Chapter 62: Chapter 63: What is Talent?
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'It's time to activate another cheat~'
Ling Yi gazed at the empty space before him, muttering to himself.
With the current speed of his Spiritual Power enhancement, it was clearly not enough to meet Ling Yi's aspirations for the future.
In the year 2591 of the Douluo Calendar, shortly after being reborn, Ling Yi recognized that he was on the Douluo Continent, a world with extraordinary powers. He set a series of goals for himself.
Short-term goal: Solve the family's food and clothing problems.
Stage goal: Become a Soul Master.
Long-term goal: Achieve the rank of Sealed Title.
Ultimate goal: Ascend to godhood.
Ultimate goal: Achieve eternity.
For the short-term goal, Ling Yi put in a lot of effort. He encouraged his father, Ling Xiaoshan, to set traps to catch wild chickens and rabbits, motivated his uncle, Zhang Dahé, to dig fish ponds, and united the neighbors to cultivate more land and share the harvest. Over the years, he managed to achieve a comfortable and prosperous family life.
As for the stage goal, or the first stage goal, to become a Soul Master, he successfully awakened his innate Spiritual Power through mental cultivation, activation of spiritual energy, and various methods such as dietary supplements and physical training. This laid the foundation for becoming a Soul Master.
Then, starting at the age of six, he diligently trained day and night for four years, carefully cultivating the century-old 'Blue Silver Grass.' At the age of ten, he achieved the rank of one-ringed Soul Master!
The long-term goal of becoming a Sealed Title Douluo required Ling Yi to complete one stage goal after another, gradually ascending to the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent, which was revered by ninety-nine percent of its inhabitants.
The ultimate and ultimate goals, however, were beyond the reach of the native forces of the Douluo Continent.
Before becoming a Sealed Title Douluo, Ling Yi could only keep these goals in his heart and never forget his original aspirations.
In the terminology of his previous life, 'ultimate' was both a verb, indicating a continuous process of deep research and pursuit, and a noun, pointing to the final stage. 'Ultimate' was only a noun, representing the endpoint.
On the Douluo Continent, reaching the hundredth level and becoming a god was the endpoint, while achieving eternity required transcending this world and venturing into the vast cosmos.
In October of the year 2603 of the Douluo Calendar, after two years of exploration and research in the military, Ling Yi was finally about to complete one of the preliminary goals of the second stage.
Question: What methods can accelerate the cultivation of a Soul Master and more efficiently increase the accumulation of Spiritual Power?
Answer: 1. Absorb Soul Rings and Soul Bones to directly increase Spiritual Power; 2. Consume various rare and precious herbs, flowers, and fruits; 3. Use medicinal baths made from precious materials; 4. Regularly consume high-level soul beast meat, and train under the support of powerful healing and food-type Soul Masters; 5. Train in environments with high concentrations of natural essence and in environments that mimic the attributes of one's soul power...
Question: Who can achieve and possess these conditions?
Answer: Tang Hao, the son of the Heavenly Sky Sect's leader; Hu Lina, a disciple of the Soul Temple's Pope; and the destined protagonist, Tang San...
In the original story, the innate Spiritual Power of Tang Hao and Hu Lina is not explicitly stated, but it is clearly recorded that Hu Lina achieved the rank of Soul Patriarch at the age of fifteen!
Tang Hao, with even greater talent than Tang Xiao, who became a Sealed Title Douluo in his fifties, was hailed as the best among the young generation of the Heavenly Sky Sect at the age of twenty. He obtained one of the three inherited Soul Bones of the sect, broke through to the seventieth level at the age of thirty, and then obtained the second inherited Soul Bone.
The Heavenly Sky Sect, a top-tier force that established its reputation as the number one sect with the ninety-ninth-level World-Class Douluo, 'Huatian Douluo' Tang Chen, what level and age of the inherited Soul Bones are they?
Similarly, with a group of Sealed Title Douluo and Soul Douluo as fathers and uncles, the selection of soul beasts and the age of Soul Rings is something few can match across the entire Douluo Continent.
Everyone knows that a Soul Master must train for ten levels to advance to the next rank.
But for ordinary civilian Soul Masters, it is hard to imagine that for geniuses and heirs of major forces, the first two to three levels of each rank do not exist.
Many people calculate the cultivation of Soul Masters by saying that someone is a certain level at a certain age, and by the time they are a certain age, they are another level, and by dividing the time, they conclude how many levels they advance per year.
In the web novels of his previous life, such data-driven calculations were pursued, but Ling Yi, living in the Douluo Continent, found such calculations absurd.
It's like how someone with innate Spiritual Power of level two or three can hardly understand the speed of someone with 0.5 level advancing to level two or three.
Because they start at that level, how can you measure the speed of their cultivation from the beginning?
It's a causal paradox!
Similarly, different soul powers, different physical constitutions, different dietary standards, and different cultivation environments... There is no universal standard to measure these differences.
Cultivation is a matter of the mind, not something that can be materialized or quantified.
It's not like a video game where you can add points and accumulate experience to level up.
Therefore, Tang San, with full innate Spiritual Power, became a thirty-level Soul Venerable at the age of twelve and seven months; Oscar, also with full innate Spiritual Power, broke through to thirty levels at the age of fourteen to become a Soul Venerable; Feng Xiaotian, with full innate Spiritual Power, became a forty-four-level Soul Patriarch at the age of twenty-four; while Dai Mubai, not with full innate Spiritual Power, became a Soul Venerable at the age of thirteen; Meng Yiran became a Soul Venerable at the age of fifteen; Hu Lina became a Soul Patriarch at the age of fifteen; Huo Wu became a forty-three-level Soul Patriarch at the age of nineteen...
From these data points, it is clear that there is no simple rule based solely on innate Spiritual Power!
Innate Spiritual Power, soul power quality, meridian width, mental strength, physical constitution, external environment...
These are like the scaffolding of a building. If one aspect is high, the wall on that side is built higher and faster, while if one aspect is low, the wall on that side is built slower and with limited height, ultimately slowing down the overall progress of the building and requiring other scaffolding to make up for the shortfall.
This analogy may not be perfect, but based on Ling Yi's personal experience, this is the reality of the current Douluo Continent!
Therefore, if Ling Yi can focus on these factors and strengthen them, his cultivation speed will naturally increase.
Innate Spiritual Power and soul power quality are two points that almost all native inhabitants of the Douluo Continent agree on: except for the power of a god, no one can change a person's innate Spiritual Power and soul power quality after they have awakened.
As for before awakening?
Sorry, this question is completely meaningless to them!
Do they know the meaning of the word 'innate'?
Look at how the soul power quality of the main characters in the original story improves: Immortal Quality 'Marvelous Mushroom Sky-Connecting Chrysanthemum,' Immortal Quality 'Narcissus Jade Bone,' Immortal Quality 'Silk Rose Saffron,' Immortal Quality 'Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid,' Immortal Quality 'Cockcomb Phoenix Sunflower'...
What is Immortal Quality?
What is the meaning of the word 'immortal'?
Recalling the descriptions of these Immortal Quality herbs and flowers in the original story, Ling Yi can only feel envious and do nothing about it.
Fortunately, one of his self-created cheats: the fusion of the first Soul Ring, the three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' essence, strengthened his soul power quality, and his innate Spiritual Power increased from half a level to a bit over one level.
In addition, there was an unexpected surprise.
Ling Yi's soul power, 'Blue Silver Grass,' gained the ability to grow autonomously after the active fusion with the three-hundred-year-old 'Blue Silver Grass' of the same origin!
It absorbed the vitality of external 'Blue Silver Grass' to strengthen its own essence, gradually improving the quality of the soul power.
Although this process was slow, it was indeed happening.
Over the two years, while Ling Yi was cultivating, he actively used his Spiritual Power to accelerate the absorption of vitality. He could feel that the quality of his soul power had improved by about twenty years!
Ling Yi was both happy and disappointed with this result. Despite the tremendous opportunity, it was difficult to convert it into tangible benefits in a short time.
Therefore, Ling Yi's strategy focused on improving his meridian width, mental strength, physical constitution, and external environment.
(End of Chapter)