Second Spirit Skill: Control.
Su Wen's Second Spirit Skill allows him to use a certain amount of Spiritual Power and Soul Power to control the heaven and earth energy of the outside world.
In the month before coming to Heaven Dou City, he was actually trying to use this to improve his cultivation speed.
The more abundant the external heaven and earth energy around him, the faster the cultivation speed.
This is inevitable. Many places with abundant heaven and earth energy are occupied by large forces for this reason. This is also a rare direction in the Spirit Master world today to improve cultivation speed other than simulating the cultivation environment.
Unfortunately, Su Wen's method of gathering heaven and earth energy to improve cultivation speed has always had a bottleneck.
Cultivation has never been a short-term project.
It takes years of accumulation for cultivation to truly show its effects.
Continuously using the Spirit Skill, Su Wen's endurance with Spiritual Power and Soul Power is limited. Moreover, most of the refined heaven and earth energy is used to replenish Soul Power, which doesn't offer a high cost-effectiveness in terms of increasing the upper limit of Soul Power.
However, although the improvement in cultivation speed is not very obvious, assisting Su Wen in restoring Soul Power has extremely good effects. By consuming a certain amount of Soul Power that results in a longer period of continuous Soul Power recovery, the recovery speed may not surpass the consumed Spirit Power, but the total amount recovered after some time exceeds the consumed Soul Power at the start.
In this way, this method becomes a sustaining technique for Su Wen. Not to mention Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, who are currently fighting with Su Wen, and even Qin Ming the Spirit King, was quite surprised.
Su Wen is just a Spirit Grand Master. He could actually compete in Soul Power and is on par with two Spirit Elders. "Su Wen generally gives the impression of not having a high amount of Soul Power, and each time he uses a Spirit Skill, the consumption is not small," Qin Ming murmured. "However, his recovery ability is just too abnormal."
Xiao Zhan nodded as if something was wrong.
That's right.
This kid has learned most of the techniques I've been exploring for so many years in just seven days. This abnormal recovery ability is a major key.
Su Wen is like a perpetual motion machine, consuming his Soul Power in exchange for more Soul Power recovery.
The key is, he can fly!
Even if the process of consumption and recovery takes enough time to achieve a state of consuming less and recovering more, Su Wen can completely maneuver in the air.
And once Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng want to conserve Soul Power or rest, Su Wen will intervene.
The other five who were eliminated on the sidelines also looked speechlessly at the two sides on the field.
"Stop!" Qin Ming shouted.
Continuing the fight would be pointless.
Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's call this match a draw," Su Wen said proactively.
Although he controlled the wind element to avoid poisoning as much as possible, how could the spread of toxins be completely isolated? The longer the time, the more trace amounts of toxins he could not prevent would accumulate every moment.
So, whether he couldn't hold on first or Yu Tianheng and the others ran out of Soul Power first, it's really hard to say.
"Senior Sister Dugu Yan's poison is hard to withstand, and I can't hold on for much longer either."
"Alright, then let's call it a draw," Qin Ming didn't dwell on who won or lost.
This fight was originally to observe Su Wen's performance and to see the progress of the seven-member team's stage results as well.
He is very satisfied now.
At least, he's satisfied with Su Wen.
"Tianheng, your bursts are still not strong enough, and you are too hesitant during battles.
And Yanzi, your problem is the most serious. Your poison is very strong, and under normal circumstances, your control is very good. But when facing someone like Su Wen, your poison is almost ineffective. Today, Su Wen could only engage in a consumption battle. What if his Soul Power level was higher and his strength was enough?"
Although satisfied, Qin Ming still pointed out several shortcomings.
Qin Ming had reminded Dugu Yan of her cultivation shortcomings long ago, but with a Titled Douluo grandfather, Qin Ming didn't want to interfere too much. However, continuing from this battle today, he reiterated his previous advice.
"Yanzi, your poison is a means of control, but you can't rely solely on toxicity."
The current direction that Dugu Yan is suitable for development is nothing more than controlling the Poison Mist, enhancing the impact of the Poison Mist so that even when encountering methods like Su Wen's, she can contend with his airflow and effectively spread the toxins.
Of course, if taking a more microscopic perspective, focusing on exploring the spreadability of the toxin itself is also possible.
Even without a powerful Poison Mist to counter Su Wen's airflow, just coming into contact with the airflow, even in adverse wind conditions, the toxin can spread rapidly.
For the current Dugu Yan, the latter is naturally difficult to explore, after all, her current Spiritual Power is insufficient, making it challenging to develop such fine control over the toxin.
However, what Qin Ming mentioned about controlling the Poison Mist and increasing its impact is feasible.
But
Su Wen knew Dugu Bo's trick, one person could destroy a city.
This relies not on control but on the exploration of the toxin's spreading ability, allowing one's own toxin to possess terrifying lethality while also having a frightening spread.
Qin Ming's approach to teaching Dugu Yan wasn't something Su Wen was interested in analyzing blindly. He just went along with his thoughts due to his habit of theoretical research.
"Osler, you're still too impulsive and not calm enough. When Su Wen was in crisis, even if you had rushed over at that time, Su Wen would still have been eliminated. Instead, Tianheng was allowed to seamlessly connect with you directly after dealing with Su Wen."
Yu Tianheng's Third Spirit Skill is consumption-based. After dealing with Su Wen, he would need to find the next target, which requires pursuit, all of which consumes his energy.
But Osler charged straight in at that time.
If it hadn't been for Su Wen having a mean of escape, it could be said that he served himself to Yu Tianheng on a platter.
"Yes, Teacher Qin Ming," Osler accepted humbly.
However, it was apparent that such a problem wasn't easily overcome. Even if it was just a newcomer like Su Wen in trouble, he was still so impulsive, indicating how much emotion outweighed rationality in his judgment.
However, this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
"Yu Feng, your performance today didn't have any major mistakes, but your control over the wind element isn't as good as Su Wen's. You need to strengthen that."
"Lingling, you also need to enhance your survival training."
"..."
After each battle, Qin Ming would provide feedback, point out their shortcomings, and then offer training suggestions for the next steps.
"Alright, let's welcome Su Wen, who joined the team today."
"Hello, Su junior brother."
"Hello, senior brothers and sisters."
After the battle, Qin Ming didn't immediately arrange training. Instead, he gave Su Wen and the seven others time to communicate with each other.
"Senior Xiao Zhan, your guidance for Su Wen has been perfect," Qin Ming exclaimed.
He was amazed by the various techniques Su Wen had just demonstrated.
Especially that terrifying recovery ability.
Xiao Zhan looked proud.
Although he only taught Su Wen for seven days, which of the methods Su Wen showed just now was not developed by him? Or so he thought while selectively ignoring Su Wen's ability to fly and his Wind Control...
So he smugly took the compliment from Qin Ming.
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