You Chen's Cultivation

Chapter 41 You Chen's Cultivation

There is still one month until the official start of school.

But You Chen was not in a hurry to complete Yu Xiaogang's task.

Be swift when necessary, and slow when appropriate.

You Chen knew that being too anxious and impatient could easily lead to doing bad things.

He is always decisive in making decisions, but when it comes to implementation, he proceeds cautiously step by step.

With about two weeks to go before Nottingham Junior College officially opens, Xiao Wu has already completed her enrollment procedures and moved into the school dormitory.

However, the accommodation was naturally not the original Dormitory 7.

She is now enrolling through the legitimate means of paying for her education, and she lives with students in the same grade.

However, You Chen had told Xiao Wu beforehand that because the students in the junior academy were young, they would all live together regardless of gender.

He's making this clear upfront; don't wait until you can't get used to it and then come back to him for help.

Some children of noble families are not used to school dormitories, so they live in their own homes and commute to school.

Xiao Wu had already decided not to get too close to You Chen, so she naturally shook her head and said she didn't care.

After sending his child to school, You Chen officially started his job.

According to the branch hall's rotation policy, he only has less than two weeks on duty each month. He is also allowed to take leave and adjust his shifts.

These are all privileges of his Yellow Robe Deacon.

The branch hall master, who was also dressed in yellow, was different. As a hall master, although he had more freedom in his daily get off work hours, he was required to be stationed in the Spirit Hall every day.

Their power, salary, and resources will increase significantly.

This also reflects the principle of relative rights and responsibilities.

Overall, the work in the branch hall is quite leisurely.

Most of the trivial matters are handled by the white-robed deacons. As a yellow-robed deacon, You Chen only needs to get involved in major events such as the disaster of fallen soul masters or the invasion of soul beasts.

The Spirit Hall is currently at the peak of its prestige, and very few fallen spirit masters dare to show their faces.

Therefore, basically, the situations that require You Chen's intervention are those where the city lord cannot handle the situation and the Spirit Hall needs to help deal with the soul beast disasters.

Nottingham is located in a remote area, and such disasters are rare, occurring only once every few years.

This resulted in You Chen having basically nothing to do during his workday, except to cultivate in a different place.

You Chen's daily cultivation activities can be roughly divided into the following categories.

Firstly, the level of soul power is increased.

Secondly, the training of soul power manipulation ability.

Thirdly, physical training, while also practicing the "Cloud Movement Fist" in the process.

Fourth, the training of mental strength, with the "Distraction Soul Refining Technique" as the main method and the "Soul-Taming Technique" as a supplement.

Fifth, the practice of the "Breath Gathering Technique".

Sixth, research on the original power of martial spirits.

It can be said that You Chen's every day is filled with cultivation practice.

For an ordinary person, such a terrifying training schedule would be overwhelming even if they could only stick to it for a day or two, and they would not be able to guarantee the efficiency of their training.

But You Chen is different.

Not to mention You Chen's extraordinary mental strength.

These six practices do not mean that you must practice them one by one.

Many practices can be intertwined and integrated, allowing for mutual understanding and application.

This is undoubtedly due in no small part to the effects of the "Distraction Soul Refining Technique".

By using his mind to cultivate multiple aspects—soul power, physical body, and spiritual power—You Chen can now do so in parallel without interfering with each other.

Of course, the "Distraction Soul Refining Technique" is not without its costs, and can be used continuously around the clock.

In addition to the mental energy that is consumed several times more as a matter of course, it also consumes a kind of energy called "mental energy" that the world of Soul Masters has never paid attention to or defined.

Simply put, if you use this technique too much, even if you still have plenty of mental energy, you will feel mentally exhausted.

Unrestrained use could even lead to an extreme form of jade addiction, a common symptom in urban areas…

Based on You Chen's experience, the upper limit of this "mental power" should be related to a person's mental will. But this thing is indeed a bit mysterious, and even You Chen finds it difficult to quantify.

All I know is that willpower doesn't increase just because mental strength increases, but the stronger the mental strength, the faster it increases.

With You Chen's spiritual strength, his willpower is also destined to be quite strong. As long as he doesn't abuse this technique, he should be fine.

His most important gains during this period were in two aspects.

The fifth soul skill that You Chen obtained from the Wind Spirit is called "Roar of the Wind Dragon".

This is a purely offensive skill, and after testing by Youchen, its power is entirely worthy of its 24,000-year lifespan.

Even when released alone, it poses a threat to the strength of a six-ring Soul Emperor.

Soul skills are only one aspect; soul rings themselves also provide a certain degree of enhancement to the martial soul.

When a Soul Master absorbs a Soul Ring, even if it's not one of the first three rings, it will still bring changes to their Martial Soul.

The first three rings are more about changing the essence of the martial soul, while the fourth, fifth and sixth rings are more about strengthening the original one.

In a sense, the latter is the "normal" situation.

The former is like the enhancement brought by the spirit ring itself is only "increased in size", but it causes the spirit to grow new limbs, which is an unconventional situation.

You Chen's fifth spirit ring is naturally more conventional.

It brought two main changes to the Starbone Dragon Martial Soul.

Firstly, the appearance of miniature organs storing energy on the Starbone Dragon's snout is essentially an evolution of the Martial Soul to better unleash its fifth Soul Skill.

Secondly, a thin film layer appeared on the skin of the martial spirit, which could reduce wind resistance and indirectly increase the speed of the drifting dust. This is an evolution that is consistent with the characteristics of the Wind Summoning Spirit.

These minor evolutions have indeed improved the strength of the Starbone Dragon Martial Soul, but its score remains within the original range and is not a qualitative change.

Even the physical attribute boosts from the spirit rings themselves currently surpass the effects of spirit transformation.

But that wasn't what You Chen was concerned about.

You Chen was satisfied with the increase in wind power, but his original purpose was to experience "shooting speed" and the original power of Stardust Dragon through the process of creating his own soul skill!

His mastery of the power of his martial spirit's origin is far from reaching the next stage, but he has indeed made some progress.

Now, You Chen (I) can use simplified versions of his soul skills within the first three ten-thousand-year time limit without relying on soul rings, simply by calling upon the power of his martial soul itself!

However... this is not just the result of simulating the speed of shooting with a self-created soul skill.

There's also the "Breath Convergence Technique"!

Considering Tang Hao's presence, even though there was a 99% chance that this guy wouldn't attack him, You Chen still instinctively wanted to better conceal himself from this person who might start appearing in the vicinity.

This sense of urgency transformed into pressure and motivation, making You Chen extremely diligent in studying the "Concealing Breath Technique" during this period.

They fully unleashed their potential.

Although he had not yet mastered it to a minor level, You Chen had finally discovered the hidden effects of this technique during the process.

That is the training of the ability to control soul power!

(End of this chapter)