The faint golden light seems to carry a special power that can pressure the Spirit Master's physical body, stimulating it to resist.
Su Wen's body is very strong, far beyond what a Spirit Emperor-level Spirit Master can compare to.
His physical training, combined with the specially developed Body Tempering Technique, has never faltered. Across the entire Continent, he is arguably the most proficient in Body Tempering Technique, with unparalleled efficiency. Added to that are various element-based body tempering techniques and occasional ice and fire forces, making his physical strength even stronger than a Spirit Douluo.
However, at level forty-nine, Su Wen also began to struggle.
With just physical strength, he can no longer advance further.
Even so, Su Wen did not plan to use Soul Power or Spiritual Power to counteract the pressure of the Sea God's light.
The purpose of enduring the Sea God's light pressure during this visit to the forbidden land was not for ordinary cultivation.
His goal was to use the pressure from the Sea God's light on his physical body to assist in awakening his Martial Spirit.
"Since the Sea God has set this test, it indicates that awakening one's own Martial Spirit is feasible."
Su Wen has some information about his Martial Spirit from his memory and also knows of some special examples where, with sufficiently strong vitality, one can condense a vitality Spirit Ring.
If vitality can do this, it means that the Spirit Master's own body can also achieve it.
For example, on the Douluo Continent, or on the Douluo planet, all life forms with Soul Power can cultivate and become a type of Spirit Beast.
What about Spirit Masters?
The Spirit Master system may have been developed by humans, but can Spirit Masters also achieve what Spirit Beasts can?
Cultivating oneself into a Spirit Beast while also possessing the characteristics of a human Spirit Master, so that one's own body becomes a Martial Spirit and can then condense a Spirit Ring?
It must be said that this idea is still feasible.
Moreover, this does not involve specializing in vitality power; it remains focused on Soul Power cultivation. However, as Soul Power cultivation strengthens, it will also enhance vitality.
In the future, perhaps as the Martial Spirit strengthens, and with the condensation of vitality power, research into vitality power could also begin.
Under the Sea God's light, Su Wen relied entirely on his physical strength to reach the sixty-fourth level, sitting cross-legged on this step, fully focusing on the changes within his body.
With his extraordinary perception, Su Wen could feel every change in his body.
Time passed.
Under the pressure of the Sea God's light, Su Wen experienced a full three days of this.
Returning to the open area at the base of the mountain, Su Wen greeted Hai Da and the others before leaving the forbidden land.
He already has a plan and now needs to go out and verify it.
...
Sea Dragon City.
"Master Wen?"
Sea Dragon Douluo was surprised by Su Wen's arrival. He hadn't expected Su Wen to leave the forbidden land and come to Sea Dragon City to find him after only three days.
"Have the two of you not set out yet?"
"No, the Bloodthirsty Crazy Shark is a hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast and, having survived a great tribulation, it has the potential to continue cultivating for another hundred thousand years. Its strength is far beyond that of a typical hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast," Sea Dragon Douluo said with a serious expression.
Even the Sea Spirit Masters of Sea God Island have tasks to deal with some of the ferocious Sea Spirit Beasts in the ocean, but despite being guardians, they have their own limits in strength.
A Bloodthirsty Crazy Shark is beyond their ability to handle.
At the very least, Sea Dragon Douluo alone lacks the confidence to defeat it.
"When are you leaving?"
"Do you want to go with us?" Fighting Heaven Douluo asked, noticing Su Wen's intent.
Su Wen nodded.
"We plan to set out tomorrow."
"Alright, I'll come to the City Lord's Mansion to find you tomorrow."
Su Wen went to the Wisdom Palace in Sea Dragon City and spent time in a cultivation room for final theoretical refinement.
He operated his Soul Power, trying to stimulate changes in his physical body.
After three days of contemplation, Su Wen had already memorized the changes in his body. Although he couldn't yet replicate this change with Soul Power, the Visualization Method had recorded this sensation.
This is also a function of the Visualization Method.
At this moment, his body became active again, and Su Wen felt every cell inside him filled with a special vitality.
At the same time, the Visualized World once again replicated past sensations.
This time, he was replicating the feelings from the two previous times when he awakened his Martial Spirit in the Life and Death Arena.
The overlapping of the two states allowed Su Wen to feel the changes in his body.
At that moment, he had a sensation of returning to when he was six years old. Not the six-year-old in the Life and Death Arena, but the true feeling of not yet having awakened his Martial Spirit, continuously sensing it through his extraordinary perception before the age of six.
There was a barrier on the verge of breaking through.
"It hasn't 'developed' yet, hasn't been 'nurtured' properly, so it can't awaken."
"It's simply not strong enough."
This is not a problem that can be resolved quickly, so Su Wen knew he couldn't rush it; everything was proceeding step by step.
...
The next day.
Sea Dragon City, City Lord's Mansion.
"The Bloodthirsty Crazy Shark is reclusive and solitary, and being named for its bloodthirstiness, it is naturally extremely ferocious. There are no other powerful Sea Spirit Beasts in the surrounding waters, so there's no need to worry about being surrounded," Sea Dragon Douluo said.
"This is Xiao Bai."
Leading Su Wen and Fighting Heaven Douluo to the northern coast of Sea God Island, Sea Dragon Douluo introduced them to a massive white shark in front of them.
Demon Soul Great White Shark, a top-tier Spirit Beast among Sea Spirit Beasts, can be considered one of the dominant races. It is not particularly violent and is part of the faction that maintains order in the sea.
Xiao Bai, who is said to have followed the Sea God during his conquest of the sea, now remains on Sea God Island and continues to serve the Sea God.
"Hello."
"Hello, Xiao Bai."
"Thank you for your trouble this time," Fighting Heaven Douluo and Su Wen said.
"Xiao Bai, thank you for your trouble," Sea Dragon Douluo's address was clearly different from Su Wen's.
"Don't worry, I've already instructed some of my clan members to keep the Bloodthirsty Crazy Shark under surveillance," Xiao Bai said confidently.
Under the protection of Sea God Island, the Demon Soul Great White Shark's reproduction has been relatively smooth. Although it faces natural enemies in the form of the malevolent killer whale clan and is not as strong overall, it does not mean that the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan is small in number.
Sea God has only been deified for about twenty thousand years. While this is a long period in the Spirit Master World, it is relatively short in the Spirit Beast realm.
The reproduction of the Demon Soul Great White Shark has been very successful, with a large population, but it lacks top-tier combat power, which is why it is suppressed by the ferocious malevolent killer whale.
Assigning some of his clan members to help search for and monitor targets in the sea is something Xiao Bai has done frequently in the past.
Su Wen and Fighting Heaven Douluo followed Sea Dragon Douluo and jumped onto Xiao Bai's back.
"Let's go. We need to eliminate that Bloodthirsty Crazy Shark quickly before it devours more Sea Spirit Beasts," Xiao Bai said. Once the three of them were steady, Xiao Bai darted off, leaving only a fin and some skin on the sea surface as he darted through the ocean.
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