Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains!

Xu Yuan's lips twitched as he looked at the three-person lineup.

The teacher of the mecha piloting class, and two students.

Perhaps some students will come here for a few classes when the course first starts, but these second-year students have already trained in Shrek's outer academy for three years and have gone through three rounds of elimination. They no longer have the mind to distract themselves with mechs.

"Young man, are you here for class?" The young-looking teacher, Mr. Zhang, greeted Xu Yuan with great enthusiasm.

Xu Yuan nodded hesitantly.

The second-year mecha piloting class might not only have a smaller generation gap between the students and Xu Yuan, but also because there are fewer students here.

In another three years, the battle armor manufacturing and soul power cultivation will have begun to show promise, and after six rounds of elimination, the third-year students will no longer be so stressed. Some students will still choose to come to the mecha piloting class in their spare time to learn a thing or two. There may be five or six in the third year, and more than a dozen in the fourth year and beyond.

However, this is still a very small number for a group of over a hundred people in a grade.

It's clear how unpopular mechs are at Shrek Academy.

It's no wonder that Xu Yuan could become familiar with a receptionist who served all the students from the outer college. Yu Yang was just too free. Whenever Xu Yuan went there, he could see him dozing off out of boredom.

Xu Yuan could understand this, after all, it was all for the sake of pursuing the greater power of the battle armor.

However, mechs do not mean they are powerless.

On the contrary, Xu Yuan now has high expectations for mechs.

After listening to Yun Ming's explanation of the power of stars, Xu Yuan finally understood for the first time the difference between the two powers of primordial energy within a plane and the power of stars in the universe when used for cultivation by a Soul Master.

The reason this theory hasn't spread is because there are few successful cases.

It's not that there are cases of people becoming gods, but there are very few examples of people reaching the pinnacle by relying on this path.

Moreover, those who can cultivate the power of stars and still become Limit Douluo are already top talents of their generation, so it's not surprising that they can reach the limit. Such examples are not convincing enough.

The only thing that can be forced into this conclusion is that these geniuses' breakthroughs were very smooth.

However, without a doubt, this is still a level that Soul Masters will not generally accept.

The power of stars is inherently difficult to cultivate.

Cultivating purely with the power of stars is a different concept from developing star attributes or absorbing some star power to refine soul power.

If one takes the former path, the transition might be smoother later on. However, if one excessively pursues cultivating soul power with pure star power, it could lead to a genius who originally had the opportunity to achieve a title before the age of forty possibly not reaching the Soul Saint level by the age of fifty.

The power of stars is so difficult to cultivate.

However, their cultivation speed has been delayed, and it's uncertain whether they'll even have the chance to reach level 98 and advance to level 99.

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The power of stars is divided into different categories. The power of stars that naturally emanates from the universe is the most primitive power of stars. After being transformed by Douluo Star, some of the power of stars will be refined.

The cultivation methods for the two types of stellar power are naturally different.

The benefit of stellar power, as Yun Ming mentioned, is to break free from the constraints of different planes, so naturally, primordial stellar power is the best. However, the amount of primordial stellar power that can actually reach the interior of Douluo Star is already pitifully small.

Cultivating the power of stars is naturally divided into three categories.

First, there is the purest path: completely refining the most primal stellar power. There is not a single soul master who takes this path. Firstly, it is difficult, and secondly, primal stellar power is naturally scarce. As a second choice, soul masters who refine stellar power to cultivate soul power usually refine primal stellar power only occasionally. Most of the time, they refine normal stellar power that has been assimilated by Douluo Star. It can be considered effective, but not much.

Even so, a Soul Master who reaches level 98 can still break through to level 99 quite smoothly.

It is foreseeable that if one can take the purest path, the possibility of becoming a god is real.

Unfortunately, even this second-best option has hampered the lives of many prodigies, preventing them from maintaining a normal pace of soul power cultivation and ultimately leading to a dismal end.

Even after being assimilated, the power of the stars is more difficult to refine than ordinary primordial energy. Although it is more effective and excellent for breaking through bottlenecks and tempering soul power, if one were to use the power of the stars to completely establish a foundation and gradually increase soul power, the speed would be described as a snail's pace.

Having the attribute of stars is merely the foundation for manipulating and influencing the power of stars in the world, just as having the attribute of fire is the foundation for converting soul power or primordial energy into the attribute of fire.

Mimicry environment?

In an environment rich in stellar energy, one can refine their soul power solely with stellar energy and then absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to increase their soul power, thus greatly increasing their cultivation speed. As for cultivating stellar energy in an environment rich in stellar energy? It can only be said that it is faster than in a place where stellar energy is scarce, and the specific speed depends on the individual soul master's refining speed.

The efficiency of a Soul Master in refining Yuan Qi and the efficiency in refining Star Power are not the same, and this is the root of everything.

During cultivation, one uses the power of stars to temper one's soul power. This is the second type of cultivation using the power of stars, and it is the most common method to promote cultivation using the power of stars. However, it is the method that does not allow one to enjoy the enhancement mentioned by Yun Ming.

The pure path is more difficult to cultivate, and the growth of soul power is as slow as a tortoise. However, by tempering soul power with the power of stars, the growth rate of soul power is faster, and the quality of soul power is also higher than that of ordinary soul masters. Therefore, the latter is the most common.

The third category is the development of stellar attributes. This involves developing the attributes themselves, specifically the skills of manipulating and transforming stellar power.

This can be done simultaneously with the first two categories.

Back to topic.

Xu Yuan's connection to all of this was naturally not without reason.

He looked at the three scattered figures in the mecha piloting class and felt helpless.

Mechs shouldn't be left idle like this.

Although the path of cultivating pure star power is difficult, the cultivation environment is actually more difficult. If there is a rich source of primordial star power, the cultivation speed can naturally be accelerated.

The second type, the path of tempering soul power with the power of stars, is not only for soul masters with the star attribute. If the environment is suitable and there is abundant star power to assist, one can try it occasionally.

So, what if we could artificially create an environment rich in stellar energy?

For example, piloting a mecha to train in space.

The Federation's exploration of space is still in its initial stage, but it has already developed the basic technology to break through the gravity of Douluo Star and enter space.

If such technology were integrated into mechs, it would certainly help mech pilots to enter space.

As for the issue of survival in space, that's something the mechs can also solve.

Of course, this is just a concept, and whether or not to develop in this direction depends on the choice of the mecha pilots themselves.

As for Xu Yuan, he would definitely choose to explore this direction with his own mecha, because he really wanted to go to space to train.

"Besides these functional aspects, the biggest advantage of mechs is their dominance on the battlefield."

The larger the size, the greater the destructive power.

While a Red-level Mech Pilot may not be as powerful as a Four-word Battle Armor Pilot in terms of burst attack, they are capable of matching in terms of overall destruction.

Wide-range, area-of-effect attacks – that's the correct way for mechs to unleash their power.

Mechs can draw upon external energy sources, something that battle armor cannot achieve.

The initial development of mechs was driven by the pursuit of power. The reason why battle armor masters are more powerful today is naturally because battle armor has become more elite.

It is lighter and more portable, which not only enhances the Soul Master's abilities, but also makes it easier to manufacture.

Otherwise, if there were a mech made entirely of Heaven-Forged Metal, its power would certainly far exceed that of the Four-Word Battle Armor.

The mecha is larger, and the core magic arrays it is inscribed with will only be more numerous and stronger. There's no reason for it to be weaker than the battle armor.

The reason why mech pilots are inferior to battle armor pilots is purely a matter of cost!

Xu Yuan is not short of funds for the time being.

He was also a blacksmith.

Although he learned auxiliary forging techniques, there is no doubt that his talent in forging is undeniable.

The mastery of the Thousand Refinements to First Grade technique was achieved through Tang Wulin's understanding, but Xu Yuan was confident that he could make rapid progress on his own in subsequent forging processes.

This confidence comes from the spiritual connection.

In the future, he also has the potential to become a master craftsman.

Naturally, he wouldn't lack Heavenly Forging Metal, and he also wanted to test the strength of a mecha forged entirely by Heavenly Forging.

The path of pure star power allows for a smoother breakthrough to level 99, but Xu Yuan has no plans to take this path so far.

Yunming told him that a year had passed, and he was still refining the primordial energy of heaven and earth for cultivation, rather than refining the power of stars. Of course, he would also spend a certain amount of time each day drawing upon the power of stars to temper his soul power and blood.

In other words, Xu Yuan took the second path.

He abandoned the first option.

However, that doesn't mean he wouldn't study the first path.

"The Abyss is a great opportunity. I am not a child of nature, I do not have the Golden Dragon Spear, nor the Silver Dragon Spear. The vast energy of the Abyss is of no help to me in the slightest." Xu Yuan thought to himself, "My goal is to find a way to devour the energy of the Abyss before I come into contact with it."

The power of stars, the most primal power of stars—study this most primal power, study how to refine it, control it, and devour it!

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Xu Yuan was certainly not naive enough to think that he could devour the energy of the Abyss Plane after thoroughly studying the methods of refining the power of the primordial stars.

For six thousand years, no Soul Master in the Soul Master world has followed the purest path of the stars, but is there not a single Soul Master who has been able to refine the original power of the stars?

This is impossible.

However, even if one can refine the most primal power, it is impossible to refine the energy of another plane, especially a plane like the Abyss, where the primordial imprint is almost completely integrated with the energy within it.

The Abyss is an energy plane. Every wisp of energy is the essence of the Abyss, containing its origin.

Even with the ability to refine the most primordial stellar power, it is impossible to extract the opponent's essence from the abyss. This is the biggest dilemma facing Douluo Star in the face of the abyss.

The abyss can devour the vital energy of the Douluo Continent, but the Douluo plane cannot devour even a tiny bit of energy in return.

This stalemate lasted for a full six thousand years, and the Douluo Continent had declined to its extreme.