[Yu Xiaogang was not aware of Dugu Bo's inner thoughts.]
[But Yu Xiaogang knew that Dugu Bo was already considered a core member of his family. After all, not even all the high-level members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect knew that his father had a chance to become a god, yet Dugu Bo knew.]
[Knowing this, unless one was a fool, anyone would know to maintain absolute loyalty to their own Sect.]
[After sighing with emotion about the benefits of joining the Ranks of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Dugu Bo finally called Dugu Xin over.]
["Young Sect Master, I heard you are also participating in this Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament. My son, Dugu Xin, wants to ask you for some advice based on your experience."]
["Because of his Martial Soul, even if this boy was curious about various things before, he didn't have the heart to participate in them."]
["Now that the issue with his Martial Soul has been resolved with your help, Young Sect Master, he can finally enjoy his life properly."]
[Dugu Bo patted his son's shoulder and spoke with mixed emotions.]
[This son of his had been under immense pressure because he was born into the Dugu Family.]
[While other children were Spirit Fighting, playing around, and discussing the future with friends, Dugu Xin could only watch from the side.]
[It wasn't that he couldn't participate; Dugu Bo had also encouraged him to experience more happy things so as not to live this life in vain.]
[But the problem was that the pressure of the Martial Soul's poison left him with no such inclinations.]
[It made sense; while others discussed the future, the image that surfaced in Dugu Xin's mind regarding his own future was a scene of excruciating pain under the torment of the toxins within his body.]
[Or even more pessimistically, it was a direct image of his death following a poison outbreak.]
[Thinking of these things, how could he have the mood to continue chatting with friends?]
[So now, as the problem of the Martial Soul's poison was resolved, Dugu Xin finally understood what it felt like to be truly alive.]
["Yes, I am truly grateful to you, Young Sect Master. If it weren't for you, I really..."]
[Dugu Xin echoed.]
[Only by personally experiencing that kind of despair does the feeling of being reborn now become even more precious.]
["Elder Dugu, you flatter me. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to discover that secret."]
["Looking at the results, our side's harvest is actually even greater."]
[Yu Xiaogang said with a smile.]
[The discovery of the Spirit Ring Spirit Power Storehouse was no small boost to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.]
[Take Yu Xiaogang's previous battle with Tai Tan and Zui Qiansha for example.]
[If he hadn't discovered the secret that Soul Power could be stored within spirit rings, then in that battle, even if his total Soul Power far exceeded ordinary people, he wouldn't have been able to withstand such continuous combat.]
[It could be said that Dugu Bo deserved a share of the credit for his victory in that battle.]
[Secondly, there was the reflection on the essence of things like spirit rings and Spirit Bones, sparked by Dugu Bo.]
[Ever since he learned about the differences between the Jade Phosphor Serpent as a Spirit Beast and as a Martial Soul, Yu Xiaogang had been thinking about the core of a Spirit Beast's power.]
[Why is it that as a Spirit Beast, the Jade Phosphor Serpent is unaffected by its own poison and can easily manipulate various toxins, but as a Martial Soul, the Spirit Master is plagued by the toxins?]
[At first, Yu Xiaogang thought the spirit ring was what played the role.]
[Similar to a human Spirit Master's Martial Soul, the core of a Spirit Beast is the spirit ring. But after some thought and searching through various records, this option was finally excluded.]
[Although after a Spirit Beast dies, its Soul Power condenses in the spirit ring, and the spirit rings of Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts even contain the Spirit Beast's Spiritual Power.]
[But the problem is that the Spirit Abilities within the spirit rings are too random.]
[For instance, sometimes the spirit ring of a fire-attribute Spirit Beast will produce a pure power-type Spirit Ability that is completely unrelated to the fire attribute.]
[If the spirit ring were the core of the Spirit Beast, this situation would be impossible.]
[At the very least, the Spirit Beast's Origin attribute should be included.]
[Take the Jade Phosphor Serpent as an example. If the spirit ring were the core of the Spirit Beast, then the Spirit Ability provided by the Jade Phosphor Serpent's spirit ring would surely carry over some of the Jade Phosphor Serpent's core ability—the ability to manipulate toxins.]
[At the very least, a Poison Attribute Spirit Ability would do.]
[But through his research, Yu Xiaogang's eyes were opened.]
[What on earth was 'Jade Phosphor Serpent Skin'?]
[What on earth was 'Jade Phosphor Binding'?]
[Do these Spirit Abilities have anything to do with the core ability of the Jade Phosphor Serpent?]
[If the Spirit Abilities produced by these spirit rings were the core abilities of the Jade Phosphor Serpent, then the Dugu Family shouldn't be experts in using poison, but experts in transforming into long snakes for close-quarters grappling!]
[Therefore, the idea that the spirit ring was the core was gradually rejected by Yu Xiaogang.]
[As for Spirit Bones, they were also initially rejected by Yu Xiaogang.]
[Every Spirit Beast has different powers, but not every Spirit Beast drops a Spirit Bone.]
[This almost entirely excluded Spirit Bones.]
[But later, Yu Xiaogang made a hypothesis.]
[Assuming that every Spirit Beast has a power core within its body, this power core is like a Spirit Master's Martial Soul or something similar—it is the core for the Spirit Beast to activate its various abilities.]
[A Spirit Beast increasing its years is like a Spirit Master increasing their Rank. A Spirit Beast's ten years, hundred years, thousand years, ten thousand years, and hundred thousand years correspond to the different Ranks of a Spirit Master.]
[Additionally, the Martial Souls awakened in humans are sometimes modeled after Spirit Beasts.]
[Once Martial Soul Possession occurs, one is essentially half-human and half-Spirit Beast.]
[Combined with the path where Spirit Beasts can undergo Metamorphosis into humans and Cultivate like humans.]
[Yu Xiaogang couldn't help but think deeply about a conjecture once proposed by someone on the Douluo Continent.]
[That is, the Origin of the Martial Soul system comes from those Spirit Beasts who transformed into humans and mated with Spirit Masters, giving birth to descendants.]
[The descendants inherited half-human Bloodline and half-Spirit Beast Bloodline.]
[The human Bloodline couldn't support these people in directly using the inherited core power like Spirit Beasts, and the Spirit Beast Bloodline couldn't manifest the form of a Spirit Beast on a human.]
[Thus, the Martial Soul came into being.]
[Because this conjecture was too shocking, it was regarded as absurd by all Spirit Masters.]
[But as Yu Xiaogang dug deeper into the secrets of the Martial Soul system, he increasingly felt that this conjecture was correct.]
[What? You say there are ten thousand types of Martial Souls, so how many Hundred Thousand Year Metamorphosed Spirit Beasts would it take to achieve that?]
[Not to mention there are Tool Spirits, which have nothing to do with Spirit Beasts.]
[But the problem is, a Spirit Master needs to absorb a spirit ring to increase their Rank.]
[spirit rings come from different Spirit Beasts. After a Spirit Master absorbs a spirit ring, the Martial Soul will change toward the Spirit Beast that produced the spirit ring.]
[In other words, this absorbed Spirit Beast has already entered the list of Martial Souls passed down to descendants.]
[Afterwards, through the Fusion of the Martial Soul Bloodlines from the other spouse, once the probability is reached, a new Martial Soul might appear.]
[This point should be deeply understood by various factions.]
[Clearly, one's family possesses the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, yet descendants might awaken lizards, snakes, or even tigers, lions, and so on.]
[On the other hand, regarding Tool Spirits.]
[This should be caused by Martial Soul mutation.]
[There are plant-type Spirit Beasts among Spirit Beasts. If they mutate slightly, they might form wooden tool-type Martial Souls.]
[Then add some Beast Spirit characteristics related to rock or metal.]
[Stone tools and metal tools would naturally appear.]
[As for these conjectures, Yu Xiaogang didn't know if they were correct, but as they were just conjectures and not meant to be released, he could think whatever he wanted.]
[As long as it's logical, couldn't he think whatever he liked?]
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