Chapter 87: One Year in the Blink of an Eye
Chapter 87: A Year in the Blink of an Eye (4)
You Chen has basically determined that at this stage, continuing to improve his physical fitness will not have any effect on the optimal lifespan of his spirit ring.
Not to mention the Soul Emperor-level physical strength of Yusei's character card, even a body as strong as a Soul King has probably reached the upper limit of this formula.
In You Chen's speculation, the inference formula for the second soul ring limit is: the spiritual power starting from the Lingyuan Realm + the physical strength of the soul king +? Soul power level ≈ the lower limit of the seventh soul ring age of the soul emperor in the old era.
That is... about 30,000 years.
A bucket made of three wooden boards is enough to roughly show the upper limit of the amount of water it can hold.
So the problem ultimately comes back to the shortest plank.
With a soul power of level 20, You Chen’s current upper limit for the second ring is about years, which is the best age for the sixth ring in the old era.
You Chen's thoughts naturally shifted to how to break through this level.
Rather, it could be said that he had developed it after using “a flash of inspiration” twice, and its name was – “Soul Power Borrowing Method”.
Of course, this was not something You Chen imagined out of thin air.
But let me ask, in this world with old-fashioned thinking, all soul masters follow the rules and have never thought that their level can exceed the bottleneck level when absorbing soul rings. In fact, there is no such necessity before. Where did the reference come from?
The answer is - wouldn’t it be better to refer to things from other worlds?
In the original novel, there is something that is well known to have broken the inherent cognition of soul masters - the "Xuan Tian Gong" that can cultivate soul power before the martial soul awakens.
To get the "Xuan Tian Gong" from Tang San is like snatching food from a tiger's mouth.
Fortunately, what You Chen needed was not the practice method of Xuantian Gong, but just the effect of Xuantian Gong in breaking the rules of the world to a certain extent.
And You Chen is obviously the one who has the most direct contact with "Xuan Tian Gong".
The phrase "common progress" is not empty talk.
Time and again, he guided the battles and sparred with Tang San like an elder brother, or injected his own soul power into Tang San's body during the battle, or used the excuse of nurturing the soul power to forcibly inject soul power into the knocked-out Tang San, and then explored the route and logic of the Xuan Tian Gong.
Without knowing the original full picture of "Xuan Tian Gong", it is extremely difficult to truly gain something that can open up your mind through this method, even for a research genius like You Chen.
Fortunately, You Chen has a plug-in called "Flash of Inspiration".
Sufficient time and samples, extraordinary thinking and innovation ability, and finally a "flash of inspiration".
Although Xuantian Gong still cannot break through the level limit brought by the spirit ring, it is already an innovation that transcends its time compared to this Douluo world.
With this, You Chen finally completed the creation of the "Soul Power Borrowing Method".
The so-called "Soul Power Borrowing Method" is based on the fact that "after the level reaches the soul ring bottleneck, you can still continue to accumulate soul power."
Under normal circumstances, even if a soul master continues to accumulate soul power, the level of soul power cannot be directly improved. It can only be raised once after obtaining the next soul ring.
Before this, even the soul master himself didn't know what level his soul power had accumulated to.
The soul power borrowing method uses this soul power that cannot be used or observed.
By half-releasing the bottleneck of soul power level when absorbing soul rings, the soul master can borrow hidden soul power level to "cheat the rules of the world" and complete the process of absorbing soul rings with a higher soul power level.
In fact, You Chen had already proved the feasibility of this method by asking some beast soldiers to wait for half a year before using the soul borrowing method to achieve a higher soul ring age after reaching the soul power bottleneck instead of hunting soul rings directly.
However, considering that soul masters at a higher level are more efficient in accumulating soul power, whether to delay the golden time of cultivation to increase the age of soul rings is still a matter of debate.
Just accumulating one or two more levels will not increase the years by much, but if the accumulation is full 10 levels, the first ring can easily reach a thousand years, but the wasted time in cultivation is too much.
But Youchen...just doesn't have such a problem.
Therefore, this secret method can be said to be perfectly suitable for soul masters like him, or soul masters with twin martial souls.
The first item involved, You Chen's research time, can be summarized as the research on the age of soul rings.
The second item is the development and research of the soul skills of "Starlight Incarnation".
After a year and using up a "flash of inspiration", You Chen had basically solved the problem of the duration of "Self-Transformation·Starlight Incarnation".
First, there was the basic problem of soul power consumption and efficiency. After Youchen's optimization, the duration of the soul power has increased from several hours to more than 18 hours. The energy efficiency has almost tripled.
Then, by allowing the Starlight Avatar to normally use the innate ability of "Starlight Charging", it can absorb starlight energy at night to replenish the loss during the day...
Now, as long as there are no dark clouds in the sky all night, the starlight incarnation can basically exist forever.
Even with the help of the martial soul's innate ability, a permanent incarnation... the soul masters of Douluo Continent would probably feel the shock of a dimensionality reduction attack if they knew about it.
But You Chen was still not satisfied.
The biggest purpose of his research on this ability is to achieve dual-line operation. While the incarnation stays in Notting City, the original body travels thousands of miles away to carry out the tasks on the first mission line.
Because of the second quest line, You Chen is not so anxious, but that doesn't mean he won't prepare for a rainy day.
In this year, You Chen only completed one task in the first quest line, so he was naturally not satisfied.
However, by far the biggest problem with permanent astral incarnations is the "distance limitation" mentioned earlier.
Even though You Chen's mental power was so strong, it was still unrealistic to cover thousands of miles. This resulted in the starlight incarnation being unable to receive the mental power of his original body's signal tower.
Move in without Youchen's consciousness?
The structure of the astral incarnation will soon return to its original form and will naturally dissipate within a few hours.
Fortunately, You Chen was not without ideas on how to solve this problem. By redeveloping the "Divided Mind Refining Soul Art", You Chen had come up with a method similar to a communication base station, directly placing one's mind into the incarnation to solve the problem of remote control.
There has been some initial progress...
But before trying this new starlight incarnation to cover himself and complete the mission, there is one thing that can be done first.
The most talented person in the "Soul Beast" force created by You Chen himself, the little guy with the "top quality martial soul" mentioned above, has reached the bottleneck of level 40 for a whole year.
In this new era with the development of whale glue, starting from the fourth ring, soul masters can absorb soul rings that are more than ten thousand years old.
The current highest combat power of the Soul Fighting Beast is just this little fellow with a top-level martial soul that has reached level 40. Naturally, You Chen will have to take action this time.
At the same time, this is also a good opportunity to verify whether the "Soul Power Borrowing Method" is still effective for the ten thousand year level soul ring.
As for the third and final research project, we will discuss it in the next issue.
(The total number of settings, abilities, research projects, and mission rewards is a bit too much, please let me know if there is anything missing)
(End of this chapter)