area51novel Chapter 229 Complete Divine Beast Martial Soul
Chapter 229 Complete Divine Beast Martial Soul
Chapter 229 Complete Divine Beast Martial Soul
Lin Nuo and Xiao Hongchen are both in seclusion, so Meng Hongchen is the only one outside for the time being. Naturally, the task of preparing for the Sun and Moon Team has fallen to her.
That's what they say, but in reality, Meng Hongchen doesn't need to do anything. Selecting team members is naturally handled by Lin Jiayi, who is a high-quality and capable woman. She just needs to act as the big sister and keep things in order.
If they encounter any troublemakers, Miss Meng is the one responsible for giving those hotheads a good beating.
Geniuses are all arrogant. Those who can enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy from among countless people in the Sun Moon Empire are all geniuses, and those who can be selected to participate in the Soul Battle Tournament are geniuses among geniuses.
What Meng Hongchen needs to do is to make these geniuses willingly call her a genius.
Determining the emperor's position within the team is nothing more than this.
However, there aren't usually many idiots like this. Most people would back down just by hearing her name, Meng Hongchen.
Even though she had been in seclusion for two or three years, the name Meng Hongchen was not so easily forgotten. It's just that she felt she was too idle compared to Lin Nuo and Xiao Hongchen, so she wanted to find something to do.
With this mindset, Meng Hongchen truly showed those young men who were successfully selected as regular members of the Sun and Moon team what the iron fist of a genius was.
With two red rings strapped to his body, the aura of a Soul Saint erupted, leaving even the most unruly person battered and bruised.
In just one afternoon, Meng Hongchen established absolute authority.
The rest of the training is the daily practice that everyone else follows, as well as the enhancement of their own equipment. Unlike traditional Soul Masters, the combat power of Soul Masters is mostly due to the Soul Tools they are equipped with.
Furthermore, those selected as regular team members also received official funding from the academy.
Each person receives a set of one-word battle armor.
Those selected as regular team members must have a minimum cultivation level of Soul King, which is sufficient to withstand the amplification of a complete set of One-Word Battle Armor. With the enhancement of the Battle Armor, their cultivation level can directly reach the peak of Soul Emperor.
Soul Kings of level 57 and above can be elevated to Soul Saint.
This also means that even if Lin Nuo and Xiao Meng do not participate in this competition, the Sun and Moon Team can still field a terrifying team with all members at the peak of Soul Emperor level or above, and at least three or four Soul Saints, thanks to their battle armor.
The standard equipment in Season 3 is still too overpowered. In an environment like Legend of the Dragon King, where almost everyone has battle armor, the difference might not be so noticeable. But in this era, it's a game-changing power spike.
This was also the result of a joint discussion between Jing Hongchen, Kong Deming, Ye Yulin, Xu Tianran, and other high-ranking officials of the Sun Moon Empire.
During the previous tournament, the Battle Armor was only in its initial stages of development, and only Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen possessed this equipment.
Now, even two-word battle armor can be mass-produced, and one-word battle armor in Jing Hongchen's hands can even become standard equipment.
There's no need to hide it anymore.
The die is cast.
This tournament is the time for their Sun Moon Empire to show its claws and its muscles. Once the tournament is over, the Sun Moon Empire will launch a continental war to let the ignorant and foolish Douluo Three Kingdoms country bumpkins taste what the edge of the battle armor is like.
It was during this time that Xu Tianran learned that Jing Hongchen, the Mingde Hall Master, had quietly produced such a powerful thing.
He certainly had some complaints; although he wasn't the emperor yet, he was already the regent.
During this period, the old emperor of the Sun Moon Empire was nearing his end, and Xu Tianran had seized power. He was just waiting for the old emperor to pass away so that he could inherit the throne. He had also gradually developed the imperial mindset that all emperors possess.
Anyone not under his control is seen as a threat.
However, Douluo Continent is different from normal feudal dynasties. Although it is also a feudal system, the real strong people will not care what an emperor thinks.
Xu Tianran harbored resentment, but could only silently suppress it. Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming had already joined forces, and Ye Yulin should be added as well. These were undoubtedly the three highest peaks in the Soul Master world of the Sun Moon Empire.
This is something he can't possibly challenge.
Furthermore, although Jing Hongchen and his group were powerful, they would not threaten his throne. They did not hold back on their battle armor, but generously provided it to equip the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Master Corps.
The first to be armed was the Royal Soul Master Corps, which is the strongest combat force directly under the Sun Moon Royal Family. What could Xu Tianran possibly be dissatisfied with?
As for concealing such matters, if you're being lenient, you can use the excuse that the research and development is still in progress and has not yet been successful. If you're not being lenient, then you're just a prince who never had the right to ask about such cutting-edge scientific secrets.
So Xu Tianran didn't make a fool of himself; he just kept the matter to himself.
Jing Hongchen is not on the same path as him, nor is he on the same path as the royal family.
The Hongchen family only supports the Sun Moon Empire, the legitimate dynasty, not any particular individual.
Many people would have backed down and tried to avoid trouble in this situation, since the person in question is a member of their faction and can provide assistance.
Xu Tianran is different. He is a tyrant who aims to unify the Douluo Continent and become the ruler of the continent. He wants absolute control, especially someone like Jing Hongchen, who is top-notch in both personal martial arts and research ability, and has a huge family behind him.
Even though Jing Hongchen didn't show any other intentions and hadn't mastered the battle armor technique on his own, it still aroused his apprehension and planted a seed of doubt in his heart.
Leaving aside Xu Tianran's ulterior motives, he doesn't yet have the power to overturn the table.
In short, the One-Word Battle Armor has begun to be widely deployed in a small area, firstly by the Royal Soul Master Corps, and secondly by the Sun and Moon Team.
Meng Hongchen doesn't have a two-word battle armor yet, but she has had a one-word battle armor for a long time, and her understanding of this kind of cheat equipment is even deeper than Lin Jiayi's.
In addition to establishing her authority within the new team, she also took on the role of instructor, teaching these newbies who were just getting acquainted with battle armor how to control its power.
In fact, while the power of this standard battle armor is not as great as the exclusive battle armor that was precisely crafted for the Soul Master ten thousand years later, its adaptability is much stronger.
In this era, all Soul Masters focused on enhancing their Soul Power when configuring their Soul Rings.
This also means that the standard one-word battle armor does not need to consider their personal martial soul ability, but only needs to focus on soul power amplification, simply acting as a soul power amplifier, and the main combat method is still the soul tool.
This is a limitation of the times. Whether it is a soul tool or a battle armor, in essence, only powerful soul masters can use them to unleash their full power.
However, this limitation can save a lot of trouble in the current situation.
Changes in the times cannot be achieved in a few years or decades; they are massive projects based on a century or a millennium.
No matter how strong Lin Nuo is, he cannot change an era with his own abilities.
Of course, individual ability cannot propel an era across millennia in a short period of time, but it can prevent an era from making any progress for millennia.
You agree, right, Great God King Tang?
While the outside world was developing rapidly, the dimly lit secret room seemed to be frozen in time.
The crimson glow flickered like breathing, and a 100,000-year-old soul ring with mysterious patterns rose and fell on Xiao Hongchen's chest, pulsating slowly and steadily.
Each movement releases a massive amount of soul power, which is injected into Xiao Hongchen's body, challenging his level 70 soul power bottleneck.
On his leg, a dazzling golden light slowly began to form. This golden light even penetrated his flesh and clothing, vaguely revealing the entire bone structure of his left leg.
The leg bone of the 100,000-year-old demonic orca was from its right leg. When the earth dragon offered the golden melon as a sacrifice, the resulting soul bone naturally only came from its left leg.
Except for the head, Xiao Hongchen has all the soul bones in his body. The head soul bone is reserved for the Evil King, and the only option left for the Earth Dragon Golden Melon is the left leg.
During the sacrifice, Xiao Hongchen was covered in sweat, and his brows were constantly furrowed.
With the support of four powerful soul bones, his physical strength was already extremely resilient, so there was no need to consider his physical endurance when the Earth Dragon Golden Melon was sacrificed.
Xiao Hongchen himself said that, while ensuring smooth absorption, the time for sacrifice should be shortened as much as possible.
He didn't want to waste too much time on the sacrifice; there were other things waiting for him outside. Ji Juechen's meteorite iron sword needed to be forged, and Meng Hongchen's spirit-forged alloy battle armor also needed to be researched.
The earthworm and golden melon were also very accommodating.
If you want to shorten the time, then shorten the time.
With the spirit ring on, the spirit bone attached, and the essence of the immortal herb being absorbed simultaneously, Lao Xiao's body could withstand the combined effect. There was no risk of crashing; at most, he would feel a tiny bit of pain. As long as he didn't die, it was alright.
As a result, the massive influx of energy made Xiao Hongchen feel as if he were being constantly gnawed by ants all over his body. Every inch of his skin felt like it was being pricked by needles. When he absorbed the essence of the immortal herb, every bone in his body felt like it was being crushed.
Although the name "Earth Dragon Golden Melon" contains the character for "gold," it is an earth-attribute immortal herb with robust and potent medicinal properties. Soul masters who absorb it can also control the power of the earth to a certain extent.
Whether it actually has this effect is hard to say, but its medicinal properties, amplified by the soul rings and soul bones, did indeed significantly compress and solidify Xiao Hongchen's soul power due to the weight of the earth attribute.
Although Xiao Hongchen's soul power was originally quite solid and had a stable foundation, it was all due to the absorption of a 100,000-year-old soul bone, and it was tempered by the power of the soul bone time and time again.
It wasn't something he acquired through countless battles and tireless practice.
It's completely incomparable to the solid foundation that Lin Nuo painstakingly squeezed from a massive amount of medicine; at most, it's about the same as an ordinary inner court disciple of Shrek Academy.
They were inferior to those inner court disciples who survived Xuanzi's clutches.
But now, Xiao Hongchen can say without hesitation that he can also save his life under Xuanzi's hands!
This is an unprecedented and incredibly advanced advancement in dental technology!
Not only that, Xiao Hongchen's martial soul also evolved under the influence of the immortal herbs. The immense medicinal power of the Earth Dragon Golden Melon also activated the medicinal power of the Qiluo Tulip, which was hidden in Xiao Hongchen's right arm soul bone. The medicinal properties of the two immortal herbs acted on his body simultaneously.
His original martial soul was the three-legged golden toad, which possessed the bloodline of a divine beast, but like Xu Sanshi's Xuanming Shield martial soul, it was not pure.
Or rather, the bloodline is pure, but thin, and not fully activated.
This sacrifice, combined with the medicinal power of the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and the Qiluo Tulip, completely activated this trace of bloodline, greatly enhancing the origin of the martial soul. Now, one no longer needs to compromise when claiming that one's martial soul has the bloodline of a divine beast, but can directly say that one possesses a divine beast martial soul.
A fully evolved divine beast martial spirit.
However, the divine beast martial souls in Douluo Continent are just that—those who know, know; they're just native Douluo divine beasts.
But this does not affect its strong presence among the local Douluo Continent community.
The three-legged golden toad, which was originally only considered a top-tier martial soul, can now be ranked as a super martial soul, and above that is the ultimate martial soul.
Even after activating his bloodline, Xiao Hongchen was unable to transform into his ultimate attribute.
Just like Xu Sanshi, Xu Sanshi's Xuanwu Shield also lacks the ultimate water attribute.
While super martial souls are powerful, they are still quite a distance from their ultimate potential.
Before Huo Yuhao, throughout the ten thousand years of history of Douluo Continent, only three ultimate attributes had ever appeared, which is enough to show how difficult it is for ultimate attributes to appear.
Originally, Meng Hongchen shouldn't have been able to possess ultimate attributes. However, the two immortal herbs, the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Blossom, are a bit special. They not only complement and counteract each other, but their medicinal power is also much stronger than that of normal immortal herbs.
A blazing glue from the fiery apricot blossom can transform Ma Xiaotao into the ultimate fire, while a frost dew from the eight-cornered ice grass can transform Lin Luochen into the ultimate ice.
However, neither of these two things can bring Meng Hongchen's single ice and fire attribute to its full potential. In terms of the strength of her single attribute, she is not as strong as the other two.
She achieved her current level only after adding the soul rings and soul bones of two immortal herbs, supplementing them with the essence of two immortal herbs that had been cultivated for ten thousand years, and then undergoing a long period of seclusion and transformation through the form of ice and fire body tempering.
That's laughable—it's far from enough.
Laugh: "Man!"
After the sacrifice process was accelerated, what used to take more than half a month was now completed in just one week.
Xiao Hongchen also unveiled his seventh spirit ring.
His soul power level is 75, and his soul ring configuration is two yellow, two purple, two black and one red, which is slightly inferior to Da Meng's. However, his soul bone configuration is much more luxurious than Meng Hongchen's. He currently has four 100,000-year soul bones and a complete external arm soul bone.
Only now did Xiao Hongchen understand why, before this, the level nine soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire could never defeat the top titled Douluo of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
The gap in martial spirit is something that their previous soul tools simply couldn't bridge.
"This is—a super martial soul." Xiao Hongchen looked down at the 100,000-year soul ring on his body, his eyes somewhat unfocused.