Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 154 Evil Nature

The two soul bones he mentioned were two 90,000-year-old soul bones given to him by Mu Ye after he entered the Body Sect. In his usual cultivation process, he would also use his blood and qi to nourish these two soul bones and increase their lifespan.

However, the effects of using the overflowing blood and qi were not obvious in normal times. This time, he directly hitched a ride on the wave, and both soul bones were upgraded to 100,000 years.

"These are minor matters. My next cultivation direction is to condense a soul core as soon as possible. With a soul core, both my combat power and cultivation will be much faster."

Makino nodded: "Which kind of soul core do you plan to condense first?"

At this point, Lin Xingyu hesitated for a moment, "Qi and Blood Soul Core, but I would like to try a Soul Core that combines the three powers of Essence, Qi and Spirit."

Mu Ye nodded slightly: "That's a good idea. Although it's rather mediocre, it's definitely powerful enough. Your physical strength is probably close to that of a Title Douluo. If you add your blood and qi power, your physical strength is comparable to that of an ordinary Title Douluo. If you condense a blood and qi soul core, there shouldn't be any major problems."

"Most Soul Masters only start to focus on physical strength after they have cultivated to a certain level. In the later stages, without a strong physique, they simply cannot withstand the continuous improvement and breakthrough of their Soul Power."

"Your foundation in this area is definitely strong enough. I condensed my soul core at level 65. As for other things to note, you can take a look at the book I gave you, 'The Complete Guide to One Hundred Questions about Condensing Soul Cores,' in a bit. I'll just tell you one thing: the essence of a soul core is simply the extreme compression of soul power and blood, plus some applications of space, etc."

"We'll start again in a couple of days when you come back to the Body Sect."

"Yes."

……

three days later.

Inside a quiet room within the main gate of the Body Sect.

Lin Xingyu sat silently on a high platform in the center of the soul guidance array.

He was playing with a small jade bottle in his hand, inside which was a drop of dazzling green liquid.

It exudes a rich, refreshing fragrance; just smelling the aroma of the liquid is enough to make one feel invigorated.

This drop of emerald green liquid is the life essence that Lin Xingyu condensed.

His supernatural power has a simple effect: it can transform external energy into life force.

This life force can be concentrated and extracted, and then it forms the life essence.

Furthermore, this process can be repeated to refine it, and Lin Xingyu even felt that in the end, even the so-called "Gold of Life" would be nothing to him.

But at this moment, his expression seemed somewhat strange.

This supernatural power has a rather broad definition of the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

The drop of life essence in his hand was transformed from today's food by him using his supernatural powers.

Food contains the vital energy of heaven and earth, so there seems to be no problem with its transformation.

But his food today is soul beast meat...

Thinking of this, Lin Xingyu suddenly remembered a sentence he had heard somewhere: "All things in the world are nothing more than the gathering and dispersing of qi!"

If dead soul beasts can be targeted, what about living soul beasts, or even more extreme cases? What about living beings?

At first, he thought this supernatural power was very legitimate, but after only two days, before he could figure out its legitimate uses, he seemed to have figured out some unorthodox ways to use it.

He shook his head, but finally made up his mind to collect the drop of life essence in his hand.

After activating his "high-dimensional vision" to confirm that no one was watching, Lin Xingyu hesitated for a moment before finally taking out a small item from his storage soul tool.

It was a compass-like object about a foot in size, with various patterns engraved on its surface. It was covered with countless ghosts, and at a glance, one could see the souls of all sorts of sea spirit beasts.

This is a trophy that Lin Xingyu obtained after defeating the Plague Beast. It should be the soul of a sea spirit beast that the Plague Beast had collected in the ocean.

Compared to the mainland, although there are top-tier soul beast overlords in the ocean, the ocean is simply too vast, and there are far too many sea soul beasts within it.

Hunting in one place secretly is actually much safer than hunting in other places.

Furthermore, the Plaguebringer should still belong to the Holy Spirit Cult, which in turn has some connections with the Demon Emperor.

It would be safer for them to hunt sea spirit beasts to obtain souls.

As his Abyss Domain unfolded, the sea spirit beast soul that had been howling in his hand seemed to fall silent all at once.

Lin Xingyu gently stroked the soul-binding tool a few times, then suddenly exerted force, shattering the tool in his hand.

The countless souls of the spirit beasts seemed to suddenly burst forth, like a gushing hot spring, and all the spirit beasts were eager to flee into the distance.

However, as the Myriad Abyss Domain unfolded, all the souls froze in place.

With a series of shrill screams, all the souls of the sea spirit beasts were devoured by the Myriad Abyss Domain.

The Myriad Abyss Domain vanished in an instant. Now, inside the illusory domain, the souls of the sea spirit beasts that had been devoured here were being refined by flames, lightning, destruction, starlight, and various elemental forces in turn.

Finally, as the souls of these soul beasts seemed to dim further, all the souls of the sea soul beasts completely merged into the Myriad Abyss Domain.

All attributes were encompassed by starlight, ultimately becoming one.

Because these sea spirit beasts primarily possess water as their attribute, after devouring the souls of all the spirit beasts, a water-attribute domain silently appeared within the Myriad Abyss Domain.

The souls of all the sea spirit beasts have gathered here.

As a result, Lin Xingyu's Myriad Abyss Domain also became even more powerful.

Compared to combat, the fastest way to become powerful in the Myriad Abyss Domain is to devour enough souls, as the Myriad Abyss Domain itself possesses a powerful ability to devour souls.

After finishing all this, Lin Xingyu took out a battle armor made entirely of spirit metal from his hand.

"High-Dimensional Vision" Unlocked!
In Lin Xingyu's eyes, the spirituality within the metal was fully visible.

He pulled out the soul of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast from his own Myriad Abyss Domain.

This is the soul of a ten-thousand-year-old golden-scaled fish. This soul is one foot in size, and its scales are all golden. It swims nimbly in the air.

Lin Xingyu watched this scene with a serious expression.

He pushed the soul of the golden-scaled fish in his hand directly into the core of the battle armor.

The two overlap but remain clearly distinct.

Lin Xingyu's third spirit ring lit up.

Xuanjin Armor!
They can use their soul power to erode objects and transform them into their own weapons.

As Lin Xingyu's soul power flowed, the spirituality on this set of battle armor was gradually imbued with Lin Xingyu's image.

At this moment, the frequencies of the spiritual energy within the metal and the fluctuations in the soul of the golden-scaled fish gradually approached each other in Lin Xingyu's eyes.

As Lin Xingyu continuously adjusted the direction of his soul power, the spirituality within the metal and the soul of the golden-scaled fish gradually merged into one.

However, the fusion of the two reached a certain point and then abruptly stopped, with only about one-third of them overlapping.

Lin Xingyu took a deep breath, and his first and second spirit rings lit up.

Heaven and earth are like a furnace, burning with true fire!
Using the refining power of the Heaven and Earth Furnace, they were continuously refined, and the flames generated by the Glazed True Fire became the best catalyst at this moment.

It provides a continuous source of power from all aspects. The two forces of thunder and starlight are also constantly being drawn upon by Lin Xingyu.

The battle armor was covered in a field of fire, lightning, and starfall, with various forces constantly falling upon it.

From the inside out and from the outside in, it constantly changes the essence of this battle armor.

after an hour.

As the soul of the golden-scaled fish completely merged into the battle armor.

At this moment, the two are no longer distinguishable from each other.

Lin Xingyu's expression became even more serious. The experiment had reached its final and most crucial stage.

The Myriad Abyss Domain unfolds!

The life essence in his hand landed on the battle armor.

The battle armor, which was originally an inanimate object, instantly came to life, as if it had gained a life of its own.

A flash of crimson-gold light.

The battle armor disappeared from its original location.

Become!

After carefully experiencing the effects, Lin Xingyu's lips curled up slightly as he had expected.

When he acquired this field, he was always thinking about how to maximize its effectiveness.

Simply devouring souls can make a domain grow stronger quickly.

However, Lin Xingyu felt that if he were to go on a killing spree to collect souls simply for the sake of power, he would find it difficult to do so in a short period of time.

Although he believed he had lowered his standards somewhat, he felt that his standards were still higher than those of most people on the Douluo Continent.

As for using the souls of these sea spirit beasts, firstly, he felt they were not of his kind, and secondly, having already obtained them, he felt it would be a loss to simply let them go without trying them out.

Besides obtaining a large number of souls to improve the Myriad Abyss Domain, another way is to improve the quality of the few sea spirit beast souls you have.

However, I am not a specialist in manipulating souls, and I do not possess any soul fragments of a certain necromancer saint, so it is impossible for me to create one in a short period of time.

Fortunately, he took a different approach, possessing a soul in his own hands, and in this era, there were spirit metals and battle armor.

If one reaches the level of a four-word battle armor, a soul master can completely abandon their physical body and attach their soul to the battle armor.

Then a brilliant idea struck him: he would make some spirit metals and then use the soul within the Myriad Abyss Domain as the core to fuse with the battle armor.

In this way, the soul can grow stronger with the power of the battle armor, and the battle armor can also nurture the soul. The minimum requirement for this is that it must contain spirit metal, because only spirit metal can nurture spirituality.

Finally, use the life essence to give the battle armor sufficient activity.

In this way, both the soul and the battle armor grew, and their strength could in turn drive the growth of the Myriad Abyss Domain.

It's safe to say they won big.

Furthermore, his soul and battle armor are both within the Myriad Abyss Domain, allowing him to utilize the power within the Myriad Abyss Domain at any time.

Suddenly, Lin Xingyu seemed to realize something, and his expression changed.

"If you consider the soul you merge into as your martial soul and the battle armor as your soul master, then there seems to be nothing wrong with that."

He scratched his head, unable to quite grasp the underlying principle.

Lin Xingyu then began to ponder how to use these souls, since it would be a waste to use them only to enhance his domain.

After my actions, these sea spirit beasts—no, they should be given a new name!

After half a day, Lin Xingyu, unable to come up with a good name, gave up thinking about it.

"Let's just call them Sea Spirit Beasts for now."

The soul itself possesses power, and with the addition of battle armor he made for them, the sea spirit beasts are now able to exert a certain level of combat strength.

Whenever their domain expands, they can also provide some assistance in combat.

……

"But the effect is a bit too low."

Lin Xingyu was speechless after testing the combat power of the Sea Soul Beast. The Sea Soul Beast was transformed after Lin Xingyu's actions.

Although it can exert a certain combat power, it also has considerable soul power and mental strength.

But perhaps because he was burned and struck by lightning during the forging process, he acted like a mentally challenged person.

Basically, it's all done by Lin Xingyu. What's the point? Where does he get the energy to command during battle?
"However, they should still be somewhat useful." Lin Xingyu pondered, stroking his chin.

"They inherently possess powerful soul and spiritual energy, but they simply don't know how to utilize it. However, this soul and spiritual energy does exist. If we could make use of these powers..."

With this in mind, Lin Xingyu immediately had a plan for his next soul skill.

What if these powers were connected to an individual through formations or soul skills?

The combat power that will be able to unleash at that time...

"hiss!"

However, if one were to equip all the souls within one's domain with a battle armor made of spirit metal, without even requiring fusion or quality, only the spirit metal itself would be required.

That's a pretty big project.

The first soul skill, Heaven and Earth Furnace, can quickly refine a large amount of pure metal, but the final summoning process must be operated by oneself.

Thinking of this, Lin Xingyu was momentarily at a loss.

The sea spirit beast souls in his hands include thirteen at the ten-thousand-year level, three hundred and fifty at the thousand-year level, and nearly five thousand at the hundred-year level, most of which are of the same race.

It's estimated that the Plague Messenger tricked one of the Sea Spirit Beast clans by releasing poison.

"Wait, why do I have to pursue a spirit? My goal is to directly integrate the soul into it. Whether the metal has a spirit inside is not important at all, as long as the quality of the metal is good enough."

After thinking about it this way, Lin Xingyu suddenly felt enlightened.

Three hours later.

Looking at the twelve newly made suits of armor in front of him, Lin Xingyu couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.

Refined by the furnace of heaven and earth, forged by the true fire of glaze, imbued with the black gold armor, and empowered by surging life force, Lin Xingyu instantly obtained thirteen suits of armor and thirteen subordinates after going through the entire process.

At the same time, his own domain was further enhanced, with significant increases in both the suppression of enemies within the domain and the amplification of his own power.

Looking at the remaining souls within the domain, Lin Xingyu's lips twitched involuntarily. It seemed he needed to find a way to speed things up.

(End of this chapter)