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As a scholar, you must use the knowledge you have mastered to point a clear path for these martial souls who are in the fog, so that they can achieve the highest achievement they can achieve.
But Yu Xiaogang’s approach was like “I can’t find any advantage you have, so just pretend that the advantage doesn’t exist and use your soul skills to create an advantage for yourself.”
When I think of this, a kind of beauty of brain stem absence arises spontaneously.
He ignored the vitality of the Blue Silver Grass. It was obviously the most abundant plant in the entire continent. However, this exaggerated vitality and adaptability were worthless in his eyes. Instead, he pursued the poisonous attribute which was completely opposite to vitality.
This is like asking the soul master with the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex spirit to absorb the soul ring of an earth-attributed soul beast, or like asking the chicken fighting Tang San to absorb the soul ring of a water-attributed soul beast. I can't say whether it has any disadvantages, but it definitely has no benefits.
Seeing Yu Xiaogang still bragging about how he would make Tang San "better", Gu You couldn't stand it any longer. So he shouted at Tang San: "Xiao San, did you hear that? Yu Xiaogang next door is ready to use you as a negative example."
"I heard it." Tang San, who was dancing in the flames, answered loudly.
Ma Hongjun's pressure on him was small, and his attack seemed strong and powerful, but in fact, the pressure he gave was not as strong as Gu Youdong standing there without moving. So he still had the energy to listen to the route that Yu Xiaogang arranged for him.
"Didn't you say you wanted to observe it? Now you don't want to observe it anymore?"
This slow and inflexible fire attack would hit him, and unless he expected his legs to cramp, Tang San could use eight hundred ways of dodging all day long.
"Almost done, let's go to the next stage." Gu You didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This flame was similar to the description in the original novel. It was clearly a gaseous flame, but it had a strange sticky texture. Once it touched, it was difficult to extinguish. It felt like "either I burn you to ashes, or I exhaust my soul power."
It looks like a weakened version of Amaterasu, a version with reduced power and diffusion.
Hearing Gu You's answer, Tang San calmly stopped. Seeing that Tang San no longer dodged, Ma Hongjun's eyes lit up with joy, and he spit out a stream of fire at Tang San without hesitation.
"Blue silver grass, mandragora snake."
Tang San stretched out his hand and grabbed the void, and the blue silver grass instantly woven into a huge python. The snake's head was similar to a triangle, very much like the soul beast mandala snake, and each scale was made of blue silver grass. The snake pupils of both eyes emitted a faint white light. First, it raised its head and roared silently, then opened its mouth and aimed at Ma Hongjun to bite. Seeing this, Ma Hongjun turned his head and the Phoenix Fire Line sprayed towards the blue silver mandala snake.
The moment it came into contact with the flame, it was ignited by Ma Hongjun's flame. But unlike the previous one, this snake head made of blue silver grass did not burn out quickly after being ignited. Instead, after being held back by the flame at the beginning, it accelerated its speed and bit towards Ma Hongjun.
This is the power from the Firefly Sunflower. Growing in the Death Desert, the Firefly Sunflower can attach energy to its body surface to fight against the high temperature that is enough to cause firewood to spontaneously combust and the sandstorm that may come at any time.
This energy usage method was perfectly replicated by Tang San, and even Ma Hongjun's flames could not burn all the blue silver grass in an instant. In this way, the endless nature of the blue silver grass revealed its terrifying power.
"What the hell?!"
Ma Hongjun was horrified as he watched the snake head covered with purple-red flames coming towards him at an even faster speed.
Blue silver grass that is not afraid of fire, this is simply unheard of. Ma Hongjun's second soul ring lit up, and the fierce purple-red flames exploded and spread around, forming a thicker Phoenix Fire Line.
The power of the enhanced flame was indeed amazing. The moment it came into contact with the snake, it successfully burned the snake's head a circle smaller, and the teeth in the snake's mouth were also burned clean. But the impact of the remaining part was also very strong, hitting Ma Hongjun's chest and knocking him out.
"Thin guy?!" "This is impossible?!"
Oscar looked worriedly at Ma Hongjun who fell to the ground, while Yu Xiaogang looked at the flaming snake circling in front of Tang San in stunned silence, completely unable to understand what happened just now.
"Don't be so surprised, Yu Xiaogang." Yu Xiaogang, who had lost all his grace, looked at Gu You with a calm face, and heard his cold voice in his ears: "The fun is just about to begin."
Ma Hongjun, who was knocked away, quickly got up from the ground. The indifference on his face was replaced by anger. Purple flames burst outwards and the color of the feathers on his arms became darker.
The arms are spread out like a roc spreading its wings.But instead of taking off, he sucked the flames into his mouth in a swirling shape, and then a huge fireball spurted forward from his mouth, leaving a trail of scorch on the ground.
Seeing this, Tang San just said softly.
"Sunfire."
The Fragrance Garden that had been set up since the beginning of the battle, in addition to emitting fragrance, was also using its third spirit skill to constantly absorb the power of the sun hanging high above its head. The sunlight absorbed by photosynthesis was now all transmitted to the Blue Silver Mandragora Snake under Tang San's control.
The blue silver grass on the ground emitted little white light, which finally gathered on the Blue Silver Mandragora Snake as the blue silver grass swayed. Even the burning purple flame could not cover up the flowing white light.
The light finally gathered at the snake's head. After a simple compression, a pure white beam of light shot out from the mouth of the Blue Silver Mandragora Snake, pierced through the fireball in mid-air, and hit Ma Hongjun with undiminished power.
"Yu Xiaogang, you are too proud, too stubborn, and too stupid." Looking at Ma Hongjun who flew farther away, Gu You said lightly.
"You come from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan, but your innate soul power is only half-level. You are obviously just dust on the ground, so why do you want to prove yourself with a naturally brilliant gemstone?"
At this moment, Tang San was protected by the blazing blue silver mandala snake. Ma Hongjun's flames were like a toy, and until now they had not left any scars on Tang San.
While the flames were being dispersed, Tang San stretched out his right hand, palm facing Ma Hongjun.
"Blue silver grass, parasitic on ghost vines."
After the words fell, Ma Hongjun, who had just stood up to fight back, unexpectedly found that he could not move his body.He lowered his head and saw that at some point, a dense layer of blue silver grass had tightly bound his hands along the gaps between the feathers on his arms, and spread to his whole body.
Tang San heard everything Yu Xiaogang said clearly. His little evil taste came into play, and he named his own spirit skill after the Mandragora Snake and Ghost Vine that Yu Xiaogang had just mentioned.
'Isn't this a bit silly?'
Looking at the roaring and dancing flaming snake beside him, Tang San suddenly remembered the one-eyed man who could use time and spirit power to carve a dog's head on the spirit skill Earth Flow Wall at night in the dormitory when he was still in Notting City Junior College.
This approach, which had no other effect besides being handsome, made Tang San still laugh at him at that time.As a result, now, he was doing the same thing, which made Tang San, who was still fighting, couldn't help but laugh.
"What's it called, fifty-fifty?"
"Blue Silver Coffin"
The random thoughts in his mind did not affect the next action. Tang San's five fingers slowly contracted, and with this action, the number of blue silver grass on Ma Hongjun's body increased explosively, just like the venom symbiote, pulling Ma Hongjun in various ways.
Finding that his flames were useless, Ma Hongjun took a deep breath, and his second soul ring became brighter than ever before, erupting with the strongest flame he could mobilize at the moment, wanting to burn all the blue silver grass on his body in an instant.
Ma Hongjun was surprised to find that the blue silver grass was indeed burned faster, but still not as fast as its growth rate. As soon as his flames burned off a batch, more blue silver grass would grow out, forming a thick "cocoon".
Ma Hongjun kept twisting his body, lowered his head and spit fire to burn the grass clean. At the same time, he used his sharp claws, which he would never think of normally, to tear off the blue silver grass on his body, but he eventually fell to the ground.
"Blue Silver Funeral."
He pressed his clenched fist downwards, and the blue silver grass surrounding Ma Hongjun also fell one after another and covered him. The purple-red flame was completely submerged in the blue-green ocean.
Normally, there should be a squeezing action next. But this is not a life-and-death battle, and even if Tang San doesn't like Yu Xiaogang, he won't kill Ma Hongjun.
"One of the weaknesses of Blue Silver Grass is fire. This is an indisputable truth."
Seeing Ma Hongjun, who was submerged by the blue silver grass, stretching out a hand and struggling hard, Gu You stopped paying attention to him and turned to look at Yu Xiaogang, whose face was ashen. "But as long as you make sure that your burning speed is not faster than the growth speed of the blue silver grass, you can win the victory under the burning flames."
"If Tang San were to follow your plan to obtain spirit rings now, let alone win, the Blue Silver Grass might not even be able to touch Ma Hongjun, and he would definitely lose if he met a spirit master with fire attributes."
"Can plant martial spirits absorb the spirit rings of animal spirit beasts? Can this thing be considered a theory?"
"The most important thing when choosing a spirit ring is whether it is suitable, not whether it comes from an animal spirit beast or a plant spirit beast. Do I need to teach you this point of knowledge which is clearly written in the textbook of the Junior Spirit Master Academy?"
"According to what you said, beast spirit masters should not absorb the spirit rings of plant spirit beasts. Non-plant weapon spirit masters should also not absorb the spirit rings of plant spirit beasts."
"Well, may I ask Councillor Bai, if you successfully break through to the Titled Douluo realm, and then you see both an 80,000-year-old plant soul beast Nut Dumbbell and an 80,000-year-old animal soul beast Iron-Armored Black Turtle, which one would you choose?"
Seeing Gu You suddenly throw the question to him, Bai Baoshan was stunned at first, and then he thought quickly for about three seconds, and then answered: "I would choose nut dumbbells."
"Look, Yu Xiaogang." Gu You thanked Bai Baoshan, and with his warm smile, he continued: "The selection of soul beasts has never been based on whether they are animals or plants. The only criterion is whether they are suitable."
"There has never been a saying that plant martial spirits can only absorb plant spirit rings, or animal martial spirits can only absorb animal spirit rings. This is just a phenomenon, not a rigid requirement."
"Before you proposed the theory of cross-species soul ring absorption, if a soul master with a sword spirit wants to advance, can he break a sword that has been put away for a hundred years in order to absorb the most suitable hundred-year soul ring?"
"What you consider to be a breakthrough in your research has always been just your wishful thinking. The reason why no one follows your idea to obtain animal spirit rings for plant spirits is because all spirit masters with plant spirits know that absorbing animal spirit rings will only lead to more losses than gains for their spirits."
Even Yu Xiaogang himself would doubt that this theory might not be very reliable, otherwise he would not have chosen the plant soul beast ghost vine for Tang San's second soul skill, but would have chosen a poisonous soul beast that lays eggs, such as a highly poisonous fly or a highly poisonous maggot.
"Also, Yu Xiaogang, where did you come up with this theory that "when a soul master reaches a bottleneck in cultivation, even if he does not obtain a soul ring immediately, continuing to cultivate will not affect the improvement of his soul power"?"
Now that he has started to criticize, Gu You might as well criticize other theories as well.
Most of the "Top Ten Competitive Strengths of the Martial Soul Core" that Yu Xiaogang was so proud of were no different from common sense. The vast majority of the others that were not common sense also had problems.
But only this one gave Gu You a weird feeling, as if this theory was actually a way to upgrade soul power to a higher level of power.
From the fact that Xuantian Gong, which cultivates internal strength, can also cultivate soul power, it can be seen that soul power is roughly equivalent to internal strength in the martial arts world.
When Gu You had not yet awakened his martial soul and had no soul power, he read this theory in the Wuhun Hall of Notting City and thought that soul power could be compressed in the body and eventually form a more powerful soul power.
Gaseous soul power is compressed into liquid soul power. For the same soul skill, when the same unit of soul power is used to drive it, the liquid soul power is more powerful than the gaseous soul power.
For example, with the same blue-silver entanglement, the gaseous soul power drive of unit one can only entangle the little black guy, while the liquid soul power drive of unit one can entangle the terminator.
Solid soul power is even more powerful.
In this case, every ten levels of soul power shackles are simply natural soul power compression devices.
Gu You thought that if this theory was true, then as long as he kept compressing his soul power and improving the quality of his unit soul power, it would not be a dream for his first soul skill to defeat his third soul skill. He could learn from the former Sword God of Shilipo and become a King of Notting City.
As a result, on the third day after the martial soul awakened, all hope was shattered. Soul power was something that was simply unbearable, let alone compressed.
Although Gu You didn't know how to practice at that time, because of the shackles of the tenth level, he didn't have to worry about practicing Cha Qi and going crazy.So I carefully tried to operate my soul power by myself, operating according to the so-called "Great Zhoutian" mentioned in various novels.
Well, I can’t say it’s completely useless, but it seems to be really useless.
There is indeed a slight sign of the soul power condensing, but Gu You can't guarantee whether this sign is his illusion.
Moreover, Gu You thought of one thing, that is, even if he successfully cultivated this so-called "compressed" soul power, it would most likely turn back into ordinary soul power in the end.
In the original book, Tang San had been stuck with level soul power for so long in the Holy Soul Village, and he didn't see any advantage due to the "quality of soul power".
Even in Shrek Academy ten thousand years later, no one would choose to continue practicing after reaching a bottleneck because of the founder Yu Xiaogang's theory, rather than obtaining soul rings as quickly as possible to enter the next level.
Moreover, isn’t the biggest counterexample to this theory Yu Xiaogang himself?
He has been stuck at level 29 for such a long time and has not been able to successfully break through to level 30. Perhaps because of his "soul power quality", his combat power surpasses all other great soul masters.
Gu You felt that he had wasted three precious days, but in the end, Yu Xiaogang's theory was proven to be completely useless. He felt like a retard. He said in a rather bad tone: "How did you verify this theory? Who assisted you in this experiment?"
"Was there a control group? What about the data from the study? Was there any follow-up on the subsequent development of the experimenters?"
"Have you personally tested this theory? How effective was it? How long did you continue to practice after reaching a bottleneck? How many levels did you advance at a time when you obtained a spirit ring?"
Looking at Yu Xiaogang's livid face, Gu You slowly spoke of the fatal blow.
"Yu Xiaogang, you have been stuck at level 29 for at least 20 years. Have you ever imagined that if you successfully break through to level 30 one day and obtain the third spirit ring, how many levels of spirit power can you leap to at once?"
"After twenty years of hard training, my soul power should be able to reach level 40 directly."
Under the gaze of everyone, Gu You said calmly: "Give up, Yu Xiaogang."
"The 'Ten Competencies of the Martial Soul Core' that earned you the title of 'Master' is actually just a guidebook for beginners, and it has a lot of mistakes."
"I am a scholar, and I have read your articles. But after you published "The Ten Major Competitive Strengths of the Martial Soul Core", you have not published any new theories."
"After the paper was published, you appeared in the newspapers again, and your identity became the 'Wisdom Corner' of the golden triangle. Together with the other two, you traveled around the mainland and made a name for yourself."
"But why didn't you publish some new articles after your travels?"
Based on the timeline worked out by Gu You, the timeline of the original novel, the records of the Wuhun News collected by Notting City, and a little speculation, Yu Xiaogang's life experience was roughly restored.
(A reminder before watching: the following is only the experience of Yu Xiaogang in this book, not the experience of Yu Xiaogang in the original novel. Please do not substitute or argue. Thank you)
Yu Xiaogang, as the child of the future sect master (Yu Yuanzhen was not the sect master at that time, but he could be regarded as the first-in-line heir of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and the quasi-sect master), with the help of elixirs, successfully cultivated to the bottleneck level of 29 in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
Later, as he was unable to make a breakthrough for a long time, and after reading the books in the sect, he failed to find a way to make a breakthrough, he was eager to gain power, so he relied on his identity to enter the Wuhun City, a holy place for soul masters, hoping to find a way to break through to level 30.
In the Spirit City, he met Bibi Dong, who was still a Saint at the time. The two fell in love with each other (doubtful), and relying on Bibi Dong's identity, he successfully read the books in the Spirit Hall.