Douluo: I achieve godhood through System

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Dugu Bo exclaimed in delight:

"Great! A ten-thousand-year-old Demon Spider with its stealth skills is unmatched. It can effortlessly hunt weaker opponents and escape from stronger ones, making it a perfect skill for all situations."

"Now, with this soul bone skill, Yan Yan, as a Control-type Soul Master, can seize the initiative and control her enemies with one move."

"In times of danger, it's also a life-saving technique. It's worth the cost to exchange for this soul bone."

Wang Li thought back to the original story, remembering how a ten-thousand-year-old Demon Spider, using this very skill, had ambushed Tang San and Xiao Wu as they fled, cutting off their escape.

It was after this that Tang San had nearly died, and Xiao Wu had made her sacrifice. Despite having a soul bone and a domain, Tang San had failed to notice the ambush. This showed just how powerful the skill really was.

Smiling, Wang Li remarked:

"Indeed, it's a god-tier skill. It was worth the long wait. Now that the world knows we have soul bones, this life-saving skill has come just in time."

Dugu Yan's resolve strengthened. She had absorbed the Wisdom Skull and the Left Arm Bone of the Demon Spider. Within such a short period, she had absorbed two soul bones in succession, and now she was more determined than ever to break through as soon as possible.

She spoke solemnly:

"I'm already at level 59 in soul power. With more effort in my training and some additional poison, I should be able to break through to level 60 by the end of the year."

Dugu Bo was overjoyed. As long as Dugu Yan reached the breakthrough by the end of the year, she would be able to reach the rank of Soul Emperor by the age of 22. On the continent, only Wang Li would be able to surpass her.

Dugu Yan was determined. She immediately began to prepare the pill furnace, with Dugu Bo assisting. The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye was something he knew best.

As for Wang Li, after exchanging a few words with them, he entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye. Having already consumed the Ice and Fire Immortal Herb, this place would offer him complete tranquility, with no disturbances.

The extreme heat and cold within the Yin Yang Eye were no trouble for him—he found them merely warm and cool.

"Level 65 now... Let's break through to level 70 here in one go, then enhance the soul ring's age, refine my body, and purify my soul power, allowing me to absorb higher-level soul rings in the future."

With that thought, Wang Li assumed a meditation posture, opening his panel and beginning his training by utilizing experience points.

Boom! Boom!

In an instant, the soul power within Wang Li's meridians surged like a flood, circulating from his dantian at high speed. With each full rotation, his power increased, and the speed of his cultivation was noticeably faster.

Although it wasn't as immediate as absorbing a soul ring or soul bone, the steady rise in soul power was much quicker than self-training.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye. Wang Li opened his eyes, stretched his body, and a series of sharp popping sounds followed.

After examining his dantian, he found that his total soul power had doubled, reaching the level of a Soul Saint, at level 70.

All that was left was to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring, widen his meridians, and open up his dantian to officially become a Soul Saint and continue his training.

A good soul ring could broaden a Soul Master's meridians, expand their dantian, and increase their total soul power.

To put it bluntly, the soul rings Wang Li had absorbed, exceeding their age limits, had expanded his meridians and dantian far beyond his current rank. In other words, while he was a level 70 Soul Saint in name, his total soul power was on par with some true high-level Soul Saints.

In this world, the rules of heaven and earth had been forcibly altered. Soul Masters couldn't independently open their dantian; to break through major levels, they needed to absorb soul rings to complete their advancements.

Wang Li was very satisfied with his progress. However, when he looked at his panel again, he noticed a troubling change: his experience had decreased by 100,000.

He gasped in surprise. Reaching the Soul Emperor stage required 100,000 experience points to advance by just five levels!

A hundred thousand experience—that was the equivalent of a ten-thousand-year soul ring. Speaking of which, Wang Li thought:

"A ten-thousand-year soul ring... after Xiao Wu's sacrifice, Tang San received her soul ring and soul bone. He only managed to increase his soul power by six levels."

Thinking about it, it seemed somewhat reasonable and yet still puzzling. After all, it had directly boosted his soul power.

"But the cost for the Soul Emperor is this high... and then there's Soul Saint, Soul Douluo, and Titled Douluo. It looks like I'll be working hard to gather experience in the future."

Wang Li looked at the remaining 260,000 experience points, enough to perform a full upgrade of his soul rings, and he felt a little relieved.

He then left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, reported back to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to assure them of his safety, ate, drank, and rested for the night.

The next day, he returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, ready to enhance his soul rings. The first soul ring was his first focus. As soon as he focused his thoughts, the yellow soul ring seemed to come alive. It expanded and contracted, drawing in boundless energy from all directions, causing the ring to gradually evolve.

The energy flowing back into his body was similar to absorbing a soul ring. Wang Li's body was once again refined, though, as someone who had already absorbed a ten-thousand-year soul ring, his body was much stronger than before.

The color of his soul ring deepened, and within the yellow hue, a trace of purple began to appear, until the entire ring had completely transformed into a purple soul ring.

But the evolution didn't stop there. As the purple deepened, it eventually turned black, and then the entire ring became completely black.

Wang Li's face twisted in pain. The reverse energy and refining of the ten-thousand-year soul ring would undoubtedly enhance his physical strength, but the pain was also excruciating.

His first soul ring, second, third, fourth, and fifth all reached the level of fifty thousand years. Finally, he used all his remaining experience on the sixth soul ring.

Originally close to a sixty-thousand-year soul ring, the sixth soul ring surged past the 60,000-year mark and headed toward seventy thousand years.

Wang Li's face was filled with agony, his body trembling. Yet, in the midst of intense pain, his body was rapidly growing stronger.

The deep black soul ring finally took on a blood-red hue, until it was fully transformed into a blood-red soul ring.

At that point, it broke through the 100,000-year barrier, becoming a true 100,000-year soul ring.

Once the last bit of experience was used up, all the pain disappeared. Waves of power surged through his limbs and organs. Wang Li wanted to let out a triumphant roar, but since he was inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, doing so would cause him to swallow his bathwater, so he refrained.

Despite this, he felt incredibly elated. His strength had increased by dozens or even hundreds of times. With his first soul skill, he could summon a vast Blue Silver Forest. With his sixth soul skill, he could seal an entire fortress. He was now strong enough to face a Titled Douluo head-on.

Upon inspecting his dantian, Wang Li's expression turned strange. His dantian was extraordinarily vast, and his meridians were unusually wide. His original soul power, which was like a small stream, couldn't even fill his dantian or meridians.

"This feeling... Although I'm at level 70, I feel like I can hold more soul power!"

With that thought, Wang Li used his fourth soul skill. In an instant, a massive amount of energy flooded into his body. After circulating and refining it through his cultivation methods, his soul power seemed to show no increase at all. He refused to believe this. The energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye was endless—there was no way his meridians and dantian couldn't be filled.

"Could it be that once I fill my meridians and dantian, my soul power will increase to the level of a Titled Douluo, despite being at level 70?"

However, the main character's strength had to increase with experience, and the deeper the plot went, the more experience was required. With his martial soul's true body and the support of at least seven ten-thousand-year soul rings, both his body and soul power had reached Titled Douluo levels.

When facing off against a Titled Douluo in prolonged battles, rather than just passively taking a few hits from Dugu Bo, every fight could reward him with tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand, experience points.

Thus, his level-ups would no longer be slow.

(End of Chapter)