A Soul Master's Lifespan

A Soul Master's Lifespan

"At a little over six, not yet seven, I already have rank twenty-two soul power." Li Chang'an looked at his reflection in the mirror, at himself who now looked almost fully grown, and murmured inwardly, Judging by this alone, it's already enough to rival Qian Renxue's innate rank twenty soul power.

"The Soul Beast Clone feeds back strength to increase my soul power. It really is a cheat-like ability." He looked at himself in the mirror. His pitch-black eyes seemed to gleam with blazing divine light, and his confidence swelled to an unprecedented height in that moment.

"For me, accumulating soul power isn't a problem at all. If I really put my back into raising it, reaching Level 99 soul power in my twenties won't be difficult at all."

"Unfortunately, that's basically the end of the road. Breaking through to rank one hundred is no longer just a matter of accumulating soul power. I need to possess a God Position before I can become a god at rank one hundred!"

"The Original Work records that Sea God Poseidon waged war across the seas and spent over a thousand years gathering Faith before he finally managed to condense a God Position and become the Sea God!"

"And if I want to imitate him, putting aside whether I even have that much time, the key issue is that there's nowhere for me to spread Faith now."

"The Faith of the continent is occupied by Spirit Hall's Angel God, while the Faith of the ocean is occupied by the Sea God. Trying to compete with those two old-established gods for Faith is impossible."

Li Chang'an's eyes flickered, and countless thoughts surged through his mind.

"So if I want to become a god, my only option is to gain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's recognition and inherit the Sea God's position! Other than that, there's no other way."

"And if I want to gain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's recognition, with my current constitution, I'm afraid I still can't do it. I can't bear the Hanhai Power. My final outcome would probably be the same as those guys from before—my body would explode and I'd die!"

"The reason Tang San in the Original Work could withstand the Hanhai Power within the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud should mainly be that he consumed two Immortal Herbs, underwent the Ice Fire Golden Body Refinement, and forged the foundation for godhood! On top of that, he also had a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!"

"But the most crucial thing should still be the Immortal Herbs! A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone is just icing on the cake. Of course it's better to have one, but without it, the impact shouldn't be too great. Besides, I have the physical enhancement fed back from my Soul Beast Clone. Over the years, my physique will definitely far surpass that of soul masters at the same level!"

"So, the key to rising is the Immortal Herbs!"

"Without Immortal Herbs, without the Ice Fire Golden Body Refinement, I may not be able to gain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's recognition. I might even be unable to withstand the infusion of Hanhai Power and explode to death."

"Other than that, to be safe, it would be best to get a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and fuse with it. Only then can I make sure nothing goes wrong."

"Looking at it this way, my Ninth Soul Ring must come from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast! I can't make do with a ten-thousand-year soul beast."

"When I become a Titled Douluo, I'll try to see whether I can gain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's recognition."

"Putting aside how rare Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts are, the key is that they're extremely hard to kill... Do I have to go slaughter that rabbit?" Li Chang'an thought of Xiao Wu. He felt no psychological burden at all about killing that rabbit and taking her ring. Because in this world, soul masters killing soul beasts was only natural and right. If those soul beasts wanted to blame someone, they should blame the God Realm that set down these rules.

"No, Tang Hao is watching over Tang San right now. It won't be easy to make a move. Most importantly, Tang San has Asura God backing him. If I provoke him, there's a very high chance Asura God will arrange me into the role of a villain, turning me into a stepping stone for Tang San's growth."

"Without a cheat, it's better not to provoke someone with backing from above if I can avoid it. I'll lie low first. After I inherit the Sea God's position and have some ability to protect myself, then we'll talk."

"Although I loathe Tang San because of what he did in the novel, in reality, I have no grudges or enmity with him. There's no need to take the initiative to provoke him and invite trouble."

"I still have to be cautious in everything!"

"What I need to do now is develop quietly, keep a low profile, and improve my strength as quickly as possible!"

Thinking this, Li Chang'an turned his gaze toward the window, looked at the azure sky, and silently thought, So, Dugu Yan, when are you going to enroll?

During this period, he had secretly looked through the academy roster and learned that there was no student named Dugu Yan at the academy, though Yu Tianheng was already here.

So he inferred that Dugu Yan at this point in time should still be studying at some other junior or intermediate academy and was not yet a student here. That meant she and Yu Tianheng did not know each other, and the two sides were not yet boyfriend and girlfriend. It was the perfect time to cut in early!

Speaking of this, Li Chang'an could not help but feel fortunate that absorbing soul rings made the body grow rapidly. With his current appearance as a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old youth, plus his mature mentality, as long as he did not say anything, no one would know that he was only six this year.

If he looked like a normal six-year-old child, and still wanted to pick up girls? Dream on. Any girl would definitely treat him like a kid. How could he compete with that guy Yu Tianheng?

Time quietly slipped by while Li Chang'an waited with longing eyes.

In the blink of an eye, another half a year passed.

Li Chang'an was seven years old.

Over this half year, by cultivating through absorbing the strength fed back from his clone, his soul power had reached rank twenty-six. This was even the result of him deliberately slowing down the absorption of the feedback strength and spending more time refining his soul power. Otherwise, it would have been even higher.

For someone his age to possess such a rank was absolutely shocking to the world if spoken aloud. Because of this, the Three Education Commissioners did their utmost to seal off information about him, to avoid certain people sending assassins after him because he was too talented.

A genius who had not yet grown up was only a genius, not a powerhouse. There were plenty of people in the Soul Master World who liked to strangle such geniuses in the cradle. The Three Education Commissioners were doing this to protect him.

So up to now, aside from the Three Education Commissioners, the Heaven Dou Emperor, and a small number of others, no one knew that his soul power had already reached rank twenty-six. They only thought he was still hovering around the teens. After all, the previous fastest record for someone with Innate Full Soul Power to reach rank twenty was eight years old.

Reaching rank twenty-six at seven years old was simply too exaggerated, too monstrous. If he had not been cultivating and growing right under their eyes, and if Li Chang'an were not the emperor's Son-in-law of the Emperor, even they would have been moved to kill him. Because such talent was truly too shocking.

No one doubted that Li Chang'an could become a Titled Douluo in the future. They even boldly guessed that perhaps he could one day become the peak of soul masters—a Peerless Douluo!

Peerless, a realm that stood above the entire age!

At this point in time, Peerless Douluo referred to a Level 99 Limit Douluo!

He could almost be called a demigod.

And if Li Chang'an could become a Limit Douluo in the future, then they felt that, conservatively speaking, he could protect the Heaven Dou Royal Family's peace for several hundred years!

After becoming a Titled Douluo, a soul master's lifespan would be greatly extended, and after that, every increase in rank would further increase their lifespan.

The Original Work set Limit Douluo as having a lifespan of over a thousand years.

But that was only the theoretical lifespan they possessed. In reality, if one wanted to have such a long lifespan, first of all, one had to be very young when becoming a Titled Douluo.

Because the lifespan extension after a soul master became a Titled Douluo was less an increase in lifespan and more a slowing of the loss of their original lifespan.

In other words, it made the soul master's aging slow down.

It did not increase lifespan out of thin air.

Precisely because of this, if you were already seventy or eighty years old, half your body almost in the grave, when you became a Titled Douluo, then even if your aging slowed down, how many years of life could it add?

Only by becoming a Titled Douluo at thirty or forty, while still in the prime of life, could that surging life force's loss be slowed down, and only then would one's lifespan truly be greatly extended.

But in this world, how many people could become Titled Douluo at thirty or forty?

This also explained why, in the Original Work, it was clearly said that Titled Douluo had a base lifespan of three hundred years, yet among the Titled Douluo who appeared, there seemed to be none who had actually reached three hundred years old.

Because there were too few people who could reach the rank of Titled Douluo while still very young.