Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

About two months ago, after putting in all her effort, Bei Bei finally broke through the bottleneck of level 30 soul power before graduating from the junior soul master academy and became a prospective soul master.

Before Beibei could even feel happy, the next day, Longyou said to Beibei, "Come on, bro, I'm level 30 now, let's go find a spirit ring!"

When this scene unfolded, Bei Bei was incredibly frustrated. He realized that ever since becoming roommates with Long You, his understanding of the word "genius" had been constantly expanding.

Bei Bei wasn't surprised that Long You's soul power level was increasing at a similar rate to hers. After all, they were roommates and lived together, so they knew each other spent a lot of time meditating. But how exactly did Long You manage to squeeze out the time to raise his soul master level to such a high level?

Long You noticed Bei Bei's slight gloom, but there was no way to explain it. He could only say that the joy of being on a winning streak was something most people couldn't understand.

Shrek Academy is located roughly on the same horizontal line as the Star Dou Great Forest. It's considered the heartland of the original Douluo Continent's three kingdoms, and the trio passed through many relatively prosperous towns along the way.

Because they had plenty of time, and because they already had the idea of ​​gaining experience along the way, the trio would stop in towns to explore and enjoy the local food whenever they passed through one.

The small town wasn't very lively, so the trio mostly went in to learn about the local customs and see if there were any local delicacies. Generally, they wouldn't stay long, maybe just one night at most.

However, if they encounter a large city, the trio will stay there for a while longer.

On the one hand, you can visit auction houses in big cities. Even if you don't go into a special auction, just browsing around the auction hall can sometimes lead to buying some interesting items.

On the other hand, the trio will also take the opportunity to have a few matches in the Grand Soul Arena in the big city. Tang Ya's martial soul is only Blue Silver Grass, which is not considered strong, and coupled with her limited talent in soul power cultivation, she can still find some suitable sparring partners in the academy.

However, Long You and Bei Bei were in a much worse situation. Their soul power levels often far surpassed their peers, and one of them had a wide range of skills, while the other's martial soul was incredibly powerful. In their lower grades, they could still find older students to practice against, but in their higher grades, they could only spar with each other.

Their combat experience wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly extensive either. They were about to go to Shrek Academy, and the academy's emphasis on practical combat skills was no secret to the three of them. So, they had to cram a little at the last minute, at least to maintain a presentable appearance.

Considering that Shrek Academy places more emphasis on the development of martial souls when students first enroll, and often does not allow the use of soul tools, Long You deliberately only used his soul master abilities when fighting in the city arenas along the way.

With the number of spirit rings increased to three, although Long You's spirit power level was not superior in battles at the spirit master level, Long You, with his numerous spirit skills, still maintained a decent win rate through various combinations of methods.

One point worth emphasizing here is that Long You has gained a deeper understanding of the limitations of his mutated martial soul over the past few years. His ability to analyze and deduce the effects of soul tools and basic skills is practically a cheat code. However, when these abilities are applied to soul skills, their effectiveness drops significantly.

Initially, Long You believed that his martial soul would be able to analyze and record two additional soul skills on top of the soul skill record book provided by each soul ring he obtained.

However, after Long You obtained his second spirit ring, he discovered that the reality was not so simple. Long You's second spirit ring was still an earth-attribute spirit ring, and on the spirit skill record book provided by the spirit ring, Long You recorded two spirit skills: Quicksand Trap and Earthquake Technique.

After recording the two soul skills, Long You excitedly sought out Bei Bei, intending to analyze and record Bei Bei's second soul skill—Thunderous Might. However, upon recording this skill, Long You was astonished to discover that the soul power required to maintain his martial soul manifestation had doubled.

Having some suspicions in his mind, Long You immediately deleted a mist-based soul skill that he had recorded during his first-ring stage using his insight and analytical abilities.

After this soul skill was removed, the soul power required for Long You to maintain the manifestation of his martial soul was finally greatly reduced. However, Long You keenly noticed that the rate at which soul power was consumed to maintain the manifestation of his martial soul was still faster than before.

Now Long You fully understood. His martial soul's insight and analysis ability seemed capable of analyzing anything (as long as Long You's strength was sufficient). However, in reality, once the object of insight and analysis became a soul skill, the memory space in the Book of Witness would shrink, and this memory space could not grow with Long You's strength.

In light of this, Long You, who was only a second-ring Great Soul Master at the time, simply deleted the Thunderous Might skill derived from Bei Bei's analysis, and only kept the Life-Giving Water Drop healing soul skill.

When Long You was able to absorb his third spirit ring, he chose the lightning attribute as the spirit ring's attribute. This is why Long You went with Bei Bei to hunt spirit beasts.

With the third spirit ring, one can absorb a thousand-year spirit ring. There aren't many thousand-year spirit beasts in the captive spirit beast forest, so Long You will inevitably have to go to the wild spirit beast forest to obtain his third spirit ring.

As for which wild soul beast forest is more likely to yield high-quality lightning-attribute soul beasts, Long's parents certainly don't know as much as the soul masters of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family.

On the two pages of the soul skill record book provided by the third soul ring, Long You recorded the signature soul skills of the thousand-year-old soul beast, Lightning Sable—Lightning Flash and Thunderous Might, both of which are of the thousand-year level.

As for the tiny amount of soul skill recording memory on the Book of Witness, Long You replaced the original hundred-year-level life force droplet with a thousand-year-level one.

A thousand-year-old soul skill is the limit that the soul skill storage space on the Martial Soul's Witness Book can handle. After much deliberation, Long You still reserved this limited storage space for the healing soul skill.

Fortunately, the healing soul skill "Vitality Drops" is quite convenient to use, as long as there is a suitable way to preserve it. The water droplets generated by the soul skill can maintain the soul skill effect for a period of time, just like the food created by food-type martial souls.

Furthermore, the effects of Vitality Drops undergo a qualitative change after their grade is upgraded to the millennium level. While centenary-level Vitality Drops can only heal external injuries, millennium-level Vitality Drops can also produce excellent healing effects on internal injuries.

In short, regarding soul skills, Long You cannot gain four more soul skills with each additional soul ring as previously imagined. However, the benignly mutated martial soul is ultimately superior to the original Book of Records martial soul, since Long You can use normal soul power consumption to demonstrate the full power of the soul skills.