Chapter 103: Elemental Breathing Technique, Soul Fusion Technique?
Recently, while practicing various self-created soul skills, he was also attempting to create a Cultivation Technique suitable for himself.
The key point of this Cultivation Technique was that it could continuously provide him with endurance. When cultivating, it could constantly gather various Element Hearts, helping him increase the concentration of Elements he could control faster and reach the level of condensing an Element Heart more quickly.
After all, if he only relied on passively increasing Element concentration by sleeping, how long would it take to complete his first trial?
Therefore, after receiving the God Trial, he began considering ways to accelerate his progress.
He briefly summarized a relatively incomplete breathing method: the Element Breathing Method.
Letting various Elements form a cycle in his Meridians has two benefits: one is to make his Meridians tougher, and the other is to achieve self-circulation, resulting in the continuous generation of soul power.
Of course, he is only in the initial stage now, so calling it the Element Breathing Method isn't entirely accurate—it's more precise to call it the Light Element Breathing Method, and it is not yet complete.
Light Elements are relatively gentle and can derive effects similar to restoring soul power.
As for why it isn't the Wood Element, that's because his mastery of the Light Element is better.
And once this breathing method is perfected, he can let Sister Xue learn it too.
This breathing method, perhaps currently, cannot compare to Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill, but its potential is much greater.
Moreover, Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill was not created by him but stolen.
His breathing method, however, was developed gradually by him, utilizing various ancient texts he had studied over the years, as well as his own understanding of the Elements.
As mentioned before, Soul Masters cultivate soul power through meditation methods, which is also why Soul Masters who awaken Martial Souls tend to join academies or sects.
Because they lack a personal method for cultivating soul power, and can only obtain it by joining a force.
Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill, which is called a Cultivation Technique in his world, might be more appropriately described as a meditation method in this world.
However, the Mysterious Heaven Skill is not just a meditation method; it also includes various Soul Skills. So, meditation method + Soul Skill equals a Cultivation Technique.
To be honest, Hu Bai originally had no intention of creating a Cultivation Technique because, in his opinion, Cultivation Techniques only serve as auxiliary tools for Soul Masters. The effect of Cultivation Techniques in this world is not as significant as imagined.
This is not a typical Cultivation World, and those grand Cultivation Techniques might not even be cultivable here—after all, the world level differences are evident.
Even if it could be cultivated, the effect would be weakened countless times.
Perhaps some people might think that a Soul Master could easily dominate others by cultivating a Cultivation Technique, but have they considered that the natural energies of the two planes are different?
Cultivators need to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate Cultivation Techniques, but the Douluo plane has no spiritual energy—only soul power.
The quality of spiritual energy is far higher than that of soul power!
So even if a person from Douluo cultivates a Cultivation Technique, they might only become slightly stronger than the natives or even worse, they might not be able to cultivate at all because the energies are incompatible.
It's like in his previous life—wasn't he on Blue Star during the Age of Dharma Decline?
Essentially, the energies of the Douluo plane are similar to those of the Age of Dharma Decline compared to the Cultivation World.
Of course, this was Hu Bai's spontaneous thought during the creation of the breathing method—merely a guess.
But now his thinking has changed; if he can create a Cultivation Technique to speed up his cultivation, why not?
Moreover, creating a breathing method is itself a process of cultivation.
In the continuous process of trial and error, he doesn't know how much soul power will be consumed, nor how much damage his body will endure and recover from. This is a process of self-training.
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God Realm
Because of the Legacy, the Seven Element Gods are all very concerned about Hu Bai's situation.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Hu Bai, this little guy uses Element power well! Space, Earth, Ice, Lightning—especially Space power. With his current strength, to have such an application—I didn't misjudge him, hahaha!" The God of Space laughed.
"Hmph, why doesn't this little guy use fire when he knows how?" the God of Fire said sulkily.
He was the first to take a liking to Hu Bai, but Hu Bai didn't use fire.
When bestowing the Legacy upon Hu Bai, he also gained some understanding: besides high mental power allowing fox-type Martial Souls to pursue Charm and mental control, there was also a normal path—fire.
After all, many fox-type Soul Beasts have a basic ability called Fox Fire.
However, due to their different attributes, their expressions are also different.
Like Ice Foxes—they also have abilities similar to Fox Fire, but their Fox Fire is ice-blue, not hot, but cold.
The God of Water smiled: "Isn't it because the power of Extreme Fire is too great? If Hu Bai used it, it would be difficult to end. Look at his Extreme Ice; he only dares to release a faint Domain power, and he hasn't used other skills."
The Goddess of Light said from the side, "It's a good thing this little guy didn't take the path of mental control. With his looks, if he had pursued Charm, I think he would have been targeted by the Goddess of Lust."
The Goddess of Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins Gods under the God of Destruction, holds a similar position to their seven Element Gods, also being a First-Level Main God.
The God of Water sighed: "Yes, yes, this little guy's Martial Soul possession form is truly too ethereal. You didn't even see others' reactions. I think some men would be mesmerized by him—it's too terrifying, giggle giggle."
The God of Fire said jealously: "What, wife, do you still have thoughts about this little guy?"
"What? Jealous of a seven-year-old kid?" the God of Water shot the God of Fire with a playful eye-roll.
God of Fire: ...That's not it.
"Anyway, even if the Goddess of Lust notices later, he won't be able to interfere," the God of Water said with a smile.
The Goddess of Light continued: "Actually, I think the Goddess of Lust could settle for second best. Hu Bai's younger sister, Hu Liena, also has good talent, and there's Xie Yue. These two can be observed first."
"If Hu Bai's future performance satisfies all of us, I think we should consider finding a suitable God Position Legacy for these two as well."
The God of Darkness said faintly, revealing the Goddess of Light's thoughts: "Wife, you're probably thinking that these two can form a three-person Martial Soul Fusion with Hu Bai."
The God of Darkness was still clever—there's no such thing as a three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill in the God Realm; at most, it involves two people.
For example, the Martial Soul Fusion Skill of the Food God and the Nine-Colored Goddess: Revival Divine Light.
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