Chapter 782: Punishment? (1/2)

”Teleportation and plant control, eh? Good, those are two more facets of this soul skill's abilities,” Yun Ming nodded to himself in a contemplative manner as he mused, ”Which means that if you can fully control this soul skill, you'll have attained teleportation abilities within a set area, the ability to control all plants within that area, and a significant temporary boost in your soul power, is that correct?”

Tang Wulin replied, ”That seems to be the case. However, I can't really control the soul skill. I could only sense this much before I completely blacked out.”

Yun Ming nodded, and said, ”It's already quite remarkable that you were able to sense this much. From now on, don't even think about using this soul skill until you attain your eighth soul ring and get your spiritual power up to the Spirit Domain realm.”

Tang Wulin faltered upon hearing this. ”So you're saying I won't be able to unleash this soul skill unless I possess the soul power of a Soul Douluo?”

Yun Ming replied, ”That's right. At least, that's my assessment from the amount of soul power that I had to inject into your body at the time. It's good a thing that you cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Method; if you want to forcibly unleash this soul skill, you'll only be able to do so with other people who've also cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Method injecting their soul power into your body. However, most people can't control their soul power output to the extent that only pure soul power without any attributes from their martial souls is transmitted. Hence, don't attempt this unless you absolutely have to. Otherwise, the attributes from the martial souls of others will affect you, and that could even cause deviations in your cultivation.”

Of course, Yun Ming was an exception to this. With his immense power and control, it was naturally a simple task to ensure the output of soul power in its purest form, but that didn't apply to most other people.

Tang Wulin gulped upon hearing this. Spirit Domain realm spiritual power? That still seemed to be very far away from him! On top of that, who knew how long it would take until he became an eight-ring Soul Douluo?Unfortunately, this soul skill clearly couldn't be fuelled using his blood essence power. As such, as opposed to becoming excited by the fact that he'd obtained such a powerful soul skill, Tang Wulin was feeling rather dejected.

Regardless of how good this soul skill was, there was no point in its existence if he couldn't use it! If he had to wait until becoming a Soul Douluo to use this fifth soul skill, then it wouldn't be able to enhance his power in any way in the immediate future, which made it a rather useless skill for now.

Furthermore, even if he were to use it in the future, he'd have to get his spiritual power up to the Spirit Domain realm first, and that was certainly not going to be a simple task.

The Spirit Abyss realm was already the upper limit for the vast majority of Soul Masters, and even though the Spirit Domain realm was only the next realm above the Spirit Abyss realm, there was a massive gulf between the two of them.

Tang Wulin's spiritual power was only able to reach the Spirit Abyss realm as he'd been blessed by the residual will of countless true dragons after burying their skeletons in their Dragon Valley, but that was an extremely rare opportunity.

As such, if he couldn't use this soul skill before his spiritual power reached the Spirit Domain realm, then it was like a powerful tool that he could only see yet not use; how could he not be frustrated by this?

However, Yun Ming clearly wasn't of the same opinion. He had thought about many things during Tang Wulin's period of unconsciousness, and his eyes were glowing as he said, ”If you want to be able to make use of this soul skill, I think you should focus more of your attention on enhancing your spiritual power than improving your soul power. There are only a limited number of ways through which spiritual power can be cultivated. You're currently cultivating the Purple Demon Eyes, which will assist you in that regard, but the cultivation of the Purple Demon Eyes is something that can't be rushed. As such, I'll try to find some cultivation methods for you that are specifically designed to improve one's spiritual power.”

”Thank you.”

At this moment, Yun Ming's expression suddenly darkened. ”However, you must be held accountable for stripping the Golden Tree of 30% of its power. Following a meeting between myself and the elders of the Sea God's Pavilion, we've already decided on your punishment.”

A punishment?

Tang Wulin's heart jolted upon hearing this.

What was it going to be? Whatever it was, he was willing to accept it as long it didn't affect his cultivation.

Yun Ming continued, ”You're going to have to leave the academy for a period of time to train in the outside world. This doesn't just apply to you, but also to all of the other members of Shrek's Seven Monsters. All of you are young and extremely talented, so what you need now is to accrue practical experience through hardsh.i.p.s. You'll all be sent to the federal army, where you'll be undergoing the most rigorous training. Only after you obtain the approval of the army will you be allowed to return.”

Military training as punishment? A peculiar look appeared in Tang Wulin's eyes. How could the army provide rigorous training for them? They were among the best disciples Shrek Academy had to offer, and they were all one-word battle armor masters!

In the outside world, they would be considered to be very powerful Soul Masters already; how was military training supposed to be difficult for them in any way?

Tang Wulin was rather confused.