Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains

Chapter 52 Methods of Cultivating Mental Power?

To elevate his soul to the nine-thousand-year limit, Zhao Long's strength is naturally not to be underestimated.

His fifth spirit ring wasn't perfectly equipped, it wasn't that he lacked talent.

Through years of forging, and with his martial soul being a hammer, he has developed his hammer techniques to a certain extent.

With Zhao Long's strength, he could hunt down a five-thousand-year-old soul beast.

However, five-thousand-year-old soul beasts are not readily available in the intermediate-level Spirit Ascension Platform; they need to be searched for. Moreover, he needs to avoid attracting other powerful soul beasts by causing fluctuations in battle, so hunting five-thousand-year-old soul beasts is not safe enough for him.

For truly efficient hunting, three thousand years is the most cost-effective period.

It can both quickly resolve the battle and ensure that there is enough energy to escape if other powerful soul beasts approach.

This is not the real world. The cost of death is within an acceptable range, but dying once also means a spot on the intermediate-level Spirit Ascension Platform, which is not cheap. So it is better to save your life if possible, and you cannot develop the habit of acting recklessly, otherwise you may lose your life if you encounter a crisis in reality.

Considering Xu Yuan's existence, Zhao Long decided to hunt down a soul beast that was over two thousand years old. Hunting down one would be equivalent to Xu Yuan's soul spirit increasing its cultivation by one hundred years.

You only need five to complete the minimum reward for this mission.

Zhao Long's efficiency is not high.

He was, after all, a blacksmith. Even with his extensive experience at the Spirit Ascension Platform in hunting soul beasts, he was only steady, not particularly efficient.

Fortunately, Xu Yuan wasn't in a hurry.

The Spirit Ascension Platform is modeled after the former Star Dou Great Forest. The primary Spirit Ascension Platform is modeled after the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, while the intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform is modeled after its outer layer. The highest age of the soul beasts encountered there is around six or seven thousand years.

If it is a mixed layer, ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts will appear. These only appear in advanced spirit ascension platforms. It is said that the production of each ten-thousand-year-old soul beast in an advanced spirit ascension platform consumes a lot of resources. Although hunting ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts in an advanced spirit ascension platform cannot make the soul spirit break through the ten-thousand-year barrier, it can continue to increase the age of the ten-thousand-year-old soul spirit.

The maximum age is six or seven thousand years, but that doesn't mean that all the soul beasts in this intermediate spirit ascension platform are thousand-year-old soul beasts.

On the contrary, each thousand-year-old soul beast requires time to find.

Along the way, the two will also kill any hundred-year-old soul beasts they encounter.

Even a small fly is still meat.

Based on more than a day of hunting, Xu Yuan estimated that at least two hundred years of the spiritual power needed for his Dream Demon Soul to break through to a thousand years would come from hundred-year-old Soul Beasts.

There's no way around it, they're just too easy to kill.

Xu Yuan may not be able to kill someone instantly upon meeting them, but Zhao Long can.

The hundred-year-old soul beast had no chance of escaping from Zhao Long's hands. He severely injured it and then finished it off to Xu Yuan, which could be considered an instant kill.

The real waste of time is the process of restoring soul power and searching.

"Wait!" Zhao Long reached out to stop Xu Yuan, shielding him behind him.

Zhao Long looked wary, and Xu Yuan also sensed that something was wrong.

Although Xu Yuan has a strong talent for mental strength, he is only seven years old and his mental strength value is only a little over 500 points. It will increase after absorbing the soul of the dream demon, but it is obviously much worse than Zhao Long's.

Zhao Long, after all, had fused with two thousand-year-old souls, and his spiritual power had undoubtedly reached the Spirit Sea Realm. Moreover, he had reached the Spirit Sea Realm before level 40, and now Zhao Long was already level 58.

His mental strength also reached four digits.

A huge black shadow appeared in front of the two of them.

"This is a giant ape!"

Looking at the tall, black gorilla, Xu Yuan swallowed hard.

so big!

Of course, I was only terrified by its size.

Giant apes are enormous in size and exceptionally strong, but they are clumsy in movement and lack any special means of controlling the elements, making them quite easy to hunt.

As a result, very few giant apes grew up.

"This ancient ape has at least four thousand years of cultivation. Do you want to come?" Zhao Long stared intently at the ancient ape.

Xu Yuan shook his head.

After Zhao Long hunted for two and a half days on this intermediate-level Spirit Ascension Platform, his soul spirit had already advanced to the next level, now approaching 1,400 years old, very close to its limit. He planned to continue to steadily improve by relying on century-old soul beasts.

This ancient ape may directly provide over two hundred years of cultivation. Xu Yuan's spiritual power is fine, but once he leaves the Spirit Ascension Platform, his body may experience problems.

After the blood and qi contract was established, Xu Yuan's blood and qi cultivation became easier, but he had only cultivated for seven days, and his physical strength had not yet improved.

"Alright, then find a place where you won't get caught in the fighting, and also keep watch over the surroundings for me." Zhao Long stared at the ancient ape while instructing Xu Yuan.

The two and a half days of cooperation made Zhao Long aware of Xu Yuan's abilities, which is why he made this arrangement.

"Okay, Brother Long, be careful."

Xu Yuan quickly retreated.

"roar!"

Upon seeing Xu Yuan's actions, the ancient ape pounded its chest violently, the terrifying thumping sound mixed with soul power fluctuations, causing one's blood to surge. Fortunately, both Xu Yuan and Zhao Long were physically strong, so they were not greatly affected.

The ancient ape roared to the sky, then suddenly uprooted a large tree next to it and swung it directly at Xu Yuan.

"You beast, your opponent is me!" Zhao Long roared, and a huge iron hammer appeared in his hand, covered with purple patterns and surrounded by strands of lightning.

Rumble!

The Soul-Suppressing Hammer collided with the tree, shattering it into pieces. Xu Yuan constantly dodged the broken branches of the tree while moving away from the battlefield.

"What a pity, there's nothing I can do. I'd better play it safe when it comes to ascending to higher levels."

Xu Yuan can be impulsive and reckless, but only when it involves his future potential. However, he can remain calm and collected when it comes to things like spiritual ascension, which can be a very stable matter.

Having witnessed a battle between a Soul King and an ancient ape, Xu Yuan was filled with excitement.

The power of a Soul Master is by no means limited to the fantastical floor tiles mentioned in the memes I read in my previous life.

Even floor tiles are fantastical!

After killing the ancient ape, Zhao Long also needed to rest. Since Xu Yuan was only a few hundred-year-old soul beasts away, he told Zhao Long and then went to find them himself.

Three hours later.

Xu Yuan raised the Dream Demon's soul to about 1,500 years, and then stopped killing soul beasts.

At this point, he voluntarily left the Ascension Platform.

As for staying inside to find soul beasts to hone combat skills, it's completely meaningless. Xu Yuan can do all of that in the Soul Arena and Beast Arena after returning to Shrek Academy.

Blacksmiths Association.

"That's quite efficient; it was done in just three days," Makino said in surprise.

"Brother Long is strong, hunting him won't be too easy," Xu Yuan chuckled.

"Hmm, to how many years?"

"Fifteen hundred years."

"It's alright. This is your body's limit for now. You might be able to push yourself a little further, but there's no need." Mu Ye nodded and led Xu Yuan to the rooftop.

"Since you're going to focus on cultivating your brain-based martial soul, I should teach you some methods for cultivating mental power." Mu Ye led Xu Yuan to the rooftop and introduced the methods for cultivating mental power.

"A method for cultivating mental power?"

(End of this chapter)