Douluo's Bone Transforms into a Divine Dragon

Chapter 248 The Art of Souls

Gu Xuan's daily routine consisted of practicing swordsmanship with Chen Xin. Although he did not possess a sword martial spirit, his swordsmanship was rapidly improving thanks to the Eight Wings of the Sword Dragon.

At the same time, Gu Xuan also improved his state of mind.

Dugu Yan was the same. Moreover, by learning from Ning Fengzhi, she helped him handle many things. At only twenty-two years old, she now had a greater understanding of human relationships and the various aspects of life.

It is worth mentioning that Gu Jian's cultivation speed in the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire was extremely fast. A year and a half later, she increased her cultivation by an average of 100 years per month. Now her cultivation has increased from 5,000 years to 15,000 years, and has now reached 20,000 years.

This rate of improvement can only be described as terrifying. It can be said that the current Ancient Sword is the Ancient Profound among Soul Beasts, and even faster than the Ancient Profound.

Because she received the blessings of the two great dragon kings, she frantically improved her cultivation every day within the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

It is estimated that in a few years, the ancient sword will be able to cultivate to the level of 100,000 years, thus becoming the true guardian beast of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Of course, since Gu Jian broke through to 20,000 years, her cultivation speed has also slowed down, becoming somewhat inferior to before, because she needs to spend more time stabilizing her realm.

Fortunately, Zhang Jinyuan and Dugu Bo are at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where they can spar with Gu Jian and help her quickly stabilize and become familiar with her realm.

The funny thing is that once when Gu Jian went out to play, she provoked a 50,000-year-old soul beast. Unable to defeat it, she ran back to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to find Yang Wudi. In the end, Yang Wudi stepped in and beat up the soul beast that had bullied Gu Jian.

Then Gu Jian gained a little brother and directly unified most of the Sunset Forest, because that 50,000-year-old soul beast was already one of the major overlords of the Sunset Forest.

It is precisely because of this that the outer perimeter of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well is now guarded by countless soul beasts, all of which are now underlings of the Ancient Sword.

What made Gu Xuan somewhat disheartened was that once when Gu Xuan returned to Sunset Forest, Gu Jian immediately clung to her father and complained that her little brother actually wanted to mate with her.

Gu Jian is only a few years old, how could he understand these things?

After Gu Xuan found out about this, he directly explained to his good daughter the evil intentions of the 50,000-year-old golden-armored earth dragon, and then Gu Jian beat the golden-armored earth dragon.

因为古剑有着杨无敌和独孤博他们撑腰，金甲地龙那是一个敢怒不敢言啊，再也不敢对大姐头示爱了，因为会被揍死！

Time flies, and a year has passed in no time. In that year, Gu Xuan not only completely shed his worldly ways and mastered the God of Slaughter Domain, but also accomplished something earth-shattering.

The cause was still Gu Jian's underlings. Because Gu Xuan used the Golden Armored Earth Dragon to subdue many soul beast underlings, many disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School had to think twice before hunting soul beasts in the Sunset Forest.

After all, if Gu Jian's underlings were killed, the Golden Armored Earth Dragon and those soul beasts would naturally no longer be loyal to Gu Jian.

However, there is a problem: not all spirit beasts can grow indefinitely.

Some spirit beasts have sustained injuries from battles with other spirit beasts, and their lifespans are nearing their end.

Therefore, Gu Xuan used the ancient sword as a starting point to have those soul beasts whose lifespans were about to end sacrifice themselves to the soul masters in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School who needed to break through their soul rings.

It was precisely because of this idea that Gu Xuan saw the feasibility of the Soul Spirit Technique.

In the original story, Dou Yi was alright, since there were still many soul beasts at that time, and there was no situation where a soul master could not find a soul ring to advance after breaking through. However, tens of thousands of years later, humans became stronger and stronger, and the soul beast race declined, with their populations becoming smaller and smaller.

This led to situations where Soul Masters couldn't find Soul Rings when they wanted to advance their levels. However, due to the Ancient Sword, some of the Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest who had died of old age chose to sacrifice themselves to humans, which is why Gu Xuan saw the feasibility of the Soul Spirit Technique.

Although the situation ten thousand years from now doesn't exist yet, Gu Xuan can make plans early. Moreover, if Gu Xuan solves this problem now, there won't be any future issues with soul beasts attacking humans.

It could even resolve the tense relationship between soul beasts and humans, because soul spirits are different from soul rings obtained by directly hunting soul beasts.

Soul spirits can be inherited. If a soul beast becomes a human's soul spirit, then when that soul master dies, the soul spirit can still exist and be inherited.

However, Gu Xuan was not familiar with the methods of soul cultivation; all he knew was the description in the original work.

However, after more than half a year of experiments with the soul, the first soul spirit appeared, and this first person to possess a soul spirit also had a close relationship with Gu Xuan.

This person is Chen Yuan, the son of Chen Xin's younger brother. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is now a large and powerful family. Although Chen Yuan's talent is average, he has broken through to level 70 at the age of fifty.

In the experiments on spirits, he was the first person to obtain a spirit.

Moreover, it was precisely because of the appearance of the first soul spirit that the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest who had submitted to the ancient sword saw hope, because although they were not at the 100,000-year level, they still possessed considerable intelligence.

In particular, the Golden Armored Earth Dragon also participated in the experiments on soul spirits. Although it didn't quite understand the meaning of it, it clearly knew one thing: a soul spirit that became a soul master could live forever.

It can't be called immortality, but it allows them to survive in another way, and their strength can even improve. Even if the Soul Master dies in the future, their souls can still survive.

The only problem now is that if a Soul Master dies, their Soul Spirit can survive, but only for a maximum of one year. If they don't find a suitable host within that year, they will still dissipate.

Therefore, although the method of storing souls has begun to be perfected, there are no items to store souls.

It might not matter for a while, since even if not all Soul Masters can become gods, those with longer lifespans can still live to be one or two hundred years old.

However, in the future, it will be a month or so. For example, a thousand years later, most Soul Masters will have Soul Spirits, but if a Title Douluo dies, it is impossible for all nine of his Soul Spirits to find hosts at once.

Soul spirits below 50,000 years are fine, but it's very difficult for soul spirits above 50,000 years to find a host. Although soul masters cultivate faster than soul beasts, there is a limit. It's impossible for someone to break through to the Title Douluo level within a year, right?

Therefore, an item for storing souls is absolutely necessary, but with Gu Xuan's current strength, it is extremely difficult to make such an item. In the original work, Huo Yuhao's Spirit Pagoda was also created after he became a god.

However, there's no need to rush now, as Gu Xuan still has plenty of time.

Moreover, if Gu Xuan is unable to unify the continent in the future, then this idea will naturally have no chance of being realized. Therefore, the most important thing right now is not this, but unifying the continent.

Only in that way could Gu Xuan use the Soul Spirit Technique to unite the entire Soul Beast race and achieve true unification of the Douluo Continent.

What Gu Xuan needs most right now is a seventh soul ring.

P.S.: Typos will be corrected first and then fixed later.

(End of this chapter)