SoulLand:Ascending to Godhood through Science

"In a sense, this truly is a case of giving up something to gain more."

Looking at the array of task rewards, You Chen couldn't help but reflect on his decisions.

With a second task line available, You Chen naturally had more options.

He could have chosen not to abandon the Kendall task, focusing on the second task line, developing it while seeking opportunities to resolve the Kendall issue.

This approach would have allowed him to maximize benefits without wasting precious time.

Even if he ignored the first task line, he could still progress on the second.

However, had he not abandoned the Kendall task, You Chen wouldn't have received the task involving Yu Xiaogang.

Thus, when encountering Tang San, he wouldn't have adopted his current approach. Whether it was the plan to make Tang San a sycophant or to sow discord between master and disciple to ignite their conflict, he likely would have operated entirely from behind the scenes, manipulating Xiao Wu and the soul masters of Nordin City.

In that case, he wouldn't have triggered Tang San's task in the short term, nor discovered that his alternate identity, You Xing, could also trigger a task line.

Gains and losses often aren't easy to measure.

Now that things have come to this point, You Chen no longer dwells on it. Compared to the "Longevity Technique," which couldn't be immediately transformed into combat power, the rewards from Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were more aligned with his expectations.

You Chen focused first on the two most precious rewards.

First, the "Adaptive Soul Bone"—what does "adaptive" mean?

In short, it means forming a soul bone that is perfectly aligned with your martial spirit, maximizing the extraction and utilization of its abilities.

Just as a soul bone gains additional attributes and skills when its soul beast matches your martial spirit, an adaptive soul bone can create a corresponding soul bone even if no matching soul beast exists on the Douluo Continent, with the flexibility to choose the location of the soul bone. Its value is self-evident.

Even if it's only at the ten-thousand-year level, it matches a typical hundred-thousand-year soul bone, and at a hundred-thousand-year level, it rivals a fierce beast soul bone.

Because this is a soul bone that perfectly fits you. Comparable to the Angelic Set for Qian Renxue or the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone for Tang San, and arguably even better.

But... what does "ten-thousand-year limit" mean?

Simply put, if Tang San absorbed this soul bone before his martial spirit evolved into the Blue Silver Emperor, it wouldn't generate a Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, but merely a "Blue Silver Grass Soul Bone."

Its maximum age would cap at around one or two ten-thousand years.

Perfect, complete compatibility means this soul bone won't exceed the current limits of the soul master's martial spirit.

The Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone is indeed more precious than a Blue Silver Grass Right Leg Bone and can enhance the martial spirit's original power. However, is its compatibility higher than a soul bone whose age perfectly matches the Blue Silver Grass martial spirit? 

The answer is no.

Therefore, You Chen won't absorb this adaptive soul bone just yet.

The age limit issue is one reason.

More importantly, his martial spirit hasn't reached his expected evolutionary pinnacle.

To illustrate, absorbing this soul bone now would result in an "Adaptive Star Skeleton Dragon Soul Bone," and once his martial spirit evolves into the Stardust Dragon, they wouldn't perfectly align.

Moreover, there are even more powerful evolutionary forms beyond the Stardust Dragon...

Absorbing it now would be a waste of its potential.

For now, this treasure will remain in You Chen's storage space, gathering dust.

Next is... the "Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength"! — You Chen silently ignored the system's "pseudo" label.

This is the main highlight of this harvest!

Objectively, if evaluated using You Chen's own six-dimensional martial spirit evaluation system, in terms of "essence" (physical body), "energy" (spirit power), and "spirit," his talent in "spirit" is a 6/6 "transcendent level," his "energy" is a 4/6 "top tier" after martial spirit evolution, thanks to his aptitude for manipulating spirit power, while his "essence" is at best a 3/6 "strong."

Despite incorporating scientific training methods from his previous life, never missing a day of physical training, and using body-enhancing natural treasures without hesitation... his physical strength development has been somewhat slow compared to the time and resources invested.

It's important to note that unlike the protagonist of the original story, who was only in his twenties by the end, You Chen is already thirty-five.

Even though lower levels result in decreased training efficiency, in You Chen's calculations, if a top-tier beast martial spirit soul master with identical conditions replaced him, their physical strength would be approaching the Soul Saint level by now.

Currently, his physical attributes are barely at the level of a Soul Emperor, and as You Xing, they only reach Soul Ancestor strength.

However, from now on, this will no longer be an issue.

With the system's assistance, You Chen, whose natural aptitude for physical development was ordinary, realized the formidable nature of the "Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength" upon forcibly entering its initial stage.

Mastering it to perfection enables complete comprehension of all microscopic particles' power within the body, nurturing a micro-divine elephant within each particle. Even at the level of a Title Douluo, matching a God-King with physical prowess alone within this world's framework isn't out of reach.

Currently, even at the initial stage, it's sufficient for training up to the Title Douluo level.

However, this also highlights the technique's difficulty!

Without the system, merely possessing this technique without aid, You Chen would likely never progress beyond the initial stage in a lifetime.

It would take countless instances of "sudden inspiration" to hope for a breakthrough to the minor stage within a decade or so.

But given You Chen's aptitude in the path of physical development, he certainly wouldn't squander resources like that.

'However, even the initial stage is entirely adequate for me now.'

Regardless of how good the system's rewards are, You Chen only incorporates them as supplements to his "Essence, Energy, and Spirit Trinity Method."

Since he emphasizes balance among the three, he won't disproportionately enhance his physical body.

In truth, given You Chen's talent in mental strength, over the past thirty years, there's no way his limit could have stalled at a tangible but non-substantive level.

In You Chen's calculations, he must not break through to the tangible and substantive realm before reaching Soul Saint.

Thus, upon reaching the tangible but non-substantive level, he intentionally slowed his progress in that area. Otherwise, he would have naturally advanced to the Five-Hearted Realm in the "Soul Refinement Technique."

This reflects humanity's status as the most intelligent race in this world, inherently possessing mental strength and wisdom superior to soul beasts.

Soul beasts only achieve the intelligence of human children after ten thousand years, which contradicts You Chen's previous life's understanding of "monsters," where a millennium of experience often surpassed a six-year-old's, indicating an invisible rule of heaven and earth.

If he were born a soul beast and followed the path of the Essence, Energy, and Spirit Trinity, he wouldn't likely advance to the tangible but non-substantive realm before reaching the equivalent of a ten-thousand-year soul beast's cultivation.

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