Chapter 36 Feng Xiaotian, remember this: brute force can overcome any technique!
Soon, an antidote pill was stuffed into his mouth, and in no time, Feng Xiaotian regained consciousness, looking at Dugu Lin with a face full of surprise and uncertainty.
"Are you alright now? The antidote pill I gave you was made by my grandfather; it works very quickly."
Feng Xiaotian opened his mouth, then said with a wry smile, "I'm fine now... What kind of poison is your second soul skill? It's so powerful!"
"My second spirit ring comes from a mutated red-tailed triangular snake that is over 8,500 years old."
"Eight thousand five hundred years!"
Feng Xiaotian exclaimed in surprise, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.
Because his second spirit ring only has a lifespan of 720 years! Dugu Lin's second spirit ring has a lifespan that is more than ten times longer than his!
Heaven have mercy... how can the difference between people be so great?
Dugu Lin smiled and said, "Junior Brother, I admit that I was clearly no match for you in terms of skill and combat experience in today's battle! But in the end, I still won! Do you know why?"
Without a second thought, Feng Xiaotian said, "Your poison is too strong! I only inhaled a tiny bit."
"Indeed! My poison can even kill a Soul King! So, what lesson have you learned from this battle?"
"Reason? What reason?"
Feng Xiaotian was now envious of Dugu Lin's second soul ring, which is over 8,500 years old. He was filled with thoughts of how Dugu Lin absorbed such a high-age soul ring!
How could he possibly understand any principles?
Dugu Lin said solemnly, "Remember this, the first lesson my grandfather asked me to teach you is: In the face of absolute power, no amount of trickery or skill is useful! As long as your fist is strong enough, you can overcome any technique with sheer force!"
"One force can overcome ten techniques?" Feng Xiaotian pondered seriously.
Dugu Lin continued, "During the battle, I discovered that you were exceptionally skilled in combat techniques. Unfortunately, you were powerless against my poison! But think about it: if your soul power had increased to level 30, and you had a more powerful soul ring, with more abundant soul power and soul skills to support you, would you still be so easily poisoned by me?"
"Uh... probably not!" Feng Xiaotian believed that as a three-ring Soul Master, he would definitely be able to react faster and dodge Dugu Lin's poison.
"This is the power of brute force! In battle, pure skill is not very effective! Without a strong level of soul power to support it, even the most exquisite skills are just castles in the air, easily defeated!"
"So easily defeated?" Feng Xiaotian muttered to himself.
Dugu Lin laughed and said, "That's right! Instead of wasting time studying those techniques or even creating your own soul skills, it's better to focus on improving your soul power!"
"To increase soul power cultivation?"
"Of course! Think about it, while you waste time researching and developing your own soul skill, I'm using the time to cultivate and gain another soul ring! Is your self-created soul skill stronger than my soul ring skill?"
Dugu Lin's words implied that Feng Xiaotian should focus his future cultivation on soul power, and that whether or not he created his own soul skills was unimportant.
That's what everyone thinks on the Douluo Continent!
Since spirit rings can grant spirit skills anyway, why waste time researching and creating your own spirit skills? Isn't that just a complete waste of time and a huge idiot's mistake?
Only a genius like Feng Xiaotian, who has a high opinion of himself, would be so headstrong!
To put it bluntly, Feng Xiaotian had never experienced the harsh realities of life!
At this moment, Feng Xiaotian felt that his teacher, Dugu Bo, had really put a lot of thought into things. He had just become Dugu Bo's disciple and he had already pointed out the mistakes in his focus and direction of cultivation. Feng Xiaotian was deeply moved.
"Little brother, junior brother, let's meditate on our soul power together!"
Seeing that the two had finished fighting, Dugu Yan happily ran over.
Meditation of soul power is a time-consuming activity and a daily practice that must be maintained.
The three people and the snake sat on a futon in front of the thatched hut.
Feng Xiaotian asked in surprise, "Dugu Lin, is your Jade Phosphorous Serpent also meditating on soul power?"
"Um."
"Hiss~" Feng Xiaotian gasped, exclaiming in surprise, "Your Jade Phosphorous Serpent can actually meditate on soul power! Is this what a separated martial soul is? That's amazing!"
"Pfft~" Dugu Yan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Feng Xiaotian scratched his head, puzzled, and asked, "What's wrong? If your martial spirit can also cultivate, doesn't that mean your cultivation speed is twice that of others?!"
"Sigh~"
Dugu Lin glanced at the Jade Phosphorous Serpent, sighed inwardly, and explained with some distress, "For some reason, my Jade Phosphorous Serpent will fall asleep after a short while at most!"
"Sleeping... asleep?"
Feng Xiaotian was utterly astonished, his eyes wide with disbelief.
Yeah~
Dugu Lin sighed, then took out a piece of flesh and blood from the two-horned strange snake from his storage soul tool and fed it to the Bilin Snake, explaining, "Perhaps this is a defect of the separated martial soul, or perhaps the lack of its origin makes it prone to weakness and drowsiness. So, my grandfather found a lot of snake soul beast meat for it to eat, hoping to make up for its defects."
Unable to figure out why the Jade Phosphorous Serpent was always so sleepy, Dugu Lin could only resort to the clumsy method of feeding it.
If there's still no solution in the end, we can only try finding a magical herb.
If a spirit that is separated from its body can eat, then it can also eat a celestial herb!
The problem is that the separated martial soul and Dugu Lin are one entity. The medicinal effects of the immortal herbs that Dugu Lin consumed are also present in the Jade Phosphorous Serpent's body. If the Jade Phosphorous Serpent consumes immortal herbs, the medicinal effects will clash! The final result of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent consuming immortal herbs is likely to be disappointing.
"Martial Souls can actually eat!"
Beside him, Feng Xiaotian watched in amazement as the Azure Phosphorus Serpent slowly swallowed the flesh and blood of the Two-Horned Strange Serpent, then meditated and digested it... and then it fell asleep.
Time is passing by day by day.
People in Feng Xiaotian's family are using their connections to find his whereabouts, and the whole family is extremely busy.
As a genius with a mutated martial soul possessing innate full soul power, Feng Xiaotian had many people in his clan who could teach him how to cultivate, so he was never short of teachers. Therefore, the Feng clan cursed the powerful figure who left a note and took away their clan's genius for several days.
Dugu Bo didn't care about what was happening outside the window. He peacefully went back and forth between Tiandou City and the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, teaching his grandson, granddaughter, and disciple daily cultivation and combat experience. He also provided them with medicinal baths with poisonous insects and scorpions.
Meanwhile, the uproar surrounding the death of the Third Prince gradually subsided.
The Second Prince, Xue Luochuan, was severely punished, and the matter of the First Prince, Xue Qinghe, inheriting the position of Crown Prince was put on the agenda.
Meanwhile, Dugu Bo obtained a ten-thousand-year-old power-type leg soul bone! This was the Heaven Dou royal family's compensation to Dugu Bo.
Therefore, no one but the investigators and Emperor Xueye knows who the real culprit behind the Third Prince's death was, or whether the truth has been uncovered.
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