Douluo Continent: On Becoming a God Through Science

Chapter 68's reward for completing the task grants direct access to the God King's body-refining techniques.

In a sense, this is a case of "you have to give up something to gain something."

Looking at the line of mission rewards, You Chen felt a pang of emotion.

With a second questline available, Youchen naturally has more options.

You can choose not to abandon Kendall's quest, but instead focus on the second questline, develop your character along that path for a while, and simultaneously look for opportunities to deal with Kendall.

This allows us to minimize wasting valuable time while maximizing benefits.

Even if he ignores the first questline and just watches it, he still has the option to pursue the second questline.

However, if You Chen hadn't given up Kendall's mission, he wouldn't have received Yu Xiaogang's mission.

Therefore, when he encounters Tang San, he will not adopt the current approach. Whether it is the plan to fawn over Tang San or to sow discord between master and disciple and incite conflict between them, he will probably hide himself completely behind the scenes and manipulate Xiao Wu and the soul masters of Notting City.

Therefore, he will not trigger Tang San's mission in a short period of time, and will not discover that Youxing's alt account can also trigger a mission line.

Sometimes it's hard to explain what's lost and what's gained.

Now that things had come to this, You Chen stopped thinking about it. Compared to the "Longevity Manual," which couldn't be directly converted into combat power in a short time, the rewards from both Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were more in line with his expectations.

You Chen first looked at the two most valuable rewards.

First is the "Adaptive Soul Bone". What does "adaptive" mean?

Simply put, it means forming a soul bone that is completely consistent with your martial soul and can maximize the potential and abilities of your martial soul.

Just like when the spirit beast of the spirit ring and spirit bone are the same, the attributes and skills of the spirit bone will receive additional bonuses.

Even if there is no soul beast in the Douluo Continent that corresponds to your martial soul, this kind of adaptive soul bone can create a corresponding soul bone for you. You can even choose the part of the bone at will, so its value is self-evident.

Even if it's only ten thousand years old, it's still equivalent to an ordinary soul bone that's ten thousand years old, and a soul bone that's ten thousand years old is equivalent to a ferocious beast's soul bone.

Because this is an absolutely perfect match for your soul bone. It's comparable to the Angel Set for Qian Renxue, or the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone for Tang San, or even surpasses it.

But... what does this "100,000-year time limit" mean?

It's quite simple. If Tang San had absorbed this soul bone before his martial soul evolved into the Blue Silver Emperor, it wouldn't have given birth to the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone, but rather just the "Blue Silver Grass soul bone".

His maximum lifespan is about ten or twenty thousand years.

The perfect and absolutely compatible nature of this soul bone means that it will not exceed the upper limit of the soul master's current martial soul.

The Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone is indeed more precious than the Blue Silver Grass's right leg bone, and it can also enhance the Blue Silver Grass's martial soul origin power more, but... is its compatibility higher than a Blue Silver Grass soul bone that corresponds to the same age as the Blue Silver Grass soul master's martial soul?

the answer is negative.

Therefore, You Chen will not absorb this adaptive soul bone now.

The issue of time limit is only one aspect.

Most importantly, his martial spirit has not yet reached the evolution limit he expected.

To put it simply, if he absorbs this soul bone now, it will be an adaptive "Starbone Dragon Soul Bone". When his martial soul evolves into the Stardust Dragon martial soul, the two will naturally not be perfectly compatible.

Not to mention, there are even more powerful evolutionary forms after Stardust Dragon...

Absorbing it now would be a complete waste.

This collectible can only lie in Youchen's storage space for now, silently gathering dust.

Then there's... "Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force"! — You Chen silently ignored the (fake) one listed by the system.

This is the real highlight of the harvest!

Objectively speaking, if we follow You Chen's own six-point system for his martial soul, among the three elements of essence, energy, and spirit, his talent in "spirit" mental power is 6 points, which is "exceptional level". His "energy" soul power, after the evolution of his martial soul and his good talent in soul power manipulation, can be rated as 4 points, which is "top level". Therefore, his "essence" physical body is at most 3 points, which is "relatively strong".

Even though You Chen referenced the scientific training methods from his previous life and never missed a day of physical training, and never hesitated to use the rare and precious herbs that were useful for strengthening his body... his physical strength improvement was still too slow compared to the time and resources he invested.

It's important to know that he wasn't just in his twenties like the protagonist in the original story, but was already thirty-five years old at the end.

Even though the training efficiency would decrease at lower levels, in You Chen's calculations, if he were to become a Soul Master with a top-tier Beast Martial Soul, and had the same conditions as him in other aspects, his physical strength would at least reach the level of a Soul Saint.

His current physical abilities are barely enough to reach the threshold of Soul Emperor, and when he switches to the Wandering Star character card, he is only at the level of Soul Master.

However, from now on, this will no longer be a problem.

With the system's help, You Chen, who was originally of average talent in physical cultivation, understood the power of the "Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Technique" after forcibly learning its basics.

When one cultivates to the extreme and perfect, fully comprehending the power of all the microscopic particles within the physical body, and nurturing a miniature divine elephant within each particle, even at the level of a Title Douluo, it would not be a problem for one to rival a God King in this worldview solely through physical strength.

Even at the beginner level of cultivation, it is enough for You Chen to cultivate to the level of a Title Douluo.

But this also illustrates the difficulty of this technique!

If You Chen didn't rely on the system and only had this cultivation technique, even if he cultivated it until he died of old age, he would probably have almost no chance of reaching the minor mastery level from the beginner level.

It would probably take countless "flashes of inspiration" to hope that it would take about ten years to complete the improvement of one's realm.

But given You Chen's understanding of the physical path, he obviously wouldn't waste it like that.

"However, even the beginner level is more than enough for me right now."

No matter how good the rewards given by the system are, You Chen will only regard them as a supplement to his cultivation system, the "Three Elements Method of Essence, Qi and Spirit".

Since he emphasizes the balance of the three elements, he will not limit his physical enhancement.

In fact, given You Chen's talent in mental power, how could his upper limit over the past thirty years have only been limited to the level of tangible but intangible?

In You Chen's calculations, before he breaks through to the Soul Saint realm, his spiritual power level must not break through to the tangible and substantial realm.

Therefore, after he broke through to the stage of tangible yet intangible, he began to slow down his cultivation in this area. Otherwise, he would have naturally broken through to the Five Hearts Realm in the "Soul Refining Technique of Distraction" long ago.

This is because the human race, as the most intelligent species in this world, is naturally endowed with spiritual power and intelligence, unlike soul beasts.

It takes a soul beast ten thousand years of cultivation to basically acquire the wisdom of a human child. This is completely inconsistent with the situation that You Chen, a "demon" in his previous life, knew that "ten thousand years of experience is not as good as a six-year-old child." This is the invisible rule of heaven and earth.

If he were born as a soul beast and embarked on the path of cultivation involving the three elements of essence, energy, and spirit, You Chen probably wouldn't have proactively broken through to the realm of tangible yet intangible before reaching the cultivation level of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast corresponding to a Soul King.

(End of this chapter)