Douluo Continent: From Seven Treasure Glazed Tile to Crescent Moon's Solemnity

Chapter 290 The All-Powerful Soul Master (Writer's block, this chapter is filler, skipping is recommended)

The teachers and students of the three elemental academies were indeed still at Tianshui Academy, and they even had another match with other students from Tianshui Academy.

After all, the main responsibility of a Soul Master is to fight, and the main theme of Soul Master Academy is always how to quickly improve Soul Power and how to fight.

Their academic studies are basically not valued, much like the academic studies of sports students. Excellent sports students may have high academic levels, but they mainly focus their energy on sports training.

While excellent Soul Masters may have a high level of education, it is clear that their cultivation and combat power are even higher than their level of education.

The competition between the students of the three elemental academies and Tianshui Academy today was not as formal as it was yesterday.

Instead, they were allowed to choose opponents whose strength was closer to their own and whom they wished to fight.

Moreover, it is not limited to one person; it can be formed into small teams of two or three people, like in the Soul Arena.

This also gave support Soul Masters like Xue Wu a chance to shine.

Huo Wu then pulled one of the support-type Soul Masters in the team and found Yu Hairou and Xue Wu.

Although Xue Wu is already a Soul Master, she is a support-type Soul Master and is not taken seriously by Huo Wu.

One can only say that "Xiao Wu" should not be looked down upon.

But that's indeed the case in Douluo Continent. On one hand, it's said that support Soul Masters are very important and should be dealt with first.

On the one hand, they don't value support-type Soul Masters very much, because once all the battle Soul Masters are dead, support Soul Masters become useless.

It's like the support hero in League of Legends. If you don't kill her, she'll keep healing the marksman, making it very difficult for the marksman to die.

Focusing fire on her seems wasteful, and often the scenario is that after killing the healer, the archer has already escaped or taken the opportunity to cripple you all.

In any case, killing them is not an option, nor is not killing them.

Especially for a support-type Soul Master like Ning Fengzhi, if he isn't killed, he can increase the combat power of Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo by at least one level.

If you want to kill him... you'll have to get past Bone Douluo. If you expose a weakness, Sword Douluo will turn around and seriously injure or even kill you.

However, this is a contest, not a real battle, so Huo Wu can still take Xue Wu less seriously.

Because this is a friendly contest, not a life-or-death battle that must be decided.

Huo Wu stared at Yu Hairou and Xue Wu in front of her. Yu Hairou's strength was now almost the same as hers, both at level 38 of soul power, making them perfect test subjects for her strength.

In addition... there's Xue Wu, a Soul Master of the Soul Grandmaster level, who is definitely a formidable opponent for Huo Wu and her teammates.

"Martial Soul Possession." Huo Wu directly summoned her Martial Soul.

A faint orange-red shadow, identical to her figure, gradually appeared behind her; the blurry fire shadow was filled with an illusory feeling.

This is her martial soul—Fire Shadow, an extremely unique martial soul, which is actually her own shadow as her martial soul, and is classified as a beast martial soul.

But it also seems like a spirit form from ten thousand years later. In short, the spirit system of Douluo Continent is indeed quite unique.

The Mars-type support Soul Master also summoned his Martial Soul. After he summoned his Martial Soul, a seemingly harmless Mars began to revolve around him.

Yu Hairou and Xue Wu also immediately released their martial spirits, shouting, "Martial Spirit Possession!"

Xue Wu's martial soul is the Delicate Snow Satin, a weapon martial soul similar to a snowflake. After the martial soul is released, it falls onto her fingertips.

Her martial soul can influence the weather to some extent, especially her soul skills, which are basically all about weather interference.

Moreover, her martial soul is not purely supportive, because it can briefly interfere with and control the weather, and ice-attribute martial souls inherently possess great restrictive abilities.

Among the control-type Soul Masters in Douluo Continent, the most common are those with ice attributes and plant-based martial souls.

Ice-attribute Soul Masters possess low-temperature and freezing Soul Skills, which inherently have the ability to interfere with the opponent's actions.

Moreover, ice-attribute soul masters lack absolute lethality; the destructive power brought by low temperature and freezing is far less direct than that of fire-attribute, lightning-attribute, or even strength-attribute soul masters.

Therefore, ice-attribute soul masters can generally become control-type soul masters.

Xue Wu's martial soul ability is the same; her martial soul itself is half support and half control.

For example, her first soul skill is called "Dark Cloud". Here, I'd like to mention that her soul skill has another characteristic: it must be activated while she is dancing, and the weather will change accordingly with her dance steps.

Her first soul skill, Dark Cloud, requires her to dance while performing it. As she dances, a dark cloud will appear directly above her, covering a large area. Within this area, water and ice attribute martial soul masters can receive an agility bonus.

Furthermore, water-attribute and ice-attribute martial soul masters have unique advantages when fighting in places with abundant moisture.

At the same time, fire-attribute soul masters will be weakened.

It is a rare attribute-specific "boost", which also has the element of attribute advantage.

The second soul skill is Rainfall, which requires dark clouds in the sky to activate.

When activating this soul skill, she also needs to dance while performing it. As she dances, large raindrops begin to fall from the sky, turning into a large curtain of water. These raindrops will not fall on herself or her teammates. When they get close to her or her teammates, they will quietly slide off, while the other party will be soaked to the bone.

After this soul skill is activated, both the user and teammates will receive a soul power boost. Additionally, water and ice attribute martial soul masters will thrive within the range of this soul skill due to the abundant rain.

The third soul skill is ice and snow. A large amount of ice and snow is generated in the sky, and the temperature within the area covered by the soul skill will drop significantly, which can weaken the opponent's combat power.

Once activated, this soul skill cannot be stopped, and even Tang San's Blue Silver Cage could not prevent its activation when he released it on Xue Wu.

The effect is a full-range support-type soul skill, but it doesn't assist teammates. Instead, it targets the opponent's continuous soul power consumption, requiring the opponent to constantly cover their body with soul power to resist the cold.

If you still say this isn't the effect of a control-type Soul Master, nobody will believe you.

Her fourth soul skill is Blizzard, which is a counter-clockwise rotating anti-cyclone whirlwind that descends from the sky, radiating outward from Xue Wu as the center, without causing any negative effects on Xue Wu or her teammates.

This soul skill expands the area covered by ice and snow, and intensifies the coldness of the ice and snow. The ice and snow will also turn the wind released by this soul skill into a cold wind. Moreover, once this soul skill is activated, it cannot be terminated.

Xue Wu can be described as a very unique Soul Master who is half control and half support.

She is classified as a support-type Soul Master because although she has a certain degree of control.

However, control-type Soul Masters are also Battle Soul Masters and will have a certain combat power.

But she didn't.

However, this type of Soul Master, who is half control and half support, is quite unique in the entire Soul Master world, but not uncommon in the Five Elements Academy.

Just like the current academic discussions between Blazing Fire Academy, Divine Wind Academy, and Thunder Academy at Tianshui Academy, it seems that Leng Hanxue is simply demonstrating the strength of her current batch of Soul Master students to the other three academies.

But in reality, it is indeed an academic discussion.

Otherwise, Blazing Fire Academy, Divine Wind Academy, and Thunder Academy wouldn't be willing to come to Heavenly Water Academy. Do they want to watch others show off?

In fact, both the former Five Elements Academy and the current Four Elements Academy enjoy academic discussions with each other.

They would learn from each other's tactics and theories.

Just like...

Tianshui Academy has a Soul Master like Xue Wu, who is a hybrid of control and support; in fact, Blazing Fire Academy also has...

Those were the two Martian Martial Soul Masters. They appeared to be support-type Soul Masters, but in reality, they were also control-type Soul Masters.

If Ning Feiliu were to look at this matter, she would actually find it reasonable.

Because, as in his previous life, with the development of the times, competitive sports or projects actually presented two extreme trends.

Either there's extreme differentiation, to the extreme, with specialists doing specialized things.

This is, after all, a minority.

More often than not, it's about extreme versatility. For example, in basketball, there's no longer a distinction between traditional centers and shooters, or between inside and outside players.

Nowadays, the requirements are either 3D players with excellent three-point shooting and defensive abilities, or superstars who are all-around players in rebounding, help defense, and attacking the rim.

Even in the computer industry, front-end and back-end capabilities are required, but they are separated...

Clearly, the Soul Master profession falls into the latter category.

Soul Masters will become increasingly versatile. For example, there is a certain chosen one who is trained like a dog later on. He can handle control, defense, attack, and amplification all at once, making him an extremely versatile individual.

In particular, the Soul Master classifications in Douluo Continent do not have very distinct specializations.

You said that most offensive Soul Masters are strong in strength and relatively balanced in other aspects, but in the original story, apart from the direct disciples of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan who are clearly very strong, there are no others.

Not to mention the agility-based Soul Masters, a Soul Master category that is clearly comparable to assassins, yet they are at the very bottom of the hierarchy in the Douluo Trilogy.

In Ning Feiliu's previous life, the assassin class was incredibly powerful. They might not be good at taking down tanks, but they could easily slice through squishy targets.

Even in a one-on-one situation, an assassin can often easily kill a tank by simply scratching it – provided that it's a traditional tank that doesn't deal much damage. If it's a tank like the Black Dragon... well, then all I can do is scream.

But the agility-type Soul Masters in Douluo Continent are really... don't ask, the answer is they are fast, but they die as soon as they are hit by the opponent, and the key is that they can't kill people instantly.

It can only be described as extremely low-level.

In Douluo Continent, when you're a support-type Soul Master, people might consider whether to prioritize switching to support or ignore you for now.

But in Douluo Continent, he becomes a speed-attack type Soul Master...

It can only be said that no one was wary of allergy-type Soul Masters. It can be said that there have been many competitions, big and small, in the Douluo Trilogy, not to mention the life-and-death battles.

But who said we should be careful of agility-based Soul Masters?

The general consensus is: "Oh, the enemy's agility-type Soul Master has disappeared. Let's go deal with their power-type Soul Master and that control-type Battle Soul Master."

Take Zhu Zhuqing, the most classic representative of the Douluo Continent series and the most orthodox agility-type battle spirit master in Shrek Academy, for example. She has no ability to fly or control herself, but only the speed and stealth of a traditional agility-type battle spirit master.

What key role did Zhu Zhuqing play in the team's fighting spirit?

Whether it's a crucial battle in the Soul Arena or a fight in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, it can be said that Zhu Zhuqing has never single-handedly eliminated the opponent's key carry.

So later on, she could only be used as high-level fusion material.

The only option is to activate the Netherworld White Tiger martial soul fusion skill with Dai Mubai. At least Dai Mubai managed to climb the city wall in the battle of Jialing Pass using only his White Tiger true form.

This shows how awkward it is for agility-based Soul Masters.

Therefore, traditional Soul Masters will eventually either be eliminated or integrate the abilities of other Soul Master categories, such as the offensive power of offensive Soul Masters or the control abilities of control Soul Masters.

Otherwise, they will be eliminated.

While support-type Soul Masters and control-type Battle Soul Masters will not be eliminated, their optimized effects, transforming them into hybrid support/control Soul Masters, will undoubtedly make them stronger than traditional support-type Soul Masters.

Currently, all four elemental academies are training such Soul Masters. They learned about this advanced theory a long time ago through academic discussions with Tianshui Academy.

Therefore, quite a few such Soul Masters have already been trained.

Not only in the support-type Soul Masters, but also in terms of Soul Rings and Soul Skills, they have borrowed a lot from each other.

For example, Shui Bing'er's third spirit ring, which resists ice rings, borrowed some theories from the Blazing Fire Academy.

Why else would Huo Wu's third soul skill also be a resistance to fire rings?

However, this soul skill that resists rings only has an advantage in arena battles like the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

In actual combat, it can only be used as a defensive soul skill.

In a sense, Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu can also be considered as semi-defense and semi-control type battle spirit masters.

"Please give me your guidance." Huo Wu said directly to Yu Hairou and Xue Wu on the other side.

"Please!" Yu Hairou and Xue Wu said politely.

……

By the time Ning Feiliu arrived with Leng Hanxue, Huo Wu and her teammates' battle against Hai Rou and Xue Wu had ended.

Yu Hairou's martial soul is the Coral Prism Fish. The situation of her martial soul possession is similar to that of Shui Yue'er's Jade Dolphin, except that some silver-blue surface similar to coral appears on her body.

However, she can harden her hands and spread coral weapons to kill opponents, and she is not a speed-attack type battle spirit master, but a power-attack type battle spirit master.

With Xue Wu's amplification, Huo Wu and her Martian Soul Master teammate were able to hold their own against Hai Rou and Xue Wu.

However, after Xue Wu used her fourth soul skill, she was still defeated.

"I lost." Fire Dance, frozen by frost and with her soul power exhausted, said unwillingly.

However, at that moment...

She seemed to catch a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of her eye.

She turned her head and looked, and sure enough!

Ning Feiliu was following Leng Hanxue... to... her cousin and academy teacher Huo Lingfei and her older brother Huo Wushuang's place?

What are they talking about?

"Okay, thank you for your guidance," Yu Hairou and Xue Wu said politely.

But by this time, Huo Wu had already broken free of her restraints and gone to Ning Feiliu's side.

(End of this chapter)