Douluo Continent: On Becoming a God Through Science

"Really? That's the very top-tier divine position!"

A deity spoke.

It's not that I don't believe in the benevolent God-King, but rather that this situation is too shocking.

Even the former genius, now the sea god Poseidon, only had the foundation to create his own first-level godhood after hundreds of years of accumulation.

And what about You Chen? Judging from the information, he's just a mortal in his early forties who hasn't been cultivating for very long!

"This child is indeed very talented, but to say he has the potential to become a god-king is a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it?"

Another first-level god, after reviewing the information about You Chen revealed by the God Kings, said, "In the first half of his life, he did indeed study the Martial Soul system of Douluo Continent in great depth, but his rise to power afterward was too abrupt. If Your Majesty considers his creativity to be extraordinary wisdom, I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, since he hasn't shown any special talent in other areas. Besides, this sudden rise makes it hard not to suspect whether there was interference from external forces."

My view is similar.

Another deity spoke up: "Judging from his temperament, he appears polite and gentle on the surface, but is actually very patient. Mortals in the lower realm may not know this, but if we observe him with the Heavenly Mirror, this You Chen is the master of the Beast Soul Merchant Guild, and his ambitions must be considerable. Such a shrewd and calculating person, even if he truly has potential, should not be indulged too much or promoted too high at once. I think giving him the position of Wind God is quite appropriate. It's still a first-level god position, and it certainly doesn't disgrace his talent. After he ascends to the upper realm, if his conduct is excellent, it's not too late to relinquish his god position and then create his own."

The deity's suggestion quickly gained the approval and support of many people.

It is not surprising that the gods would react in this way.

A powerful first-level god is fine, but if a new god-king is added, although the god realm will become even more powerful, it also means that there will be another being above them with the authority and power to restrict and limit them.

Judging from You Chen's resume in the lower realm, he is clearly not an easy person to talk to.

A person who appears gentle and mild-mannered but is actually secretly organizing power and planning something big is far more terrifying than someone who openly harbors resentment and malice.

Moreover, the Heavenly Mirror's observations are very limited, much like a telescope looking down into the lower realm. Those actions that are hidden in houses or concealed must be detected by using divine sense in real time; it cannot be traced back in time.

This also means that what the gods saw about You Chen and his organization was only a fragment.

If it weren't for the fact that You Chen's power had already reached a considerable scale, with a surge in personnel and such a large commotion, the gods wouldn't have been able to detect anything amiss.

This inevitably made many gods wary.

However, the final decision still rests with the several god-kings.

The evil god-king's gaze swept over the gods, a smile of interest spreading across his face. "I think such talent should be nurtured and guided in advance on how to create his own divine position. This way, there might be a glimmer of hope that he can create those two divine positions before his lifespan ends. The difficulty of creating a divine position is incomparable to that of a mortal. Even if one relinquishes their divine position after inheriting it, the imprint of those rules and authority still remains, making it almost impossible to create the highest-level divine position."

The God of Destruction nodded: "The power of faith brought by the Godhood of Wisdom is absolutely top-tier. And the Godhood of Stars has the potential to open up new paths. Both of these godhoods are extraordinary."

The Asura God coldly said, "His rise, though traceable, is ultimately somewhat strange. I suggest we hold off for a while and observe further. In my judgment, his current strength is already close to the pinnacle of mortal power. When his cultivation truly reaches the boundary between humans and gods, when he is invincible and no one can restrain him, then we can see how he acts and naturally discern his true nature."

The Kind God-King nodded in agreement: "Given the child's cultivation speed and the time difference in the God Realm, it should only be a matter of a few days. Before that, I hope everyone will refrain from contacting him prematurely."

Subsequently, all the gods approved of this decision.

Poseidon breathed a silent sigh of relief at the result, but at the same time, a sense of urgency welled up in his heart.

You Chen had already caught the eye of the gods, and he felt he couldn't wait any longer, otherwise there would probably be no hope of passing on the divine position to You Chen, and then he would go off to slack off.

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The lower realm, the Douluo Continent, the far north.

You Chen trampled Xue Di under his feet, looked down at her face filled with resentment and humiliation, and said coldly, "I said I would spare your life, and I will not go back on my word. Get lost."

After saying that, he kicked Xue Di away.

Even a powerful expert at the pinnacle of strength is no match for You Chen.

Compared to the Titan Snow Demon King, the Snow Empress is stronger, but due to her size, her vitality is far inferior.

Even as a powerful medicine, it cannot compare to the effects of Titan Snow Demon King.

Moreover, although You Chen has no bottom line, he still finds it hard to bring himself to eat such a completely humanoid creature.

Therefore, he turned and left without any hesitation.

Xue Di bit her red lips and stared at You Chen's back, but she had no intention of launching a sneak attack.

How could such a terrifyingly powerful being appear among humanity?

Xue Di's gaze was complex.

Even with her pride as the leader of the ultimate ferocious beasts, she dared not say that she had even the slightest hope of surpassing You Chen.

With the other party letting her go, Xue Di would certainly not risk her life for the sake of avenging her compatriots.

After all, her relationship with Titan Snow Demon King wasn't exactly good either. However, as the nominal ruler of the far north, she couldn't possibly cower in this situation.

After leaving the far north, You Chen neither returned directly to the Beast Soul Alliance's headquarters nor intervened in the situation on the continent. Instead, he went to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

After briefly greeting the guardians of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, he arrived at the Ice and Fire Spring.

Even with my head slightly lowered and my powerful eyesight peering down, I still couldn't see through the deep lake bottom.

Under the observation of divine sense, a large amount of free-floating immortal energy swirled in the lake water, slowly rising from the deepest part of the spring.

The reason why You Chen was confident in completing the Yuanxiang chapter of the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Technique was largely due to the immortal spiritual energy in the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire.

As a treasure land born from the fall of the Ice and Fire Dragon King and through a series of fortuitous events, the greatest opportunity here is not the immortal herbs, but the spring water itself, or rather, the abundant immortal spiritual energy within the spring water that can nourish and catalyze the immortal herbs.

However, now that the demigod body has been formed, continuing to cultivate this Yuanxiang chapter will not bring about a qualitative change in the short term.

You Chen was not in a hurry to cultivate in this area. He planned to return to the state he had before focusing solely on physical cultivation, and simply engage in appropriate cultivation each day.

The reason why the deity is required to come here is simply because only the deity can cultivate the physical body.

"Moreover, the benefits of practicing the Heavenly Frost Fist here are no less than those in the far north," You Chen thought to himself.

Titan Snow Demon King's 200,000-year soul ring contributed two soul skills to You Chen.

One is to help cultivate the moves of "Heavenly Frost Fist" - Titan Snow Demon Break, which is the strongest ice and snow fist technique of Titan Snow Demon King.

The other is an amplification-type soul skill, Power Burning.

By burning one's vital essence, the skill greatly amplifies physical strength. The skill description states that it can burn up to 50% of one's vital essence.

However, with You Chen's current demigod body, his physical strength has already exceeded the limit of this soul skill. Therefore, burning 30% of his blood and qi is enough to reach the upper limit of this soul skill. This amount of blood and qi is already the strongest amplification of power burning. Even so, it is enough to triple You Chen's physical strength in a short period of time.

Without using any other soul skills, just by relying on his demigod body and burning power to deliver this punch, he could severely injure an ordinary Limit Douluo.

With a second life soul core, You Chen's physical recovery ability is also extraordinary. As long as he is not seriously injured, he can use the power burning as a normal move.

Moreover, as a soul skill that simply drives life force and blood energy, You Chen felt that with some effort or by using a few flashes of inspiration, he could definitely transform it into a self-generated soul skill.

And this power is only the amplification effect of the physical body and a single soul skill.

You Chen had no doubt that his current full strength was enough to rival that of a high-ranking official.

Before his breakthrough, You Chen's stats indicated he was at the peak of level 98.

This breakthrough was primarily due to a significant improvement in both physical body and soul power, a direct three-level leap, directly bypassing the three levels of 99th-level quasi-demigod, demigod, and quasi-god, and instantly soaring to the level of a divine official.

And not just any ordinary priest.

As you can see from the original work, those low-ranking priests who were just there to fill a quota were no match for Di Tian.

As we all know, there are differences between immortals and gods. Gods with inferior backgrounds are naturally far inferior to the protagonist and are used by the protagonist to surpass them.

In reality, if a quasi-demigod is a regular level 99, then a demigod is actually just a weak priest.

Even among the priests, the quasi-gods are definitely among the best.

As mentioned in the original work, even a level 100 god with a divine position, such as Qian Renxue, cannot defeat Di Tian. However, a level 100 angel god with the blessing of a first-level god position, even if lacking in combat experience, is not someone that ordinary priests can easily defeat.

Without any other actual reference data, You Chen couldn't estimate whether his current strength was equivalent to that of a normal priest or how much of a difference he had from a third-level god.

Therefore, for now, he plans to focus on his cultivation.

Before that, he planned to absorb the soul bone of the Titan Snow Demon King.

After hunting down so many high-level soul beasts, this time, he finally managed to get a left arm bone.

Without any hesitation, You Chen directly refined the left arm bone of the 200,000-year-old Titan Snow Demon King.

Without the guidance of a soul beast's soul consciousness, soul bone skills cannot be arbitrarily created like soul ring skills.

However, You Chen doesn't particularly care about the 200,000-year-level soul skills now, as they are basically no match for his collection of self-created soul skills.

In addition to the improvements mentioned above, there was an unexpected bonus in this advancement.

An unexpected surprise from the Soul Core.

Although You Chen's second soul core attribute did not have the option of choosing space, the two soul cores themselves could actually provide the host with a little bit of space power.

To be precise, the connection between the two soul cores is similar to the senses forming a special perceptual space.

This is also why dual-soul core experts can more or less master some spatial power.

Even if they are not as good as Di Tian, ​​who possesses a spatial soul core and can perform spatial jumps and teleportations, their perception of space will become extremely sharp.

In terms of perception and detection alone, it is stronger than lower-level divine sense.

Following this direction, You Chen might have a chance to achieve something similar to the Soul Bone Skill "Mermaid's Guardian" without needing a Soul Bone.

Of course, considering the two major factors of precisely locking onto individuals and jumping over extremely long distances, without any other extraordinary encounters, it would probably be possible to achieve this only after You Chen becomes a god.

After reviewing the changes in his own strength, You Chen quickly began his research on the Heavenly Frost Fist and the Three-Part Returning Origin Qi.

He wants to find a way to completely integrate the three powers of essence, energy, and spirit, and to take the integration of stardust power to the next level.

Take the Stardust Shattering Fist as an example. This move is a fusion of essence and energy. The energy within it is the stardust power, a fusion of the three elements: stars, wind, and divinity.

But You Chen was not satisfied. The most perfect move in his mind was one that could incorporate spiritual power into the punch, allowing him to interfere with reality through his mind, or like the situation in martial arts novels where personal will is incorporated into a move.

The "Qi" formed by the perfect fusion of the three elemental powers, combined with the techniques formed by "divine sense and will" and "essence and blood"...

This is the true secret that represents the beginning of the perfect development of the three-element system of essence, energy, and spirit.

If one goes a step further, it is the state of unity between heaven, earth, and man described in the Three-Part Return to Origin Qi theory.

In that case, in terms of martial arts skills and techniques alone, he had reached the so-called first-level god realm.

Perhaps the martial arts level in the Douluo Universe is even lower than he imagined; the unity of heaven, earth, and man is already the realm of a God-King...

Two weeks have passed in the blink of an eye.

You Chen carried out his cultivation in an orderly manner, focusing on studying the Heavenly Frost Fist and the Three-Part Returning Origin Qi.

However, as the saying goes, things often turn out unexpectedly well.

In the process of studying the fusion of internal energy, his level of soul power control naturally improved, and the Breath Concealing Technique, which was already only one step away from a breakthrough, took the lead in reaching the perfect state.

While You Chen was quietly cultivating, representatives of various forces in the Douluo Continent finally gathered together at the main hall of the Spirit Hall in Spirit City, at the invitation and decree of Pope Bibi Dong.

Of course, not all the invited leaders of the factions graced the occasion with their presence.

After the Spirit Hall announced its intention to attack Seagod Island, some sects that had already been secretly subdued by the Spirit Hall were the first to respond, and some peripheral forces were also forced to respond.

Of course, the so-called marginal forces that can participate in such major events are only on the periphery compared to the three upper sects, the two great empires and the Spirit Hall. In reality, they are all forces that possess at least a Soul Saint level expert.

With some people setting an example, some forces that were originally unwilling to get involved had no choice but to respond to the call of the Spirit Hall, thus naturally forming a powerful trend.

Even so, some sects still declined the invitation from the Spirit Hall for various reasons.

For example, the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus family.