Douluo: Martial Soul Nine-Tailed Fox, I am the White Fox Emperor

However, Tang San, having received over two years of instruction from Yu Xiaogang, did not act as he did in the original story; instead, he raised questions:
"Teacher, why does Blue Silver Grass choose the Control type? You said before that Blue Silver Grass is very weak. Even though Control type is a natural counter to Offensive type, Blue Silver Grass's vines are too fragile."

If I go for the control-type path, will I be inferior to other Soul Masters with plant-type Martial Souls?

Yu Xiaogang chuckled: "I have considered that point you mentioned. It's certain that Blue Silver Grass is inherently inferior to other well-known plant-type martial souls."

"That's why I didn't let you take the pure control route, but instead added poison!"

"With the addition of poison, even if you're not fighting a higher-level opponent, within the same level, anyone poisoned by your Blue Silver Grass will experience a significant drop in combat power, thus affecting their actions."

"After that, even if your opponent breaks through your Blue Silver Grass, the poison has already penetrated deep into their body. Unless the duel ends, the opponent will have no chance to detoxify!"

Yu Xiaogang confidently analyzed, "In the early stages, you couldn't add soul rings to the Clear Sky Hammer, so you could only use Blue Silver Grass. You also research some poisons on your own, so poison control is the most suitable for you."

Tang San: "Teacher, you said before that Blue Silver Grass has a strong vitality, so can I go for a support-type build?"

Yu Xiaogang smiled and shook his head: "Impossible. Although I said that Blue Silver Grass has a strong vitality, it's just that it's the tallest among the short ones."

Go out into the wild and see. Are other plant-type spirit beasts really less resilient than Blue Silver Grass? While Blue Silver Grass is everywhere, most of it is just weeds, not even qualifying as a spirit beast.

"Weeds are indeed very resilient. Even if you don't uproot them, they will revive on their own after a period of time. But this just proves that they have a weak will!"

Tang San frowned: "What do you mean by that?"

Yu Xiaogang explained: "According to my research, most plant-type soul beasts are actually very resilient because they are inherently much weaker than animal-type soul beasts, so they can only work on this aspect, which is innate."

"Plants are so resilient because, unlike animals and spirit beasts, they have intricate root systems underground, but this also means that they cannot move freely."

"In fact, Blue Silver Grass is indeed everywhere in several Soul Hunting Forests, but you may only notice the Blue Silver Grass under your feet and not the towering trees next to you."

"To be honest, those trees are actually more likely to evolve into soul beasts faster than the Blue Silver Grass."

"Let me ask you, if Blue Silver Grass were to choose for itself, would it choose to remain a blade of grass for its entire life, or would it choose to become a towering tree? Its vitality is tenacious, but it still cannot compete with other plant-type soul beasts."

Yu Xiaogang's words were very logical, and Tang Xiao and the others nodded silently in agreement.

But Tang San raised another question: "But wasn't my mother the Blue Silver Emperor who lived for 100,000 years?"

"By the way, Uncle, do you know what kind of soul skill my mother used to be good at?"

Tang Xiao thought for a moment: "You want to learn from your mother? That's probably going to be difficult."

Tang San: "Why?"

Tang Xiao: "Your mother was a 100,000-year-old soul beast in human form. Before she took human form, she had the experience of being a soul beast and her innate soul skill. So after she took human form, she actually followed the path of support + control."

"But I don't recommend you do that. Your spirit is just Blue Silver Grass. If you do that, it will only make your early cultivation very difficult. The reason why we spirit masters set a cultivation path is because too many paths are actually not good."

"Moreover, your teacher is right. If you take the support route in the early stages, it means you have no combat power."

Although we'll help you hunt spirit beasts later, so you don't need to worry, don't forget that it's very dangerous for support-type spirit masters to enter the Star Dou Great Forest!

"We will protect you, but anything can happen, and you can't be without means of self-protection."

At this moment, Yu Xiaogang interjected:

"Little San, there's one more crucial point: you need to raise your cultivation to Soul Saint level or higher as quickly as possible to prepare for attaching a Soul Ring of over 50,000 years to the first Soul Ring of the Clear Sky Hammer!"

“I know what you’re thinking. Your mother is a 100,000-year-old soul beast with considerable talent. You might be able to follow in her footsteps, but I don’t recommend it.”

"You may have overlooked a very important point: the cultivation speed of support-type Soul Masters is much slower than that of battle-type Soul Masters! Even if you are born with full Soul Power, if you choose the support route, what was originally the age of thirty to reach Soul Saint might become forty!"

"By then, it will be too slow for you to add a soul ring to the Clear Sky Hammer. The situation on the continent is very critical right now, and we don't have that much time for you to slowly cultivate."

"Only if you quickly cultivate to the Soul Saint level, add a Soul Ring to the Clear Sky Hammer, and combine it with the Clear Sky Secret Technique, will it be far better than you painstakingly studying how to get to the Blue Silver Grass!"

In the end, Tang San was persuaded by Yu Xiaogang. Perhaps he was indeed overthinking things.

He actually wanted to try going for a life support role.

But the teacher is right. Even if he has innate full soul power, his progress will be very slow with this kind of cultivation method.

Moreover, if he goes for the life-based build, he will indeed lack combat power in the early stages. Even if he has hidden weapons, it is still not very safe.

Poison combined with control is actually more suitable for him.

However, Tang San overlooked one point: Yu Xiaogang and the others did not know that Tang San possessed the Xuan Tian Gong.

In theory, the cultivation speed is the same regardless of which path one takes when practicing the Mysterious Heaven Technique.

In other words, neither the Clear Sky Sect nor the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan currently has the resources to exchange Body Tempering Pills with the Spirit Hall. Otherwise, Tang San wouldn't have needed to wait until he became a Soul Saint to add a Soul Ring to his second Martial Soul.

Everyone present was well aware of this matter. The fastest way to help Tang San grow up quickly was to obtain the Body Tempering Pill from the Spirit Hall.

That’s right, just rob!

However, this path is also very risky. If the Spirit Hall finds out that they have secretly killed their people, it will bring annihilation to both the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!

After all, most people would be eager to take the Body Tempering Pill as soon as they get it.

If a soul tool contains Body Tempering Pills, it means that the leftovers were used, so this person's status in the Spirit Hall is definitely not low.

He's at least a Contra Bishop!

Tang Xiao didn't believe that anyone below the Contra Douluo level would have extra Body Tempering Pills. After all, given their cultivation level, the Spirit Hall would definitely know that Body Tempering Pills were useless, and they wouldn't be giving out such rewards.

If a reward is given, it means that the person has a younger relative in their family who needs it!
How many bishops above the Contra level are there in the entire Spirit Hall?
The death of even one person will trigger a full-scale manhunt by the Spirit Hall!

Yu Yuanzhen just told Tang Xiao via telepathy that this matter needs to be discussed in detail and cannot be rushed!
"Alright, Little San, you just awakened your martial soul today, so get some rest. We'll take you to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts first thing tomorrow morning!" Tang Xiao said.

Afterwards, Yu Xiaogang called Tang San to his room.

"Teacher, did you call me over for something?" Tang San asked, puzzled.

Why call him over so late? Is there something you want to give him?
Yu Xiaogang took out an old-fashioned book from his body and handed it to Tang San: "Little San, this is what I have researched over many years. You can use this meditation method when you cultivate. It may be much faster than the one your family gave you."

Tang San had already heard Yu Xiaogang mention meditation techniques, which were considered the most basic things for Soul Masters.

On the day a Soul Master awakens their Martial Soul, they will receive a unique meditation method based on the quality of their Martial Soul, which is the innate Soul Power they awaken.

This is why the cultivation speed of someone with innate full soul power is higher than that of someone with innate level one soul power, and also has a higher upper limit.

Tang San asked at the time, "If that's the case, why is it that no Soul Master with low innate Soul Power has obtained a high-quality meditation technique and thus broken through the theoretical limit?"
Yu Xiaogang's answer was: "Meditation is extremely important for Soul Masters. Cultivation is inherently about fighting against the heavens, the earth, and even more so, against other people!"

"In this world, the number of ordinary people who can awaken innate soul power is already one in ten thousand, and among this small number, those who awaken to the seventh level of innate soul power or above are even more pitifully few."

"Most of these geniuses are absorbed by the Spirit Hall, while a very small number enter sects or empires."

"After all, even if an ordinary person has high talent, it's difficult to achieve greater success without a good cultivation environment!"

"As such, it is already very difficult for ordinary people to obtain high-quality meditation methods from other places. The only way is to join a faction."

"In the Douluo Continent, when it comes to the quality of meditation methods, the Spirit Hall and the three upper sects are definitely the best. The Spirit Hall has the largest number of spirit masters on the continent and can obtain the most meditation method samples."

“It is natural to research and develop a universal meditation method that is most suitable for Soul Masters’ cultivation, but even if such a universal meditation method exists…”

Tang San asked, "If that's the case, why have I never heard of anyone in the Spirit Hall with talent below level three breaking through to Soul Saint or above?"

Yu Xiaogang couldn't help but laugh: "If cultivation were this simple, that would be great. Even with a good meditation method, one's innate talent limits their potential. What good is a good meditation method then?"

"This is also a very helpless thing. At the beginning, many of us (high-level people) thought that if a Soul Master with low talent had a high-quality meditation method, he might be able to break through the limit of his talent."

"This experiment was actually successful, but not perfect. Let's put it this way: a Soul Master at the third level of the Innate Realm, under normal circumstances, would only be able to cultivate to the Soul Venerable level in their lifetime. But with the emergence of a high-quality meditation method, they could cultivate to the Soul Grandmaster level! With extremely good cultivation resources, even becoming a Soul King is not impossible!"

"Aren't you curious why we simply divide talent into ten levels, from innate to natural?" Yu Xiaogang asked rhetorically.

Tang San: "Isn't this because we awakened the corresponding innate soul power?"

Yu Xiaogang chuckled: "That's one reason, but according to my research, the upper limit for someone with innate soul power at level one is a Soul Master, level two is a Great Soul Master, level nine is a Titled Douluo, and level ten is a Super Douluo above level ninety-five!"

"Based on different talents, we (the higher-ups) used to classify talents into four categories: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. However, since a higher-level meditation method has been developed, this classification has become obsolete."

As for Yu Xiaogang, his innate soul power was only half a level. Besides the large amount of resources his family provided for his upbringing, the most important factor was actually the family's meditation method.

After all, the resources given in the past were nothing more than simulated cultivation and medicinal herbs, which were not very precious. At most, they might be wild spiritual herbs, but such things were rare and hard to come by.

Normally, someone with half a level of innate soul power wouldn't even qualify for their first soul ring.

However, thanks to his family's meditation method and various resources, he managed to reach level 29, but that was his limit!

The meditation method he gave Tang San was a combination of his family's and the Spirit Hall's meditation methods, along with his own ideas. It was definitely the best meditation method on this continent so far!
Even so, he was still suppressed by his talent and could not break through to level 30!
Tang San felt that the meditation method in this world should correspond to the internal energy cultivation of his previous life.

In his previous life, cultivation techniques were also divided into levels, such as Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow. Their Xuan Tian Gong should be the most advanced Heaven-rank cultivation technique (doge).

In this world, the Spirit Hall's meditation method would be at the Heaven Rank, while the Upper Three Sects' would be at the peak of the Earth Rank.

Those with low aptitude, even if they acquire high-quality meditation techniques, are unable to break through their limits.

This is similar to an ordinary person in a previous life obtaining a high-quality cultivation technique; they can understand the beginning and cultivate up to one or two levels.

However, due to limited comprehension, he could not continue.

Tang San opened the meditation method that Yu Xiaogang had given him, and compared it with his Xuan Tian Gong.

A moment later, he was shocked!
This meditation method, while naturally incomparable to his Xuan Tian Gong, is actually quite similar, representing a rudimentary understanding of the basics of the technique.

Why is it called a prototype?
This meditation method, except for not targeting the pathways of the body's meridians, is very similar to the Xuan Tian Gong.

Unfortunately, it seems that people in this world don't cultivate their meridians. The main function of meditation is to absorb external energy and convert it into soul power within the body.

This process does not require going through the meridians.

After all, the meridians of the human body are very fragile. Even if one reaches the level of a Title Douluo or above and has the mental power to see inside the body, probably no one would try to make their soul power circulate in the meridians.

After all, the meridians in the human body are intricate and complex. If one goes astray, one may lose all one's power (soul power) and suffer from qi deviation, or even die!
However, this also made Tang San realize that Yu Xiaogang really did have some skills, and his previous slight doubts disappeared.

He was actually a little resentful that Yu Xiaogang had suggested he take the drug control route.

"Teacher, thank you. I will cultivate diligently!"

The clever Tang San did not ask Yu Xiaogang why he only gave him this meditation method and not allowed the rest of the family to practice it.

(End of this chapter)