From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 182 Five Drops of Spiritual Essence! [He's got his hands on his hips!]

Heavenly Dou Empire, Barak Kingdom, Soto City.

Chen Hong was unaware that his Soul Ring Intent theory had already caused a huge uproar among the higher-ups of the Spirit Hall. Of course, he could guess a little, but he didn't know the specifics, since the Spirit Hall hadn't made any moves in the past month.

However, since Soul Ring Intent Learning was Chen Hong's pledge of allegiance to the Spirit Hall, it was a way of proving his worth to them and making them realize that their investment had not been in vain, thus prompting them to continue to invest more.

Of course, if he really encountered a bunch of idiots from the Spirit Hall, then Chen Hong would have no choice but to accept it. What else could he do? Of course, the chances of that were very small, and Chen Hong also had the Saintess Hu Liena route to take, which was quite safe.

After spending a night refining the invisible, colorful lake of faith above Soto City, Chen Hong extracted another drop of spiritual essence.

Chen Hong had no idea how terrifying his speed of purifying the turbulent flow of faith was; on the contrary, Chen Hong felt that his refining speed was still a bit slow.

However, Chen Hong's current speed of refining faith turbulence is almost comparable to that of a level 100 priest who has become a god through normal faith, since very few of these people possess a divine status to assist in extracting faith power. But Chen Hong inexplicably found himself on the right path again, using the spirit crystal to digest and absorb the various emotional forces mixed in with the faith turbulence on his behalf, thus allowing him to refine the spiritual essence more easily.

The reason why people who worship a god are easily corrupted by the power of faith is that the power of faith contains a large amount of the emotional power of believers, which indirectly affects the mental state of the god. At this time, either one's own power is strong enough, or one can split the godhood; otherwise, the god will be gradually eroded by the believers.

The current mainstream deities in the divine realm have almost all completed the separation of their divine attributes. That is, the divine attribute is the divine attribute, and the deity is the deity. The deity can use the power of the divine attribute, but the divine attribute is difficult to distort the deity. The divine attribute has completely become a weapon system and is no longer completely bound to the deity.

Chen Hong instinctively felt that faith was poisonous, and with Qianyu being such a gullible sucker who absorbed things indiscriminately, he dared not absorb it directly, fearing that his soul and spirit would be alienated or polluted.

So, since Qianyu doesn't really like eating random things, let's just let the mindless Qianyu eat her fill all at once, transforming into a spirit crystal to take on the emotional power in the turbulent flow of faith in place of Chen Hong.

If the spirit crystal can no longer withstand the strain, Chen Hong will use the Sage's Divine Rune to preserve the core program consciousness within the crystal, and then use the Overclocking Divine Rune to burn away the excess spiritual power contaminated by emotions. After restarting, it will be a good spirit crystal again.

This means that although Chen Hong has not yet become a god, he is on the right path, gradually gathering all the conditions required for becoming a god in Douluo Continent.

"It is estimated that the turbulent flow of faith above Soto City can yield three more drops of spiritual essence. Combined with the one I have, I will have four drops of spiritual essence here. It seems that after reaching the seventh level of spiritual realm, the rate of quality improvement has slowed down. These four drops of spiritual essence combined are estimated to only be enough for me to barely reach the later stage of the seventh level, which doesn't seem very worthwhile."

Sunlight streamed into the room through the window, and Chen Hong, in his private research room at the headquarters of the Science and Technology Chamber of Commerce, slowly awoke from his meditative state.

First, he retrieved the spirit crystal from above. After being washed by the silver waterfall of faith all night, the spirit crystal was different now. If it previously possessed a lot of mechanical indifference, it now had a special spiritual quality. Clearly, although Chen Hong had taken the most delicious part of the faith turbulence, the spirit crystal, protected by Chen Hong's two divine rune soul skills (soul techniques!), had successfully gotten its share.

"Looks like you've reaped quite a reward too. Heh, keep up the good work, there'll be even more good things for you to enjoy later."

Chen Hong glanced at the spirit crystal in his hand, which was shimmering with a glimmer of spiritual light, smiled slightly, and then put it back into his pocket. Putting it into a spatial soul tool would suppress and damage the spirit crystal's spirituality, albeit very weakly, but Chen Hong still didn't like to do that.

He channeled his spiritual energy into his sea of ​​consciousness, and within this ocean of consciousness, two drops of colorless liquid, one large and one small, emitting a faint golden light, floated above it.

The spiritual essence is a very special substance; it seems to be able to reside only within the sea of ​​consciousness. If it appears in the outside world, it will continuously dissipate. The phenomenon of the colorful lake above Soto City is due to the speed of condensation exceeding the speed of dissipation, which ultimately resulted in its formation.

Until he found a tool to store the spiritual essence, Chen Hong had no choice but to use himself as a human storage locker.

The smaller essence of spiritual fluid is what Chen Hong is slowly absorbing, while the larger one was just refined.

"The boundary effect has appeared. I'll give this drop to Mom first, to help her improve her spiritual realm and break through to Soul Emperor quickly. I'll also give one drop to Uncle; it should help him progress faster in swordsmanship. As for Dad..." Chen Hong thought for a moment, and finally decided, "How can I be so nice to someone with an outsider's surname? He's my father, whom I consider like a brother! The spiritual essence will have the greatest impact on him, and the effect will be the most obvious, so it can't be ignored."

"So, all I have left is one drop of spiritual essence. It's almost gone, so its absorption effect isn't very noticeable. I heard Ye Lingling is going on vacation, so I might as well leave it for her."

After careful consideration, Chen Hong realized that the Spirit Essence wouldn't offer much improvement until it caused a qualitative change in his mental power. Aside from enhancing his computing power, it provided almost no other benefits. After all, Ning Quan usually handled the battles, and their collaboration in ambushing Soul Saints was still possible. If Ning Quan's sword wasn't sharp enough, Chen Hong's mental strength, unless terrifyingly powerful, would be largely ineffective.

On the contrary, it's more beneficial to first improve the skills of family members.

After all, very few people play simulation games where they ignore everything else and just focus on upgrading their warehouse level, right?

Oh, okay, some people play battle royale, unlike Chen Hong.

Chen Hong has this kind of trouble because he has a group of people he can absolutely trust.

After thinking things through, Chen Hong quickly washed up, changed into some everyday clothes, and went out.

As expected, Ning Quan, Chen Lin, and even Ning Lu were all waiting for him in the small courtyard outside.

Some people were there because of the two cat-eared girls delivered in the middle of the night, while others were there because of the Sea Soul Mercenary Group.

"Good morning, everyone!" Chen Hong grinned. "Let's go greet the Sea Soul Mercenary Group first; that might be the opportunity for the Chamber of Commerce to expand into new territories."

(End of this chapter)