Douluo: Son of the Stars

Chapter 5 Development

The days passed one by one, and half a month later in the evening, Tong Qingtian finally returned.

"Son, did you miss me?" The voice fell before the person arrived.

Hearing the sound, Tong Rui looked out the door in the back garden and saw Tong Qingtian appear at the door, looking exhausted.

Tong Rui quickly ran to the lobby and said in surprise: "Dad, you are finally back!"

Tong Qingtian reached out and picked up his son. At the same time, Mo Yun also walked out from the counter.

"Is everything okay along the way?" Mo Yun asked gently.

"It's okay. I have gained a lot this time." Tong Qingtian put his son down and handed the storage ring to Mo Yun.

"Take the herbs and the soul beast corpse inside and deal with them."

Tong Rui also became interested when he heard about the corpse of a soul beast. After all, the last time the corpse of the Tianxing vine was refined into the Tianxing Pearl for accelerating cultivation, if it was the corpse of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, would it be possible to refine it into something more powerful?
So he asked, "Dad, can you give me the body of that soul beast?"

Tong Qingtian raised his eyebrows and looked at his son, then said with a smile: "It was originally given to you. It's a 20,000-year-old Deinonychus bear. It's just right for me to cook for you tonight."

"No, it's my martial soul, which has special talents." Tong Rui said proudly.

"Oh, special talent?" Tong Qingtian said, looking at Mo Yun.

Seeing Mo Yun nodded seriously, he realized that things might not be as simple as he thought, so he turned around and closed the door.

Holding his son Tong Rui upstairs, he said, "Come on, tell me what's going on."

After listening to Mo Yun and Tong Rui's explanations, Tong Qingtian pondered for a while.

Then he said, "I didn't expect your talent to be so strong, but Xiao Rui, are you sure you can control a ten thousand year old soul beast?"

"The hundred-year-old Sky Star Vine is your first soul ring, and it also matches your soul power attribute. Even though its life energy is largely preserved and its body strength is extremely low, you still used up all the soul power you consumed in a day."

"In this case, how can you ensure that the corpse of the ten thousand year soul beast will not drain your soul power in an instant, or even endanger your life? You must know that excessive loss of soul power will not only cause an unstable foundation, but also lead to the loss of vitality."

"So in the future, if I or your mother is not around, you should try not to over-consume your soul power. Although our family is not as wealthy as the big sects, we can still be considered wealthy. Medicinal baths and natural treasures can still be supplied on earth at your level, so you don't need to force yourself."

After hearing what Tong Qingtian said, Tong Rui nodded solemnly.

I also realized that I had indeed been misled by some novels I had read in my previous life, or by other people's training methods.

Breaking limits can indeed enhance one's own strength, but that can only be accomplished under reasonable planning and in an environment with sufficient resources.

Without guidance, it is difficult for one to define the limits of his own. The resulting breakthroughs, without the nourishment of natural resources and treasures, are mostly achieved at the cost of overdrawing potential, except for the protagonist's halo.

Why don’t we see the direct descendants of aristocratic families doing things that break the limits?

The talent inherited from your excellent family background almost surpasses most people. After having enough resources to supplement, the results you get by breaking the limit are almost the same as the results I get by practicing step by step.

Maybe there are some people with outstanding talents occasionally, but if the gap is not big, acquired resources can completely make up for the slight gap. But in this era of Douluo, which only relies on soul power and soul skills, talent and resources can represent almost everything.

"It's good that you understand. Exhausting soul power can indeed speed up the cultivation of soul power, but now that you have the Sky Star Vine Bead, you don't need to do this. I will catch a few more Sky Star Vine tomorrow, but are you sure you can deal with this ten thousand year old Terror Claw Bear?"

"This martial soul has a soul power protection mechanism. When I have no soul power left, it will automatically stop absorbing soul power. This process cannot be reversed, but a ten thousand year soul beast may take a long time to complete." Tong Rui explained.

Tong Qingtian smiled and said, "As long as it doesn't affect your progress in cultivation, it's fine. Before the age of 20 is your golden period for cultivation, and every second before that cannot be wasted. If this will delay your cultivation, you'd better wait until after the age of 20, when you'll have plenty of time to verify your conjecture."

Seeing Tong Rui nod, Tong Qingtian took out the body of the Deinonychus bear.

Tong Rui placed the body of the Deinoclaw Bear into the space, and then began to meditate, thinking about the direction in which the body of the Deinoclaw Bear should be transformed.

As a soul master, all you need are martial soul, soul power, soul rings and soul bones.

At this point in Douluo, there are not many items that can improve strength. Bloodline has a great influence, but the Terrorclaw Bear, even the upper-level Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, is of no use to his family.

According to subsequent developments, the only things that can directly improve one's strength are soul cores, soul guides, and battle armor.

The minimum requirement for the soul core is a 7th-ring soul saint, which doesn’t matter for now.

Soul guides need to learn the depiction of soul power circuits, and the current Douluo Continent may not have these things.

However, based on the Tianxing Vine Beads that were refined previously, this corpse should also be able to be made into a weapon.

So should we refine soul bones or armor?
From the current point of view, this soul beast should be my father's sixth soul ring. So compared to the inexperienced battle armor technology, refining this corpse into soul bones should be the best choice.

It can not only form a connection with his father's sixth soul ring, strengthen the power of soul skills, and maximize the power of soul bones. It can also increase physical strength and subtle talent bonuses through soul bones, increasing the chance of success in breaking through to the Soul Saint.

Then, the Terrorclaw Bear's external soul bone is destined to be you.

Previously, when Tong Rui was learning about soul bones with his father, he learned that neither of his parents had soul bones.

The Terrorclaw that the Terrorclaw Bear is so proud of should be the most suitable external soul bone.

If his martial soul is very powerful and advances to the ten thousand year old Dark Gold Terror Claw, then it can be said that his father has the powerful attack power of the Soul Saint level.

According to Tong Qingtian's plan for himself, almost all of his first five soul skills are auxiliary control type soul skills.

This time, the sixth soul skill of my father's star disk is theoretically a powerful ten thousand year attack soul skill, but the attack method is still too simple.

With the Ten Thousand Years of Terror Claws attached to his soul bone, with Soul Emperor-level combat power, he can completely deal damage at the Soul Sage level without a martial soul avatar.

After all, a ten thousand year old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear can match the damage of a hundred thousand year old soul beast, so a twenty thousand year old Terrorclaw Bear of the lower rank should have no problem dealing damage to a fifty thousand year old soul beast.

Under Tong Rui's strong will, the entire body of the Terrorclaw Bear slowly merged into the right claw through soul power.

After exhausting his soul power, Tong Rui opened his eyes. Seeing his parents looking at him, he smiled and said, "It succeeded, but it consumed soul power. It will take about half a year to complete."

(End of this chapter)