**Chapter 36: Teaching Personally**
"Xiao Yi, these are some of the best advanced meditation technique books in our Martial Soul Hall. You can try practicing them and see which one suits your physique best!"
"Once you choose, you can use it for your future practice, and your speed will increase significantly in your cultivation!"
The next day, Qian Xunji gave Gu Ziyi four sets of advanced meditation techniques.
"Yes, teacher!"
Gu Ziyi didn't refuse and immediately took them.
Although he had already created a set of advanced meditation techniques himself, he was still very curious about the advanced techniques passed down through generations on the Douluo Continent.
Now, Qian Xunji had chosen four sets of techniques for him to personally select from, which showed just how much he valued the Martial Soul Hall.
Thus, while practicing Soul Power with Bibi Dong, Gu Ziyi began trying out the various advanced meditation techniques provided by his teacher, Qian Xunji.
For him, who had already created one set of techniques, creating another might not be so easy, but practicing existing advanced techniques was far simpler.
Not to mention, Gu Ziyi also had the help of the Mantra during his practice.
Very quickly, he mastered one of the advanced meditation techniques his teacher had introduced.
*Buzz—*
After practicing, Gu Ziyi found that this technique was obviously much more advanced than the one he had created himself, and it converted Soul Power much more quickly.
He didn't dwell on it. The fact that he could create one set of advanced meditation techniques was already a great achievement. It was impossible to casually surpass the techniques handed down through generations by the powerful sects of the continent.
Unless he could comprehend something like inner strength and mental techniques from Tang San's world.
After practicing and comparing the differences between the two, Gu Ziyi gained some insights.
What he had pursued earlier was the most comfortable way to make it work, but now it seemed that something was clearly not quite right in his approach.
Just like people, it's right to seek comfort in life, but you can't blindly seek comfort; you also have to seek stability in life.
The advanced meditation technique of the Douluo Continent is more perfect than his own incomplete creation.
After a brief mental evaluation, Gu Ziyi immediately shifted his focus.
He didn't care whether the Martial Soul Hall's advanced meditation technique was more powerful than his own creation. What mattered was whether these advanced techniques could also improve the quality of his Soul Rings.
So, Gu Ziyi continued practicing while focusing on the changes in his body.
With this focus, he soon discovered that the advanced meditation technique he was currently practicing also had the ability to improve his Soul Rings, and the effect was even better than his own technique.
Gu Ziyi then tried the other three sets of advanced meditation techniques, and without exception, they all worked to improve his Soul Rings. Although the effects varied between the techniques, all of them were able to enhance the quality of his Soul Rings.
'It seems that other advanced meditation techniques should be able to do the same!'
'So, after excluding the uniqueness of my own self-created technique, the only reason why other Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent cannot improve the quality of their Soul Rings must be that their Soul Rings are not self-condensed like mine!'
'Only Soul Rings self-condensed by the Soul Master can have their quality improved through advanced meditation techniques!'
In the Mantra state, Gu Ziyi wasn't overly shocked by the discovery but quickly analyzed it.
Then he thought about Tang San's self-condensing Soul Ring in the original story, but it seemed that Tang San hadn't discovered that the quality of his Soul Ring could be improved.
There are two possibilities: either Tang San's fifth Soul Ring wasn't a self-condensed Soul Ring, since it was condensed by absorbing a large amount of Blue Silver Grass energy after he awakened his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
Or all the Soul Rings on the body must be self-condensed Soul Rings. As long as they aren't self-condensed, advanced meditation techniques will no longer have the ability to improve Soul Rings, and the age of the Soul Beast Ring absorbed by the Soul Master will block their progress.
'After 100,000 years of cultivation, Soul Beasts transform from their original forms into human form, whether it's Ah Yin or Xiao Wu, their first six Soul Rings are all self-condensed, but they didn't notice any changes either!'
'Or perhaps Soul Beasts that transform are still fundamentally different from humans in their cultivation.'
'Or the method of cultivation for transformed Soul Beasts differs from that of purely human Soul Masters after they transform...'
'Their cultivation method must be unique. After transforming, Soul Beasts must enter human society and constantly interact with humans to complete their transformation and cultivate!'
'As for their Soul Rings, they aren't obtained through cultivation but are instead re-extracted from their previous cultivation. After all, they already contain the energy of a 100,000-year Soul Beast!'
'Their way of practicing is to gain some kind of improvement through constant interaction with humans. Once the conditions are met, they can continue to extract the energy within themselves to improve!'
'Once they reach level 60, they enter the mature stage of their bodies, and it's said they become fully human. There's no longer any Soul Beast aura in their bodies; it's better to say that the energy of the 100,000-year Soul Beast has been extracted and transformed. That's why there's no longer a Soul Beast aura, and a titled Douluo can no longer detect their true identity through that means!'
'But if someone kills a transformed person, their Soul Rings and soul bones will still explode from the corpse, so whether they've transformed into humans or not, they're still fundamentally Soul Beasts!'
Gu Ziyi analyzed the issue in his mind but couldn't fully grasp the core until he had a chance to study it carefully in the future.
What he could be sure of now, though, was that advanced meditation techniques, combined with self-condensed Soul Rings, could improve the quality of those Soul Rings.
Now, Gu Ziyi had just one important question.
Have no other Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent ever condensed their own Soul Rings?
Have they discovered that self-condensed Soul Rings can improve in quality?
Or is he the only one special in this regard, the only one able to improve his Soul Rings?
After all, Gu Ziyi always felt that his Martial Soul shouldn't be something so common, and his soul skill also proved that his Martial Soul was extraordinary.
He just didn't know why his innate Soul Power was only at level 1 after awakening.
With these questions in mind, Gu Ziyi chose the set of advanced meditation techniques that suited him best from the ones provided by Qian Xunji.
Regardless of the speed of cultivation or the improvement of the Soul Ring's quality, the one with the best effect was the one he would choose.
What Gu Ziyi didn't expect was that Qian Xunji himself would teach the next class on Martial Soul knowledge.
'How much do you love Bibi Dong?'
Even Martial Soul knowledge was being personally taught by him.
"Teacher, why do we, as Soul Masters, need to absorb Soul Rings from Soul Beasts for our own cultivation?"
"And if one day we eliminate all the Soul Beasts, won't future people be unable to cultivate their own power?"
"We Soul Masters, can't we condense our own Soul Rings?"
So, during the Martial Soul knowledge class, after Qian Xunji finished today's lesson, Gu Ziyi seized the opportunity to ask some pertinent questions he had been pondering.
He hadn't had time to visit the Martial Soul Hall library yet, so he simply asked Qian Xunji first.
If he really went to the Spirit City Library to look for records on this topic, it would surely take a lot of time and effort, and he might not even find the answer.
"Huh?"
Bibi Dong, who was sitting beside him, suddenly widened her eyes upon hearing Gu Ziyi's questions.
She found his questions interesting. These were things she had never thought about before.
"Yes, teacher!"
"Why can't we?"
Bibi Dong, who was now very intrigued, immediately raised her head and asked her teacher, Qian Xunji, as well.
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(End of chapter)
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N/E: A big cliffhanger. I hope you wait for the flood of explanation in the next chapter, Muhahahhaha.