"This Qian Duoduo seems to have a destiny with our Sun and Moon Empire!" Kong Deming sighed.
Su Yu's mouth twitched.
Destiny my ass.
It's probably an eight-generation curse.
Poor Qian Duoduo, lost his nephew, and his wife is gone too.
But...
Su Yu rubbed his chin.
Qian Duoduo seems like a perpetual single dog; even if he got married, he's still a virgin...
And that Xian Lin'er is no good either.
...
"By the way, Xiaoyu, what were you trying to ask earlier?"
"Teacher, why does your Second Martial Soul only have four Soul Rings?" Su Yu suddenly remembered his confusion and asked.
At that time when Kong Deming erupted, Su Yu barely caught sight of the soul rings of Kong Deming's Sun Martial Soul.
There were only four.
Four black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
"You brat, do you think cultivating twin martial souls is easy?" Kong Deming snapped.
"Isn't it?"
In Su Yu's impression, cultivating twin martial souls was about training one martial soul to the Titled Douluo level, then having the Second Martial Soul absorb Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
If possible, even absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
With nine soul rings, at least the Soul Power can be stacked up to level 98, right?
"As long as the physique is sufficient, it shouldn't be hard, right?"
Kong Deming's beard nearly twisted in anger.
"What's 'as long as' supposed to mean?"
Ordinary Soul Masters find it extremely difficult to enhance their physique for higher-level soul rings, let alone having to endure twice the soul rings.
"Put it this way, let a Soul Master absorb an 800-year for the First Soul Ring, 1500 years for the Second Soul Ring, 3000 years for the Third Soul Ring, and Ten Thousand Years for the Fourth Soul Ring...
and so on, each soul ring having a lifespan twice the limit of an ordinary Soul Master.
Do you think that's easy?"
Su Yu shook his head.
"Then how much harder do you think it is for the Second Martial Soul to absorb nine Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings?"
"Absorbing each additional soul ring does significantly enhance the physique.
The physique required for the Second Martial Soul with all Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings can partially rely on the feedback from the soul rings.
But the conflict between two martial souls makes the threshold for absorbing each soul ring high."
Su Yu nodded, indicating understanding.
Got it.
No hacks, twin martial souls are tough to cultivate.
In other words, to cultivate twin martial souls properly, you need hacks!
Would Kong Deming spit blood if he knew what Su Yu was thinking right now?
What nonsense.
I'm just explaining that cultivating twin martial souls isn't that simple.
And you're talking about hacks.
"Teacher, does the conflict between martial souls greatly affect the Second Martial Soul absorbing soul rings?"
"Of course, it does."
Kong Deming pondered for a moment and decided to use numbers to illustrate the impact.
"If I can successfully reconcile the conflict between the two martial souls after the seventh ring of the Second Martial Soul, then I could directly absorb the Eighth and Ninth Soul Rings without the need to painstakingly enhance my physique."
The current situation is that if the physique required to add the Fifth Soul Ring on the Second Martial Soul is 1, and for the Sixth Soul Ring it is 5, then after absorbing the Fifth Soul Ring, it becomes 3.
But if there is no conflict between the martial souls, the physique requirement for the Sixth Soul Ring would actually be enough at 3.
"Can't the conflict between the martial souls be reconciled?"
Su Yu didn't have the real experience of twin martial souls, so he could only inquire.
"The quality of the two martial souls isn't that different, but the strengthening from the soul rings added later results in discrepancies in their levels, making reconciliation difficult."
Kong Deming predicted Su Yu's question this time and continued explaining.
"Are you thinking that, with all those Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings added to the Second Martial Soul, my first martial soul's two yellow and two purple soul rings aren't as potent as a single Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring enhancement?
That's not wrong, but for Soul Masters, there's a watershed line, and that's the Soul Saint."
The Soul King is a watershed because some Soul Kings start acquiring Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skills from this level.
But the Soul Saint is a watershed for an entirely different reason.
"Just as you're learning about Fifth-level Soul-guiding Devices, this is similar to their principle.
A Fifth-level Soul-guiding Device doesn't just have a single core array but starts to divide into modules, each with different arrays, and these module arrays form a complete circuit system creating a synergistic effect that converges into a whole core at the end.
When a Soul Master reaches Soul Saint, possessing seven soul rings, it triggers a similar synergy effect. Seven soul rings are the minimum to activate this effect.
The True Form of the Martial Soul is realized this way.
Seven soul rings strengthen the martial soul as a whole, creating a synergy.
Subsequent eight or nine soul rings will no longer be separate; they're internally linked together.
The True Form of the Martial Soul's ability to amplify all soul skills comes from this principle."
Su Yu didn't expect to learn such advanced martial soul cultivation theory from his Soul Guide teacher.
This kind of theory probably isn't accessible at Shrek.
Or the thoroughness of this explanation isn't available.
"The synergy between soul rings boosts the martial soul equivalent to adding another Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
My first Martial Soul's nine soul rings create synergy, and only with the synergy of seven Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings on the Second Martial Soul can it hope to match it in quality."
Kong Deming's explanation was very thorough, and Su Yu understood well.
"Isn't there another way to enhance martial soul quality? What about the Rune Technique?"
Upon hearing Su Yu's words, Kong Deming was about to dismiss it with a laugh but suddenly his eyes lit up.
Rune Technique?
To be honest, the Rune Technique is groundbreaking.
Especially its fundamental principle, which applies to most situations.
Mirror Hongchen developed Fusion Soul-guiding Technology based on this principle.
So, can runes from the Rune Technique enhance martial souls?
It certainly can.
Using runes to enhance martial souls and fully activate them, even if temporarily, as long as the process of absorbing the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring is completed, the physique boost from the soul ring feedback could compensate for the physical shortcomings.
Currently, Kong Deming's physique is 1, able to absorb the Second Martial Soul's Fifth Soul Ring, and after absorbing, his physique feedback brings it up to 3, while the Sixth Soul Ring requires 5.
But using the Rune Technique to reconcile the conflict between the two martial souls, the physique requirement for the Sixth Ring is reduced to 3.
At this point, the Sixth Soul Ring can be absorbed.
Once absorbed, even without Rune Technique reconciliation, as long as the feedback from the Sixth Ring absorption brings Kong Deming's physique to 5, it's perfectly fine.
Wow, a sleight of hand.
Borrow the still-absorbing Sixth Soul Ring to enhance the physique.
"Your idea is interesting, but many values still need consideration, and the most crucial point is ensuring that after I absorb the Sixth Soul Ring, my physique can indeed reach the required 5."
"Teacher, did you forget the reason I came this time?"