Chapter 30: Star Forest, Obtain the 5th Ring
Chapter 30: Star Forest, Obtain the Fifth Ring (1)
At such a fast speed, there was no change in the position of the sun in the sky. Diwan had a pair of brown eagle wings behind him. He held Youchen in one hand and used his soul power to protect Youchen from the influence of high-speed convection. They had already arrived in the Star Dou Great Forest.
“You Chen, your progress is faster than I expected. You are already a Soul King at the age of thirty. Wow, by this calculation, don’t you still have a good chance of becoming a Soul Saint?!”
While flying with Youchen, Diwan counted on his fingers and exclaimed in amazement.
Diwan specifically mentioned the Soul Saint realm for a special reason.
As everyone knows, as long as a Titled Douluo does not suffer from a chronic disease or old injuries that are too serious, it is not a problem for him to live for two to three hundred years. Some of them can live for four to five hundred years.
From the perspective of lifespan alone, Titled Douluo and low-level spirit masters are no longer the same kind of life.
But when exactly did this leap of life begin?
In fact, at each stage, the soul master's life essence will be slightly improved.
But basically, the first life transition generally recognized is at the Soul Saint stage.
During this stage, the martial soul will be sublimated, and all previous accumulations will burst out at once, gaining the ability to display the martial soul's true form.
The quality of the martial souls of most soul masters will be improved at this stage. Some soul masters with profound accumulation can even make their martial souls undergo qualitative changes and achieve martial soul evolution.
If the first three rings relied on the unstable state of the martial soul's origin to induce mutations, then the seventh ring was an absolutely positive sublimation that broke through the original shackles and accumulated strength.
The sublimation of the martial soul will also feed back to the soul master's life essence, indirectly leading to an increase in lifespan.
If a Soul Saint is healthy and free from disasters, he can live to at least 150 years old.
This change slowed down the rate of decline of Qi and blood, and raised the upper limit of the golden age for soul masters to practice, generally extending it to around seventy years old.
As for the Titled Douluo, it is the opposite of the Soul Saint. It is the evolution of the soul master's own life essence, which drives the improvement of the martial soul. This is also the reason why the life span of the Titled Douluo is so much longer than before.
However, what responded to Diwan was You Chen's speechless expression.
"It's true that I'm in my thirties, but I'm 35, not 31 or 32! Rounding it up, I'm almost ! The older you get, the more obvious the decline of your Qi and blood becomes, and the slower your cultivation speed becomes. You know that!"
In addition, the difficulty of leveling up becomes higher and higher in the later stages, and there is also the issue of martial soul quality. If it were not for the system he had just acquired, You Chen would basically have no chance of breaking through to Soul Saint before the age of fifty.
You Chen became more and more speechless, and couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Besides... I always feel that when you said this, it seems like you are mocking me. If I remember correctly, when you were thirty-five years old, you had already started to consider the choice of the sixth ring, right?"
"Hahaha!"
Diwan laughed heartily, but compared with his previous carefree laughter, this laughter had a little more malice.
Diwan is still over sixty years old. If he doesn't die, he will definitely have a chance to become a Titled Douluo. Of course, forget about becoming a Super Douluo. There is basically no hope.
"Alright, I can't beat you in these theories. If I want to win over you in an argument, I won't be able to fight against you now. Tell me, who is the target of this soul hunting?"
Seeing that they were finally getting back to the main topic, You Chen stopped chatting and his eyes sparkled.
Regarding driving the evolution of his own martial soul through breakthroughs in energy intensity, this was a plan that You Chen had in place before he obtained the system.
That is why, when he was making the fourth ring, he deliberately chose a soul beast with star power as the fourth soul ring. Wind soul beasts and soul beasts with attributes such as earth, fire, water and wind are relatively common, but both star and sacred are extremely rare attributes. Coupled with the age limit, it is not easy to find a suitable target.
Before obtaining the system, You Chen's three attribute powers were ranked in order of strength: wind was the strongest, followed by star power, and divine power was very weak.
However, now, the originally weakest divine power has become You Chen's strongest attribute, and the originally chosen soul hunting target will naturally change.
You Chen is so concerned about his disciple's cultivation, and since it concerns his own martial soul and cultivation, he naturally will not take it lightly.
During the Three-Ring Soul Master period, when he was about 26 years old, he had already begun to study how to observe and evaluate the connection between the three forces in his martial soul, as well as the impact on the evolution of the martial soul.
There are still many mysteries hidden in the evolution of martial souls, and even You Chen's level of knowledge cannot fully understand them. Different martial souls have their own evolutionary requirements and tendencies.
There may even be multiple network evolutionary routes.
This world has almost no reserves of relevant knowledge; even those families are mainly based on empiricism.
It can be said that Youchen’s research was done from scratch, so you can imagine how difficult it was.
Fortunately, it is much easier to understand a martial soul that is equivalent to one's own clone than a martial soul that is aimed at others.
Although it was not as common a martial spirit as the Blue Silver Grass, with countless samples to study, You Chen lacked the opportunity to make mistakes, but with his natural talent and the sense of urgency brought by his age, he achieved remarkable research results in just two years.
As mentioned earlier, the evolution of a martial soul is essentially a mutation caused by the enhancement of its original power.
Soul rings can bring about an increase in original power, but this does not mean... that this is the only way.
Needless to say, natural materials and treasures are also a method of relying on external objects.
Then, is there no way to enhance this so-called original power by relying on the soul master's own abilities?
Of course there is.
However, when the soul master's level is low, it is often a thankless task.
Therefore, generally only Titled Douluo, who are in the stage where it is extremely difficult to increase the level of their soul power and need to rely on a lot of time to grind, will do this.
If You Chen wants to explore the mystery of martial soul evolution, he has to spend time on this. Otherwise, without any data, input variables and output variables, such research will be just pure speculation. It is too risky to put it into practical use directly based on speculation.
Therefore, You Chen would rather spend a little more time to carry out this preliminary experiment.
The two key points he obtained from this are "the limit of energy" and "the proportion of energy".
The so-called energy limit means that before his martial soul evolves to the next stage, each attribute energy has an upper limit to its improvement.
For example, at the third ring stage, his Stardust Dragon Martial Soul's wind energy increase can reach 3 points according to the score of the Martial Soul Six-Dimensional Table, which is close to the strength of a high-level wind-type Martial Soul, and is the upper limit.
The Wind Dragonlet was able to evolve into the Star Dragonlet because when the wind power reached this limit, the martial soul naturally evolved.
(End of this chapter)