Chapter 05: Chapter 5 Theory of Spirit Evolution

Chapter 5 Theory of Spirit Evolution (1)

A transparent soul ring appeared, circling Youchen.

"Success! You must succeed for me! Absorb the first soul ring for me!"

As You Chen roared in his heart, the soul ring quickly shrank and merged into his body.

A look of joy suddenly flashed across You Chen's face.

It worked! It really worked! He actually started absorbing it smoothly!

Even though he had a deeper understanding of the underlying rules of this world through years of theoretical research and had already guessed this possibility, You Chen still couldn't help but get excited.

In order to clear his mind of distractions, You Chen immediately closed his eyes and began to absorb the soul ring with all his strength.

While absorbing the soul ring, You Chen continued to drive the soul power, as if to actively form a soul skill, a soul skill that best suits the ability of "Stardust Dragon"!

The soul skills born after absorbing soul rings can be either developed by developing the abilities of the martial soul itself (which may produce skills completely unrelated to the soul rings of the soul beast absorbed), or abilities related to the soul beast that produced the soul rings (which may have nothing to do with the martial soul itself, such as a blade of grass developing the ability to stop time).

There are only these two tendencies, the difference is just more and less.

But in this process, the subjective initiative and individual will of the soul master are by no means without influence.

"Memes and Genes" was a book he published when he was 25 years old, which verified the influence of human spiritual will on martial spirits and soul skills.

And when he obtained the fourth soul ring at the age of 28, he also verified it on himself.

It doesn't mean "you can get any soul skill you want". It is obvious that obtaining soul skills is not a purely idealistic process.

Limited by the soul beasts chosen by the soul master, the more it fits the original power of the martial soul, the easier it is to develop the ability of the martial soul itself, and the parts that are not in line or cannot be digested well will naturally become "losses".

This pure first soul ring that does not contain any soul beast power is equivalent to a blank drawing that can be freely drawn according to the will of the soul master!

Developing the abilities of the martial soul itself and constructing soul skills that match the martial soul is undoubtedly the choice to maximize the use of soul ring energy to evolve the martial soul!

Like You Chen, it is equivalent to looking at the reference answers in advance, outlining the abilities of the martial soul after evolution, and then leading the martial soul to evolve!

You Chen, who had just arrived in this world, somewhat blindly believed in the concept of "absorbing soul rings beyond the time limit".

He had seen such a process in many fan fictions, where a protagonist of average talent absorbed the soul rings of suitable soul beasts over a period of time, and his martial soul was freed from its shackles, evolving from a trash martial soul to one that was strong enough to take down the entire field.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find many loopholes in it.

As for the suitable soul beast, would the families and sects whose martial souls are passed down from generation to generation choose one that is worse than the one he researched alone?Look at Bibi Dong and Tang San, their second martial spirits have exceeded their optimal lifespan by more than hundreds or thousands of years?If it’s really that awesome… then Tang San and Bibi Dong’s second spirits should be able to easily reach god-level strength.

In fact, the difference in the age of the combined soul rings of Bibi Dong's two martial souls is at least hundreds of thousands of years, but there is no qualitative difference in the quality of the martial souls.

When Tang San first started practicing Blue Silver Grass, he also absorbed it beyond the limit, but he didn't even allow the Blue Silver Grass to reveal some of the characteristics of the Blue Silver Emperor in advance.

Absorbing spirit rings beyond the limit... Why can absorbing spirit rings beyond the normal period of time allow martial spirits to evolve? Evolution is achieved through pain and exploitation of potential? But on the other hand, it seems more reasonable to evolve like Pokémon evolution, which is not only painless but also comfortable and smooth?It is obviously a bit presumptuous to simply equate the absorption of spirit rings beyond the age limit with the evolution of martial spirits.

After breaking through this obstacle of knowledge and understanding, You Chen quickly figured this out.

In order to find out the real reason, You Chen began to conduct in-depth research. With the knowledge reserve of the Spirit Hall, he soon found out a little.

First of all, super-limit absorption of spirit rings can indeed improve the quality of martial spirits and even evolve them, but in the real Douluo Continent, it is definitely not as magical as shown in fan fiction.

It would be fine if an intermediate martial soul could evolve into an advanced martial soul with just one soul ring, but with two or three soul rings to the top level, a Soul Sage or even a Soul Emperor or Soul King could evolve a trash martial soul into the strength of a super martial soul?

Have those big families' hundreds or thousands of years of inheritance been just for nothing?

For most people in this world, the evolution of martial spirit is a long-term process that requires the efforts of countless generations.

Take You Chen as an example. Normally, after he breaks through the shackles of his original talent by relying on whale glue and the second, third and fourth rings that have been practiced for a long time, he will continue to practice step by step. If he practices hard throughout his life, he will have the hope of reaching the Soul Emperor and evolving his original intermediate martial soul into a high-level martial soul.

If you get married and have children at this time, the probability of your offspring inheriting a high-level martial spirit will be greatly increased.

If this is passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, perhaps a new natural top-level martial spirit will be born.

You Chen is not sure about other martial souls, but his own “Stardust Dragon” martial soul definitely has such potential!Because after absorbing the fourth soul ring to evolve his martial soul, You Chen has realized that the true identity of his martial soul was not a young wind dragon from the beginning! Instead, it is the ace monster "Stardust Dragon" of the protagonist Yusei Fudo in Yu-Gi-Oh 5DS!It was only because of his lack of aptitude that his martial soul was congenitally deficient, causing him to degenerate into this state.

He was trying to do two things at the time, watching Yu-Gi-Oh 5DS four times on his computer while reading Douluo Dalu fan fiction on his phone, and somehow he came across.

I thought this time travel was only related to him reading Douluo Dalu fan fiction, but it turns out that Yu-Gi-Oh is also involved!After his martial soul evolved for the first time, You Chen felt a little regretful.

If he had known the truth about his martial soul earlier, his choice of soul ring would naturally be closer to perfection. The third soul ring might even allow his martial soul to complete its first evolution, which would give him more opportunities and possibilities to complete the next evolution.

But it’s definitely not too late now.

Now he has another chance!

This brings us back to You Chen’s research on the evolution of spirit rings and martial spirits.

You Chen discovered during his observation and research that the evolution of a soul master's martial soul caused by absorbing soul rings, except for the special seventh ring which was fixed as the soul skill of the martial soul's true body, in terms of evolution efficiency alone, the first three rings were far higher than the later ones!

The first ring absorbs the most suitable 400-year soul ring, and the evolution it brings to the martial soul is no worse than the soul king's fifth soul ring absorbing an ordinary 10,000-year soul ring!Just like in the original book, the sooner you absorb the natural treasures, the better. All of this suggests the word "early".

With this inspiration and enlightenment, You Chen started research along this line.

What exactly affects the evolution of martial soul brought about by absorbing soul rings?Is the blood young? How many soul rings do you have? Soul power, physical fitness, mental strength? How well do the soul skills you have acquired match your martial soul? ...

After more than twenty years, relying on his amazing wisdom, he finally got the answer!

An answer that cannot be said to be absolutely correct, but although vague, it is enough for him to see the way forward clearly.

Qi and blood are the limitation? Correct!

Soul rings and soul power are limitations? Correct!The matching degree of the spirit ring is a limitation? Correct!

But the bottom line is that the evolution of the martial soul is essentially a mutation caused by the improvement of the martial soul's original power.

(End of this chapter)