Douluo's Demon Blade Thousand Blades and the Original Martial Soul

Chapter 4 Cultivation Direction

Lin Yizhang guessed that the eight skills of the Demon Blade Thousand Blades should be able to be released through soul power and mental power after becoming familiar with the martial soul and achieving precise control of soul power, without needing to add soul rings.

In other words, these eight skills can be used as self-created soul skills. The more soul power attached to the Demon Blade Thousand Blades, the higher the quality of the soul power, and the more precise the control of mental power, the greater the power of the released skills.

Lin Yizhang still planned to add soul rings to turn these skills into soul skills.

Why would you make a skill into a soul skill if it can be used as a self-created soul skill?

The reasons are as follows: First, the soul skills granted by the soul ring are equivalent to being granted a certain power of rules. Releasing them with soul skills consumes less soul power and mental energy than releasing them with self-created soul skills, and the power is greater.

Secondly, there are advantages to cultivating the main body martial soul first. Soul masters' martial souls generally have attribute biases, but the main body martial soul does not have attribute biases. The soul power cultivated should be attribute-free soul power, which has many uses.

Furthermore, by first adding soul rings to one's own martial soul, one can greatly enhance one's physical attributes. Then, one can use the advantages of one's own martial soul to try to create a cultivation technique that suits oneself.

After all, meridians are also part of the body. When the main body's martial soul is in the state of martial soul possession, one can slowly try it. As long as one is careful and does not rush for quick results, even if the meridians are slightly damaged, they can be recovered and one will not become a cripple.

Furthermore, once the soul power level is high, the skill of Demon Blade Thousand Blades can be unleashed with both soul power and mental power, which is equivalent to cultivating two martial souls at the same time.

Furthermore, these eight skills are the primary means of using the Demon Blade Thousand Blades. The most important thing is to significantly enhance the power of these skills, rather than sacrificing the primary skills for secondary ones in pursuit of more skills.

Of course, the soul rings and soul skills obtained from hunting soul beasts cannot be controlled by humans; it's not like you can get any soul skill you want.

After obtaining a divinely bestowed soul ring, he can then control the soul skills he desires by attaching it to the Demon Blade Thousand Blades. Lin Yizhang knew from watching videos online in his previous life that divinely bestowed soul rings could grant one the most suitable soul skills according to their own will.

In the future, add nine 100,000-year soul rings to the Demon Blade Thousand Blades. Make the first soul ring an amplification and enhancement soul skill, and make the other eight soul rings the eight skills mentioned above as soul skills.

Compressing the two soul skills of each 100,000-year soul ring into a single soul skill should further enhance the power of the soul skills.

Thinking of the immense power he possessed back then, Lin Yizhang couldn't help but laugh out loud.

No, no, I'm still a newbie, I can't be too happy yet. Lin Yizhang wiped his mouth, which was about to drool.

Yes, the development direction of my first martial soul, the Demon Blade Thousand Blades, has been planned. I've decided to cultivate my second martial soul, my true form, first.

Although he didn't notice any introduction about the Body Martial Soul while watching the anime, he knew from the internet that the Body Martial Soul is also a very powerful martial soul.

For Soul Masters who awaken their original Martial Soul, the more important the awakened part is to the body, the higher its grade, and it can continue to awaken.

Now that I have awakened my entire body, that is the most complete original martial soul.

In the anime, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo said that Soul Masters who awaken twin martial souls have two martial souls of roughly the same grade. Therefore, both of their martial souls are very powerful.

Lin Yizhang also discovered that he could use his two martial souls at the same time. He didn't know if Bibi Dong and Tang San could use two martial souls at the same time, but he could indeed use his two martial souls at the same time.

Next, I need to think about which path I should take.

They are directly excluded from joining the two major empires and other small sects, forces, and families.

Lin Yizhang thought that if he joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, which was rich and valued talent, he could grow up and marry Ning Rongrong, and then the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School would essentially be his own.

After considering its feasibility for a while, Lin Yizhang dismissed the idea.

The more valued and the faster one grows within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, the more dangerous it becomes.

The two titled Douluo within the sect wouldn't protect him as closely as they did Ning Fengzhi, and he had to consider the sect's interests in everything he did. Besides, he figured he could only date Ning Rongrong, which was frustrating.

Choosing to join the Spirit Hall and serve under Bibi Dong is arguably the easiest path, but Bibi Dong probably doesn't accept male disciples.

Even if Bibi Dong recognized his extraordinary talent and took him as her disciple, he would likely only be destined to be Hu Liena's assistant, since Bibi Dong treated Hu Liena like her own daughter.

After considering various options, Lin Yizhang ultimately rejected them all.

It seems that the most suitable path for me is to become a free Soul Master.

Having transmigrated to Douluo Continent and gotten off to such a great start, and using his foresight to avoid danger, Lin Yizhang saw Douluo Continent as a world he could truly enjoy.

To live freely, do whatever one pleases, and act according to one's true nature—that is the ideal life, rather than scheming and plotting every day.

As long as I enjoy life and work hard to improve my abilities, even if I die in the end, I don't think I'll feel too frustrated.

In Lin Yizhang's heart, being happy every day is the most important thing. He would pursue becoming a god and achieving immortality, but he could also accept death.

There's a saying that Lin Yizhang wholeheartedly agrees with: "To die beneath the peony blossoms, even as a ghost, is still romantic."

Of course, Lin Yizhang was not the kind of person who liked to be content with the status quo. "A great man is born between heaven and earth, how can he live a life of mediocrity and subservience?" Making a great career was also what Lin Yizhang pursued.

Although Lin Yizhang's statement seems contradictory, it can be understood by using the phrase "When you are successful, you should help others; when you are unsuccessful, you should cultivate your own virtue."

After deciding to become a free spirit master, Lin Yizhang also planned how to hunt spirit beasts to obtain spirit rings and what type of spirit beasts to hunt.

Lin Yizhang wondered if he should take advantage of the fact that there were still three months before Tang San went to Notting City to study at the Junior Soul Master Academy.

Before Tang Hao discovered Xiao Wu, he found the little rabbit and used various methods such as coercion, enticement, and deception to get Xiao Wu to sacrifice herself so that she could obtain the first soul ring of 100,000 years.

Then Lin Yizhang shook his head again, saying that the disadvantages outweighed the advantages.

Putting aside the dangers, even if he successfully obtained a 100,000-year soul ring, could he really activate his soul skill? Even a Title Douluo can't unleash his ninth soul skill many times, let alone himself.

Moreover, if I release my martial soul ring in the future, I'll be targeted by others. I can't just keep not using my martial soul forever.

Of course, you could kidnap Xiao Wu first, but if you take a 100,000-year-old soul beast with you, and it happens to attract the attention of a powerful figure, you'll be doomed.

Therefore, we should ignore Xiao Wu for the time being, and we can't pay attention to Tang San either. Too much contact between transmigrators could lead to tragedy if Xiao Wu gets labeled as someone who is destined to die.

After much deliberation, Lin Yizhang finally decided to first cultivate his self-created soul skill.

The Demon Blade Thousand Blades' skills require not only soul power to activate but also mental power to control. It's certain that my mental power, as a transmigrator, is stronger than that of my peers.

The Demon Blade Thousand Blades is his own martial soul, and it is connected to him. He doesn't need to reach the level of being able to project his spiritual power outwards. He can now attach his spiritual power to its thousands of fragments and control them, which demonstrates the special nature of a martial soul.

After carefully recalling the eight skills, Lin Yizhang decided to first cultivate the skills Thousand Blades Return to One and Thousand Blades Chase the Moon.

"Thousand Blades Return to One" combines the fragments of the Demon Blade Thousand Blades into a single blade for melee attacks, while "Thousand Blades Chase the Moon" separates the fragments and allows them to be reshaped at will.

These two skills do not require excessive mental energy to precisely control the Thousand Blade Fragments.

Other skills require precise control of the Thousand Blade Fragments, and my mental strength is not yet strong enough.

Moreover, it will take quite a few days to cultivate these two self-created soul skills. Even if I know the principles, the most important part is to practice them.

Having thought this through, I realized that the next step was to familiarize myself with the Martial Soul and create Thousand Blades Return to One and Thousand Blades Chase the Moon.

Lin Yizhang walked to the middle of the room and summoned the Demon Blade Thousand Blades. Now it was time to observe it carefully.

The blade consists of a black handle and half a blade with blue stripes that display the pattern of an evil spirit. The blade on the half blade is made up of thousands of fragments.

The most special feature is the thousands of blade fragments, which are now combined to form a knife. Only cracks are visible between each fragment, with no gaps, and they are tightly joined together.

(End of this chapter)