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

Chapter 40 Su Yu's "Limit" (Please read on!!!)

Upon entering the valley, Xiao Hongchen obtained a suitable soul ring within three days.

However, the three's luck did not continue. As they ventured deeper, they did not encounter a suitable soul beast for Su Yu.

Not to mention the Ten Thousand Year Sword Grass, we haven't even encountered any other life-attribute soul beasts.

The three of them searched tediously in the valley for a month.

Suddenly, Jing Hongchen pointed in a direction and said, "I sense a strong fluctuation of soul power, which is restrained yet possesses an extremely strong sense of threat."

The threat he spoke of was merely a feeling, not a statement that the aura posed a life-threatening danger to him.

The three of them headed in the direction Jing Hongchen pointed. Soon, Xiao Hongchen and Su Yu also sensed the fluctuation of soul power.

"The unique sharpness of this sword energy is very likely to be sword grass," Su Yu said excitedly.

After searching for a month, we finally got a clue.

"Judging from the fluctuations in soul power, it has been at least ten thousand years, but the exact number is unknown."

Jing Hongchen warned Xiao Hongchen and Su Yu to be careful, then activated her soul-guided shield and continued to advance to investigate.

The soul-guiding shield has the function of concealing soul power fluctuations, which is why the three of them were able to ambush for a long time not far from the battlefield where the Purple-Gold Dragon Beast and the Silver Moon Tiger fought last time.

"This sword energy is very strong."

Even through the soul-guided shield, Su Yu could feel that will.

That was a will to cut down everything.

"It seems to be sword grass without a doubt. Hopefully, it won't be older than 20,000 years."

If Su Yu cultivates normally and tempers his body with the power of stars every day, he will hopefully reach a level sufficient to withstand a ten-thousand-year soul ring by level forty.

Having previously refined a ninth-grade snow lotus, his martial soul and physique underwent a transformation, increasing his lifespan by three thousand years.

In addition, Su Yu also refined the ten-thousand-year whale glue that Kong Deming had found for him, making his physique even stronger and increasing the age of the soul rings he could withstand by at least three thousand years.

That's 16,000 years ago.

With the auxiliary methods Su Yu developed himself, improving by another two thousand years wouldn't be a problem.

Besides this, Su Yu also had an external force.

That's Electrolux.

If the process of absorbing the spirit ring is successful, then the soul shock of the ten-thousand-year spirit ring will not pose any threat to him.

By wholeheartedly resisting the impact of soul power and refining the origin of the soul ring, one can subtly increase their limit by at least four or five thousand years.

Moreover, even if Electrox cannot wake up, the simplified version of Mirror Red Dust's Red Dust Blessing will still be effective.

The algorithm described above was already quite conservative. Su Yu rounded the final result to the nearest whole number, making it even more conservative, before arriving at the limit of 20,000 years for the fourth spirit ring.

It seems absurd, but it's actually not hard to understand. Although the God King absorbed immortal herbs and tempered his body with ice and fire, he still faced a near-death experience when absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring for the fourth time. But that was a direct jump from the third ring, which was two thousand years old, to over ten thousand years old, without any foreshadowing before finding the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

Su Yu, however, absorbed power beyond his level from the second ring. Since he was a life attribute, he used the power of stars to temper his body in the second ring and refined a ninth-grade snow lotus, which brought him a boost equivalent to that of a ten-thousand-year soul ring. Later, he also refined a piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue.

The transition from 5,800 years in the third ring to 20,000 years is actually not that outrageous.

Moreover, Su Yu's transition to 20,000 years was largely due to Electrolux or a simplified version of the Red Dust Blessing.

Looking at it this way, it seems reasonable that Su Yu set the age limit for his fourth soul ring at 20,000 years.

"One main sword pattern, five auxiliary sword patterns, fifteen thousand years!"

Jing Hongchen finally saw the sword grass.

This ancient sword grass is not large, only one meter tall, and its shape is very similar to a long sword. The surrounding soul power condenses into white sword energy.

The sword energy centered on the sword grass formed a sword energy storm, leaving sword marks on the surrounding ground.

On the main body of the sword grass, there are faint silver-white sword patterns, one of which runs from the root to the tip of the sword grass and is the main sword pattern.

Surrounding the main sword pattern are five auxiliary sword patterns.

Every ten auxiliary sword patterns that appear will coalesce into a main sword pattern.

Upon reaching the level of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, one auxiliary sword pattern condenses every thousand years.

In addition to the main and auxiliary sword patterns, there are also densely interwoven patterns.

"Xiaoyu, how is it? Can you absorb it?" Jing Hongchen asked Su Yu.

Fifteen thousand years, which is longer than the age of the Purple-Gold Dragon Beast that Xiao Hongchen absorbed before.

Xiao Hongchen also looked serious and reminded Su Yu, "Don't be reckless. I know it's very rewarding to surpass a genius like me, but a 15,000-year-old soul ring is very dangerous."

Su Yu's expression was equally grave, his gaze fixed on the roots of the Ten Thousand Year Sword Grass.

"If it were a normal 15,000-year-old sword grass, I would be fully confident, but this sword grass is clearly extraordinary."

"Oh?"

At Su Yu's prompting, Jing Hongchen also looked at the roots of the sword grass and noticed something unusual.

"Mutant Sword Grass!"

The growth of sword grass is extremely difficult, and the increase in its age depends on experiencing hardships time and time again, thus condensing sword patterns.

To better adapt to this growth process, the sword grass will split into multiple sword-shaped leaves during its growth.

When they grow to the nine leaves, through the transformation from ninety years to a hundred years, from nine hundred years to a thousand years, from nine thousand years to ten thousand years, and even from ninety thousand years to one hundred thousand years, the nine leaves will merge into one, thus surviving the calamity.

On one hand, it is divided into nine leaves to enhance its foundation, so that it can gather even stronger power when it breaks through.

On the other hand, it splits into nine sword leaves, offering more hope.

However, the ancient sword grass in front of Su Yu at this moment showed no signs of leaf division or leaf division at its roots!

This is a mutated sword grass.

Undivided leaves.

Cut off all escape routes; a single blade of grass, a single leaf, eradicate all suffering.

Undoubtedly, this mutated sword grass has an even more terrifying single-target attack power.

But none of this is a problem, since Mirror of the Mortal World can solve it. No matter how much the sword grass mutates, it is still only 15,000 years old.

The problem lies in the difficulty of Su Yu absorbing it.

The soul power of the mutated sword grass is more difficult to refine, its explosive power is stronger, and its impact on the meridians is more terrifying.

In other words, the soul ring of this mutated sword grass is as difficult to absorb as that of a two-leaf sword grass that has been growing for 20,000 years.

"Xiaoyu, let's try another one."

Jing Hongchen sighed, feeling helpless.

After finally finding a sword grass that was ten thousand years old, it turned out to be fifteen thousand years old.

That's bad enough, but it's also a mutated sword grass.

Simply.

"Wait, Master, I'd like to try it."

"What?"

"Su Yu, are you out of your mind?"

Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen both exclaimed in surprise.

They never imagined that Su Yu, who usually seemed so composed, would act so irrationally at this moment.

Little did they know, Su Yu had always been rational.

For safety reasons, he even went further and more conservatively on his already cautious calculations of the fourth ring's maximum service life.

"Before that, I need to ask, how effective is the simplified version of the Mortal World's Blessing?"

Let's adjust the update time. From now on, I'll update around 6 PM and after 10 PM, which is also when I write, making it more convenient.

(End of this chapter)