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

Chapter 5 Cultivating Self-Created Soul Skills

At this moment, Lin Yizhang could clearly feel the connection between himself and his martial spirit. He could feel every part of the sword. The Thousand Blades, which were thousands of blade fragments, were all within his perception, as if he were one with it. He could control them as freely as if he were controlling his left and right hands.

He tried to inject soul power into his martial soul and felt that the blade formed by the Thousand Blades had become more solid and would not crumble at the first blow.

Lin Yizhang walked out of the house and came to a large rock. He poured one-third of his soul power into his martial soul and slashed at the rock with his sword. The Thousand Blades had not disintegrated and was still in the form of a blade. A deep crack was cleaved into the rock.

When I watched the anime, I saw the first soul skills of various soul masters. I felt that the power of my own slash was much greater than the first soul skill of a typical sword-wielding soul master.

Next, Lin Yizhang devoted himself to familiarizing himself with and developing his martial spirit.

Finally, Lin Yizhang was surprised to find that the Thousand Blade fragments could be fixed in place by soul power alone without leaving the hilt, without the need for mental power to control them.

In other words, when using Thousand Blades to simulate various forms, such as knives and swords, you only need to input soul power to maintain it, without consuming mental power.

This is different from Lin Yizhang's initial guess, but it is undoubtedly a good thing.

After fiddling around for a while, Lin Yizhang realized that he had awakened his martial spirit, so he needed to eat more meat. However, the villagers' homes didn't have much meat to satisfy his appetite, so he had to get some meat himself.

Lin Yizhang quickly came up with a plan and turned to walk towards Tang San's house. When he arrived at Tang San's blacksmith shop, Lin Yizhang immediately saw Tang San forging iron.

Tang San saw him too and asked, "Lin Yi, what brings you to my house?"

"I want you to make ten little gadgets out of iron," Lin Yizhang said, then described the fishhook to Tang San, the kind with barbs.

Tang San quickly finished making the fishhook. It was a simple task, requiring little skill and not much iron, so Tang San didn't charge him.

After leaving the blacksmith's shop, Lin Yizhang quickly made ten fishing rods, found some earthworms as bait, and set them up in a place by the river where many fish roamed.

This fishing trap isn't difficult to set up. You just need to fix the fishing rod in place, bait the hook, and drop it into the water. If a fish takes the bait, the barbed hook won't be easily freed. You can check back at night to make sure it's set.

Back home, Lin Yizhang continued practicing his self-created soul skills. He spent the entire afternoon practicing his self-created soul skills and using the meditation method he obtained from Su Yuntao to restore his soul power.

With dinner time fast approaching, Lin Yizhang went to check if he had caught any fish. After arriving at the riverbank and reeling in all his fishing rods, Lin Yizhang was delighted because he had caught two fish weighing seven or eight pounds each.

After removing the fish and baiting the ten hooks again, he moved to a different spot to set up the trap. Then, carrying the fish, he headed towards the villager's house where he would be having dinner that night. The two fish, weighing a dozen or twenty pounds, felt as light as a feather in Lin Yizhang's hands after he awakened his martial spirit.

Lin Yizhang felt a sense of accomplishment after successfully eating the fish he had caught for dinner.

Then it occurred to me that Tang San in the anime seemed to eat thin porridge before he awakened his martial soul at the age of six, no wonder he was thinner than me who ate food from many families.

Couldn't Tang San have prepared some meat himself? He was probably in his twenties or thirties in his previous life, so was his survival skill really that bad?

Believe it or not, it's quite possible. In his previous life, Tang San was taken in by the Tang Sect and lived there. The sect provided him with food every day, and as he grew up, he became obsessed with crafting hidden weapons. So it's quite possible that he didn't have any survival skills.

Thinking of this, Lin Yizhang smacked his lips and ate his meal with even greater relish.

For the next ten days, during the day he continued to explore his martial soul, develop his own soul skills, and fish to improve the quality of his food, following the planned schedule. At night he continued to cultivate his soul power using the meditation method he had learned from Su Yuntao, and only went to sleep when he was really tired.

In the anime, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang mentioned that after reaching a bottleneck, the soul power gained through continued cultivation will be released after obtaining a soul ring. Although many of the things Yu Xiaogang said were wrong, this statement was verified to be correct by Tang San and his companions.

Lin Yizhang found this logic reasonable. However, after obtaining a soul ring and breaking through a bottleneck to advance to a higher level, the cultivation speed would be incomparable to that before the breakthrough. Therefore, continuing to cultivate soul power was not a waste of effort.

After ten days of training, he was able to master the Thousand Blades Return to One technique and control the Thousand Blades Chasing the Moon technique to combine into a sword, a staff, and a small shield.

Now I can also create some original soul skills that do not rely on martial souls. Ideally, these should consume less soul power but have greater power, since I don't have much soul power right now.

I currently only have level 10 soul power, which has both advantages and disadvantages when it comes to creating my own soul skills.

The advantage is that with less soul power, it is easier to achieve precise control over soul power; the disadvantage is that with too little soul power, it is impossible to create powerful self-created soul skills, and it is easy to deplete the soul power, requiring constant meditation to recover soul power.

At this moment, Lin Yizhang thought of a self-created soul skill: Rasengan.

Lin Yizhang knew a general idea about this thing. It was made by rotating and compressing soul power in the palm of the hand and then throwing it out. The power of this self-created soul skill was related to the degree of compression of soul power and the amount of soul power.

This self-created soul skill is one that consumes less soul power but has greater power.

The difficulty of this self-created soul skill lies in compression, rotation, and maintaining stability. Maintaining stability is probably the most difficult part, which requires continuously and evenly injecting soul power into the rotating soul power while compressing it.

If the soul power is not injected evenly, the Rasengan will explode in the palm of your hand, which can easily injure your hand.

After understanding the principles and points to note, Lin Yizhang continued to immerse himself in creating the Rasengan.

After fifteen days, Lin Yizhang was finally able to skillfully make Rasengan by hand. During this time, Lin Yizhang had also suffered a lot, with the Rasengan exploding in his palm quite a few times, but fortunately, the explosions only happened when he first started practicing.

At first, I practiced making Rasengan with a small amount of soul power. After I became familiar with the technique, I continued to increase the amount of soul power I poured into it. After that, there were no more explosions, and I was able to make Rasengan faster and faster.

Although he can skillfully make Rasengan by hand and ensure that it won't explode in his palm, it explodes a short distance away from his palm as soon as he throws it, which doesn't meet his expectations. So now he's stuck here and needs to find a way to solve this problem.

After trying for another five days and using many methods, they finally created the Rasengan perfectly by changing the way it was thrown, so that the Rasengan could continue to spin in the air.

Now, exactly one month has passed since my Martial Soul Awakening. With these self-created Soul Skills, even if I can't defeat a Soul Master or a thousand-year-old Soul Beast, I should be able to escape.

In a small place like Notting City, my safety is basically guaranteed, so I can go and obtain my first spirit ring to continue improving my strength.

(End of this chapter)