Douluo Continent: What do you mean this is the Holy Spirit Cult?

Time flies, and the days pass like an arrow.

Time flies by as swiftly as a white horse galloping past a crack in the wall.

Well, it's not that fast.

However, Qi Li had indeed been studying at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Academy for half a year.

During the past six months, he initially followed Keke and Ju Zi to learn, and incidentally used a lunch of shrimp and eel as a bribe to successfully get them to falsify some of his information when registering his identity card. At the same time, he was assigned a dormitory closest to Xuan Ziwen's laboratory.

Next came the study of soul tools.

After half a year of study, he successfully became a first-level Soul Master.

Even within the Royal Soul Fighter Academy of the Sun Moon Empire, his progress was quite astonishing. However, Qi Li didn't seem to care much about it.

Because he knew very well that he didn't actually have much talent in soul tool research. He was just strong in soul, and after absorbing the pure white light and shadow, his mental power had also become strong to a certain extent, which allowed him to forcibly imprint the knowledge of these soul tools into his mind with numerical advantages.

I do not possess the kind of pioneering spirit and inspiration that Xuan Ziwen desires.

However, Xuan Ziwen was still quite satisfied with his learning progress, because even so, his learning progress was still undoubtedly the best among Xuan Ziwen's five students.

Xuan Ziwen believes that Qi Li will not face any significant hurdles before becoming a Level 7 Soul Master. However, once he reaches Level 7, further progress will depend on his own opportunities, or rather, on when Qi Li will have an epiphany.

However, Qi Li himself felt that the so-called "enlightenment" was still a long way off for him. This was because he wasn't just learning about soul tools from Ju Zi and Ke Ke; he was also learning about soul tools from Meng Hong Chen.

It should be noted that the knowledge of soul tools that Meng Hongchen taught him was personally imparted to him by his grandfather, Jing Hongchen, who is also the current de facto leader of the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Academy and Mingde Hall, and one of the Sun Moon Empire's ninth-level soul masters.

After learning about soul tools from Jing Hongchen, it only took him half a year to become a first-level soul tool master.

If you want to figure it out on your own, you'll probably have to wait until the dog has finished licking the noodles, the fire has burned through the lock, and the chicken has finished pecking at the rice.

Fortunately, as the saying goes, when God closes a door, He opens a window. However, in reality, this often translates to God closing the door, sealing the windows, and even completely clogging the drains.

Fortunately, Qi Li's situation was completely different.

He could be considered a classic example of someone who gets chased by God for food.

Although he lacked talent in soul tool research, and according to Xuan Ziwen, was not destined to become a level nine soul master, it didn't mean he hadn't made progress in other areas.

His combat skills, especially those of a demonic soul master, have improved remarkably.

Relying on his first and second soul skills, he has greatly enriched his combat methods as an evil soul master.

Firstly, he relied on the soul possession combat technique developed from his first soul skill, Soul Prison, a technique he had always had in mind. However, it was only with the addition of his second soul ring, which also enhanced his first soul skill, that this idea truly became a reality.

He uses the corrosive and soothing effects of his Soul Prison to allow the souls of spirit beasts to temporarily merge with his own body, creating an effect similar to spirit possession. Although this temporary spirit possession effect cannot be used to attach spirit rings, the spirit beast's soul itself possesses immense power, and it does not conflict with his spirit power, even allowing it to form a state similar to a spirit fusion technique.

Although this state means that, apart from the Earthfire Crimson Dragon Beast Soul, the affinity between other beast souls and his martial soul is very low, it's still better than nothing.

This also allows him to directly increase his combat power to the point where he can directly confront a Soul Master head-on, or even kill a Soul Master, without relying on other beast souls or the soul of Ye Lie, the evil Soul Master Soul Saint.

The only problem is that this state of spirit fusion cannot be maintained for very long. The requirement for spirit power is a bit too high.

This is not yet a conventional fighting style that Qi Li, a level 28 Great Soul Master, can choose.

Aside from that, his most outstanding achievement is probably the series of derivative combat methods he developed based on his second soul skill, Soul-Burning Strike. For example, he could directly detonate his soul and then throw a soul bomb at his enemy.

Alternatively, it could be a powerful combat technique that relies on the combined effect of one's evil fire and second soul skill to ignite the soul of one's enemy, giving the enemy a powerful boost while also causing the enemy to involuntarily head towards destruction.

However, this combat technique has a double-edged sword effect.

After all, while igniting the soul inevitably leads to the death of one's enemy, the boost that igniting the soul provides to the enemy is not fake.

If one is not careful, one could give one's enemy the power to kill them in a final, desperate counterattack. Therefore, this became a combat technique that Qi Li had hardly ever used after developing it.

Qi Li still remembers the complex look in his teacher Zhong Liwu's eyes after he figured out the combat techniques he had developed.

Finally, this level 98 Super Douluo-level evil soul master simply sighed and then quietly said:

"In the future, you can choose to absorb the soul bones of soul beasts with spatial abilities if you have the opportunity. Otherwise, I'll help you master a soul skill called Void when you are strong enough."

This soul skill grants immunity to both physical and soul power attacks. Only with this soul skill can you truly master this combat technique.

Otherwise, your combat technique will at best grant your enemy the power to kill you. After all that effort to kill them, you won't get their soul, nor will you be able to absorb their remaining power. It's essentially choosing the most exhausting and thankless way to fight.