Three Years!

Three years! Time was like a rutting stallion, galloping wildly across the grasslands, impossible to catch no matter what.

Three years were enough for the poor god next door to become a true god, enough for some young man surnamed Song to transcend three times.

But Lin En seemed to be doing worse than them. He still had not escaped this dungeon and remained in the midst of his accumulation.

During the three years he spent studying under Uncle Yu, he successfully restored his meridians to normal in the first year. They were even stronger than those of ordinary Soul Masters.

That year, he successfully broke through to level ten Soul Power. For him, it was almost as easy as eating and drinking. Lin En had not even cultivated deliberately; Little Sage was making him stronger every moment.

According to Uncle Yu, the cultivation speeds of each level of Innate Soul Power differed as greatly as a chasm. The difference in Innate Soul Power was the first dividing point that determined the futures of different Soul Masters.

The dividing line for a qualitative change in Innate Soul Power was level seven. At level seven, one had the potential to become a Titled Douluo, while level six, without a fortuitous opportunity, could only dream of becoming a Soul Douluo.

Even with damaged meridians, Lin En had possessed level-seven Innate Soul Power. With Little Sage operating the Mysterious Heaven Skill to assist his cultivation, he had never experienced the cultivation speed of someone below level seven.

It was precisely because Innate Soul Power was so precious that the Dark Nether Sect's Profound Water Pills were so valuable. Every pill that appeared outside could stir up a bloody storm.

After breaking through level ten, Lin En also became stuck at his level. Without a Soul Ring, advancement was impossible in this era. This was also one of the greatest flaws of the Soul Master system.

The white-robed old man learned that Lin En had quickly reached level ten. As expected, he did not allow him to obtain a Soul Ring. Here, as long as one was not a Holy Spirit Disciple, everyone was merely an experiment for the two elders.

An experiment was most perfect when it remained weak and controllable.

Although he could not hunt a Soul Ring and break through as a Soul Master, the Soul Master system had not entirely closed off Lin En's path. He could still cultivate.

His Soul Power and spiritual power could continue to grow, only at an increasingly slower rate, while his Soul Power output was locked in place.

According to the analogy used by that brawny man from the Star Luo Empire, it was like a river and a faucet.

Each time a Soul Master successfully obtained a Soul Ring and broke through a level, the total amount of Soul Power they could contain increased. The faucet connected to the Soul Power river was also replaced with a better one, increasing its flow and making its output more stable.

Meanwhile, Lin En's total Soul Power had reached level twenty. Its predicted limit would be level thirty-five, and those levels would erupt when he obtained a Soul Ring.

In short, during his first year of imprisonment, Lin En was in a period of accumulating power, while the white-robed old man's experiments on him remained conservative.

The change came during an inspection. For the first time, Lin En saw the two strongest figures in this Evil Soul Master Altar: the two Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo who had ambushed Uncle Yu.

The two Titled Douluo first said something to Uncle Yu, probably some taunting trash talk, before turning their attention to Lin En.

Those two clearly did not care much about Lin En. They merely remarked that the intensity of the experiments should be increased.

The two Titled Douluo ordered the white-robed old man to use Lin En to unravel the mysteries of the Body Martial Soul and develop Soul Tools specifically designed to counter Body Martial Souls, for use against the Body Sect in the future.

Zhang Lexuan, meanwhile, was the focus of the two Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo.

After a year of elemental skin treatment, Zhang Lexuan's Moon Martial Soul had grown increasingly cold and sinister. A glimmer of red had appeared in its core, faintly showing signs of evolving toward a Blood Moon.

The two Titled Douluo were overjoyed. Her treatment improved to another level: a larger cell, better equipment, and even the chance to go outside for walks under the supervision of Holy Servants.

Those beasts said that Zhang Lexuan had already caught the attention of the Supreme Cult Leader. During the next Holy Spirit Divine Sacrifice of the Holy Spirit Cult, she would be brought to headquarters for the Supreme Cult Leader to observe personally.

After they left, Uncle Yu spoke with the other adults. By pooling their intelligence during the discussion, they confirmed information regarding the other Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo.

That person's primary ability was likely growing stronger by consuming corpses. His methods of attack involved corpse poison, while his physical attack and defense were both exceptionally formidable.

Lin En found records of the relevant Martial Soul in the Douluo series organized by Little Sage in his mind. It should have been Abomination, a high-level undead creature.

This altar belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult's Myriad Soul Douluo and Abomination Douluo. Myriad Soul Douluo was likely also a Soul Engineer, though Lin En did not know what rank he was.

The orders left behind by those two elders brought disaster upon Lin En. The white-robed old man intensified his bodily experiments on him.

All kinds of contaminants were injected into Lin En's body solely to study the limits of what a Body Martial Soul could endure.

Large quantities of Soul Beast blood were mixed together and forcibly injected into his veins. The chaotic origins nearly burst his body apart.

There was certainly enough energy, but his Immune System nearly collapsed across the board. There were too many bloodlines among them, including even the blood of super Soul Beasts such as the Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bear.

His Immune System was nearly burned out. An Immune System at the Soul Warrior level found it difficult to resist the blood and Soul Power of these higher Soul Beasts.

If the Next-Generation Species Dragon Bloodline had not acted up, he would already have turned into a Chimera.

For the first time, Lin En felt deeply grateful for the Next-Generation Species Dragon Bloodline. This bloodline had protected him more times than he knew.

Once the Immune System collapsed, the Next-Generation Species bloodline automatically took over his body, forcibly suppressing all chaotic origins before assisting the Immune System in Devouring the blood.

The white-robed old man was greatly astonished by Lin En's resistance. Forget a Soul Warrior—even a Soul King injected with mixed blood of this level would die instantly.

He had originally intended to give Lin En a quick death, but he had not expected this fellow to survive.

The old bastard became increasingly obsessed with Lin En. He looked at him as though he were an ownerless Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

After that, the old bastard began openly defying orders while pretending to comply. He stopped preparing all kinds of extreme experiments for Lin En. The related experimental reports began to be fabricated at random; he simply made up some experimental data, drew a few seemingly profound structural diagrams, and submitted them.

The old man even had the leisure to chat with Lin En. He said Myriad Soul Douluo knew nothing about Soul Beast or human experiments, and that he had been fabricating experimental data to submit for funding for who knew how many years.

He even had Lin En write some of the experimental reports himself. He could scribble anything he wanted, just to practice his handwriting.

As for how many Holy Spirit Cult disciples those reports might kill, the white-robed old man said it had nothing to do with him. As long as Myriad Soul Douluo remained alive, no one could touch him, because he had once saved Myriad Soul Douluo.

Thanks to that fellow's obsession with Lin En, Lin En could Devour all kinds of energy as long as his vital signs were maintained.

Here, Lin En also learned a great deal of Soul Beast knowledge. He saw the organs and limbs of many Soul Beasts, and the old bastard carefully explained the characteristics of those Soul Beasts to him.

The white-robed old man told him that his lifelong dream was to create an ultimate lifeform that possessed both humanity's talent for cultivation and the long lifespan of Soul Beasts.

Humans clearly possessed cultivation talent that stood above the world, yet their lifespans could not even exceed three hundred years! Those foolish beasts, meanwhile, could casually live for over a thousand years.

The white-robed old man believed this was the injustice of the gods! The lofty gods had separated lifespan and talent, these two powers.

Humans and Soul Beasts were like the two poles of a shattered mirror. Only fusion could create the most perfect lifeform.

Lin En scoffed at his dream, but did not show it. He continued lying low and Devouring energy, allowing Little Sage to accelerate his body's evolution while studying secret techniques such as the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Sovereign Over All Under Heaven.

New energy currency and energy cells had already been born. Thanks to the Emerald Swan blood the old bastard had injected into him, Little Sage had completed the entire framework from that blood.

These new energy cells were now distributed throughout the capillaries, lungs, meridians, heart, muscle groups, brain, and other parts of his body.

The new energy cells continuously fused Soul Power and spiritual power, supplying energy for all vital activities throughout his body.

Lin En had now become a lifeform powered by Soul Power. As long as he had enough Soul Power, he no longer needed to eat or drink.