Douluo: AFK to Become a God

Time flies, and ten months have passed in the blink of an eye.

During the holiday, Chu Chengzhou, carrying his packed bedding and humming a little tune, walked toward his home with short steps, swaying from side to side.

In the Douluo Continent, although there are divisions of years, months, and days, there is no concept of the Spring Festival.

Notting Academy only has one semester a year, and during the entire semester, there are no holidays.

However, the semester lasts for ten months, and after each semester ends, students who have not graduated get a two-month break, in February and March. The new semester starts in early April.

After one year of soul awakening, Chu Chengzhou had grown taller, and his arms now showed beautifully defined muscles. He had finally shaken off the title of "soul power under level 1" and had become a proud "big version" of a weakling.

[Attribute Panel]

Host: Chu Chengzhou

Soul Power: Level 3 Soul Master

Martial Soul: Elemental Summoning Flag

Skills: Meditation (Yellow), Body Refining (Yellow), Eye Training (White)

On the attribute panel, the addition of "Elemental" to the Summoning Flag martial soul, along with the yellow-level Meditation and Body Refining skills and the white-level Eye Training skill, reflected the results of Chu Chengzhou's efforts over the past year since awakening his martial soul.

Of course, the results of his year-long grind were not limited to these.

After just over a month of entering school, his ordinary Summoning Flag martial soul had been upgraded to a high-quality one.

After the martial soul's transformation, the most obvious change was that his cultivation talent had greatly improved, and his soul power growth speed had doubled compared to before.

In fact, if measured precisely, the soul power cultivation efficiency had increased by more than double.

After all, for soul masters with the same soul power level, those with high-quality martial souls naturally have much more soul power in their bodies than those with low-quality martial souls.

A longer blue bar means more accumulation is required for upgrading.

In addition, the upgraded martial soul had a higher soul power level cap.

Originally, the ordinary Summoning Flag could only attach two soul rings, and Chu Chengzhou's ultimate limit would have been a 29th-level Great Soul Master.

But after the upgrade, his martial soul could accommodate up to six soul rings, raising his soul power level cap from the 29th-level Great Soul Master to the 69th-level Soul Emperor.

The reason why the upgraded martial soul was named "Elemental Summoning Flag" was that once he had a summoning spirit, he could convert his own attribute-less soul power into the attribute of the summoned spirit.

For example, if he had a fire-attribute summoning spirit, he could convert his soul power into fire-attribute soul power, temporarily acting as a fire-attribute soul master.

This feature may seem insignificant, but when combined with the strong attack skills that would come from future upgrades, Chu Chengzhou, as a summoner, could also possess formidable combat abilities, potentially rivaling his summoned spirits in strength. Of course, high-quality martial souls are not particularly powerful. Aside from the level cap, the Elemental Summoning Flag martial soul still has significant limitations.

Apart from the fact that the summoned spirits still lack intelligence, their bloodlines are also limited to below the top tier.

For example, if Chu Chengzhou summoned a pure-blooded True Dragon soul beast, due to the martial soul's limitations, the True Dragon summoning spirit would only be able to exert the strength of a high-tier soul beast at best.

This severely limits the potential of his summoned spirits. After all, the strength of soul beasts cannot be measured by their age alone.

The soul master world is full of geniuses who can challenge opponents beyond their rank, and the same applies to the soul beast world.

For example, certain soul beasts with powerful bloodlines can challenge a Soul King with the strength of a three-ring Soul Sovereign at the age of a hundred years, or even challenge a Soul Douluo at the age of a thousand years.

Yes, we're talking about the Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear.

But if the mighty Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear became Chu Chengzhou's summoning spirit, its bloodline would be suppressed below the top tier, significantly reducing its ability to challenge opponents beyond its rank.

Fortunately, the limitations of the martial soul won't last forever. As he continues to grind in the upgrade process, this restriction will eventually disappear.

However, upgrading from a high-quality martial soul to a top-tier martial soul is far more difficult.

Even though his Elemental Summoning Flag martial soul has been in the upgrade process for nearly nine months, it is still only a little over a quarter of the way to becoming a top-tier martial soul.

With a thousand days of grinding, if it weren't for the substantial benefits of the martial soul's quality transformation, Chu Chengzhou would be reluctant to spend precious time on this process.

In these ten months, he has managed to increase his soul power from below level 1 to level 3, a jump of more than two levels. His cultivation speed is much faster than before, largely thanks to the transformation of his martial soul's quality.

Of course, the upgraded Meditation skill is also a crucial factor.

With the Meditation skill upgraded to yellow level, his cultivation speed increased by more than 20% compared to when it was at the white level.

Thanks to the improvements in both his martial soul and Meditation skill, Chu Chengzhou's soul power cultivation speed has greatly accelerated.

As for the yellow-level Body Refining skill on his attribute panel, it was upgraded from the gray-level Physical Exercise skill after 130 days of grinding.

Thirty days to upgrade from gray to white, and one hundred days to upgrade from white to yellow.

Once the Physical Exercise skill reached yellow level, Chu Chengzhou noticed significant improvements in his physical fitness, and before the holiday, he even had a friendly arm wrestling match with the work-study students in the seventh dormitory.

It was a proper arm wrestling contest, not a fight.

Surprisingly, although he was only a seven-year-old child, except for Li Erniu, who was twelve and had a beast martial soul, all the other work-study students in the seventh dormitory lost to him.

Based on his original assumption, he thought that the Eye Care skill would upgrade to a skill for training mental power.

However, due to insufficient grinding time, the skill remained at white level, and its progress bar was only three-quarters full. White-level Eye Training skill does not yet have the effect of improving mental power.

But it is not without use. The gray-level Eye Training skill, when practiced a few times each day, can at least prevent vision decline, though the effect is not very strong. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many students wearing glasses in the previous world.

At the white level, Eye Training not only effectively prevents vision decline but also provides a slight improvement in vision. Over the past two months, Chu Chengzhou practiced the white-level Eye Care skill several times a day and noticed a slight improvement in his vision. While it wasn't as sharp as an eagle's, he could see distant objects more clearly.