The Virtual World Makes Its Debut, the Possibility of Increasing a Soul Ring's Cultivation After Acquisition!
Early the next morning.
Xiang Bei received the Golden Tree's branch as promised. Its rich life force made the pores all over his body open instinctively, and his Soul Power rose by one level on the spot.
And it was still rising.
Xiang Bei sat cross-legged in his room in the inner courtyard. The energy between heaven and earth formed a vortex and poured into his body.
One level!
Two levels!
Three levels!
Boom!!
With a thunderous boom, Xiang Bei opened his eyes. His Soul Power had officially broken through the level 50 threshold. Once he obtained a Soul Ring, he would be a genuine Soul King expert!
Douluo Continent,
Shrek Academy.
Tang San stared dumbfounded at the scene on the sky screen, his mouth hanging open. "Is that right? That can't be right!"
"How did his Soul Power rise three levels in less than a day?!"
Thinking of how he usually had to cultivate painstakingly for half a month, or even a full month, to raise his Soul Power by one level, Tang San felt a powerful sense of estrangement.
"Teacher, do you know what's going on?" He looked at Yu Xiaogang.
"Don't worry, Little San." Yu Xiaogang smiled reassuringly. "A large part of the reason this person improved so quickly is the branch in his hand. Besides, his Soul Power is unstable, and he hasn't laid a solid foundation.
Don't be fooled by how quickly he's advancing now. Later on, raising his Soul Power by even one level will take the strength of nine oxen and two tigers. It's nothing but a suicidal method of drinking poison to quench his thirst."
"As long as you follow my training methods and solidify your foundation, your cultivation will surely surpass all your peers in the future!"
Tang San agreed outwardly, but inwardly he was somewhat unconvinced.
The guy had Soul Tools to rely on, even a super-powerful Soul Tool that could rival a strike from a Limit Douluo. Could Tang San really be his match with Soul Master cultivation alone?
Intense self-doubt welled up in Tang San's heart.
No, Yu Xiaogang is now single-mindedly focused on making me a god to satisfy his own desires. If I want to grow stronger, I can't build a cart behind closed doors. I also need to learn how to use Soul Tools and combine them with my Tang Sect techniques.
Then I'll surely be able to outdo this so-called genius youth in the future!
Heaven Dou Empire.
His cultivation improved so quickly? It looks like it was all thanks to that Golden Tree branch, Xue Qinghe pondered silently.
A long while passed.
She looked toward the shadows. "Someone."
Swish, swish!
Several black-clad figures appeared. "Miss, what are your orders?"
"Notify the two worshippers, Jiang Mo and Qian Jun, to head to the Star Dou Great Forest and search for a sapling of this Golden Tree. If they can't find one, kill the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the core region."
Xue Qinghe spoke calmly.
"Understood, Miss. Do the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts need to be brought back alive?"
"No. A Soul Tool was just delivered to the hall. It can store Soul Rings." With that, she took out a rusty Soul Tool. "After killing them, bring the rings back to me. I'll use them as my Eighth Soul Ring and ninth Soul Ring in the future."
Upon receiving their orders,
Jiang Mo and Qian Jun immediately set off together for the Star Dou Great Forest. They swept through everything in their path; no Soul Beast could stop them.
Soon,
the two arrived at the lake in the core region and faced the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
Jiang Mo and Qian Jun were both Super Douluo. Together, their combat strength could even rival that of a Limit Douluo!
The Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python were naturally no match for them and were defeated within three moves.
Just as the two were about to kill them and take their Soul Rings, a rich life force suddenly erupted from the lake. A black dragon claw reached out of the void and drove them back.
"Scram!"
Black-and-gold dragon eyes shot them an icy look, and Jiang Mo and Qian Jun retreated, wounded.
On the sky screen.
After advancing to Soul King, Xiang Bei headed straight for the inner courtyard's Soul Tool Department academy.
After entering the inner courtyard, he had a dedicated area here for researching and developing Soul Tools.
Whew!
Xiang Bei let out a long breath. "The Golden Tree really does live up to its reputation. This branch should be enough to exchange for what I want."
Enter. After silently saying the word, he entered that strange space once more.
The middle-aged man he had traded with before appeared from the starlight, a resentful look on his face.
"Good brother, you didn't come to me for the last trade. You'd better bring out something good this time."
"I guarantee you'll be satisfied." Xiang Bei spoke confidently and took out the piece of the Golden Tree's branch. "How about this?"
!!!
The middle-aged man's eyes widened, and his mouth opened almost wide enough to swallow an egg.
"Th-this is... This is a branch of the Golden Tree that represents the will of the homeworld! In my Centaurus Galaxy, the homeworld was destroyed tens of thousands of years ago, yet you actually managed to find a piece of its branch."
"This is an immensely valuable relic. You can have anything you want, just name it."
He solemnly accepted the pale-golden branch, his eyes full of fervor.
Throughout the entire empire, an ancient relic like this branch was something that might not be found even once in ten thousand years. Its value was immeasurable.
"I want virtual world technology, along with the methods for inscribing the core arrays."
"No problem. I can see you're not very strong, so on top of the virtual world technology, I'll also give you Spirit Ascension technology. It uses intelligent AI to analyze the energy released when a Soul Beast dies and forms a Soul Ring, achieving the effect of increasing a Soul Ring's age.
"But this has to be used in conjunction with the virtual world. Alternatively, life energy can be supplied directly to generate virtual Soul Beasts. Defeating virtual Soul Beasts can also increase a Soul Ring's age."
"Also, it looks like you need to break through a bottleneck. In the virtual world, you can absorb Soul Rings far beyond what your body can withstand, as long as you seal away the excess energy. That way..."
The man explained everything word by word, leaving out no detail, afraid that Xiang Bei would refuse to trade with him.
Xiang Bei nodded. He understood what the man meant.
Aside from conventional simulation training and cross-region communication, the virtual world's main functions were increasing the age of one's Soul Rings and creating Artificial Soul Rings.
And the age of an Artificial Soul Ring depended solely on energy. In other words, if he had enough energy, he could even create a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
"Fine, I'm very satisfied with this exchange. But it seems part of the virtual world is still missing, isn't it?"
Xiang Bei stared straight into the man's eyes.
"Ahem... The initial virtual world is only about the size of a village. To expand it, or even cover a continent and establish a virtual kingdom, it needs nodes for support. If you want to set up a virtual world across a planet,
"satellites are undoubtedly the best nodes."
With that,
the man took out a spindle-shaped object. "Let me introduce it. This is the C-13 Satellite Soul Tool. It's cheap to make and easy to launch, with built-in energy turrets and shields. It can absorb stellar energy to power itself.
"Within its coverage area, people who enter the virtual world can communicate without obstruction. A hundred satellites are roughly enough to establish a virtual world covering nearly half a continent. A thousand can establish a planetary network and strike anywhere on the planet."
At the end, the man revealed a meaningful smile. From their previous trades, he had already figured out the level of the world Xiang Bei lived in.
To secure the trade, all the technological products he offered were ones Xiang Bei could currently manufacture on his own.
Gulp!
Xiang Bei swallowed hard, thinking that he really had made the right choice in coming to Shrek.
Without that Golden Tree branch, the man would never have offered something so good.
"A pleasure doing business!"
"If you have anything like this next time, remember to contact me first."
The man turned into starlight and vanished. Xiang Bei held a thoroughly high-tech-looking USB drive to his temple, and a vast stream of information entered his mind in a form he could understand.
He put the satellite into his Storage Soul Tool.