Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 102 - On the Special Application of Soul Power

To be fair, the evil spirit master was quite efficient. Ye Xishui had just arranged a room for her before she left, and when Qian Lingyun returned at midnight, all the furnishings were already in place.

From the dark-toned antiques used for decoration to the calming incense rising from the incense burner, everything tells Qian Lingyun that the Holy Spirit Cult is very rich, at least richer than she imagined.

Lying comfortably in her private room, Qian Lingyun fell asleep immediately. Don't ask her why she wasn't cultivating.

All you need to know is that in the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, a place with an absurdly high number of high-level evil spirit masters, she can cultivate faster even just by breathing in the various negative energies permeating the air than outside.

The next morning (it could be early morning or dawn), Qian Lingyun was not yet awakened from her sleep when she was physically awakened by some mysterious force.

She was having a wonderful dream in bed, completely bewildered, when a strange force pulled her out of bed and threw her heavily to the ground.

What's outrageous is that there was no one else in her room except herself.

"Ha ha ha ha…"

A clear, cold female voice, complete with special effects, drifted over from behind a wall, startling Qian Lingyun so much that she jumped up from the ground, glancing at the time as she did so…

It was around 4 a.m., and she had only slept for a little over two hours...

"Grandmother, don't you ever sleep?" Qian Lingyun asked with a pained expression, yawning incessantly.

"Go to sleep!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a loud "poof" was heard, and a large blood-red stain suddenly appeared on the clean wall. The stain looked like a pool of flowing blood stuck to the wall, creating a rather incongruous and terrifying atmosphere for Qian Lingyun at that moment.

Glug glug…

A few seconds later, Ye Xishui's body suddenly appeared through the middle of the wall. She casually lay down on the sofa in Qian Lingyun's room, pointed at the wall, and asked with a smile, "This is a secret technique I developed myself. Want to learn it?"

"Hiss, it's actually... a wall-penetrating technique?" Qian Lingyun's pupils contracted slightly, and her breathing became a little heavier. She hurriedly nodded and said eagerly, "Yes!"

"Alright, then today I'll teach you how to use soul power in some special ways."

After speaking, Ye Xishui raised an arm, and Qian Lingyun sensibly stepped forward to take it and helped Ye Xishui up from the sofa.

"Tell me, what is the special relationship between the attributes of a martial soul and its soul power?" Ye Xishui asked.

"Different martial souls have different characteristics, and these characteristics are what distinguish them..." Qian Lingyun spoke honestly according to the answer in her memory, but she didn't expect that she would be stopped halfway through her sentence by a long, thin fingernail pressing against her lips.

Ye Xishui shook her head in disappointment and said, "I'm not asking you to memorize the answers written in those books. I want you to tell me your own thoughts. If I'm not satisfied with your answers, I'll give you a whipping."

With a crisp snap, the sofa where Ye Xishui had been lying was split in two by an inexplicable force. Qian Lingyun glanced at the clean cut on the sofa, and then at the long red whip that Ye Xishui had somehow produced in her hand. She couldn't help but swallow hard and instinctively covered her buttocks.

"The attribute of a martial soul determines the attribute of one's soul power..."

Qian Lingyun raised her head and glanced at Ye Xishui. Seeing that she showed no signs of anger, she slowly breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "And the attribute of soul power cannot be changed at will. A soul master with the dark attribute cannot have the soul power of the light attribute, unless..."

"Unless what!?" Ye Xishui asked, her lazy eyes hidden under her cloak seemingly containing a hint of anticipation.

"Unless twin martial souls appear or the legendary situation of remaining calm in the face of adversity arises," Qian Lingyun said, then suddenly asked, "Grandmother, how does this question relate to what I learned today?"

"No!" Ye Xishui shook her head.

"Then why are you asking me this?!" Qian Lingyun cried out, but Ye Xishui remained nonchalant. "Because I suddenly wanted to ask, so what? What, you little brat, you want to beat me up?!"

"You're my grandmother. If I'm a little brat, then what are you?" Qian Lingyun asked shamelessly, barely suppressing her inner turmoil.

"You're a little brat, then naturally I am..." Ye Xishui started to say, but then seemed to realize something and said angrily, "You little... brat, you actually set a trap for me!" Ye Xishui changed her words and scolded a few more times, seemingly enjoying the feeling of arguing with someone, and even laughed to herself.

"Sigh, it's been so many years since anyone dared to speak to me like that. You're the first one in all these years!" After laughing, a hint of mist seemed to appear in Ye Xishui's weathered eyes. She pinched Qian Lingyun's cheek with her nails, which were big enough to strangle someone, and said:

"I really enjoy your timid yet disrespectful behavior. Good, keep it up."

"Hehe, definitely next time," Qian Lingyun chuckled dryly, pointing at the wall with dissatisfaction, "You promised to teach me the art of walking through walls! Why haven't you started yet!"

"That's not difficult. I just asked you about the relationship between soul power attribute and martial soul, which can explain it to you."

Ye Xishui grabbed Qian Lingyun's wrist, her long, slender nails almost digging into the flesh, but she still channeled her soul power into Qian Lingyun's body through her hand. "I'm asking you, how does this soul power of mine feel to you?"

"It hurts a little..."

The feeling of two different soul energies clashing head-on is definitely not good. Ye Xishui's soul energy is cold and domineering, completely different from Qian Lingyun's own soul energy, which is stable and gentle.

"I didn't ask if it hurts, I asked you what the attributes of my soul power are!"

Qian Lingyun's answer was irrelevant and somewhat amusing, which made Ye Xishui both amused and exasperated, so she gave her a sharp rap on the head.

"It's so cold and so domineering!" Qian Lingyun said, rubbing her head and grimacing.

"That's right, feel this soul power again!" Ye Xishui injected another wave of soul power into Qian Lingyun's body. This soul power was stable and peaceful, completely different from the previous one.

"This soul power... is soul power without attributes... it can be directly integrated into the body, just like..." Qian Lingyun hesitated, seemingly thinking of the right words, while Ye Xishui nodded slightly, looking forward to Qian Lingyun's answer.

"It's like a charging soul tool... It can convert a soul master's soul power into attribute-less soul power, making it easier for other soul masters to absorb..." Qian Lingyun clapped her hands, suddenly realizing, "You mean, converting one's own soul power into attribute-less soul power, thereby unlocking more ways to utilize soul power!"

"Smart!" Ye Xishui nodded and said, "And the wall-penetrating technique I mentioned is itself a method of utilizing soul power!"

"The first step is to transform one's own soul power into attribute-free soul power, and then let the soul power merge and resonate with the object you want to come into contact with, to achieve a kind of disguise, passing through walls and other purposes."

"However, this operation consumes a great deal of soul power, and with your current cultivation level, it would be very difficult for you to pass through the wall," Ye Xishui paused, then continued explaining, looking at Qian Lingyun's eager expression.

"But once your cultivation level increases, the ability to pass through walls becomes useless. After all, for... high-level Soul Masters, shattering a wall with a single punch is much more practical than the wall-passing technique!"

(End of this chapter)