Can you just change it like that?

His two soul skills, one is stacking poison and the other is potent poison. When fully stacked, they can explode and take down a five-thousand-year-old evil tiger.

Although it may not be as visually appealing as those soul skills that deliver a satisfying combat experience, its potential is much higher.

Unfortunately, the development of things is objective and cannot be changed by human will.

At this moment, Chen Ping dared not interrupt his soul power output process rashly, and could only watch helplessly as the patterns inside his two soul rings changed rapidly, as if hundreds or thousands of mysterious patterned snakes were crawling on the inner walls of the soul rings.

At the same time, Chen Ping's Dragon-Touching Staff finally underwent a change. The two large, gleaming bells at both ends of the staff had somehow retracted back into the staff.

The scales on the staff, which resembled armor and were layered in an orderly fashion, had now become faintly visible.

The color tone of the stick also changed from the initial bright yellow to a deep brown like ancient wood.

On the main body of the staff, the scales slowly disappeared, replaced by irregular crack patterns, which looked like the rough skin of a barbarian elephant, bearing the marks of time.

Chen Ping subconsciously stroked the stick. Although the stick looked rough and had cracked patterns, it felt surprisingly gentle to the touch.

Not only is it not easy to slip from your hand when you hold it, but it also gives you a strong sense of weight and solidity.

The hoops at both ends of the stick are now much thicker than the stick itself, with staggered knots and protruding bone covering them like undulating mountains.

It's gotten heavier again.

This was Chen Ping's strongest feeling; his current physical abilities were basically enough to hold his own against a typical four-ring Soul Master.

Even so, holding the heavy stick in one hand was still quite strenuous.

At that moment, Chen Ping's martial spirit finally stopped demanding soul power from him, and the soul bone of the Earth-Splitting Barbarian Elephant had long been absorbed completely, leaving nothing behind.

After absorbing soul power from the bottle for a while, until his soul power was almost fully restored, Chen Ping finally had the energy to observe the new martial soul in front of him.

If there's one feeling this martial spirit gives Chen Ping, it's power—pure power. Just holding the stick, Chen Ping felt his strength had increased.

Reluctantly, Chen Ping once again paid a lot of academic points to obtain brief information about his new martial soul.

[Beast Staff - Savage Elephant: A martial spirit evolved from the Dragon-Touching Staff devouring a piece of the right leg bone of a savage elephant. The staff's ends are covered with thick bone joints, suggesting astonishing destructive power.]

[Unique Use: When gripping the staff, it slightly increases one's strength and stance, providing a strong blunt striking effect, which may be surprisingly effective against armored enemies.]

Suitable for the following staff techniques: chopping staff and standing staff.

As Chen Ping looked at the lines of text displayed by the system, he fell into deep thought.

This time, not only did the suffix of his own stick change from "Touch Dragon" to "Barbarian Elephant," but the prefix also changed from "Insect Stick" to "Beast Stick," which made Chen Ping pay special attention to it.

In addition, Chen Ping discovered that his Elephant Staff was different from the Willow Staff and the Dragon Staff—its "unique and ingenious use".

This was the first time he had encountered this term after analyzing the Martial Soul report using the system.

It seems that because the grade of his martial soul has been upgraded again, his martial soul has finally acquired additional special effects.

In addition, Chen Ping also noticed the change in the recommended staff techniques for his martial soul. When using the Dragon-Touching Staff, the recommended techniques of thrusting, monkey-shaped, and insect-shaped staffs had changed to chopping and standing staffs. This meant that Chen Ping's fighting style also needed to change due to the transformation of his martial soul.

Putting everything else aside, the difficulty of Chen Ping swinging such a heavy beast-shaped staff and continuing to perform aerial combat maneuvers is exceptionally high.

At this moment, the heavy elephant staff in Chen Ping's hand was basically telling him one thing: forget about all those fancy staff techniques; the staff's main strength is its power to send bricks flying.

Chen Ping scratched his head. Why did he feel like his martial soul evolution this time was a negative improvement?

Although he was quite certain that if he swung the beast club at the scorpion tiger's head, it might actually kill it, but the key issue was that this weapon didn't suit his preferred fighting style!

But these are not the most important.

Chen Ping looked at the two spirit rings at his feet. How could his spirit skills change along with them?

There are just too many secrets about his own martial spirit.

"Oh, boss, don't try it yourself. Just spend some money and get it right away. Spend tens of thousands of points to thoroughly analyze the secrets of your martial soul. I can even give you the soul skill changes of these two soul rings for free."

Just then, Chen Ping's system resurrected and made its presence known.

"Tens of thousands of points, you really dare to ask for that much."

Chen Ping said impatiently, "Hurry up, I only need to analyze the changes in the two spirit rings. Tell me what's wrong with the two spirit rings."

"The stingy boss."

The system's voice sounded somewhat regretful that it had failed to extract a large amount of academic points from Chen Ping in one go.

But soon, a hint about the changes in the soul skills within the two soul rings appeared in front of Chen Ping.

[Accumulating Power: Whether attacking or defending, activating this Soul Skill allows you to accumulate Staff Power for a specified duration, up to a maximum of three layers. The Staff Power will gradually dissipate over time.]

[When unleashing a staff attack, attack power is greatly increased; for each stack of staff attack unleashed, damage increases by 50%.]

Not a buddy?

Chen Ping stood up abruptly, his face showing no less shock than Qian's when he saw the level-two flying soul tool, and perhaps even more so.

The ability to modify or alter the soul skills within a soul ring was something Chen Ping had never heard of before.

He didn't even have time to see what his second soul skill had become, because as Chen Ping held his martial soul, a kind of intuition arose in his mind.

He can also switch back to his martial spirit, along with his spirit skills.

However, that's not possible now. Trying to temporarily switch to a different spirit form would almost deplete all of his spirit power, which is a minor issue.

The key point is that there seems to be a cooldown period when he switches martial souls. Just like a low-level soul master in their twenties or thirties releasing a martial soul fusion skill, if the level is too low, he has to wait several days to recover before he can release it again.

Even so, the ability to switch freely between the Insect Staff and the Beast Staff, and the fact that his Soul Skills could also change accordingly, was a gain that completely exceeded Chen Ping's expectations.

How many secrets does my willow stick martial soul, which initially seemed to be underdeveloped, still hold?

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