Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

It was another early morning when Long You and his family of three boarded a carriage and left Xingluo City as the city gates opened, joining the first wave of people.

Next, the family of three needs to head north, striving to reach their destination, the Starry Sky Forest, in the shortest possible time.

After the carriage entered the official road, Long Lei, who had managed to get leave from the military camp, said to Long You, "Son, no matter what you know about our family's martial spirit before, your father will now give you a detailed introduction to the characteristics of our family's most mainstream Book of Records martial spirit."

Although your martial soul is a mutation, it still inherits the characteristics of the Book of Records martial soul. While it possesses the ability of insight and analysis, I believe that some limitations of the Book of Records martial soul also apply to your martial soul.

"When the Book of Records martial soul absorbs a soul ring, it cannot actually form a soul skill directly. The successfully absorbed soul ring only adds two soul skill record pages to the holder of the Book of Records martial soul."

After obtaining these two Soul Skill Recording Pages, Soul Masters can use the Book of Records to record the Soul Skills they want. However, it's important to note that the Soul Skill Recording Page provided by the Soul Ring of the level absorbed can only record Soul Skills of that level.

If you only obtain a hundred-year soul ring, don't dream of being able to record a thousand-year soul ring.

At the same time, the recorded soul skills should ideally have the same attribute as the absorbed soul ring. If you absorb a soul ring from an earth-attribute soul beast, it's best to record soul skills that are also earth-attribute.

In summary, Soul Masters with access to the Book of Records have a wider variety of Soul Skills to choose from than ordinary Soul Masters. Furthermore, they possess twice the number of Soul Skills as Soul Masters of the same level.

However, if a Soul Master wants to use the Soul Skills they have recorded, they must either pay twice the Soul Power that the original Soul Skill user would have used, or they must accept the inconvenience of the Soul Skill's power being halved.

Based on my experience, your martial soul shouldn't differ significantly from the Book of Records martial soul in how it acquires spirit rings and spirit skills. The only difference might lie in the insight analysis of your glasses martial soul.

You previously stated that skills analyzed and understood are considered skills you've learned yourself and can be used without restriction. However, after much thought, I believe this is highly unlikely. After all, if you could record soul skills without limit, that martial soul would be far too powerful.

"Indeed, no. The situation where someone analyzes and interprets a skill is considered my skill only applies to ordinary skills. As for soul skills, the number I can record at a Soul Master level is actually limited."

Well, that's not quite accurate. To be precise, I can freely analyze and record soul skills, but once the number of soul skills recorded exceeds a certain threshold, the soul power required to summon and maintain my martial soul will increase exponentially.

As for the exact number, I cannot determine it yet. However, the good news is that skills enhanced by insight and analysis will no longer require twice the soul power to maintain their original power.

"I see. Once you obtain your first spirit ring, this limitation on the number should become clear. If it's not clear, then we can conduct further experiments. Anyway, you can eliminate those skills that have already been analyzed and understood, right?"

"Now let's talk about another issue. What about the insights you mentioned about Soul Masters after your Martial Soul awakened?"

"Well, if the opponent is no more than two levels above me, I can use the analytical ability of the Insight Glasses to directly figure out what their Martial Soul is, what their Soul Skills are, and what their approximate effects are."

However, this skill has many limitations. If the opponent doesn't release their martial spirit, it will take me at least half an hour of continuous analysis to figure out all of this.

If the opponent uses a Martial Soul in combat, it can be faster, taking about two or three minutes. After all, Martial Souls don't need analysis, and some Soul Skills can be identified at a glance.

However, learning an opponent's soul skill during battle is highly unlikely. Analyzing a soul skill involves understanding its formation and operation, a process that takes at least fifteen minutes, even with the opponent's cooperation.

"Why does it take so long?"

"It's probably because the other skills are skills that you truly master, while soul skills, in essence, are not skills that are mastered by soul masters, but rather skills that are recorded by soul rings."

"Now that you mention it, it makes some sense. Well, it's not a very important matter. Of course, you should record your soul skills from someone close to you. Since it's someone close, it doesn't matter if it takes a little longer."

Now let's talk about your first spirit ring. Because our family's spirit beasts don't really have a fixed, good development path, and besides having a wide variety of spirit skills, they don't have any other advantages. So basically, family members' first spirit skill is either to absorb a spirit ring from a wind-attribute spirit beast or an earth-attribute spirit beast.

The main purpose is survival. Wind-type characters are faster, while earth-type characters are more durable. Xiao You, which element do you prefer? Or are there any other elements you'd like to choose?

Long You was somewhat stumped by his father Long Lei's question; he hadn't really thought about this.

With a slight frown, Long You began to analyze the various aspects that Long Lei might have been involved in, following his usual way of thinking.

First of all, Long You highly agrees with the Long family's principle of prioritizing survival when selecting spirit rings. Although Long You believes that spatial attributes are the strongest for survival, firstly, spatial attribute spirit beasts are hard to find, and secondly, spatial attribute spirit skills are also uncommon.

Considering the cost-effectiveness and the possibility of wasting effort, Long You decisively decided to follow the tradition of the Long family and choose one attribute from wind and earth attribute soul beasts.

This leads to the second aspect: the advantages and disadvantages of the Wind and Earth attributes. Logically, the Wind attribute seems stronger. After all, Wind represents speed, allowing for both offense and defense, while Earth only offers the ability to withstand damage; in other words, it's essentially a sitting duck.

However, Long You suddenly thought of his martial soul. Although the Book of Witness and the Glasses of Insight were mutated martial souls, neither of them ultimately escaped the essence of a book-type weapon martial soul. In other words, the martial soul did not provide any enhancement to Long You's physical attributes.

In this situation, even if Long You chooses a wind-attribute soul ring, he is very likely to be unable to outrun a spirit attack-type soul master.

In that case, "I choose the Earth element."