[Item: Mortal Body] [Effect: None] [Upgrade effect: Longevity Body] [Effect: Astonishing vitality and astonishing talent in the Dao of Life] [Upgrade conditions: 1 corpse of a thousand-year life-type Soul Beast, 1 thousand-year life-type Soul Ring, 1 thousand-year life-type Soul Bone, 1 thousand-year spirit herb, Myriad Spirit Fruit]
Long ago, after awakening his memories of his previous life and activating his cheat, he had studied its abilities from every angle. Su Yuntao had shown him that Martial Souls and Soul Rings could be upgraded, but once, as he looked down in thought, he saw an upgrade panel appear over his own body.
It wasn't an upgrade panel for his Martial Soul, but for himself, for his body.
His body could be upgraded too.
Unfortunately.
After seeing the upgrade conditions back then, he had promptly given up.
The Soul Beast corpse and Soul Bone were easy enough to obtain, and even a thousand-year spirit herb was only a minor matter, but a Soul Bone was exceptionally difficult to get, especially a Thousand-Year Soul Bone that also had to be life-type.
It was as if the difficulty kept being piled on him.
Never mind that he was in Douluo I; even if he were in Douluo II, Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, or Douluo IV, it wouldn't help. Soul Bones were treasures in any era!
The stronger a Soul Beast was, the more likely it was to drop a Soul Bone. For example, a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast was guaranteed to drop one, and while the drop rate for ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts wasn't that high, it wasn't low either. But as for the odds of a thousand-year Soul Beast dropping a Soul Bone, if he actually managed to get one, he'd dare buy a lottery ticket if he ever went back!
Let alone the fact that Soul Bone drops depended on luck, and he specifically needed a thousand-year life-type Soul Bone.
It was piling difficulty on difficulty, demanding the impossible!!!
For that very reason.
He had put upgrading his body out of his mind and focused on upgrading his Martial Soul. At least that wasn't as difficult.
Several months had passed since then.
He hadn't expected it.
Da Ming actually had a thousand-year life-type Soul Bone, satisfying the hardest of the conditions for upgrading his Mortal Body.
"Now that I've got a thousand-year life-type Soul Bone, among the remaining upgrade conditions, a thousand-year life-type Soul Beast is nothing to me as I am now. As for the thousand-year spirit herb, the Myriad Spirit Fruit, that isn't a big deal either."
With that thought, Gu Chen took a comprehensive guide to medicinal herbs out of his Void Ring. Just because someone like Yu Xiaogang could pass himself off as a Grandmaster didn't mean everyone in this era was an idiot. Gu Chen had read the illustrated Soul Beast guide Yu Xiaogang had copied from Spirit Hall over and over. It recorded more than ten thousand Soul Beasts, with their characteristics and weaknesses documented in detail. This only made him more certain that Yu Xiaogang was a plagiarizing piece of trash.
With Yu Xiaogang's strength, he couldn't even deal with a single Mandala Snake. How could anyone expect him to know more than ten thousand kinds of Soul Beasts so thoroughly? Where would he have found the time?!
The comprehensive guide to medicinal herbs in his hands came from the Ye Family Pharmacy and had cost him twenty-five thousand Gold Soul Coins. But after reading it, all he could say was that it was worth more than the price. The book was as thick as the mountain of test papers he'd once had, but its contents recorded in extraordinary detail the places suited to growing medicinal herbs, their effects and characteristics, and how to harvest them.
It lived up to its name as a collector's edition.
It really was different from the ordinary edition of the comprehensive guide to medicinal herbs, which cost only two and a half years... uh, two and a half Gold Soul Coins, but was only two fingers thick.
"Found it. The Myriad Spirit Fruit is produced by a thousand-year Plant-type Soul Beast, the Fortune and Longevity Fruit Tree. It bears fruit once every thousand years. If the Fortune and Longevity Fruit Tree's cultivation reaches ten thousand years, it bears fruit once every ten thousand years, producing the more potent Ageless Fruit."
"But Fortune and Longevity Fruit Trees are exceptionally rare, and the places where they grow are also extremely unusual, so their yield is exceptionally small."
Gu Chen read a little further.
A Fortune and Longevity Fruit Tree with ten years of cultivation bore fruit once every ten years, and the fruit was called an Evergreen Fruit. A hundred-year Fortune and Longevity Fruit Tree bore fruit once every hundred years, and its fruit was called a Vitality Fruit.
Good. If I really can't find a Myriad Spirit Fruit from a thousand-year Fortune and Longevity Fruit Tree, then I'll look for fruit from a ten-year or hundred-year Fortune and Longevity Fruit Tree.
He had already dealt with the hardest part of upgrading his Mortal Body.
It was just one Myriad Spirit Fruit. He refused to believe he couldn't get his hands on one.
And while he was reading.
Er Ming hadn't been idle after going out. The hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast struck with heavy fists, and without exception, none of those he targeted escaped his clutches.
Before long.
Er Ming returned with a Plant-type Soul Beast barely clinging to life and the corpses of ten thousand-year Soul Beasts.
"Ten-thousand-year Evergreen Ivy? You even managed to find one of these!"
Gu Chen was somewhat surprised. Among Soul Beasts, Evergreen Ivy ranked as a high-level Soul Beast, and it was indeed a life-type Soul Beast. Among Plant-type Soul Beasts, its vitality was exceptionally powerful, and the higher its cultivation, the stronger it became. Unfortunately, it had run into the Titan Giant Ape, and as the loser, it could only bite the dust.
Setting the Evergreen Ivy aside for the moment, he first took out the thousand-year spirit herb, the Crabapple Spirit Flower. Then, using the corpses of the ten thousand-year life-type Soul Beasts to meet the upgrade conditions, he directly upgraded the Crabapple Spirit Flower into the Begonia Flower King.
A ten-thousand-year medicinal king!!!
If a medicinal herb of this level were put up for sale at an auction house, he wouldn't be at all surprised if it fetched close to ten million Gold Soul Coins.
But Gu Chen wasn't foolish enough to do that. If he really couldn't use it, he could eat it himself. The medicinal power contained in a ten-thousand-year medicinal king alone was enough to raise his Soul Power by two or three levels, open up his meridians, and improve his aptitude. He reckoned its medicinal effects could effectively help him raise his Soul Power Level until he reached level seventy.
However.
That wasn't what he wanted.
He looked at the dying ten-thousand-year Evergreen Ivy.
Ten-thousand-year medicinal king, Begonia Flower King!
Ready!
Ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Bone!
Ready!
Now all he lacked were the corpse and Soul Ring of a ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Beast.
So he swiftly sent the Evergreen Ivy on its way, bringing it a quick release.
Afterward.
A pitch-black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring quickly formed above its corpse.
Seeing this.
Gu Chen placed the ten-thousand-year medicinal king, the Begonia Flower King, and the ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Bone beside it. He stood in the middle of the four things and summoned his Martial Soul.
"Upgrade conditions met. Upgrade?"
"Upgrade!"
At that moment, the prompt sounded so pleasing to his ears. He had been looking forward to this moment for a long time, so did he even need to choose? Of course not. He agreed without hesitation.
Evolve! My Blue Silver King!!!
As soon as he agreed, the Soul Beast corpse, Soul Ring, ten-thousand-year medicinal king, and ten-thousand-year life-type Soul Bone all turned into golden light and surged toward the Blue Silver King Martial Soul above his palm. Experiencing it firsthand, Gu Chen could clearly feel his Martial Soul transforming at an astonishing speed.
Blue Silver Grass surged madly from beneath his feet, wrapping him up completely.
Seeing this.
Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming were all surprised, but none of them acted rashly.
They could feel Gu Chen's vitality, so vast it was on the verge of overflowing. No matter how they looked at it, he didn't seem to be in trouble, so naturally there was no need for them to intervene. If any unfavorable change did occur, they would act.
But clearly, there was no need.
After only a short while, the cocoon formed by the Blue Silver Grass opened.
A figure walked out.
When she saw his appearance, Xiao Wu froze. She wasn't the only one; Da Ming and Er Ming did the same.
Simply because.
The person before them couldn't be said to look much like Gu Chen. The only way to put it was that there was no resemblance at all.
"Wait... dude, who the hell are you?!!!"