#25external forceAI Model: moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905
Chapter 25 – External Force
Lin Mo closed his eyes, his mind sinking into an analysis of his own state and Charmander's current condition.
The dual joy of successfully obtaining his first spirit ring and Charmander hatching had left him no time to examine the extra information on the panel.
Now that he calmed down, the details about evolution requirements surfaced unbidden, forcing him to ponder their implications.
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For Charmander to hatch and evolve for the first time, it needed rank 10spirit power and Rank 30 spirit power respectively.
This aligned perfectly with common Douluo Continent beliefs about Bottlenecks in a Spirit Master's cultivation.
For most Spirit Masters, Ranks 10, 30, 50, and 70 are the most critical thresholds along their path.
First is rank 10—the starting line of a Spirit Master's journey and the dividing line between ordinary people and Spirit Masters.
A tiny number of people awaken spirit power yet remain stuck below rank 10 because their Innate spirit power is too low, their Spirit quality too poor, or their cultivation method flawed.
These individuals aren't true Spirit Masters; they're merely Spirit Scholars with spirit power, their futures essentially sealed.
Unable to break through the rank 10 Bottleneck means they'll never possess a spirit ring or a Spirit Ability in their lifetimes.
Tool Spirit wielders fare better; Beast Spirit wielders can't even achieve Martial Soul Possession.
In other words, they're just ordinary people who happen to have spirit power, forever barred from becoming real Spirit Masters.
Next is Rank 30—a hurdle that blocks far more people.
Countless Spirit Masters exhaust their lives yet remain stuck at Rank 29 as Spirit Grandmasters, unable to advance a single step.
Take the so-called Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang: his Luo San Pao Spiritfailed to mutate properly, leaving him trapped at Rank 29 for life, never able to become a Spirit Elder.
Rank 30 marks a qualitative leap; from then on a Spirit Master can absorb thousand-year spirit rings and truly enters the IntermediateSpirit Master Domain.
Rank 50, while not as decisive as Rank 30, is still extremely important for most Spirit Masters.
Only at Rank 50 can a Spirit Master absorb and withstand ten-thousand-year spirit rings.
The gap between a ten-thousand-year spirit ring and a thousand-year spirit ring is enormous.
Whether in Spirit Ability power or overall physical enhancement, the difference is like heaven and earth.
Obtaining a ten-thousand-year spirit ring largely determines a Spirit Master's future potential ceiling.
As for Rank 70, it's vital—almost dreamt of—by every Spirit Master.
At Rank 70, a Spirit Master gains the seventh Spirit Ability that embodies their Spirit's greatest strength—Spirit True Body.
Once Spirit True Body is unleashed, every attribute of the Spirit Masterexplodes upward, their strength transforming completely.
Only Spirit Masters possessing Spirit True Body truly enter the high-Rank Domain and gain the confidence to stand firm on the continent.
"rank 10 is the starting point, Rank 30 the key, Rank 50 the leap, Rank70 the metamorphosis…" Lin Mo silently organized these facts.
"And Charmander's first evolution is explicitly set at Rank 30…"
His thoughts cleared: since hatching Charmander required rank 10, and evolving it into Charmeleon required Rank 30,
could he extrapolate that evolving Charmeleon into the final form, Charizard, would likely require Rank 50?
After all, Rank 50 is another crucial threshold for Spirit Masters—the stage for acquiring ten-thousand-year spirit rings and leaping in power.
Charmander's evolutionary stages aligning so neatly with key Spirit Master Ranks felt less like coincidence and more like a rule-level mapping,
as if the World's ground rules were shaping Charmander's growth path as a Spirit.
At that thought, Lin Mo's heart burned with excitement.
If his guess was right, simply cultivating step by step to Rank 30 and then Rank 50 would let Charmander evolve naturally!
Yet those clear conditions made him think of his other Spirit—the Heart Body Martial Soul that pulsed with his blood.
Unlike Charmander's panel, which listed precise requirements, his second spirit's panel still showed "Unknown" under Evolution Conditions.
Those two letters, "Unknown," had become a cloud in his heart.
Through recent research, relying on his past life's understanding of blood and meridians plus this life's direct experience, he'd grasped some basic uses of the Main Body Martial Soul,
even developing a Self-created Spirit Skill, "Blood Burst," that could momentarily erupt blood to strengthen specific body parts.
But he still hadn't the slightest clue how this second spirit could evolve—not even a thread to pull.
"If the requirement were simply reaching a certain spirit power Rank…" he speculated,
"the panel would display something like 'Evolution Condition: reach Rank XX,' just like with Charmander, instead of the vague 'Unknown.'"
After weighing every possibility, this conclusion seemed the most likely.
His panel was a manifestation of his unique talent, functionally limited to displaying status information for himself and Charmander.
He'd tried focusing on other people or objects; the panel never reacted, confirming it couldn't supply data beyond himself and his partner.
Thus, the "Unknown" for his second spirit's evolution hinted at a strong possibility:
the Heart Body Martial Soul's evolution condition definitely couldn't be met merely by raising spirit power Ranks like Charmander.
The prerequisite for evolution likely required intervention by some external force!
Because that external force wasn't an ability he already possessed, the panel couldn't give a concrete hint and could only label it "Unknown."
"External force intervention…" Lin Mo's eyes brightened as his mind raced,
beginning to sift through everything he currently knew to identify what might serve as the "external force" to evolve his second spirit.
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