There was no doubt that Chu Chengzhou, possessing yin-yang complementary three soul cores and cultivating the god-class meditation technique Nine Breaths Qi Absorption, required far more accumulation to advance each level of soul power than ordinary soul masters of the same rank.
Thus, the 100,000-year Light Holy Dragon soul ring containing immense energy, along with the 100,000-year Holy Light Dragon Armor external soul bone, only raised Chu Chengzhou's soul power level to Level 91 Titled Douluo—and not even close to Level 92, but rather at the mid-point of Level 91.
If an ordinary Level 90 quasi-Titled Douluo added a 100,000-year ninth soul ring and refined a 100,000-year soul bone, their soul power level would reach at least Level 92 Titled Douluo, or even approach Level 93 Titled Douluo. The gap between them was clearly visible.
Of course, his soul power level didn't increase much not only because advancing required more soul power accumulation than ordinary same-rank soul masters, but perhaps also because this Light Holy Dragon had just broken through to 100,000 years.
Having just broken through the 100,000-year threshold before immediately losing its life, the Light Holy Dragon's own accumulation naturally couldn't compare to those 100,000-year beast kings that had broken through many years ago. It was normal for the soul ring to contain relatively less energy.
However, Chu Chengzhou didn't care about these things. With the Nine Breaths Qi Absorption technique in hand—a skill similar to Northern Profound Divine Skill, Devouring Heaven Demon Art, Great Devouring Art, and other "devouring type" cultivation methods—the height of his soul power level after advancement didn't matter. At most, he would just need to spend a bit more time at the Ice and Fire Two Yin Yang Well in the future.
As expected, just as he had anticipated earlier, after advancing to Titled Douluo, his AFK cheat received another major upgrade.
Not only did a new tenth AFKing slot appear, but the AFKing efficiency also saw a significant improvement.
Previously, when AFKing for supreme arts, upgrading a Gold-Tier supreme art to Rainbow-Tier required a full three hundred days. But now, only one hundred days were needed.
For AFKing soul rings, originally one day of AFKing increased the cultivation years by two hundred years. Now, one day of AFKing would increase the soul ring's cultivation years by a full one thousand years!
At the current rate of one thousand years per day, even if the soul ring cultivation years started from zero and AFK'd up to one million years, it would only take one thousand days—just two years and nine months.
It must be said, this cheat was getting bigger and bigger.
Moreover, not only did the AFKing efficiency improve significantly, but even the "Element Fusion" that previously appeared as a dim rainbow color on the attribute panel could now be placed in the AFKing slots for AFKing and upgrading.
However, perhaps because Element Fusion was only an incomplete secret technique—although its grade had a rainbow color—completing this secret technique required the same one hundred days as upgrading a Gold-Tier God-Level supreme art to Rainbow-Tier Super God-level.
Chu Chengzhou couldn't help but look forward to one hundred days later, when the Element Fusion secret technique would be completed. He wondered if he would truly be able to perfectly master the power of complete elemental fusion.
Of course, what he looked forward to wasn't just the Element Fusion that could be completed in one hundred days. There was also the True Spirit Flag martial soul that would evolve in just over half a month, and the Elemental Domination skull bone that would upgrade and evolve into a 100,000-year soul bone in less than one month.
Originally, the True Spirit Flag martial soul would need about one hundred more days of AFKing before it could evolve again. However, this advancement to Titled Douluo greatly improved AFKing efficiency, reducing the nearly one hundred days of AFKing time to just over half a month.
As for the Element Domination skull bone—even though the Element Fusion secret technique could now be AFK'd to completion, inevitably reducing the effectiveness of the Element Domination soul bone skill—Chu Chengzhou still didn't abandon this soul bone.
This was because the soul bone skill: Element Domination could not only enhance comprehension and control ability over all elemental attributes, but also amplify all elemental effects. It was far from being useless.
Moreover, the second 100,000-year soul bone skill that would appear after the Element Domination skull bone's cultivation years increased to 100,000 was also something Chu Chengzhou greatly anticipated.
For soul rings, he could temporarily set them aside. They had been holding him back for so long already, and delaying a bit longer wouldn't matter. After all, even for his current lowest cultivation year second soul ring, AFKing it up to one million years would only take less than two or three years. There was no need to rush.
Of course, all of the above could only be considered appetizers. What excited and delighted Chu Chengzhou the most was the newly appeared Laws section on the attribute panel.
Chu Chengzhou had already tested them one by one. The upgraded AFK cheat was very powerful—various elemental laws could also be placed in the AFKing slots for AFKing and upgrading.
Mastering laws, ascending to godhood—becoming a god was right before his eyes!
Chu Chengzhou: The future is promising!
For the eleven basic elemental laws—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, darkness, time, and space—since they already had 1% progress, the time needed to reach 100% progress and master the law would be nine hundred and ninety days of AFKing. This was exactly the same time required to upgrade one soul ring to one million years.
For the Four Symbols law and Five Elements law, perhaps because they were fusion laws, the AFK efficiency was half that of single-element laws. Calculating the existing 0.1% progress, it would take one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight days of AFKing to master the Four Symbols or Five Elements law.
Clearly, the 1% progress in the eleven basic elemental laws came from the Gold-Tier Creation Hammer.
For a Heavenly Refinement Divine Craftsman to perform heavenly forging on metal, the forger must have a certain comprehension of laws. But he became a Heavenly Refinement Divine Craftsman not through his own efforts and enlightenment, but through cheating with his system.
If a forger didn't have a certain comprehension of laws, they couldn't perform heavenly forging on metal.
However, the Gold-Tier Creation Hammer was a supreme art that encompassed heavenly forging of all basic elemental attributes. After the supreme art's grade advanced, Chu Chengzhou directly mastered it through the system's characteristics.
Thus, Chu Chengzhou, who mastered the Gold-Tier Creation Hammer, gained 1% progress in the eleven basic elemental laws.
As for the 0.1% progress in the Four Symbols and Five Elements laws, Chu Chengzhou guessed this should have come from his attempts at elemental fusion.
100% progress equaled mastering the law, so the 0.1% progress in Four Symbols and Five Elements laws corresponding to perfect fusion of earth-water-fire-wind and metal-wood-water-fire-earth elements respectively made sense.
It could be said that if he started AFKing the basic elemental laws now, in just nine hundred and ninety days—two years and eight or nine months—he could ascend to godhood with a single basic elemental law.
If he AFK'd the Four Symbols or Five Elements laws, in one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight days—five and a half years—he could ascend to godhood with Four Symbols or Five Elements fusion laws.
Which one was stronger?
Although not yet verified, Chu Chengzhou dared to guarantee with his dick that ascending to godhood with fusion laws would definitely make him stronger than ascending with single-element laws.
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