The golden sunlight from outside the window bathed Wang Chen, making him so radiant that it was hard to look directly at him.
This morning, Wang Chen had advanced his cultivation to the seventieth level, reaching the Soul Saint realm. The reason he could cultivate so quickly was naturally due to refining elixirs and heavenly treasures that boosted his cultivation.
Without elixirs and heavenly treasures, in five months, even with Wang Chen's talent, he would have only advanced two levels at most through sheer hard work.
However, with the aid of elixirs and heavenly treasures, Wang Chen directly jumped from level sixty-six and a half to level seventy. This demonstrated the importance of resources.
Besides his soul power cultivation, in these five months, Wang Chen's mental strength, with the help of the Gold of Life, cultivation techniques, elixirs, and heavenly treasures, had finally broken through from the peak of the Soul Douluo realm to the tangible yet intangible realm that only Title Douluo powerhouses above level ninety could achieve.
Although his physique was slightly below that of a level ninety Title Douluo powerhouse, with his body's immense vitality and recovery ability, absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring posed no problem at all.
The Life-Devouring Engraving Knife, crafted from the Gold of Life, had slightly diminished in size after more than three years of absorption by Wang Chen.
However, even this small piece of Gold of Life contained a terrifying vitality that would leave even Title Douluo powerhouses in awe.
Although Wang Chen couldn't achieve limb regeneration, if a large wound were inflicted on his body, it would heal within a minute.
With such terrifying recovery abilities, Wang Chen naturally had a tremendous advantage when absorbing soul rings.
In fact, the damage caused by a hundred-thousand-year soul ring to Wang Chen's body couldn't even keep up with his body's recovery speed.
It could be said that Wang Chen's mental strength and physique were now essentially on par with those of a level ninety Title Douluo powerhouse.
Such tremendous progress came at the cost of enormous resource consumption.
Now, Wang Chen's pockets were completely empty. Apart from elixirs and heavenly treasures used for healing and life preservation, all other resources had been completely exhausted, leaving him as poor as he was before.
However, Wang Chen didn't feel any regret. Resources were meant to enhance one's strength. Otherwise, keeping them unused would make them mere decorations.
As long as one's strength was great enough, resources would come easily.
Currently, the only aspect in which Wang Chen fell short of a Title Douluo powerhouse was soul power.
This was because Title Douluo powerhouses condensed their soul power into a solid soul core, which not only granted them abundant soul power but also higher soul power quality and faster recovery. The strength of a soul core was evident.
However, Wang Chen planned to consolidate his level seventy soul power in a couple of days and then condense a soul core. Once he succeeded in condensing a soul core, his soul power would no longer be inferior to that of a level ninety Title Douluo powerhouse.
By then, Wang Chen would no longer be a three-minute warrior who could only defeat Title Douluo by relying on the explosive power of secret techniques like ring detonation.
After condensing a soul core, even without using secret techniques like ring detonation, Wang Chen could rely on his powerful Spirit Domain to defeat Title Douluo powerhouses.
And if he used the ring detonation secret technique, even a level ninety-five Super Douluo powerhouse wouldn't be impossible to fight.
In addition to advancements in soul power, mental strength, and physique, Wang Chen had also made significant progress in the path of soul tools.
Through studying and discussing with Kong Deming, combined with the new functions of the Black Book that enhanced his comprehension, and after five months of exploration and experimentation, Wang Chen had successfully drafted the blueprint for a soul tool perfectly compatible with his Spirit Weapon martial soul. This soul tool blueprint was for a level nine soul tool.
Wang Chen named this soul tool the God-Suppressing Spear. He had invested tremendous effort into it, and in designing the core array, he referenced Kong Deming's spatial soul tool.
Thus, the level nine soul tool God-Suppressing Spear, designed by Wang Chen, had spatial abilities known as Spatial Confinement.
The range of Spatial Confinement was small, only two hundred meters. Within this two-hundred-meter range, it could confine anything at will.
Spatial Confinement was a powerful control-type skill. Once activated, enemies would be like insects trapped in amber, unable to move.
Even a Title Douluo powerhouse struggling with full strength would be confined for three seconds, during which they would be like fish on a cutting board, only able to take a beating.
Super Douluo powerhouses would also be confined, though the duration would be significantly Ascendancy significantly shortened, depending on the specific situation.
After all, there wasn't a single level ninety-five Super Douluo in the entire Sun Moon Empire, so Wang Chen had no way to test it.
However, a Limit Douluo powerhouse couldn't be confined because Limit Douluo powerhouses had some mastery over spatial power, even if only superficially, which Wang Chen's level nine soul tool couldn't restrain.
Moreover, within the range of Spatial Confinement, it was difficult to use teleportation-type soul skills unless they were hundred-thousand-year soul skills or higher. Even then, the teleportation distance would be greatly reduced.
The only drawback of Spatial Confinement was its enormous soul power consumption.
The larger the confined space, the greater the consumption. Even a Title Douluo powerhouse could only use it fewer than three times before exhausting their soul power.
The God-Suppressing Spear was extremely difficult to craft, especially the inscription of the core array, which required spatial inscription techniques, a specialty of Kong Deming.
With Wang Chen's current soul power, he was unable to craft it. He would need to condense a soul core, significantly increase his soul power, and gain insight into spatial power before he could create this soul tool.
The reason he didn't ask Kong Deming to craft it for him was that a soul tool perfectly compatible with one's martial soul required the crafter to use a special method.
The crafting process had to be guided by the martial soul itself to ensure perfect compatibility.
Moreover, Kong Deming had already taught Wang Chen nearly everything he could and was now immersed in his laboratory researching humanoid soul tools, too busy to spare time.
In fact, if Wang Chen weren't so exceptionally talented, Kong Deming wouldn't have spent these past few months teaching him soul tool knowledge.
Wang Chen also knew that Kong Deming's top priority was researching humanoid soul tools. Unless there was an emergency, Wang Chen didn't want to disturb his research.
Once the level nine soul tool God-Suppressing Spear, perfectly compatible with his Spirit Weapon martial soul, was crafted, Wang Chen would meet all the conditions to cultivate the Method of the Natal Soul Tool.
The Method of the Natal Soul Tool involved fusing the martial soul with a perfectly compatible soul tool through the power of heaven and earth, significantly enhancing the soul tool's power.
Wang Chen couldn't achieve what Kong Deming did—elevating the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield to a level ten soul tool through the Method of the Natal Soul Tool.
After all, the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield was already a peak level nine, or even a half-step level ten soul tool.
In terms of soul tool crafting, blueprint design, cultivation, and mental strength, Wang Chen still had a considerable gap compared to Kong Deming.
The God-Suppressing Spear was only level nine, and even with the Method of the Natal Soul Tool, it could at most be enhanced to a high-level nine soul tool comparable to a Super Douluo, far inferior to Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, which could rival a Limit Douluo.
Even so, this would still be a tremendous boost to Wang Chen's strength, and the power of Spatial Confinement would also increase significantly.
By then, with the God-Suppressing Spear as his natal soul tool and the ring detonation secret technique, Title Douluo powerhouses would be nothing more than clay chickens and pottery dogs—kill one if one comes, kill a pair if two come.
Even a level ninety-five Super Douluo would not be his match.
Perhaps only a level ninety-six Super Douluo could stand toe-to-toe with him.
After level ninety-five, the soul power gap between each level was immense and difficult to bridge.
For Wang Chen to fight a level ninety-six Super Douluo with his level seventy Soul Saint cultivation would undoubtedly cause a massive uproar if word got out.
After all, powerhouses above level ninety-five Super Douluo were comparable to ferocious beasts with over two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
Super Douluo at this level were typically over a hundred years old, had begun to master their martial souls, and were starting to develop the origin power of their martial souls.
They had unique combat techniques, and even if their ninth soul ring wasn't a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, they would surely possess high-quality soul bones, often more than one.
Their strength was so great that even a level nine fixed soul-guided shell couldn't kill them. They were highly skilled at self-preservation, cunning as foxes, and far superior to Title Douluo.
If the soul power gap between levels ninety and ninety-four wasn't too vast, allowing for some back-and-forth combat, after level ninety-five, each level was a world apart. A level ninety-eight fighting a level ninety-five was like an adult beating a child—effortless domination, with the latter unable to resist or even escape, left only to be thoroughly crushed.
For Wang Chen to achieve this level was already enough to shock the world.
Now, having just broken through to level seventy, his realm wasn't yet stable. After two days of cultivation to solidify his realm, Wang Chen planned to condense his soul core and then craft the level nine soul tool God-Suppressing Spear.
Currently, Wang Chen was considering his target for his seventh soul ring.
According to his calculations, in one month, the original storyline would begin. Without his interference, Huo Yuhao would fuse with the million-year soul ring of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and soar from there.
Six years later, he would cause a massive explosion in Mingdu, reducing many prosperous areas to ruins with countless casualties. Ultimately, he would single-handedly prevent the Sun Moon Empire from achieving unification, allowing the war to continue burning, before ascending to the God Realm as Tang San's son-in-law, Dai Yuhao.
As a member of the Sun Moon Empire, Wang Chen naturally stood on their side. In the future, he would inevitably lead the Sun Moon Empire to unify the world, ascend to the pinnacle, repair the Black Book, become invincible, and live freely.
Anyone or any force, or even gods, that stood in his way would be swept aside.
This wasn't about right or wrong, good or evil—only perspective.
Everyone fought from their own standpoint, and the ultimate victor would determine the world's direction. Whether the world became better or worse depended on the victor's character.
Wang Chen thought to himself, In half a month, I need to evade the Holy Ghost Church's surveillance, leave Mingdu, and head to the Star Dou Forest.
Let's see if I can convince Tianmeng Ice Silkworm to willingly become my seventh soul ring.
However, Wang Chen wasn't confident about convincing Tianmeng Ice Silkworm to willingly become his soul ring. Having read the original story, he knew that Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's primary attribute was mental, with ice as a secondary attribute. Thus, its host had to be a mental attribute soul master; otherwise, they wouldn't be compatible.
(In the original story, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm stated that its host must first be a mental attribute soul master.)
Otherwise, even in dire circumstances, with the vast Star Dou Forest, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm could find a more powerful soul master with stronger mental strength. Why would it choose a weak soul master like Huo Yuhao?
Ultimately, it was because mental attribute soul masters were extremely rare, and Huo Yuhao was the only one it found. Even if he was weak, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had no choice.
However, Wang Chen wasn't a mental attribute soul master. Mental attribute soul masters had a distinct trait: they could reduce soul power consumption by expending mental strength when using soul skills.
Wang Chen's Spirit Weapon martial soul clearly didn't have a mental attribute. His Spirit Weapon martial soul was a special type, without any specific attribute.
It was somewhat similar to the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, an auxiliary-type martial soul, but vastly different. Its explosive combat power was primarily due to Wang Chen himself.
Wang Chen's gaze deepened. If Tianmeng maximal Ice Silkworm was willing, that would be ideal, saving him effort. If not…
Then he would have to resort to force. A million-year soul ring was worth every effort.
The key was that Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, unlike other soul beasts, had weak combat power, only equivalent to a hundred-thousand-year soul beast (as explicitly stated in the original story).
Moreover, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's soul power had been drained by the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Forest, leaving only its mental strength.
Thus, Wang Chen only needed to counter its mental attacks. Although Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had vast mental strength, its mental strength realm hadn't reached the tangible and qualitative stage, only the peak of the tangible yet intangible realm (as explicitly stated in the original story).
Wang Chen believed that, thanks to the Gold of Life, his sea of consciousness had become exceptionally vast and resilient.
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's mental attack, at the same tangible yet intangible realm as his own, might not be able to shake him.
Thus, Wang Chen believed he could use force to persuade Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and obtain the million-year soul ring…
As Wang Chen was deep in thought, a lively figure hopped over to his side—it was Princess Tianzhen, Xu Tianzhen.
Five months had passed, and Wang Chen had already married Xu Tianzhen.
Xu Tianzhen leaned close to Wang Chen's ear and playfully blew a breath. "Husband, it's time to eat. Or perhaps, you'd rather eat me?"
Looking at the petite and charming Xu Tianzhen, Wang Chen knew what she was thinking.
He turned, scooped her up, and thoroughly savored her, indulging in the sun's heat and the allure of her delicate frame.
Two days later, having stabilized his level seventy soul power, Wang Chen went into seclusion to condense his soul core!
Once the soul core was condensed, Wang Chen's combat power would step into the ranks of Super Douluo powerhouses.
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