Yan's Training Path

Chapter 20 Yan's Training Path (Part 2)

This means that Yan can do more and more creative things.

By separately forging the control of fire and earth elements, one can then combine them to create enhanced magma energy with higher temperatures, greater hardness, or explosiveness. Based on this, the effects of soul skills can be altered through the change in the nature of the soul power, leading to different tactical options.

By compressing the shape of the flames and concentrating them into a cluster, a faster burst speed can be achieved. Alternatively, the shape and area of ​​the magma can be freely changed to achieve an effect similar to automatic defense.

Youchen referred to these two directions as the cultivation of "nature change" and "form change" respectively.

Combining these two aspects, after cultivating to an extremely high level, one can even create their own soul skills at will!

It can be said that the Flame Lord has a unique advantage in creating his own soul skills!

According to the information You Chen obtained from the original work, as well as the records of those Super Douluo in the Spirit Hall, after reaching the Super Douluo level, the level of understanding and control over the power of the Martial Soul's origin is the standard that distinguishes true strongmen, and the condition for further advancement.

You Chen's decision to have Yan cultivate this skill in advance is tantamount to paving the way for him. If this foundation is solid, he will be able to advance to the title of Douluo in the future, which will be a smooth road compared to other Soul Masters.

However, You Chen thought that knowing so much about the future in advance would easily lead his disciples to be overly ambitious.

He is now having Yan focus on this aspect, simply to make up for Yan's weakness in speed as much as possible.

To compensate for his speed deficiency by controlling the power of both fire and earth elements, You Chen's first thought was "Gundam's jetpack".

However, since it is a fantasy world, the name "jetpack" is somewhat ambiguous, so You Chen named it "Heat Thruster".

Through high-precision control of volcanic rock, a controllable booster is formed behind it.

With the help of this heat thruster, Yan can obtain the title of Douluo and the flight ability that only a very few flying-type Soul Masters possess at a relatively low Soul Master level.

Of course, flying and hovering in the air, continuously spewing flames, requires a lot of soul power, so this can only be used as a trump card.

The most common use of the heat thruster is for sudden acceleration, deceleration, and instantaneous changes of direction during combat.

This speed, which completely defies normal human intuition, is even more troublesome than a normally maintained high-speed highway.

Once Yan's strength increases further and his soul power becomes sufficient, he will be able to become a super-fast flying turret.

"Mobile flying turret"—this is the final form that You Chen planned for Yan.

To achieve this goal, the second and third soul skills that You Chen chose for Yan were, in the eyes of outsiders, the kind that were very misleading.

Even if you choose the most suitable soul beast and soul ring, not everyone can create a soul skill entirely based on their own will and ideas.

The process by which a Soul Master influences the creation of Soul Skills through their own will is also called "self-created Soul Ring" or "self-created Soul Skill".

The most important thing about creating your own spirit rings is that your mental strength must far exceed that of ordinary people.

Without superhuman mental strength, one is too preoccupied to even think clearly when absorbing a soul ring, let alone have a clear mind. Naturally, it is impossible to influence the generation of soul skills with one's own will.

The older the spirit ring, the more difficult it is to maintain clear thinking when absorbing it.

Ten thousand years later, there are even mental shocks left behind by soul beasts, making the difficulty even higher.

This also demonstrates the rarity of the adaptive soul ring that You Chen obtained from the system. Not only is its energy pure and its age adaptive, but it also doesn't cause any additional mental shock. Otherwise, he might not have been able to perfectly construct the "Sacrifice Sanctuary".

In order to enable Yan to create his own soul skill in the second stage, You Chen specially asked Yan to stay at the level 20 bottleneck for a longer period of time to refine his mental technique "Distraction Soul Refining Technique" to improve his mental power.

Although one can still improve their mental strength through meditation when at a bottleneck in soul power, the efficiency is naturally not as fast as when at a higher level.

Whether it was Bibi Dong's arrangement or the surrounding teachers and students all thought the same way, there were many rumors during that period that "You Chen misled the students".

After You Chen wasted Yan's precious cultivation time, and the soul skill born from the soul ring he chose was clearly incompatible with Yan's "power attack" type, You Chen's reputation plummeted in a short period of time, and the entire Spirit Hall Academy was filled with the ridicule of "mediocre teacher".

This also foreshadowed You Chen's marginalization at the Spirit Hall Academy.

That "useless soul skill" is called "Lava Barrier".

Although it's a thousand-year-old soul skill, its effect is quite simple: it instantly constructs a massive wall capable of withstanding damage by using soul power. That's all.

In the Douluo Continent, every Soul Master is assigned to a specific category of world, which is practically a reversal of the natural order.

If a defensive Soul Master obtains such a Soul Skill, then there's nothing wrong with it.

But if you're a power-attack type Soul Master and your Soul Skills aren't for enhancing attack or delivering powerful damage, then they're just trash Soul Skills.

When Yan heard the crowd's condemnation of his mentor, he wanted to "tell the truth," that is, to tell everyone about You Chen's plans for Yan's future.

But this was naturally stopped by You Chen.

This is not only because You Chen doesn't want his cultivation methods to be leaked, but also because You Chen deeply understands that even if he explains, most people will not understand, and those who want to criticize him will continue to criticize him.

The stigma of You Chen "misleading young people" was only cleared after Yan advanced to Soul Master and became invincible in the Soul Arena.

Whether it's the second or third soul skill, You Chen's idea is simple: to enhance Yan's ability to construct shaped objects using soul power.

The difficulty of cultivating something from nothing, performing "changes in nature" or "changes in form," is extremely high.

It's important to understand that soul power is not as omnipotent or easily controlled as chakra.

Even if the Flame Lord is born with the talent to enhance his control, this is still the case.

The Spirit Hall's collection does indeed contain some cultivation manuals in similar directions, but it takes several years to master any of them, which is one of the reasons why self-created spirit skills are so rare in this world.

Compared to learning from scratch, imitating the already formed soul skills in the soul ring is obviously a better choice.

After Yan completely transformed the "Lava Barrier" into his own, making it usable even without activating his Soul Ring, his cultivation in "Form Transformation" naturally progressed smoothly.

Anyway, once the rank is higher, given the Flame Lord's natural affinity for creating his own soul skills, he will be able to easily create soul skills that are hundreds or thousands of years old in the future.

Therefore, it's not a big deal to simply give up the first few soul skills.

The third soul skill is also related to form transformation, and it's called "Fiery Prison Cage." Its effect is to create a cage similar to the Lava Demon's Cage to imprison the enemy; it's an extremely powerful control and sealing skill. The complexity of the cage it creates is significantly greater than the shield from the second soul skill.

With two or three soul skills as his best teachers, Yan finally embarked on his journey of creating his own soul skills.

After Yan had made some progress in cultivating his self-created soul skill, he asked You Chen to name it in exchange for his teacher's guidance.

You Chen readily agreed and named the series "Flame-Shaped Magic"!

(End of this chapter)