The Path of the Spiritual Furnace?
Xu Yuan immediately became interested.
His understanding of the Spiritual Furnaces of the Holy Demon Continent was indeed limited. He only knew of their existence and had used them to complete the construction of his new body.
But in reality, he didn't know much about the mechanisms of the Spiritual Furnace.
Nine spirit nodes inherent in humans?
Capable of fusing with nine Spiritual Furnaces?
From Xu Zhi's words, Xu Yuan heard the trend toward fusion.
Nine Spiritual Furnaces, fused into one, thereby achieving a transcendent divine artifact-level Spiritual Furnace!
This should be the path he is currently on.
He not only fused the Spiritual Furnaces but also integrated a Divine Throne into his own Spiritual Furnace.
"Unfortunately, my body itself is a Spiritual Furnace; it's just that I constructed a body using essence, energy, and spirit." Xu Yuan sighed.
The key to the Spiritual Furnace being able to fuse with humans lies fundamentally in humanity.
Xu Yuan now only possessed the structure of a human body, not the essence of a human being.
Just like many demons who also have human forms but cannot fuse with Spiritual Furnaces.
"No, you can do it. The essence of Spiritual Furnace fusion is still a contract. At least in my cultivation, I control the Spiritual Furnace with willpower."
"Control the Spiritual Furnace with willpower?"
Xu Yuan looked at Xu Zhi, waiting for him to continue explaining.
Xu Yuan had cultivated the path of willpower, but more through the cultivation methods associated with the Seven Forbidden Techniques.
His ability to enter the path of willpower was largely due to the Seven Forbidden Techniques.
Besides this, Xu Yuan knew that on Douluo Planet, the person who had deeply studied willpower was his father before him.
Because he couldn't cultivate soul power or spiritual power, he could only study willpower out of thin air.
Now, hearing the term "willpower" from Xu Zhi, Xu Yuan knew that he was about to explain his most core achievement.
"There are a few very special Spiritual Furnaces that have developed their own consciousness, becoming alternative life forms, known as intelligent Spiritual Furnaces. In my view, this is the perfect form of the Spiritual Furnace, and it's the state where the Spiritual Furnace can function perfectly."
"However, the development of intelligence within the Spiritual Furnace itself is a miracle. Artificial replication is prohibitively costly, and for us cultivators, the birth of intelligence within the Spiritual Furnace isn't necessary."
"So, I infused my willpower into the Spiritual Furnace, becoming the Spiritual Furnace itself, and thus turned the abilities of the Spiritual Furnace into my instincts."
Xu Yuan took a deep breath.
Isn't this exactly his current state?
His consciousness resides within the Spiritual Furnace. The difference is that the abilities of his Spiritual Furnace are his original abilities, which were inherently his.
"Your situation is exactly this," Xu Zhi's words affirmed what Xu Yuan thought. "Perhaps your body can't fuse with the Spiritual Furnace, but you can consider starting directly from the essence—my method of fusing willpower into the Spiritual Furnace, rather than slowly immersing willpower after physical fusion."
Different stages allow for different approaches.
Xu Zhi himself had cultivated step by step from weak to strong, so he could only progress gradually.
However, Xu Yuan was different. His current strength was already sufficient, allowing him to customize according to his needs.
"However, the Spiritual Furnace ultimately needs a carrier, so you can use essence, energy, and spirit as carriers, infuse willpower into three Spiritual Furnaces, and finally integrate the three major Spiritual Furnaces back into your body. With your current body, it will be easier to achieve fusion."
Xu Yuan nodded in agreement.
It sounded very reasonable.
Although this approach was certainly untried, once the theory was formed, it could be attempted in practice.
He was originally a Spiritual Furnace body, and since he was composed of consciousness, it would be even easier to achieve the operation of integrating into the Spiritual Furnace.
"The problem now is choosing what kind of three Spiritual Furnaces." Xu Zhi said, "Different combinations of Spiritual Furnaces naturally yield different fusion effects. For example, my Eye of Heaven Spiritual Furnace integrates resonance, space, clairvoyance, repulsion, and holy attraction. As for the form of the Spiritual Furnace, it was finalized after merging with this Divine Throne of Wisdom and Spirit."
"The fusion of Spiritual Furnaces is a profound subject. The organic reactions between them are sufficient to give birth to entirely new abilities. For instance, the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace and the Repulsion Spiritual Furnace. The Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace makes enemies focus their attacks solely on oneself, while the Repulsion Spiritual Furnace generates intense repulsive force. After the fusion of these two Spiritual Furnaces, the interconnection of abilities allows my Spiritual Furnace to not only repel but also attract, and not only perform Holy Attraction but also Holy Repulsion."
Xu Yuan slowly opened his mouth wide, moved his lips, and found himself unable to comment.
What a magnificent Universal Pull, what a majestic Divine Push.
Moreover, the abilities of Holy Attraction and Holy Repulsion could also be interconnected.
If the path of the Spiritual Furnace truly develops, it might indeed become a profound field of study.
Unfortunately, Spiritual Furnaces on the current Holy Demon Continent were scarce, further reduced due to the invasion of demons.
"Dad, did you choose the Divine Throne of Wisdom and Spirit early on?"
"More or less." Xu Zhi replied vaguely.
With this Divine Throne, his progress towards a transcendent divine artifact-level Spiritual Furnace had advanced significantly, completing the crucial fusion.
Without this throne, his Spiritual Furnace wouldn't have been able to fuse yet.
On the other hand, when Xu Yuan heard about his situation, he felt joy, sensing that it inherently carried the critical opportunity for Spiritual Furnace fusion.
"The pairing of Spiritual Furnaces"
Xu Yuan fell into deep thought.
Xu Zhi said, "I suggest you try the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace. This Spiritual Furnace itself has an innate evolution capability, which I believe is the key."
Xu Yuan's eyes flickered slightly.
He understood what Xu Zhi meant.
The ability to evolve might be integrated.
"And the effect of the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace should also be useful to you. After all, your martial soul is a spear. When fighting with a spear, enemies can only fight you, which is a very practical ability."
Xu Yuan pondered deeply.
Holy Attraction.
His brain martial soul also had a skill called "Star Shift." Combining it, could he reverse the effect of Holy Attraction? Could his attacks be forced to land on the enemy?
Targeting?
"Additionally, besides Holy Attraction, the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace is also very suitable for you. It's another Spiritual Furnace with multi-stage evolution capabilities."
"The Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace can condense a vortex that constantly absorbs external energy, highly compatible with Jue's abilities. It can combine with his devouring ability."
Hearing Xu Zhi describe the effects of the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace, Xu Yuan clearly showed an expression of interest.
This condensed vortex continuously enhanced his abilities, but more importantly, paired with active devouring, it might greatly enhance Jue's devouring ability.
Jue's devouring ability was derived from the five elements, considered unconventional.
If supplemented by some related abilities within devouring, it might truly transform into a genuine devouring attribute, following the proper path of devouring.
Moreover, Xu Zhi's recommended Spiritual Furnaces shared a common trait: evolution capability.
"In fact, all Spiritual Furnaces possess evolution capabilities, just differing in the number of evolutions. These two Spiritual Furnaces both have three evolution stages, likely possessing traits that make them more prone to evolve. I initially added the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace for this trait. Unfortunately, the Eye of Heaven Spiritual Furnace didn't acquire this ability. Upon reflection, I think one Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace wasn't enough."
"The two Spiritual Furnaces I recommend to you both have strong evolution capabilities. You should choose another Spiritual Furnace suitable for you with three evolution stages. Perhaps you can inherit this evolutionary trait, allowing Jue to undergo transformation. Even if this trait isn't inherited, integrating the abilities of the three Spiritual Furnaces into Jue's essence is sufficient to break through his bottleneck, providing an excellent breakthrough opportunity."
Xu Yuan nodded slowly.
Xu Zhi's proposed plan was very reasonable and reliable.
This was more useful than simply breaking through the million-year heavenly calamity.
Moreover, the million-year heavenly calamity was utterly hopeless for Xu Yuan and Jue at their current level.
After mixing the ninety-thousand-year tribulation with the lightning tribulation, Xu Yuan and his companion had to fully respond. Facing a million-year heavenly calamity, they definitely couldn't withstand it.
The intensity of the tribulation changed after seventy thousand years, no longer fixed but determined by the strength of the person undergoing the tribulation.
This was purely to prevent soul beasts from ascending to godhood.
Now, with an additional pathway to elevate Jue's abilities, the possibility of surviving the million-year heavenly calamity increased.
Although enhancing Jue's abilities would trigger the escalation of the million-year heavenly calamity, the tribulation still had its limits.
This was an artificially arranged calamity.
If even the power of a God King level couldn't overcome the soul beast's ascension tribulation, it would be excessively absurd.
Not to mention the God King level, the power of a 1st Class God should be sufficient to pass smoothly.
For a soul beast race member to possess such power before facing the million-year heavenly calamity, if the Dragon God wanted to ban their ascension, the accumulated karma would be enormous.
Of course, this was almost impossible.
Even Xu Yuan, before ascending to godhood, had a huge gap from the strength of a 1st Class God.
But this world allowed shortcuts.
Tang Wulin could ascend to godhood with the overpowered strength granted by the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, and Jue could too.
Jue was Xu Yuan's soul spirit; if Xu Yuan was strong, Jue would be strong.
That was Jue's shortcut.
"Among the three Spiritual Furnaces, we must also consider Jue's tribulation problem. If the first two Spiritual Furnaces are chosen as the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace and the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace, then the third Spiritual Furnace must be one that enhances combat power and visibly boosts it."
Moreover, there was an important point.
He only needed to release three layers of domains here to trigger the lightning tribulation.
After the lightning tribulation merged with the heavenly calamity, the dominant force would inevitably be the rules of the Holy Demon Continent.
At this time, using the Spiritual Furnace system of the Holy Demon Continent to counter the calamity might be easier.
Many Spiritual Furnaces possessed absolute certainty, especially on the Holy Demon Continent, where this would be most strongly guaranteed.
So, among the Spiritual Furnaces of the Holy Demon Continent, which ones suited Jue and had the ability to counteract the lightning tribulation?
Xu Yuan frowned, deep in thought.
However, in this aspect, he still needed to consult Xu Zhi.
After all, Xu Yuan's understanding of Spiritual Furnaces was quite shallow.
"Dad, do you have any Spiritual Furnace data? In this era, are there any Spiritual Furnaces that are suitable for Jue and powerful enough to recommend?"
"Yes, yes. Little Yuan, there are nine types of Spiritual Furnaces suitable for Jue on the current Holy Demon Continent. Besides the two I recommended to you, there's also the Thousand Strikes Spiritual Furnace, which may involve the power of time, and..."
Xu Zhi listed many more Spiritual Furnace options for Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan wasn't very satisfied.
The effect of the Thousand Strikes Spiritual Furnace sounded like making the spear thrust faster. The involvement of time power was merely possible.
And just thrusting faster had minimal impact on overcoming the tribulation.
"Actually, there's another option."
Xu Yuan thought for a long time, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"Oh?"
Xu Zhi looked at Xu Yuan, curious about his son's thoughts.
"Condense a new Spiritual Furnace myself." Xu Yuan said.
His tone was firm.
"The Spiritual Furnaces of the Holy Demon Continent aren't fixed. The current list of Spiritual Furnaces only includes those known on the continent."
In this regard, Xu Yuan had considerable authority to speak.
Because his current body was just newly condensed.
This Spiritual Furnace was definitely not on the Spiritual Furnace list compiled by the Federation.
Therefore, condensing a new Spiritual Furnace was entirely feasible.
However, the abilities of the new Spiritual Furnace—
Xu Zhi looked at Xu Yuan, showing a puzzled expression.
What abilities do you want?
And how can you ensure obtaining the desired abilities?
Xu Yuan looked at Xu Zhi and gave his answer.
"Dad, your goal is actually quite clear. The abilities of the three Spiritual Furnaces aren't critical to me. In your plan, what's most important to me is the evolution capability."
Xu Zhi smiled.
He understood Xu Yuan's meaning.
"You want to foster the creation of an entirely new Spiritual Furnace, whose ability is evolution."
"Yes." Xu Yuan nodded.
"But how do you ensure condensing such a Spiritual Furnace?"
"This is where I excel."
Xu Yuan laughed.
"You excel?" Xu Zhi showed a puzzled expression.
Can condensing a Spiritual Furnace specify its abilities?
If the Holy Demon Continent had such a technique, the Spiritual Furnace system would have long been perfected, not resulting in the current situation where Spiritual Furnaces were hard to come by.
"Evolution is just another form of burst. By stacking various abilities related to bursts, there's the highest probability of nurturing a Spiritual Furnace related to evolution." Xu Yuan said.
"As for how to nurture a new Spiritual Furnace, it's simply about creating an environment where a Spiritual Furnace can be nurtured."
"Creating an environment for nurturing rare treasures is relatively easy. You just need to create a small world."
Create a small world?
Xu Zhi's lips twitched.
What kind of statement was that?
Just create?
Is this humanly possible?
Create a small world casually?
Thinking of Xu Yuan saying he already had three small worlds that he had fully developed on his own, Xu Zhi had nothing to say.
This was indeed a remarkable skill.
"But, there are many kinds of rare treasures. Nurturing a Spiritual Furnace—"
Before Xu Zhi finished speaking, Xu Yuan interrupted him.
"I have a feeling."
Xu Yuan's words were vague.
But his tone was very firm.
His current body was condensed under special circumstances, the result of his consciousness intertwining with the rules of the entire universe.
Relying on this, he had condensed into the Three Lives Spiritual Furnace Body.
Vaguely, he could grasp that feeling.
Although he couldn't guarantee condensing a Spiritual Furnace definitively, at least the probability of nurturing a Spiritual Furnace wouldn't be low.
Creating an environment to nurture a Spiritual Furnace, even repeating it three times, was bearable.
Now, the biggest uncertainty for Xu Yuan was allowing the Spiritual Furnace to possess transformative and evolutionary qualities.
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