63 Chapter 56: Innate Soul Power and Affinity

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A month passed by in the blink of an eye.

Su Yuntao and Sisi came back from their honeymoon and brought back nearly a hundred kilograms of thousand-year whale glue, which they secretly stashed in the basement of their house.

After learning about it, Matthew bought some at a reasonable price for his descendants to use.

When Tang San wanted to buy some, Su Yuntao directly gave it to him for free, saying that if it weren't for him telling them about the effects of whale glue, they wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it.

Moreover, Su Yuntao said that Matthew had already made back his money after buying a kilogram from him.

It was foreseeable that just these hundred kilograms of whale glue would be enough for Su Yuntao and Sisi to live comfortably in the future.

However, neither of them planned to retire from the Spirit Hall, after all, they were still young.

Su Yuntao even thought about taking over as the Hall Master of the Nuoding City Spirit Hall after Matthew retired, so he needed to accumulate qualifications and cultivate diligently in order to reach level thirty before he turned thirty.

After all, once a person reached thirty, they would enter middle age, and it would be difficult to improve their physical fitness. After forty, their bodies would start to age, so generally speaking, if there was no chance to change their fate against the heavens, those who didn't break through level thirty before thirty would never be able to break through in their entire lives.

Therefore, in his spare time, Su Yuntao often brought Sisi to find Tang San to cooperate with all of his research.

The results were also significant.

With Tang San's help, the speed at which the two of them cultivated their soul power increased quite a bit.

Moreover, Tang San also used their cultivation methods to verify whether the innate soul power of a martial soul represented the affinity between the martial soul and the person.

Tang San had Su Yuntao raise a large group of dogs and had him take care of them. He even had him cultivate among the dogs after they became familiar with him.

As expected, Su Yuntao's soul power cultivation speed increased.

However, after leaving the pack of dogs, Su Yuntao's cultivation speed decreased again.

The simulated cultivation environment might allow Spirit Masters to increase their understanding of their martial souls, thus increasing their cultivation speed, but this understanding was only temporary. Deep down, it didn't truly strengthen the connection between them and their martial souls.

For Su Yuntao, it would actually be best to cultivate among a pack of wolves, but unfortunately, wolves were difficult to tame, and Tang San wouldn't let Su Yuntao take that risk.

What about Sisi?

Tang San first had her cultivate while wrapped in ribbons and found that her soul power cultivation speed did indeed increase, but compared to Su Yuntao, the increase in cultivation speed was very small, almost negligible.

Was it because Su Yuntao had a beast martial soul while Sisi had a tool martial soul?

Tang San didn't think so.

Although beast martial souls and tool martial souls were different, the difference shouldn't be that big.

Therefore, Tang San had Sisi buy a loom and learn how to weave ribbons, allowing her to deepen her understanding of ribbons.

Half a month later, Sisi meditated in an environment without any ribbons, and her cultivation speed actually increased. Although it was only comparable to Su Yuntao's cultivation speed among the pack of dogs, this was a permanent increase.

Although it would still be affected by the external environment, this improvement was indeed permanent.

Sisi also talked about her feelings, saying that she seemed to understand her martial soul better, and it was a little different from before. She couldn't say exactly what it was, but she had a unique understanding of weaving ribbons.

However, perhaps it was because Sisi's understanding of weaving ribbons wasn't enough. In the following period of time, no matter how much Sisi used the loom to weave cloth, she couldn't increase the cultivation speed of her martial soul any further.

Tang San couldn't do anything about it either. After all, his martial soul wasn't a ribbon. However, he did give Sisi some suggestions, telling her not to just think about weaving ribbons, but to try using ribbons to make other things, such as handkerchiefs, clothes, etc.

Tang San also gained a lot from this. He understood why the simulated cultivation environment could enhance the cultivation speed of Spirit Masters. In addition to the fact that the corresponding environment contained heavenly and earthly energy more suitable for the growth of corresponding martial soul attributes, more importantly, Spirit Masters could deepen their understanding of their martial souls.

However, most Spirit Masters in the world seemed to never "communicate" with their martial souls. They didn't know how to deepen their understanding of each other. Instead, they naively thought that the increase in cultivation speed in a specific environment was entirely due to the simulated environment, not because they had an understanding of their martial souls.

From this, Tang San had another guess. That was, those whose innate soul power was below level nine but were able to become Titled Douluo had a unique ability to understand their martial souls.

"Now I can confirm my guess. Different types of martial souls have different qualities, which affect the innate soul power. However, among the same type of martial soul, the quality of the martial soul doesn't differ much. After all, they come from the same bloodline, so there's no reason for such a big difference. It's most likely because the affinity between the human and the martial soul isn't strong enough." Tang San became excited. "After all, martial souls are inherited through bloodlines. It's not like people can have whatever martial soul they want, unless it's a mutation, or perhaps a long-term evolution, or perhaps..."

Tang San thought of the transmigrator Mu Tian. His martial soul was the Nine-Headed Chimera, which was the God of Heavenly Retribution.

Martial souls could be bestowed, in addition to being inherited through bloodlines.

As long as one reached the god level.

However, this theory needed to be verified by more people. Moreover, even if it could be published, Tang San felt that before he reached a certain level of strength, he could only spread it to his own people on a small scale...

In the blink of an eye, another month passed.

The day that Nuoding Academy was about to start its break was approaching. Tang San brought Xiao Wu back to Holy Soul Village in advance and bought a lot of gifts for Old Jack. He also helped with the summer cultivation.

After that, Tang San decided to follow Su Yuntao to the nearby villages to help awaken martial souls.

His purpose, of course, was to study various different martial souls, and if possible, he wanted to start from a young age and cultivate his own team.

Compared to those geniuses with extraordinary talent, Tang San believed more in these civilians who were born in the same class as him.

Although in terms of bloodline, half of Tang San's bloodline factor came from the Haotian lineage, so he couldn't be considered a civilian, but in his eyes, the distinction between civilians and nobles lay in their class, not just their bloodline.

Of course, in this world, those with powerful bloodlines were more likely to become nobles.

"Xiao San, are you really going with me to help awaken martial souls in the villages near Nuoding City? This is a very tiring task." Su Yuntao asked.

"Of course. Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. I realized that I'm not even familiar with the towns and villages near Nuoding City, which is really not good. That's why I want to start from the small things." Tang San nodded. "Moreover, Taoge, my soul power has already reached level twenty-four."

"I really envy you. My soul power is only at level twenty-six now. You're about to surpass me. You'll definitely become a powerful Title Douluo in the future." Su Yuntao laughed. "In the future, I hope to be able to say to my child: 'Even Titled Douluo has to call me Taoge.'"

Tang San: O(∩_∩)O haha~

The two of them prepared for a bit and then set off. However, unlike usual, Su Yuntao was also leading fifteen puppies. After discovering that he cultivated faster when he was among the pack of dogs, Su Yuntao now brought this pack of dogs with him no matter what he did.

Well—

Except for going to the toilet, taking a bath, and communicating with his wife.

"What about your little girlfriend?" Su Yuntao asked about Xiao Wu. "Isn't she always with you?"

"What little girlfriend? She's not." Tang San denied it, then said, "She's reached level twenty and has gone to hunt for a soul ring. I hope she'll listen to my advice."