Douluo: Soul Breaking Spear

Chapter 31 Learning Gunmanship
Early in the morning of that day, Yang Podi came to the training ground in his backyard and began practicing his spear skills.

Yang Podi looked carefully at the Soul-Breaking Spear in his hand.

The spear is one of the ancient Chinese weapons. It is a long-handled stabbing weapon composed of a sharp blade and a stick. The handle is longer than the blade and has great comprehensive power. It is one of the "Eighteen Weapons" and the first of the "Four Famous Weapons", and is known as the "King of All Weapons".

A spear is a long-handled weapon made up of a long stick and a short blade. The two together form a spear, which can not only be used in hand-held close combat, but also can be thrown for long-range attacks. You can also freely use different spear techniques to attack the enemy according to the advantages and tactics of various long weapons.

The knife, spear, sword, and stick are the best weapons in ancient China, each with its own unique status and characteristics: the knife is known as the "chief of all weapons", the spear is known as the "king of all weapons", and is deeply loved by the ancients for its long-range and wide-range killing effect. The sword is known as the "king of all weapons" and is also a symbol of power in ancient times. The stick is known as the "ancestor of all weapons" and is the most primitive and simplest weapon.

From any perspective, the gun is the most powerful of all weapons and the most important weapon on the battlefield, without a doubt.

However, on Douluo Continent, although the Soul-Breaking Spear is known as a top-level weapon spirit, it does not have a corresponding status.

The Soul-Breaking Spear Technique has nine moves in total, corresponding to the eight soul skills of the Soul-Breaking Spear, and no one has figured out the last move. They are shock, penetration, explosion, penetration, breaking, brake, collapse, killing, and killing.

Since all of them are offensive moves, they are used with the Soul-Breaking Spear, which has great lethality. This is also the reason why the Yang family is called the Soul-Breaking Clan. Just like the soul skills, they all choose offensive soul beasts, and even summarize a set of soul ring absorption methods and sequences, which correspond to the Soul-Breaking Spear moves one by one.

The most exaggerated thing is that if it comes to a desperate fight, all the soul ring skills can be combined and used to cause a fatal blow. The original snake spear also died from this move.

However, Yang Podi has always felt that although the Soul-Breaking Spear Technique is powerful, it is not the essence of the spear technique itself.

The real foundation of spearmanship is techniques such as stabbing, piercing, teasing, pulling, blocking, grabbing, twisting, picking, pressing, chopping, collapsing, and dancing. As long as you master these, there will not be so many requirements for soul skills. This is one of the reasons why Yang Podi dared to absorb all the power-type soul rings.

The basics of spear skills include: stabbing spear skills, piercing spear skills, twisting spear skills, picking spear skills, flicking spear skills, pounding spear skills, chopping spear skills, sweeping spear skills, dancing spear skills, collapsing spear skills, and blocking spear skills. As long as you learn them, you can basically master the use of the Soul-Breaking Spear perfectly.

As for more sophisticated moves, Yang Po Di is not able to practice them at this stage. The most important thing now is to lay a good foundation so that the Soul-Breaking Spear in his hand can be as useful as his own hands and feet.

This is also Yang Podi’s main learning goal at this stage.

And Yang Podi himself started with the very basic stabbing spear technique.

Yang Podi was seen holding a heavy soul-breaking spear in his hand, thrusting forward. There are three main types of spear thrusts: horizontal thrust, oblique upward thrust, and oblique downward thrust. The horizontal thrust is mostly used to stab the opponent's chest, waist, and abdomen, the oblique upward thrust is mostly used to stab the opponent's throat, head, face, back of the head, etc., and the oblique downward thrust is mostly used to stab the opponent's legs, feet, and other parts.

Even if it was a simple spear-thrusting technique, Yang Podi would practice it for two hours every morning until his whole body ached, then he would stop practicing and go have breakfast.

Yang Po Di's plan was to master one move completely before practicing the next one. It was estimated that each move would take two months of practice to barely master, and it would take at least three years to fully master it.

This is just a simple gun technique. The real advanced gun technique needs to wait until the foundation is laid before learning. This is still in Douluo Continent. Because of becoming a soul master, you have the blessing of soul power and your physical fitness has greatly improved. If it were in the ancient times of the past, it would take ten years to become a master of guns.

That afternoon, after Yang Podi finished learning about alchemy, he was about to leave when he was stopped by Yang Wudi.

"Po Di, I heard that you usually study and practice alone. You are my grandson, the young patriarch of the Po Yi clan, and you will also be the patriarch of my Po Yi clan in the future. You must learn to communicate with others instead of practicing hard alone."

"Grandpa, it's not that I don't like to communicate with others, but the people I study with are all children, and they are too childish."

"Po Di, even so, you can't play with someone of your own age. This will make you seem very lonely. How can you lead the Po Yi Clan in the future? Besides, no matter how strong you are, you still need help."

"Grandpa, no matter what, I still think that personal strength is the most important. Only when I become stronger can I truly lead the Po Yi clan."

"I think it's boring for you to practice shooting and study alone. Boys still need to communicate more with their peers, so they won't be bored."

Hearing Yang Wudi's words, Yang Podi was speechless. Why did grandpa come to see him today? He wouldn't say this for no reason, right?
"Grandpa, you've said so much, what exactly do you want to say? Can you just say it directly?"

"Defeat the enemy. It's like this. There is a kid of your age named Yang Ping'an. His mother died of illness some time ago. His father and grandfather both died in the war of Haotian Sect. His mother entrusted him to me before she died. I want to just recognize him as her grandson. Your parents have agreed."

"Grandpa, since you all agreed, why are you still asking me?"

"Podi, Yang Ping'an awakened his martial soul at the same time as you did. He has an innate soul power of level seven, which makes him a rare genius in our Poyi clan. He also practices very hard. I want him to train with you so that he can become your right-hand man in the future."

Yang Podi thought for a moment and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it. Besides, the Poyi Clan really couldn't rely on themselves alone. The innate soul power level 7 was already considered a genius. Zhu Zhuqing of Shrek Academy was also innate soul power level 7. If she was trained, she should be able to become a soul saint or even soul douluo in the future.

"Grandpa, no problem. You can arrange for him to live in our house. I will take him to practice together when the time comes."

Hearing Yang Podi say this, Yang Wudi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This grandson of mine is very mature at a young age, and he practices very hard and self-disciplined, and he is very talented, basically very good in all aspects. But he doesn't like to interact with others, and he doesn't have many friends in the clan. I'm afraid he won't even have a helper if something happens in the future.

Yang Ping'an's innate soul power is level seven, which makes him a pretty good talent. By letting him study with Yang Podi, he can not only solve the problem of the clan members entrusting their children to him, but also solve the problem of his own grandson's mental illness, killing two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)