Chu Chengzhou's words made Ma Jake's blood boil with excitement—this was the battle armor pioneer we're talking about! If he could truly succeed, Ma Jake would surely go down in history!
However, Ma Jake quickly calmed down. Battle armor soul guidance devices were unprecedented—everything still needed exploration. Getting excited now would clearly be premature.
At this moment, seeing Ma Jake calm down, Chu Chengzhou patted his shoulder and continued: "Of course, I also know that Heaven-Refined level battle armor will definitely be very difficult, but you can start by creating thousand-refined level battle armor! We'll go from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, step by step."
"Yes, Young Master Chu!"
Ma Jake responded.
Afterward, Chu Chengzhou discussed battle armor with Ma Jake.
Although he wasn't too clear on the manufacturing of battle armor, he still had some general ideas and concepts. As for the rest, he could leave it to Ma Jake—though not perfectly matched, he was close enough professionally.
Of course, if Ma Jake disappointed him—if by the time he achieved Level 99 Limit Douluo status and all nine soul rings reached one million years of cultivation, and initial version battle armor still hadn't been created—then he could handle it personally at that time.
With his cheat ability, battle armor manufacturing might stump him temporarily, but it definitely couldn't stump him forever—even not for too long.
The reason he sought out Ma Jake as a worker was simply that his strength hadn't yet reached a bottleneck—he still had enormous room for improvement and couldn't spare too much time to tinker with battle armor.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, one "kun" (two and a half months) passed.
Afternoon time, Sunset Forest, within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, at the boundary between the clearly distinct red Yang Spring and white Yin Spring, Chu Chengzhou was circulating the Nine Breaths Qi Absorption Technique, wantonly devouring the immense water and fire energy contained within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
However, if Dugu Bo were here at this moment, he would definitely be able to see at a glance that the water and fire energy contained within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had clearly decreased significantly compared to before.
When Chu Chengzhou's soul power level was at eighth-ring Soul Douluo, his speed of devouring water and fire energy was still slower than the recovery speed of this special terrain formation of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
But now that he had advanced to ninth-ring Titled Douluo with greatly improved strength, his devouring speed gradually caught up to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's recovery speed. After his soul power level passed Level 95, his devouring speed had already greatly surpassed the recovery speed.
It was only because the water and fire energy accumulated over countless years within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was extremely vast, and the recovery speed was also considerable, that after Chu Chengzhou's one-sided devouring during this period, the water and fire energy within the spring eye hadn't been completely devoured yet.
Suddenly, accompanied by a violent soul power fluctuation spreading from Chu Chengzhou's body, a terrifying soul power aura flashed. Chu Chengzhou, who was circulating Nine Breaths Qi Absorption to devour water and fire energy, once again increased his soul power level by one level, achieving the rare Level 99 Limit Douluo realm!
"Tsk, after twelve years of cultivation, I've finally achieved the Limit level!"
Opening his eyes and feeling the vast ocean of soul power within his body, Chu Chengzhou couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
He still remembered twelve years ago, when he first awakened his martial soul—he had only been a small nobody with innate soul power rounded down to just level 1. But today, twelve years later, he had already become a peerless expert standing at the peak of the continent.
In terms of strength, with no gods appearing, Chu Chengzhou was confident he was already invincible in the world.
This confidence didn't just come from the Level 99 Limit Douluo realm soul power—it was because if he were just an ordinary Level 99 Limit Douluo, he definitely wouldn't be a match for demi-god level experts like Qian Daoliu or Bo Saixi.
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One must understand—even though these two demi-gods' soul power levels were also Level 99, as divine servants, in their strongholds of Spirit Hall and Sea God Island, they could mobilize divine power. The strength they displayed definitely wasn't much weaker than hundred-level soul masters from later generations who didn't possess divine positions.
Tang Chen before the Asura God's trials wasn't much weaker than the two, and could even gain a slight advantage through terrain advantage—not because the three didn't fight on Spirit Hall and Sea God Island terrain, but because Tang Chen possessed the overwhelmingly powerful secret technique: Great Sumeru Hammer.
Chu Chengzhou's confidence came from his Level 99 Limit level soul power level, plus various powerful supreme arts.
For example, when he used his Four Symbols soul power (formed by fusing earth, water, fire, and wind four elemental soul powers) to activate the Gold-Tier Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow, even when his soul power level had only reached Level 97 Titled Douluo, its power had already entered the divine-level realm.
How did Chu Chengzhou know this?
Nothing special—his Element Domination skull bone's soul bone skill: Element Domination, which required active use to take effect and provided all-elemental enhancement, could no longer provide elemental enhancement.
When such enhancement-type skills couldn't take effect, it meant Chu Chengzhou's attacks had already crossed the god-level threshold.
Just like in the original story when Tang San hunted the Deep Sea Demon Whale King—if after exploding his rings his strength entered the god-level realm, Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul's attribute enhancement soul skills could no longer affect Tang San.
Similarly, when using Four Symbols soul power to activate the defensive supreme art: Instant Bloom, the elemental enhancement effect of the Element Domination soul bone skill no longer worked.
Previously, when his soul power level was still at Level 97 Titled Douluo, he could already possess god-level offensive and defensive capabilities through Four Symbols soul power activating Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow and Instant Bloom. Now achieving Level 99 Limit Douluo, his strength had definitely improved further. Even against a hundred-level soul master from later generations, Chu Chengzhou was confident he could fight.
The Invincible in the Sky, Qian Daoliu?
Hmm, in a few days I'll visit Spirit Hall to visit my mother-in-law in my capacity as grandson-in-law (to test his capabilities), and drop off two betrothal gifts to my mother-in-law.
Worth mentioning—in the few days after Chu Chengzhou returned to the continent, the Element Domination skull bone that had been AFKing and upgrading had its cultivation years increased to one hundred thousand years. The Crystal Protection left arm bone had also upgraded to one hundred thousand years over a month ago.
However, after the two soul bones evolved into one hundred thousand-year soul bones, the effects of their second one hundred thousand-year soul bone skills weren't very impressive.
The second one hundred thousand-year soul bone skill of the Element Domination skull bone: Element Fusion—greatly enhanced all-elemental fusion ability.
The second one hundred thousand-year soul bone skill of the Crystal Protection left arm bone: Crystal Protection—when activated, could condense a soul power shield protecting the entire body, belonging to defensive-type soul bone skills.
If he didn't have the Element Fusion secret technique, the soul bone skill: Element Fusion wouldn't be too bad. But with the soon-to-be-completed super god-level secret technique: Element Fusion, this soul bone skill became extremely redundant—so much so that it couldn't even be considered redundant.
As for defensive-type soul bone skills—even a one hundred thousand-year defensive soul bone skill couldn't compare to Instant Bloom, which was currently at god-skill level and was about to advance to Rainbow-Tier super god skill?
It could be said that whether or not he possessed these two soul bone skills made absolutely no difference to Chu Chengzhou's strength—they were two completely useless soul bone skills.
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