From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 311 Dragging a Thousand Paths Down into the Sea... Wait, no! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

When using the Spirit Essence to nourish the Bone Spirit, Chen Hong discovered that the Spirit Essence, as a refined and pure spiritual power, could have a good feedback effect on the soul.

Moreover, the weaker the soul, the stronger this feedback effect.

"Because Soul Masters' souls are inherently too strong, Spirit Essence can generally only enhance their spiritual power, and it's difficult for it to have a significant effect on their souls. However, if it were applied to Soul Beasts, especially plant-based Soul Beasts, it might have a much stronger impact."

"Hmm, let's go back and capture Xiaoying and Bajie to try feeding them with the spirit essence. I'm really being extravagant, tsk tsk tsk."

As Chen Hong packed his things, he shook his head and muttered to himself.

After packing everything up, he put the big-headed doll into his backpack, ignoring the other party's resistance, and then walked towards the outside of the Spirit Hall's library.

"It's all done so quickly?" Outside the library, Qian Daoliu stood alone at the door, looking at Chen Hong who came out from inside, and asked in surprise.

The Spirit Hall's library contains a vast collection of Spirit Masters' experiences and observations from thousands of years of Spirit Hall history. The books inside are so chaotic that even Qian Daoliu couldn't muster the confidence to browse through them.

The last person to look at it was Yu Xiaogang.

"I'm going to become a Great Soul Sect Master by the age of fifteen. This little library is nothing to me." Chen Hong, who had exhausted a lot of mental energy analyzing all the books in conjunction with [Huang], seemed to be losing his mind again.

"..." Qian Daoliu was slightly silent, but he was already used to Chen Hong's occasional bouts of madness, so he ignored Chen Hong's nonsense and said directly, "Is becoming a Soul Master at fifteen years old so rare? The Shrek Seven Devils from Soto City, weren't they all Soul Masters half a year ago?"

Among the Shrek Seven Devils, due to Tang San's cheat code, apart from Dai Mubai who seems a bit useless (he is three years older than Tang San), the rest of the Shrek team members are all very talented.

Of course, it is worth noting that Oscar needs to be excluded here, because the scarcity of food-type soul masters has made Oscar the fastest food-type soul master in the entire continent.

"Hey, their innate soul power is much stronger than mine," Chen Hong protested.

However, the protest was ineffective. Qian Daoliu interrupted Chen Hong's speech, glancing at the backpack behind Chen Hong. (Souls cannot be contained within spatial soul tools.)

"When you finish organizing the contents of the books in the Spirit Hall's library, remember to return a refined version to the Spirit Hall."

"Don't worry, senior. When I return to Soto City, I will use the power of the environment there to analyze and summarize the knowledge of the Spirit Hall. I will definitely reserve a copy for the Spirit Hall."

Qian Daoliu continued, "When are you going to get one of your bone spirits for Martial Soul City? I can give you a soul bone."

As he spoke, Qian Daoliu took out another ordinary-looking spatial soul tool from his pocket and handed it to Chen Hong, continuing, "There are many elders in the Spirit Hall, but not many soul bones remain. Among them are three ten-thousand-year soul bones, which I accumulated myself during my time adventuring outside."

Chen Hong took the spatial soul tool from Qian Daoliu and probed it with his spiritual power. He found three soul bones of different styles inside. After a brief assessment, Chen Hong realized that the soul bone skills were not what he wanted. Therefore, he replied to Qian Daoliu, "It's possible, but senior, I may only be able to give you one bone spirit from these three soul bones in a year."

Creating Bone Spirits requires a large amount of Spirit Essence, and the only current production site for Spirit Essence, Soto City, has, in nearly a year, developed a Spirit Network that has gradually covered the entire city, and its user base has also expanded to encompass the entire city. Just as Chen Hong had initially predicted, because "going online" is an extremely voluntary act, each time a netizen is active on the Soto Network, it's equivalent to an angel fanatic soul master praying to an angel statue.

Soto City has over 500,000 such "fanatics" (commoners + Soul Masters). Among them, Soul Master netizens provide stronger spiritual energy, but there are fewer of them. Commoner netizens provide slightly weaker spiritual energy, but there are too many of them.

Currently, the production of spiritual essence in Soto City has reached a terrifying level of one drop per day, and this is only the limit of Chen Hong and [Huang], not the limit of Soto City itself. As Soto City further 'digitizes' itself, and the surrounding one to two million residents are all covered by the Soto spiritual network, the production capacity of spiritual essence will continue to increase.

However, although the production capacity of the spiritual essence has been continuously increasing, even reaching the terrifying level of one drop per day, Chen Hong still has very little spiritual essence that he can accumulate, because Chen Hong has too many places that require the consumption of spiritual essence.

For example, the Soto network root server [Huang], during the current development phase of Soto City, requires a large amount of spiritual essence to nourish it, continuously increasing its spiritual mass and computing power. Similarly, cultivating new bone spirits and improving some functions within the Soto spiritual network also requires a significant amount of spiritual essence.

In addition, Chen Hong's investments in the people around him, and the latest "Soul Beast Rapid Training" project that he is preparing to launch, all require a large amount of spiritual essence.

To supply such a large amount of energy, Chen Hong also reduced his consumption of spiritual essence. Otherwise, if he disregarded everything, Chen Hong's spiritual power level should have reached level 85 or higher. (The higher the spiritual power level, the stronger the diminishing marginal returns of spiritual essence.)

However, the fifth level of mental power allowed Chen Hong to cultivate an additional foolish bone spirit and raise his parents' mental power levels by at least five levels, which Chen Hong considered a very worthwhile investment. Chen Hong's current mental power level is 80, meaning he has begun to enter the Soul Douluo realm. Of course, his use of mental power far surpasses that of ordinary Soul Douluos, and even Title Douluos.

The difference between level 80 and level 85 mental power is not significant for ordinary Soul Douluos, and the difference is not significant for Chen Hong either. However, due to the special nature of Chen Hong's martial soul mental power, the computational efficiency of level 85 is several times that of an ordinary Title Douluo.

So, right now, as Chen Hong looked at Qian Daoliu, who seemed very curious about his Bone Spirit figurine, a slightly excessive thought suddenly came to his mind.

For example, dragging a thousand streams down into the sea, no, it's about establishing a martial spirit network system.

(End of this chapter)