Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 233 Breakthrough! Breakthrough!
"Crash."

The sound of churning seawater echoed continuously within the sea of ​​consciousness, which had previously appeared boundless at first glance, now began to spread outwards incessantly.

The bright, water-like moonlight fell downwards, continuously purifying the seawater below, making every drop of water appear even purer.

Lin Xingyu's will was silently manifesting in that bright moon.

The boundless sea below is formed from Lin Xingyu's spiritual power, and the state of each drop of seawater reflects the state of his spiritual power.

The purity of the seawater signifies the purity of his spiritual power; the increasing depth of the seawater symbolizes the depth of his spiritual power...

The bright moon in the sky symbolizes his method of cultivating spiritual power.

As time passed, the expansion of the sea gradually reached a limit, and his mental strength also reached a bottleneck.

A sudden realization dawned on him: he had reached the bottleneck of the Spirit Realm!

The will that hangs high in the air remains in a state of neither joy nor sorrow.

He simply kept practicing visualization techniques, evolving his spiritual sea.

Refine every strand of your spiritual power, making it more profound and authentic.

At the same time, he steadily and methodically broke through the bottleneck of the Spirit Realm.

As time passed, I silently sensed the changes in my spiritual sea, and the somewhat chaotic power that had become disordered due to the improvement of my spiritual strength gradually merged into one.

This is reflected in the sea of ​​the spirit as the waves that were originally churning everywhere eventually forming a whole.

The seawater also became increasingly pure under the moonlight.

As a result, the power of the seawater impacting the surrounding endless darkness grew stronger and stronger.

Finally, as the moonlight fell upon the entire sea of ​​consciousness, Lin Xingyu's consciousness vaguely heard a sound of something breaking.

As if breaking through some kind of limitation, the seawater began to spread rapidly outwards, and the bright moon in the sky shone with its brilliance.

Endless moonlight shone outwards along with the spreading seawater, dispelling the endless darkness surrounding the Sea of ​​Spirit.

His mental strength also began to surge at that moment.

As time passed, and the seawater filled the surrounding dark void, the Sea of ​​Spirit regained its stability.

Another slow purification process has begun.

Lin Xingyu gradually regained his senses.

As his consciousness stirred, a strange feeling arose in his heart.

As his consciousness expanded, everything around him became clear in that instant.

His spiritual power rapidly spread into the distance, allowing him to clearly see a bizarre and fantastical world.

"The Spirit Realm has been achieved!"

At this moment, he could use his mental power to carefully distinguish every tiny elemental particle in the air, and even sense the emotions emitted by each elemental particle in the air.

Some of the elements in the air were active, while others were subdued. Lin Xingyu could even clearly feel the continuous stream of starlight falling, with its omnipresent force field.

However, their emotions were quite weak, and when Lin Xingyu tried to use his mental power to infect these elements, he succeeded quite easily in one go.

As if finding its source, all the elements rapidly converged on him.

In an instant, the spiritual energy around him suddenly became denser, and the speed at which his soul core circulated within his body increased several notches.

Upon closer inspection, a small vortex can be seen within the soul core, which further accelerates his absorption of the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy).

This enhanced his perception of the external spiritual energy, and also accelerated his cultivation speed.

"High-dimensional vision!"

Lin Xingyu tried to use his abilities to observe the outside world more clearly in this state.

In an instant, an even more beautiful world appeared before his eyes.

Lin Xingyu was deeply shocked.

The beauty of heaven and earth, and the laws of all elements, were presented to him one by one.

As his spiritual energy flowed, he absorbed the various elements of heaven and earth, which surrounded him and gradually merged into his body with each breath.

As the soul core circulates, the meditation method carries these external forces through the body's meridians.

He absorbed and refined these powers one by one, eventually forming a part of his soul power.

His mental energy continued to expand outwards, passing through the meditation room and reaching out to sense the outside world, until he encountered an even larger soul-guiding array, which blocked his path and brought him to a stop.

"what?"

"Spiritual power at the Spirit Realm level?"

While maintaining his mecha, Makino sensed a powerful fluctuation of mental energy and looked up in surprise.

He was busy polishing his mech.

The mecha Xiaohong was eventually refined into a part of him, and it was by recovering this part of his power that he was able to break through all the way.

After the breakthrough, the improvement of Mech Little Red did not stagnate.

On the contrary, Makino has another path: nurturing the mecha like nurturing battle armor, which can naturally and slowly increase the power of the mecha, but this speed is quite slow.

Another option is to upgrade Xiao Hong's metal parts. Currently, only the core of his mecha is made of Heaven-Forged Metal, while the rest is made of Soul-Forged Metal. What Mu Ye wants to do is to replace all the other parts with Heaven-Forged Metal.

This was no easy task. Makino had worked for Zhenhua for so many years, and given their deep friendship, he had only managed to replace the core with Tianduan Metal. The rest was a project he would never complete in his lifetime.

Even the Soul Forged Metal outside was crafted by Mu Ye himself after he learned forging and reached the level of a Saint Craftsman.

However, his title of "Master Craftsman" is largely undeserved; he can only forge a few metals needed for his own mecha, and cannot forge any others...

However, after sensing the familiar fluctuations within his spiritual energy, Makino admitted that even with his extensive experience, he was still taken aback.

"Xingyu? That's a bit too fast."

Mu Ye had no doubt about Lin Xingyu's talent, and even felt that as long as he was given enough time, he would definitely become a quasi-god in the future, and even had a great chance of becoming the number one person in the world!
But his spiritual power has already reached the Spirit Realm. Isn't that a bit too fast?

The spiritual power of the Spirit Realm means that as long as Lin Xingyu continues to cultivate, even if he has no more opportunities or breakthroughs in the future, he can still reach the level of a Super Douluo.

Not to mention how old Lin Xingyu is now, and how high his cultivation level is. How could he not break through in the future?

This is no longer genius; it's something that exists entirely outside of theory!
Once one's spiritual power reaches the Spirit Realm, it can completely accommodate any level and any number of souls. From then on, spiritual power is no longer a constraint on the advancement of souls.

The improvement it brings to Soul Masters is truly immense.

After a moment's thought, Mu Ye activated all the soul-guiding arrays in the villa, trying his best to isolate the influence of mental energy.

This is the central area of ​​Tiandou City. Directly releasing this level of mental energy could easily cause a disturbance.

Inside the meditation room, Lin Xingyu sat quietly, carefully sensing the changes in his mental energy.

I have gained a more detailed understanding of my current strength.

With the transformation of his spiritual power, his cultivation speed increased dramatically in an instant. As his soul power circulated, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was continuously absorbed into his body.

It flows through the body like a river.

Now he sat there cross-legged, the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) forming clouds and mist, like a god.

Having fully mastered the power he gained after his breakthrough, Lin Xingyu did not end his seclusion.

He intends to continue making breakthroughs!
The Soul Saint is here today!

Lin Xingyu's expression turned serious at this moment.

He wants to condense his own self-condensing soul ring while breaking through to the Soul Saint realm.

This is absolutely the most suitable spirit ring to serve as one's own martial soul true form.

His vision was elevated to an infinite height at this moment. The breakthrough in his mental power made what he could see with his "high-dimensional vision" clearer and more detailed. He once again pushed this innate ability to the limit of his current capabilities.

Skin, flesh, bones, veins, soul power, qi and blood power, and even the ethereal spiritual power and the origin of martial souls—everything was clearly visible in his eyes.

They see everything and observe everything.

Under the "high-dimensional vision," he integrated his blood, soul power, and spiritual power into one, and finally another power emerged.

A crimson-gold martial spirit quietly appeared behind him, and his tall and majestic figure, like a god statue, silently watched everything.

The ethereal gaze from above fell upon the martial spirit that now showed no trace of illusion.

Finally, this last bit of power from the Martial Soul merged into the core of power condensed from Lin Xingyu's essence, energy, and spirit.

The newly generated power underwent a qualitative change in an instant, becoming much more substantial.

Metal, fire, lightning, magnetic fields, stars, slaughter, destruction...

The last force, identical to Lin Xingyu's aura, landed in his body, and a spirit ring began to slowly take shape.

In his heart, in his soul core, and in every part of his body.

The runes of the supernatural power "Surging Life" lit up, and the extremely rich life essence that Lin Xingyu had accumulated began to release its power.

A portion of it nourished his body, soul, and even martial spirit, replenishing the primal power he had just consumed.

The remaining power then began to merge into the newly formed spirit ring.

Ever since he considered condensing his own Soul Ring when he broke through to the Soul Emperor realm, Lin Xingyu had been thinking about various issues in the Soul Ring condensation process.

The self-condensation of a spirit ring undoubtedly consumes one's own power. If the power consumed is too little, the spirit ring's lifespan will be limited. If the power consumed is too much, it will take a considerable amount of time to make up for it.

Over the course of a year, Lin Xingyu proposed many solutions, which he ultimately rejected one by one.

Finally, only one relatively simple one remained, which seemed theoretically sound.

That is, you first provide a portion of the source to make the soul ring, and then the problem of lacking energy is the energy.

The energy condensed by the supernatural power "Life Surge" is the life energy that best matches oneself; one could even say that the two are completely one.

Since that's the case, let's just use it to make up for the missing energy!
Moreover, it belongs to the gentlest life energy and has a nourishing effect on the origin of life.

At this moment, seeing the energy released by the life essence being absorbed by the soul ring that was in the process of condensation, Lin Xingyu quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Become!

Although it is still necessary to provide a portion of the source material, the amount has been greatly reduced, by at least 90%.

In addition, all the resources he provides will eventually be absorbed by his own martial spirit, and will not be lost to the world.

Ultimately, the meat still rots in its own pot.

It's just that energy has been transferred from one place to another.

His body was weak, but his martial spirit was strengthened.

With this method of operation, the body will be weak for at most one or two weeks, but in exchange for the enhancement of the martial soul, it's not a bad deal.

As the life essence continuously flows into the soul ring.

Around his body.

The color of the condensed spirit ring gradually changed.

It started as white, quickly turned yellow, then purple, paused briefly, and then turned black.

And the black color keeps deepening.

I don't know how much time passed; it might have been a moment, or it might have been several days.

The black spirit rings completely transformed into a vibrant red.

The first 100,000-year soul ring!

At that moment, Lin Xingyu stopped increasing the age of his spirit rings.

At this point, the spirit rings were sufficient for the time being. They could support a spirit body of sufficient strength and provide Lin Xingyu with ample opportunity to observe the spirit body. There would be plenty of ways to increase the age in the future, and the power lost would only take one or two weeks to recover.

As Lin Xingyu carefully observed the process of this soul ring forming, he clearly sensed the emergence of a power of law.

If he doesn't intervene, then this person without spirit rings will only have one spirit skill: Martial Spirit True Body!
Using his own consciousness and feelings to sense this spirit ring, Lin Xingyu clearly perceived another existence.

It exudes a fiery and passionate aura, its body is composed of metal and power, and it is surrounded by thunder and fire. Life and destruction cycle endlessly around it, and space, stars and slaughter add all sorts of colors to it.

It is its own martial spirit!
At this moment, Lin Xingyu clearly felt that he and his martial spirit were now inseparable; you are me, and I am you.

When a Soul Master reaches the Soul Saint level, they come into contact with the origin of their Martial Soul, and their essence, energy, and spirit become one.

The true path to becoming a strong person has begun!
As the seventh spirit ring took shape, it was impacted by a tremendous force, and at this moment, his martial spirit finally crossed the final threshold.

Martial Soul: Crimson Gold Dharma Image (Third Evolution 99.9%→100%)

A crimson-gold light suddenly emanated from the martial soul that had merged with Lin Xingyu.

It illuminated the entire meditation room brilliantly.

A gigantic figure suddenly appeared around Lin Xingyu's body.

Compared to the illusions of the past, this is more real than ever before.

Every piece of armor covering his body was adorned with magnificent patterns, which intertwined and covered every corner of his body.

As the Martial Soul appeared, the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) suddenly surged and boiled!

(End of this chapter)