area51novel Chapter 236 Heading Towards the Target Sea Soul Beast
Chapter 236 Heading Towards the Target Sea Soul Beast
Like any ordinary person who has had a good night's sleep, Long You was completely unaware of the passage of time when he first woke up from deep meditation. In the instant he opened his eyes, Long You felt only bliss, a bliss that felt like rebirth. But this bliss was only fleeting. Before Long You's brain could even begin to function again, this bliss was completely replaced by pain.
It was a sharp, throbbing pain originating from his stomach, so intense that Long You's body instantly shifted from a comfortable lying position to a curled-up one. An uncontrollable groan escaped his lips, and beads of cold sweat began to seep from his forehead.
However, at this stage, Long You's brain had already completed its reboot. After a simple analysis, Long You immediately realized that the root cause of this stomach pain was hunger. This was easy to solve; as long as his body adapted for a little while, Long You would naturally be able to take out something suitable from his storage soul tool to soothe his restless stomach.
Just as Long You was trying to relax her body, a delicate fragrance wafted over. Before Long You could even open her eyes, a warm object was placed on her lips. The familiar scent allowed Long You to recognize who had entered her room, and without further ado, she sucked all the soft, glutinous rice grains from the spoon into her mouth.
Soul Masters possess powerful physiques. With just a small mouthful of rice porridge, Long You was already able to control his body's movements with ease. Opening his eyes, he stood up and took the fragrant rice porridge from the beauty's hand. At this moment, Long You had no time to savor it. The mouthful of rice porridge he had just eaten told him that the temperature of this bowl of rice porridge was just right, so Long You, like a hungry wolf hunting its prey, tilted his head back and poured it directly into his mouth.
"Phew—I'm alive again." Carefully placing the bowl of porridge on the bedside table, Long You savored the aroma of the porridge while bowing to Zhang Lexuan, who was already resting on a chair by the room, to express his gratitude and welcome.
"What an enviable talent! Although it was only three days of deep meditation, your soul power level should have increased quite a bit, at least to level 55. However, the increase in soul power level is only the most obvious benefit of deep meditation. Try to understand it more during your future cultivation. Your original talent should have also increased."
"Thank you for the reminder, Senior Sister, but we can talk about these things later. This deep meditation came suddenly and has somewhat delayed our plans."
"Well, it's fine. They called me over in such a hurry, using a radio, a communication method that hasn't been used for a while."
"Yes, there are quite a few things to discuss. Let's take it one step at a time. First, there's the issue of the New World. Although you're not a member of the Sea God Pavilion yet, you should still be aware of the issues discussed within it. The Sun Moon Empire has started setting sail to search for the New World, and the academy is getting anxious."
"Since you are familiar with the affairs of the academy, and you have called me here now, it is obvious that you have a plan. What is it?"
"The Sun and Moon Empire won't find the new continent anytime soon, so at this stage I can't directly hand over the coordinates of the new continent I've found to the academy. I'll only let the academy participate when I've extracted enough benefits from the new continent."
However, it's not appropriate to keep the academy waiting idly, so I will provide them with another piece of information. If my deduction is correct, according to this information, the academy can find another new continent besides the one I'm currently on. Of course, going out to sea to search for it would be too foolish, so I will also give the academy the blueprints for the large aircraft. The academy will naturally have the capability to rebuild the new large aircraft.
However, none of the above comes for free. I think that a new continent, plus a large strategic transportation tool like an airplane, should earn me a considerable contribution from the academy.
“Indeed, the value of the New World is incalculable, so you should just tell me what you want, and I will convey it to the academy and see if they can accept it.”
"Two conditions. The first condition is simple: the academy doesn't need to intervene; you just need to help me. I'll explain this condition in detail later. The second condition is a 100,000-year-old soul beast. When I break through the bottleneck of Soul Saint or Soul Douluo, I need the academy to help me subdue a specific 100,000-year-old soul beast."
"I don't need to seriously injure it, or even completely subdue it. I just need to get that 100,000-year-old soul beast to talk to me in a relatively calm manner."
"Neither of these conditions is difficult, and the academy shouldn't object. However, since it involves a 100,000-year-old soul beast, especially in your case where you need a specific 100,000-year-old soul beast, you might need to provide the exact coordinates."
"It's very simple. Since I can determine the target, I can naturally determine the location of the target."
Now let me explain something else, which is why I'm using a radio to contact you. The coverage area of communication satellites is far too limited, so I created a radio that can communicate directly across continents.
"Don't you find it strange? This place is so far from the academy; our old radios shouldn't be able to connect to each other, right?"
"Is that so? I'm still not familiar enough with soul tools, so I didn't notice any differences before. Are you planning to hand over this new radio to the academy? With this radio, the academy and your Long family should be able to save a lot of manpower and financial resources in terms of communication channels."
“I’ve already sent the blueprints home, and they should be able to make the finished product in the next couple of days. As for the academy, you can go back and ask if they have any research ideas of their own. If not, have them go to Shrek City and ask the Tea Thousand Fun Milk Tea Shop for it. After that, just make up for my academy contribution points.”
"Alright, I won't ask about that. Sending blueprints and the like via radio isn't very convenient, so I'll take the blueprints for the large aircraft back with me. But for now, send the clues about the other new continent you mentioned to the academy."
Your milk tea shop might not have access to the academy's higher-ups, but you could probably find a student to pass on a message to Beibei and the others. I think you wouldn't mind if the academy set off to sea first to scout the situation.
"Hmm, I don't mind at all. If the academy can follow the trail of the Sun Moon Empire and come directly to me, I actually won't mind either."
My development here is progressing rapidly. In another two to three months at most, I'll have almost finished developing the parts of the New World that I can currently develop. If the Sun Moon Empire comes looking for us, I'll use the dominant spirit beasts of the New World to give them a surprise. If our academy can hold them off, then I'll redesign the whole plan, having the academy cooperate with the dominant spirit beasts of the New World to completely wipe out the Sun Moon Empire's advance team.”
"That's certainly your style—being thorough in every aspect while prioritizing your own interests."
Okay, tell me what you need me to do for you?
"It's very simple, just an experiment. The theoretical basis for this experiment is now very complete, but I am not strong enough to preside over the ceremony. I need you to help me find a sea spirit beast that has just entered the ten-thousand-year stage, preferably one that is on the verge of death. If you can't find a ten-thousand-year spirit beast that is on the verge of death, then find one that is destined to never break through to the next level and has very little potential. Then I need to use your spiritual power as a bridge to start the ceremony."
"It's no problem for me to preside over a ceremony for you, but finding a sea spirit beast is a very troublesome matter, and it's not the simple little thing you're talking about."
"Of course I know finding sea spirit beasts is troublesome, and I will definitely prepare for this kind of work in advance. Byrne, report on the detection results of the detection robots. I believe that after so much time, they must have found a few suitable targets."
Although the ocean appears vast, the competition within it is even more brutal; even ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts cannot escape being severely injured and near death.
Bourne did not disappoint Long You; a remarkably detailed nautical chart was projected into Long You's bedroom. The chart covered a vast area, but corresponding to this expansive area were only a few sparse red dots on it.
Without Long You's explanation, Zhang Lexuan immediately understood that the constantly moving red dots represented the selected sea spirit beasts that could be used as targets. However, the varying shades of red dot color puzzled her somewhat. According to Long You, the sea spirit beasts shouldn't differ much in strength, so the shades of color shouldn't indicate their power.
"The shades of these red dots actually represent the likelihood of a successful negotiation. The ritual I designed essentially requires the cooperation of the soul beast to attach an intelligent soul ring to the soul master. In other words, the soul beast will still lose its lifespan, which is far longer than that of the soul master."
Considering the entire ritual requires the willing cooperation of the soul beasts, our primary focus should be on those severely injured and dying soul beasts that are beyond saving. Only for these soul beasts can this ritual prolong their lives rather than take them away.
"Intelligent spirit rings? You're planning to give spirit rings their own consciousness, just like martial souls?"
"No, I can't do that. I just want the spirit ring to retain the spirit beast's consciousness, and incidentally, to allow the spirit beast to autonomously control the power of the spirit ring and actively help the spirit master in battle."
"By the way, Senior Sister, your Martial Soul consciousness should have awakened by now, right? Let me see what it looks like."
With the business settled, it's time for some casual conversation. Although those dying soul beasts might not last much longer, and theoretically Long You and Zhang Lexuan should hurry up and set off, Long You has just woken up from deep meditation and needs time to recover both physically and mentally, to regain the legendary state of unity between spirit and body.
Through the soul tool test, Long You discovered that his soul power level had reached level 55, an increase of three levels. It didn't seem like much, but Long You was already very satisfied, because Xiao Yan told him that after this deep meditation, the width of Long You's meridians had greatly improved, and the speed of soul power circulation could increase by at least another 20%.
The next day, Long You didn't cancel the lease on the courtyard. Instead, he took Zhang Lexuan and quickly headed towards the wilderness outside the city. Long You had always conducted large aircraft takeoffs and landings on the sea; now he was preparing to try land-based takeoffs and landings in the wilderness. Although the runway was definitely unsuitable, Long You had already considered the issue of wilderness takeoffs and landings when designing the large aircraft, and now it was time to test it.
To be honest, gliding on such uncultivated wild ground is not a pleasant experience, but given that the large aircraft has ample power, after a rather thrilling takeoff, it still managed to fly smoothly above the clouds.
"Are all these things this dangerous to take off?"
After the large aircraft entered a stable flight state, Long You felt relieved and left the cockpit to enter the passenger cabin, only to be greeted by Zhang Lexuan's sarcastic tone as she unbuckled her seatbelt.
"Alright, Senior Sister, I was wrong. When I bring you back, I'll definitely let you experience what a smooth takeoff is like."
After a brief joke, Long You straightened his expression and said, "It will take about six hours to get from here to our first destination. During this time, the plane will be in a stable state, and you can do whatever you want. But after six hours, when the plane begins to land, you need to be alert, Senior Sister."
That place is definitely deep sea by any measure. Even if the detection soul guide on the plane scanned it beforehand, there's no guarantee that there won't be any aggressive sea spirit beasts attacking during the plane's descent.
"That's to be expected, but how have you been doing all this time? With your current strength, you're simply not up to the task of dealing with the attacks of deep-sea soul beasts!"
"Of course, it's because I didn't land in the actual deep sea. We're heading for the Sea Spirit Beast, so we chose to land in the waters near it. But when I'm alone, I usually choose to land near an island in the sea."
The waters near the island are much shallower. Even though the overall location is indeed in the deep sea, those massive and powerful sea spirit beasts still won't easily approach the island.
"That's really some advice from experience! I hope you'll pass it on to the academy when I get back."