Chapter 76: Quiet Cultivation

Dugu Bo looked at Zhou Heng, who had been standing to the side for a while without saying a word.

Dugu Bo was a bit worried; he couldn't let anything happen to Zhou Heng because of a single sparring session, or he would be in a miserable state himself.

With a serious expression, he looked at Zhou Heng and asked, "Little Heng, what's wrong? Did something happen? Why aren't you saying anything?"

Zhou Heng came back to his senses, saw the worry in Dugu Bo's eyes, and felt joy in his heart. He said, "I'm fine, I was just thinking about Battle Techniques. I plan to create a Battle Technique myself to integrate my methods."

Dugu Bo nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's true. Before, when I watched you fight, you were always using various elements to face the enemy.

It was impossible to see the effects of your soul skills, so it is time for you to create a Battle Technique of your own."

Zhou Heng looked at the flushed Dugu Bo and laughed, saying, "See? How is the improvement after I condensed my Soul Core? Do you want to condense a Soul Core too?"

Dugu Bo curled his lips and said disdainfully, "You only have this kind of combat power because you rely on Extreme Power.

If you didn't have Extreme Power, your Element Spirit Tree martial soul would never have this kind of combat power; it could only be considered average talent."

Zhou Heng shook his head and said, "I am not talking about Extreme Power, but rather that after condensing a Soul Core, the recovery speed of soul power is significantly enhanced, and the quality of soul power is also improved to a certain extent.

Didn't you notice that during our previous sparring, when I unleashed Extreme Power, I didn't care about the consumption of soul power at all?

That is the ability of the Soul Core; the Soul Core brought me an extremely fast soul power recovery speed, allowing me to not worry about soul power consumption."

Hearing Zhou Heng say this, Dugu Bo recalled the previous battle; Zhou Heng indeed did not care about soul power consumption, and all his moves were wide-open and unrestrained.

"Then, tell me, how should I condense a Soul Core?" Dugu Bo was now tempted; he also wanted to experience this kind of battle where he didn't have to worry about soul power consumption, and could fight in a wide-open and unrestrained manner.

"It's not difficult. During these days, work hard to improve your control over soul power, and at the same time, your spiritual power must also meet the standard.

As long as you can maintain the state of Spirit and Qi Unite for more than three hours, you will succeed."

Zhou Heng taught Dugu Bo some techniques to improve soul power control and tips for practicing Spirit and Qi Unite; he truly needed someone with powerful combat strength to protect him now.

He had not yet fully grown, and when facing those close-combat explosive-type Spirit Masters, he was still not up to the task and needed Dugu Bo's terrifying lethality to protect him.

Afterwards, Zhou Heng sparred with Dugu Yan, letting Dugu Bo observe from the side.

After determining Dugu Yan's shortcomings, he gave her pointers to make up for them.

Zhou Heng then settled down in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, researching Battle Techniques during the day and studying soul ring knowledge at night, preparing to create soul skills within his Blood Qi Soul Ring.

Two years passed for Zhou Heng just like this. In these two years, Zhou Heng did not subdue any more Spirit Beasts, causing his own soul power to remain at level sixty, stuck at the realm of a Zhun Hundie.

However, during these two years, Zhou Heng finally realized what kind of Battle Technique he should create. With the help of novels and inspiration from his past life, Zhou Heng drafted three Battle Techniques, applying his Extreme Power.

And, regarding the research on soul ring knowledge, Zhou Heng also made discoveries.

In the eyes of this Douluo Star consciousness, a soul ring is the external manifestation of one's own laws. After reaching a bottleneck, one must absorb a soul ring to break through the bottleneck and enter the next realm, providing oneself with the ability to continue cultivating.

And the soul skill within a soul ring is condensed from the soul fragments of the killed Spirit Beast under the laws of Douluo Star.

Because the soul fragments left behind by killed Spirit Beasts vary, every person's soul skill in their soul ring has some differences, more or less, but the effects of the soul skills are roughly the same.

And, if you want to create a complete soul skill within a soul ring yourself, it is divided into three steps:

One, create the imprint of the soul skill; the person who wants to create the soul skill must have a certain level of insight into the soul skill they want to create.

For example: if you want to engrave a "Wind Blade" soul skill, then first, it requires you to have your own understanding and design for the Wind Blade.

For instance, if you want a soul skill with no cooldown, how should it be designed; if you want a huge Wind Blade, how should it be designed.

All of this requires sufficient insight to design the corresponding soul skill.

After all, if you yourself do not have a certain understanding and insight into the soul skill you want to create, it is almost impossible to successfully create a soul skill.

Two, you need powerful spiritual power; you must be able to use spiritual power to engrave the created soul skill imprint into the soul ring.

If you do not have powerful spiritual power, even if you create a soul skill, you will have no way to engrave it into the soul ring.

Three, harmonize the soul skill and the soul ring; after the soul skill is engraved into the soul ring, you need to harmonize the connection between the soul skill and the soul ring, making the soul ring and soul skill fuse into one, indistinguishable from each other.

And the method to harmonize the soul skill and the soul ring is also very simple. As long as the created soul skill does not differ too much from your own attributes and has more than fifty percent compatibility, it can trigger the inclusive characteristics of the soul ring, allowing the soul ring to harmonize with the soul skill on its own.

And in these two years, Zhou Heng has already created the first Blood Qi Spirit Skill - Blood and Flesh Unity.

This is the name he gave based on the characteristics of the soul skill after he used "short-term fusion of spiritual power and Blood Qi" as the soul skill and engraved it into the soul ring.

The effect of Blood and Flesh Unity is very simple and crude: it significantly improves control over Blood Qi and simultaneously increases the quality of Blood Qi power by thirty percent.

This is a passive soul skill; as long as this soul skill is activated, it can passively allow spiritual power and Blood Qi to fuse together, with no limit on the duration.

As long as one's own Qi and Blood Power and spiritual power can persist, one can continue to use this Blood Qi Spirit Skill.

The reason Zhou Heng created this soul skill was also to better use the soul skills he would create later.

Now, Zhou Heng is not far from creating his second soul skill.

And in these two years, to improve his Qi and Blood Power, Zhou Heng also deduced a Body Tempering Technique, refining nutrients from food by eating.

These nutrients can strengthen the quantity and quality of Blood Qi, assisting Zhou Heng in his cultivation.

Relying on this technique, in two years, Zhou Heng increased his Blood Qi by about forty percent, which also caused Zhou Heng's body to be improved once again.