Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 144 Complete Training Methods

"It's necessary to make thorough preparations in advance." Jing Hongchen clapped his hands. "Look, this anti-hidden weapon soul-guided trial instrument can split into about ten smaller instruments."

He released a defensive soul-guided shield, gathering everyone together to protect them, and then pressed a button on the trial device.

Just as Jing Hongchen had said, the giant thing really did crack open, though it didn't explode... Instead, it split into smaller individuals that flew and moved erratically around the training room, then spat out small steel balls that crackled and clattered against Jing Hongchen's defensive shield.

"Amazing!" Xue Di exclaimed.

Jing Hongchen glanced at her: "If you want to learn how to make soul tools, that's fine too."

"As you can see, after they split, they spit out these irregular little steel balls, and there are options on the control panel to control their frequency and firing force," Jing Hongchen said.

He then shut down the instrument and the soul-guided shield. The small instruments that had been flying around returned to their original positions, and the small steel balls that had fallen to the ground returned to the inside of the instrument as if they had received a command.

"This is the first soul-guided device." Jing Hongchen walked towards the second device. "And this one, the weighted sprint simulator."

"A treadmill that can control gravity?" Xiao Hongchen looked at it with a puzzled expression. "Our academy has had these before."

"Yes, but have you bunch of brats even used it?" Jing Hongchen glared at his grandson with annoyance.

"I modified ten of these raid simulators, just enough for the ten of you. I also added some extra features to them," Jing Hongchen said.

"In addition to the existing options of increasing gravity from five times to forty times, we can also create a pulling force around you." Jing Hongchen manipulated it for a moment. "So, this will not only train your physical fitness, but you will also need to maintain your balance in the process."

This feature was suggested by Qian Renxue, and that's how he added it.

Because Qian Renxue remembered very clearly that among the so-called Tang Sect's unique skills, there was a method for controlling soul power, though she didn't know the specific name.

However, she was deeply impressed by that grappling ability. This method of controlling soul power had put some pressure on her during the battle. For example, when sprinting, she might be pulled and have her original attack route changed by this pulling ability if she was not careful.

Although it's unclear whether this method still exists, since Shrek Academy and the Tang family are in cahoots, it's necessary to be on guard. Besides, this kind of training itself has many benefits.

"I know that everyone has some kind of flight soul tool or propulsion soul tool these days." Qian Renxue nodded. "However, no matter how good a soul tool is, it is still an external object. We can use them, but we cannot rely on them excessively."

"If you all already possess high physical abilities, then soul tools will no longer be a necessity, but rather an added bonus!"

Meng Hongchen nodded gently: "What you said is very true. If those Soul Master trainers were willing to say the same thing to us, perhaps we wouldn't be so resistant to them."

"What did they say?" Shen Yuanyi asked with interest.

"They said..." Shi Xing from the reserve team thought for a moment, "With your frail little bodies, you're just a bunch of useless trash without your soul tools! If your soul tools explode, the enemy won't even need to lift a finger!"

"What they said seems to make sense." Xue Di touched her hair.

"Although the words are rough but the reasoning is sound, it just feels uncomfortable," Meng Hongchen said, pursing her lips. Qian Renxue patted her head; these team members were mostly twelve or thirteen years old, so it was normal for them to dislike such words. They were all teenagers in their rebellious phase, and excessive negativity might not have a good effect.

"That really sounds like something they would say," Shen Yuanyi nodded. "But lately they seem to be slowly changing that habit."

"As for the next one, it might cause you pain," Jing Hongchen said in a deep voice. "Listen carefully to every word I say."

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

"This soul tool is called the Body Refining Device. It has only one effect: to temper your physical strength with electric current," Jing Hongchen said slowly.

"Electric...electric chair?" Xiao Hongchen stared in disbelief.

He had heard of the Sun Moon Empire's cruel tortures and had even witnessed them by chance. Methods like stripping the dragon pillar or electrocution involved sitting the prisoner in an electric chair and having their lightning-attribute soul power flow through their body via a soul tool, torturing them to death.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. During the body tempering process, another level nine soul master and I will personally guard and control you," Jing Hongchen said in a deep voice. "Afterwards, you will also receive a medicinal bath to help you recover."

These are all resources! Mingde Hall has invested a considerable amount of money to support Qian Renxue's training.

Money is a minor matter; Mingdetang is not short of money. However, the medicinal herbs used in the medicinal bath will certainly not be the same scraps used to forcibly enhance cultivation.

When Qian Renxue first proposed this idea to him, he was shocked. He never expected there to be such a cruel method of body tempering.

Qian Renxue's idea came from the Angel God Trial she had experienced. The third trial was the Body Refinement God Trial, which was conducted by Qian Daoliu drawing upon the true fire of the sun within the Angel God statue.

However, she certainly couldn't directly explain the True Fire Body Tempering she had experienced, so she drew an analogy, borrowing the Nine Trials of the Sea God. She said, "Master, are you familiar with the Nine Trials of the Sea God? I reckon one of them is a body tempering test, where the body is tempered by the impact of the ocean!"

Anyway, the deeds of the Sea God have already been written into a book and are being sold throughout the continent. When Jing Hongchen heard her say this, he nodded with difficulty and said that since they couldn't use seawater, they might as well use lightning.

So he took the electric chair, which was used as a form of punishment, modified it, and had a level nine soul master personally supervise it to prevent the children from being turned into idiots who could only foam at the mouth and beg for food on the roadside.

Finally, Qian Renxue suggested that Jing Hongchen improve his meals. She was quite familiar with Jing Hongchen; judging from his physique, he probably ate a lot.

He brought out his personal kitchen, where some food-type Soul Masters and cooking utensil Soul Masters were responsible for preparing nutritious meals for the children.

Qian Renxue sighed silently. She figured Jing Hongchen probably only provided nutritious meals for Xiao and Meng; the other team members' physical condition was far worse. She reckoned that if they hadn't been holding back during training, they would have been literally beaten to a pulp.

Qian Renxue said that "ordinary soul tools" are all external objects because she believes that there is only one kind of soul tool that can be said to be integrated with the soul master himself, and that is the natal soul tool. So she used a rather conservative way of speaking here.

The so-called natal soul tool, as mentioned earlier, is roughly the fusion of the understanding of the martial soul with the soul tool. For example, Kong Deming integrated the spatial control of his Silver Moon martial soul into the Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield, which is the only thing in the Douluo Continent II timeline that can be called a natal soul tool.

Ye Xishui's Death God Tower was merely an amplification of her martial soul. After Huo Yuhao destroyed Mingdu, countless wronged souls were created. The Death God Tower absorbed these wronged souls, thus stepping into the threshold of a level ten soul tool. This can actually be seen as surpassing the peak of a level nine soul tool in terms of power, but it can hardly be considered a level ten soul tool.

(End of this chapter)