Douluo, there is a system but I don't want to use it

Chapter 35 The Essence of Soul Skills

After Fang Tian condensed the God-Slaying Flying Knife, he absorbed all kinds of metals that could be found in Soto City before he calmed down.

Now not only was there no new metal in Soto City, Fang Tian was also out of money. He couldn't buy new special metals anywhere else.

After the matter of the God-Slaying Flying Knife came to an end, Fang Tian began to study his martial soul and soul ring.

There is no doubt that Fang Tian's martial soul is walking on the path of life. Or according to the five elements, it is walking on the path of wood.

Fang Tian then began to use his life force to communicate with other plants around him, starting with the sweet potato vine.

Sweet potato vines have no consciousness at all, only instincts. Fang Tian made the sweet potato vines dependent by supplying them with vitality, and by repeating this process over and over again, he finally made some of the sweet potato vines submit to his martial arts spirit.

After this part of the sweet potato vines surrendered, Fang Tian could extend his perception through these sweet potato vines and "see" things farther away. Some of them were similar to the status of martial spirits being improved.

Fang Tian continued to plant sweet potatoes around Wanghun Village. It was easy anyway. He just cut off a 20-centimeter-long sweet potato vine, stuck it into the ground, poured water on it, and injected some vitality, and it would instantly take root and sprout, becoming a sweet potato seedling. In just one month, Fang Tian had planted sweet potatoes on all the surrounding barren mountains and fields.

Fang Tian began the journey of improving his martial soul's status, although he might not succeed.

While Fang Tian was studying his martial soul, he also did not forget to study his soul rings and soul skills.

Fang Tian discovered that every time he activated a soul skill, the soul power entered the martial soul, then flowed from the martial soul into the soul ring and then returned to the martial soul. Only then could the martial soul activate the effect of the soul skill.

The soul power did not change when it flowed into the martial soul, but it changed after flowing through the soul ring. It can be seen that the soul ring is the factor that affects the effect of the soul skill.

But due to his lack of mental strength, Fang Tian could not figure out how it worked.

After Fang Tian pondered for several days, he finally found inspiration from the coloring marking method in his previous life.

If you cannot sense the circulation of soul power in the soul ring, you can find a conspicuous object that will not affect the circulation of soul power and integrate it into the soul power, so that you can know the circulation of soul power by sensing this object.

Fang Tian used the purple energy to dye a small portion of the original green soul power with life attributes into light purple. Although it would soon be assimilated back by other soul powers, it was enough to study the operation of soul power.

Fang Tian used this part of purple soul power to activate soul skills, and found that the effect of the soul skills was the same as before. However, he could clearly sense the movement of soul power in the soul ring.

Fang Tian sensed the trajectory of the soul power in the soul ring over and over again, and recorded them one by one.

Finally, Fang Tian put together all the recorded soul power circulation trajectories for comparison, eliminated those trajectories that operated occasionally, and finally came up with something similar to a rune.

Fang Tian believed that it was because the soul power was transformed by this rune that the soul skill finally showed its effect. If the rune was mastered directly, the soul skill could be activated without the soul ring.

You can even engrave the runes on something to form a soul guide. Maybe this is also the principle of the soul guide. Of course, this is just Fang Tian's guess.

Fang Tian decided to use his own martial soul to try to verify this rune.

Fang Tian controlled his martial soul to grow into the shape of a rune, and each fork was where the rune forked. However, the result was not as expected.

If the rune grows too large, then the slightest error will lead to a huge mistake.

Fang Tian did not have such strong control over his martial spirit to shrink the rune, so he could not complete such a delicate operation. Fang Tian could only think of another way and use external objects.

This external object must be able to pass through the soul power smoothly so that the soul power can flow smoothly. Some special metals can definitely do it, but Fang Tian is short of money.

Some things that are often nourished by soul power are also acceptable, such as the flesh, blood, and bones of soul masters or soul beasts.

Fang Tian first let out a little of his own blood to verify that he could indeed circulate his soul power while maintaining his vitality.

Next, Fang Tian ran to the official Soul Hunting Forest of Soto City overnight and reached a cooperation with a team outside. Fang Tian helped them hunt the soul beasts they needed, and they took Fang Tian into the Soul Hunting Forest.

After two days of hard work, Fang Tian finally got the blood of a 600-year-old soul beast. He used his vitality to nourish it all the way, fearing that it would lose its vitality.

Back in Wanghun Village, Fang Tian tried to draw the runes with his homemade brush. This was not an easy job, it required fine control and a certain level of understanding.

After years of practicing the Nine Palace Sword Steps, Willow Leaf Flying Knife and other skills, Fang Tian's control over his physical body and martial soul are completely different.

Fang Tian could use a knife to split a hair vertically, but he couldn't make every position of his martial soul grow with the precision of a hair.

Fang Tian began to carefully draw the runes with a brush dipped in the soul beast's blood. After practicing dozens of times, a qualified rune was born.

Fang Tian took advantage of the fact that the soul beast blood on the rune was still active and quickly input soul power from one end. He also guided the soul power output from the other end to a section of sweet potato vine.

Since the rune Fang Tian chose was the rune of rooting this soul skill, the section of sweet potato vine used in the experiment quickly regained its vitality and grew dense roots at the bottom.

"Hahaha! Success!" Fang Tian was overjoyed. This showed that his guess was correct, and the soul skills were indeed determined by these runes.

"Did you succeed?" Qiu Fengyan's voice came from the side, which scared Fang Tian.

"What have you been doing these days? You're so secretive and you don't even tell me." To be honest, Qiu Fengyan was a little dissatisfied. The two of them had been through life and death together many times and were friends for life and death who could entrust each other with their affairs after death.

"Hehehe! It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I didn't have time to tell you when the idea came to me. And I don't know if it will succeed, so I kept it from you for now." Fang Tian explained quickly. Don't let this little thing cause any trouble.

"Oh? So what have you been researching these days?"

"Hehe, I'm studying the nature of spirit rings and spirit skills, and I've verified it successfully." Fang Tian proudly introduced to Qiu Fengyan: "With this, we may be able to increase the age of spirit rings in the future."

"Are you serious about increasing the age of your spirit rings?" Qiu Fengyan asked in shock.

"Of course it's true. I have already researched that the essence of soul skills is actually runes. Well, runes are the name I gave it. Look, this is the rune." Fang Tian pointed to the rune he had just drawn on the table that Rooted in this soul skill.

"This rune is the reason why my first soul skill has a rooting effect. I have copied it in the outside world. If it is fixed using special metal processing, it can form a special soul guide." Fang Tian introduced proudly.

"Soul guide? How come there is such a thing as soul guide?" Qiu Fengyan asked puzzledly.

(End of this chapter)