Breakthrough to Soul Elder, Absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone!

Ding! Conquest System Mission Two completed: Reward—a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone that can be upgraded to a million years.

"The Spirit Bone has arrived." Aiven smiled.

After the ceremony ended, he immediately returned to the Duke's Mansion.

The Duke's Mansion was now undergoing a full-scale reconstruction into a royal palace.

He immediately returned to his room and accepted the reward for Mission Two.

Soon, a golden Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone appeared before him.

Aiven immediately checked its information.

Hundred Thousand Year Head Spirit Bone: Light Divine Dragon Bone. This Spirit Bone can increase in age as the user's cultivation rises. After absorption, it can greatly enhance the host's spiritual power and comes with two Spirit Bone Skills.

Spirit Bone Skill One: Divine Dragon Light. A dual spiritual and physical attack that fires a golden divine dragon beam at the enemy. It can severely damage the enemy's spiritual power and possesses extremely destructive force. Its might depends on the user's spiritual power; the stronger the spiritual power, the greater the power.

Spirit Bone Skill Two: Light Divine Dragon Shield. A Defense System skill that releases a shield inscribed with golden dragon patterns for all-around protection. At the same time, it can defend against all spiritual attacks, including illusion-type attacks. Its strength is likewise related to the user's spiritual power.

"Light Divine Dragon Head Spirit Bone."

"The strength of both these Spirit Bone Skills depends on my spiritual power. In that case, their power won't be especially high at the start, but their future potential is incredibly high."

"Once my spiritual power improves, these two Spirit Bone Skills will become extremely formidable as well."

"One spiritual skill and one Defense System skill. Heh, not bad. They're both types of skills I currently lack." Aiven nodded in great satisfaction.

Soul Master cultivation on Douluo Continent was generally divided into two schools: the Extreme Stream and the Balanced Stream.

The Extreme Stream meant focusing one's cultivation as much as possible on pushing a single aspect to its limit.

The Balanced Stream meant distributing one's abilities evenly and possessing diverse types of abilities. That way, one had relatively fewer weaknesses and could handle many different kinds of Soul Masters.

But in reality, the vast majority of experts who cultivated to the Titled Douluo realm tended to favor balance.

Aiven was no exception.

The more different abilities and skills he possessed, the stronger he believed he would become in the later stages.

Without hesitation,

Aiven immediately absorbed this Hundred Thousand Year Light Divine Dragon Head Spirit Bone.

Aiven's Soul Power had already reached level 25 during those months of conquest. After absorbing this Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone,

his Soul Power broke through once more.

In one go, it surged from level 25 to level 27.

His Soul Power had increased by two levels.

Absorbing a Spirit Bone could also raise one's Soul Power, but the effect brought by Spirit Bones was not particularly obvious.

Only Spirit Bones at the Hundred Thousand Year level and above provided a relatively noticeable increase.

But the most obvious change was the increase in spiritual power!

Aiven suddenly felt that his perception of everything had become clearer, and every movement had become easier to discern.

That was one of the benefits of spiritual power.

His current spiritual power was enough to rival that of an ordinary Soul Emperor!

In terms of spiritual power, he had already far surpassed others of the same level.

Aiven clenched his fist. "With my current strength, I can completely crush Soul Elders. Even ordinary Soul Ancestors are no match for me."

"Without realizing it, I've already become this strong..."

"Levels 25, 26, and 27. I now have three more chances to summon Three Kingdoms Generals." Aiven glanced at them and decided to save them for now.

He had already completed all his goals for this stage.

Next, he had to advance the kingdom into an empire!

The Conquest System's built-in Mission Three: Become an emperor and possess your own empire. The minimum requirements for an empire are an army of one million and control over at least two subordinate kingdoms. Reward: one Self-Created Godhood.

It was not suitable to continue the conquest for the time being.

Even if he conquered the three remaining subordinate kingdoms of the Heaven Dou Empire, he still would not be able to gather an army of one million.

Most importantly, Aiven had destroyed the Kingdom of Aers and the Wieland Duchy in one stroke. If he continued waging war and invading other nations, he would inevitably become a target for all.

Being too high-profile would invite a joint siege from all sides.

If a faction developed too quickly, it would make everyone panic. Then, it would be extremely easy for Heaven Dou, Spirit Hall, and even Star Luo to join forces and attack.

Therefore, the Aiven Kingdom needed a period of peace to develop in secret and accumulate strength before continuing its campaign across the world when the time was right.

At present, the most important development was recruiting and cultivating Soul Master forces.

Although Aiven had many high-level Soul Masters under his command, the total number of Soul Masters was still very small.

Soul Masters were ultimately the mainstream of this world. The more Soul Master forces a nation had, the stronger its national power would naturally be.

"Let's establish an academy first."

"After I break through level 30, I'll personally recruit those major sects and great clans across the continent." After considering it, Aiven made his decision.

"Deng Ai."

"Your servant is here!"

Aiven said, "Publicly announce that our Aiven Kingdom will establish a kingdom-run Soul Master Academy!"

"Our academy will provide students with the best benefits and cultivation resources on the entire continent!"

"The three top academies on the continent—Spirit Hall, Heaven Dou, and Star Luo Royal Academy—whatever they have, we will have too. And what we have, they may not!"

"The Junior Soul Master Academy will have Soul Douluo-level teachers!"

"The Senior Soul Master Academy will have teachers with Titled Douluo-level strength to offer guidance!"

"Promise that any student who graduates from our kingdom-run academy will receive a scholarship and a house, and may take up positions within the kingdom. We will resolve and assist with any employment or living problems graduates face, and provide them support!"

"Lastly, as long as a student is talented enough, I promise to grant them top-tier resources that can improve their cultivation aptitude and rapidly increase their Soul Power!"

These resources referred to Immortal Herbs.

But in truth, merely having teachers with Titled Douluo combat strength to provide guidance would be enough to attract large numbers of young Soul Masters to enroll.

"Understood, Lord. I will arrange it immediately."

Before long, the Aiven Kingdom's kingdom-run academy was completed, and large numbers of young Soul Masters began joining it.

Meanwhile, Aiven began a crazed period of cultivation.

He had Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Jiang Wei, Deng Ai, and Xiahou Dun take turns serving as his combat sparring partners.

Under the training of these powerful experts, Aiven's combat ability, awareness, and techniques grew stronger every day!

Time flew by.

One year later!

Aiven was already seven and a half years old. He had grown much taller, shed some of his childishness, and become even more handsome.

It was also on this day

that his Soul Power finally broke through to level 30!

"At seven and a half years old, level 30 Soul Power—anyone who didn't know better would think I had Innate Soul Power at level 20." Aiven smiled faintly.

Then, filled with anticipation, he opened the virtual screen.

From level 25 to level 30, he had accumulated a total of six summoning chances.

Aiven did not intend to wait for a Ten-Pull!

Although a Ten-Pull was more satisfying!

But now, as long as he drew six more times, he could obtain another Super-Class General!