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In the blink of an eye, two years have passed swiftly.
Tang San has turned ten, and his soul power has reached level thirty-seven.
However, what stands out more than his cultivation level is Tang San's height, which has reached almost one meter seventy or close to one meter eighty, surpassing the appearance expected for a ten-year-old.
With his silver-blue hair and the black-gold half-frame glasses he wears, Tang San can already be considered a handsome young man.
Over these two years, Tang San has also sporadically published papers, mainly conducting more detailed analyses of the positioning of soul masters. Secondly, he has reclassified martial souls.
Originally, in the Douluo Continent, martial souls were categorized only as tool martial souls and beast martial souls. Tang San reorganized them and added elemental martial souls, food martial souls, and body martial souls on top of the existing categories.
Elemental martial souls, as the name suggests, are martial souls that consist purely of elements such as water or fire, representing the utmost in martial souls. They cannot be simply classified as tool martial souls or beast martial souls.
Next is food martial souls, which do not include plant-based foods that can be consumed but rather refer to foods like sausages or buns that can be produced in reality.
Lastly, there are body martial souls, where the martial soul is a part of the body itself.
These types of martial souls actually exist in this era. Over these two years, Tang San has often assisted Su Yuntao in awakening martial souls and has seen a child whose martial soul is hair.
Later, Tang San obtained some information about body martial souls from the connection between him, Fire Phoenix, and Huo Yan.
The Huo Family has also had body martial souls appear, but they are rare. The last one appeared a hundred years ago, with the martial soul being a left hand.
Therefore, Tang San's research progress on this type of martial soul is relatively small.
However, after this theory was published, it caused quite a stir among the people on the continent, not because elemental martial souls, food martial souls, and body martial souls were added alongside tool martial souls and beast martial souls, but because it shed light on the existence of these rare martial souls.
Although these types of martial souls are rare, they do exist. Many adventurous soul masters have encountered bizarre martial souls during their travels on the continent, so it's not surprising.
What surprised them was that plant-based martial soul in tool martial souls were actually classified under beast martial souls.
Furthermore, Tang San also stated that plant-based martial souls cannot be fully utilized as tools because they are inherently more fragile than various implements. They are not meant to be used as weapons.
Vines can be used as whips, but they will never be as effective as a genuine whip made by humans of the same level.
Similarly, soul masters with plant-based martial souls should, when obtaining soul rings, try to maximize the characteristics of their martial souls while maintaining their attacking power, rather than blindly enhancing their attack capabilities, which could lead to irreversible mutations.
At first, most soul masters with plant-based martial souls rejected this idea, but gradually, some families with plant-based martial souls stood up to affirm it, leading to the theory's recognition.
"Classmates, today, I will explain to you the environmental conditions of different soul-beast forests. Remember, when you go to the corresponding soul beast forest in the future, you must prepare various tools and medicines in advance."
In the spacious classroom, a silver-blue-haired teenager stood on the platform, explaining the gathering places of various soul beasts on the continent to all the students of the Nuoding Academy.
Yes, this person is Tang San.
Although he is still a student himself and has not graduated from Nuoding Academy, the principal of Nuoding, Director Su, and others know that he is the most famous martial soul theorist on the continent recently. Moreover, at just ten years old, he has already broken through to become a Soul Saint, and becoming a Titled Douluo is only a matter of time.
Therefore, when Tang San proposed to give lectures to the students, the principal of Nuoding Academy agreed immediately.
And this lecture lasted for more than a year.
Although Tang San did not teach the students about soul power cultivation, he provided insightful and fundamental explanations for each type of martial soul, enabling the students to realize their advantages and disadvantages and pointing out that they should both utilize the advantages and compensate for the disadvantages of their martial souls.
How to compensate?
He also provided two methods.
The first is to rely on teammates, forming deep friendships and progressing together.
The second is to find a soul ring that can compensate for the deficiencies of the martial soul. After absorption, one can gradually make up for the deficiencies. However, Tang San himself doesn't particularly recommend this method.
After all, if the compatibility between the soul ring and the martial soul is poor, even if the deficiencies of the martial soul are compensated for, the acquired soul skills will be relatively mediocre.
Apart from these two methods, there are other ways, such as creating unique soul skills, using herbal remedies, and so on.
However, these things are not accessible to the working students and young nobles in Nuoding City, so Tang San did not mention them to avoid them harboring unrealistic fantasies.
After finishing a public class and amidst the applause of the students, Tang San was surrounded by a group of twelve-year-old girls for quite a while before finally breaking free.
Then, he was surrounded by three or five female teachers from the academy. Only after much persuasion did Tang San manage to break free and find Director Su and Mo Yan.
"Teacher Tang, you're really popular with the girls," Director Su said enviously.
"Come on, Director Su, please don't call me Teacher Tang. I'm still just a ten-year-old kid," Tang San smiled helplessly.
"Let's go, let's have a meal together."
Mo Yan invited Tang San.
"Okay."
Tang San nodded in agreement, and the three of them headed to the cafeteria on the second floor.
During the meal, Director Su asked, "Tang San, what level has your soul power cultivation reached?"
"Level thirty-seven."
"Wow, higher than mine," Director Su exclaimed. "I envy you. Maybe you'll become a Titled Douluo in the future."
"Director Su, you're already at level thirty-five. You'll also be able to break through to Soul Saint in the future," Tang San smiled.
"Soul Saint? I don't even dare to think about becoming a Soul King," Director Su shook his head. "I'm already middle-aged, and with declining physical fitness, each breakthrough is very difficult."
"I'm almost the same," Mo Yan chimed in. "In the future, if my son can achieve a bit more than me, I'll be satisfied."
"By the way, Mo Yan, didn't your son just born last year?"
"Yes, Director Su's daughter is three years old now. How about we arrange a marriage between them?"
"As the saying goes, 'A woman three years older is like a golden brick.' I agree to this marriage," Director Su readily agreed, with a genuine smile on his face. "By the way, where did this saying come from?"
Tang San ate his meal quietly, understanding the art of "silence is golden" when eating.
After the meal, Tang San bid farewell to Director Su and Mo Yan, heading towards the Martial Soul Hall.
At the entrance of the hall, Tang San greeted two guards before entering and finding Xiao Wu practicing her braiding in the backyard.
Over the past two years, Xiao Wu had also grown taller, almost reaching Tang San's height at around 1.7 meters.
Unfortunately, Tang San couldn't see her long legs because Xiao Wu was wearing loose bell-bottom pants.
"Back already? Were you surrounded by those little girls from the academy?" Xiao Wu said casually. "Your clothes are all messed up."
Tang San smirked, "Can't help it, I'm too handsome."
"Vain."
Xiao Wu rolled her eyes, then shifted the topic, "My soul power has reached level thirty-six. I can even walk on walls with soul power control."
"What about walking on the ceiling?" Tang San asked.
"Not there yet," Xiao Wu shook her head. "That's too difficult. It's not the same as walking on walls. The consumption of soul power when being perpendicular to the wall and being perpendicular to the ceiling is different. At least until I reach Soul Emperor level, I won't be able to do it."
After all, soul power wasn't chakra; it couldn't be fully controlled.
Tang San had expected this, even for himself, walking upside down on the ceiling would consume a lot of soul power.
"Forget it then. Let's start practicing water treading," Tang San decided it was time for the next stage of soul power control. "Climbing trees no longer challenges our soul power control."
"Are we really going to tread water?" Xiao Wu was hesitant. "Last time I experimented, I fell into the water and became a drowned chicken, no, a drowned rabbit."
In fact, Xiao Wu could tread on water.
Using her third soul skill, Spirit Eyes, Xiao Wu's overall strength increased dramatically. Her speed was fast enough to take nine consecutive steps in midair, naturally, she could run on the water's surface.
But this was different from standing on the water's surface.
That was with a speed boost!
"We can take it slow," Tang San took out some wooden planks from the White Jade Belt, some thick, some thin, and placed them in the backyard's small pool.
The so-called "taking it slow" meant standing on these wooden planks first to stabilize the body, then continuously changing the thickness of the planks to gradually strengthen their control until they could stand on the water's surface.
Xiao Wu found it interesting and gave it a try.
Then—
Splash!
Xiao Wu became a drowned chicken once again.
Looking at Xiao Wu, soaked in water, Tang San tilted his head, somewhat speechless, "Didn't you change into your swimsuit first? Didn't I prepare one for you?"
"You pervert! How could I wear such clothes?" Xiao Wu thought of the revealing garment meant to cover only the chest and lower body, scoffed, and looked at Tang San with disdain.
"Relax, no one else is here except me and the others won't come in," Tang San gestured for Xiao Wu not to be so agitated.
After all, hadn't the hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts transformed into human form always been naked before?
Or is it that they came to the human society and were influenced by him, acquiring a sense of shame?
"Besides, only I can see you here. You don't have to be so nervous."
"Get lost! No sense of boundaries at all."
Xiao Wu was extremely speechless, but in the end, she changed into her swimsuit and started practicing water treading. However, with Tang San staring at her intently, her face turned red, and she shouted, "What are you looking at? Have you never seen such a fair rabbit?"
"Indeed, I haven't."
Tang San replied without hesitation. Then he realized something and, without waiting for Xiao Wu to get angry, he returned to his study room to organize other theories to be published.
"Tang San, just you wait, Xiao Wu is going to make you regret it in the future!"
Xiao Wu snorted coldly, standing on the thick wooden board laid out on the water's surface. Then—
Splash!
She fell into the water again.
Meanwhile, listening to the splash outside the window, Tang San shook his head. "Achieving true water treading isn't easy. But watching a well-proportioned woman dive is also a kind of enjoyment."
"Get out!"
(End of this chapter)