Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains

Chapter 13 Planting the Seed (Please continue reading!!!)

This wasn't a question unique to Xu Yuan.

This was a question he had in his previous life, but he suddenly thought of it after breaking through to the Soul Power Realm.

"Oh?" Makino was slightly surprised that Xu Yuan was so concerned about this question, and asked curiously, "What's your opinion?"

"I actually had this doubt before I awakened my martial soul. At that time, I thought that soul power cultivation was a process of expansion, expanding the meridians in the body, or expanding the dantian. When meditating and cultivating, you are expanding outward, so it is difficult to make progress. However, restoring soul power is the recovery of the expanded parts, so it can be easy and fast."

"And now?" Makino pressed.

"Now that I'm cultivating myself, at least for now, my meridians aren't fully filled, and my dantian still has room to expand, so there's no process of expansion involved."

This is normal logical thinking.

Xu Yuan actually had a very detailed understanding of the process of Soul Master cultivation, and also knew the details of high-level Soul Master cultivation. He had long known that what he said earlier was unreasonable.

He brought this up now simply to give Makino a glimpse into his own thought process.

Makino nodded, quite satisfied that Xu Yuan had these ideas.

"Actually, your idea is not wrong."

That's right?

Xu Yuan was taken aback. He looked at Mu Ye, somewhat puzzled.

"Cultivating soul power is a process of expansion, except that it is not the meridians or the dantian that are expanded, but the limitations of the martial soul."

"The limitations of martial spirits?" Xu Yuan murmured, pondering.

"What determines the upper limit of soul power is the carrying capacity, or rather, the control capacity of the martial soul. This is what soul masters cultivate through meditation," Mu Ye further explained. "However, this so-called carrying capacity has nothing to do with the quality of the martial soul. It's just that its upper limit and the difficulty of cultivation are related to the quality of the martial soul."

Then, Makino gave an example that sounded somewhat familiar to Xu Yuan.

"A powerful martial soul can gradually unlock its limitations and continuously increase its soul power. However, a weak martial soul, even without any limitations, may not be able to support a soul power level of 30 even if it exerts its full capacity. Therefore, a soul master will be stuck at level 29 for life."

"But does the bearing or control of soul power really depend entirely on the martial soul?" Xu Yuan asked.

Xu Yuan's understanding of this more in-depth theory was still not thorough enough, since such a specific theory was not described in the novels of his previous life.

Mu Ye shook his head: "Of course not. Soul Masters have strong bodies and mental strength, which can share the pressure of their Martial Soul, but it is ultimately limited. So far, the only way to get rid of this problem that is inherent in the Martial Soul is to use rare and precious materials to promote the mutation or evolution of the Martial Soul."

"Your father's research was actually at the forefront of solving this problem."

The problem of carrying capacity is solved by using a companion spirit.

Makino changed the subject.

"Actually, what you mentioned about opening up the meridians and dantian does indeed involve this process, but it only begins when you reach the level 30 Soul Master. At that stage, the Soul Master's soul power will basically fill the meridians. Then, you need to start compressing the gaseous soul power into liquid soul power. The soul power cultivated in subsequent cultivation is still gaseous, but it gradually turns into liquid under the compression of the Soul Master's circulation. However, there is no doubt that gaseous and liquid coexist. Then, the meridians are filled again, and then it is transformed again and filled again, in a continuous cycle, until the meridians are completely filled with liquid soul power."

"From level 30 to this stage, each time the soul power is filled and then compressed, the meridians in the soul master's body will be slightly expanded, and the dantian will also be expanded. After the liquid soul power fills the meridians, the liquid soul power will continue to be compressed, becoming more and more viscous, and the quality will also become higher and higher. This stage will continuously expand the meridians and dantian."

"Different Soul Masters make different progress at these stages, mainly due to the influence of their Martial Soul, the meditation method they cultivate, and even the quality of their Soul Spirit."

Mu Ye described his personal experience of cultivation to Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan seemed to be deep in thought.

Based on Makino's description, he felt that something had touched him.

By carefully recalling and constantly examining the two phases, he grasped the key points.

"Teacher, are both of these stages inseparable from the so-called upper limit of bearing capacity determined by the quality of the martial soul?"

Before level 30, you might be stuck because your martial spirit is too weak and you have no room to expand. Is it the same after level 30?

Makino was taken aback, then nodded and shook his head.

"Generally speaking, after breaking through level 30, the soul power is already in a liquid state. Before the meridians of the whole body are filled with liquid soul power, the need for the upper limit of the martial soul's carrying capacity is not so obvious."

The change from gaseous to liquid state caused a sudden change in the load-bearing capacity requirements for Level 30.

So it will be a hurdle.

"And then what? After the liquid soul power is filled, what happens next? Then the soul power needs to be compressed. Although soul power is all liquid, there are differences in mass. What are the data for this stage?"

At this point, Xu Yuan emphasized the importance of data.

Makino frowned, looking somewhat troubled.

"The most accurate data can only be obtained from the Spirit Pagoda. As for my observations, it seems that the quality of the martial soul is no longer a complete limitation. I personally believe that this is because at this time, most soul masters already have at least four soul rings, and the quality of the martial soul has been significantly improved with the enhancement of the soul rings."

Xu Yuan still had a pensive expression on his face.

"Xiao Yuan, do you believe that the process of expanding your meridians and dantian also positively influences the quality of your martial soul, subtly enhancing it?"

"That's right." Xu Yuan wasn't surprised. He didn't think Mu Ye, who was able to cultivate to level 94, was a fool. Everyone has thoughts. This kind of question could be thought of by anyone, but at least it wasn't just him who could think of it.

"There should be some. Some people have even proposed developing a method to actively improve the quality of a martial soul by utilizing this process, but there should be no results yet."

Even if there are any, they would be based on this fundamental theory to make more efficient use of rare and precious materials, maximizing their effect on improving the quality of martial souls.

There is no true secret technique that does not require rare and precious materials.

"Teacher, what if I do this simultaneously with the forging of my soul?"

Makino was taken aback.

"That depends on you. You can ponder these ideas yourself, but they shouldn't interfere with your normal cultivation and studies."

Xu Yuan nodded.

Makino pulled out a stack of documents.

"Don't think about anything else for now. You should start learning about mecha design. These are some basics of soul guidance arrays. Try to digest them recently. Once you've finished reading them, I'll give you the actual internal structural diagrams of the mecha to study."

Xu Yuan took the documents without finding anything difficult.

Since his martial spirit awakened, his mind has been clearer than ever before, and thinking is not tiring at all. These days, following Zhenhua and listening to Zhenhua explain the theory of forging, he understands it without any burden.

The information on these mecha designs should be similar.

(End of this chapter)