Douluo Continent: A Man of Unparalleled Talent and Heaven-Defying Comprehension

Chapter 160: Methods to Reduce the Difficulty and Risk of Condensing a Second Soul Core

After absorbing the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and obtaining three spirit rings, Huo Yuhao's spirit power naturally broke through the bottleneck of level sixty.

"Yuhao, what level is your soul power now?"

The three spirit rings essentially absorbed and refined all the spirit power of the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass, including the remaining essence of the Ice Bear King, Xiaobai, which was also completely refined by Huo Yuhao. (Xiaobai was nearly 300,000 years old, just 300,000 years away from the Heavenly Tribulation. Sorry, the Titan Snow Demon King was only 200,000 years old. I made a mistake.)

Even the small portion of soul power that Ice Emperor had sealed away through sacrifice was digested by Huo Yuhao.

However, even so, Huo Yuhao's soul power was only level 69.

Cultivating the ultimate attributes is indeed that difficult.

Although the spirit rings Huo Yuhao absorbed were all of extremely high age, Huo Yuhao's spirit rings were different from Su Yu's.

Most of the energy in his spirit rings was used to improve the properties of Extreme Ice.

The second spirit is currently composed of three ultimate ice spirits, and the spirit skills of the spirit rings are also applications of ultimate ice.

A large portion of the absorbed energy was amplified to enhance his ultimate attributes, which in turn increased the difficulty of cultivating his ultimate attributes, making his cultivation even more challenging than Su Yu's cultivation of ultimate life.

So pitiful.

One of the most important factors is that Su Yu's cultivation speed is fast, and the feedback he receives after absorbing a soul ring is even more dramatic, largely due to the immense life force of the Blade of Life. With the assistance of external forces, the life force of the Blade of Life merges into Su Yu's soul power, greatly increasing his soul power level.

Each time he absorbs a spirit ring of a higher level, the resulting improvement can be considered as if he were a spirit master with normal attributes, because any inconvenience caused by extreme attributes can be offset by the Blade of Life.

"Level 69?"

Getting stuck at the bottleneck before level 70 can be quite frustrating.

In particular, Huo Yuhao's level 70 bottleneck may be even more difficult to break through than that of a normal Soul Master.

The previous nine levels were all achieved by relying on external forces to break through, and this last level was a major bottleneck, which he just happened to be stuck on.

Huo Yuhao was truly heartbroken, as he had been hoping to reach the level of a Soul Saint (level 70) before the Soul Battle Tournament.

"It's alright, no rush."

In any case, the energy required to condense a natal soul ring is enormous, and Su Yu also advised Huo Yuhao not to try it lightly until he found a suitable energy source.

Su Yu possesses the Ocean of All Rivers and the Blue Silver Domain, which allows him to accumulate a large amount of soul power, life force, and immortal spiritual energy with the help of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye and Blue Silver Grass.

However, Huo Yuhao was not an option.

He needs to find other rare and precious materials or alternative energy sources.

"Yuhao, your physical abilities are now far superior to before, and the purity of the Extreme Ice is even stronger than mine was back then. You can try to slowly absorb the power I sealed."

Ice Empress had 400,000 years of cultivation, most of which she sealed away herself. Otherwise, Huo Yuhao would not have been able to absorb and refine it into his second martial soul.

Afterwards, he only used a portion of his soul power when bestowing soul rings upon Huo Yuhao, but most of it remained.

This portion of soul power will be able to significantly accelerate Huo Yuhao's soul power growth in the future.

Now that I'm about to reach level 70, perhaps I should use this soul power to push it up?

For those with ultimate martial souls, the period from level 30 to level 70 is actually when they need these assistance the most.

Huo Yuhao was quite moved by Bingdi's words.

"Yuhao, your soul power concentration should be quite high by now. Don't rush to break through to level 70. Solidify your soul power and condense your soul core before breaking through to level 70. It will be more beneficial for you."

Su Yu's voice interrupted Huo Yuhao's excitement.

Soul core?

What is that?

Jing Hongchen seemed to notice his disciple's lack of knowledge about martial spirit cultivation and began to explain it to him.

"As a Soul Master's Soul Power level increases, their meridians and dantian expand, enhancing their ability to store Soul Power. However, this improvement is only the most basic. The improvement brought by Soul Power level also includes the quality of the Soul Power itself. Higher quality, coupled with an already greater quantity, makes the suppression of lower-level Soul Masters by higher-level Soul Masters extremely obvious."

Of course, you two are different.

The quality of your spirit rings and spirit souls makes your spirit power far superior to that of other spirit masters of the same level. Combined with powerful spirit skills, this is why you geniuses are able to fight opponents of higher levels. However, precisely because of this, you are now attempting to condense a spirit core, something you would normally only consider at level ninety.

Whether it is gaseous or liquid soul power, it circulates relatively smoothly within a soul master's body.

However, once the concentration of soul power reaches a certain level, it becomes extremely viscous, at which point the liquid soul power is about to solidify. Solidified soul power flows very slowly within the meridians, which greatly affects a soul master's soul power cultivation and has a significant impact on their ability to use soul power in combat.

Therefore, the Soul Core came into being.

Jing Hongchen will explain the working principle of the soul core in as much detail as possible.

It's clear that compared to his concise teaching of soul tools, his explanations of martial soul cultivation knowledge are rather tedious and overly verbose.

With the teacher's explanation and the popular science information about Hyotei in his mind, Huo Yuhao roughly understood the function of the Soul Core.

At the same time, the difficulty that Ice Emperor mentioned in condensing multiple soul cores in the future made Huo Yuhao's expression turn somewhat unpleasant.

Originally, a Title Douluo could condense one Soul Core. To break through to level 99, they needed to condense a second Soul Core. Even so, countless geniuses were unable to condense a second Soul Core in their entire lives.

However, if he condenses a soul core at level 70, he will need to condense a second soul core when he breaks through to level 90 and becomes a Title Douluo.

To become a level 99 Limit Douluo, one needs to condense an unprecedented third soul core!

This is practically hellish difficulty.

However, if I don't condense my soul core now, how long will it take to cultivate to level ninety under this incredibly viscous soul power blockage?

Huo Yuhao was stuck at level 69, largely because the viscous soul power made it too inconvenient to circulate within his body.

wrong!

Brother Yu must have condensed a soul core at level 70!

Huo Yuhao suddenly thought of Su Yu, who had reminded him about the soul core, so Su Yu must have also condensed a soul core at level 70.

Since Su Yu dared to condense a soul core at level 70, he must have something to rely on.

"Teacher, now that I've condensed a soul core at level 70, how will I break through to the Title Douluo level?"

Huo Yuhao wanted to ask Su Yu about the condensation of multiple soul cores, so he naturally had to bring up this issue first.

His teacher, who was also a martial soul cultivator, was only level 95. He had neither condensed a second soul core nor reached the point where he needed to condense a second soul core. He forgot this point when explaining the concept of soul cores.

Huo Yuhao raised a question, and Kong Deming provided the answer.

"Of course, it's time to condense a second soul core. By the way, Xiaoyu, when did you condense your soul core? I had no idea."

Kong Deming only then realized that his disciple had condensed a soul core.

No wonder he felt a closer connection with the surrounding world, and the quality of his soul power was also somewhat higher.

"The condensation of the second soul core is not that simple."

Kong Deming is currently at level 98. Although he hasn't reached the point where he needs to condense a second soul core to break through to the Limit Douluo level, he is getting close to that point.

With his second spirit soul still missing one spirit ring, he will face this choice once he absorbs a spirit ring that is at least 100,000 years old.

Even he had no experience in condensing a second soul core.

Without experienced guidance, and in itself difficult.

Kong Deming never expected that Su Yu would dare to condense his first soul core at level 70 under such conditions.

"Don't worry, teacher. Since I dare to do this, I am confident that I can condense my second soul core when I reach level 90."

Su Yu, however, was not worried at all.

"Actually, according to my latest idea, the design of the super battle armor could try to incorporate some assistance in the soul core."

Su Yu had not condensed a soul core before and did not know much about soul cores, so he only proposed some amplification methods that he knew about the principle and structure of the super battle armor.

The domain is now the most unique aspect of the Super Battle Armor.

After condensing the soul core and gaining some understanding of it, Su Yu felt that he could incorporate some soul core technology into the production of the super battle armor.

For example, a virtual second soul core!

With the battle armor as its core, a virtual second soul core is created, which can not only greatly enhance the soul master's strength, but also allow them to experience the effects of the two soul cores in advance.

It may not be as good as a real second soul core, but the purpose of this virtual second soul core is to amplify the first soul core through resonance or yin-yang complementarity, and to allow the soul master to comprehend the second soul core in advance.

Su Yu's latest idea made Kong Deming's eyes light up.

The more he listened to Su Yu's description, the more he felt that all of this was feasible.

Moreover, Su Yu's concept for the virtual soul core in the super battle armor is quite comprehensive, and he has listed all the key technologies that need to be used. Although he has not completely solved the technical problems, he has confirmed everything that is theoretically possible.

I may not be able to perfect it for now, but I can prove that my idea is correct.

"Xiaoyu, your idea is excellent!" Kong Deming said excitedly, as if he could already foresee the effects of perfecting this technology.

At least, the difficulty for him to break through to the Limit Douluo level has been greatly reduced.

Of course, Kong Deming has only just broken through to level 98, and hasn't reached the stage where he really needs to try to condense a second soul core yet.

But it won't be long.

The level 10 Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield is too difficult to make, so Kong Deming plans to perfect the technology first.

In fact, Kong Deming has already changed his approach to breaking through the level 10 soul tool, and integrating the Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield into the battle armor is an attempt to do so.

It is too difficult to make a single level 10 soul tool, but I can use other methods to amplify multiple soul tools to the level 10 level.

Just like the linkage technology of Jing Hongchen's fixed-mount soul-guided cannon.

If I cannot instantly transform the metal energy controlled by my soul power into metal to create a level 7 fixed-mount soul-guided cannon, then I will create multiple level 6 cannons, which, when combined, will achieve the effect of level 7.

Similarly, the same strategy was employed in Mingdu's defensive systems.

The laser soul tool that Xuanzi Mu'en dealt with in Mingdu last time was just like that.

Behind each laser cannon was the coordinated operation of multiple level-nine soul-guided turrets, ultimately unleashing a beam of power far exceeding that of a typical level-nine soul-guided cannon from a single cannon. Subsequently, multiple such cannons coordinated again, achieving even greater power.

The improved technology of the battle armor also means an upgrade to the accessories that Kong Deming envisioned for linkage.

Realizing this technology will bring us one step closer to further enhancing the power of the Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield to level ten.

Huo Yuhao, who was standing to the side, breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Brother Yu has a way to solve this problem, that's fine.

As for whether the Limit Douluo needs to condense a third soul core?

If we already have the idea for the second soul core, then we can follow suit for the third soul core.

However, even with a virtual soul core, the process of sensing it in advance requires extreme rigor in the creation of the battle armor.

This is also quite difficult.

In particular, the spiritual energy within the spirit metal used in the battle armor is limited, so any attempt to obtain the desired results requires extreme caution.

Since there's a way, let's do it!

An unprecedented three-soul core, absolutely more powerful than ever before!

Huo Yuhao began to ask the three people present for tips on condensing soul cores.

Upon learning that so much preparation and adjustment was needed, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Reaching level 70 before the tournament is basically impossible.

Moreover, it's best to avoid being disturbed during this period of seclusion.

Once you have a sense of it and have made adjustments, immediately begin condensing the soul core, and avoid any intense battles that could interrupt the process.

Therefore, before the Soul Battle Tournament, Huo Yuhao not only failed to break through level 70, but he might also be unable to begin preparations for condensing his soul core.

"Perfect timing, Yuhao, your battle armor should be upgraded too. Forging a mid-level battle armor, nurturing its spirituality, and with the boost from your soul power level and the mid-level battle armor, attempting to create an eighth-level soul tool will be no problem at all," Jing Hongchen suggested to Huo Yuhao.

The level of Soul Masters cannot lag behind, especially under the current wave of reforms. Once they fall behind, they will fall behind step by step.

The Battle Armor system is definitely one of the biggest revolutions in the history of Soul Masters!

Huo Yuhao nodded firmly upon hearing his teacher's request.

"Teacher, I understand."

He's only at the level of a level seven Soul Master right now.

The crafting of level seven soul tools is not proficient enough, not yet at the level of being able to make intermediate-level battle armor, let alone construct the core magic array inside intermediate-level battle armor.

So his task for the past six months has been to solidify his level as a seventh-level Soul Master and then create his own intermediate-level Battle Armor.

As for level eight soul tools?

Ha ha

Even if you reach a certain level of soul power, it's not something you can just break through to.

Level 8 Soul Guidance Technology places higher demands on Soul Guidance Masters, requiring a deeper understanding of the core magic array.

With his mental detection and mental strength level, Huo Yuhao could easily reach the level of an eighth-level Soul Master in a short period of time by imitating the model.

But that's not what he needs.

After the introduction of the Battle Armor system, this method of advancing to Soul Master was no longer applicable to Huo Yuhao.

He needs to understand the purpose of the core magic array, and he needs to truly digest and apply it.

This also meant that his progress towards becoming an eighth-level Soul Master would be significantly slowed down.

(End of this chapter)