area51novel Chapter 5 The Pearl of Imagination
Chapter 5 The Pearl of Imagination
"Cough, cough cough, Xiao You, Uncle really didn't mean it."
I never expected the soul power circulation technique deduced by your martial soul to be so effective, allowing me to break through the soul power bottleneck from level 75 to 76 in one fell swoop. I was so excited that I forgot you were even there.
At this moment, facing the fawning smile of Long Ye, the head of the Long family, Long You had no intention of answering at all. Instead, he continued to roll around on the ground.
Of course, Long You didn't actually do this on purpose. As a fragile level nine soul warrior, being subjected to a burst of soul power from a level seventy-six soul saint at close range, Long You actually held his breath.
Fortunately, Long Ye's martial soul recorded healing-type soul skills. Realizing what had happened, Long Ye immediately took remedial measures.
After a healing-type soul skill was used, Long You woke up and his internal and external injuries were basically healed, but the pain he felt had not disappeared.
Not only that, Long You's head was still buzzing. It seemed he had hit his head when he flew out, and unfortunately, Long Ye's healing soul skills couldn't reach his head.
The buzzing in his head made it impossible for Long You to receive any signals from the outside world. This led to the scene at the beginning, where the little brat ignored his family elders and kept humming to himself.
It took Long You two or three minutes to recover before he finally stood up, pulling on his uncle's hand.
"Become stronger, you must become stronger. The Douluo Continent now is a place where the strong get stronger. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, you can't experience it for yourself without strength."
After carefully checking that the attack had indeed not left any further damage to Long You, Long Ye led Long You away from the library.
That evening, in the courtyard of Long You's family, Long Lei, who had not yet returned to the military camp after dinner, was slowly practicing a new version of the Body Strengthening Fist, derived from Long You's martial spirit.
As mentioned before, the vast majority of the Long family's martial souls are books. Because book martial souls mostly have built-in recording functions, the owners of such martial souls possess a wider variety of abilities than ordinary soul masters of the same level.
However, these soul skills recorded through martial spirits are often less effective than the original soul skills. Therefore, the combat power of the Long family is actually quite average; they seem to be all-rounders but also incapable of doing anything.
In this situation, when members of the Long family go out and team up with other Soul Masters, their role is often that of an all-around support.
After realizing that it would be difficult for them to become Soul Masters with outstanding advantages in a certain aspect by relying on their Martial Soul, the ancestors of the Long family simply set their development goals entirely on being all-rounders.
Therefore, in order to make up for the weakness of weapon spirits in terms of physical enhancement, the ancestors of the Long family put a lot of effort into strengthening themselves.
The set of body-strengthening boxing that Long Lei is practicing is a secret manual that has been passed down and summarized by the Long family for generations. It can effectively improve personal physical fitness and enable family members to have a certain level of close combat skills.
Just like the soul power circulation technique passed down through generations of the Long family, this manual has now been optimized by Long You's martial soul. Of course, the soul power required for insight analysis and optimization is paid by Long Lei, while Long You is only responsible for summoning the martial soul.
After half an hour, despite his slow movements, Long Lei, who was covered in sweat, slowly finished his practice and stood up straight.
“It works. The previous set of body-strengthening boxing techniques wouldn’t have such a noticeable effect on me. Let’s skip tonight. You should familiarize yourself with the meditation method. Get up before sunrise tomorrow morning, and Xianjun will teach you how to practice the boxing.”
"Yes, Father."
Although Long You might occasionally complain in his heart that his father, Long Lei, was unreliable, he wasn't really a little kid. He could tell whether someone was doing it for his own good. Putting in the effort to become stronger was perfectly normal.
When the pointer on the timer showed that it was already nine o'clock in the evening, Long You was already lying quietly on his small bed.
The new version of the Soul Power Circulation Technique, also known as the Meditation Method, has become more streamlined. All Long You needs to do is repeatedly sketch the image of his own Martial Soul in his mind, thereby establishing a solid connection with it.
Then the martial soul will automatically absorb the free soul power from the outside world, and control the free soul power to circulate in the body once before entering the dantian.
"I always feel that this meditation method is quite different from the internal energy cultivation method that Tang San brought over, the Xuan Tian Gong."
This meditation method gives me a sense of déjà vu, like something out of a mystery novel. After all, on that Earth, the meditation of extraordinary beings involved sketching a sufficiently clear and familiar image of an object in their minds.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. In my previous life, I never came into contact with this kind of thing except for reading novels. Fortunately, my martial soul is powerful enough and my family's foundation is deep enough, otherwise I might have to go to Shrek Academy to seek out the Tang Sect's Xuan Tian Gong in the future."
Furthermore, considering the cultivation system of Douluo Continent, this meditation method that relies entirely on the Martial Soul doesn't seem unreasonable. After all, Soul Masters control and utilize Soul Power entirely through their Martial Soul, so relying on the Martial Soul during cultivation also seems perfectly acceptable.
Thinking this way, Long You gradually cleared his mind. Relying on the vague sensations from the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony, he allowed his consciousness to enter his sea of consciousness and patiently tried to sketch the image of an open scroll and a pair of bronze-framed glasses placed on top of it.
However, after the images of the Book of Witness and the Glasses of Insight became clear enough, what awaited Long You was not meditation and cultivation. In an instant, Long You's consciousness appeared in his sea of consciousness, where he saw the appearance of his martial spirit for the first time.
On the closed, plain white book sat a pair of round, brass-framed glasses. This image was exactly the same as the one Long You had just sketched in his mind. However, Long You felt that the location where his martial soul appeared seemed to be different from that of other soul masters.
Although Long You didn't actually know what form other Soul Masters' Martial Souls would take in the Soul Master's Sea of Consciousness, he felt that other Soul Masters' Martial Souls would definitely not appear in a crystal ball shrouded in white mist.
Come to think of it, the crystal ball looked quite familiar to Long You. Because this crystal ball was the very one Long You had broken before he transmigrated.
"Ha, so I really was transported to another world by a crystal ball!"
After carefully sensing the crystal ball and confirming that the connection between himself and his martial soul had not been severed, Long You put aside his worries and controlled his consciousness to touch the outer wall of the crystal ball.
The next moment, "Where am I?"
The moment Longyou's consciousness touched the outer wall of the crystal ball, he realized that he had entered a space surrounded by white mist and standing on something that looked like white clouds.
The sudden experience caused Long You to instinctively ask for directions. The next moment, information that had been hidden deep within Long You's soul since the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony quietly surfaced.
"The Pearl of Imagination. As long as you have enough mental energy, you can conjure up anything in this space that seems to be above the white clouds. The more you understand what you conjure up, the less mental energy you need to conjure up."
It seems the crystal ball that transported me through time has ultimately become my cheat code! With such a magical bead existing, my path as a Soul Master will be much easier in the future. Those precious rare metals that others wouldn't dare use for practice, I have no such worries.
Of course, the Pearl of Imagination can have many other uses than just this, but in this moment, this is all I can think of.
However, exploring the Pearl of Imagination isn't urgent right now. The most pressing matter is changing our surroundings. Standing on clouds looks cool, but it actually makes me feel guilty!
As Long You's thoughts shifted, the surrounding white cloud space silently began to change. Just as Long You felt that his mental energy was about to become insufficient, a soul-guided laboratory exactly the same as the one in the main residence of the Long family was slowly formed.