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"You want to join the Blood God Legion?" Xu Shengqun understood Xu Yuan's request.
"Is it called the Blood God Legion?"
"Indeed, the Tang Sect's Spirit Pagoda and even the War God Hall have had powerful figures join the Blood God Legion throughout the ages, guarding the Abyss Passage. It is they who have protected the peace of the continent for six thousand years," Xu Shengqun remarked with emotion.
In fact, every generation in mainland China has had a quasi-god.
There may be an era where no quasi-gods are publicly known, but there must be a quasi-god in the Blood God Legion. If there is only one quasi-god in the entire Douluo Continent, whether openly or secretly, then that quasi-god must be in the Blood God Legion!
"This is it. I need to join them and then study how to devour the power of the abyss."
It's obvious they've taken sides. Don't say the protagonist badmouths the Sea God without any prior notice; first, you need to understand that the current protagonist has received many benefits from the Golden Tree and is essentially bound to it.
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Xu Yuan's devouring power has now reached an extraordinary level.
Initially, he used the Five Elements as a basis, and through the interaction and transformation of the Five Elements between the five internal organs of the human body, he developed the attribute of devouring.
Furthermore, due to his first enlightenment at the Sea God Pavilion, he grasped the essence of devouring and integrated it into the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Technique, which he subsequently perfected and improved time and time again.
During the battle against the vanguard of the Demon Dimension on Poseidon Island, with the help of the Golden Ancient Tree, the Devouring Effect of the Living Gold within Jue's true form was fully unleashed, merging with the Devouring Heaven and Earth Technique.
Even without the blessing of the Golden Tree, he still managed to excavate that state and perfectly replicated it.
At this moment, he can be said to have reached the peak in terms of his ability to devour.
However, the Abyss is a special place, and Xu Yuan has never tried it before. He humbly believes that he cannot perfectly absorb the power of the Abyss.
To ensure all future plans were in order, he had to go to the abyss to confirm them first.
If the Devouring Heaven and Earth Technique is enough to devour the energy of the abyss, then he will focus on developing his digestive abilities and building a bridge between himself and the Golden Ancient Tree in preparation for the future.
If that is still not enough to devour the energy of the abyss, then one should continue to develop the power of devouring, study the energy of the abyss, and expedite one's devouring ability to the point where it is sufficient to digest the power of the abyss.
In fact, Xu Yuan was still confident in his current Devouring Heaven and Earth Technique.
The purpose of this trip to the Blood God Legion was actually to use the environment there to cultivate and raise my soul power level as soon as possible.
Although the Demon Dimension can also provide him with energy to devour, the effects are completely different. One is a pure energy dimension, where the creatures inside naturally turn into energy after death, making it easy to devour and with almost 100% utilization. The other is a material dimension like Douluo Star, where the corpses of creatures are preserved after death, making it not only troublesome to devour but also with low utilization.
It can be said that Xu Yuan rarely devoured the corpses of demons indiscriminately when he was in the demon plane.
Only when the Demon Gate opened, because the Golden Ancient Tree helped decompose the corpses, the corpses of the demon creatures turned directly into energy. Xu Yuan only needed to use the Devouring Heaven and Earth Technique to fully devour them.
"Given my current situation, absorbing the energy of abyssal creatures should be enough to quickly raise my soul power to level 89. After that, condensing a second soul core will allow me to directly break through to level 90," Xu Yuan pondered.
The problem lies in getting to the Blood God Legion.
The Blood God Legion is quite mysterious and of extremely high rank; not just anyone can enter this legion casually.
Xu Yuan needs someone to make arrangements for him to get in.
Shrek Academy is certainly qualified, but it would attract too much attention, especially at this critical juncture when Shrek Academy is being watched by too many people. Even if he is given a disguised identity during the arrangement, someone will definitely find out his identity before Xu Yuan arrives at the Blood God Legion.
If something unexpected happens in the middle, it will only waste time.
It would be better to let Xu Shengqun make the arrangements.
Putting everything else aside, the Spirit Pagoda's reach is truly comprehensive, making it much easier for them to resolve various identity-related issues compared to Shrek Academy.
In particular, his status as a researcher whose research focused on devouring abyssal energy saved Xu Yuan a lot of trouble, allowing him to quickly come into contact with abyssal creatures after joining the Blood God Legion.
"Have we secured management control of the research institute?" Xu Shengqun muttered to himself.
He stroked his chin, frowning as he pondered the probability of success.
"I only need a portion of it, as long as you can reasonably arrange the identity I need," Xu Yuan emphasized.
“That should be possible. I thought you wanted me to find your father’s files in the research institute’s system,” Xu Shengqun said. “But it will take time; you may have to wait a few months.”
"It's okay, no rush. I'll be staying home for two months to cultivate my spiritual power, and then I might need to travel north for a while, so it'll take about half a year in total."
"Six months?" Xu Shengqun nodded and readily replied, "No problem, actually we should have results in three or four months."
Xu Shengqun is actually in pretty good shape now.
It's important to know that Xu Shengqun is not very old. Once he breaks through to the limit level, there's no problem for him to continue to improve to the level of demigod in the future. In addition, he has Xu Yuan under his command, who may be a future master craftsman. The four-word battle armor is basically a sure thing for him.
Moreover, his position is also very crucial, as he is a Spirit Messenger, representing the interests of Spirit Messengers.
While Spirit Summoners may appear to be high-ranking, they can actually be replaced at any time within the Spirit Summoning Tower. For example, if the grandson of Qian Gu Dong Feng wanted to gain some experience, an unfortunate Spirit Summoner would be replaced and assigned a sinecure. They would still have their status, but their power would be essentially taken back.
It will be very difficult to influence the future direction of the Spirit Pagoda.
Who doesn't want to gain real power?
With the emergence of a Limit Douluo among the Spirit Transmission Envoys, the four of them forming a group can definitely be considered a major force, securing enough status for Xu Shengqun. The remaining three can also basically avoid worrying about being removed from their positions.
Furthermore, the top-level CCP winners need a new representative to contend with the hegemonic faction behind the "Eternal East Wind" (a metaphor for a powerful, influential force).
With all these factors combined, Xu Shengqun, if not the one to seize the position of Tower Master, at least has the ability to contend for it.
With this ability, it would be easy to seize a portion of power if one puts in the effort.
To gain some control of the research institute, they'll probably have to strategize a bit.
After finally speaking out what had been weighing on his mind for so long, Xu Yuan felt much relieved.
In fact, he already had a companion before, namely Yun Ming.
However, neither side had any real communication; they were simply walking this path silently, forging their own future and creating a way forward, without ever reaching a true consensus in words.
I want to rebel against Poseidon.
Currently, Xu Yuan has only explicitly told Xu Shengqun this, and has received Xu Shengqun's support.
With the pressure in his heart relieved, Xu Yuan's mental energy bottleneck also loosened slightly.
For the next two months, he will go to the intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform for training.
If all goes well, he will break through the threshold from the middle to the high level of the Spirit Abyss Realm and rapidly approach 20,000 points of spiritual power.
"The only problem now is that the spiritual energy quality of the intermediate-level Spirit Ascension Platform is not high enough, making it inefficient to upgrade ten-thousand-year soul rings."
The Spirit Ascension Platform has a flaw: it cannot ascend souls that are ten thousand years old. However, it can only ascend thousand-year-old souls to ten thousand years old. The spiritual power can still have an effect on souls that are already ten thousand years old.
However, the intermediate-level Spirit Ascension Platform has limited technology, and the spiritual power integrated into it will have a very poor enhancement effect, less than one-tenth of that of a spirit ring under ten thousand years old.
To achieve a year-on-year improvement, one needs to at least go to the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform.
However, Xu Yuan's return to Tianhai City this time was not without preparation.
"I hope my thinking is right."
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Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.
Xu Yuan stood beside the corpse of a nine-thousand-year-old phantom leopard, watching the purple aura emanating from its body.
His energy and spirit had long since taken control of the surrounding space, and at the same time, the dream space merged into the space of this Spirit Ascension Platform, perfectly freezing everything here.
With a thought, the spiritual power that should have dissipated ninety percent within a second after the soul beast died, with the remaining ten percent merging into the soul master's body, was completely bound and stopped dissipating, instead remaining fixed in mid-air.
"Fortunately, with my abilities, I can forcibly intercept all the spiritual energy. In this way, even if the spiritual energy here is inefficient in improving the ten-thousand-year soul ring, it can be made up for. The only drawback is that I need my uncle's cooperation."
The Spirit Ascension Platform cannot ascend a thousand-year-old soul to a ten-thousand-year-old one. This is due to technical reasons, which seem to involve an essential condition for a ten-thousand-year-old soul ring. Current technology cannot yet supplement this condition.
However, the fundamental principle of increasing the age of a spirit ring remains the same; the Spirit Ascension Platform can increase the age of a ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
However, the quality of spiritual power begins to differentiate in ten-thousand-year soul rings.
Currently, only the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform located at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters can maintain the normal 10:1 age conversion ratio, which means that killing a 10,000-year-old soul beast can increase one's total age by 1,000 years.
There are indeed ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts on the intermediate-level Spirit Ascension Platform, and killing them can also achieve this. However, there are usually only one or two such beasts on each intermediate-level Spirit Ascension Platform. They are guardians, and after killing them, it is necessary to report to headquarters. Moreover, the efficiency of recreating them is extremely low, and it is difficult to replenish them in a timely manner.
As for killing a thousand-year-old soul beast, one can obtain a hundred years' worth of spiritual power, but the quality of this hundred-year-old spiritual power will be reduced by more than 90% when used to upgrade a ten-thousand-year soul ring, ultimately resulting in an upgrade of about ten years.
This means that the loss in the entire process reaches 99%.
This is a considerable loss.
The so-called spiritual energy quality does not refer to the concentration of spiritual energy, but rather the fusion ratio of spiritual energy with the power of heaven and earth. In other words, nine percent of it is completely wasted, which is a non-mechanical problem and truly wastes that part of the spiritual energy.
Nine percent may seem like a small percentage, but it represents nine times the actual results achieved!
Now, Xu Yuan has completely fused his spiritual power using his own methods. With the 90% that had dissipated gone, he killed a 9,000-year-old phantom leopard, and his soul ring can be upgraded by about 900 years.
However, he completely wasted eight thousand one hundred years of spiritual power here.
It wasn't that it was recycled by the Spirit Ascension Platform of the Spirit Pagoda, but rather that it simply failed to fulfill its intended purpose.
Although the efficiency of killing is the same, in terms of the result Xu Yuan needs, there is actually no change. He needs to increase the age of each of his sixteen soul rings by 10,000 to 20,000 years, which is at least 200,000 to 300,000 years.
This requires the Ascension Platform to consume two to three million years' worth of spiritual energy!
This is the spiritual power completely drawn from the Ascension Platform, of which only two or three hundred thousand years' worth reached Xu Yuan's account.
Two to three million years of spiritual energy—that's something Xu Shengqun can't withstand.
Therefore, although Xu Yuan was able to absorb all of this spiritual energy and convert it into years with low utilization, he still refrained from doing so.
What he needs to do now is to transform this spiritual energy into high-quality spiritual energy within the Spirit Ascension Platform, so as to achieve a higher utilization rate.