Peerless: The Evil Soul Master's Guide to Saving the World

Chapter 290 Inventory and Delivery: The So-Called Dragon Pill, Soul Core, and Black Hole Dual Core

"Wow, it's actually a Dragon Pill..."

Xu Cheng's lips unconsciously curled up into a smile.

As the character Mu En entrusted to Long Xiaoyao before his death in the original novel, instructing him to pass on the gift to Huo Gua, he laid the foundation for Huo Gua's later crazy overpowered abilities.

Dragon Pill, in Xue Di's words, is the pill of a dragon.

As its name suggests, it is the essence of a true dragon. However, perhaps to prevent the power-up from being too great, the original work only mentioned that absorbing this dragon core would cause the body's defense to surge—comparable to that of a true soul beast.

However, as an existence containing the essence of a dragon's entire life, it naturally also harbors enormous energy. Accelerating soul power cultivation is just the most basic thing. If one really wants to, one can even mutate one's martial soul and develop in the direction of a dragon.

Why is it said that Mei Longdan was the beginning of Huo Gua's later rise to prominence?

Is it because of an epic enhancement to the physical body?
That's right.

This brings us to the Soul Core.

According to the Douluo Soul Master theory, the soul power of ordinary people is in a gaseous state, which is the most basic and lowest level of soul power. However, when one is stronger and reaches the Soul Douluo realm, the soul power will change from a gaseous state to a liquid state, which allows a soul master to store more soul power in their body.

When a Soul Douluo advances to the Title Douluo level, it involves condensing a Soul Core, which is also the time when the liquid state transforms into a solid state. Once the transformation is complete, the user advances to the Title Douluo level.

The volume of soul power stored in a soul master's body is finite, but after changing its form, it can store more soul power.

However, during the transformation process, a large amount of energy is released when the liquid transforms into a solid state. This is also the difficulty for ordinary Soul Masters to advance to Title Douluo. Regardless of whether the transformation can be successfully completed, the release of this wave of energy is something that ordinary physical bodies cannot withstand.

One point to mention here is that the stronger one's mental strength, the higher the success rate when advancing to the Title Douluo level. There is even a saying that mental-type Soul Masters can directly approach the level of Super Douluo once they advance to the Title Douluo level (as stated by Xuanzi himself).

Because of the Dragon Pill, Huo Gua successfully condensed his first soul core at the Soul Saint stage, and his cultivation speed soared all the way. Later, with the Dragon Pill as a backup, he even created the same Yin-Yang dual soul core as Di Tian.

Moreover, this soul core is not an ordinary soul core, but a soul core at the black hole level.

Let me list another concept.

Although both are Limit Douluo, their strengths are different.

That's why.

According to the original novel, there are only two ways to advance to the Limit Douluo level. The first is to condense two soul cores. Mu En, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao all followed this path. When advancing to the Title Douluo level, they condensed the first soul core, and when advancing to the Limit Douluo level, they condensed the second soul core. Therefore, the difficulty of condensing the second soul core can be considered equivalent to the difficulty of advancing to the Limit Douluo level.

The second method involves condensing the first soul core and then constructing the main soul core into a black hole soul core. By converting one-tenth of the body's soul power into a black hole, one can advance to the Limit Douluo level.

A black hole is a manifestation at the soul core level. It is formed by the collapse of space due to its own soul power. According to the setting, it can store an infinite amount of soul power.

It's quite clear now.

The other Limit Douluo's dual soul cores are all (ordinary level), with a fixed upper limit, but Di Tian not only has dual soul cores, but they are also (black hole level). In addition, with his long and long history, he has accumulated soul power, making him the number one on the continent without a doubt.

Huo Gua, on the other hand, condensed his first soul core at the Soul Saint Realm, and it was at the black hole level!!!
Now you understand just how powerful Huo's cheat code was.

So, without the Dragon Pill, he would have no chance of condensing a Soul Core at the Soul Saint Realm, let alone a monstrous (black hole level) Soul Core.

Of course, to condense a black hole requires an abnormally powerful mental state, but also an equally abnormally powerful physical body as a foundation… “It’s actually a dragon pill?!”

Clearly, Long Dan's inexplicable aura had also alarmed the others in the Sea of ​​Spirit.

Tianmeng materialized into a miniature form, circling around the dragon pill in Xu Cheng's hand, her eyes filled with amazement.

"Such a pure dragon core! Even in my past world, it would be an extremely precious existence," Electrox exclaimed.

"Get ready, I need to break through to the Soul Saint level and then begin condensing my Soul Core," Xu Cheng said thoughtfully.

"Condensing a Soul Core?" Ice Emperor asked in surprise. "Ah Cheng, isn't this a bit too early? Trying to break through to the Soul Core level at the Soul Saint level... is probably harder than ascending to heaven."

As one of the three kings of the far north, she naturally condensed a single soul core, while the possibility of obtaining a dual soul core was still a long way off.

“Yes, Acheng, if it were you, the best thing to do would be to condense two soul cores in one go when you break through to the Title Douluo level. That way, you would break through the barrier of Limit Douluo, and then try to transform into the Black Hole level. Becoming a god would be just around the corner,” Tianmeng Ice Silkworm also advised.

"Hehe, with the Dragon Pill, my physical strength has at least reached the level of a Title Douluo, and my mental strength has already surpassed the Title Douluo level, so condensing a Soul Core is really not difficult. The only difficulty... might be condensing a second Soul Core when I reach the Title Douluo level, which is no less than breaking through to the Limit Douluo level..."

Xu Cheng said with a smile.

"Now that all these monstrous talents have caught up, and I'm only a Soul Emperor, if I don't bring out my trump card, won't I become a gigolo?"

In the past few days, Wang Qiu'er had been feeling a restless atmosphere.

Perhaps it was a lack of discipline, or something else, but in any case, it had a rebellious streak against the Heavenly Gang.

Meanwhile, the others, including Cain, Meng Hongchen who was about to advance to Soul Emperor, Tang Ya, and others, were all a bit restless. Even Ning Tian looked at them as if they were sheep.

It felt like I was surrounded by wolves, who were after my body and were even planning to force me?
They all insisted on being on top.

Although the passive coughing was a unique kind of stimulation, how could Xu Cheng be willing to be subordinate to someone else?

If we don't show some overwhelming strength, we might really be surrounded and wiped out by those girls working together.

"That's... I didn't expect you to know the uses of the Dragon Pill," Hyotei sighed softly.

Xu Cheng's initial impression of her was that he was calm and collected, much like those cunning and calculating humans; he was a little fox.

In the past, she and Xu Cheng were just like grasshoppers tied to the same rope, nothing more. But as Xu Cheng truly developed artificial soul rings, as a soul beast who witnessed it all, she had a deeper understanding of Xu Cheng's initial words, "Trust me."

He wasn't just making empty promises, nor was he being perfunctory; he was genuinely going to do it.

Being sincere to one's own people and cunningly calculating towards enemies—that could be considered a kind of personal charisma...

"Oh, right, there's one more thing."

Xu Cheng grinned, his fingers lightly brushing against the storage ring, and a long handle appeared in his hand, instantly unleashing a dense aura of killing intent.

"The second item is a fragment of the Rakshasa Demon Scythe."

(End of this chapter)