After Ignis successfully absorbed the Soul Ring, You Chen's purpose for this trip can be said to have been basically achieved.
This verifies the feasibility of using the "Soul Power Borrowing Method" to absorb Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring;
Ensuring that Ignis possesses at least the combat power of Soul King will allow her to escort the Soul Arena Beasts in obtaining the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring – this can be considered an overachievement.
It tested the group strength of the Soul Arena Beasts and their experience in activities in the Star Dou Great Forest;
The lethality of the Black Fire Crossbow was tested.
The four goals can be said to have been successfully achieved.
However, after witnessing Ignis absorb Soul Ring using the "Soul Power Borrowing Method," You Chen recalled his own dilemma.
I'm torn about whether to equip my alt character with Soul Ring right now.
You Chen calculated that the maximum lifespan of the Second Soul Ring was 30,000 years, and correspondingly, the maximum lifespan of the third Soul Ring was 50,000 years.
After a year of preparation, he is now fully capable of hunting down these two levels of Soul Beast on his own and escaping unscathed.
Because he couldn't explain to Di Wan and his friends why he was absorbing a new Soul Ring so quickly... or rather, he didn't trust Di Wan and the others enough to reveal this card right now.
Therefore, a large part of the problem in acquiring subsequent Soul Ring for himself was that You Chen's own strength was insufficient.
But now, he already possesses that strength.
Or rather, because Great Accomplishment had mastered the "Aura Concealment Art," he no longer needed to acquire power far exceeding the strength required to hunt Soul Beast of the corresponding age.
Even if it might provoke the bigwigs behind the target, he can use the Aura Concealment Art to escape the scene unnoticed.
Therefore, he can now hunt for the Second Soul Ring Soul Ring the smaller character, and then hunt for the Sixth Soul Ring of the larger character, directly ascending to the level of Soul Emperor.
It's more likely that the alt account will reach the level 60 bottleneck once it absorbs the Second Soul Ring.
As for absorbing the fourth, fifth, and sixth rings of the smaller one, and then hunting the seventh ring of the larger one to directly ascend to Soul Sage?
No, You Chen's target for the seventh ring is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Soul Beast, which means that its strength has reached the level of Titled Douluo.
He is not able to complete the hunt at this stage.
However, if he only advances to the Soul Emperor level and further cultivates the "Godly Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength," he will definitely be able to possess the combat power of Soul Douluo.
Even when facing Tang Hao, who is not yet fully recovered, Tang Hao still has the power to struggle.
This sense of security is simply unparalleled.
In addition, with greater strength, You Chen will naturally find it easier and faster to complete the first quest line!
However... You Chen's ambitions don't stop there.
By using the "Soul Power Borrowing Method," one can forcibly borrow up to ten levels of Soul Power Level, thereby increasing the optimal age of the Soul Ring without requiring any other additional resources.
Such an invention is unprecedented in the Douluo Continent.
In the past, this was a realm that only gods could enter...
You Chen's Soul Power Borrowing Method, without any trace of using divine power. It was a divine feat of stepping into the realm of gods with the power of a mortal!
In some ways, this might be even more advantageous than the increase in the age of the Soul Ring obtained through the Divine Examination.
Because You Chen had already tested it with several "Soul Ring Age Increase Card", he found that after using the Age Enhancement Card to increase the age of a solidified Soul Ring, the attribute boost and Soul Skill power of the Soul Ring were enhanced.
But...
The Martial Soul Origin will not be improved in any way.
For example, the essence of the Soul Ring in this process is just a catalyst, while the reason why the Martial Soul will undergo a change after absorbing the Soul Ring is actually the sublimation brought about by the Martial Soul itself breaking the shackles of the rules during that period.
This is a gift from the rules of this world, a benefit that allows Soul Master to get closer to the gods, and an underlying law that even the gods cannot tamper with.
Of course, this only refers to the Martial Soul Evolution during the process of absorbing Soul Ring. Using other means to enhance the Martial Soul Origin is another topic.
Therefore, the value of the years Martial Soul absorbs Soul Ring is greater than the years added later.
The higher the value, especially the values for the key components, the better.
So, is there a way to go even higher?
The answer is, of course, yes.
Because the Soul Power Borrowing Method can bypass the first-level restriction and borrow 10 years of Soul Power, which is the limit for other Soul Master due to the constraints of the world, not You Chen's limit!
The actual maximum Soul Power Level that a low-level character can receive is 57-20=37!
However, the Soul Power Borrowing Method has only been studied for a year, and it can only be borrowed up to level 10.
This is largely due to a lack of experimental samples.
Leveling up two or three levels is already considered quite a lot; no one has ever actually reached level 10, let alone a higher level!
This naturally leads to a sharp increase in the difficulty of research and development!
The current quota is the result of You Chen's hard work over the past year, plus two Flash of Inspiration.
Even if you only advance one level, it essentially means breaking through the limit of another ring and breaking through the second layer of rules in the world. It means moving from "borrowing the law in the first ring" to "Two-Ring Borrowing Method".
It is foreseeable that the difficulty increases exponentially as you go higher.
Therefore... You Chen set limits for himself. Even if he were to pursue this path, he would only research up to two more rings of borrowing techniques at most!
Even if countless Flash of Inspiration were used to strike through the Three Rings method, the ideal timeframe would still be more than ten years!
Instead of taking advantage of the smaller size's development, why wait another ten years? By then, it'll be too late!
In short, there are two options and two paths.
The first path is to reach the Soul Emperor realm right now. The advantage is increased safety and significantly improved mission efficiency. The disadvantage is a reduction in potential and ceiling.
The second option is to wait it out for a while longer. Its advantages and disadvantages are the opposite of the first option.
Given the Chinese people's fondness for development and land reclamation, You Chen naturally preferred routes with greater potential.
But in reality, there is a paradox here.
That is... the previous mission rewards have already proven that system missions can also enhance potential.
The so-called potential enhancement in this second path is actually just "the method of developing and innovating the original potential enhancement method in the local Soul Master system", or "the potential enhancement of the Martial Soul Origin and the three-element cultivation system of essence, qi and Essence, Qi, and Spirit that You Chen figured out for himself before obtaining the system".
Is it necessarily better than the rewards given by the system, such as "Glimpse of Origin" or "Muscle and Marrow Cleansing" ten or a hundred times?
Not necessarily, it's impossible to say.
The most direct example is the "Godly Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength". Even without considering You Chen's balance of Essence, Qi, and Spirit, qi and spirit, this technique has a characteristic. "The higher the basic physical quality and the higher the level of life, the faster the cultivation speed."
You Chen could have chosen the "pure physical body" path, completely disregarding Martial Soul and the balance of essence, Essence, Qi, and Spirit, and absorbed as many Soul Ring as possible to improve his Soul Power Level and physical attributes.