Douluo: I am ready to leave the Spirit Hall. The system will come.

Chapter 155: Star Soul Art, Searching for the Sea Princess
Poseidon Island is located in the West Sea of ​​Douluo Continent. There are three overlords in the surrounding waters, namely the Evil Demon Killer Whale King, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King and the last Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

As the place where the Sea God became a deity, the energy around the Sea God Island is naturally the most concentrated. Theoretically, it can give birth to more than three overlords.

However, due to the existence of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, in order to break through the million-year bottleneck of transforming into a dragon, in the past 20,000 years, a large number of soul beasts that were expected to become hundred thousand-year soul beasts were swallowed into its stomach and became nutrients before breaking through the hundred thousand-year bottleneck.

The only ones who could survive in this cruel competition for survival and finally break through the bottleneck of 100,000 years are the two soul beasts with top-level bloodlines, the Evil Demon Killer Whale King and the Demon Soul Great White Shark King.

The former was because each member of the evil killer whale tribe had strong combat power, and when they formed a group, even the Deep Sea Demon Whale King was unwilling to provoke them easily, and they finally passed the period of achievement for 100,000 years.

Although the latter's tribe is weaker than the evil killer whale, it is also protected by the sea soul beasts of Poseidon Island, so there is no need to worry.

Generally speaking, even the Deep Sea Demon Whale King would not dare to take them down easily.

But given the vastness of the ocean, there is always room for other soul beasts to survive.

In the sea area thousands of kilometers away from the Sea God Island, the energy concentration has dropped significantly, but based on a larger number base, there are always sea soul beasts that can reach the 100,000-year level.

In the North Sea area in the north of Douluo Continent, there is a race that has long believed in the sea god and lives in peace with the world - the mermaids.

This group of people have the upper body of humans and the lower body of fish. They are the mermaids in human legends. You Chen prefers to call them the mermaid clan directly.

The leader of the mermaid clan is even known as the Sea Princess.

The contemporary Sea Princess has survived for ten thousand years, and in this era, she also has a terrifying cultivation base of 590,000 years.

After all, this is not the vicinity of Sea God Island, so the energy concentration is not that high. In addition, the Sea Princess no longer needs to improve her strength to maintain her status among the soul beasts of the North Sea, so she is naturally not in a hurry to improve her cultivation. After all, every time a ferocious beast breaks through a 100,000-year bottleneck, it will face a horrific heavenly calamity after a thousand years. Before it really survives it, no one knows whether their hard work in cultivation is in a hurry to reincarnate.

Although its soul beast bloodline is not as good as that of top-level sea soul beasts such as the evil killer whale, it can definitely be called a quasi-top-level soul beast.

With 98 years of cultivation, she is comparable to a human level soul master. Even an Ultimate Douluo can barely maneuver in the sea. When the Sea Princess makes another breakthrough and has years of cultivation, she will probably be able to confront an Ultimate Douluo head-on in the sea.

In terms of overall strength, the Sea Princess is definitely superior to the Evil Killer Whale King.

But for You Chen, the difficulty of dealing with it would not be much different.

Because compared to the evil killer whale king, the Sea Princess has a huge weakness, and that is her physique.

It is difficult for human soul masters to judge, but the physical strength of smaller soul beasts will definitely not be too high.

If the physical strength of the Evil Killer Whale King belongs to the first tier under the level of Extreme Douluo, then the physical strength of the Sea Princess, whose comprehensive strength is comparable to that of a level 98 human soul master, is probably at the bottom level of Super Douluo.

Weak defense and vitality.

The size of the Evil Demon Killer Whale King might make it difficult for an ordinary Super Douluo to kill him even after a long fight, but the size of the Sea Princess would only cause a minor injury to the Evil Demon Killer Whale King, but for the Sea Princess, most of her body might be gone.

With You Chen's assassination ability comparable to that of a top assassin, it is entirely possible that he could kill the Sea Princess in one fell swoop before she could even react.

On the other hand, a large part of the strength of the Sea Princess is attributed to its strong mental power. Mental power is the greatest specialty of this soul beast.

But for You Chen, mental power is also his strong point. Even if it is inferior to that of the Sea Princess, he relies on the protection of the Star Tower in his spiritual sea and is not afraid of the opponent's mental attack at all, which directly reduces the threat posed by the Sea Princess.

You Chen is a hexagonal player. Even if his mental power cannot play a role, his other aspects are still at least at the upper-middle level of Super Douluo, which is enough to threaten the Sea Princess.

To deal with the Sea Princess, the most important issue to pay attention to is not the Sea Princess herself, but the group of soul beasts guarding her.

The Sea Princess can use her racial innate soul skill, the Mermaid Song, to link the soul powers of many sea soul beasts together, achieving an effect similar to the seven-in-one soul power fusion in the original work.

This makes it possible for many ten thousand year soul beasts and even thousand year soul beasts that were originally unable to pose a threat to You Chen to become a hindrance to You Chen.

If there were many other soul beasts around it when fighting with the Sea Princess, it would be very likely that You Chen would have to spend a lot of energy to deal with these soul beasts.

Just as You Chen is not worried about the Sea Princess's mental attack because he has the Star Tower, You Chen cannot guarantee that his own group mental attack will not be weakened and thus ineffective under the connection of the Mermaid Song.

What's more, the Princess of the Sea is a 590,000-year-old beast, so it cannot be ruled out that it has other subordinate soul beasts of the 100,000-year level. You Chen can indeed kill ordinary 100,000-year-old soul beasts in seconds, but this requires some high-cost moves, and there is no guarantee that the Princess of the Sea will not seize the opportunity when he attacks other 100,000-year-old soul beasts to kill him.

Therefore, the best plan is to find a chance when the Sea Princess is alone, and kill her before the other soul beasts guarding her arrive to rescue her.

However, killing the Sea Princess would almost mean becoming enemies with Poseidon Island if there was no guarantee that any information would not be leaked.

The mermaids have always been hostile to humans, but after all, they, like the Poseidon Island, have a pure faith in the Poseidon.

Before becoming a god, Poseidon was also a human soul master. It is a huge question whether the mermaids hate the soul masters of Poseidon Island as much as they hate other humans.

No, there is no need to put a question mark.

From the Sea Girl Douluo, the half-human, half-sea soul beast Holy Pillar Douluo who belongs to the mermaid clan, it can be seen that there must be a close connection between the two sides.

To kill the Sea Princess, unless he could do an assassination without anyone noticing, with the number of sea soul beasts here, it would be impossible for You Chen to not leak any of his information.

In addition, he had just hunted down the Evil Killer Whale King not long ago. The Sea God Island would definitely link these two soul beasts that had hunted down hundred thousand year soul beasts and ferocious beasts one after another, and even decisively regard them as the same person.

So will You Chen stop here and choose other soul beasts as his target?
Of course not!
You Chen was extremely satisfied with this sea princess, no matter the soul skills she produced or the age of her soul rings. How could he miss her?

The improvements that spirit rings can bring to spirit masters are nothing more than spirit power, physical strength, and mental power.

Needless to say, the first two are self-explanatory. As for mental strength, it is not only through absorbing the spirit rings of spiritual soul beasts that it can be improved.

Even a ten-year soul ring can have the effect of improving the spirit power of the soul master. However, basically the intelligence of soul beasts under ten thousand years old will not be very high, and the corresponding improvement in spirit power is also minimal.

There are two reasons why spirit masters in the old times considered ten thousand years to be the optimal period for the fifth ring.

One is that it has nothing to do with age. Every time a soul master puts on a soul ring, it is equivalent to installing a martial soul stabilizer, which not only limits the wild growth of the martial soul origin, but also protects the soul master. When absorbing a soul ring, both the shock from the unrefined soul ring and the mental shock that follows will be weakened accordingly.

This is also one of the reasons why the more spirit rings one has, the longer the next ring can absorb. The optimal limit of each ring is nearly doubled. The first few rings are not so bad, and the later ones are still like this after the ten thousand year spirit rings. A large part of the credit is due to the restraining effect of the previous spirit rings.

Why is it that You Chen clearly used the soul power borrowing method, and the second ring has a lifespan of 4 years, but the third ring only increased by 6 years, reaching only years?
This can be seen from the lack of stability of the martial soul origin in the first three rings mentioned earlier. It is precisely because the martial soul origin is not stable enough when absorbing the first three soul rings that the ability to cope with the shock of the unrefined soul rings is very poor.

Starting from the fourth ring, after the origin of the martial soul has completely stabilized, the calculation formula for the best lifespan of the soul ring begins to be obviously affected by the number of soul rings.

With the help of the soul power borrowing method, when You Chen absorbed the fourth ring, it was equivalent to using the soul power of a level 60 Soul Emperor to absorb it. Coupled with the quality of his martial soul, his terrifying physique, and his incredible mental strength, the best lifespan is enough to reach 15 years. The best lifespan of the fifth ring is about 30 years, and it is no problem for the sixth ring to absorb a 60-year soul ring.

Even if he didn't need the Soul Ring Age-doubling Card that ignored the Soul Ring's burden, You Chen's seventh ring was enough to absorb a million-year soul ring, which was the theoretical limit of the soul ring's age!

However, by that time, the total age of the spirit rings that You Chen II has endured will reach 190 million years, close to 200 million years!

With the cultivation of a Soul Saint, he could bear a soul ring with a lifespan of 200 million years...

Unless You Chen could rely on his first life to break through the two bottlenecks of Titled Douluo and Ultimate Douluo successively and upgrade his life level twice, or his Divine Elephant Prison-Suppressing Power had a huge breakthrough, it was likely that his second life would not be able to attach any more soul rings.

This is a bit off topic, let's get back to the question of whether ten thousand years is the optimal age for the fifth ring.

The second element is naturally to absorb the mental power improved in the previous few stages.

Even though it is not as good as the improvement of mental power by spirit rings of more than ten thousand years, but after four spirit rings, plus the fact that humans' original mental power talent is far superior to that of soul beasts, this mental power also has a greater probability of reaching the spiritual realm, which is what later generations call 100 points of mental power.

Coupled with the resistance of the four spirit rings to mental shock, normally the ten thousand year spirit ring can be successfully attached as the fifth spirit ring.

However, the Sea Princess, whom You Chen is now preparing to hunt as his soul ring, is a soul beast whose main attribute is mental power.

After absorbing this soul ring, You Chen's spiritual power will definitely be able to directly enter the late stage of the spiritual realm and go a short distance.

And a better result is that the Sea Princess directly explodes her head soul bone. After absorbing her head soul bone, You Chen's mental power will definitely reach the peak of the Spirit Realm, and there is even a high probability that he will directly cross the threshold of the Divine Origin Realm. If coupled with the Longing for the Autumn Water Dew that You Chen deliberately kept until now, this high probability can be boldly increased to 100%.

Mental strength greatly affects the soul master's thinking speed and insight, and indirectly improves his talents in many aspects such as comprehending the origin of martial souls.

Using spiritual consciousness to conduct research and study will definitely greatly improve the efficiency of Youchen's subsequent training plans.

Due to various factors, You Chen is bound to win the heart of the Sea Princess.

Following the direction indicated by the nautical chart, You Chen quickly started on his journey again.

Flying from the West Sea to the North Sea, even at the speed of Youchen, it still took a full day.

The output of materials in this world, such as rare minerals and marine plants, are more likely to appear in places with higher energy concentrations.

For this reason, the West Sea of ​​Douluo Continent has become the most popular sea area for expedition fleets in the past six months.

The North Sea is the most popular sea area after the West Sea.

However, just like in the West Sea, where the spirit masters of Poseidon Island disguised themselves as pirates and plundered the fleet, which greatly dampened the enthusiasm of the adventurers who were sailing out, in the North Sea, a large number of spirit beasts began to attack the ships in an organized and systematic manner.

In addition, pirates are also rampant in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, which are less rich in resources.

Now, You Chen directly regards the pirates as the soul masters of the Sea God Island. Although the Sea God Island is located in the western sea area, it is nominally the controller of the entire sea. It is the holy land in the hearts of all sea soul masters. It is not surprising that its tentacles are spread across the east, west, south and north sea areas.

You Chen even guessed that in the North Sea, there were sea soul masters who were directly colluding with the soul beasts ruled by the Sea Princess.

However, these are not the problems that You Chen needs to deal with at the moment.

Although many soul master fleets returned empty-handed, they also found out a lot about the situation in the North Sea.

The Crystal Palace was what a soul master saw when he fled back in panic after his ship was destroyed by a sea soul master and he was chased by many sea soul beasts.

According to his description, it was a palace hidden in the deep sea.

Although the exact location was a little vague due to the panic of fleeing, the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce still measured the approximate location based on the route of its escape.

As for on-site investigation? You Chen couldn't bear to let his good employees spend their time in such a dangerous place.

Although the lack of this layer of verification cannot rule out the possibility that the person lied in order to earn money for intelligence, but when thinking of the title of Sea Princess, You Chen is willing to believe it this time.

I think, in the North Sea, only the mermaids are qualified to live in such a place.

And if that soul master really lied, and You Chen made a wasted trip... then of course he could only disappear from the face of the earth.

Well, literally disappearing from the face of the earth. Ignis would surely be happy to take on this task.

Going deeper into the North Sea, You Chen gradually became convinced that the soul master was indeed telling truth.

Because, as he flew along the approximate direction measured by the Beast Soul Chamber of Commerce, he began to clearly see the traces of several major soul beast tribes that were dependent on the mermaid clan.

And under his meticulous perception, the concentration of energy is gradually increasing.

This is increasingly giving us that “getting to the core” feeling.

You Chen was not in a hurry to go deeper. He walked around carefully and observed the positions of several soul beast groups. He immediately found that they were vaguely forming an outer ring guard formation.

His eyes lit up, and he took out the nautical chart, made some marks on it, added the locations of several ethnic groups, modified and adjusted the positions of several erroneous landmarks, and then used the method of calculating the center of a circle to mark a new location of the "Crystal Palace".

The difference between the two Crystal Palace landmarks on the map is only a few centimeters, but in reality, the difference is probably hundreds of kilometers.

If You Chen's calculation was correct and his luck was a little worse, it might take a long time to search in this vast ocean.

After all, the Crystal Palace is located beneath the sea, in deep water, and it is not as easy to explore as the landmarks on the surface.

Then, just as You Chen had calculated, he concealed his breath and successfully found the location of the Crystal Palace.

The size of this crystal palace is much larger than what the soul master described. Rather than being a palace, it is more like a huge underwater relic hidden deep in the trench. Its area is close to that of a small city.

If you want to find the location of the Sea Princess, the quickest way is to use mental power to scan it.

But You Chen must be crazy to do this.

That would be equivalent to directly giving up one's advantage as an assassin hiding in the dark.

If you really want to meet the Sea Princess, there is no need to go through so much trouble.

The mermaid clan and their vassal clans all have a very high sense of companionship compared to the three dominant soul beast clans of Sea God Island.

If it was just to lure out the Sea Princess, to put it in an extreme way, You Chen could just kill a thousand-year soul beast near the coast of the North Sea of ​​Douluo Continent, and lure in a ten-thousand-year soul beast, kill a ten-thousand-year soul beast, and lure in tens of thousands of years of soul beasts... and so on, and directly lure out the Sea Princess.

However, at that time, not to mention that the soul beasts would gather into a large army, they might even attract support from the Sea God Island.

Although using mental power to directly sweep will not lead to such exaggerated consequences, the essence is the same.

Princess Hai is very likely to have stronger mental power than I do now, so who knows who will discover whom.

You Chen went through such a long detour, collecting intelligence beforehand and exploring personally, wasn't it to keep it as secret as possible and not alert other people or other forces?

At this point, it is natural to use the same old tricks again, just like using the clone to pay attention to the consumption of the evil killer whale king's mental energy, and directly use the sensory ability to find the location of the sea princess.

After thinking about it, You Chen dived into the water with a splash and swam towards the depths of the trench.

With You Chen's current physical condition, he can go a whole day and a night without breathing even in the deep sea.

Of course, this has some impact on combat effectiveness, but it is not too much.

When the critical and necessary moment comes, you can use the air compression soul skill to forcibly expel the seawater and create a waterless pure oxygen environment to facilitate combat.

The magic damage of pure oxygen is greatly reduced for the strong Super Douluo with physical strength. After all, their physical vitality is ridiculously strong, and the power of this continuous damage may not be greater than the speed of their natural blood recovery...

And You Chen is such a strong physical warrior.

As for Youchen's starlight incarnation, he had no need to breathe at all.

This crystal palace seemed to be embedded in a trench. Apart from entering through the main gate, one had to break open the external building structure to force entry.

Destroying the building would naturally attract attention, and the main gate was guarded by a soul beast at all times. Judging from its appearance, it was a ten thousand year old soul beast of the sea knife fish clan.

The seven major tribes, including the sea demon elephant tribe, sea whale tribe, sea knife fish tribe, sea horse tribe, sea snake tribe... are the direct followers of the sea princess tribe. Each of them is a powerful high-level soul beast, analogous to the high-level martial soul among soul masters.

Although it is difficult for this high-level soul beast to break through the 100,000-year limit, under the protection of the Sea Princess, it is not difficult to cultivate a ten-thousand-year level soul beast.

Selecting the best from the best, there are some that are stronger than the relatively ordinary mermaids in the mermaid clan.

Being able to directly serve as the gate guard, this sea knifefish must be an elite in the tribe.

However, You Chen has many ways to instantly kill this elite among the thousand-year-old sea knife fish guarding the main gate.

But there is no guarantee that this will not alert other guards.

Fortunately, You Chen has the BUG skill called the Breath-Lending Technique.

By completely blending into the environment and finding the blind spots of the guards' vision, You Chen easily sneaked into the Crystal Palace.

With Youchen's five senses, he is as good as a superman even in such an unfamiliar environment as underwater.

Even though he didn't activate the full mental map plug-in, he still had a clear view of the surrounding situation. He knew exactly when and where someone would appear.

It didn't take long for You Chen to find a safe place and differentiate into six starlight incarnations.

The essence of these starlight incarnations is still soul power. With You Chen's current ability to control soul power, he quickly molded them into the appearance of the soul beasts in the underwater crystal palace by manually molding them.

Judging from the size of the main gate of the Crystal Palace, the first thing that can move around here is ruled out as large soul beasts such as sea elephants and sea whales.

Taking into account the function of guarding, the soul beasts of the two more flexible clans, the sea knife fish clan and the seahorse clan, are basically the main ones.

You Chen's incarnation also transformed into the appearance of these two soul beasts and quickly wandered around the crystal palace, trying his best to find the location of its core palace.

The six avatars walked in front like cruisers, while You Chen himself stayed in the center of the search circle formed by the six avatars.

The reason for choosing stealth instead of playing the role of a patrolman to extract information from other patrolmen is, firstly, that the search is not efficient in this way, and secondly, it is easy to reveal one's true identity if being questioned.

If you use an avatar, you can still have room for mediation if you are discovered unexpectedly.

As long as he is not discovered as a human invader, even if he is caught for a while it will have no impact on You Chen. On the contrary, it will distract the attention of some patrolmen.

The progress was smooth all the way.

You Chen noticed that the number of guards around him had decreased significantly, but their quality had increased significantly.

The sea soul beasts encountered were more elite than the other, and there might be some strong ones among them who could fight against the Soul Douluo.

The mermaid clan gradually began to occupy the mainstream.

You Chen naturally became alert, as this clearly indicated that he was gradually approaching the core area of ​​the Crystal Palace.

And at this moment, even though he had never encountered any other sea soul beasts before, he suddenly met love around the corner.

Without any warning, without any footsteps or vibrations of water waves, one of You Chen's incarnations bumped into a mermaid wearing a crown at the corner.

(End of this chapter)