Douluo: On Becoming a God through Science

In the past, this was a realm that only gods could enter...

You Chen's soul power borrowing method does not have any trace of using divine power. It is a god-like feat of stepping into the realm of gods by relying solely on the strength of a mortal!

In a sense, this may be better than the increase in the soul ring age in the divine test.

Because You Chen has already used several "Soul Ring Age Enhancement Cards" to test it, after the solidified soul ring has been aged with the age enhancement card, the soul ring's attribute increase and soul skill power have been enhanced.

but……

There will be no improvement in the origin of the martial soul.

For example, the essence of spirit rings in this process is just an accelerant, and the reason why the martial soul mutates after absorbing the spirit ring is actually the sublimation brought about by the period of time when the martial soul itself breaks the shackles of rules.

This is a gift from the rules of this world. It is a benefit given by the world to soul masters to be closer to the gods. It is an underlying law that even the gods cannot tamper with.

Of course, what is referred to here is only the evolution of the martial soul during the process of absorbing spirit rings. Using other means to enhance the essence of the martial soul is another topic.

Therefore, the years that a martial soul absorbs the soul ring are more valuable than the years that are added later.

Naturally, the higher the value, especially the key ones, the better.

So, is there a way to go higher?

The answer is of course yes.

This is because the soul power borrowing method can overcome one limit and borrow soul power for 10 years. This is the limit of other soul masters restricted by the world, not Youchen's limit!

The upper limit of the soul power level that a trumpet can actually receive is level!

But I have only been researching the soul power borrowing method for a year, and I can only borrow up to level 10.

This is largely due to the lack of experimental samples.

Being able to hold it back for two or three levels is already considered a lot, but no one can really hold it back for 10 levels, let alone higher levels!

This naturally leads to a sharp increase in the difficulty of research and development!

The current amount is the result of You Chen racking his brains for a year, plus two flashes of inspiration.

To move up even by just one level, one essentially needs to break through the limit of the first ring and break through the restrictions of the second level of rules of the world, which is to upgrade from "borrowing the law of the first ring" to "borrowing the law of the second ring".

It can be expected that the difficulty increases exponentially as you go higher.

So... You Chen set a limit for himself. Even if he wanted to take this path, he could only study the two-ring borrowing method at most!

Because of the Three Rings Borrowing Method, even if countless flashes of spiritual power were used to smash it down, the time consumed would definitely be more than ten years in the most ideal case!

Instead of taking advantage of the development of the small trumpet, waiting another ten years? That would be a waste of time!

In short, two options and two paths.

The first path is to upgrade to the Soul Emperor realm right now. The advantage is that the safety guarantee is further improved, and the efficiency of completing tasks is greatly improved. The disadvantage is that the potential and upper limit are reduced.

The second way is to stay alive for a while longer. The advantages and disadvantages are opposite to the first way.

Given the Chinese people's love of development and farming, You Chen naturally prefers a route with greater potential.

But in fact, there is a paradox here.

That is... previous mission rewards have proved that system tasks can also enhance potential.

The so-called potential improvement in this second path is actually just "the development and innovation of the existing methods of improving potential in the local soul master system", or "the potential improvement of the martial soul origin and the three-element cultivation system of spirit, energy and spirit that You Chen figured out for himself before obtaining the system."

Will it definitely be better than the rewards given by the system, such as "Illuminating the Origin" and "Changing the Muscles and Strengthening the Marrow" ten or a hundred times?

Not necessarily. Hard to judge.

The most intuitive example is the "Divine Elephant Prison-Suppressing Power". Even without considering You Chen's balance of essence, energy and spirit, this technique has a characteristic: "The higher the basic physical quality and the higher the life level, the faster the practice."

You Chen can completely take the "pure physical body" path, completely ignoring the martial soul and the balance of spirit, energy and spirit, and absorb soul rings as much as possible to improve the soul power level and physical fitness.

Chapter 98 You Chen's Choice (Part )

"The Divine Elephant Prison-Suppressing Power" has a characteristic: "The higher the basic physical quality, the higher the life level, the faster the cultivation speed."

The higher the level, the stronger the physical foundation, the lower the difficulty of cultivation, and even if the corresponding realm does not reach a certain level, it is impossible to practice at all.

For example, at the perfection level, the divine image gestating within the particles of the body, the lowest limit of cultivation is the basic realm of Titled Douluo, and this is only the lowest realm in theory. It is so difficult to practice, just like Luo Feng who devoured the stars and cultivated the Element Art in the Lord of the Universe, which requires incredible qualifications in the physical body.

You Chen's current life level is the Soul King level. Combined with his basic physical fitness and physical cultivation qualifications, he spent a year cultivating less than one-third of the "Giant Elephant" or "Entry" level.

But as time goes on, the speed of cultivation will naturally slow down. With the same resources, the efficiency of absorption and improvement will be far lower than when he is promoted to Soul Emperor.

In fact, You Chen can completely take the "pure physical body" path, completely ignoring the martial soul and the balance of spirit, energy and spirit, absorbing soul rings as much as possible to improve the soul power level and physical fitness.

Reach the Soul Saint level as soon as possible, spend a few years to completely complete the entry, and you will directly have the combat power of the Titled Douluo level.

Then all other resources were also put towards physical cultivation, and no "flash of inspiration" was wasted on any rubbish soul power borrowing method, helping him break through the bottleneck of "Divine Elephant Prison Power". When he passed the "entry" and reached the "minor success", he began to cultivate the dragon elephant particles, and soon he would have the combat power of the Super Douluo level.

Even...if this road comes to an end, it may be possible to break the law with force and reverse the so-called shitty fate.

This is just an extreme example.

You Chen's talent in physical cultivation is average. Even though the potential of the Divine Elephant Prison-Suppressing Power is indeed infinite, considering that the drastic changes will occur in only ten or twenty years, he will not throw all the apples into this one basket.

However, system rewards have proven its possibility.

In other words, choosing the second path may simply slow down your pace just for the sake of a little profit.

During this year, You Chen had basically transformed all the strength that could be transformed in the short term, and his strength had reached its peak! Even if he continued to research, his strength would not change much in a short period of time! To improve further, he had to absorb the spirit ring!

At this moment, the Soul Fighting Beasts were repairing the team, and although You Chen looked calm, his heart was in turmoil.

Even with You Chen's decisiveness, he could hardly find himself in such a dilemma at this moment.

Because... this is really likely to be a decision that drastically changes the future and takes the world line in a different direction.

Two years! Three years! Or even longer!

If he chooses the second path, he will have to pay such a time cost!

Is two or three years a long time?

In the original novel, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was severely damaged and the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family was destroyed, which was probably 13 or 14 years later!

"No, that's not right!"

You Chen reacted suddenly.

It does take about three years to study the Second Ring Borrowing Method, but it won't take that long for him to reach level 60!

'I almost got myself into trouble.'

You Chen silently shook his head in his heart.

After obtaining the system, his originally dormant ambition began to stir up again, but he forced himself to suppress the desire to stir up trouble, and practiced restraint and silence for a year. As a result, his thinking seemed to begin to fall into some kind of extreme.

You Chen suddenly recalled that just a year ago, he was still a marginalized person who only wanted to live in seclusion, leave the Spirit Hall, and escape from the future war that would sweep across the continent.

Once upon a time, he waited for so many years before realizing his limits and giving up completely. Why is it that now, just thinking about the possibility of having to wait another three years, he becomes so entangled and impatient that he forgets that his choices have never been limited?

Even Tang San, the protagonist of the original novel, before the official plug-in of the Seagod Island Divine Test, his levels were increased step by step rather than achieved all at once.

Even if it is a divine test, it still takes a certain amount of time to pass it.

As for me? With the advantage of my second-life trumpet, I could always jump a dozen or twenty levels in a short period of time.

Even if this time is really postponed for three years, it is hard to say that the loss is huge.

Thinking of this, You Chen couldn't help but laugh. His mind became open and he felt as if something had suddenly become clear.

To carry out his subsequent plans, the strength of his companions and subordinates is also indispensable.

The Soul Fighting Beasts who are in their youth also need some time to grow.

Although only by being strong can one determine the outcome of the world, if one only focuses on one's own strength and ignores other forces, how can one achieve the "step-by-step strategy" that is in line with his temperament?

After calming down a little, You Chen quickly realized that he was limited by his own thoughts of "must do something before everything becomes a foregone conclusion" and "must change the original destiny". He was blinded by the huge pressure he created for himself.

I just fell into the shackles of black-and-white thinking.

After figuring this out, Youchen seemed to have brushed away the dust on his soul, and his heart became peaceful and clear.

Youchen's thoughts seemed to be washed by clear spring water, becoming clear and active again.

He began to look at himself and the problem from other perspectives.

If he didn't realize that the soul power borrowing method could reach the realm of the second ring borrowing method, what would he do? Would he think that his choice to directly hunt for the trumpet's soul ring was wrong? The answer is of course no.

Because he will choose to make every move as correct as possible, rather than making it absolutely correct.

What he pursued was never absolute perfection.

"If I knew the possibility of soul power borrowing, but absorbed the small soul ring now, I would definitely regret it in the future."

Since you know that you will regret it, it means that this is not the most correct time.

Even if such a choice may deviate from the "absolute correctness", You Chen will still make such a choice.

"Go back!" You Chen waved his hand and gave orders to the soul fighting beasts that were ready to go.

The group left the Star Dou Great Forest in a mighty manner, and then... came to the real base camp of the Soul Fighting Beasts, the Star Luo Empire.

Passing through the border of Xingluo City, we set foot on the territory of Xingyao Principality and finally settled in a valley on the edge of the Asturias Mountains.

This is the training base and logistics headquarters for beast soldiers and beast masters. It is also the location of the research institute that You Chen secretly built after being completely squeezed out of the Spirit Hall's research center by Bibi Dong.

Chapter 99: Deputy Director, Where is my Barrett Cannon? Build it for me!

While the other Soul Fighting Beasts were doing the handover work, You Chen walked straight into the research institute alone.

He went straight to the deputy director he had appointed and threw out a ring-shaped storage soul guide: "Lin Zhi, this is the record of the performance data of the Black Fire Crossbow that I recorded during this trip. It's all in here."

"Okay, Chief."

The young man named Lin Zhi, whose head was obviously bigger than that of ordinary people and looked a little bloated, just nodded woodenly and accepted the storage ring, looking a little stupid.

But You Chen knew that this guy's wisdom in some areas was no less than his own!

Lin Zhi, 18 years old this year, has the spirit of wisdom forest owl.

What is this wise forest owl? You can simply understand it as "a smart owl".

The most notable specialty or characteristic is the extraordinary intelligence and mental strength.

Before You Chen helped him solve the problem of his beast transformation, Lin Zhi's head was so big that it was scary, and even his daily life was obviously affected.

Even if he was able to practice normally and his symptoms were greatly alleviated, they were still obviously greater than those of ordinary people. The impact of his brain on his ability to move made it difficult for Lin Zhi to make great achievements in the direction of a combat soul master.

Lin Zhi is 18 years old, which is considered older among all the Soul Fighting Beasts.

However, considering his relatively old age, after investing a lot of cultivation resources, his soul power level has just reached level 33. It seems very good, but this is the result of a large amount of resources being tilted. The resource investment is no less than that of Youchen before, but with only this level, normal investors will feel that it is a bit out of pocket.

But You Chen didn't care about Lin Zhi's combat power. Improving his cultivation would only increase the upper limit of his mental power that he could normally bear, and indirectly improve his research ability.

The fact is, without Lin Zhi's help, You Chen would not have been able to develop the black firearm in such a short time as his energy was dispersed across multiple projects.

Next, You Chen also planned to hand over the subsequent development of the black firearm to Lin Zhi, and transfer the corresponding time and energy to the development of the second ring of the soul power borrowing method.

“How is it? Although it is just the most crude black firearm, it has proved that it has the ability to kill Soul Emperor or even Soul Saint.” You Chen praised Lin Zhi as he reviewed the data.

In a sense, Lin Zhi is the half-father of Black Fire Crossbow.

After hearing You Chen's exaggeration, Lin Zhi said calmly, "The bearing design cannot withstand the impact of the crossbow arrows, and the wear is too severe. After reloading a Black Fire Crossbow twice, there is a risk of explosion when it is used later. In other words, after six shots, it is basically scrapped. The efficiency... is too low."

"Don't take it too seriously."

You Chen patted Lin Zhi on the shoulder. Even though Lin Zhi's tone was flat, You Chen had been with the original Soul Fighting Beasts for many years and treated them like his own children. He could clearly see the implicit loss in Lin Zhi.

He consoled her, "To put it bluntly, this thing is just a transitional piece of equipment for you to practice with and verify its feasibility. Take a look at this."

As he spoke, You Chen handed over a stack of brand new drawings.

That was the first draft of a blackfirearm designed based on the structure of a modern rifle.

At just one glance, Lin Zhi was deeply attracted by the exquisite mechanical structure. He didn't even bother to be polite. He directly grabbed the drawing handed over by You Chen and looked at it quickly.

Swish, swish, swish. With Lin Zhi's super fast thinking speed, he completed the preliminary browsing in just a few minutes.

He suddenly raised his head and looked at You Chen as if he was seeing a god: "Chief, these... were all designed by you? I will definitely try my best to help you bring them to this world!"

"No, it's no longer us, but you. Lin Zhi, these things will be fully developed by you from now on."

"Ok?"