"Hiss—!"
"This Soul Skill's effect is simply heaven-defying! If those major powers saw this, wouldn't they treat her like an honored guest?"
Dugu Bo sucked in a breath of cold air and spoke.
A 30% increase in cultivation efficiency!
Under normal circumstances, if one year of cultivation raised someone by 3 levels, then with this Soul Skill's assistance, they would gain the equivalent of 3.9 levels in a year. Rounding it off, that was practically the effect of gaining 4 levels.
If it was only one year, the difference would not be too obvious. But what about ten years? Twenty years?
Two people with identical talent, raised with equal resources.
One consumed Spirit Gathering Fruit.
The other did not consume Spirit Gathering Fruit.
Ten years was enough to create a gap of 10 levels.
And for Soul Masters...
The Golden Cultivation Period only lasted a little over a decade. Once it passed, the speed and effectiveness of future cultivation would gradually decline, even slowing drastically. Therefore... what level one could reach during the Golden Cultivation Period was extremely important.
If someone was only a Soul Grandmaster by the end of the Golden Cultivation Period, then they definitely had no hope of becoming a Titled Douluo in the future.
However...
If their Soul Power Level reached level 60 by the end of the Golden Cultivation Period, then even if their talent was somewhat lacking, and their hope of becoming a Titled Douluo was slim, becoming a Spirit Douluo was basically guaranteed.
And for any faction...
Their thirst for high-level combat power was immense, and high-level combat power referred to experts whose Soul Power had reached at least the Soul Saint level.
But...
Not to mention Soul Saints.
For most factions, even nurturing a Soul Emperor was difficult, much less a Soul