Chen Xiaojun reacted the fastest, immediately replying, "Wow, brother, you're amazing! You truly are my brother!" Ye
Xiuxin smiled happily upon hearing this, asking, "Big brother, when did you break through?
Come on, put down your soul power so Grandpa and Mom can sense it."
"Okay, sure." After saying that, Chen Jianjun released his soul power, which began to fluctuate.
Chen Yu was very pleased: "Indeed, good, good, good!"
Ye Xiuxin's gentle voice couldn't hide her joy as she said, "Your father was gone for more than half a year. He must be very happy to know you broke through to Soul Master when he returned."
Soul Master is different from Soul Master and Great Soul Master, after all, it is the first major bottleneck on the path of Soul Master, breaking through the Soul Nest.
A Soul Master at nearly twelve years old, and still using the Central Righteous Sword Qi Technique, the Seven Kill Sword Soul Master.
The Seven Kill Sword, inherently imbued with killing intent, was created by the patriarch Chen Xili to lay a solid foundation and prevent future weakness and backlash against the Soul Master.
It was refined by generations of ancestors, resulting in the Neutral Sword Qi Technique, replacing the previous meditation method.
Combined with the Seven Kill Qi Concealing Technique, it gathers the killing intent to strengthen the foundation, making the sharp Soul Power within the Seven Kill Sword much more balanced and gentle, expanding and nourishing the meridians and internal organs.
The only problem is the slow Soul Power conversion efficiency; in the past, many family Soul Masters only reached the Soul Venerable level at fourteen or fifteen years old.
Chen Jianjun also said happily, "I broke through the day before yesterday."
Chen Yu turned to Ye Xiuxin and instructed, "Good.
How are you feeling?
Is there anything wrong?
Although breaking through to Soul Venerable isn't difficult, damaging the meridians is not good. Xiuxin, check him out."
Ye Xiuxin is a Soul Emperor-level support/healer Soul Master, skilled in this area.
Chen Jianjun shook his head and said, "No need, no need, Grandpa, everything is fine."
"Have your mother check her out!" Chen Yu insisted on checking him out.
Ye Xiuxin stood up and came to Chen Jianjun's side. A blue light flashed in her right palm as she placed it against Chen Jianjun's left palm, and the two stood facing each other.
After a while, Ye Xiuxin lowered her hand, let out a breath, and slowly said, "Well, my meridians are fine, just a little stiff.
They'll be fine after a couple of days of rest.
Although the Seven Kill Sword Qi has been transformed, it's still fierce when it comes to breaking through the bottleneck. Hmm, the lower Soul Nest has indeed opened."
"Congratulations, Mother."
Chen Xiaojun, who was standing to the side, immediately heard the key point. "Grandpa, Mother, what is a Soul Nest?"
Chen Yu slowly explained, "A Soul Nest is where soul power and spiritual power converge.
It's hidden in the physical body, not in the meridians, yet connected to them, and can store soul power and spiritual power."
"Before the Soul Venerable, our soul power was stored in the meridians, but how much can the meridians store?"
"Actually, not much. Our ancestors, through exploration, found the location of the martial soul that is usually hidden in our physical body, and refined it through the martial soul, storing it in that place."
"Don't be fooled by how small this place looks from the outside. It can actually contain a vast space, and it can be expanded infinitely."
"Therefore, the Soul Master world calls it the Soul Nest, meaning the nest where the Martial Soul resides and where Soul Power is stored."
"There are three Soul Nests in total: lower, middle, and upper.
A Soul Master needs to fully open the Soul Nest where their Martial Soul resides. Our Weapon Martial Souls open the lower Soul Nest, located slightly below the navel; Beast Martial Souls open the middle Soul Nest, slightly above the center of the chest."
"You need to sense and find the exact location yourself; no one else can help you unless your Soul Nest is already open."
"This is also why the Soul Master world has only divided Martial Souls into Beast Martial Souls and Weapon Martial Souls—not just because Beast Martial Souls can possess the body, but also because of the external manifestation of Weapon Martial Souls leaving the body." "
The Soul Nest is usually invisible and closed, but it's not completely sealed.
When we use the Awakening Stone to guide the Martial Soul during awakening, it breaks the nest's entrance, so there are still some gaps for external contact. This is the basis of our perception." "
Only by sensing and completely opening the nest's entrance through the subtly connected meridians, without significantly damaging the related meridians and the Soul Nest, can one become a Soul Master and cross the first major threshold of a Soul Master."
"After becoming a Soul Master, one gradually expands the connected meridians and purifies the quality of soul power through martial souls, which leads to subsequent Soul Master level advancements."
Chen Xiaojun secretly scoffed, "I'm just a blade of grass, isn't this just the lower and middle dantian?
So this world is called the Soul Nest.
That makes sense, we can't still call it dantian in Douluo Continent, this name is certainly very characteristic of Soul Masters."
He continued to ask, "Grandpa, what about the Upper Soul Nest?"
Chen Yu replied, "The Upper Soul Nest is different from the lower and middle Soul Nests.
The Upper Soul Nest mainly stores spiritual power."
"In the Upper Soul Nest, there is a sea of spiritual power, which we call the Sea of Consciousness.
We mobilize spiritual power for mental perception and manipulation; this is Soul Consciousness."
"Everyone has a Sea of Consciousness, but we consume Soul Consciousness when we meditate. Only after resting and recovering can we meditate and cultivate."
"Only Soul Masters who have reached the spiritual strength of a Soul Saint can open the Upper Soul Nest because their breakthrough is mainly based on spiritual power."
"Unlike the lower and middle Soul Nests, which rush in from the outside, the Upper Soul Nest rushes out from the inside. In this respect, spiritual Soul Masters have an advantage."
"In the current Soul Master world, there are no particularly good methods for cultivating spiritual power.
Apart from a few things like the head Soul Bone and some rare and precious materials, one can only rely on the accumulation of spiritual power through daily meditation, the consumption and recovery of spiritual power, the consumption and recovery again, and the natural increase in spiritual power as the Soul Master's level increases day by day."
"This is the second threshold of Soul Master cultivation!"
Chen Xiaojun pondered, "Well, it really is the Upper Dantian. It seems that although it is a different world, it matches the three Dantians of the legend in my previous life.
So, the human body is still similar, only the power system is different." "
Then, Grandpa, what is the third threshold of Soul Master cultivation?"
Chen Yu paused, took a sip of the tea that Ye Xiuxin had brewed, and said,
"The Soul Master's Martial Soul is in the Soul Nest, the Weapon Martial Soul is in the Lower Soul Nest, and the Beast Martial Soul is in the Middle Soul Nest.
But deep in the spiritual sea of consciousness in the Upper Soul Nest, there is a phantom body that is exactly the same as the Martial Soul, called the Phantom Soul."
"Only when a Soul Douluo's soul power is perfected, their body is full of blood and qi, and they comprehend the intent, sublimate their spiritual power, and guide the fusion of the Martial Soul's physical body and illusory soul, sublimating the Martial Soul and liquefying the soul power, can they break through level 90 and become a Title Douluo."
"This threshold blocks most Soul Douluos, making it extremely difficult!"
Chen Xiaojun pondered to himself, "Haha, indeed, it matches the Taoist cultivation steps of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, and refining spirit into emptiness in my previous life.
Taoism emphasizes following the natural way, comprehending the Tao of heaven and earth, and the final refining emptiness into the Tao is probably the key to breaking through in the later stages of the Title Douluo level."
Seeing Chen Xiaojun's thoughtful expression, Chen Yu turned to Chen Jianjun and said, "Jianjun, Grandpa will take you to kill soul beasts.
Have you thought about what kind of soul beast you want?"
Chen Jianjun thought for a moment and said, "For my third soul ring, according to the Soul Master path planning, I want a skill that mainly accelerates, either wind or light attribute."
"Wind attribute is best, leaning towards offensive cutting ability."
"I remember Grandpa said that deep in Shaolin Mountain there are Azure Wind Wolves and Hurricane Demon Wolves, which are evolved from Gale Wolves.
We can look for them, or bird-type soul beasts, such as the Shuttle Sparrow and the White-headed Sea Falcon. It's just that birds of prey are a bit hard to find."
Chen Yu thought for a moment and said, "Fortunately, mountains are different from forests, so there are more birds, especially large birds of prey." "
However, the Azure Wind Wolves you chose are good. There might not be any Hurricane Demon Wolves from around 1500 years ago. Grandpa knows where the Azure Wind Wolves are."
"They're not too far away. Go and come back quickly, and you can still be back before your brother's awakening day."
Chen Yu turned around and instructed, "Xiuxin, I'll take Jianjun away tomorrow or the day after.
When Chenxun comes back, tell him."
Ye Xiuxin replied, "Okay, Father, there's no rush. We can awaken Xiaojun after you come back."
Then, Chen Yu instructed Chen Xiaojun, "Xiaojun, take another medicinal bath today, and another one the day before the awakening. Your physical strength is already quite good."
"It seems your body is adapting very well to the ancestral medicinal bath; the effects are excellent, which will benefit your awakening of your martial spirit."
Chen Xiaojun: "Okay, Grandpa. Wishing you and my brother all the best."
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