Douluo: Not enough blood? Use your brain

A Soul Master can only walk far on the path to avoid being hindered in forging, and even receive blessings.

“You don't need to be discouraged either. After the Spirit Ascension Platform appeared, the difficulty of improving a Soul Spirit's age limit has been greatly reduced. After absorbing more spiritual power from the Spirit Ascension Platform, Soul Masters also have the opportunity to have daily epiphanies, and by chance, advance their Soul Spirits. This time, you raised your second Soul Spirit to the limit below ten thousand years early. If you have the opportunity in the future, you still have a chance to raise it to ten thousand years.” Zhenhua stepped forward and patted Zhao Long's shoulder, his tone full of expectation.

Although it is difficult, Zhao Long believes in himself and his Soul Spirit.

The so-called epiphany advancement is a miraculous effect achieved when the Soul Master and Soul Spirit are perfectly matched and stimulated by the outside world. It tests the bond between the Soul Master and the Soul Spirit, and Zhao Long has no doubt about the bond between himself and his Soul Spirit!

“Brother Zhao Long, thank you for your trouble this time.”

“Just call me Brother Zhao or Brother Long.”

“Then, Brother Long, you can just call me Xiaoyuan.”

Xu Yuan and Zhao Long did not dawdle. They set off from the Forging Master Association towards the Spirit Transfer Pagoda.

On the way, Xu Yuan was quite curious.

He was still a bit far from the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring before, so he hadn't considered it. Today, after hearing what Zhenhua said to Zhao Long, he came into contact with this field.

Xu Yuan naturally knew about epiphany advancement, but he hadn't studied it in depth.

“Brother Long, is epiphany advancement difficult?”

Zhao Long had obviously done some research in this area, and he explained to Xu Yuan: “It's very difficult. On the entire continent, there may not be even one case every ten years of someone being able to advance a non-ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit to ten thousand years through their own epiphany.”

Xu Yuan was surprised.

This ratio should already be very high.

A ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit can be born every ten years!

And to be honest, in a place like Douluo Continent, this statistically derived data is likely to be inaccurate.

“Although the Spirit Ascension Platform has not solved the barrier of the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, its mechanism of merging spiritual power to increase the age of the Soul Spirit has opened up many shackles. After ascending multiple times in the Spirit Ascension Platform, even ascending from a thousand-year or even a hundred-year Soul Spirit to nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, such a process is enough for the Soul Spirit to remember this feeling.”

“When the bond between the Soul Spirit and the Soul Master is sufficient, and both have a chance encounter, stimulated by an environment suitable for the Soul Spirit, or when the Soul Master's epiphany affects the Soul Spirit, both of these situations will make the Soul Master and Soul Spirit's fusion even higher, once causing the Soul Spirit to transform, thereby advancing to a ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit.”

“The premise is that the Soul Master is strong enough, and has extra energy to temper the Soul Spirit in addition to Soul Power cultivation.”

“…”

Following Zhao Long's explanation, the two had already arrived at the Spirit Transfer Pagoda.

Following the normal procedures, the two entered the Spirit Ascension Platform under the staff's accustomed gaze.

Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.

“Xiaoyuan, how is your burst of power?” Zhao Long was not in a hurry to take Xu Yuan to hunt Soul Beasts. Instead, he planned to understand Xu Yuan's strength in advance.

Understanding the power that Xu Yuan can unleash will help determine the limit when hunting Soul Beasts later.

After all, this is the Spirit Ascension Platform during normal times, not during the riot period. You need to make up for the last hit to absorb the Soul Beast's spiritual power, thereby increasing the Soul Spirit's age.

The stronger the power Xu Yuan can unleash, the greater Zhao Long's fault tolerance range will be during combat, and the more convenient it will be to leave the final blow to Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan understood Zhao Long's meaning and directly began to demonstrate his strength.

A spear appeared in his hand.

Five Elements Spear Spirit.

Zhao Long frowned as he looked at the spear in Xu Yuan's hand, feeling that this spear was different from ordinary Martial Souls.

Xu Yuan integrated the power of the Celestial Origin Spear into the Five Elements Spear Spirit, which he had tried out in the past week.

“The Soul Spirit is blessing the Martial Soul?”

Zhao Long felt strange, but he felt that just now it should have been the process of the Soul Spirit integrating into the Martial Soul, thereby making it easier to use the Soul Skills granted by the Soul Spirit.

Xu Yuan held the Five Elements Spear Spirit, his expression solemn, his mind immersed in the spear in his hand.

The power of the Five Elements flowed.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, the Five Elements generate each other endlessly.

Above the tip of the spear, the power of the Five Elements converged and fused, giving people a sense of deterrence.

The fusion of the power of the Five Elements seemed to explode at any time, making Xu Yuan's spear even more intimidating.

The power of the surrounding heaven and earth seemed to be mobilized, and Xu Yuan's aura changed.

In Zhao Long's feeling, although Xu Yuan was not his enemy, he still had a feeling that the surrounding heaven and earth were faintly targeting him.

“The power of heaven and earth, to be precise, is spear intent!” Zhao Long did not expect that Xu Yuan could master this skill.

Not only that, with the display of spear intent, Xu Yuan also showed his spear intent.

The prototype of spear intent containing the effect of breaking through the void erupted, and Xu Yuan thrust out a spear.

There was clearly no target in front, but his spear seemed to hit an enemy, with a loud bang.

Space fluctuated, and vitality was chaotic.

Zhao Long's face was solemn.

The spear just now could kill a thousand-year Soul Beast.

Imprison a complete thousand-year Soul Beast and let this spear hit it. Even if the thousand-year Soul Beast doesn't die, it will be seriously injured.

He breathed a sigh of relief. At least this meant that this mission was very easy. His fault tolerance rate was very high. Even if it was a five or six thousand-year Soul Beast, he only needed to beat it half to death, and then let Xu Yuan take action.

“How many years are your two Soul Rings now?” Zhao Long asked, looking at the two yellow Soul Rings outside Xu Yuan's body.

“Five hundred years.”

Xu Yuan did not use the Celestial Origin Pen Martial Soul, but used the Brain Martial Soul.

However, due to the characteristics of the Soul Spirit, he could still use the Five Elements Spear Spirit contracted to the Celestial Origin Pen Martial Soul.

This is the special significance of the Soul Spirit to Twin Martial Soul Soul Masters.

It can better assist the Soul Master.

Even if the Soul Spirit and the Martial Soul are of the same type, the Soul Master can completely let the Soul Spirit carry all the abilities of a certain Martial Soul during combat, while he himself uses another Martial Soul, and the two major Martial Souls are displayed at the same time.

Of course, it is very difficult to do this.

“Five hundred years?” Hearing Xu Yuan's answer, Zhao Long knew what to expect.

It needs to improve at least five hundred years of cultivation.

In this case, hunting two Soul Beasts of about five thousand years is enough.

Some brothers suggested that a level 4 forging master does not need a thousand-refined first grade. I flipped through the original book and it is indeed true. These settings will be based on the original book. I will change it.

Also, the original work mentioned that thousand-refined metal could be used to make battle armor components. However, when I looked at the battle armor production in the original work, I found that it required thousand-refined grade one metal. The original work didn't say that Shrek students pursued higher quality. After all, one-word battle armor couldn't be upgraded to two-word battle armor unless fusion forging was used, and two-word battle armor required changing the metal and starting over. So, this isn't seen as pursuing the ultimate, but because one-word battle armor can be made with thousand-refined metal, it's impossible to make it entirely with ordinary thousand-refined metal. At least some core parts need thousand-refined grade one metal to withstand it.

To make the setting smoother and more complete, my change is: ordinary thousand-refined metal is for practice, and real battle armor components are made with thousand-refined grade one metal. This can better carry the power of the core magic array. At the same time, the initially spiritual thousand-refined grade one metal can facilitate the linkage of all parts of the battle armor, forming an amplification greater than one plus one equals two.

So, in the future, I will still use the statement that one-word battle armor needs to be made of thousand-refined grade one metal. This is different from the original work, so I'm telling you.

Chapter 52: A Method for Mental Power Cultivation?

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

It's just that his fifth soul ring isn't the most perfect match, not that his talent isn't enough.

He forges all year round, and his martial soul is a hammer, so he has developed his hammer techniques to a certain extent.

With Zhao Long's strength, he can hunt five-thousand-year soul beasts.

It's just that five-thousand-year soul beasts aren't everywhere in the intermediate spirit ascension platform. He still needs to search for them, and he needs to avoid attracting other powerful soul beasts with the fluctuations of battle. So, hunting five-thousand-year soul beasts isn't safe enough for him.

For truly efficient hunting, three-thousand-year soul beasts are the most cost-effective.

They can quickly resolve the battle and ensure that they have the energy to escape when other powerful soul beasts approach.

This isn't the real world. The price of death is within an acceptable range, but dying once also means losing one place on the intermediate spirit ascension platform, which isn't cheap. So, it's better to save your life, and you can't develop the habit of acting rashly. Otherwise, you may lose your life in the real world when you encounter a crisis.

Considering Xu Yuan's existence, Zhao Long decided to find two-thousand-year soul beasts to hunt. Hunting one would increase Xu Yuan's soul spirit by one hundred years of cultivation.

Only five are needed to complete the bottom line of this mission.

Zhao Long's efficiency isn't high.

He's ultimately a blacksmith. Even with multiple spirit ascension platform experiences in hunting soul beasts, he's only steady, not efficient.

Fortunately, Xu Yuan isn't in a hurry.

The spirit ascension platform imitates the former Star Dou Great Forest. The primary spirit ascension platform imitates the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, while the intermediate spirit ascension platform imitates its outer layer. The highest age of the soul beasts encountered is around six to seven thousand years.

If it's a mixed layer, ten-thousand-year soul beasts will appear. This only happens on the advanced spirit ascension platform. It's said that the creation of each ten-thousand-year soul beast on the advanced spirit ascension platform consumes a lot. Although hunting ten-thousand-year soul beasts on the advanced spirit ascension platform can't break the ten-thousand-year barrier for the soul spirit, it can continue to increase the age of the ten-thousand-year soul spirit.

The highest age is six to seven thousand years, which doesn't mean that the intermediate spirit ascension platform is full of thousand-year soul beasts.

On the contrary, every thousand-year soul beast takes time to find.

Along the way, the two also killed the hundred-year soul beasts they saw.

Every little bit helps.

Based on more than a day of hunting, Xu Yuan estimates that at least two hundred years of the spiritual power needed for his Dream Demon soul spirit to break through a thousand years will come from hundred-year soul beasts.

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

Although Xu Yuan can't kill them instantly upon meeting them, Zhao Long can.

Hundred-year soul beasts have no chance of escaping from Zhao Long's hands. He can inflict heavy damage and then let Xu Yuan finish them off, which can also be seen as instant kills.

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

"Wait!" Zhao Long reached out and stopped Xu Yuan, protecting him behind him.

Zhao Long looked alert, and Xu Yuan also felt something was wrong.

Although his mental power talent is strong, Xu Yuan is only seven years old. His mental power value is only more than five hundred points. Absorbing the Dream Demon soul spirit will increase it a bit, but it's obviously much worse than Zhao Long.

After all, Zhao Long has also fused two thousand-year soul spirits. His mental power has undoubtedly reached the Spirit Sea Realm, and he reached the Spirit Sea Realm before level forty. Now Zhao Long is already level fifty-eight.

His mental power has also reached four digits.

In front of the two, a huge black shadow appeared.

"This is, a giant ape!"

Looking at the tall black gorilla, Xu Yuan swallowed.

So big!

Of course, he was only frightened by its size.

The giant ape is huge and strong, but it's clumsy and doesn't have any special elemental control methods. It's still quite easy to hunt.

Therefore, there are very few giant apes that grow up.

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

Xu Yuan shook his head.

As Zhao Long hunted on this intermediate spirit ascension platform for two and a half days, his soul spirit had already advanced. Now it's already close to one thousand four hundred years, very close to the limit. He's prepared to continue to improve steadily by relying on hundred-year soul beasts.

This ape may directly provide more than two hundred years of cultivation. Xu Yuan's mental power isn't a problem, but once he leaves the spirit ascension platform, his body may have problems.

After the blood contract, Xu Yuan's blood cultivation is easier, but he's only been cultivating for seven days, and his body strength hasn't improved yet.

"Okay, then you find a place and don't be affected by the battle. Also, help me watch out for the surroundings." Zhao Long stared at the ape while explaining to Xu Yuan.

Two and a half days of cooperation have allowed Zhao Long to understand Xu Yuan's abilities, so he made this arrangement.

"Okay, Brother Long, be careful."

Xu Yuan quickly retreated.

"Roar!"

Seeing Xu Yuan's movements, the ape slammed its chest, and the terrifying thumping sound was mixed with soul power fluctuations, causing people's blood to surge. Fortunately, both Xu Yuan and Zhao Long have strong physiques, so they weren't too affected.

The ape roared to the sky and suddenly pulled up a big tree next to it, directly swinging it and smashing it towards Xu Yuan.

"Beast, I'm your opponent!" Zhao Long shouted, and a huge iron hammer appeared in his hand. The iron hammer was covered with purple纹路 and surrounded by strands of lightning.

Rumble!

The Soul Suppressing Hammer collided with the big tree, and the big tree fell apart. Xu Yuan kept dodging the broken branches of the big tree while moving away from the battlefield.

"What a pity, there's no way. I'd better be more cautious on the spirit ascension platform."