"You must understand, with your current strength, in many situations you absolutely cannot expose the existence of your Soul Tool. Once a Soul Tool draws the attention of someone with ill intent, your safety can no longer be guaranteed.
Therefore, properly making use of your external soul bone, allowing yourself to have an additional identity as a defense-type soul master—one who can fight using the conventional methods people recognize—will be a far better choice.
Thinking a little more long-term, the combat power you can provide as a defense-type soul master will also bring much greater help to the entire team."
Just as the Master's words fell, Shao Xin's voice came from the side: "Master, if Xiao Ao frequently uses his external soul bone to disguise himself as a defense-type Battle Soul Master, won't he be targeted because he possesses a soul bone?"
"I have already considered this question."It was clear the Master had long expected Shao Xin's concern.
"If someone else frequently used an external soul bone like this, it might indeed expose the secret of the soul bone and bring extremely troublesome problems. But Xiao Ao is different.
Xiao Ao's spirit is a food-type martial soul. This kind of martial soul will not manifest when the soul master doesn't chant the soul incantation. When simply releasing the martial soul, only the soul rings will appear on the soul master's body.
That means, Xiao Ao can completely release his external soul bone at the same time he releases his martial soul. Others will only think it is a change caused by Martial Soul Possession—they will absolutely never think it's a precious external soul bone."
"Mm, that makes sense. I overlooked the special nature of Xiao Ao's martial soul."Shao Xin was convinced by the Master's explanation.
Seeing the Master's gaze turn to him, Oscar hurriedly said:"Master, rest assured, I will definitely practice using the Flame Armor Shield seriously.
In fact, I've already developed some ways to use the Flame Armor Shield. In the battle just now, that punch I used on Xiao Wu was one of the results.
In that punch I borrowed the properties of the Flame Armor Shield and stored a large amount of fire-attribute energy into the rhino horn.
This energy can either fully explode upon contact with the target, or only partially explode, while the rest, under the cover of the explosion, is sent into the opponent's body.
Xiao Wu lost her ability to fight so quickly because fire-attribute energy invaded her body. Otherwise, simply brute force damage combined with explosive damage would not be enough to heavily injure Xiao Wu."
"Very good. In the process of a soul master's cultivation, brute force is always the worst option. Using your brain is what lets you progress faster.
Xiao Ao, you must not relax. Maintain this good habit of using your mind to develop more possibilities from what you already have.
All right, after watching your battle, I already have a grasp of your strength. Now, Tang San, go run your laps. After Tang San finishes, we will immediately head to the training base.
Tonight you will stay at the training base. Tomorrow morning, we formally begin the first stage of the training."
After the Master finished speaking, the teachers all left.Oscar looked at the time—barely an hour had passed. There was really no need to return to the dorm to pack anything.
Thinking for a moment, Oscar felt he still needed to check on the punished Oscar, so he activated his Psychic Link ability and asked where Oscar was currently located.
Then Oscar learned that Oscar had only just started his second lap. Thinking about how he still had four more laps to run, Oscar immediately abandoned the idea of going to accompany Oscar on his run.
With so much time, wouldn't doing something productive for himself be better? If he wanted to run, he would definitely have enough of that starting tomorrow.
Not wanting to return to the dorm, Oscar directly sat down in a shaded corner of the field, began restoring his soul power, and summoned Cowen.
The Master's words reminded Oscar that one year later, in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament,
he absolutely could not use Soul Tools. Since there were already Oscar and Ning Rongrong as support members, if he could also only act as auxiliary combat power, the team composition would really not be balanced.
Since he now had a way to openly use his external soul bone without being noticed, he might as well temporarily act as a defense-type Battle Soul Master.
To be a good defense-type Battle Soul Master, merely standing still and defending was not enough. Oscar needed to be able to protect himself and his teammates while moving. How to better defend while moving was a skill he needed to learn as quickly as possible.
Even though Cowen was still only a hundred-year-level soul beast, its speed would definitely not be slower than the agility-attack-type Battle Soul Masters Oscar would face in the tournament or in second-stage actual combat training. It was the perfect opponent to hone movement techniques.
Oscar practiced continuously until half an hour before dinner finally stopping.
He returned to the dorm, showered, changed clothes, and as expected, Oscar still hadn't finished his punishment. Tonight's dinner was destined to be his own martial soul again.
After eating, Oscar returned to the dorm and began packing the things he needed to bring to the training base, and also finished his nightly washing routine.
Through Cowen, Oscar learned that Tang San was only on his third lap. It was clear that once everyone arrived at the training base tonight, it would definitely be very late.
Facts proved Oscar was indeed foresighted—at exactly ten o'clock that night, they landed at the training base using flying Soul Tools.
Inside the base, the students' dorms were three foam-metal cabins. Not only did they need to assign rooms first, but after entering they still had to take turns using the washroom.
Room assignments were decided by drawing lots:Oscar and Ma Hongjun drew the No.1 double room;Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Tang San drew the No.2 triple room;the girls directly entered the No.3 triple room.
Ignoring whatever Ma Hongjun was doing, Oscar spent half an hour arranging the room into the way he liked, and then hurried to rest.
The next morning, Oscar—as usual—woke up at dawn. He first ran around the base as his morning exercise to wake up his body for the day.
What surprised Oscar slightly was that in a corner of the dorm area, he found the Master and Tang San talking.
Because of the distance and the cover of the dim morning light, the Master and Tang San did not notice Oscar. But because of this, Oscar could not hear what they were saying.
In fact, due to the angle, Oscar couldn't even see the Master's expression—he could only vaguely see that Tang San's face seemed to carry deep remorse.
As Oscar quickly passed through that area, he thought:"Looks like the Master really did notice Tang San's problem.
But what method will the Master use to fix it? Ah, I'm really curious—too bad I can't go watch!"
As for whether the Master might fail to change Tang San's mentality—Oscar felt that was unnecessary worrying.
In his memory, Tang San had never had issues cooperating with the Shrek group.
Though every moment carried a strong sense of individual heroism, the relationship among the seven was genuinely good.
And in the next few months, everyone would definitely go through "hardship together," so deep "battle camaraderie" would naturally develop.
Carrying this thought, Oscar continued his morning training at ease.But being still young, Oscar clearly underestimated the Master's "mouth-cannon" strength.
When Oscar woke up the single-and-still-sleeping Ma Hongjun, and they went to the cafeteria for breakfast, they found Tang San standing respectfully, waiting for everyone to arrive.
When he saw Oscar and Ma Hongjun enter, he unexpectedly broke his usual behavior of the past ten-plus days and greeted them. Oscar and Ma Hongjun were stunned for a moment before responding.
When Dai Mubai, Oscar, and the girls all arrived, Tang San directly bowed deeply to everyone and sincerely expressed his apology.
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