In Douluo Continent, there is a proper way to die.

Chapter 88 The Top-Tier (Oddball) Understanding of Douluo Continent

"Sister Xue'er?" Yin Lan's voice came, "What are your expectations for your soul skill?"

Qian Renxue snapped out of her daze and shook her head. She felt as if her mind had gone blank for a moment, as if her thoughts had been interrupted. After this deep meditation, she always seemed to be inexplicably spacing out.

Considering the unprecedented and unreplicable nature of Yinlan's "bloodline development" ability, she simply assumed it was a side effect of her recent deep meditation, and that her mind hadn't fully cleared yet; perhaps it would be fine after a while.

"It was my grandfather's request before, a 12000-year-old Radiant Unicorn," Qian Renxue first glanced cautiously at Gu Yuena, and Ci Xue and She Long also nervously came over to protect her. Only when they saw that she didn't react much did she continue, "I don't know now. As for the soul skill expectation, it is 'Holy Sword'. My grandfather and my father both have this type of soul skill."

"What effect?" Yin Lan raised an eyebrow. To be honest, she didn't really think highly of the Douluo natives' understanding of the game.

Due to the Douluo cultivation system, Soul Masters can easily acquire Soul Skills through Soul Rings without needing to study and practice diligently. For example, a person whose Martial Soul is a sword might normally need years or even decades of effort to use sword energy, but he only needs to acquire a Soul Ring to learn it easily on the spot.

However, there is also a problem: once his soul ring with the "sword aura" soul skill is sealed, he will not be able to release "sword aura" at all. But those who forge "sword aura" through their own efforts do not have such worries.

This is also what left Yinlan speechless. Since this type of soul skill can be forged through one's own efforts, there is absolutely no need to waste a soul ring slot to acquire such an offensive soul skill. Under normal circumstances, soul rings cannot be replaced, and precious soul ring slots should be used on skills that cannot be learned at all.

For example, self-amplifying soul skills, or special application soul skills such as "Invincible Golden Body," "Teleportation," or "Physical Clone."

The world's "Number One Attack" Sword Douluo Chen Xin has always regretted not equipping his spirit rings with self-amplifying spirit skills to achieve true "limited attack." He had already mastered his first spirit ring, "Sword Qi," and his second spirit ring was a defensive spirit skill, which was rather ironic for the "Number One Attack." His third spirit ring was sword flight, but the problem is, he's already a Title Douluo and it's not like he can't fly on a sword, so this third spirit ring was essentially useless.

That's right, the "person whose martial soul is a sword" that Yinlan kept complaining about was actually referring to him (repeatedly bashing his corpse).

Chen Xin's ideal self is Ji Juechen, the "sword fanatic" from the second era of Dou Di Zhuan. All his soul skills are self-amplified, and his swordsmanship is entirely self-taught.

The choice of soul skills can really affect the upper and lower limits of a soul master's strength. However, even after Chen Xin had wasted at least four of his soul rings (in the novel, he even mastered his ninth soul skill, which is hilarious), he was still hailed as the "Number One Attack in the World," which shows just how bizarre the Douluo people's understanding of the game is.

Soul masters with bird-type martial souls are too lazy to train themselves to fly. They generally need to have a "flying" soul skill in their third soul ring to be able to fly, which is a bit too funny (the official setting clearly states that they can train themselves, which just shows that the people of Douluo are really lazy).

Under normal circumstances (not considering 100,000-year soul rings and soul bones, self-created soul skills, soul spirits, and external soul bones), a soul master only has nine soul skills, and even with a fully equipped soul bone, there are only six more. Therefore, each soul master's abilities need to be carefully kept secret. However, after thinking about it, Qian Renxue felt that there was no need to hide it from Yin Lan.

"According to Grandpa, it's about condensing a longsword with 'holy fire'," she replied, "and increasing the effect of my holy attribute by about 300%, depending on what kind of soul ring I absorbed."

Upon hearing the first half, Yin Lan's brows inevitably furrowed. Weapon-effect soul skills, strictly speaking, are also a type of "special application" soul skill. You can't say they're completely useless, because most soul masters with non-weapon martial souls really can't draw out their weapons without relying on soul skills.

However, upon hearing the latter half, her brows relaxed again. It was alright; the soul skill set by Qian Daoliu did have an amplification effect, and it was amplifying a top-tier attribute like Divine.

However, just to be on the safe side, Yinlan casually asked, "Sister Xue'er, besides this soul skill, you probably don't have any other abilities to generate weapons, right?"

Yinlan genuinely didn't know what Qian Renxue's soul skills were in the original history, because she had never had a proper battle. After becoming a god, she relied entirely on her divine power and her own attribute strength, which had reached its peak, to fight, without any skill whatsoever.

"Uh...yes," Qian Renxue's second spirit ring lit up behind her, and numerous small golden light blades appeared behind her, making her look like a certain golden glittering creature at first glance. "My second spirit skill, Angelic Light Blade, and it can be used like this."

As she spoke, she merged the numerous small golden light blades behind her into a single golden giant sword.

"...Then is there any need for you to add a weapon-type soul skill to your fifth soul ring? Don't you already have a soul skill that can generate weapons?" Yin Lan was somewhat confused. "Then why not just abandon the 'Generate a Sacred Sword' ring and just focus on pure amplification?"

"Because my second soul skill is a light blade condensed from light elements," Qian Renxue explained, "while the 'Holy Sword' is a weapon condensed from holy fire, possessing both holy and fire attributes... Uh, what kind of look is that?"

Before she could finish her explanation, she felt the same way Yin Lan, Gu Yuena, and Di Tian were looking at her, as if she were an idiot.

"My sister, light, fire, holiness, those are your innate talents, your natural attributes, just like my 'destruction' and 'life' attributes," Yinlan looked at her with some confusion, "You just need to practice hard, it's impossible that you won't get the added attributes for the light blade generated by your second soul skill."

Just like Huo Yuhao's ultimate ice ability was an innate talent he possessed after obtaining the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul, the use of ice elements was as natural to him as eating and drinking.

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"So, my fifth soul skill only needs one amplifying soul ring?" Qian Renxue's tone was somewhat uncertain. "You really don't need any other active effects?"

It has to be said that Yinlan's thinking is very different from that of most soul masters today. In this era where there are almost no self-created soul skills, most soul masters' abilities come from taking shortcuts through soul rings, which means that very few people realize the importance of "self-amplification" ability.

This allowed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to exploit a loophole, becoming the number one support class and the second-best sect in the world by virtue of its support ability that "only amplifies" but has no mechanism.

(End of this chapter)