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"This Qian Duoduo truly has a connection with our Sun Moon Empire!" Kong Deming sighed.
Su Yu twitched his lips.
A connection, huh?
This is an eight-lifetime grudge.
Poor Qian Duoduo—he's lost his nephew and his wife.
However,
Su Yu stroked his chin.
It seems Qian Duoduo has been a lifelong single, and even when he got married, he was still a virgin.
Xian Lin'er isn't exactly a great person either.
"By the way, Little Yu, what were you just about to ask?"
"Teacher, why does your second martial soul only have four soul rings?" Su Yu finally recalled his earlier curiosity and asked.
At that moment when Kong Deming unleashed his power, Su Yu barely caught a glimpse of the soul rings associated with Kong Deming's solar martial soul.
To his surprise, there were only four.
Four black ten-thousand-year soul rings.
"You brat, you don't really think that cultivating twin martial souls is easy, do you?" Kong Deming replied with a hint of annoyance.
"Isn't it?"
Su Yu had the impression that cultivating a twin martial soul meant getting one martial soul to the Titled Douluo level and then having the second martial soul absorb ten-thousand-year soul rings.
If conditions allowed, it could even absorb hundred-thousand-year rings.
With nine soul rings, you could easily reach level ninety-eight in soul power.
"As long as your physique is sufficient, it should be manageable, right?"
Kong Deming's beard bristled in anger.
"What do you mean 'as long as'?"
For an ordinary soul master, enhancing their physique to withstand higher-level soul rings is extremely challenging, let alone having to bear double the soul rings.
"Let's put it this way: if a soul master's first soul ring absorbs one over eight hundred years, the second one at one thousand five hundred years, the third one at three thousand years, and the fourth one at ten thousand years,
and so on, each soul ring's age is double the limits of an ordinary soul master.
Do you think that's easy?"
Su Yu shook his head.
"And what do you think about the second martial soul having to absorb nine ten-thousand-year soul rings? How much more difficult do you think that is?"
"Every additional soul ring does indeed provide a significant boost to one's physique.
The physique required to accommodate all ten-thousand-year soul rings for the second martial soul can be partially achieved through the feedback from the soul rings themselves.
However, the conflict between the two martial souls raises the threshold needed to absorb each soul ring even higher."
Su Yu nodded, signaling his understanding.
Got it.
Without external help, cultivating a twin martial soul is tough.
In other words, to successfully cultivate a twin martial soul, you need some kind of advantage!
I wonder if Kong Deming would be furious enough to spit blood if he knew what Su Yu was thinking.
What does that even mean?
I'm just explaining that cultivating a twin martial soul isn't that simple.
And you're bringing up advantages?
"Teacher, does the conflict between martial souls significantly affect the absorption of soul rings for the second martial soul?"
"Of course, it has a huge impact."
Kong Deming contemplated for a moment and decided to use data to illustrate the effect.
"If I can successfully harmonize the conflict between the two martial souls after the seventh ring of the second martial soul, then I can absorb the eighth and ninth soul rings of the second martial soul directly without needing to exert effort to enhance my physique."
Currently, if the physique needed for adding the fifth soul ring to the second martial soul is rated as 1, then the requirement for the sixth soul ring is 5. After absorbing the fifth soul ring, it becomes 3.
But if there were no conflicts between the martial souls, the requirement for adding the sixth soul ring would actually only need to be 3.
"Is it impossible to harmonize the conflict between the martial souls right now?"
Su Yu didn't possess a twin martial soul and had never experienced it firsthand, so he could only inquire.
"The two martial souls might not differ significantly in quality, but the enhancements from the later added soul rings can lead to discrepancies in their levels, making it difficult to harmonize them," Kong Deming explained, anticipating Su Yu's question.
"Do you think that even though my second martial soul is enhanced by ten-thousand-year soul rings, my first martial soul, with two yellow and two purple soul rings, still doesn't compare to the boost provided by just one ten-thousand-year soul ring?
This way of thinking is understandable, but for a soul master, there is a critical threshold—known as the Soul Sage."
The rank of Soul King represents a watershed moment because some Soul Kings gain access to ten-thousand-year soul skills at this level. However, the Soul Sage represents a different principle entirely.
"It's just like the fifth-level soul guide you're learning about.
A fifth-level soul guide no longer merely inscribes a unique core formation; instead, it starts to divide into modules. Different modules are inscribed with different formations, and these formations then form an interconnected circuit to achieve a cooperative effect, ultimately converging into a single core.
When a soul master reaches the rank of Soul Sage and possesses seven soul rings, a similar cooperative effect occurs—the minimum threshold for triggering this effect is seven soul rings.
The true body of the martial soul is realized in this way.
Seven soul rings represent an overall enhancement of the martial soul; it's a synergy.
This principle also applies to the eighth and ninth soul rings, which no longer act as separate entities but instead interconnect.
The true body of the martial soul is able to amplify the effects of all soul skills because of this."
Su Yu hadn't expected to learn such profound theories of martial soul cultivation from his teacher, a soul master.
Such knowledge likely doesn't exist at Shrek Academy.
Or rather, such a thorough explanation was certainly absent.
"The synergy between soul rings can amplify a martial soul's power as much as an additional ten-thousand-year soul ring.
With the nine soul rings of my first martial soul working in concert, the seven ten-thousand-year soul rings of my second martial soul will have a chance to catch up in quality."
Kong Deming's explanations were enlightening, and Su Yu grasped the concepts clearly.
"Is there no other method to enhance the quality of a martial soul? What about the technique of runes?"
Hearing Su Yu's words, Kong Deming almost chuckled dismissively but suddenly had a glimmer of insight.
Runes?
To be honest, the technique of runes is quite innovative.
Especially its fundamental principles, which apply to a wide range of situations.
Jing Hongchen developed a fusion-type soul guide technology based on this principle.
So, could runes be used to strengthen a martial soul?
That was certainly possible.
Using runes to enhance a martial soul, fully activating it—even if only temporarily—could potentially compensate for the shortcomings in physique, as long as the process of absorbing the ten-thousand-year soul rings was completed.
Currently, Kong Deming's physique is rated at 1, allowing him to absorb the fifth soul ring of his second martial soul. After absorbing it, his physique feedback would be 3, while the sixth soul ring requires a physique of 5.
However, by using the technique of runes to harmonize the conflict between the two martial souls, the physique requirement for the sixth ring could be reduced to 3.
At that point, he could absorb the sixth soul ring.
Even after absorption, as long as the feedback from the sixth ring allowed Kong Deming's physique to reach 5, it would be completely fine.
What a stroke of luck!
It's like swapping the heavens and changing the sun.
Borrowing from the yet-to-be-absorbed sixth soul ring to enhance his physique.
"This idea is intriguing, but many of the values need careful consideration. The most critical point is ensuring that my physique reaches the 5 you mentioned after absorbing the sixth soul ring."
"Teacher, have you forgotten the role I'm playing in this?"
(End of Chapter)