Douluo: On Becoming a God through Science

Secondly, "The Art of Breathing" has now been widely promoted among Soul Fighting Beasts.

According to the policy carefully considered by Ignis and Grace, both beast soldiers and beast users can redeem the entry-level "Breath-Containing Art" for free, and after mastering it, they can receive merit rewards.

This greatly increased the Soul Fighting Beasts' enthusiasm for practicing the Breath-Containing Technique.

Even some soul fighting beasts that are limited by their vision and cannot see the power of the Breath-Containing Art will take the initiative to invest time in practicing the Breath-Containing Art.

After such a long time, most people have completed the basics of the Breath-Containing Technique, and the help of this technique in outdoor activities is self-evident.

This is equivalent to greatly reducing the difficulty of survival. In principle, when active here, the Soul Fighting Beasts no longer need Youchen's protection.

With the development of soul fighting beasts today, ordinary ten thousand year soul beasts can be repelled without Ignis's intervention, and the more powerful ones can be repelled with the combined strength of everyone.

After You Chen arrived at the base camp in the Catastrophe Mountains, he was basically immersed in his own affairs.

After You Chen came to the Catastrophe Mountains, more than half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

After Ignis, Amona, who possessed the White Tiger Spirit, and Kui, who possessed the Soul-Absorbing Wood Spirit, were successively promoted by You Chen to the positions of Tiger Head and Wood Head on the grounds that they "made great contributions during the evacuation process."

These two people broke through to the Soul Sect level long ago following Ignis, and possessed the combat power of the Soul King level of the old era.

This also means that Ignis is no longer alone in the position of the head of the beast.

You Chen created the position of the head of the beast not to place and promote his women and help them to the top, as in most novels.

Rather, love has never been very important in You Chen's eyes.

If there is only one animal head, it will be difficult to reflect the difference in status between the leader and the animal head, and power will be too concentrated in Ignis's hands.

Therefore, it doesn’t make sense for You Chen to promote Ignis but not Amona and Kui.

Rather, if Ignis's strength was not so far behind others, You Chen would be more inclined to promote the more mature and calm Kui.

Even though they are both animal heads, the symbolic meaning of the first one is different.

In fact, this is true. Among the three animal heads, Ignis is vaguely the leader.

But You Chen actually didn't think Ignis was the most suitable one to be the leader among the three.

At first glance, both of them are the type who don't like to talk much and like to get things done, and Kui is even a little more silent.

But in fact, when Kui served as a superior beast soldier, his command ability in teamwork was obviously more outstanding. Although he spoke less, each order was to the point and the key.

In contrast, Ignis is more like a sharp single-blade, a killing weapon that leads everyone to charge.

To put it more exaggeratedly, the former is a talented general, while the latter is only a talented general.

Unfortunately, Kui's cultivation talent is far inferior to Ignis's. In the world of Douluo, if he occupies a major position among the beast heads, it will easily arouse some people's dissatisfaction.

On the other hand, after the beast users were taken back to the base camp, You Chen also redivided the beast users, separating the researchers headed by Lin Zhi and establishing a research institute system on the same level as the beast soldiers and beast users.

As the first dean of the research institute, Lin Zhi holds a status second only to the Beast Head.

Correspondingly, You Chen also promoted Grace, who had previously been a figurehead but not a name, to become the real leader of the Beast Masters. As the chief of the Beast Masters, her status was close to that of Lin Zhi.

For You Chen, intermediate elixirs have almost no effect, so they are completely opened up and can be exchanged for merit.

The strength of the three beast heads improved rapidly, and with You Chen's special help, Grace successfully broke through to the Soul Sect level.

Considering Grace's age, if she does not have experience pills in the future, she will probably be surpassed by the core-level beast soldiers in the future. But at least for now, relying on her strength that is only weaker than that of several big beast leaders, she is more than qualified to serve as the director of a logistics department.

Time passes quietly...

"I always feel so bored..."

On an unknown night, beside a bonfire, Amona, who was on guard, was complaining to Kui, who was also in charge of this matter.

Even though Kui had a dull face and didn't respond, Amona seemed to be used to it and continued to complain without caring.

"How long have we been in this mountain valley? One year... No, one year is the time that has passed since the leader came here. As for us, we have been here for almost two years!"

Amona sighed with an unhappy expression: "I really want to eat Tanghulu, Kui, can you make Tanghulu?"

Kui: “No.”

Spending a few days in the mountains occasionally can be regarded as a vacation.

But staying there for a little longer becomes unbearable for most people living in the city.

Not to mention Amona's lively personality.

Previously, the Soul Fighting Beasts used the camp in the Asturias Mountains as their base camp, but this time it was different.

It is also a valley, but it is located on the outskirts of the mountains. From time to time, people will leave the mountains and go to nearby towns for supplies. Instead of being like savages like now, they are basically cut off from external supplies and rely entirely on self-sufficiency.

Simply put, one is the seclusion of a normal person, without completely cutting off contact with the outside world, and the other is similar to the Peach Blossom Spring in Peach Blossom Spring, with no contact with the outside world.

"Ah~ Our Miss Red Dragon is so nice~ She can go to the chief's tent to disturb him every day~"

Amona's topics were full of jumps. One moment she was talking about food, and the next moment she turned to Ignis.

She winked and lowered her voice and said, "Hey, Kui, you say...Ignis, didn't he use his wish for that kind of thing?"

In fact, after seeing Ignis enter the Youchen tent from time to time, the Soul Fighting Beasts all assumed that she used her wish for "that purpose".

Looking at Amona's gossiping appearance, especially gossiping about the leader's private life, Kui finally twitched his eyes and gave a detailed analysis that was different from the general public: "No, she will definitely use the wish to enhance her strength. She sneaks into the leader's tent every day, which probably has nothing to do with the wish. Or, is that to enhance Ignis's strength?"

After all, it involves the beloved chieftain, and Kui couldn't help but say one more thing: "Amona, if you have that intention, instead of speculating privately here, you might as well imitate Ignis's approach. I think the chieftain will most likely not refuse."

In Kui's opinion, discussing the leader's private life in private is an offensive act and damages the leader's dignity. But on the other hand, as long as they don't gossip in private, it doesn't matter what happens between Amona and the leader.

"Ah, forget it. Although I also yearn for the leader, this is not the same as that, and I am not very interested in that matter. But you, what about you? Kui, looking at your wooden appearance, I really can't imagine that you have that kind of demand~"

"I just want to serve the leader wholeheartedly."

"You... are a complete blockhead. Your wish is not to stay by the leader's side forever, is it?"

"..."

"Uh, that can't be true, right? Kui, to be honest, it's a bit disgusting."

"No, that's impossible. Loyalty is something that can't be achieved by just talking about it. I haven't mentioned the wish yet."

"I understand. After all, it's a period like this. I'd be embarrassed if you ask me to do that."

"..."

"But to be honest, I have thought about using this wish to ask the leader to agree to let me go to the city to play."

"Are you really stupid?"

"Do you want to fight? I can't beat Ignis, the Soul King, but I can't beat you, a Mutou!"

"You probably can't beat me."

"You!"

But the fact is just as Kui said.

After both of them became Soul Masters, Kui was able to firmly gain the upper hand in one-on-one competitions with Amona, and was no longer the third-best player in the past.

In fact, according to the conventional classification of departments in Douluo Continent, Kui can be considered both an auxiliary department and a control department.

And the abilities in both aspects are very strong.

A big part of the reason why Amona was able to defeat Kui during the Soul Master period was because of the physical fitness advantage of beast soul masters over weapon soul masters in the early stages.

This gap will gradually decrease as the soul master's life level improves, especially when the fourth ring is a ten thousand year soul ring. Amona can no longer crush Kui with her physical advantage alone.

And with the blessing of Soul Master-level soul power, Kui's Soul-Sucking Wood already has the ability to control Amona.

In addition, Kui's Soul Distraction Refining Technique is the second one among all the soul fighting beasts to break through to the fourth heart realm after Lin Zhi. His control over the Soul-Absorbing Wood is almost superb.

In contrast, Amona was unable to directly enhance her combat effectiveness through the distraction effect of the Distraction Soul Refining Technique.

As time goes by, a gap will arise.

"what……"

Amona also knew that she was currently at the bottom of the three beast heads. She sighed, looked at the night sky with misty eyes, and murmured to herself: "How about I also ask the chief to strengthen my strength?"

"The leader is at a critical juncture." Kui said suddenly.

Amona couldn't help but roll her eyes. "You're exaggerating. I know that, but he's not so busy that he doesn't have any free time, right? Doesn't the chief come out to check on us occasionally?"

When Kui heard this, his expression suddenly turned cold, and he lowered his voice and said angrily: "Amona, shut up! You shouldn't forget what you can say and what you can't say!"

Amona curled her lips and said, "Aren't there just the two of us here? Okay, okay, I know I was wrong, I won't say any more."

"I come out to take a look occasionally." If other Soul Fighting Beasts knew about this, they would be shocked.

Because for them, the leader only showed up once at the beginning after arriving at the camp in the Catastrophe Mountains, and the rest of the time, he was in seclusion. This situation has lasted for a whole year.

But the five people including Grace, Lin Zhi and the three animal heads knew that this was not the case.

When the leader first returned, there was another young man with him who looked very similar to the leader.

When all the Soul Fighting Beasts were confused and guessing, the leader suddenly announced to everyone that this person was his most valued disciple and would inherit his position and be their future leader.

That is the so-called... "Young Master".

With a young master appearing above their heads for no apparent reason, one can imagine how the Soul Fighting Beasts feel.

But feelings are feelings. Having been trained as death warriors since childhood, they have a loyalty to You Chen that is as strong as yearning for the sun. Even if the object of their service changes, this loyalty will not fade too much.

Whenever the young master came out for inspection, they would salute him. During this year, their recognition of the young master gradually became established.

For the Soul Fighting Beasts, You Chen introduces You Xing as his successor.

But for the five current leaders of Soul Fighting Beast, he had a different story, saying that he possessed a special twin martial soul, and this posture was the posture he took after switching to the second martial soul.

To this day, even if the fact that You Xing and You Chen are the same person is exposed, it will not bring any fatal blow to You Chen.

If he had to conceal the truth about the five people who were chosen from the best of the best from among all the Soul Fighting Beasts and who had passed the second assessment in terms of both ability and loyalty, then there would probably be no one he could trust in this world.

Even if it is not necessary, You Chen will take the initiative to reveal the secret of his "twin martial souls".

Shared secrets have always been a great way to improve relationships.

Happiness is often achieved through comparison.

If the previous promotion was only to give them "power" higher than that of ordinary beast soldiers and beast users, it would allow them to gain identity recognition in terms of power and status.

Then the secret is to give them a higher "right to know" and "close relationship" than others, allowing them to feel the superiority brought by their closer distance to other "believers" and "gods".

'Look, they are still struggling with their loyalty between the Young Master and the Leader, but we don't have such worries at all, because we are one of the few who know that the Young Master and the Leader are the same person!'

People always feel complacent because they are a superior minority.

The qualification to arbitrarily dominate others is only a superficial manifestation of the pleasure that power brings them; this sense of accomplishment and satisfaction is the most intoxicating source of power.

In other words, what they gain from it transcends the cognition of others, and they mistakenly believe that they have achieved self-transcendence, thereby satisfying the highest level of needs in Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory.

You Chen is cultivating their cognition that they are bound to himself in order to gain their higher level of loyalty.

Of course, in addition to these, there is a simpler and more practical reason why You Chen let You Xing come to the fore - You Chen's quest line is stuck.

In order to get new tasks, he can only use his trumpet as much as possible to move around in the outside world.

In fact, triggering the task of the corresponding task line does not require him to be in the corresponding wandering star or wandering dust state at that point in time.

What is important is that the target's special emotions towards the wandering stars or wandering dust are enough to break through the emotional threshold that triggers the task.

To this end, it is important to maintain people's perception of Youxing, so that his actions and personality can be traced, and he is not a character that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Master Youchen's disciple, the young master of a mysterious organization, a super genius who fights across levels... Each aspect of his identity can attract different attention and hostility.

"Kui, Amona, thank you for your hard work."

Just as Amona pouted and admitted her mistake, a voice suddenly sounded from the darkness.

"Leader, Leader!?" Amona almost screamed in fear, but she still suppressed the impulse with her strong mental will.

"leader!"

Kui's eyebrows also jumped, indicating that he was not as calm as he appeared. He was also scared, but his control over his expression was more unique.

He quickly said, "This is what we should do."

You Chen nodded: "Of course it is recorded according to the merits."

After saying that, he walked towards the camp exhausted.

Amona and Kui looked at each other.

The girl paused, winked and said, "Kui, you understand the leader the best. Look at the leader's expression. How is it? Is everything going well?"

Before Kui could give his own interpretation, the voice of Youchen who had already left suddenly came floating in the wind.