Fire God Inheritor

"No, this is a genuine Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring, and the Second Soul Skill it gave me is a genuine Thousand-Year Soul Skill."

After hearing Ye Chen's words, Dugu Bo pondered for a moment before speaking. "There's a limit to the Soul Rings a Soul Master can absorb. Only when they reach Level 30 Soul Power and cross the first major threshold can their bodies meet the conditions for absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Kid, the fact that you could absorb one for your Second Soul Ring is simply astonishing."

Ye Chen had anticipated this very situation and found a way to deal with it, with an explanation already prepared. So when Dugu Bo questioned him, he remained composed and answered with a smile, "As you say, Your Excellency, but I'm a special case."

"Oh?" Dugu Bo glanced at Blaziken. "Is it your External Beast Martial Soul that makes you special enough to absorb a Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring?"

"Yes." Ye Chen spun a tale. "My Blaziken Martial Soul is a divine-level Martial Soul, just like the former Spirit Hall pope's Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. With the protection of a divine-level Martial Soul, I can not only absorb a Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring, but also possess the cultivation talent of innate Level 20 full Soul Power."

"Divine-level Martial Soul? Innate Level 20 full Soul Power?" Dugu Bo murmured, then let out a cold laugh. "Kid, do you think I'm senile?"

"I can understand if you don't want to reveal how to absorb a Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring. But if you think you can fool me with a lie, aren't you afraid I'll kill you in a fit of rage?"

"Senior, I'm not trying to fool you." Ye Chen spoke earnestly. "If you don't believe that divine-level Martial Souls and innate Level 20 full Soul Power exist on the continent, you can always sneak into the Spirit Hall and ask around. The former Spirit Hall pope, Qian Xunji, was a descendant of the Qian Family's Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. The Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul's origin was the Angel God."

"Or rather, the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul is actually a divine-level Martial Soul bloodline left to the Qian Family by the Angel God. When a member of the Qian Family with a Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul is sufficiently talented, they can undertake a Divine Trial and become the next Angel God."

"As for my Blaziken, it was formed from a wisp of the Fire God's divine consciousness. Like the Angel God, the Fire God is a First-Level God in the Divine Realm. However, if I complete the Divine Trial, my Blaziken can only inherit the godhood of the Second-Level God, the Phoenix God. As its master, I'm the Fire God's true inheritor."

"Senior, even if you don't believe that gods exist on the continent, surely you believe that there are Level 99 Peerless Douluo, right? Tell me, when a Level 99 Peerless Douluo breaks through to Level 100, what kind of realm do they enter?"

Dugu Bo fell into deep thought. At his Titled Douluo ceremony, a Level 98 Spirit Hall enshrined had been in charge of the proceedings.

That suggested there were even stronger figures among the Spirit Hall enshrined.

And those stronger figures could very well be Level 99 Peerless Douluo.

Thinking of this, Dugu Bo couldn't help wondering about Ye Chen's question. What kind of realm did Level 99 Peerless Douluo enter after breaking through to Level 100?

Each increase in a Titled Douluo's Soul Power Level brought a tremendous gap in strength. Especially once Soul Power reached Level 96, even a one-level difference became an uncrossable chasm.

Unfortunately, few of the Dugu Family's ancestors had ever reached the Titled Douluo realm. As a result, there were very few records about how Titled Douluo cultivated, let alone any documents on Level 99 Peerless Douluo or breaking through to Level 100.

Seeing that Dugu Bo was interested, Ye Chen said confidently, "Senior, if you don't know much about this, then as the Fire God Inheritor, I can tell you a thing or two."

"Level 99 Soul Power is already the limit for any Soul Master. A Soul Master who cultivates their Soul Power to Level 100 is no longer a Soul Master—or, you could say, no longer human. They become a god. In other words, when a Level 99 Peerless Douluo breaks through to Level 100, they enter the realm of the gods."

"I wonder if you've heard that a thousand years ago, not only did the First Generation Angel God, who founded the predecessor to the Spirit Hall, become a god by cultivating to Level 100 as a Soul Master and drawing on the power of faith, but the First Generation Sea God, who founded Sea God Island, did as well."

"My Blaziken and I are inheriting godhood, not creating it ourselves, so we don't need to spend a thousand years. I only need to complete the corresponding Divine Trial and cultivate my Soul Power to Level 100 before I can ascend to the Divine Realm as a newly appointed god."

"And with the cultivation talent of innate Level 20 full Soul Power, along with the rewards from the Divine Trial, I believe I can break through to Level 100 and become a god in less than twenty years."

At this, Ye Chen fixed his gaze on Dugu Bo and made a suggestion. "Senior, if you still don't believe I have the cultivation talent of innate Level 20 full Soul Power, you can test my Soul Power Level now and see whether I'm bluffing or telling the truth."

After hearing him out, Dugu Bo immediately reached out and pulled Ye Chen toward him with a surge of Soul Power. Ye Chen was drawn into his grasp at once, as the pressure of a Titled Douluo descended from above.

Dugu Bo stood with his left hand behind his back and his right hand gripping Ye Chen's shoulder. The pressure of a Titled Douluo sealed Ye Chen's movements, leaving him unable to move as Dugu Bo tested the depth of the Soul Power within him.

Because he hadn't yet obtained a Fourth Soul Ring and advanced, Ye Chen's Soul Power had remained stuck at the Level 40 bottleneck. But the depth of the Soul Power within him couldn't lie.

Especially when a Titled Douluo touched someone, all he needed to do was compare their Soul Power to his own to calculate their true Soul Power Level with precision.

Dugu Bo hadn't expected much, but the result left him stunned. As he tested the depth of Ye Chen's Soul Power, the expression in his eyes shifted from seriousness to surprise, then from surprise to astonishment. He couldn't help murmuring to himself, "Level 40, Level 45, Level 50? Level 57??"

"You actually have Level 57 Soul Power?" Dugu Bo blurted out. He had completely lost the composure and seriousness he'd shown before.

If this kid named Ye Chen really had Level 57 Soul Power, then everything he had just said was true.

How else could someone possess Level 57 Soul Power at fifteen or sixteen without the cultivation talent of innate Level 20 full Soul Power?

What's more, this kid named Ye Chen had a Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring. He also knew so much about the Divine Realm and the inheritance of gods.

There were indeed legends about gods on the continent. Could he really have met an inheritor of a god?

"Kid, you dare reveal these secrets—aren't you afraid I'll kill you to silence you?" Dugu Bo still had his right hand gripping Ye Chen's shoulder as he tested him. "Even if you're the Fire God Inheritor, you only have Level 57 Soul Power right now. It would be easy for me to snuff you out."