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Su Wen's replication spirit skill had an advantage over Oscar's in that it didn't require repeated replications.
As long as he replicated it once, whether to preserve the replication of the corresponding spirit skill depended entirely on him maintaining it with spirit power.
However, this also created a burden, forcing him to bear the cost of maintaining numerous replicated spirits at all times.
Currently, Su Wen hadn't replicated many spirits, but there was no guarantee he wouldn't need to replicate many more for backup in the future.
"I can fully retain this Flame Flower spirit; its three spirit skills are all worth researching. But for this Exploding Flame Ape spirit, only the 'Raging Fire Body' is most useful to me. I'll just keep the Raging Fire Body skill."
Su Wen's replication skill copied the spirit, not the spirit skill.
However, to reduce consumption, he wanted to purely retain the replication of the spirit skill, without needing to maintain the Exploding Flame Ape spirit and its other skills.
Looking at his own spirit, seeing the page imprinted with the Exploding Flame Ape spirit, the special patterns reminded Su Wen of another method of his.
"I can engrave abilities like fire element control onto book pages to strengthen others. Can I engrave these spirit skills onto my own spirit?"
After engraving, strengthening himself—wouldn't that be equivalent to bestowing the engraved skill onto himself?
"What I need to do is master the means of engraving."
Thinking of this, Su Wen frowned, sensing a logical inconsistency.
"If I master the means of engraving, doesn't that mean I've directly mastered the spirit skill itself?"
If I've mastered the skill, why use the engraving-strengthening method to cast it?
So, going in circles, this actually required him to internalize the replicated skill, master it thoroughly, and learn others' spirit skills in the form of self-created skills?
Su Wen felt this could be tried, but it couldn't be his main method in the future.
After all, there were too many spirit skills; he might not be able to learn them all.
"However, to reduce consumption, engraving is particularly important." Su Wen felt engraving was the key to solving this problem.
A flash of inspiration struck, and his visualization method activated, recording this fleeting thought.
"My previous engraving methods were only temporary recordings. What if it's a permanent recording?"
While pondering, Su Wen also meditated, carrying out his cultivation.
The next day, Su Wen and Ning Rongrong went to the Great Spirit Arena again and participated in their second spirit battle in Blazing City.
The opponents were still a Silver Spirit Fighter team, but this time, the enemies were mostly older, already middle-aged, with spirit power fluctuations above level thirty-six.
All seven enemies had Silver Spirit Badges.
Su Wen still won, but regrettably, he didn't replicate any meaningful spirit skills.
Great Spirit Arena.
Spectator area.
Su Wen's gaze shifted, looking to one side.
There, a few figures were extremely eye-catching.
Leading them were a man and a woman, both exuding confidence. The woman was extremely beautiful, with long dark red wavy hair reaching her waist, a fair face, exquisite features, and big eyes shining with a faint silver light. Walking in the crowd, she was as eye-catching as a ball of fire.
Beside the man and woman was an acquaintance.
Huo Xing, captain of Team Raging Fire.
Currently, this Huo Xing was beside the man and woman, conversing with them.
During the time they appeared, Su Wen had already learned their identities from the discussions around him. The man was Huo Wushuang, and the woman was Huo Wu. They were siblings, children of the Blazing Academy's dean, and their talents were extremely powerful.
Huo Xing was also from the Huo family, but his father wasn't the dean, but the dean's brother, making him cousins with Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu.
"Hm? Brother Wushuang, that's him. He's that 'Ignorant Scholar'," Huo Xing suddenly saw Su Wen and said to Huo Wushuang beside him.
Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu stopped, and the people behind them also stopped, looking at Su Wen together.
"Huo Xing."
"Su Wen."
After Huo Xing and Su Wen, the two 'acquaintances', exchanged names, Huo Xing introduced the people beside him: " This is my cousin Huo Wushuang, cousin Huo Wu, and the others behind are from Team Blazing..."
Su Wen nodded, looked at Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, and extended his hand.
Huo Wushuang stepped forward and shook hands with Su Wen.
"Su Wen, I heard from Huo Xing that you are very strong. I hope we can have a battle if there's a chance." Before Huo Wushuang could speak, Huo Wu spoke up.
She looked curious, wanting to see what kind of person this 'Ignorant Scholar' was who could defeat the entire Team Raging Fire almost single-handedly.
"He doesn't look like the explosive man Brother Xing described..." Huo Wu thought.
Su Wen's first impression was that of a graceful gentleman, carrying a scholar's refined demeanor, making people uncontrollably feel he was frail.
"Indeed, I look forward to it." Su Wen also expressed his desire to fight them.
A One-Horned Fire Tyrant Dragon spirit, a Fire Shadow spirit—both were considered top-tier spirits.
Last night's contemplation made him understand one thing.
His replication spirit skill wasn't just for replicating the opponent's spirit for combat, but also for replicating others' spirits for research.
Spirit skills could be researched, and spirits could also be researched.
Therefore, replicating top-tier spirits would gradually become his goal.
Su Wen didn't chat much with the Huo siblings. After a brief introduction, they parted ways. Huo Wushuang led Team Blazing to participate in their match for the night.
Su Wen, watching the whole time, gained some understanding of the seven Team Blazing members' spirit skills and identified his targets.
"Little Wen, you made contact with Team Blazing?" Qin Ming found Su Wen and asked.
"Yeah." Su Wen was curious how Qin Ming knew.
"The other party proposed a match with you. The Great Spirit Arena staff came to ask for my opinion," Qin Ming said.
To avoid trouble, Su Wen and Ning Rongrong had handed over the team leader position of Team 'Seeking Defeat' to Qin Ming, so the staff contacted Qin Ming directly.
"Oh~"
Su Wen didn't plan to refuse and said to Qin Ming, "Teacher Qin, I accept their challenge."
The third day.
Main Spirit Arena.
Under the gaze of thousands, the host announced the lineup for the next battle.
"The next match will be between Team 'Seeking Defeat', who have won two consecutive battles against seven-person Silver Spirit Fighter teams with a two-person lineup, and Team 'Blazing'!" The host's voice was impassioned, plunging the audience into anticipation for the upcoming duel.
Su Wen and Ning Rongrong slowly walked onto the stage, arriving at one side of the ring.
"Rongrong, just like yesterday's battle, I'll let one enemy through in a bit. You just need to resist their attacks and not get eliminated. No problem, right?"
Su Wen also considered Ning Rongrong's experience and didn't make her stand idly by for the whole match.
"Okay, Big Brother Wen," Ning Rongrong said obediently.
(End of this chapter)