Douluo Dalu II: The Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 15 Martial Soul Control! Jiang Nannan at Level 10! (Seeking Recommendation Votes)

At this moment, he was practicing his martial spirit control in a wide, deserted open space.

As a Soul Master, Soul control is a crucial ability, directly impacting a Soul Master's combat power and survivability. After all, Soul Masters generally don't possess the physical strength of Beast Soul Masters, and all their combat methods, including but not limited to Soul Skills, are closely related to their Soul. If they can't even control their own Soul properly, it's practically suicide.

Zhu Ziyang's goal is to reach the ultimate level of martial soul control, that is, to use the martial soul without displaying the soul ring, and at the same time, to be able to freely send and receive soul power through the martial soul!

This level of control is known as masterful mastery, or the unity of man and machine.

Normally, a Soul Master can reach this level once they reach the Soul Saint level and possess a Martial Soul True Body. However, Zhu Ziyang considers himself a genius and naturally does not want to wait until he becomes a Soul Saint to master such an ability.

It's important to understand that taking initiative and passively accepting are two completely different levels.

Once Zhu Ziyang achieves masterful control over his martial soul, that will be the time for him to start creating his own soul skills—that's his true ambition!

While practicing martial spirit control, Zhu Ziyang was also consciously learning the combat style of the battle scythe.

As a polearm, the war sickle has both obvious advantages and disadvantages. Its advantage lies in its wide attack range; its length is unparalleled among polearms. Therefore, the larger the space, the greater the advantage. In spacious areas and on open terrain, the war sickle can easily achieve victories against ten or even a hundred opponents. However, its disadvantages are also very obvious. The war sickle is very heavy, belonging to the king of heavy weapons, requiring a great deal of strength. Ordinary people simply cannot use it effectively, and it is difficult to maneuver in confined spaces.

Therefore, the combat style of the war scythe must be highly flexible. It requires maintaining distance to facilitate sweeping attacks, while also using the blade or back for defense. The gleaming scythe, with its sharpened back, can also be used offensively. Furthermore, the war scythe's sub-blades can be used offensively, and the ring-shaped sub-blades can even be used for grabbing and close-quarters combat. In short, the war scythe demands extremely quick reflexes from the user to adapt their moves to changing combat situations.

By the way, the combat stance of the scythe is very elegant, which can satisfy someone's desire to show off.

And so, Zhu Ziyang quickly found his rhythm in life. During the day, he would attend practical classes if there were any, and otherwise find a secluded place to cultivate. In the evenings, he would cultivate with Jiang Nannan. His time was full and fulfilling.

This kind of life was only interrupted by something more than twenty days later.

Jiang Nannan is now level 10.

"As expected of Nan Nan, she's reached level 10 so quickly!" Zhu Ziyang exclaimed sincerely in the dormitory, a smile spreading across his face. "Tomorrow I'll go to the teacher to apply to leave the academy and go hunt for spirit rings!"

"Mmm!" Jiang Nannan was very excited because she had broken through to level 10, and her whole face was flushed.

"By the way, Nan Nan, have you decided which spirit beast to choose as your first spirit ring?" Zhu Ziyang asked, his smile fading slightly, his eyes gleaming with wisdom.

"Not yet!" Jiang Nannan said with a troubled expression. "The only soul beasts I know are the most common ones. I've been busy studying these days and haven't had time to look for a suitable soul beast for myself."

"Is that so!" Zhu Ziyang's face immediately lit up with a smile upon hearing this, and he said, "Then, how about I help you choose a spirit ring?"

"Great! Great!" Jiang Nannan clapped her hands with delight upon hearing this, her expression charming and innocent. "Brother Ziyang, you're so knowledgeable, you'll definitely be able to help Nannan choose a suitable soul beast as her soul ring!"

"Hmm!" Zhu Ziyang smiled, his mind racing.

Jiang Nannan's martial soul is the Soft Bone Rabbit. The Soft Bone Rabbit is very ordinary in every sense of the word; it is an ordinary martial soul and an ordinary soul beast.

However, the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul has a very strong historical presence. This is because it is said that the Sea God's wife, Soft Bone Douluo, possessed the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul. Zhu Ziyang has been reading books from that era these past few days, and from the Spirit Hall's records, he knows even more: Soft Bone Douluo was actually a 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit in human form!

No wonder, no wonder she was able to become a Title Douluo with such an ordinary Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul.

There has only been one such person in the entire history of ten thousand years!

This is why later Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters all became obsessed, blindly learning the Soul Rings and Soul Skills configurations of Soft Bone Douluo Xiao Wu. This truly left Zhu Ziyang speechless.

The Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters couldn't even figure out the positioning of their own Martial Souls, blindly imitating Xiao Wu's Soul Skills. Little did they know that Soft Bone Douluo was a 100,000-year-old Soul Beast in human form. Her Soul Skills were formed after 100,000 years of refinement and were perfectly suited to her. She didn't need to acquire any additional Soul Rings or consider the Martial Soul evolution path.

However, the Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters were different. As Soul Masters, they not only didn't consider the evolution path of their Martial Soul when choosing Soul Rings, but they also didn't consider their development direction as Soul Masters, choosing to learn from Xiao Wu without any doubt. Through the successive attempts of generation after generation of Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters, they actually found a Soul Ring configuration that could replicate the Soul Skills of Soft Bone Douluo. From the first Soul Skill Waist Bow to the fifth Soul Skill Soft Bone Lock, they figured it all out.

Why only the first to fifth soul skills? Because the strongest Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters are only at the Soul King level. The soul rings they absorb are completely unrelated; they're merely imitating for the sake of imitation, damaging their own martial souls. How could they possibly reach a higher level?

No wonder there have been no other famous Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters in history besides Soft Bone Douluo Xiao Wu.

He deserved it!

In fact, imitating the practices of predecessors, as exemplified by the Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Master, is not uncommon in the current Soul Master world. The renowned Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master and Star Luo White Tiger Soul Master both had fixed Soul Ring Skills for their first three Soul Rings. These were Soul Rings that their ancestors had summarized over hundreds or thousands of years, making them the most suitable for their Martial Souls. Therefore, later generations could simply copy them without much thought.

However, Soul Masters of the Soft Bone Rabbit and Blue Silver Grass cannot blindly imitate Soft Bone Douluo and Thousand Hands Douluo. In short, that's stupid!

That's right, Zhu Ziyang was subtly referring to the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters of the Tang Sect. They're truly a bunch of ignorant and self-important people.

The spirit rings attached to Tang San's Blue Silver Grass spirit were absolutely a mudslide in the spirit master world. Whether it's ordinary Blue Silver Grass or Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor, both are plants with tenacious vitality. Logically, one would expect spirit rings to enhance vitality, but Tang San didn't. His first four spirit rings are clearly recorded in the Tang Sect's records: the first is the Mandragora Snake, the second is the Ghost Vine, the third is the Human-Faced Demon Spider, and the fourth is the Cave Demon Spider… Frankly, Zhu Ziyang was dumbfounded when he first saw such spirit rings. Was this really the spirit rings of the legendary Thousand Hands Douluo, who dominated the world? Anyone with knowledge could see that such spirit rings were suicidal for the Blue Silver Grass spirit. Tang San didn't ruin them. Zhu Ziyang could only marvel at how the Blue Silver Emperor spirit truly lived up to its reputation as a super spirit; even with such spirit rings, it wasn't destroyed.

However, Tang San himself didn't ruin his training, but he caused great suffering to the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters who followed him. The Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters of the Tang Sect regarded the Soul Rings attached to Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul as gospel, and one by one they followed suit without any doubt. The result was obvious: the Tang Sect was destroyed.

Zhu Ziyang didn't believe that the Tang Sect's records didn't mention Tang San's spirit as the Blue Silver Emperor, rather than the ordinary Blue Silver Grass spirit. If there was no record of it, then his library wouldn't have that book in it. The only explanation was that the Blue Silver Grass spirit masters of the Tang Sect had chosen to ignore this detail.

They deserved it!

Seedlings need care!

(End of this chapter)