Douluo Continent: On Becoming a God Through Science

Chapter 33 The Fifth Soul Ring is Completed

Among You Chen's second-tier targets, the Wind Spirit is the weakest of all the soul beasts.

However, despite its obvious shortcomings, You Chen still ranked it in the second tier, of course, because its advantages are equally obvious.

These spirit beasts are among the few elven creatures constructed purely from wind-elemental energy. They generally choose to absorb Wind Spirits as their spirit rings, which will more or less enhance their martial soul's control over wind-elemental power.

If a Soul Master uses a self-created Wind-type Soul Skill, the operability of that Soul Skill will be a level higher than that of other Wind-type Soul Beasts.

To give a simple example, the second soul skill of the Evil-Eyed White Tiger, after being fixed on hunting a certain soul beast determined by the experience of its ancestors, has basically become "White Tiger Blazing Light Wave".

By working backwards from this, You Chen can draw several conclusions.

First, the compatibility between this soul beast and the Evil-Eyed White Tiger is extremely high; otherwise, it would be impossible for every Evil-Eyed White Tiger soul master to obtain this soul skill so reliably from its soul ring.

Secondly, even if the Evil-Eyed White Tiger Soul Master uses a self-created Soul Skill when absorbing the Soul Ring, it cannot change the foundation of this Soul Skill.

Self-created soul skills are not something a soul master can simply do at will; they cannot create whatever soul skills they want.

While high compatibility and stability result in soul skills with stronger overall qualities, they also often limit the possibility of soul skills being useless.

No matter how you try to influence the generation of this soul skill with your subjective consciousness, in the end it will be a soul skill that releases energy through the kiss.

Even if You Chen were to take charge, at most he could only change whether the soul skill was more suited for ranged attacks or mid-range combat.

Most high-compatibility spirit rings have their spirit skill type limited before absorption.

The remaining degree of freedom lies in secondary attributes such as "release method", "operability", "range" and "soul power consumption".

At least one or two of them will be equally unselectable.

For example, the soul beast that Yan hunted for his second soul ring was already determined to be a defensive soul skill before he absorbed it, and it would only appear as a shield or barrier.

The Wind Summoning Soul Ring offers the highest degree of freedom among all soul beasts.

Aside from being limited to pure energy types and unable to generate soul skills that enhance the physical body or condense physical objects, it can produce soul skills of all types, including attack, support, defense, and amplification.

Therefore, even though its strength as a soul beast is not high, and the amplification of its soul ring is not as good as that of other soul beast soul rings of the same age, this alone makes it extremely valuable to You Chen.

Two or three thousand years is almost the limit for this kind of soul beast. The soul skill he wanted to build was naturally the signature skill of the Stardust Dragon, which was more well-known than the "Sacrifice Sanctuary" in some ways—"Sonic Shot"!

Strictly speaking, it is not a true 100% accurate recreation of the "speed of fire".

After You Chen (II), or rather, Little You Chen, absorbed the first soul ring, through the soul skill "Sacrifice Sanctuary," You Chen could be said to have gained a preliminary understanding of the power of the Stardust Dragon, the future form of the Starbone Dragon.

He still couldn't perfectly control this power. But just like someone who can't play football but can understand the game, he started from being a complete novice and began to empathize with the "player".

In You Chen's initial imagination, the Sacrifice Sanctuary was an ability that primarily relied on divine power, with star power playing a secondary role at most.

But the truth is that not only the power of the stars, but also the power of the wind were incorporated into it.

This is an ability born from the perfect utilization of the three elements of power.

You Chen had no prior knowledge of the principles behind "Sacrifice Sanctuary"; he only knew that Stardust Dragon possessed this skill.

After You Chen explained the desired effect, the Stardust Young Dragon, which was the precursor to the Stardust Dragon, also possessed corresponding power, so the corresponding modules were automatically completed by relying on the Soul Rings.

You Chen provided the "output result," and since the martial soul had this ability, it provided the "input process," thus realizing the complete skill.

The system-given soul ring essentially helped You Chen perform a reverse engineering process.

The unexpected outcome was entirely within You Chen's expectations.

Rather, that was his original purpose.

Through the glimpse of "Sacrifice Sanctuary," he had already vaguely discerned that "Sonic Shot" was not a purely wind-based skill.

It is impossible to recreate the exact same "speed of fire" using the Wind Spirit, a soul beast whose soul ring does not possess the power of stars or the power of the divine. At most, it can only get infinitely close.

In this process, You Chen will surely gain a deeper understanding of his own martial spirit.

With You Chen's spiritual power far exceeding the realm of Lingyuan Realm, and his proficiency as the inventor of "self-created soul skills," the process was much smoother than others imagined.

As for the 24,000-year lifespan of the soul ring?

Perhaps not long ago, he could only barely withstand a spirit ring that lasted a little over 20,000 years, but after his spirit evolved, his life essence was enhanced.

There's also the enhancement brought by Youchen (II), or rather, Xiao Youchen, absorbing the first soul ring. Even though most of the enhancement is attached to the soul ring and cannot be enjoyed after switching back to the main character card, even if it's only one-tenth of the enhancement, it's equivalent to absorbing a perfectly matched thousand-year soul ring.

With both factors combined, the 25% increase in the required years of service is well within his means.

He absorbed the spirit rings, imprinting his impression of the shooting speed shown in the animation into the spirit rings, while constantly weaving together the principles and concepts of this skill after he came to this world.

During the formation of his soul skill, just like when he created the "Sacrifice Sanctuary," many insights naturally emerged.

"As expected, this is a technique primarily based on wind magic, but also incorporating the power of stars and divine power!"

"Wind element as the primary element, celestial element as secondary, and divine element as a hidden underlying element? The energy ratio is... 5:2:1?"

"Hmm. No, I can't analyze the specific fusion process; the martial spirit itself doesn't provide enough support."

Soul rings from soul beasts with a certain degree of compatibility can develop the abilities of the martial soul itself. Therefore, even if the Wind Spirit is a pure wind-type soul beast, the martial soul will tap into its potential during the construction of "Sonic Shot," causing the soul skill to move in the direction most suitable for the martial soul, which is the original "Sonic Shot."

It will naturally be filled with attribute power that was not originally there.

However, the energy generated from tapping into the potential of a martial soul cannot compare to that of a soul ring, which concentrates most of the life force of a soul beast.

When the wind elemental power of the Wind Spirit begins to gain the upper hand, the final form of the Soul Skill inevitably begins to go astray.

Twenty minutes later, You Chen slowly opened his eyes and smiled.

The fifth spirit ring is complete!

Creating a complete version of the shooting sonic boom was never going to be possible, but at least You Chen's initial goal has been achieved.

Unlike other Soul Masters who couldn't wait to complete the absorption process, You Chen even complained that the time was too limited and too short!

(End of this chapter)