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

Chapter 157, Second Soul Skill, included (Please subscribe!!!)

Xu Yuan's soul power communicated with the paper spirit, and his spiritual power resonated with it.

The half-contract hidden deep within the paper spirit was activated, and energy runes flickered in mid-air, forming a connection between Xu Yuan and the paper spirit.

The paper spirit transformed into a ray of light and merged into Xu Yuan's body.

The Heavenly Origin Brush appeared in Xu Yuan's crossed palms, and a purple soul ring slowly descended from above his head, encircling him.

Gradually, Xu Yuan's soul power began to fluctuate.

Outside his body, a purple spirit ring was already forming, and more purple spirit rings began to condense.

This purple spirit ring was not stable at first, but as time went by, it seemed to adapt to the mechanism of spirit ring condensation, and the paper spirit finally condensed the spirit ring completely in one go.

Two purple spirit rings shone brightly on Xu Yuan's body.

Upon opening his eyes, Xu Yuan sensed something was different.

"You are a spirit that belongs only to my Heavenly Origin Brush Martial Soul," Xu Yuan said to the paper spirit as he summoned it.

After the two forms of his martial soul split, Xu Yuan gradually separated them completely, never allowing the Heavenly Origin Brush to use them again, never integrating them into his own soul rings, and even gradually severing their connection.

After that, Jue only provided soul rings for the Tianyuan Five Elements Spear.

However, neither of Xu Yuan's two forms of martial spirit absorbed any new soul spirits.

This is also the next step in the division.

As for the Heavenly Origin Five Elements Spear, Xu Yuan does not intend to fuse it with a new soul spirit, so he needs to fuse a new soul spirit with the Heavenly Origin Brush.

That's what paper spirits are like.

After fusion, it is not just an addition to a soul ring, but a more complete manifestation of the Heavenly Origin Brush Martial Soul.

At this moment, Xu Yuan felt at ease.

The soul is a burden on spiritual power, but at the same time, it is also a vessel for the martial spirit.

If the origin of one's martial soul is unstable, having a soul spirit as a medium can help stabilize the origin of one's martial soul and get through the process.

He didn't let the paper spirits attach too many spirit rings to him at once.

First, a second spirit ring was attached. After a few days of adaptation, the third and fourth spirit rings were gradually given.

Xu Shengqun and Ye Yuan strolled through the inner courtyard of Shrek Academy, arriving at the shore of Poseidon Lake, marveling at the spiritual energy of the place.

"This Sea God Lake is also a great wonder of the continent. I heard that the matchmaking event of the inner court is also held on this Sea God Lake." Ye Yuan clicked her tongue in amazement.

"Who are you?"

A young man walked towards them, and upon seeing the two, asked with some confusion.

Although not everyone in this inner courtyard knows each other, they at least have some understanding of each other.

There aren't many people in the inner courtyard, but they all have a general impression of each other.

Xu Shengqun and Ye Yuan not only didn't look familiar, but they also didn't resemble students in appearance.

"We are family members."

"Family members?"

Who brought their family member to the college?

The young man looked puzzled.

Shrek students are allowed to bring attendants or family members to the academy for training and living, but they cannot stay there permanently.

"Who are you two?"

Whose family member?

Young people are curious.

Then he laughed it off.

"Sorry, I was just curious. It's okay if it's inconvenient to say." He was still very casual.

There's nothing else to it, they just come up and say hello to everyone they see.

She has a very outgoing and sociable personality.

Xu Shengqun not only did not feel annoyed, but also felt very comfortable from the other party's tone and demeanor.

"Xu Yuan".

He revealed the name of his eldest nephew.

"Who?" The young man glared at Xu Shengqun and Ye Yuan, and shouted, "Who?"

The two consecutive outbursts of his tone left Xu Shengqun and his companion completely bewildered.

Li Qiankun was speechless.

He was almost a shoo-in for an inner court student. Not long ago, after being beaten into a slump by Xu Yuan, he spent the past month clearing his head, sorting out his thoughts, and reflecting on himself.

Over the course of a month, I wandered around the shore of Poseidon Lake in the inner courtyard countless times.

When I meet a senior, I go and chat with him, which is very pleasant.

This is why he came up to ask Xu Shengqun and the other person when he saw them.

I'm just bored.

Xu Shengqun could also see that Li Qiankun and Xu Yuan seemed to have some connection, and it seemed that he had suffered a loss at Xu Yuan's hands.

Feeling Li Qiankun's soul power fluctuations, they were by no means weak. Even without a Soul King, he should be close to it, right?

"Young man, it seems you have some kind of grudge against our Xiao Yuan?" Xu Shengqun said with a smile.

Li Qiankun had an angry expression on his face.

"No, we just lost the game to him."

"Contest?"

"Our class lost to him in the exchange competition between the foreign language departments," Li Qiankun sighed.

Are Xu Shengqun and Xu Yuan's elders?

His eyes lit up as he inquired about Xu Yuan's past cultivation journey from the two of them.

Xu Shengqun also learned about Xu Yuan's exchange match from Li Qiankun.

"spendthrift!"

Upon learning that Xu Yuan had forged an entire Yellow-level mecha using a spirit alloy, Xu Shengqun launched into a tirade of curses.

My dear nephew, you should have told me you were such a good blacksmith!

I've mortgaged all my belongings!

If he had known, he would have had Xu Yuan forge day and night to create a batch of spirit alloys to exchange for that spiritual power.

After merging with the paper spirit, Xu Yuan arrived at the small courtyard downstairs from the dormitory building.

He has a small, detached house all to himself, which is very convenient for cultivating his soul skills.

Holding the Heavenly Origin Brush, two purple soul rings floated around Xu Yuan's body.

The second spirit ring flickered.

A scroll painting emerges from Xu Yuan's brush.

With a silver base, five-colored patterns are adorned with twinkling starlight.

The scroll slowly unfolds under Xu Yuan's brush.

Xu Yuan thought for a moment and then sketched the outline on the scroll.

He sketched out unique lines, forming closed, strange patterns.

"Second Soul Skill, added."

The scroll slowly disappeared.

Xu Yuan held the Heavenly Origin Brush and pointed it in the air. Instantly, a rune appeared at the tip of the brush.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth surged forth, transforming into raging flames.

With a flourish of his brush, Xu Yuan made five consecutive taps in the air, and five runes appeared, each attracting the primordial energy of heaven and earth and transforming it into the power of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The five elements converge.

As Xu Yuan swept his pen across the five runes, a large number of runes were generated, connecting them into a larger whole.

The five elements converge, mutually generating and restraining each other, forming a circle.

All in one go.

Xu Yuan was very satisfied.

He unfolded the scroll again, writing and drawing on it to perfect the runes, modifying them into the styles of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The scroll is closed.

With another stroke of the brush, the five characters for metal, wood, water, fire, and earth emerged, representing the convergence of the five elements.

He then unfolded the scroll and began to collect other magic arrays that he had studied before.

"With this soul skill, the magic arrays that fuse the battle armor, mecha, and soul rings won't need to take up space anymore. I can directly store them in the paper soul spirit and draw them in the void during battle, integrating them into the mecha and battle armor along with the soul rings."

Integrating spirit rings into battle armor is a technology that Xu Yuan has already implemented in mechs and plans to equip battle armor with as well. However, it may take up a lot of space and delay the inscription of other magic arrays.

In retrospect, it seems that paper spirits can be used to make up for it.

Other magic arrays that do not affect the normal enhancement of the battle armor can also be replaced with paper spirits to save space inside the battle armor and mech, and to enhance other aspects of the battle armor and mech.

(End of this chapter)