Chapter 263: New Progress on Soul Spirits

When Su Yu received the written order from Xu Jiawei, he knew the matters of the Su Family had been satisfactorily resolved. However, he still would not tell anyone the news that his parents and clansmen were alive. Although these matters could very likely be used by Jing Hongchen as bargaining chips for extortion, Su Yu was not worried at all, because Luo Yu was still in the Sun Moon Empire.

This was his trump card, an unknown trump card for a desperate situation!

After returning to the Su Family, Su Yu did not hesitate at all; he took Xu Jiawei's written order and began to issue commands.

In a short span of three days, he had the inside and outside of the Su Family organized in perfect order. It seemed as if everything had returned to normal operation, only there was no longer the grand spectacle of the past. The disappearance of Su Xinyuan meant the Su Family could never recover its former glory.

Because the connections were severed, severed very thoroughly. Although Su Yu could spend time stringing them back together, there was no need for that.

"You brat, how come you thought of returning to the Undead World?" Yi Lao asked kindly.

"It's not like I can let Teacher's homework fall behind, right? I still need to learn Undead Magic. After all, I am still far from obtaining Teacher's approval. What's more, if I can't become familiar with Teacher's Undead Magic, how can I fully resurrect Teacher in the future?"

He had delayed many lessons of Yi Lao's Undead Magic. Now that the situation had entered a brief period of calm, he could settle his mind and be a Necromancer.

Under Yi Lao's guidance, one obscure and profound magic incantation after another was continuously chanted from Su Yu's mouth, using Spirit Power as the foundation to begin constructing magic. There had never been a shortcut for Undead Magic; if there were, the price would be for Yi Lao to pay with his own life.

In the original work, Huo Yu Hao did not spend much time learning Yi Lao's Undead Magic, yet he was able to easily master the Undead Magic left behind by Yi Lao. This point was clearly related to the Third Martial Soul that Yi Lao had transformed into.

Constantly overlapping magic arrays were rapidly constructed in the Undead World, and complex magic runes were continuously formed and inscribed.

As time passed, the magic array glowing with black light collapsed with a boom, and the gathered magic power scattered at the moment of collapse.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Su Yu coughed a few times, looking somewhat disheveled. There is a price for failing to cast high-level magic. Although the magic Su Yu was currently casting was not considered very high-level, the backlash was not yet powerful.

Relying on the body transformed by Life Gold to withstand this bit of backlash, at most it would just cause his blood and Qi to surge; there would be no major harm.

"It seems I still need to practice more..."

Every failure is accumulating experience for success. If you always trip in the same place several times, then in all likelihood, you yourself have made no progress at all.

"If this were in actual combat, you would probably have already become a true undead. Your casting speed is too slow..."

The aged voice echoed in Su Yu's ears. Yi Lao slowly condensed his figure in front of Su Yu. The current Yi Lao seemed to have recovered quite well; even his previously illusory body had become a bit more solid now. It was just unknown when he would be able to fully recover.

"Uh, then I'll practice more, practice more..."

Su Yu defended himself with no confidence.

Regarding Undead Magic, Su Yu had indeed delayed a lot, but Yi Lao did not blame him; Yi Lao had been watching his situation all along.

However, Yi Lao did not relax the assessment for Su Yu because of Su Yu's personal reasons. In the teaching of Undead Magic, Electrolux's requirements were very high. Regarding this, the reason he gave was: as my disciple, the requirements naturally have to be a bit higher.

Indeed, just a bit.

Just a hundred million points higher...

"Don't even think about going out for the next two days. Practice the seven high-level magic arrays I taught you today until I am satisfied. If things go on like this, your great talent will really be wasted. What are you standing there for? Go practice. I've already marked out the field for you."

Yi Lao waved his large hand, and the ground beneath Su Yu's feet vanished. Then, amidst a dizzying spin, he arrived at a certain open space in the Undead World.

The place before his eyes was a valley filled with corpses, and looking out, it was a scene of deathly silence.

"Forgot to remind you, this Corpse Rock Valley might give birth to liches or abominations, skeletons, or... anyway, just pay more attention yourself..."

"Hey, hey, Teacher, you..."

Before he could finish speaking, a pale skeletal arm grabbed Su Yu's ankle. The icy cold touch made Su Yu subconsciously want to circulate his soul power and summon his Soul Rings and martial soul.

But, the next instant, he was dumbfounded; his martial soul was gone...

His Soul Rings were gone, and his soul power could not be sensed either!!

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After a flurry of chaotic fighting, Su Yu quickly adjusted. After all, he had been tortured like this by Yi Lao before.

Although the seven high-level magic arrays taught by Yi Lao were complex, after many practices, he was able to manage to maintain them until the end of the array.

Of course, he also had to guard against those guys suddenly giving Su Yu a punch out of the blue from time to time!

Looking at the vast, swarming army of undead outside the Corpse Rock Valley, Su's heart could not be more excited. Given time, who wouldn't be an Undead Summoner?

Three days later.

The exhausted Su Yu slumped powerlessly on a rock. Three days of high-intensity magic output made Su Yu feel that his Spirit Power had been completely squeezed dry.

"In these three days, I conducted a simple experiment. Facts prove that my conjecture is correct." Yi Lao walked over holding a manuscript that Su Yu could not understand.

The characters on the manuscript were neat, but Su Yu could not understand a single one. This type of writing was different from the characters of Douluo Continent and Blue Star; it was clearly some kind of writing from the world Yi Lao once belonged to.

"Although I cannot research the essence of martial souls clearly for the time being, the fact that I can turn the soul of a Soul Beast into a Soul Spirit through a contract to solve the problem of Soul Rings proves one thing: the essence of a Soul Ring is a special type of energy derived from the soul of a Soul Beast."

"Previously, Huo Yu Hao, because of the sacrifice of the big worm, was able to add a blank ice-type martial soul to his ordinary Spirit Martial Soul. This point alone proves that the humans of Douluo Continent have the possibility of adding extra martial souls through some channel."

"However, these are just my speculations. My energy is limited now, and I cannot complete so much research. Therefore, I have done some analysis based on the Soul Rings you absorbed through the Soul Spirit Contract previously. Facts prove that the Soul Rings absorbed by Soul Masters originate from a certain power within the souls of Soul Beasts, and the process of you absorbing Soul Rings is to eliminate the consciousness and a portion of the soul that belongs to the Soul Beast."

"In terms of creating Soul Spirits, it doesn't necessarily have to require the soul of a Soul Beast. We can collect power from the Soul Beast, and at the same time, use a portion of the Soul Beast's soul as a medium; perhaps we can make a prototype of a Soul Ring. However, I still need Soul Rings as research materials. I think that little black dragon named Di Tian will be very interested in this matter."

Although Yi Lao was in the state of a remnant soul, as time passed, Yi Lao's memories were also gradually recovering. If Yi Lao really recovered to his peak period, he could probably beat those guys living in the sky to a pulp.

"But, Teacher, I have a question?" Su Yu knew Electrolux's plan. Why must a Soul Beast's Soul Ring only be produced after death? It most likely involved the realm of the soul, and Yi Lao was a top-tier expert in this aspect.

"Little fellow, what do you want to say?" Electrolux looked at Su Yu in confusion.

"If we use the soul of a Soul Beast as a medium, how should the Soul Beast's power be collected? Is it extracted directly from the Soul Beast's body, or absorbed using Undead Magic? Moreover, every experiment requires test subjects. But where are we going to find the first-stage test subjects?" Su Yu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead; Yi Lao's boldness was not ordinary.

"This brings us to the experiment I did these past two days." Yi Lao chuckled and looked at Su Yu, continuing: "Although only you have used our previous Soul Spirit Contract, and the completion was not perfect, after that, I made new improvements. At the same time, I also summarized some experience and collected materials based on the changes in those two little guys."

"In these three days, I tried to extract a bit of soul from those two guys. As Soul Spirits, their own power also carries some uniqueness from when they were alive, so before we formally conduct the Soul Ring experiment, they will be used as the materials. As for you, you are naturally the container."

Su Yu's expression changed, "I'm not going to be that lab rat for the experiment, am I?"

"What lab rat? As the only human who has successfully created a Soul Spirit, you naturally have research value. Rest assured, if it fails, you won't die either; at worst, the two of us master and disciple will just become undead creatures. However, rest assured, the place for the experiment is in the Undead World, not in your sea of consciousness."

"Then when are we setting off? I think it's best to discuss this kind of thing with Di Tian. We are indeed lacking sufficient materials. If we keep trying like this, we will eventually have to conduct research on living organisms. There are many Soul Beasts that die every day in the Star Dou Great Forest, and with Teacher's current state, you should be able to conduct research for a long time."

Returning to the main topic, although Su Yu was a good example, research on substitutes for Soul Rings also required experiments on living organisms.

Regarding the experiment on Soul Spirits, there had been no substantial progress. Although Di Tian knew they couldn't be rushed on such a major matter, Su Yu also hoped it would be best to have some progress.

Otherwise, if the big pie he drew turned out to be empty, there would likely be no credibility to speak of.

Regarding the research on Soul Spirits, Su Yu and Yi Lao had actually discussed it all along. The research on Soul Spirits in later generations was achieved by slaughtering a large number of Soul Beasts and forcibly filling the gap in theory through countless experiments in practice.

Facts proved that the Soul Spirit experiments of later generations involved the aspect of the soul. The Spirit Ascension Platform, in a certain sense, was a gathering place for the souls of Soul Beasts and Soul Rings.