You Chen wasn't pretending to be young on purpose!

Chapter 45 You Chen wasn't pretending to be young on purpose!

"Yusei, don't you find this boring and pointless?"

Xiao Wu looked at You Xing, who was meditating on the bed, with a bored expression. Suddenly, she winked and said, "You've been so focused on cultivation these past few days that you haven't really gone out much. Do you want me to take you out to see the world?"

"OK."

Yusei suddenly stood up and nodded.

Even though it was Xiao Wu who took the initiative to invite him, when You Xingzhen actually agreed, it was Xiao Wu who was stunned on the spot.

After all... this wasn't the first time she had extended an invitation to Yusei.

Previously, without exception, all of them had been rejected.

"Wait, what's going on today? Has your Lord Yusei finally decided to move around a bit?"

"So you're not planning to come with me? Never mind then, I'll continue my cultivation."

"Oh, no, no, when did I say that?"

"Oh, let's go then."

This skillful feigned passivity, seemingly passive but actually holding the initiative completely in his hands, making Xiao Wu run around in circles, is clearly not something an ordinary nine-year-old could do.

You Xing, the illegitimate son of You Chen in the eyes of many, is actually You Chen himself.

Well, perhaps some people have guessed a little, but they think that the wandering star here is just a clone created by You Chen using starlight avatar, but in fact it is completely the opposite.

You Chen can't maintain his clone for 24 hours a day right now; at most, it can only last for a dozen minutes.

That day in the dormitory, the adult You Chen was actually a clone he temporarily created.

As for himself, he has always been in the dormitory of this year's student, staying in the body of You Chen (II), also known as Xiao You Chen.

Huh? You mean the Spirit Hall job?

As mentioned in the first chapter, You Chen's initial plan was to remain marginalized in this border city until he broke away from the Spirit Hall.

You Chen didn't care at all about being dismissed, having his salary and benefits deducted.

After deciding to create this alternate account, You Chen gradually started skipping work, leaving behind the message "I'm going into seclusion to cultivate recently, come to my house if you need anything" and then basically stopped showing up at the Spirit Hall.

However, he has already worked enough days this month, and no one has noticed his plan yet. It is estimated that the branch hall will react next month.

As for using the Lesser Dust for cultivation, will it reduce cultivation efficiency?

Yes, but the reduction is not significant.

The main problem is that increasing one's soul power level with the soul power of a Soul Master is far less efficient than cultivating as a Soul King.

However, in the eyes of discerning people, Yu Xing's attendance at school is probably secondary; he's just there to experience life and socialize with peers so he doesn't lack a childhood or social experience. His real learning still relies on his personal master.

Therefore, You Chen only needs to return home and then cultivate his soul power through meditation.

Many fan fiction works feature the concept of "saturation training," and You Chen also discovered that there is indeed a limit to the amount of time each Soul Master can spend practicing meditation each day.

This relates to the essence of meditation, which involves absorbing spiritual energy that exists between heaven and earth through a method similar to the resonance between personal will and martial spirit, and then transforming and purifying soul power.

This puts a certain burden on the Soul Master's body and Martial Soul. After cultivating to a certain level, one needs to rest for a period of time before continuing.

He wasn't quite sure what the Mysterious Heaven Skill was all about, but considering that in the original story, the effect of the Mysterious Heaven Skill in this world was more like a more complete meditation method, there should be no difference in essence.

You Chen guessed that because martial spirits exist in this world, the Xuan Tian Gong had an extra process of connecting with martial spirits, thus transforming internal energy into soul power.

You Chen cultivated in the form of Little You Chen not only so that he could disguise himself and approach Tang San, nor just to divert the attention of people like Bibi Dong to use for future schemes, but also to more fully utilize his own advantages to create an identity that could be distinguished from his original self.

There is another important hidden purpose—for his own spiritual practice.

After absorbing the fifth ring of the Great Dust, he is now level 54.

In theory, he could absorb Xiao Youchen's second and third rings to reach level 60.

Then absorb the sixth ring of Da Youchen to reach around level 63, and then add the fourth, fifth and sixth rings of Xiao Youchen... to reach the seventh ring Soul Saint as quickly as possible.

With the advantage of dual SIM dual standby, it won't take more than a few years for Tang San to become a Soul Douluo while he's still at the third ring.

In ten years, or at most a dozen years, they can at least reach the Title Douluo realm.

But becoming a Title Douluo was never You Chen's goal.

Even before he obtained the system, before he was defeated by his own limits and the failure to reverse his fate, he never thought of stopping at the Title Douluo level.

Moreover, this is by no means the way to maximize the advantages of dual SIM dual standby.

He aimed for perfection, especially in the first three and seventh rings, which were of utmost importance in You Chen's theory.

When he absorbed the first soul ring given by the system, he was puzzled by the 12,000-year time limit.

That doubt wasn't simply ignored; rather, You Chen had always kept it in mind.

After absorbing the fourth ring, normally the next ring should have a lifespan of 20,000 years.

In theory, Xiao Youchen's first ring should have a lifespan of around 20,000 years.

However, in reality, it was almost cut in half.

He wondered if the physical strength assessed by the spirit ring when he absorbed the first ring of the system was based on the physical strength of a body without any spirit rings.

This is most likely one of the reasons.

In the mid-to-late stages, the physical strength of weapon spirit masters is not too far behind that of beast spirit masters, mainly due to the enhancement of spirit rings in addition to their own training.

More than 90% of this enhancement comes from the spirit ring itself, and the remaining 10% is the modification and strengthening caused by the energy directly flowing into the body after absorbing the spirit ring. Therefore, if the spirit ring is locked due to a ring explosion, amputation, or other reasons, the spirit master's physical strength will also drop significantly.

But that's only one of the reasons.

You Chen has never stopped training his body. For example, now that he has switched to the Little You Chen form and is only at the first level, his physical strength is comparable to that of an ordinary Soul Master.

Moreover, wearing a spirit ring itself puts a burden on the physical body; theoretically, it can increase the lifespan of the spirit ring.

Physical endurance is not a problem, and mental strength is even more terrifying... Eliminating all confusing options, the remaining answer is obvious.

Soul power level, or rather... the balance of the three elements of essence, energy, and spirit.

The latter is relatively easy to explain, but the former is a factor that has been overlooked for a long time.

After all... every Soul Master has the same Soul Power level when absorbing Soul Rings at each stage, so who cares about the impact of this on the Soul Ring's lifespan?

After a period of research and analysis, You Chen finally confirmed this.

But... how do we calculate the optimal age of his Soul Rings at level 20 and level 30? Or even... how do we directly derive a calculation formula?

He needs more data for his research.

That's why Divan was sent to gather that information.

(End of this chapter)