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"It seems you have more or less guessed it." Chrysanthemum Douluo smiled gently.
After taking a sip of tea, he continued, "This Savage Elephant Force Fist is quite similar to the Ox Demon Force Fist you practice. Both utilize specific training postures and fist techniques to temper the physical body while circulating the body's vital energy and blood."
"This modifies and improves one's constitution, strengthens the physical body, and is supplemented by large amounts of soul beast meat as well as vital energy-replenishing medicinal pills to prevent physical depletion."
"These are the similarities. Of course, there are also differences. The Ox Demon Force Fist was created by Elder Mu to lay down a physical foundation. It focuses on expanding physical strength while strengthening the muscles, skin, and membranes."
"When paired with the Tiger Demon Bone-Refining Fist to reinforce the tendons and bones, it develops your body's potential as much as possible, establishing a solid physical foundation."
"The Savage Elephant Force Fist, however, pursues strength to an extreme, disregarding everything else. It strives to expand vital energy and blood primarily to enhance physical strength, with strengthening other aspects being merely secondary."
"It is meant mostly for external application and can be described as extremely domineering. After practicing it, it significantly alters the practitioner's physical stature, making them heavy and massive while reducing their agility."
"Then again, whether it is the Elephant Armored Skill or the Savage Elephant Force Fist, though both cause the practitioner to become massive and heavy with a lack of agility, this isn't considered a disadvantage for the people of the Elephant Armored Sect."
"After all, once they unleash their Diamond Mammoth martial soul, their speed cannot be very fast to begin with. Naturally, they just smash the jar and let it break—abandoning speed entirely, because the stronger their power and defense, the better."
"Aside from that, unlike the Ox Demon Force Fist, the Savage Elephant Force Fist isn't entirely an external cultivation technique that ignores soul power circulation."
"It also contains certain formulas for circulating soul power to move the vital energy and blood, which is used to benefit the tendons and bones and strengthen physical power. It can be considered a pretty good body-refining cultivation technique, not inferior to the Elephant Armored Skill."
"Because of this, it is also called the Savage Elephant Vigorous Method, and it is a core inheritance within the Elephant Armored Sect."
Hearing this, Ling Xiao replied, "So that's how it is. It appears Hu Yanli's physical cultivation is indeed extraordinary."
"Disregarding martial souls and speaking purely of physical strength and defense, he won't be much weaker than Yan, who has now advanced to the four-ring Soul Ancestor realm. In fact, in terms of defense, he might even be stronger."
"After all, the Elephant Armored Skill is a cultivation technique specializing in physical defense, whereas the enhancement of the body from soul rings and the subtle influence of a martial soul on a soul master mostly focus on strength or general physical fitness."
"After practicing both the Ox Demon and Tiger Demon fist techniques, and adding the physical enhancement from my fourth soul ring, I am afraid I only surpass him by a single notch. Once he advances to a Soul Ancestor and absorbs a soul ring, his physical power will definitely not be below mine."
"However, why have I never heard of this Savage Elephant Vigorous Method before? As an inheritance technique highly representative of their sect, it should be quite famous just like the Elephant Armored Skill. Could it be that it was newly created in recent years?"
"You could say that."
Chrysanthemum Douluo smiled gently.
Hearing this, Ling Xiao nodded with interest, his eyes filled with satisfaction.
"Looking at it this way, the Elephant Armored Sect's inheritance has become more complete. Compared to the past when they dominated the soul master world through defense alone, they have now begun to develop toward strength as well."
"Not bad, this is what makes things interesting. Major factions actively forging ahead, continuously developing, increasing their strength, and gradually transcending their past levels—this kind of soul master world is my ideal soul master world."
For an outstanding disciple born into a famous and prestigious sect like Hu Yanli to possess multiple inheritances and be trained with focused resources was the normal state of things.
In the memories of his past life, these people all seemed to have had their intelligence lowered one by one, completely failing to reflect their actual strength, which was truly bizarre and incomprehensible.
To the side, after hearing Ling Xiao's words, Chrysanthemum Douluo could not help but show a look of gratification.
He had not said all this casually. He was naturally well-aware of Ling Xiao's strength; it could be said that in the current soul master world, there were very few among the younger generation of soul masters who could compare to him.
However, he was mainly afraid that because Ling Xiao had awakened a powerful martial soul aptitude right from the start and received the full cultivation efforts of Spirit Hall, it might lead to blind arrogance.
Although Ling Xiao had undergone multiple trials before and his mental state was already far beyond that of an ordinary young soul master, those trials were mostly facing soul beasts, not facing people.
As the overlord of the continent's soul master world, Spirit Hall possessed an incredibly massive influence. Although the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Clear Sky Sect—both having reached their respective peaks—were once honored as the world's number one soul master clan and the world's number one sect and briefly suppressed Spirit Hall.
Spirit Hall was still only slightly inferior to them even then.
Furthermore, the peak periods of those two factions did not last long. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan fared better, at least maintaining its glory for several generations, whereas the Clear Sky Sect only held its peak for a single generation.
Meanwhile, Spirit Hall had remained consistently prosperous. By now, the former number one soul master clan had been surpassed by the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect one after another, leaving it relegated to the very bottom of the Three Upper Sects.
As for the previous number one sect in the world, the Clear Sky Sect, it held its title in name only without the actual strength to back it up, having sealed its mountain gates and shrunk back in self-preservation.
Spirit Hall, however, was still the undisputed overlord faction of the continent's soul master world. It was precisely because of Spirit Hall's sheer power that Chrysanthemum Douluo worried Ling Xiao might secretly look down on the rest of the sects and soul master clans.
Although they were naturally far from being a match for Spirit Hall in terms of overall strength, a soul master's true reliance was ultimately their own personal might; relying on a powerful background was never as good as possessing true capability.
Besides, those sects and clans were by no means completely negligible.
Take the Elephant Armored Sect for instance—while their strength was far from comparable to Spirit Hall and their inherited foundation fell short, they were still hailed as the number one defensive sect in the soul master world.
Their Diamond Mammoth martial soul was world-renowned for its strength and defense, possessing its own unique merits. Even though Spirit Hall was the overlord of the soul master world, it could not possibly be flawless or completely surpass every other sect and clan in every single aspect.
In terms of physical body cultivation, the Elephant Armored Sect had carved out a path entirely their own. On this particular point, even Spirit Hall would look upon them with serious respect.
On one hand, Chrysanthemum Douluo was worried that Ling Xiao might underestimate his opponents due to Spirit Hall's might, leading to a defeat that could disrupt their current operation.
On the other hand, he was also concerned that blind arrogance would warp Ling Xiao's character; though his future achievements might still be high, they would ultimately be limited.
After all, having reached his own current realm, Chrysanthemum Douluo had long since understood clearly that cultivation after the Titled Douluo level no longer had much to do with one's martial soul aptitude, but rather depended heavily on an individual's comprehension and state of mind.
However, Ling Xiao's words had completely dispelled his doubts.
From them, he could sense that far from harboring any contempt toward the Elephant Armored Sect, Ling Xiao viewed them with great seriousness. Even more commendable was the fact that he highly praised the Elephant Armored Sect's development.
This brought him immense gratification.
Not being blindly arrogant and facing one's opponents with respect was already valuable.
Yet, to go a step further and actually praise the growth and strengthening of other factions showed not only his absolute confidence in himself and Spirit Hall, but also highlighted the immense breadth of his mind.
This was the most precious trait of all, and the point that satisfied Chrysanthemum Douluo the most.
Among the younger generation of successors across the various major factions in the current soul master world, those who could achieve the former were not entirely non-existent, but those who could achieve the latter were truly far and few between.
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