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

Chapter 5 Xu Yuan's True Advantage

"Xiao Yuan, you must remember that the most important thing in Soul Master cultivation is to strengthen yourself, not to target your opponent. Of course, while strengthening yourself, it is even better to find ways to deal with your enemy."

What Xu Shengqun said was based on his own personal experience.

Only when you are strong can you talk about other things.

"The so-called deterrent effect of the True Dragon Martial Soul will almost always create an instinctive suppression for Soul Masters with Beast Martial Souls, as long as they are not both True Dragon Martial Souls. This is a suppression based on rank, which is very difficult for Soul Masters to change later in life, unless there is an opportunity for a Martial Soul mutation to occur, allowing them to surpass the other party in bloodline quality."

"Xiao Yuan, you and I are different. We are weapon spirits, and what's more, our weapon spirits have absolutely no connection with beast spirits. This means that our pure weapon spirits are not subject to rank oppression."

"Without the suppression of rank, all that's needed is to strengthen oneself."

"Even the so-called Dragon Might is just a unique strength of dragon-type martial souls. It can be seen as a passive mental attribute weakening skill that dragon-type martial souls are born with."

"As long as the Soul Master's will is strong enough, this can be offset. What remains depends on the Soul Master's own strength."

Xu Yuan suddenly understood what Xu Shengqun said.

He only considered that the Golden Dragon King's rank was too high, ridiculously high, and that its suppression of any dragon or beast-type martial soul was too strong. Even without the direct suppression of rank, it still possessed terrifying dragon might. However, he forgot that no matter what, the only strength brought by the Golden Dragon King's bloodline was the dragon might that he needed to deal with.

As Xu Shengqun said, Dragon's Might is a purely passive, group-weakening mental skill.

At this time, strengthening one's mental power and tempering one's will is the best way to deal with the dragon's might.

Moreover, this is not just about dealing with the dragon's might, but also about the training that a Soul Master should undergo.

Although Xu Shengqun did not know how terrifying the Golden Dragon King's status was, he was only instructing Xu Yuan on how to deal with the True Dragon Martial Soul, but it still gave Xu Yuan some ideas.

"As long as I am not weaker than the Golden Dragon King in any aspect of bloodline, the only thing I need to deal with is the influence of the dragon's might on my will."

As for willpower, Xu Yuan couldn't guarantee anything, but he was confident in his mental strength.

In terms of spiritual power, Xu Yuan even dared to compare himself with Gu Yue, who had rebuilt his spiritual realm as a Silver Dragon King.

While the spiritual power of the adult soul from his previous life transformed into this fantasy world was weak, it still increased Xu Yuan's initial spiritual power value. In fact, his spiritual power growth was also based on this initial value.

A normal human being might have only a negligible amount of mental energy at birth, but Xu Yuan might have ten points right away. And if we don't consider any other factors and just focus on physical development, a normal human might have two or three points of mental energy by the age of six, but Xu Yuan could reach twenty or thirty points!

However, in reality, Xu Yuan's martial soul is his brain. Even if it is not awakened, it is passively enhanced by natural growth, causing his natural growth of mental power to double again.

The activation at the moment of awakening his martial soul gave him a mental strength of up to 81 points right after awakening his martial soul.

This only covers the situation before awakening a martial soul.

When a martial soul awakens, the enhancement of the brain's martial soul to his naturally growing mental strength will only become more and more obvious. And if he absorbs a soul with mental attributes, his natural increase in mental strength will only become more and more abnormal.

"My true advantage lies in my mental strength, which is exactly what my uncle said about dealing with dragon-type martial soul masters."

Xu Yuan suddenly felt a great weight lifted off his shoulders.

It's not that I'm afraid I can't cope with it, it's that I can't even see the possibility of coping with it.

Even if this approach requires Xu Yuan to demonstrate extraordinary mental strength at his age, it is still a glimmer of hope.

"Uncle missed something, and that is the soul." Xu Yuan lowered his head and continued to think about the omission.

The Golden Dragon King's status is absurd; he may even be able to influence Soul Masters through his spirit.

Therefore, it's best not to choose dragons or beasts as spirits.

Thinking about this gave Xu Yuan a headache.

He wished he hadn't thought of that.

Because he had thought about it, he had reservations. He really couldn't imagine what goals he could have if he didn't absorb the souls of beasts.

Plants?

"It was alright at first, but things got tough after Tang Wulin awakened the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, the Sea God bloodline, and even gained the identity of the Child of Nature."

Xu Yuan also realized that he was being somewhat hesitant and timid.

However, these are all things that are worth considering.

"Why not just kill Tang Wulin and go all the way?"

In just a moment, Xu Yuan abandoned the plan.

The fact that God King Tang San had at least three opportunities to act, plus the presence of Tang Hao and another being the masters of their respective planes, meant that the plan was doomed to fail.

"Sigh, what other kinds of spirits are there besides beast and plant spirits?" Even Xu Yuan was starting to have a headache.

Xu Yuan lowered his head in deep thought, his expression changing, which Xu Shengqun noticed.

He didn't know what was wrong with his nephew or what difficulties he had encountered, but in his understanding, his nephew had his own set of ideas and was thinking like an adult. Therefore, even though Xu Yuan seemed to be facing a big problem, he wouldn't interfere as long as Xu Yuan didn't ask him for help.

"Uncle, do you have any plans for my soul?" Xu Yuan hesitated for a long time, but still decided to ask Xu Shengqun for some help.

"A soul?" Xu Shengqun was taken aback.

He then remembered that Xu Yuan had just said that he broke through to level eight when he completed the cycle of his soul power, which meant that he was actually very close to level ten.

Given Xu Yuan's demonstrated talent, he will definitely reach level 10 within a year, and may even have a chance to break through within six months.

Therefore, the soul needs to be prepared in advance.

Compared to ten thousand years ago, it is not unreasonable for today's Soul Masters to prepare their Soul Spirits several years in advance, given the necessary conditions.

"Your martial spirit is the Heavenly Yuan Brush. There are many suitable spirits. Vine-type spirits are the most suitable. In addition, beast-type spirits may have the opportunity to be integrated into your Heavenly Yuan Brush as a means of combat."

In the Douluo Continent, there are powerful individuals who use a pen as their martial soul, known as the Divine Pen. Moreover, this person is a Limit Douluo and a pivotal figure throughout the entire continent. He is one of the three giants of the military and the commander of the Central Legion!

Yu Guanzhi, the Divine Brush Douluo, used his own martial soul to draw patterns of soul beasts, thus turning the illusory into the real and using this method to fight.

Xu Shengqun was unsure whether Tianyuan Pen had such potential, but he still considered this possible development direction for Xu Yuan.

To everyone's surprise, Xu Yuan shook his head and rejected the proposal.

We absolutely cannot leave!

If we need to draw soul beasts to summon them to fight, wouldn't that be like offering ourselves up for free?

"Uncle, the path of the Divine Brush Douluo is not suitable for me. As for the vine-type spirit spirit, the Heavenly Origin Brush, rather than pursuing the control type, I would prefer to develop the offensive type."

"Hmm?" Xu Shengqun frowned, looked at Xu Yuan, and waited for his explanation.

(End of this chapter)