Chapter 792: On the Theory of Mind Monkey
"Master Sun Ming, is there a way to resolve the aftereffects of Martial Soul fusion?" After apologizing for Liu Erlong, Yu Luomian sought help from Sun Ming to help his daughter escape the attraction to Yu Xiaogang's so-called Radiant Saint Dragon bloodline.
"Xiao Gang and I are genuine! Even if I escape the influence of the Martial Soul fusion technique, I will still love him!" Liu Erlong felt that Yu Luomian was trying to manipulate her feelings and glared fiercely at Sun Ming.
"Shut up!" Yu Luomian sealed Liu Erlong's soul power and had Qin Ming help restrain her.
"How dare you?!" Liu Erlong glared at Qin Ming.
"Sorry, Dean Liu Erlong." Qin Ming solemnly bound Liu Erlong's hands and held her shoulders to prevent her from moving.
"Bastard! Despicable traitor! Son of a bitch!" Liu Erlong's insults became increasingly harsh.
Qin Ming's expression darkened slightly. He had just graduated from Shrek Academy and wasn't a dog of Shrek Academy. If his alma mater was insulted, he'd stand up to support and help, but after graduation, he didn't have to obey everything from Shrek Academy.
Academy and sects are not the same thing.
Liu Erlong's insults were truly unpleasant, but Qin Ming's skills in maintaining composure were decent. Having spent some time at Tiandou Royal Academy, he had some interactions with the nobles.
"Dean Liu Erlong, I have no choice but to comply. You are too unreasonable. Moreover, if you really want to call me the son of a bitch, my martial soul is the Fierce Fire Grey Wolf, and my parents' martial souls are canine. What you're saying isn't wrong." Qin Ming's words hit Liu Erlong like a punch to cotton, making her even angrier, and she cursed even more nastily.
Yu Luomian couldn't stand it any longer and directly took out a handkerchief, rolled it into a ball, and stuffed it into her mouth to stop her from being noisy.
And Sun Ming also revealed a way to free her from the influence of the Martial Soul: "First, enhance her spiritual power, whether through treasure medicine or cultivation methods, enabling her to control the Martial Soul rather than being influenced by it."
"The 'Qi, Blood, Soul Power, and Mental Power Cultivation Theory' states that strengthening one enhances the other two as well, but focusing on one will always leave the other two weaker than the one being specialized."
"In her case, soul power is strongest, the physical body comes next, and spiritual power is weakest."
"Therefore, it's necessary to strengthen spiritual power."
"Secondly, as we are doing now, seal her soul power. Without soul power, the Martial Soul cannot be unleashed. After three to five years, the Martial Soul's influence on personality fades, and she will naturally awaken to clarity."
"Thirdly, if the bloodline in question still exists in the world and has an attraction, sever that bloodline, and the yearning fades over time."
"Fourthly, abolishing her Martial Soul, which is the most radical method."
"Fifthly, find a possessor of an Ice Dragon Martial Soul who is not from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. I have a way to fuse their Martial Souls, blending ice and fire, offsetting and harmonizing, naturally calming the heart."
Yu Luomian was overjoyed: "Thank you for the guidance."
He already knew which method he should primarily use.
He had neither treasures nor methods to boost spiritual power; abolishing Yu Xiaogang... he was, after all, his nephew and the son of his elder brother, he wasn't in the position to do that; destroying Liu Erlong's Martial Soul was impossible; finding an Ice Dragon Martial Soul holder was also very troublesome.
Hence, sealing Liu Erlong's soul power was the best option.
"Dad, are you really going to seal my soul power?" Liu Erlong's eyes widened in disbelief as the handkerchief was removed from her mouth, staring at Yu Luomian.
"Hmph, now you remember to call me Dad?" Yu Luomian snorted coldly, taking Liu Erlong away, planning to ask Yu Yuanzhen to seal all her soul power, and releasing it after three to five years.
As for Liu Erlong's soul power cultivation...
Hmph!
This unfilial daughter's soul power level only made her more rebellious, better to be a soul saint for life.
When Liu Erlong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, she was so furious with Sun Ming she could barely contain her anger.
But with her soul power sealed, unable to release her Martial Soul, apart from a slightly stronger physical body than ordinary people, she was no different from them. However, there was an advantage—
She discovered that after being unable to utilize her soul power and connect with her Martial Soul, her longing for Yu Xiaogang had faded somewhat... Could it be that her love for Yu Xiaogang was really due to the Martial Soul's influence, rather than love at first sight?
To understand thoroughly, Liu Erlong bought a complete set of Sun Ming's books and perused them carefully, finding that they indeed made sense.
Subsequently, she opened a book titled "Heart Monkey on Love."
This book wasn't written by Sun Ming, but was recorded by Bibi Dong during an exchange with the Martial Soul Hall Pope. She collected numerous cases and compiled them into a book.
In addition, there were also "Heart Monkey on Martial Spirits," "Heart Monkey on Ecology," "Heart Monkey on the Food Chain," and "Heart Monkey Critiques Ancient and Modern," all compiled under the Martial Soul Hall Pope's orders, collecting and publishing various cases.
The words highly praised the Heart Monkey, emphasizing that in any Martial Soul Hall, the Heart Monkey was regarded almost as if the Martial Soul Hall Pope himself had visited.
"That little ghost, only nine years old, how can he know so much?"
Liu Erlong flipped through "Heart Monkey on Love", with those twenty words imprinted in her heart. Comparing them with Yu Xiaogang, she found that the two of them were not compatible at all.
"No, that's impossible, Xiao Gang must love me too, definitely, it can't be because of the martial spirit..."
Liu Erlong deceived herself in her heart, but there was always a voice in her mind telling her: Yu Xiaogang was willing to marry her at first because of her looks, plus her strength (talent), and her easygoing personality (she wouldn't mind his weakness).
And she liked Yu Xiaogang mainly for the martial spirit fusion they had experienced, due to the strong dragon attribute bloodline left behind after his failed martial spirit mutation.
Everything was influenced by the martial spirit.
Moreover, "Heart Monkey on Love" says that true longevity requires both parties to be similar, not one being excellent and the other inferior, where the [Excellent One] constantly makes concessions to the [Inferior One], ultimately it's just wishful thinking, even if together, it's only a facade of union.
"Xiao Gang hasn't come looking for me all these years..."
Liu Erlong was even more heartbroken. "According to this love theory, even if Xiao Gang comes looking for me in the future, it will be because he needs something from me. Even if he's with me, it's due to life's instincts, it is desire, not love..."
"I don't believe it!"
"If Xiao Gang really comes to find me in the future, it will definitely not be for some purpose, but because he loves me!"
Throwing "Heart Monkey on Love" aside, Liu Erlong began to get angry again, only because her soul power was sealed, and unable to connect with her martial spirit. After a while of being angry, she picked it up again and put it along with other "Heart Monkey on—" in a small box, thinking to herself, "Xiao Gang, what would you think if you saw all of Heart Monkey's theories?"
In fact, Yu Xiaogang at that moment didn't bother to read any theories written by Sun Ming.
Because he was currently located in a remote Nuoding City in the southwest of the Tiandou Empire, within the Fassno Province.
This city was remote, most of the people were ordinary, with very few soul masters. The local Hall Master of the Martial Soul Hall was only a thirty-level soul elder.
Moreover, the only forest nearby was a maintained Soul Hunting Forest, millennium soul beasts were rare—although Yu Xiaogang heard of someone with the pen name "Heart Monkey" writing many books on martial spirits, which were eagerly bought by low-level soul masters, the first one he saw was "Soul Beast Forest Survival Guide".
Therefore, being confident in his possession of extensive data from the Martial Soul Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he despised such a survival guide, and even after skimming through three to five pages and finding several parts of it matching his memory, adorned with a bit of plain language, he thought this "Heart Monkey" merely organized the data.
He inwardly mocked at the time: "Just organizing, without anything original, yet dares to publish it? Really, anyone can be a 'master' now."
"However, it seems this Heart Monkey has some self-awareness, marking the sources, which is indeed smart to avoid trouble from those families."
After throwing the "Soul Beast Forest Survival Guide" aside, Yu Xiaogang didn't purchase the remaining theories, even feeling like buying this "Soul Beast Forest Survival Guide" was a waste of a copper soul coin.
As for Heart Monkey's other theories—
Usually Yu Xiaogang didn't go out when there were many people, after all, freeloading at Nuoding Academy, his reputation wasn't good. Even with his thick skin, he couldn't listen to students and teachers gossiping.
He wasn't a masochist, after all.
Hence, he spent most of his time hiding in the quiet dorm assigned to him by Nuoding Academy, researching his own set of theories, occasionally inserting ideas he thought ingenious.
Furthermore, there were few soul masters in Nuoding City, and most ordinary people didn't care about soul master matters. He took advantage of the students' rest at Nuoding Academy to go out and buy supplies, usually purchasing a large amount at once, naturally unable to hear any relevant theories from the civilian's mouths in this infrequently outside time.
He wanted to be famous, believing there were no waste martial spirits, only waste people.
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But during his prolonged stay at Nuoding Academy, he hadn't taught a single student, believing their talent unworthy of his tutelage—he needed a talented disciple worthy of proving his theories!
"Where is my genius disciple?"
...
In a blink of an eye, another year passed.
Sun Ming, ten years old, reached seventy-five levels in soul power, his seventh soul ring was a thirty-six-thousand-year-old Radiant God Ape's sacrifice, found for him by the Diamond Ape and Ghost Monkey.
After receiving this soul ring, Sun Ming's fourth soul ring also reached the ten-thousand-year status, and the Fire Monkey could even speak human words, conversing with the Diamond Ape, Ghost Monkey, and Radiant God Ape, exclaiming his luck.
Sun Ming frequently released the seven monkeys, letting them help build experiment equipment for him, or allowing them to play freely on the premise they wouldn't harm academy students.
The teachers and students at the academy merely considered it Sun Ming's special soul skill and paid no heed.
Dugu Yan was eleven years old at this time, her soul power reaching fifty-two levels, already at the soul king's level of strength, with her fifth soul ring being a fifty-thousand-year cultivated Wind Dragon Beast.
That dragon seemed to sense the Ice-Fire Lake and was caught by Dugu Bo, who made it Dugu Yan's fifth soul ring, even bursting out an external soul bone called the Wind Wing.
Originally intended for Sun Ming's use, but noticing he could instinctively tread clouds and fly, it was decided to be given to Dugu Yan instead.