Douluo Continent: On Becoming a God Through Science

Chapter 149 begins the hunt for subsequent soul rings.

"I'm sorry, I can't take you, Yan Yan."

Before Dugu Yan could finish speaking, You Chen interrupted her with a regretful expression.

"Then, can I see my senior brother?"

Dugu Yan was somewhat dejected, then her pretty face flushed slightly, and she asked shyly.

You Chen sighed softly, then abruptly turned to look at the corner: "You Xing, what are you still doing hiding there? Didn't you see your junior sister calling you?"

From a dark corner, the cold-faced Yusei slowly makes his entrance.

"Niece Yan Yan, instead of focusing on your cultivation, what are you doing causing trouble here?" You Xing said coldly.

"Waaah~"

Despite being scolded by Youxing, Dugu Yan blushed and shivered.

Yusei: "..."

You Chen couldn't help but recall Ignis, and his lips twitched. Damn it, you're trying to pull this trick on me too, huh?

At least Ignis was willing to actually get involved, but you, Dugu Yan, are even more outrageous, you're just using words to get what you want!?

You Chen said that sometimes, he really doesn't understand women.

He clearly transformed into a wandering star back then, and thoroughly humiliated Dugu Yan's beautiful face, leaving her utterly humiliated. A normal person would have stayed far away from that wandering star, avoiding him at all costs, right? How could this have caused Dugu Yan to awaken such a special talent by such a coincidence? What the hell is going on?! The original story didn't mention Dugu Yan having this kind of talent, did it? It shouldn't have!

Although he had previously boasted that he wouldn't refuse any tempting offers, but...

Damn it, if I just do it, I won't be able to explain it to my good younger brother, Dugu Bo.

Although he initially intended to use Dugu Bo as a tool, Dugu Bo is now working incredibly hard for him. As a result, while Dugu Bo is fighting for him outside, Dugu Bo is sleeping with the granddaughter he was entrusted to take good care of at the base...

You Chen could already picture the resentful expression on Dugu Bo's face when he saw him after that.

Furthermore, the generational hierarchy is completely messed up. Dugu Yan calls Dugu Bo "Grandpa," while Dugu Bo calls Dugu Yan "Sister-in-law"? Are they treating each other differently? It's a bit like a case of excessive filial piety in a domineering manner.

You Chen vaguely sensed the presence of his conscience, which seemed to be aching slightly.

This precedent must not be set.

Dugu Yan blushed, but said defiantly, "Youxing, have you been avoiding me lately? You'd better explain yourself."

Unlike when she was facing You Chen, she called You Xing by his name directly in front of him.

You Xing coldly replied, "Niece Yan Yan, I hope you'll put away those unnecessary thoughts. I, You Xing, am obsessed with the Great Dao, and women... will only hinder my cultivation speed!"

He turned and left, coldly scoffing, "A so-called genius like you doesn't even deserve to see me!"

"Ugh!"

Dugu Yan collapsed onto the ground in a duck-like pose, her face flushed as she made strange noises.

She shouted at Youxing's retreating figure, seemingly both annoyed and ashamed, "Youxing, you just wait! I will definitely catch up with you! I will prove to you that I, Dugu Yan, am definitely not some trash or weakling! When the time comes, I'll see if you'll still say the same thing as today! I'm not your niece! I'm your peer, your equal! Remember that!"

If her legs didn't tremble from time to time, her words might have been quite persuasive, and it's not impossible that they would have become a source of amusement among her competitors in the future.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs," so in You Chen's view, this guy was clearly taking the opportunity to satisfy his own special fetish.

This is utterly despicable!

How could Dugu Bo raise such a granddaughter?

They must be punished severely.

"Lord of the Alliance."

While the skit was unfolding over there, Nino had already returned very quickly and was giving an intelligence report.

"Oh, go ahead, I'm listening."

You Chen calmly responded to Nino, letting her continue her explanation.

After a long pause, You Chen nodded slowly, glanced at Dugu Yan's somewhat unsteady departing figure, and said to Nino, "During my absence, you will be mainly responsible for supervising Dugu Yan's cultivation. Hmm, it's time to raise her cultivation intensity by one level. Tell her I will check when I return."

As an elder, You Chen still wanted to fulfill his duty and properly nurture Dugu Yan, so as not to let down his younger brother Dugu.

"Yes, ma'am."

Nino bowed and nodded, but looking at the staggering Dugu Yan, a trace of sympathy welled up in her heart. She was very clear about the intensity of the Snake Head Lord's granddaughter's usual cultivation.

"Luckily, I'm an envoy system, so I don't have to work so hard. That's great."

Although she usually works like a corporate slave, waiting for You Chen's orders 24/7, Nino finds happiness in comparison.

……

After obtaining the information provided by Nino, You Chen finally embarked on his journey to hunt for subsequent spirit rings.

His first goal was to obtain the fourth spirit ring of his second incarnation.

First, acquire the fourth spirit ring of the second incarnation to directly break through to level 80. Then, acquire the eighth spirit ring of the first incarnation to break through to Soul Douluo. After that, complete the fifth and sixth spirit rings of the second incarnation. With these four spirit rings, the spirit power level will definitely reach level 90.

Six months is enough time for You Chen to figure out his goal for a Soul Ring.

The reason he chose this route was also closely related to the targets he was hunting.

First, we must consider a key point: the second incarnation is almost the main combat state for You Chen afterward. In contrast, the soul rings on the first incarnation are the soul rings that are destined to be abandoned later.

Therefore, the soul rings on one's body should naturally be chosen to be able to transform themselves and directly convert into self-created soul skills.

The second incarnation's soul rings can select those soul beasts that were never chosen in the past in order to evolve the martial soul, as close as possible to the martial soul's original attributes and enhance the martial soul's original power, and that can produce powerful soul skills.

Alternatively, you can directly choose a soul beast with a higher age limit and greater attribute enhancement.

Either choose skills that are difficult to master and can only be used through Soul Rings, or choose skills with high attributes.

Based on the above requirements, the first two spirit rings in You Chen's hunting order were obtained in the Star Dou Great Forest, while the subsequent spirit rings were to be hunted in the ocean.

The difference between the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest and the soul beasts of the ocean lies in the fact that the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest are more diverse and can produce a wide variety of soul ring skills, while the ocean has abundant soul beast resources and, on the basis of a larger number of soul beasts, there are more ferocious beasts.

Of course, in reality, the core forbidden zone of the Star Dou Great Forest is also rich in ferocious beast resources.

However, compared to the scattered nature of the ocean spirit beasts, the ferocious beasts in the Lake of Life are gathered under Di Tian's command and are relatively very united.

If you hunt one of them, you will almost certainly provoke a counterattack from the other ferocious beasts.

Especially the leader of the ferocious beasts, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Di Tian, ​​at this stage, with the addition of the Golden Dragon Claw, his strength has probably reached the quasi-god level of the third stage of Limit Douluo.

Even if You Chen breaks through to the Title Douluo level, he is unlikely to be a match for Di Tian.

More importantly, at the bottom of the Lake of Life lies a first-level god who is recovering and sleeping.

If not necessary, You Chen naturally hoped that these ferocious beasts would quietly slumber and absorb the ice silkworms, just like in the original Douluo Dalu 1.

Furthermore, considering You Chen's ambition and stance, it's not impossible that he might one day unite with these hundreds of thousands of low-intelligence soul beasts who are even worse than Douluo people who haven't received nine years of compulsory education, or rather... take advantage of them.

The fourth soul ring of the second incarnation has a maximum lifespan of around 100,000 years. Without considering the strength of the attribute amplification or the self-absorption into one's own, the purpose is, of course, to obtain the kind of skill that You Chen believes is basically impossible to master with the compatibility and attribute power he controls with his Stardust Dragon Martial Soul, but which is extremely powerful and useful.

A skill that has appeared countless times in the original work—Invincible Golden Body!

To be precise, it is the existence of its variants.

Depending on the type of soul beast, you can guess what kind of soul rings and soul skills it will produce before you even hunt it.

With the vast knowledge that You Chen had gained from reading countless books in the Spirit Hall, including records of countless ancestors absorbing spirit rings, he was naturally very familiar with which spirit beasts could produce which powerful spirit skills.

His target spirit beast is called the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

This is a soul beast with a bloodline strength even greater than that of the Wind Dragon, possessing a certain degree of golden bloodline.

The Emperor Lion Beast is actually the king among ordinary Lion Beasts!

In this era, no imperial auspicious beasts have appeared, and soul beasts have no cultivation buffs or luck enhancements. In the land areas of Douluo Continent, 100,000-year-old soul beasts are extremely rare.

Even in the Spirit Hall's Hall of Worship, very few people possess a 100,000-year spirit ring.

A 100,000-year-old soul beast is indeed powerful, but for the Hall of Worship, a 100,000-year-old soul beast is like a 100,000-year-old soul beast for the Body Sect ten thousand years later—an existence that can be easily hunted.

The reason there aren't many 100,000-year spirit rings is because they are rare. Even if the Spirit Hall had a spirit master capable of handling a 100,000-year spirit ring, and even if they had the hunting ability, they still wouldn't be able to find many targets.

Otherwise, Bibi Dong would definitely not have only given her second spirit a 100,000-year spirit ring.

She didn't care about issues like overhunting 100,000-year-old soul beasts and causing a soul beast riot.

The Wind Dragon that You Chen found earlier was basically one of the highest-level soul beasts that was relatively easy to find on the surface.

For ordinary soul masters, a 100,000-year-old soul beast is nothing but a legend.

However, even with a cultivation level of 80,000 to 90,000 years, a soul beast of Feng Zhenglong's caliber could still be found if one put in the effort, even without the Spirit Hall's control over soul beast intelligence.

Ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are rare. Besides the issues of cultivation speed and breaking through bottlenecks, the biggest problem is the heavenly tribulation.

Whether or not the auspicious beast of the emperor provides a boost to one's fortune, the intensity of the heavenly tribulation will naturally differ.

Therefore, a large number of soul beasts capable of breaking through 100,000 years of cultivation are also afraid of the Heavenly Tribulation. They either deliberately do not increase their cultivation level, but progress at the slowest rate of one year per year. Or they think about making more preparations and accumulating more foundation to increase their chances of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, and are not in a hurry to break through.

And this Imperial Golden Lion Beast is one of them.

The stronger the bloodline, the stronger the heavenly tribulation. Even with its golden bloodline, the Emperor Golden Lion Beast dared not be careless. Staying at the 90,000-year level for as long as possible was only to be expected.

But this gave You Chen an opportunity.

The Emperor Golden Lion Beast, with its 90,000 years of cultivation, was indeed stronger than the previous Wind Conquering Dragon, but it was still only at the level of an ordinary Title Douluo.

Only after breaking through 100,000 years can one, like Da Ming and Er Ming, rely on a powerful bloodline to possess the combat power of a Super Douluo within 100,000 years.

Ordinary Title Douluos, after half a year of reflection, have become easy targets for You Chen.

The Emperor Golden Lion Beast is a soul beast with metal as its primary attribute, so it can be said that it has little compatibility with the Stardust Dragon Martial Soul's attributes.

However, at this level of cultivation and bloodline, the compatibility is low, which means the enhancement of the martial soul's original power is weaker, but the soul ring amplification and soul ring skills will not be significantly reduced.

Because they all share a common trait that ensures a high degree of compatibility—they possess strong vitality.

You Chen will definitely use a Soul Ring Age Card to increase the Soul Ring of this Imperial Golden Lion Beast to 100,000 years.

With the addition of several more spirit rings, each around 100,000 years old, You Chen's martial spirit origin power increased significantly.

Although it is still not as good as the previous progress, You Chen does not pursue a qualitative change in his martial soul with these few soul rings. As long as there is a certain quantitative change, enough for him to feel the change in his martial soul, that will be enough.

These are all accumulations and attempts made in order to take another step forward in the future.

Therefore, compatibility is secondary; what You Chen values ​​is the soul skill of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

Unlike before, when he pursued a promising future and improved his martial soul's origin, now he's focused on increasing his strength.

What is strength?

Those simple attack skills were not entirely useless to You Chen, but they were better than nothing.

You Chen values ​​skills with strong mechanics or those with good functionality.

An invincible skill is undoubtedly a powerful skill mechanism.

Records in the Spirit Hall show that several different Spirit Masters obtained a spirit ring from the Emperor Golden Lion Beast and subsequently gained a similar invincible golden body.

Compared to the 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit's invincible golden body, using the Emperor Golden Lion Beast's soul ring, and further aided by a self-created soul skill, with You Chen's current spiritual domain realm mental strength, it's practically impossible for him to make a mistake.

You Chen flew at high speed, heading straight into the mixed zone inside the Star Dou Great Forest. His astonishing speed made most flying soul beasts feel as if a hurricane had blown by, and they had no way of noticing that a soul master had flown by.

After entering the internal mixing zone, near the core area, Youchen quickly descended.

rustling~

After the first few rustling sounds of leaves and branches, You Chen completely lost his voice and merged into the forest.

Unlike the special environment of the Disaster Mountain Range, in the Star Dou Great Forest, once You Chen used the Concealing Breath Technique, he disappeared without a trace, and probably only a 100,000-year-old soul beast at a relatively close distance could detect anything unusual.

Even if it's a 100,000-year-old soul beast, if You Chen doesn't reveal his hostility and trigger their instinctive senses, they won't be able to detect his presence.

Having experienced the Cataclysmic Mountains before, You Chen now felt as comfortable as if he were back in his own backyard when searching for targets and hunting opportunities in the Star Dou Great Forest.

As we all know, the outermost area is larger, and the total area of ​​the core area is less than one-fifth of the outermost area. With the addition of You Chen's current mental search range, it only took him an hour to find the trace of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

Even in the core area, the Emperor Golden Lion Beast was still considered a local overlord. When You Chen discovered its whereabouts, he saw it slap a huge black bull away with a golden paw.

The black bull's aura was no weaker than that of an ordinary 50,000-year-old soul beast. Most importantly, it was enormous, a full half the size of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast. Yet, it was like a little child, slapped away by a golden lion that was much smaller than it, smashing through numerous plants before finally stopping.

However, You Chen was not at all surprised to see this scene.

The most distinctive feature of this Imperial Lion is that, compared to the agility of its feline counterparts, it is even more domineering in terms of strength.

Although it cannot match the Titan Ape of the same level in terms of pure strength, it has the advantage of speed and is not afraid of the Titan Ape of the same level at all.

Its only weakness is its defense, but that's only relative to its strength and speed; compared to those near-top-tier soul beasts, it's hardly a disadvantage.

Furthermore, the Titan Ape possesses a gravity field, and the Imperial Lion Beast also has an Imperial Body.

In its Imperial Golden Body state, the Imperial Lion not only gains temporary invincibility, but also enjoys a power boost that lasts slightly longer than the invincibility duration.

In this state, even the Titan Ape would have to temporarily avoid the Emperor Lion Beast's attacks.

But... all of these are meaningless to You Chen.

The reason he hasn't made a move yet, and is still waiting, is simply to find an opportunity for the Imperial Golden Lion Beast to stay as far away from the Lake of Life area as possible.

You Chen wasn't sure if this guy, who didn't appear in the original story, had been subdued by Da Ming and Er Ming.

If they were in a brother-sister relationship, and the younger brother was beaten up, the older brother would come along, which would give You Chen a headache.

After all, Da Ming and Er Ming are both top-tier soul beasts, possessing combat power at the Super Douluo level even at the 100,000-year stage.

If they get too close and catch you while you're absorbing the spirit ring, the scene would be a bit too much.

Therefore, You Chen should try to pull the Emperor Golden Lion Beast as far away as possible, and then quickly deal with it and absorb its soul ring.

This time, unlike a few years ago, You Chen didn't need to create a clone in Notting City and run between the two places.

While he waited patiently, only a few days passed before he found his opportunity.

Just as the Imperial Golden Lion Beast finished its foraging trip and was about to return from the boundary between the internal mixed zone and the core zone, You Chen made his move.

Unlike his attacks on other titled Douluo such as Dugu Bo, the Porcupine Douluo, and the Serpent Spear Douluo, You Chen's primary objective was to kill the Emperor Golden Lion Beast. He showed no mercy and delivered a fatal blow the moment he struck.

First, it used the air compression of the Archaeopteryx Soul Bone for enhancement, just as the Imperial Lion Beast sensed the abnormal airflow and became alert—

The extremely compressed stardust power bursts forth instantly at the speed of sound during firing!

In just a moment, it erased the head of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast.

poof...

This top-tier soul beast, whose strength surpassed even Dugu Bo, the Porcupine Douluo, and the Serpent Spear Douluo, was instantly killed before it could even unleash its invincible life-saving skill.

Without giving it much thought, You Chen flashed and six starlight avatars appeared. He then flew straight towards the soul ring, which was black with a hint of blood red, and began to absorb it.

After half a year of cultivation, the Starlight Avatar has acquired a bit of Stardust power. In terms of strength based on the age of the Soul Ring, it has far surpassed the original ten-thousand-year Soul Ring Soul Skill, and is gradually approaching the Stardust Illusion that You Chen has only been able to use in his Spirit Realm burst state, which can completely simulate the power of the original body.

These six incarnations now each possess combat power at the threshold of Soul Douluo, capable of holding off even ordinary Title Douluos for a period of time.

Just as You Chen was absorbing the soul ring of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast...

The intense fluctuations in soul power and the disappearance of the Emperor Golden Lion Beast's aura quickly attracted the attention of many soul beasts in the core area.

The Daming and Erming, located on the outskirts of the Lake of Life, are no exception.

"An unfamiliar aura... and... that Imperial Golden Lion Beast is dead?"

With his superior mental strength, Da Ming quickly grasped the situation and used his mental power to order several ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts acting as sentinels to investigate.

Erming quickly followed suit, but unlike Daming, who looked rather grave, Erming said with an indifferent expression, "Brother, that stubborn lion never wanted to submit to us brothers, so what if it's dead?"

With Di Tian and his group of ferocious beasts out of the way, Da Ming and Er Ming, two 100,000-year-old soul beasts with the strength of ferocious beasts, are now the undisputed rulers of the Star Dou Great Forest.

In addition, given Xiao Wu's child-leader personality, even if it's just to please Xiao Wu who likes riding beasts, they will try to gather all the powerful soul beasts in the core area under their command.

The Imperial Golden Lion Beast was naturally no exception.

However, this Imperial Golden Lion Beast possessed the arrogance of a top-tier soul beast, believing its potential to be no less than that of the Great Ming and the Second Ming, and thus refused to submit.

Da Ming has a relatively mild personality, while Er Ming is more irritable.

Da Ming did not force the Emperor Golden Lion Beast to submit, but Er Ming would often go to the Emperor Golden Lion Beast's door to beat it up and vent his anger, whether there was a reason or not.

This is why the Imperial Golden Lion Beast was able to easily escape to an area far away from the two, giving You Chen an easy opportunity.

It really didn't want to run into that simpleton, Erming.

"Er Ming."

Upon hearing this, the Azure Bull Python Daming rebuked, "Since we have acknowledged the position of rulers of this Star Dou Great Forest, we cannot merely enjoy the respect that comes with this status from other soul beasts. We also bear the responsibility of protecting them from being wantonly hunted by human soul masters! Even if this Emperor Golden Lion Beast does not recognize us as its leaders, we still cannot sit idly by. Otherwise, what will the other soul beasts think?"

Erming sniffed and snorted, "Fine, you stay here and I'll go check things out, right? I'll go."

After saying that, without waiting for Da Ming's response, he took earth-shaking steps and ran towards the direction from which the aura was coming from.

"Why."

Da Ming sighed softly and moved slightly away from the Lake of Life, while using his mental energy to survey the surroundings so that he could provide remote assistance to Er Ming at any time.

Before long, he received a message from the sentries. His bull-like eyes gleamed deeply: "So, it really is a human Soul Master? To unleash such a powerful attack in an instant, directly killing the Emperor Golden Lion Beast, they must be a Title Douluo among human Soul Masters. If they are a Title Douluo, why would they hunt down the Emperor Golden Lion Beast?"

Da Ming couldn't quite understand it.

The aura of the Imperial Golden Lion Beast was instantly severed from its peak and reduced to nothing.

In other words, it was instantly defeated.

This eliminates the possibility of being weakened by that Title Douluo and then handed over to someone else to finish off.

Although making such a judgment based solely on changes in aura is somewhat hasty, if the Emperor Golden Lion Beast had not been killed immediately, it would have inevitably chosen to unleash its powerful invincible skill. Therefore, Da Ming believed that this guess was most likely the truth.

(End of this chapter)