Chapter 262: A New Project — Soul Cultivation Method

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The coin was an ordinary one, and the soul guide array engraved on it was as rudimentary as could be.

"It's cleverly designed, but I found it long before."

As Su Yu carefully sensed the life within the emerald-green bag, he could feel a strong vitality emanating from it.

If the space were to collapse and the bag fell into this coin, even with the Life Evergreen Vine bag, the Golden Behemoth's life would gradually fade away faster.

"The bloodline of the Golden Behemoth is still quite powerful. Even in its juvenile, dormant state, it exudes such a strong aura."

Su Yu's perception wasn't superficial. He used his mental energy to conduct a thorough examination, gaining a preliminary understanding of the Golden Behemoth's strength.

"An ordinary Dark Golden Claw Bear can't compare to the Golden Behemoth. Only a creature with a pure bloodline at the peak, like Bear King, could rival the Golden Behemoth's bloodline."

Of course, this comparison was made to the purest bloodlines of the Golden Behemoth.

The emerald-green bag contained one such Behemoth, with a bloodline as pure as it could be.

Su Yu opened the bag, revealing a small, slightly withered, grayish ape lying inside.

He pulled the creature out, and the surrounding energies of the world naturally transformed into life force, merging into the small ape's body.

The Golden Behemoth had a fierce appearance, not particularly attractive, but as Su Yu continuously infused life force into it, the creature's withered fur regained its shine. Its sleeping eyes slowly opened, revealing brownish-yellow pupils that sparkled like gemstones, with golden irises.

The newly awakened Golden Behemoth cub had a dazed look in its eyes, seemingly confused about its current situation.

It seemed that the ferocity ingrained in its bloodline caused a hint of brutality to show in its golden pupils, but under Su Yu's influence, even though it displayed aggression, it didn't dare act on it.

After a moment, feeling the benefits of the life force that Su Yu continuously injected into its body, the cub restrained its hostility, quietly allowing Su Yu to examine it.

"It seems the damage to its life essence isn't very severe; it should recover quickly."

The Golden Behemoth cub, which had initially shown signs of ferocity upon awakening, was now becoming quite affectionate toward Su Yu.

Its frail body began to grow slightly as the life energy restored it, but it didn't become bloated. Instead, it exuded a sense of strength.

"Little Golden Fur, I'll help restore your vitality. Afterward, I'll take some of your bloodline power, and we'll consider this even."

Su Yu continued to convert life force.

In just five minutes, the Golden Behemoth, which had previously lost much of its life force, revived and seemed to bristle with vitality, as though it had never been sealed for thousands of years.

However, in this short time, the amount of life force Su Yu had infused into the little creature was immense, roughly equivalent to the entire life force of a typical 3,000 to 4,000-year-old soul beast.

The Golden Behemoth cub seemed to understand Su Yu's words and, feeling a little downcast, reached out and hugged Su Yu's hand.

"You want to follow me?" Su Yu shook his head. "I don't have time to take care of you."

However, this Golden Behemoth was a rare bloodline. Raising a young one like this would surely ensure loyalty. Moreover, in the Fake Dragon Valley, the Golden Behemoth's aura would attract the attention of the dragon-type soul beasts here. Even if they feared the bloodline's presence, they would still likely target the cub.

"Come with me to Sun-Moon Hall for now. Once you're stronger, I'll give you another chance to decide."

As Su Yu spoke, he began drawing out the bloodline power of the Golden Behemoth. Meanwhile, life force continued to flow into the cub's body, causing it no pain.

Although some bloodline power was taken from it, the influx of life energy would gradually make up for the loss, ensuring that the cub's foundation remained intact.

With a wave of his free hand, a large amount of spatial force distorted in front of him, forming a vortex. A passage gradually formed.

Su Yu, carrying the Golden Behemoth cub, quickly passed through the passage and arrived at Sun-Moon Hall.

"Blue Spirit Douluo!"

After Su Yu broke through to Titled Douluo, he didn't choose a title for himself, as the concept of titles held little meaning for him.

However, the soul master world had already given him the title of Blue Spirit Douluo.

With his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and his pioneering work in the soul beast cultivation system, Blue Spirit Douluo had become the most fitting way to summarize Su Yu's contributions to the soul master community.

In the end, this wasn't truly Su Yu's title; it was simply a respectful title the soul masters had given him.

In fact, even before Su Yu's breakthrough to Titled Douluo, the title of Blue Spirit Douluo had already started circulating, even when he was just a Soul Douluo.

Su Yu had long since grown accustomed to such titles.

"Where are we with the soul guide device popularization project?"

Although Su Yu had always kept track of the reforms, he wasn't fully aware of all the specifics.

Now that he was back at Sun-Moon Hall after leaving the Extreme North, Su Yu's goal was clear—to complete the sixth trial from the God of Life, which involved establishing his own faith.

"By now, there should be a strong belief in me across the continent. I can feel the power of belief constantly gathering around me."

At this moment, Su Yu could feel a massive concentration of belief energy in his sea of consciousness.

He stored the belief energy in his martial soul space. As he prepared to condense his ninth soul ring, Su Yu's Blue Silver Grass martial soul seemed to transform into a world of its own, similar to the life space created by the Soul of the Living Blade.

Of course, Su Yu also knew that this was his martial soul space, his core. No matter how powerful the belief energy was, it still carried some impurities.

The belief energy Su Yu stored in the Blue Silver space was purified, the purest belief energy he had been using to nurture his spiritual essence and increase the age of his soul rings.

The belief energy gathered in the sea of consciousness was compressed and purified within the life space, ultimately being stored in the Blue Silver Space.

After the second Soul Battle Tournament, Su Yu could feel the belief energy from the world gathering around him every moment.

As time passed, especially after the complete publicization of the soul spirit cultivation system, the process of its widespread adoption accelerated, and Su Yu's acquisition of belief energy grew faster.

With the commencement of the Continental Unification War and the expanding territory of the Sun and Moon Empire, the implementation of laws to spread the soul spirit cultivation system, alongside other systems created by Su Yu, the speed at which he received belief energy surged dramatically.

The establishment of the federal system brought about a change in the entire Douluo Continent's structure, benefiting countless ordinary people who also contributed their belief.

It could be said that Su Yu was never lacking in belief.

"The widespread awakening of martial souls must be completed as soon as possible. This isn't progress; it's simply us finishing the work we should have done long ago."

"Yes, sir!"

Though an eighth-level soul master, this soul master from Sun-Moon Hall had completely subordinated himself to Su Yu.

The three major systems—the rune system, the battle armor system, and the soul spirit cultivation system—were all developed by Su Yu, and he had gained from all of them.

It could be said that Su Yu was his idol.

"No wonder you're known as Blue Spirit Douluo. Your vision is entirely different from others."

The universal martial soul awakening is not progress for us; it's simply us making up for past oversights.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

This soul master carefully reflected on Su Yu's words and the recent changes on the Douluo Continent over the last few millennia, feeling a deep sense of regret.

Indeed, Douluo Continent had been regressing all along.

Even the most fundamental aspect of the soul master community—the awakening of martial souls—had been neglected.

Now, the federation was simply picking up the work that should have been done long ago.

"Universal martial soul awakening is the key, but even more important is the quality of that awakening," Su Yu thought to himself.

While the universal awakening would indeed provide a fresh source of soul masters, the actual increase in numbers would not be significant.

For the soul master community to elevate itself and improve in quality, to rise to a new level and keep up with the future development of the Douluo Continent, fundamental changes were required.

"Martial soul awakening, innate soul power…"

This was the final reform Su Yu planned to implement for the soul master community.

He would develop a method to enhance the innate soul power of soul masters.

Instead of the current rare cases—where one in ten or one in a hundred can awaken soul power—every individual would have innate soul power, giving them a chance to cultivate. Eventually, their innate soul power would be strong enough to support at least their cultivation up to level ten.

This step-by-step process would optimize the bloodlines of all the people on Douluo Continent.

It would be a long and challenging project, but it was bound to yield immense rewards.

"Logically, my belief is already sufficient, but the sixth trial has yet to make any progress. Clearly, I haven't met the standards for establishing my own belief," Su Yu mused.

But what exactly were those standards?

"The goal of the God of Life and the God of Destruction is to help me condense a divine position. I've already reached the point where, through my understanding, I've derived the death and life runes into a divine position prototype."

However, this was clearly not the goal of the God of Life and the God of Destruction.

Although the God of Reincarnation position was powerful, it only represented Su Yu's strength, which wasn't as impactful as the potential long-term benefits of the God of Wisdom position.

"Moreover, despite receiving so much belief energy, I haven't felt any assistance in condensing my divine position!"

This was the most important point.

Why should Su Yu establish his own belief? The purpose of the God of Life was naturally to help Su Yu condense the God of Wisdom position.

"So, it seems that I still don't have enough belief. I need to have those who believe in me also believe in something specific, such as my wisdom."

Su Yu finally clarified this logic.

In other words, he needed to come up with a divine title for himself.

"Right, by developing a method to enhance innate soul power, I can spread both this technique and the title of the God of Wisdom at the same time."

"Blue Spirit Douluo, do you have any other instructions?" The soul master from Sun-Moon Hall noticed that Su Yu seemed to be in deep thought and didn't interrupt. Once Su Yu seemed to have figured things out, he asked.

"Hmm, I need to hold a federal meeting. Can you help me arrange it? Given my status, I should be able to summon it directly, right?"

"Yes, yes! As Blue Spirit Douluo, you certainly have the authority to convene a federal meeting." The soul master quickly responded.

"Great, please handle it."

Su Yu then headed to the General Technique Research Institute.

"Director, welcome."

As the director, Su Yu rarely visited, but his role in the institute was irreplaceable.

Although the researchers worked hard every day to develop general techniques, Su Yu's contributions during the final stages of perfecting these techniques were the most significant.

This wasn't a case of a leader stealing credit but rather that Su Yu's direction and solutions during the technique's refinement process had the greatest impact.

Moreover, intentionally or unintentionally, Su Yu had been nurturing the researchers' approach to developing and improving techniques.

If not for Su Yu's guidance, he could have developed the general techniques himself. However, because the techniques needed to be universal, it required considering applicability, investigating real-world cultivation situations, and engaging in tedious work, which is why the research institute was established.

Su Yu's training had paid off. The early mentoring in research methods had led the researchers to become more independent. After the soul spirit cultivation system was introduced, the institute's work on perfecting the techniques was increasingly less dependent on Su Yu.

They had clearly become less reliant on him.

"Alright, I'm starting a new project. Please gather everyone."

"A new project?"

Wasn't the task of the General Technique Research Institute just to perfect general techniques?

Before and after the last Soul Battle Tournament, the definition of general techniques had changed. Originally, the focus was on general techniques, but it had quickly shifted to techniques based on the soul spirit system developed by Su Yu.

And just like that, the research institute's task turned into perfecting the latest version of the general technique.

Thus, the research institute had always been focused on just one goal: to develop and popularize general techniques that could better suit most soul masters and make cultivation easier.

Now, hearing Su Yu talk about starting a new project, the senior researcher was confused.

Did this mean the institute was going to be reorganized?

Su Yu had a strong ability to gather people, and soon the researchers were assembled.

"I've called you all together to announce something. I plan to start a new project at the institute: the development of Soul Nourishment Techniques!"

"Soul Nourishment Techniques?" A researcher raised a question. "Director, what is the Soul Nourishment Technique? Aren't we supposed to be researching general techniques?"

Su Yu smiled faintly and explained, "Everyone, the Soul Nourishment Technique will also be a general technique, of the same nature. Its final goal is also to be as suitable for all soul masters to cultivate as possible, and it can even be cultivated alongside other general techniques."

"And the purpose of the Soul Nourishment Technique?" Su Yu shared his envisioned effects.

"Soul Nourishment... it naturally strengthens the martial soul and the root source of the martial soul."

Hiss!

As soon as Su Yu started explaining, the researchers gasped.

My goodness, strengthening the martial soul's root source?

Doesn't that mean improving the martial soul's quality?

If that's the case, does it mean that by practicing this Soul Nourishment Technique, soul masters could improve their martial soul's quality, and innate soul power would no longer limit their potential?

Since the director mentioned the Soul Nourishment Technique, does this mean he already has a prototype for it?

The researchers' eyes were filled with excitement as they looked at Su Yu, almost seeing the bright future ahead.

The moment the Soul Nourishment Technique is perfected, the soul master community will be shaken once again.

(End of chapter)