Douluo: Not enough blood? Use your brain

He searched his memory and found its origin.

The Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid, among immortal herbs, possesses the most gentle yet richest medicinal properties. It is easily absorbed but difficult to digest, with extremely lasting effects. It can strengthen the foundation, cultivate the origin, remove impurities, and compensate for the slow cultivation speed of certain martial souls.

Of course, this refers to the effects of an immortal-grade Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid. Those that haven't reached the immortal grade, like the one in Xu Yuan's hand, which is only five thousand years old and has only three petals, each very tender, are clearly not mature.

Its effects are much weaker, and it certainly cannot compensate for the slow cultivation speed of martial souls, because its medicinal effects cannot last for several years, or even ten or twenty years.

However, this three-petaled Immortal Orchid is definitely the best choice to replenish Xu Yuan's current martial soul origin. At the same time, its impurity-removing effect can further consolidate the purity of Xu Yuan's two martial souls after separation.

Xu Yuan closed the jade box, not taking it immediately.

He would wait until tonight's closed-door cultivation to take it, perfectly refining it to maximize its effect.

He opened another jade box, which was relatively inferior, but not by much. After opening it, he saw three round and full medicinal pills inside.

"Medicinal pills?"

Xu Yuan was stunned. What era is this? There are still medicinal pills?

If natural treasures undergo subsequent processing, turning them into reagents or even medicinal baths is more common than medicinal pills.

Of course, more of them are processed into food ingredients.

Nowadays, in this era, soul masters, on the basis of fully utilizing the medicinal properties of natural treasures, also want to satisfy their appetites. Therefore, the research on medicinal cuisine has also developed to a remarkable level.

It can be said that a medicinal cuisine master may not be as good as the four auxiliary profession practitioners, but their position in society is not low. They also have a dedicated guild, not to say it is all over all cities, but large cities on Douluo Continent and the two small continents have branches.

Next to the three medicinal pills was a small note. Xu Yuan took it out and read it, understanding everything.

"A product of improving the previous alchemy methods, Origin Cultivation Pill, strengthens the foundation and cultivates the origin, with lasting medicinal effects. One pill can last for half a year. Each pill contains dozens of precious natural treasures, processed by technology, and then melted by alchemy, using soul power to nourish and maximize the medicinal effects."

Xu Yuan didn't understand the latter part, which was a field he rarely touched.

He didn't plan to get involved in alchemy either.

In general, the effect of the three Origin Cultivation Pills is to strengthen the foundation and cultivate the origin, with one pill lasting for half a year.

"And this three-petaled Immortal Orchid, its medicinal effects may not last for several years or more than a decade, but it is estimated that it will take half a year to fully digest. So, these alone will take me two years."

Xu Yuan also had a similar-quality Ink Jade Divine Bamboo in his hand.

Which one should I use first?

"While the origin is not completely stable, take the three-petaled Immortal Orchid and the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo at the same time to purify the two martial souls and strengthen the Heavenly Origin Brush. As for the Origin Cultivation Pill, use it to consolidate the origin in the future."

Xu Yuan thought for a while, it should be possible to take them at the same time.

Although the upper limit can be achieved by immortal herbs, they are ultimately only thousand-year-old level. Even the three-petaled Immortal Orchid given by Yun Ming is only five thousand years old, and the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo is only one thousand years old.

It shouldn't be indigestible.

Xu Yuan still believed in himself.

Most importantly, he believed in his Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art.

Now, the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art is no longer just a technique to increase appetite. The strength of his blood and energy, coupled with the Heavenly Origin Five Elements Spear completely transforming into his original martial soul, with blood and energy as the body, his own digestion and appetite have kept up.

For Xu Yuan, the biggest role of the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art now is to digest the food ingredients and natural treasures more thoroughly and quickly.

At night, taking out two quasi-immortal herbs, Xu Yuan first put the entire three-petaled Immortal Orchid directly into his mouth and chewed.

Sweet and fragrant.

It's quite delicious.

After chewing and swallowing, a rich medicinal power wandered in his body.

Xu Yuan could feel that this medicinal power seemed to have its own ideas, not wasting too much time in his body's meridians, but quickly settling down, deeply affecting his martial soul.

This refinement lasted for three hours.

Three hours later, Xu Yuan used the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art, and couldn't help but be surprised by the richness of the three-petaled Immortal Orchid's medicinal effects, which still had a lot of deposition in his body.

"It really takes time to grind it down."

However, the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art also quickly realized the process of purifying the martial soul.

"Continue to take the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo."

Xu Yuan took out the thousand-year-old Ink Jade Divine Bamboo he had obtained during the inner courtyard assessment. He first pried open the bamboo joint, drank the nectar inside the bamboo joint, and while operating his soul power to refine this power, he chewed and swallowed the remaining bamboo joint part of the divine bamboo bit by bit.

Although the most effective part of the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo is the nectar in its bamboo joints, the bamboo joints themselves also have many mysteries.

Fortunately, with the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art, and the bamboo itself is edible, he didn't worry about indigestion.

Refining the two quasi-immortal herbs, the time had come to the next morning.

Xu Yuan stretched lazily.

He had a faint smile on his face.

Yesterday was a great strengthening. He split his martial soul, truly possessing a Three-Life Martial Soul, and received the gift from the Tree Elder of the Golden Ancient Tree Will. Jue's body was integrated into the Metal of Life, and he broke through ten thousand years, granting him the fourth soul skill.

Last night, he refined two quasi-immortal herbs. At this moment, he didn't feel any damage to his origin.

This martial soul split didn't cause any damage to the origin. To put it figuratively, it was like cutting a hole and stuffing more origin into it.

Arriving at the small courtyard, he released the Heavenly Origin Brush.

At this moment, the Heavenly Origin Brush had undergone earth-shattering changes compared to before.

When Xu Yuan first awakened his martial soul, his Heavenly Origin Brush was a brush with black and white as the base color. Later, as he merged with the Five Elements Spear Spirit, the pen shaft itself became more and more metallic.

Now that the two forms were separated, it also restored its original wooden texture, while the black and white base color was mixed with cyan stripes, and the bristles on the pen tip were stained with the colors of the five elements.

Chapter 165 Finally Has a Brush Shape

Looking at his martial soul, which finally had a brush shape, Xu Yuan also showed a smile.

Finally has a brush shape.

Xu Yuan could feel that if he used this Heavenly Origin Brush to perform any spear techniques now, the power would be at least half as weak.

It might not even be a third of the original.

The origin of the spear form was gone.

Completely gone.

Even if they are similar in appearance and can be mimicked, shaping the martial soul into a spear for thrusting attacks, without the inherent characteristics, any imitation will ultimately fall short of being a true spear.

It's like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, which might seem capable of acting as a defensive or offensive martial soul, or even a control-type, but in reality, due to the limitations of soul skills, it only possesses the original strength of the martial soul.

Offensive?

Using the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to smash down without any added damage is less effective than storing a large boulder in a soul storage device and throwing it during battle.

Defensive?

Using the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda for defense, without any damage mitigation mechanisms, the soul master would almost equally suffer the backlash, making it better to hide inside a mech.

As for control, it is inherently built upon the foundations of attack and defense. Without these characteristics, it cannot be used as a control-type martial soul.

Of course, if a mutation occurs by chance, granting it the corresponding characteristics, the mutated Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda would still have the opportunity to fulfill these roles.

Holding the Celestial Origin Brush, Xu Yuan inexplicably gained a scholarly air.

Perhaps due to the influence of the life aura, or perhaps due to the inherent temperament of the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, Xu Yuan didn't look like a powerful offensive soul master wielding a spear, but rather a refined young gentleman, a peerless jade among men.

As the Celestial Origin Brush fell, the space directly transformed into his canvas, and primordial energy gathered at the tip.

"I don't even need to mix in my own soul power to utilize the primordial energy of heaven and earth," Xu Yuan thought with satisfaction.

This meant that, aside from the soul power required for activation, the true energy-based attacks he unleashed with the Celestial Origin Brush were all formed by the gathering of heaven and earth primordial energy.

Allowing for greater endurance.

Of course, this was just the effect of purely mobilizing elemental power.

"Third Soul Skill, Manifestation!"

Xu Yuan outlined a graphic in mid-air, vividly lifelike, and a rich life force was injected into it, making it even more vibrant.

Space fluctuated, and a scroll revealed its true form, a paper soul spirit that naturally integrated into the space in front of Xu Yuan as he painted.

The scroll unfurled, and the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear within exuded a strange sense of oppression, as a sudden, realistic roar echoed.

The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear in the scroll became three-dimensional, as heaven and earth primordial energy and Xu Yuan's soul power converged, shaping its form.

Xu Yuan stepped forward, pinching various parts of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's body, making a judgment.

"There is a gap between this and a real Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear. It should be because my imitation is not in place, and not enough soul power and primordial energy was injected. It still needs to be developed."

However, even with the gap, it wasn't particularly large.

At least, Xu Yuan was certain that this Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear he drew was superior to Yang Nianxia's Dark Gold Bear in all aspects of quality and strength.

Moreover, with the injection of life force, this Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear could sustain itself, without Xu Yuan needing to constantly remain in the Celestial Origin Brush martial soul state.

Which meant he could start by painting a few helpers with the Celestial Origin Brush, then switch to the Celestial Origin Five Elements Spear martial soul and fight alongside the many beings he created.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I wonder what would happen if I drew myself?"

Xu Yuan thought, it seemed to overlap with the Illusionary Beast's illusionary clone.

However, what overlapped was only the Illusionary Beast's illusionary clone. Xu Yuan himself had not actually obtained this soul skill.

The fourth soul skill that the Illusionary Beast bestowed upon his brain martial soul was a supportive super control, capable of stimulating brain potential and comprehensively enhancing brain characteristics.

Now, if the Celestial Origin Brush's third soul skill, Manifestation, drew a clone body for himself, and then he used the ability to multitask to control it, it seemed he could get the Illusionary Beast's illusionary clone soul skill for free.

"It's still too troublesome. My strongest burst method is still spearmanship. The fusion of essence, energy, and spirit is the best. Wasting energy to control a clone is not conducive to battle."

"So, I can draw a body for Illusionary Star and draw more clones for him to control."

"Illusionary Star, you're in luck."

Xu Yuan entered the dream space and said to Illusionary Star, who was practicing the Five Elements Divine Light Shroud, "Illusionary Star, no need to practice anymore. It's also temporarily inconvenient for you to practice this Five Elements Divine Light Shroud."

Illusionary Star's numb eyes instantly became a little more agile.

"Next, you don't need to practice in the dream space either."

Not only did his eyes become agile, but the entire soul spirit of Illusionary Star perked up, becoming more vibrant.

"Next, in reality, cooperate with my Celestial Origin Brush's Manifestation soul skill to try to master the abilities of concentrated powerful soul beasts."

Xu Yuan naturally didn't plan to draw an Illusionary Beast manifestation for Illusionary Star to control.

He wanted to draw various powerful soul beasts such as the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear and then let Illusionary Star control them in battle.

Even with the injection of life force, the manifested drawing was more agile, but it was still better to let Illusionary Star control it.

"I'll try my best to gather five soul beasts with five elements attributes for you. After you adapt to controlling the five soul beasts, then use the five soul beasts to cooperate and cast the Five Elements Divine Light Shroud, as well as other self-created soul skills that I have in mind."

Illusionary Star's eyes were dull.

He looked at the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear in the direction Xu Yuan was pointing, and his entire soul spirit deflated.

You want me to control other soul beasts across species?

It's over, I'm going to be tainted.

"My mastery is your mastery, and your mastery is my mastery. With the mental link, it will be very convenient for us to communicate our experiences. The main reason you haven't mastered the Divine Light Shroud before is that I haven't developed it well, plus you don't have the ability to mobilize the five elements," Xu Yuan patted Illusionary Star on the shoulder.

Only appearing in soul spirit form, Illusionary Star was not tall at the moment, having shrunk his body to only be half the size of Xu Yuan.

"What torments is not a large number of tasks and cultivation, but the inability to see progress."

Xu Yuan earnestly taught Illusionary Star.

"In fact, isn't mastering abilities that you haven't mastered before a novel thing in itself?"

"Yao Yao, would you like to try the abilities of other soul beasts?"

Yao Yao rushed out from Xu Yuan's brow, its body only the size of a fist, lively and spirited at the moment.

Its vitality was much greater than Illusionary Star's. Even though it was squeezed in the dream space, it was still positive and optimistic, and it was the easiest soul spirit to pua under Xu Yuan.

Yao Yao followed the direction Xu Yuan pointed and came to the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, circling around this manifested Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, indeed looking somewhat hesitant and eager to try.

"Hmph ~ Hmph ~" (I don't have this ability)

Unfortunately, it did not have the ability to possess and control clones.