Chapter 23: Master and Disciple Conversation, Cultivation of the Three Elements of Essence, Qi and S
Chapter 23: Master and Disciple Conversation, Cultivation of the Three Elements of Essence, Qi and Spirit
After finishing the review of the battle, the discussion between the two did not end. It was just a prelude to the really important part that came next.
"Yan, what do you think is your biggest problem right now?"
You Chen knew the answer but he would not give it directly. Instead, he chose to stimulate his apprentice's thinking and let him think for himself.
A teacher not only needs to impart knowledge to his students, but also needs to cultivate their ability to learn and think. This is especially true at this time when he is about to leave.
Information from the battle review just now still lingered in Yan's mind, and his brain was most active at this moment.
Unlike usual, he quickly gave his answer: "Teacher, is it my control over my soul power? If I could keep the Vulcan Cannon from disintegrating, I wouldn't be completely at a disadvantage in the first fight, resulting in almost no power to fight back later."
You Chen nodded and shook his head: "The idea is correct. But to be precise, it's still a problem with your mental strength."
You Chen looked at Yan's thoughtful expression and continued, "You don't have that much time to spend on improving your soul power control. The current level is more than enough. The next step is to work hard."
While You Chen was explaining, he naturally used Feng Xiaotian's story, telling the story of a genius who was born with full soul power but spent too much energy on creating his own soul skills and improving his soul power control, so that he was only a level 44 soul master in his twenties.
After hearing this story...
"Full soul power innately, 44th level at the age of !? This guy has lived like a dog for more than years, right? Is this really the qualification of full soul power? Teacher, you are not making this up just to scare me, are you!?"
He doesn't have full soul power by nature, so he can reach level 44 in a few years, maybe two or three years. Isn't this story too exaggerated?
You Chen silently complained in his heart, is this a fabrication? Wait a few years and you will be able to see this legendary myth with your own eyes.
As for Feng Xiaotian and the extremely stupid thing of suppressing his level at his golden age because of the dog-licking factor, there is no need to say more.
He just said meaningfully: "Some things, if you put your energy into them and indulge in them, you will unknowingly waste a lot of time. Especially for you young people, if you don't know how to be moderate, you will regret it when you are old."
"Teacher, why do I feel like there's something else behind your words?" Yan's eyes flashed with wisdom. He had already discovered that his teacher sometimes liked to suddenly say some profound and incomprehensible riddles.
"This must be your illusion."
You Chen coughed lightly and stopped changing the subject, saying, "In short, at your age, your soul power control ability is completely sufficient to this extent. You don't need to spend too much energy on it in the next few years. After I leave, you can cut four-fifths of your daily time for this. Just enough to ensure that your condition does not decline.
But mental power is different. When mental power is improved, it can also improve your control over soul power, but the previous training was purely skill and proficiency, while mental power improves your basic ability. The most important thing is that soul power control skills can only improve your actual combat ability, while mental power training can improve your practice efficiency. "
"Teacher, I haven't forgotten this."
Yan nodded: "This is what you said, the practice of the three elements of spirit, energy and soul."
You Chen nodded.
The essence of this world's martial spirit is the world's gift and miracle created by the unity of essence, energy and spirit.
The roots of most cultivation systems in the universe have the shadow of this route. Moreover, "Douluo Continent" has a certain foundation and style of old martial arts novels. After spending a certain amount of time and energy, You Chen completely confirmed the correctness of his conjecture.
The three elements of essence, energy and spirit in this world refer to the body, soul power and mental power. To be more specific, it refers to the body's qi, blood, essence, soul power and mental will.
The reason why one has to be 6 years old to awaken the martial soul is not because there is something special about the number 6, or because the rules of the world dictate that one must be 6 years old before awakening the martial soul.
Instead, the body needs to grow to a certain level so that it is not too weak, the mind needs to be initially perfected, and the essence and energy need to be initially mature, before the last piece of the puzzle called soul power can be filled in, so that the three elements of essence, energy and spirit can achieve a relative balance and promote the awakening of the martial soul.
Otherwise, there may be hidden dangers of congenital deficiencies.
For example, Huo Yuhao in Douluo Dalu II was oppressed by the Duke's Mansion. He lacked essence for physical growth, but had excess spirit, which led to insufficient innate soul power.
For example, most of the original martial souls, because the martial soul is a relatively weak body at the beginning, the martial soul becomes the complete embodiment of the three elements of the soul master himself, essence, energy and spirit. The original martial soul is only a part of the body, and the essence attribute is equivalent to only a part of the whole, so the essence is insufficient and the innate soul power is generally not high.
On the other hand, if the body and mental will develop to the baseline ahead of time, there is no need to wait until the age of 6 to awaken in advance, and there is no hidden danger. This has been verified by the Spirit Hall.
Therefore, the cultivation of martial soul is essentially the cultivation of the three elements of essence, energy and spirit, and the three are mutually reinforcing.
Polishing the body, cultivating soul power, and tempering spiritual will, any one of them will affect the overall decline in cultivation speed. Conversely, the improvement of any one of them can indirectly drive the improvement of the other two.
However, if you only rely on one advantage to pull up the weaker ones, some side effects will often appear in the long run, which is commonly known as an unstable foundation.
The noble and correct path requires all three to advance simultaneously.
In fact, You Chen did not keep this knowledge to himself, and related works had been published in the Spirit Hall's journal many years ago.
But he was only 14 years old at that time, and he was just proposing a simple guess, so he did not receive as much attention as "Don't Use Whale Glue", which could directly benefit soul masters.
And soon after he completed the verification and published the compiled contents into a book, the throne of the Pope changed.
The book collection that was the result of his hard work disappeared for some self-evident reasons and was sealed up by the Spirit Hall. Perhaps only the real high-level officials of the Spirit Hall knew its contents.
But books were forbidden to be spread, and the knowledge was hidden in his brain.
After accepting him as his disciple, he certainly did not hide anything, and even added new insights he had gained over the years, and passed them on to Yan completely.
At the same time, he also told Yan that most of his knowledge was written in that book, but that book was considered a banned book by the Spirit Hall, so the relevant knowledge was absolutely not allowed to be spread outside, not even to his two childhood sweethearts.
Otherwise there may be disaster.
(End of this chapter)