Douluo Continent: Reborn as Yuhao, I will never die in a battlefield.

Chapter 40 Soul Power Control

The grade system of the Soul Guidance Department of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy is very interesting.

The final exam of the second semester of the first year is the Level 1 Soul Master assessment. If you fail, you will be expelled and you will not be allowed to say that you are a student of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

Starting from the second year, the promotion to the next grade will be directly replaced by the Soul Master assessment.

Becoming a Level 3 Soul Master will advance you to the third year; becoming a Level 4 Soul Master will advance you to the fourth year, and so on, until the sixth year.

The conditions for graduation are to stay in the school for six years, or to be a level three or above Soul Master. Once these conditions are met, one can graduate.

(The first year is similar to nine years of education, and the graduation exam is similar to the college entrance examination. Then the third year is for undergraduate, the fourth year is for master's, and the fifth year is for doctoral. Something like this.)

Theoretically speaking, Huo Yuhao is now qualified to directly attend second- or even third-year courses. However, unfortunately, after he attended half a day of classes yesterday, Jing Hongchen helped him get a leave of absence and directly assigned several people to provide one-on-three tutoring.

The reason given was quite reasonable: the knowledge taught in first grade was useless to him.

What? You're asking who the extra one is?

That would naturally be Laughing at the Mortal World and Dreaming of the Mortal World.

As geniuses, they had already passed the Level 2 Soul Master assessment before entering the academy. The reason they went to class together yesterday was just to go through the motions.

After all, school rules stipulate that freshmen must attend class on their first day of school to listen to the class teacher explain various important matters and rules of the college.

Back to the topic.

After being enlightened by his grandfather Jing Hongchen yesterday, Xiao Hongchen has changed his attitude and is now full of fighting spirit, dragging Huo Yuhao to class together.

The speed was so fast that even Meng Hongchen, who was originally going to grab Huo Yuhao's hand, didn't have time to react.

Why did you steal my Huo Yuhao, brother?!

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"The control of soul power is essentially the application of one's own martial soul and soul skills."

"The more familiar one is with controlling their own power, the more they can progress from initially 'expending ten parts effort to gaining three parts benefit,' to gradually achieving 'expending ten parts effort to gain ten parts benefit.'"

Huo Yuhao used his soul power to support the small piece of metal. At the same time, under the control of his soul power, a small blade of a carving knife was slowly engraving on the small piece of metal.

While explaining, he inscribed the design, and in no time, a simple level one soul guide core was inscribed.

Xiao Hongchen watched, then tried to use his soul power to replicate Huo Yuhao's movements, but Huo Yuhao suddenly raised his hand to stop him.

"My martial soul is mental, which gives me a unique advantage in controlling soul power. You don't need to learn from me; you should use your own advantages."

"It's not about imitation, it's about learning methods."

"It's not imitation; it's learning a method."

Xiao Hongchen murmured unconsciously, and then the next moment, his martial soul possessed him. The three-legged golden toad's innate ability to control metal was driven by his soul power, and he then lifted up a piece of metal.

His heterochromatic eyes grew brighter, his contemplation transformed into enlightenment, and then, in the next moment, Xiao Hongchen picked up a carving knife and began to practice.

Huo Yuhao breathed a slight sigh of relief, then looked at Meng Hongchen, who had been silently watching them for a long time.

"Sister Meng"

"Yuhao, what happened after that?" Meng Hongchen interrupted Huo Yuhao and asked thoughtfully.

"What?" Huo Yuhao was a little confused.

"What happens after you say 'ten parts effort, ten parts gain'?"

Miss Meng's eyes were full of curiosity and inquiry: "A level three soul guide core, in theory, requires at least the full soul power of an ordinary level 15 soul master to make."

"Although Yuhao, you're level 16, it seems your soul power consumption was only slightly over half after you inscribed that level 3 soul guide core yesterday, right?"

Huo Yuhao was slightly taken aback, not expecting that the disguise originally intended to protect him from Jing Hongchen had actually been noticed by Meng Hongchen.

Huo Yuhao nodded, and then naturally sat down next to Meng Hongchen.

Looking at Xiao Hongchen, who was deep in thought and completely absorbed in his work not far ahead, Huo Yuhao said softly:

"Does Sister Meng know about leverage?"

Meng Hongchen nodded.

A lever, a mechanical device widely used in the manufacture of soul tools, can achieve effects such as saving effort or distance.

What was Meng Hongchen thinking about?

"Could it be..."

"Yes, it uses soul power as a lever. In principle, it first constructs a labor-saving structure with soul power, and then uses this soul power structure to drive the soul power to inscribe the soul guidance array."

"I call this 'ten parts effort, fifteen parts profit.'"

"Is this really possible?"

Meng Hongchen was extremely surprised. Wasn't Huo Yuhao's action equivalent to creating a soul tool using his own soul power?!

That requires an incredibly terrifying level of soul power control!

"Actually, I used both soul power and mental power to build it up. Roughly speaking, this method can reduce my soul power consumption by 50% under certain conditions, which is a pretty good little trick."

Meng Hongchen once again clearly felt Huo Yuhao's "talent," but she quickly breathed a sigh of relief.

She's not her brother, so she doesn't have those strange thoughts like "I'm number one!" or "I must surpass you!"

But Yuhao really gave her a surprise!

"Does Sister Meng want to learn?"

"Ah, me?"

Meng Hongchen shook her head and refused, "It's different. My brother's martial soul has the ability to control metal, but mine can't."

"But you can still learn to control your soul power."

He was aware of the flaws in Meng Hongchen's martial spirit.

Meng Hongchen's martial spirit is the Zhu Qing Ice Toad.

This kind of soul beast is a rare ice-attribute, highly poisonous soul beast, known as the king of the crevices in the far north.

Its main habitat is in the far north, bordering the human world. Its population is very small and its whereabouts are elusive.

What makes this martial soul special is that its entire body is of the ice attribute, but its eyes are of the fire attribute. Its greatest ability is poison; it generates a unique cold poison by alternating between its ice and fire abilities, leaving a trail of potent poison that lingers long after it leaves behind. Therefore, it is difficult to harm even when facing soul beasts stronger than itself.

However, this martial spirit also has side effects. Its own cold poison will backfire on its master, and if one is not careful, the cold poison will attack the heart and cause death.

From the perspective of Soul Masters alone, Meng Hongchen's talent even surpasses that of Xiao Hongchen.

However, every time Meng Hongchen cultivates, she must devote some energy to controlling her own cold poison; otherwise, she might accidentally explode and die.

Therefore, she has never cultivated with all her might. Of course, it is also possible that this is the reason that has shaped her somewhat indifferent personality.

The reason Huo Yuhao wanted to teach Meng Hongchen how to control her soul power was to get closer to her and gain her trust. As Jing Hongchen's granddaughter, if she favored him, he could also make Jing Hongchen favor him to some extent.

(End of this chapter)