Chapter 7: The Function of Soul Rings
"Xiao Qi."
Armor Sun Qi raised his head, put the book down, and stood up to bow respectfully.
"Teacher,"
Gu Rong nodded.
After joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Armor Sun Qi became Gu Rong's disciple.
Unlike Twin Sun Qi in the Spirit Hall, he was directly appointed a direct disciple.
There wasn't much superiority or inferiority; the nature of the two factions, and the differences between Gu Rong and Bibi Dong's identities, dictated their different approaches to accepting disciples. Bibi Dong sought results; as someone not from an angel family, she held the Spirit Hall in high esteem, requiring achievements. Therefore, she waited for Twin Sun Qi to demonstrate his talent before officially accepting him as a direct disciple.
Gu Rong, on the other hand, was much more flexible, free to accept disciples as he pleased and having ample time to mentor them.
Furthermore, Gu Rong's accepting disciples had no impact on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's legacy, while Bibi Dong's often signaled a shift in power within the Spirit Hall, easily triggering a chain reaction.
Gu Rong said, "Xiao Qi, your innate Spirit Power is full. I'm going to take you soul hunting now to obtain your first Spirit Ring."
Once your innate Spirit Power is full, you can immediately obtain your first Spirit Ring.
According to statistics from the Spirit Master community, after reaching level ten, a Spirit Master can continue to cultivate, even if they don't obtain a Spirit Ring. Although they may not see any increase in Spirit Power, the results of their cultivation are real and will manifest after they obtain a Spirit Ring.
However, unseen progress in cultivation often leads to complacency, and lack of feedback can also lead to a loss of motivation, which in turn reduces the efficiency of their cultivation. Therefore, the sooner a Spirit Ring is obtained after reaching level ten, the sooner they can return to a normal life with positive feedback from their cultivation.
Armor Sun Qi had just awakened his Spirit and had yet to experience the feeling of cultivation. Wasting too much time on cultivation without feedback would only dampen his enthusiasm, and Gu Rong didn't want to delay him too long.
Unbeknownst to him, Armor Sun Qi was experiencing the exact opposite.
He could feel the feedback of the fifth level!
Of course, this feedback wasn't coming from this original body, but from the other five bodies that weren't at full innate Spirit Power.
While his Spirit Power hadn't noticeably increased over the past two weeks, his overall improvement had been immense. Through mutual verification with his seven original bodies, he had also discovered numerous Spirit Power cultivation techniques.
This feeling was truly remarkable. It was specific to Armor Sun Qi and Twin Sun Qi, both at full innate Spirit Power. Their Spirit Power hadn't increased, and they couldn't sense it, yet they could faintly sense it through their unique seven-in-one relationship.
Spirit Power cultivation is essentially a transformation of the Spirit.
Spirit Power couldn't increase because it was locked.
However, through meditation, Spirit Power still grew, stored within the body.
The seven-in-one Sun Qi, through his unique conditioning, was able to sense this stored Spirit Power.
This Spirit Power wasn't actually Spirit Power, but a specialized form stored within the body. Armor Sun Qi, in effect, only sensed subtle feedback from his body.
While it might not sound significant, it's actually quite different.
This is the physical transformation that occurs after a Spirit's upper limit is locked.
Conversely, after a Spirit's upper limit is locked, does unlocking the body's potential also require this path?
This may be the key to Seal Sun Qi breaking through the limitations of his Spirit. It's not just Seal Sun Qi, but also Eye Sun Qi, who possesses level three innate Spirit Power.
"You've been reading for the past two weeks. What are your thoughts on your first Spirit Ring?"
Gu Rong asked, testing his disciple.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect values theory. Under the guidance of the Sect Master and other direct descendants of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Tower's Spirit Masters, theoretical research is not underestimated, but it's not overvalued either.
Only those with theoretical talent are given serious attention.
Armor Sun Qi has been reading constantly since joining the sect, and not only Gu Rong, but even Sect Master Ning Fengzhi is curious about what he's read and what he's learned.
Armor Sun Qi also became serious when he heard Gu Rong's question.
"Teacher, my Spirit is armor, a suit that perfectly fits my body and has a positive effect on it. I think my first few Spirit Rings should be equipped with Spirit Rings that will help me develop the armor's basic abilities."
Gu Rong's eyes narrowed slightly.
Honestly, Armor Sun Qi's suggestion was quite innovative. Gu Rong had never heard of developing Spirit abilities as a categorization of Spirit Ring functions.
Spirit Rings are usually categorized into groups like group attack, single target attack, and defense.
There are also functional distinctions, but they're often categorized as amplification or burst potential.
Developing Spirit abilities, on the other hand, is a perspective no Spirit Master has ever proposed.
"Tell me more about it," Gu Rong said, urging Armor Sun Qi to elaborate on his idea.
Armor Sun Qi took a deep breath and said, "Literally, Spirit skills are the abilities of the Spirit itself. Through the use of Spirit skills, the corresponding abilities of the Spirit are developed. Then, through the power of the Spirit, these Spirit skills can be infinitely enhanced, minimizing the limitations imposed by the age of the Spirit skills themselves."
No matter how old a first Spirit Ring is, it's still a hundred years old. So one must either aim for a Spirit skill with a percentage-based amplification, or maximize its effectiveness.
Armor Sun Qi's approach was the latter. Based on this, he leveraged the instincts of his Spirit to compensate for the Spirit Ring's age, and used the Spirit Ring to reduce the difficulty of developing that instinct.
This was called a two-way race.
He had spent the past two weeks, and the last five days, reviewing the records of Spirit skills of Spirit Masters who were interested in developing their own Spirits.
If a Spirit Ring skill is a native ability of a Spirit Master's Spirit, not only will the master have a higher degree of control over the skill, but developing it will also be more effective, often unleashing power far beyond the Spirit Ring's age.
Developing a Spirit isn't something that can be easily achieved, just like learning mathematics; it's not something that can be learned simply by listening to lectures.
It requires the Spirit Master to deeply understand the Spirit and harness its corresponding power.
Ultimately, empty talk is not advisable.
Spirit Rings are a major flaw in the Spirit Master system, allowing an inexperienced Spirit Master to master mature Spirit skills.
This is just one of the reasons.
After a preliminary review of the data, Armor Sun Qi concluded that the second function of Spirit Rings is to assist development, that is, to help Spirit Masters better develop the abilities corresponding to their Spirits, and to demonstrate the progress of this ability in the form of Spirit Rings and Spirit skills.
For example, Chen Xin has a Spirit skill that condenses Sword energy, which he has developed to such an advanced level that no one would refute the fact that this Spirit skill is now a ten-thousand-year Spirit skill.
Sword Spirits have the ability to condense Sword energy, but is it so easy for Spirit Masters to develop and cultivate Sword energy?
This is the Douluo Continent.
[end of the chapter]