Douluo: On Becoming a God through Science

Seeing You Chen entering the strict teacher mode, Yan shuddered suddenly: "I dare not! I have absolutely no such intention, Master!"

Ignoring Yan's bitter face, You Chen pulled Yan and quickly began to review the battle.

This has become a habit cultivated by the master and apprentice.

Even with Yan's pig brain, he had made some adjustments after years of experience. Otherwise, this guy probably wouldn't have been able to think of the previous tactics.

To this day, Yan's combat thinking is no longer the same as before. Among his peers, it can be said that no one can match him.

Coupled with his proven strong strength, he is potentially the leader among the three people of the Spirit Hall's golden generation.

Until now, no one would question You Chen's teaching ability.

In fact, Hu Liena's qualities in all aspects are not as good as Yan's.

After the comparison, many members of the Spirit Hall privately believed that You Chen's teaching ability was far superior to that of the Pope.

However, normally this would not affect the Pope's authority. Because the Pope's job is not theory and education, it is not a big problem if he is not as good as a professor or lecturer in the Spirit Hall.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows what happened when You Chen was ostracized before.

This is equivalent to the Pope's failure to judge people and suppressing capable subordinates, which is detrimental to the Pope's reputation.

However, the power struggle within the Spirit Hall has not yet affected the master and disciple.

The atmosphere between them was still pure and harmonious, with only the pure pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, martial spirit and strength.

Chapter 23: Master and Disciple Conversation, Cultivation of the Three Elements of Essence, Qi and Spirit

After finishing the review of the battle, the discussion between the two did not end. It was just a prelude to the really important part that came next.

"Yan, what do you think is your biggest problem right now?"

You Chen knew the answer but he would not give it directly. Instead, he chose to stimulate his apprentice's thinking and let him think for himself.

A teacher not only needs to impart knowledge to his students, but also needs to cultivate their ability to learn and think. This is especially true at this time when he is about to leave.

Information from the battle review just now still lingered in Yan's mind, and his brain was most active at this moment.

Unlike usual, he quickly gave his answer: "Teacher, is it my control over my soul power? If I could keep the Vulcan Cannon from disintegrating, I wouldn't be completely at a disadvantage in the first fight, resulting in almost no power to fight back later."

You Chen nodded and shook his head: "The idea is correct. But to be precise, it's still a problem with your mental strength."

You Chen looked at Yan's thoughtful expression and continued, "You don't have that much time to spend on improving your soul power control. The current level is more than enough. The next step is to work hard."

While You Chen was explaining, he naturally used Feng Xiaotian's story, telling the story of a genius who was born with full soul power but spent too much energy on creating his own soul skills and improving his soul power control, so that he was only a level 44 soul master in his twenties.

After hearing this story...

"Full soul power innately, 44th level at the age of !? This guy has lived like a dog for more than years, right? Is this really the qualification of full soul power? Teacher, you are not making this up just to scare me, are you!?"

He doesn't have full soul power by nature, so he can reach level 44 in a few years, maybe two or three years. Isn't this story too exaggerated?

You Chen silently complained in his heart, is this a fabrication? Wait a few years and you will be able to see this legendary myth with your own eyes.

As for Feng Xiaotian and the extremely stupid thing of suppressing his level at his golden age because of the dog-licking factor, there is no need to say more.

He just said meaningfully: "Some things, if you put your energy into them and indulge in them, you will unknowingly waste a lot of time. Especially for you young people, if you don't know how to be moderate, you will regret it when you are old."

"Teacher, why do I feel like there's something else behind your words?" Yan's eyes flashed with wisdom. He had already discovered that his teacher sometimes liked to suddenly say some profound and incomprehensible riddles.

"This must be your illusion."

You Chen coughed lightly and stopped changing the subject, saying, "In short, at your age, your soul power control ability is completely sufficient to this extent. You don't need to spend too much energy on it in the next few years. After I leave, you can cut four-fifths of your daily time for this. Just enough to ensure that your condition does not decline.

But mental power is different. When mental power is improved, it can also improve your control over soul power, but the previous training was purely skill and proficiency, while mental power improves your basic ability. The most important thing is that soul power control skills can only improve your actual combat ability, while mental power training can improve your practice efficiency. "

"Teacher, I haven't forgotten this."

Yan nodded: "This is what you said, the practice of the three elements of spirit, energy and soul."

You Chen nodded.

The essence of this world's martial spirit is the world's gift and miracle created by the unity of essence, energy and spirit.

The roots of most of the cultivation systems in the universe have the shadow of this route.

What's more, "Douluo Dalu" has a certain foundation and style of old martial arts novels. After spending a certain amount of time and energy, You Chen completely confirmed the correctness of his conjecture.

The three elements of essence, energy and spirit in this world refer to the body, soul power and mental power. To be more specific, it refers to the body's qi, blood, essence, soul power and mental will.

The reason why one has to be 6 years old to awaken the martial soul is not because there is something special about the number 6, or because the rules of the world dictate that one must be 6 years old before awakening the martial soul.

Instead, the body needs to grow to a certain level so that it is not too weak, the mind needs to be initially perfected, and the essence and energy need to be initially mature, before the last piece of the puzzle called soul power can be filled in, so that the three elements of essence, energy and spirit can achieve a relative balance and promote the awakening of the martial soul.

Otherwise, there may be hidden dangers of congenital deficiencies.

For example, Huo Yuhao in Douluo Dalu II was oppressed by the Duke's Mansion. He lacked essence for physical growth, but had excess spirit, which led to insufficient innate soul power.

For example, most of the original martial souls, because the martial soul is a relatively weak body at the beginning, the martial soul becomes the complete embodiment of the three elements of the soul master himself, essence, energy and spirit. The original martial soul is only a part of the body, and the essence attribute is equivalent to only a part of the whole, so the essence is insufficient and the innate soul power is generally not high.

On the other hand, if the body and mental will develop to the baseline ahead of time, there is no need to wait until the age of 6 to awaken in advance, and there is no hidden danger. This has been verified by the Spirit Hall.

Therefore, the cultivation of martial soul is essentially the cultivation of the three elements of essence, energy and spirit, and the three are mutually reinforcing.

Polishing the body, cultivating soul power, and tempering spiritual will, any one of them will affect the overall decline in cultivation speed. Conversely, the improvement of any one of them can indirectly drive the improvement of the other two.

However, if you only rely on one advantage to pull up the weaker ones, some side effects will often appear in the long run, which is commonly known as an unstable foundation.

The noble and correct path requires all three to advance simultaneously.

In fact, You Chen did not keep this knowledge to himself, and related works had been published in the Spirit Hall's journal many years ago.

But he was only 14 years old at that time, and he was just proposing a simple guess, so he did not receive as much attention as "Don't Use Whale Glue", which could directly benefit soul masters.

And soon after he completed the verification and published the compiled contents into a book, the throne of the Pope changed.

The book collection that was the result of his hard work disappeared for some self-evident reasons and was sealed up by the Spirit Hall. Perhaps only the real high-level officials of the Spirit Hall knew its contents.

But books were forbidden to be spread, and the knowledge was hidden in his brain.

After accepting him as his disciple, he certainly did not hide anything, and even added new insights he had gained over the years, and passed them on to Yan completely.

At the same time, he also told Yan that most of his knowledge was written in that book, but that book was considered a banned book by the Spirit Hall, so the relevant knowledge was absolutely not allowed to be spread outside, not even to his two childhood sweethearts.

Otherwise there may be disaster.

Chapter 24: "Divided Soul Refining Technique", two plans

Yan's training in the three elements of essence, energy and spirit, needless to say, includes meditation.

With the talent displayed by Yan and the accumulation of the Spirit Hall, the high-level meditation method that was given was naturally the most suitable for Yan's Flame Lord's spirit.

Even with You Chen's experience and worldly knowledge, it would be difficult to improve it.

But physical training starts off differently.

When You Chen was young, in order to increase the possibility of his martial soul evolving as much as possible, he pursued perfection in every aspect.

Very early on, he brought the scientific training methods of his previous life to this world, and made certain localized modifications based on the physique of soul masters and the characteristics of their martial souls.

Although this set of scientific training methods cannot compare to the physical training methods in the world of martial arts, it is definitely far superior to the knowledge level of this world.

And it is far better than Yu Xiaogang's running training method.

You Chen also made targeted modifications to this scientific training method based on the characteristics of Yan's martial soul and then taught it to Yan.

Needless to say, Yan's talent is great. After years of daily training, he has naturally mastered it to perfection.

The only regret is that Yan's mental talent is average, and You Chen's "Distraction Soul Refining Technique" can be said to be a spiritual secret method developed completely according to his own talent, and its compatibility with Yan is also average.

Even though You Chen made some modifications to some of the books in the Spirit Hall in order to adapt to General Yan's secret method, he only slightly improved the efficiency of practice.

In this world where there is no common method to improve spiritual power through practice, Yan is already blessed with a unique and fast improvement in spiritual power. Otherwise, he would not have been surpassed by Xie Yue in terms of soul power improvement despite having distracted so much of his energy.

But compared with the improvement speed in the other two aspects, it is really not that good.

"If you want to achieve the final form of the 'mobile flying turret' I described, you must never stop practicing the Soul Refining Technique of Distracted Mind. At this stage, if you just stand still and fire, you will not be able to maintain the form of the Vulcan Cannon because of my attack. In the future, you will have to maintain accurate artillery attacks while moving... I hope that in the future you can at least reach the stage of dividing your mind into three functions."

In terms of effect alone, "The Art of Distracted Soul Refining" is even better than the "Distracted Control" secret method of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

However, this method of spiritual cultivation requires his natural talent of multitasking, and no one else can practice it - perhaps people from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect can practice it, but the thick barrier between the Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect blocks this possibility.

The reason why Yan was able to practice was, of course, because he relied on the "grandfather" behind Yan, a "plug-in" named You Chen.

Through the trust between master and disciple, and Yan's own innocent mentality, and by actively performing the secret technique of hypnosis, an effect similar to "initiation" was achieved, and Yan was forced to complete his initiation.

Is it necessary to expend so much energy?

The answer is yes. "Dividing the Soul to Refine the Soul" has such value.

You Chen’s talent is definitely not low, he is definitely a genius.

It was probably due to the fact that his physical body traveled through time and space. You Chen was not a native resident of this Douluo world, and his soul power was gradually developed through the assimilation of the acquired world, so it was insufficient at first.

And this "Art of Distracting and Refining the Soul" is the best embodiment of the natural talent of this genius.

If it could be fully perfected, it would definitely be a top-notch secret method that could be used to establish a new school.

Unlike Qibao's distraction control, distraction control only allows you to do different things at the same time, but it is not possible to have multiple different or even conflicting thoughts.

For example, You Chen can use completely different soul skills with his left and right hands and coordinate them perfectly, allowing him to change his moves freely when fighting the enemy.

But if Ning Rongrong used different spirit skills with her left and right hands, she would not be able to change the direction of the spirit skills once she used them, which would be even more rigid. Because originally she had to concentrate on using a spirit skill, and now she had to control it with divided attention, how could she achieve perfection?

Distracted control is equivalent to fighting with both hands, while distracted soul refining is equivalent to adding an extra thinking circuit. They are two completely different concepts.

You Chen is now able to reach the state of four minds where the mind is divided into four functions.

And after several years of practice, Yan barely entered the state of second mind.

You can think of complex tactics at the same time and perfectly use the Vulcan Cannon. Or you can maintain the offensive and defensive capabilities of a normal strong attack spirit master while using the Vulcan Cannon.

Yan's Vulcan Cannon has not yet formed an instinctive control, and must spend a lot of mental energy to control and maintain it. In addition, Yan's second mind state is not stable enough, so there was a gap before.

This secret method becomes more difficult to master in the later stages. With the help of You Chen, Yan spent about three years to enter the second heart realm. You Chen's requirement for him was to reach the third heart realm at the Soul Saint stage, which would be enough for him to be able to perform the "flying turret" mode.

As if feeling that his progress had disappointed the teacher, Yan lowered his head somewhat disappointedly and gritted his teeth and said, "Teacher, I will work harder next time!"

"No, I never expected you to make any leaps and bounds in this area."

"Uh."

You Chen glanced at the dumbfounded Yan and said calmly, "Correctly assessing the abilities of disciples is also a quality that a qualified teacher should possess."

He paused for a moment and continued, "In another year, or at most two years, you will have to absorb the fourth ring. If your mental strength is insufficient, no matter how strong your will is, the soul master who leads you to hunt soul beasts will not let you absorb the ten thousand year soul ring.

Although Hu Liena has the lowest talent among the three of you, it must be said that she really benefited from the version bonus.

Relying on the adaptability of the fox spirit to spiritual attributes, even if her mental strength is a little lower, she can still withstand the mental impact of the ten thousand year spirit ring.

Relying on the enhancements that the Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring brings to spirit masters, at the Spirit Sect stage, her overall strength might actually surpass Xie Yue, who is unloved by both her parents, and you, whose system has not yet been fully formed.

Not to mention that you probably can't accept this situation. For your own growth, of course you should do your best at every stage.

Therefore, regardless of the practice of the "Dividing the Soul Refining Technique", you must also raise your mental power to the Spiritual Sea Realm before absorbing the fourth ring. In this regard, I will give you two options."

Under Yan's anxious and expectant gaze, You Chen slowly raised two fingers.

Yan swallowed his saliva. He didn't know what kind of solution You Chen would come up with. He only knew that his teacher had never let him down.

Even though he was criticized as a mediocre teacher by countless people a few years ago, he finally refuted his mistakes and proved the truth with facts.

"The first option. I have a head soul bone that is tens of thousands of years old. After absorbing it, your spiritual power will definitely be able to break through to the Spiritual Sea Realm."

Chapter 25 Bibi Dong (Part )

"The head soul bone is second only to the external soul bones and torso bones in importance and rarity!? And the teacher wants to give it to me!? "

Yan was shocked when he heard only the first plan.

"Teacher, this is too expensive! I can't use it!"

Yan was horrified and even looked around, worried that the news would be heard by outsiders.

A ten thousand year level head soul bone would be coveted by even a Titled Douluo!

While Yan was shocked, a doubt also quietly arose: 'Where did the teacher get this head soul bone? Could it be from the soul beast that he absorbed the fourth ring from back then? If so, why didn't he absorb it himself? As we all know, soul rings and soul bones come from the same source, but there are extra blessings! You can't be looking down on the soul bone of the ten thousand year level! ? '

"Don't be too excited."

You Chen still had that indifferent tone: "This soul bone is not suitable for you. Even if you absorb it, it cannot improve your martial soul essence. Considering your future, even if it is a ten thousand year soul bone, I do not recommend you to absorb it. But you also know how rare soul bones are, especially the head soul bone. Who knows, when you become a Titled Douluo in the future, you may not even have a head soul bone. Even if it is not perfectly compatible, this soul bone can still bring you a significant improvement. So each has its advantages and disadvantages."