Douluo: On Becoming a God through Science

On the other side, the sky blue and cyan soul power fluctuated, and a star skeleton dragon with snow-white as the main color possessed You Chen, and detailed changes belonging to the white dragon appeared on You Chen's body.

Just like Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing only gained rabbit ears and cat ears after their martial spirits were possessed, most beast martial spirits only slightly transformed their martial spirits.

This is why the part of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex that has transformed into a dragon is so powerful.

Because that is equivalent to manifesting a partially weakened version of the martial spirit's true form in advance, and the effect is not comparable to that of a simple martial spirit possession.

Chapter 19: Yan's Training Path (Part )

You Chen observed the changes in Yan's aura, with a hint of relief in his eyes.

During this period of time, he was busy preparing to leave Wuhun City, and Yan had been out for training with Hu Liena and others some time ago. The master and disciple had not seen each other for a long time.

After a quick observation, You Chen knew that Yan had not fallen behind in his studies during this period.

The soul power level has been raised to level 36, and the control of soul power has become more smooth and free.

Considering the training of soul power, physical strength and mental strength, Yan cannot fall behind.

By the way, Yan is one year older than Hu Liena. He is level 12 at the age of 36, which is 12 levels higher than the 29 level when Tang San was 7 years old and just graduated from Notting City College in the original novel.

Xie Yue's cultivation speed was similar to Yan's, and he also reached level 36. This was also the reason why he dared to disregard You Chen in his heart.

In fact, this cultivation speed is not exaggerated.

Even Yan's cultivation speed did not exceed Xie Yue's because after he became You Chen's apprentice, some of the homework assigned by You Chen slowed down Yan's speed of accumulating soul power.

After You Chen published "Don't Use Whale Glue" and Spirit Hall monopolized whale glue, the three members of the golden generation all enjoyed the benefits of whale glue.

The soul power improved by whale glue is secondary.

The most important thing is that with the cultivation of the highest-level resources and their own qualifications meeting the standards, the age of the spirit rings they absorb at each level has been greatly increased.

It was okay when I was absorbing the first ring and was younger and couldn’t handle too many supplements.

After absorbing the second and third rings, they directly jumped 3 levels.

Normally, a soul master would only increase his soul power by 1 level after absorbing a soul ring with the best age. However, for Tang San's third soul ring, after exceeding the age limit (the best age limit was more than 1700 years, and Tang San absorbed 3000 years of it), it was increased by an additional level.

The resources enjoyed and the training received by the three people of the Spirit Hall's golden generation are far beyond Tang San's reach. The years of their second and third soul rings are much longer than the original best years, and their soul power levels are also increased more.

All in all, it is equivalent to at least one year more of practice than the average person.

The advantage in cultivation level brought by more soul ring energy will probably not be weakened until after the sixth-ring Soul Emperor.

Because it is much more difficult to find and hunt soul beasts that are old and suitable for soul masters than those that are young.

In addition to Yan's high level of soul power, his physical body has also been well polished.

The only thing that made You Chen somewhat dissatisfied was the training of his mental strength.

However, considering Yan Wu's rough character, he is indeed not very suitable for the spiritual secret method he created based on his multitasking talent. It is understandable that the improvement of his mental power lags behind?

In addition to the cultivation of the three elements of essence, energy and spirit, You Chen's way of cultivating Yan's Fire Lord martial soul and his choice of soul skills are also very different from the original work.

When Yan absorbed his first soul ring, he had not yet become his disciple, so his soul skill is the same as in the original novel, called "Hell Magma Rush". (The original novel doesn't seem to have written this, so let's just assume that the mobile game gives the original novel)

Simply put, it is a soul skill that shoots out magma at high speed and causes it to explode.

In addition to bringing soul skills, this soul ring only slightly improves the energy intensity of the Fire Lord.

However, the improvement of a hundred-year-level first ring to a top-level martial soul can be said to be negligible.

If the Flame Lord wants to achieve the evolution of his martial soul, the conditions required are much simpler than the evolution path of the Stardust Dragon.

Because this is a violent one-shot, even the special abilities are simple and clear, focusing on the dual attributes of fire and earth.

Of course, just because the conditions are simple and clear doesn’t mean it’s easy to achieve martial soul evolution.

The evolution of a top-level martial soul into a super martial soul is no less difficult than the evolution of a mid-level martial soul into a top-level martial soul.

This process is indeed difficult, but it can also be said to be easy, in a sense.

As long as you follow the correct path and don't absorb any inexplicable spirit rings, such as absorbing a soft bone rabbit spirit ring when your martial spirit is clearly of fire and earth attributes... then when Yan absorbs nine spirit rings and becomes a Titled Douluo, the martial spirit will basically be able to evolve into super quality.

As long as he simply stacks up the levels of dual-attribute energy of fire and earth, the improvement brought by nine soul rings, and those super-age soul rings, will almost certainly make his martial soul achieve qualitative change through quantitative change.

Even if there is a slight shortfall, once Yan reaches a high enough level, he will be able to make up for it by absorbing suitable soul bones.

This process is simpler than "evolving an intermediate martial soul into a top-level martial soul" in that soul masters with intermediate martial souls basically do not have the talent to become Titled Douluo and have the upgrade of nine soul rings.

Therefore, You Chen’s plan for Yan was not to improve the quality of his martial soul from the very beginning.

What he has been thinking about is how to maximize the combat effectiveness of the Flame Lord's martial spirit.

There are roughly two directions to enhance the combat capability of martial arts spirits: strengthening strengths and making up for weaknesses.

After carefully studying the characteristics of the Fire Lord, You Chen's attention quickly focused on its shortcomings.

As a top-level martial spirit, the Flame Lord's shortcomings are undoubtedly its slower speed and greater soul power consumption compared to other top-level martial spirits.

This shortcoming is of course only relative. Facing a high-level martial spirit, a well-rounded Flame Lord undoubtedly has an overwhelming advantage in all aspects.

Unlike Hu Liena's fox demon, whose strengths and weaknesses are obvious, there is a risk of being overthrown by the weak.

According to many records of the Spirit Hall, when a top-level spirit evolves into a super spirit, it usually strengthens its strengths, and then, if there is surplus, it improves its weaknesses.

You Chen judged that after the evolution of the Flame Lord, speed and endurance would still be its disadvantages. In his martial soul's six-dimensional scoring system, it might even continue to maintain a score of 3 points.

Between endurance and speed, Youchen's first reaction was to increase speed.

After all, the comprehensive ability is sufficient, and the enemy can be knocked down directly before the soul power and physical strength are exhausted, so there is no disadvantage of insufficient endurance.

The speed is different. Faster speed means higher fault tolerance and better output environment.

Based on the characteristics of the Flame Lord's martial soul, You Chen, while focusing on making up for his speed shortcoming, quickly came up with a plan that could both enhance the Flame Lord's mobility and, to a certain extent, its output capabilities.

The Fire Lord's special ability is "fire rock control", not "magma control".

It has the strongest control when it comes to manipulating the mixed energy of fire and earth, and in addition to that, it also has a high level of control over fire energy and earth energy.

So this ability can be seen as "fire control" + "earth control" + "magma control".

You Chen saw from this a future where Yan would have a more meticulous control over his own soul power.

You Chen's martial soul can manipulate wind, sacred, and star energies at the same time.

But even with his soul control ability which was countless times greater than Yan's current one, he was still unable to manipulate the sacred or star energy independently, except for the wind energy which was the easiest to control.

Only by using the soul skills of the soul ring can this be done.

The difference is equivalent to the hand-rolled ultimate move in King of Fighters and the ultimate move in simple mode.

But Yan is different, his martial soul has the innate ability to control fire and earth more easily.

Chapter 20: Yan's Training Path (Part )

This means Yan can do more creative things.

By training the control over fire and earth energies separately, and then blending together enhanced magma energy with higher temperature, higher hardness, or more explosiveness, etc., the effects of soul skills can be changed through the changed nature of soul power, bringing different tactical options.

By compressing the shape of the flame, gathering the flame into a cluster to bring about a faster explosion speed, or freely changing the shape and area of ​​the magma, a similar effect of automatic defense can be achieved.

Youchen calls these two directions of practice the practice of "change of nature" and "change of form" respectively.

Combining these two, after practicing to an extremely deep level, one can even create one's own soul skills at will!

It can be said that the Fire Lord has a unique advantage in his self-created soul skills!

According to the information You Chen obtained from the original work, as well as the records of the Super Douluo in the Spirit Hall, after reaching the Super Douluo level, the level of understanding and control over the original power of the spirit is the standard for distinguishing the truly strong, as well as the conditions for going further.

You Chen asked Yan to delve deeply into this aspect, which is equivalent to paving the way forward in advance. If this foundation is laid firmly, he can really be promoted to Titled Douluo in the future. Compared with other soul masters, he will have a smooth journey.

But let’s talk about the future later. You Chen thought that knowing such distant things in advance would easily make his disciples too ambitious.

Now he let Yan focus on this aspect, just to make up for Yan's shortcomings in speed as much as possible.

In order to make up for the lack of speed by controlling the dual elemental power of fire and earth, the first thing You Chen thought of was "Gundam's jet pack".

However, since this is a fantasy world, the name of the jet pack is somewhat meaningless, so You Chen named it - Thermal Thruster.

Through high-precision control of the fire rock, a controllable booster is formed behind.

With the help of this thermal thruster, Yan can obtain the flying ability that only Titled Douluo and a very small number of flying soul masters have at a lower soul master level.

Of course, flying, hovering in the air, and continuously erupting flames require a lot of soul power, so this can only be used as a killer move.

The most common use of thermal thrusters is sudden acceleration, deceleration, and instantaneous change of direction during combat.

This speed completely goes against normal people's intuition and is even more difficult to drive than the normal highway.

And when Yan's strength is further improved and his soul power is sufficient, he will be able to become a super-high-speed flying turret.

"Mobile flying turret" is the final form that You Chen planned for Yan.

To achieve this goal, You Chen gave Yan two or three soul skills to choose from, which, in the eyes of outsiders, were the types that were extremely misleading.

Even if one chooses the most suitable soul ring for a soul beast, not everyone can rely on their own will to create soul skills completely according to their own ideas.

The process by which a soul master uses his own thoughts to influence the production of soul skills is also called "self-created soul ring" or "self-created soul skills."

The most important point about a self-made soul ring is that your mental strength must be far superior to that of ordinary people.

Without superior mental strength, one would not even have time to focus on other things when absorbing soul rings, let alone clear thinking. It would be impossible to influence the generation of soul skills with one's own thoughts.

The older the soul ring, the more difficult it is to maintain clear thinking when absorbing it.

After ten thousand years, there is even the mental shock left by the soul beasts, which makes the difficulty even higher.

This also shows the rarity of the adaptive spirit ring that Youchen obtained from the system. Not only is the energy pure, the age is adaptive, but there is no additional mental shock. If not for this, he might not be able to perfectly construct the "Sacrificial Sanctuary".

In order to allow Yan to perform his own soul skills at the second ring, You Chen specifically asked Yan to stay at the bottleneck of level 20 for a while longer to refine his spiritual secret technique "Distraction Soul Refining Technique" to improve his mental strength.

Although it is still possible to improve mental strength through meditation when reaching a soul power bottleneck, the efficiency is naturally not as fast as when at a higher level.

I don't know if it was Bibi Dong's arrangement or if the teachers and students around her all had the same idea, but during that period, there was always a rumor that "Youchen is misleading the students."

After You Chen wasted Yan's precious training time and chose a soul ring that gave birth to a soul skill that was obviously completely incompatible with Yan's "strong attack system", You Chen's reputation plummeted in a short period of time, and the entire Wuhun Hall Academy was filled with ridicule calling him a "mediocre teacher".

It also laid the groundwork for You Chen to be marginalized in the Spirit Hall Academy.

And that "useless soul skill" is called "Lava Barrier".

Although it was a thousand-year soul skill, its effect was very simple. It was to use soul power to instantly construct a huge wall that could resist damage. That was all.

In Douluo Continent, every soul master has to assign himself to a different world with a specific system, which is simply the opposite of Tiangang.

If you are a defensive spirit master, there is nothing wrong with obtaining such a spirit skill.

But if you are a strong attack spirit master, and your spirit skills are not to enhance attack or output a big move, then they are garbage spirit skills.

When disciple Yan heard everyone's condemnation of his mentor, he wanted to "tell the truth", that is, to tell everyone You Chen's plan for Yan's future path.

But this was naturally stopped by You Chen.

This is not only because You Chen does not want his training method to be leaked, but also because You Chen deeply understands that even if he explains it, most people will not understand and will continue to criticize him.

The stigma of You Chen "misleading young people" was only cleared after Yan was promoted to Soul Master and was invincible during his training in the Soul Fighting Arena.

Regardless of the second or third soul skill, You Chen's idea is very simple, to enhance Yan's ability to use soul power to construct and shape things.

It is extremely difficult to practice "nature change" or "form change" from nothing to something.

You have to know that soul power is not as omnipotent as chakra, and it is not as easy to control.

This is true even if the Fire Lord is born with a talent for enhanced control.

There are indeed some training manuals with similar directions in the Spirit Hall's collection, but it would take several years to master each one, which is one of the reasons why original spirit skills are rare in this world.

Compared to learning independently from scratch, imitating the already formed soul skills in the soul ring is obviously a better choice.

After Yan completely transformed the "lava barrier" into his own and could use it even without activating the spirit ring, his practice of "form change" naturally began smoothly.

Anyway, once the rank goes up, with the Fire Lord's natural ability to adapt to and create his own soul skills, it will be easy to create soul skills that last for hundreds or thousands of years in the future.

Therefore, it’s no big deal to just give up the first few soul skills.

The third soul skill is still a soul skill related to form change, and its name is "Flame Prison Cage". The effect is to form a cage similar to the Lava Demon Cage to block the enemy. It is an extremely powerful control and blockade skill. The complexity of the cage it forms is significantly improved compared to the shield of the second soul skill.

With two or three soul skills as the best teachers for his practice, Yan finally started smoothly on the road of creating his own soul skills.

After Yan had made some progress in practicing his self-created soul skill, he asked You Chen to give his self-created soul skill a name, to express his gratitude for his teacher's guidance.

You Chen had no objection and named the series - The Modeling Magic of Yan!