Actually, when Master Lu Tianyu mentioned this matter, he already had an answer in his heart, but he couldn't believe that this was the reason for the strange feeling on Lu Tianyu's spine.
But now, besides this explanation, Master really couldn't think of any other possibility.
After weighing his options, he said to Lu Tianyu, "Xiaoyu, come with me. Xiaosan, continue your unfinished cultivation."
Master Lu led Lu Tianyu back to his room, and after closing the doors and windows, he said to Lu Tianyu, "Xiaoyu, try to imagine that you can remove what's attached to your spine."
Lu Tianyu hadn't thought of this, nodded, and focused his consciousness, thinking that he could remove what was attached to his spine.
Immediately, Lu Tianyu felt the soul power in his dantian uncontrollably surge into his spine, and then he really felt the thing attached to his spine being removed.
In Master Lu's view, it was as if a sudden burst of soul power erupted from Lu Tianyu's body, and then the soul power rushed to gather on Lu Tianyu's back.
Then, a phantom of a spine gradually emerged from the light of soul power, eventually solidifying into a staff the size of an egg, resembling a piece of white jade, and shaped like a spine. With
a thought, Lu Tianyu felt the staff fly to him, and the strange, comfortable sensation that had been lingering on his spine vanished.
Looking at the white jade-like staff in his hand, Lu Tianyu was completely bewildered. Could this staff be his spine?
"Master, what's going on...?"
The master's eyes widened when he saw the staff materialize from Lu Tianyu's spine, and he breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Lu Tianyu's call.
Looking at Lu Tianyu, his face showed unprecedented excitement, and he tremblingly placed his hand on Lu Tianyu's shoulder, saying, "Little Yu... I never expected you to be so lucky."
"Although I had guessed it would be this, I never expected... I really never expected it."
Hearing the master's words of admiration, Lu Tianyu looked at the staff in his hand with even greater confusion.
After a long while, the master said, "Xiao Yu, do you remember what I told you and Xiao San before? 'More rings, more bones, one wave of skill; fewer rings, fewer bones, run away.'"
Lu Tianyu certainly remembered the master's golden words, and immediately reacted, saying, "Master, you mean this stick is a soul bone."
"But you said that soul bones only have six parts: head soul bone, left and right arm bones, left and right leg bones, and torso bones. Is this stick considered a torso bone?"
The master gently shook his head and said, "After a soul bone is absorbed, it cannot be taken out entirely. Therefore, this stick-like soul bone is not a torso bone, but an external soul bone that is even rarer than a torso bone and only exists in legends."
Suddenly, Lu Tianyu remembered that when he watched the anime, Tang San also obtained an external soul bone called the Eight Spider Lances, but Tang San's external soul bone was nothing like his own.
The master seemed to sense Lu Tianyu's doubts and explained, "External soul bones are a general term for soul bones other than the six mainstream soul bones. In other words, any soul bone that is not one of the six mainstream soul bones belongs to the category of external soul bones."
Hearing this, Lu Tianyu understood and then looked at the master, asking, "Teacher, what is the use of external soul bones?"
The master gently shook his head and said, "I've only read about the existence of such soul bones in books, but I don't know their specific uses." "
But one thing is certain: external soul bones improve as the soul master's strength increases. Therefore, the earlier a soul master obtains an external soul bone, the greater the help it will be for their growth."
After saying this, the master reached out and gently tapped the staff in Lu Tianyu's hand, then lightly stroked it with his fingers, saying, "The texture feels similar to a martial soul, and it's staff-shaped. It also fell from a saber-toothed tiger."
"Let's call this external soul bone the Tiger Soul Staff. That way, you can learn some staff-based soul skills and create your own."
Lu Tianyu chuckled after hearing the master's words, casually twirling the staff and jokingly saying, "From now on, I can say the Tiger Soul Staff is my martial soul."
The master meant no harm, but the master took it to heart. He had initially wanted to advise against revealing Lu Tianyu's external soul bone to outsiders,
but after hearing Lu Tianyu's joke, he said in a serious voice, "That's right, Xiaoyu, your second soul skill will be summoning the Tiger Soul Staff as your weapon."
"This soul skill is unique to your original martial soul. No matter who asks, answer like this, understand?"
Lu Tianyu had studied with the master for so long, and he had never encountered the master joking with him or Tang San before.
In other words, the master was truly instructing him to change his second soul skill to summoning the Tiger Soul Staff as his weapon.
"But Master, Xiao San has seen my Soft Fist."
Lu Tianyu looked at the Master with some worry. If only he and the Master knew about the second soul skill and the external soul bone from the beginning, then he could say this.
The Master chuckled and said, "Don't worry, Xiao San will understand and will keep your external soul bone and true second soul skill a secret."
Since the Master had said so, Lu Tianyu didn't dwell on it anymore. With a thought, the Tiger Soul Staff in his hand transformed into a stream of light and flowed into his body.
Then it reattached to his spine, emitting a warm, tingling, and strangely comfortable feeling.
After clarifying the matter of the external soul bone, the Master found various objects to test and collect Lu Tianyu's martial soul attributes after absorbing the second soul ring.
After a series of tests, it was found that Lu Tianyu's attributes in all aspects had increased threefold from the original, and his eyesight had also increased threefold.
He possessed 2,100 Dao Power when performing martial soul attachment, which meant that his original Dao Power had increased by 1,100 Dao Power.
With Dao Power exceeding 2,000, the power of the Six Forms was even stronger.
In particular, Lu Tianyu's Storm Kick, which he has practiced the most in the past two years, can unleash wind blades that maintain considerable destructive power within fifteen meters.
Within five meters, the wind blades can easily cut through a log the size of a washbasin, a power equivalent to the first soul skill of most offensive soul masters.
As Lu Tianyu's soul power increases, the higher the age of the soul rings he absorbs, the greater the increase in his Dao power. When his Dao power exceeds ten thousand, the power of Storm Kick will be even stronger.
It can only be said that Lu Tianyu's martial soul characteristic is too powerful; the power of all his soul skills can increase with the increase of his soul power.
The first two soul skills of other soul masters become quite useless when they reach the Soul King level, with only a very few first-ring and second-ring soul skills still having some effect.
Thinking of this, Lu Tianyu couldn't help but recall that he had specifically sought out Su Yuntao to awaken his martial soul. Indeed, anything produced by Brother Tao was guaranteed to be top-notch.
That evening, after finishing his three daily soul power cultivation sessions, Lu Tianyu went to sleep on time. In his dream, he felt a cat lying on his back, purring incessantly.
However, Lu Tianyu didn't find it noisy; on the contrary, the purring sound made his sleep exceptionally good.
When he woke up the next day, he felt incredibly energetic, as if the purring sound from the previous night had dispelled all the fatigue deep within him.
In the afternoon, Lu Tianyu and Tang San agreed to practice combat together. When Lu Tianyu summoned the Tiger Soul Staff, Tang San simply smiled slightly at him.
Then, they began sparring. Because Lu Tianyu had never learned any staff techniques, Tang San seized the opportunity and gave him a sound beating.
To master staff techniques, Lu Tianyu deliberately audited classes in the fifth-year classroom, as the fifth-year homeroom teacher at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy was a three-ringed Soul Master with a steel staff martial soul.
Upon learning that Lu Tianyu's second soul skill summoned a Tiger Soul Staff as a weapon, the teacher allowed him to sit in on his classes. The teacher
would even occasionally instruct Lu Tianyu on the proper use of the Tiger Soul Staff. Meanwhile, Lu Tianyu didn't slacken his training in Soft Fist. He
had already mastered the Shave, Moon Step, and Tempest Kick techniques of the Six Styles to an extremely high level; further power enhancement would only be possible after he absorbed his third soul ring.
Therefore, his usual soul skill training was merely for consolidation; he devoted most of his time to Soft Fist and the Tiger Soul Staff.
Four months after Lu Tianyu obtained his second soul ring, Tang San finally reached level twenty in his soul power cultivation.
Similarly, Grandmaster summoned the dean of Notting Junior Soul Master Academy to assist him, heading to the Soul Hunting Forest to find Tang San's second soul ring.
In fact, Grandmaster and Tang San set off on the first day and returned from the Soul Hunting Forest by noon on the second day.
Grandmaster later mentioned that while searching for Lu Tianyu's second soul ring, he had noticed a suitable soul beast for Tang San: a plant-type soul beast called Ghost Vine, approximately six hundred years old.
Tang San's second soul skill was called Parasitism, its effect being that Blue Silver Grass seeds would stealthily enter the opponent's body along with his first soul skill.
Afterward, once Tang San activated his second soul skill, those Blue Silver Grass seeds dormant inside the opponent's body would rapidly grow and bind them.
This sudden attack could disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm at crucial moments or create an opportunity for his own side; in short, the soul beast Grandmaster chose for Tang San was undoubtedly of the best attributes.
A month after Tang San obtained his second soul ring, Notting Junior Soul Master Academy began its annual holiday.
When school resumed, Lu Tianyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu would all advance a level. During the holiday, Xiao Wu said she had to go home for some business.
When they met Xiao Wu again, she was also a two-ring Battle Soul Master.
Tang San kept complaining that Xiao Wu was too rash, and that she should have discussed such an important matter as choosing a spirit ring with Grandmaster.
In Grandmaster's mind, he only wanted to wholeheartedly teach Tang San. As for Lu Tianyu and Xiao Wu, he only offered them guidance because of their good talent and close relationship with Tang San.
After cultivating spirit power to level 20, the speed of growth slowed significantly. Grandmaster said that after reaching levels 30 and 40, the growth rate of spirit power would slow down even more.
Therefore, the sooner one reached level 40 spirit power, the more likely one was to reach the realm of Title Douluo.
Lu Tianyu spent almost two years cultivating his spirit power to level 30, just twenty days before graduation.
Grandmaster had already planned for Lu Tianyu's third spirit ring. Based on Grandmaster's years of research on Lu Tianyu's original spirit,
the limit Lu Tianyu's third spirit ring could withstand was around 3,800 years. However, for safety's sake, Grandmaster still had Lu Tianyu hunt down power-type spirit beasts with a cultivation of around 3,000 years to obtain the spirit ring.
However, no soul beasts over two thousand years old have appeared in the Soul Hunting Forest near Notting City for over a decade. Even if there were some around two thousand years old, a master wouldn't be confident in subduing them.
Therefore, when Lu Tianyu told the master that his soul power had reached level thirty, the master advised him not to accept any offers from intermediate soul master academies after graduation.
He recommended Lu Tianyu go to the Barak Kingdom and enroll in a soul master academy called Shrek, which Lu Tianyu was familiar with.
Knowing he would definitely obtain a soul ring perfectly suited to him there, after receiving his graduation certificate from Notting Junior Soul Master Academy, the teachers and students never saw Lu Tianyu again.
This disappointed the teachers from intermediate soul master academies in over a dozen cities near Notting City. In fact, on the very night Lu Tianyu received his graduation certificate, a mysterious flying spirit master secretly arrived in Notting City.
Lu Tianyu then left Notting City with that flying spirit master. Only the master, Tang San, and Xiao Wu knew about this.
When Grandmaster saw Lu Tianyu off, he explained that he and Tang San would go to Soto City to find Lu Tianyu next year, and instructed Lu Tianyu not to slack off in his training for the next year.
Then, Grandmaster said something to the mysterious flying spirit master, who brought Lu Tianyu to Soto City in the Barak Kingdom.
After leaving a map, the flying spirit master disappeared before Lu Tianyu's eyes, perfectly embodying the mysterious spirit master persona.
However, the mystery was only relative to that particular spirit master; Lu Tianyu guessed his identity as soon as he saw his spirit.
Lu Tianyu rented a house with a small courtyard in Soto City. It wasn't yet time to register for Shrek Academy.
Furthermore, Lu Tianyu's spirit power had just broken through to level 30, and he needed time to consolidate his spirit power and adapt to the attribute boost brought by the breakthrough.
Lu Tianyu's physical techniques were very sensitive to attribute boosts, so to clearly understand his strength,
he would focus on training for a period after his attributes increased, only doing other things after his physical attributes stabilized and he had mastered them.
This time, it took Lu Tianyu over twenty days to fully master it. When he checked out of his rented apartment, he discovered there were only five days left before Shrek Academy recruited new students.
Something came up today, so I'll only be updating two chapters as a minimum!