Chapter 252

Gu Xuan's daily activity is to follow Chen Xin practicing sword, although he doesn't have a sword martial soul, but relying on the Sword Dragon Eight Wings, his sword way is rapidly improving.

At the same time, Gu Xuan also improved his state of mind.

Du Gu Yan also did the same, and besides following Ning Fengzhi in study, she also helped Ning Fengzhi handle many matters; at only twenty-two years old, she now also has a better understanding of human relations and worldly affairs.

Worth mentioning is that Gu Jian's cultivation speed inside the Binghuo Liangyi Yan is extremely fast; after one and a half years, she, who on average gains a hundred years of cultivation per month, has increased her cultivation from the initial five thousand years by fifteen thousand years, now reaching twenty thousand years of cultivation.

This rate of increase can absolutely be described as terrifying; it can be said that the current Gu Jian is like Gu Xuan among soul beasts, even faster than Gu Xuan.

Because she obtained the legacy of the two Dragon Kings, she is crazily increasing her cultivation every day inside the Binghuo Liangyi Yan.

It is estimated that in just a few years, Gu Jian will be able to cultivate to the hundred-thousand-year level, thereby becoming the true guardian divine beast of the Seven Treasure Glazed Sect.

Of course, after Gu Jian broke through to twenty thousand years, her cultivation speed has also declined somewhat compared to before, because she needs to spend more time consolidating her realm.

Fortunately, Zhang Jinyuan, Dugu Bo and others in the Binghuo Liangyi Yan can usually spar with Gu Jian, helping her quickly consolidate and familiarize herself with her realm.

Funny enough, once Gu Jian went out to play and provoked a fifty-thousand-year soul beast; unable to beat it, she ran straight back to the Binghuo Liangyi Yan to find Yang Wudi, and in the end Yang Wudi went out and gave that soul beast that bullied Gu Jian a beating.

Then Gu Jian gained a little brother, directly unifying more than half of the Sunset Forest's area, because that fifty-thousand-year-level soul beast is already one of the several overlords of the Sunset Forest.

Precisely because of this, the periphery of the Binghuo Liangyi Yan now has countless soul beasts standing guard, and these soul beasts are now Gu Jian's little brothers.

What made Gu Xuan feel a bit grim was that once Gu Xuan returned to the Sunset Forest, Gu Jian clung to her dad and complained, because her little brother actually wanted to unite with her.

How old is Gu Jian? At most a few years old; how could she understand these things?

After learning of this, Gu Xuan directly explained to his good daughter the ill intentions of that fifty-thousand-year Golden Armor Earth Dragon, and then Gu Jian gave that Golden Armor Earth Dragon a beating.

Because Gu Jian had Yang Wudi and Dugu Bo backing her up, that Golden Armor Earth Dragon was one who dared to be angry but not to speak; it no longer dared to show affection to the elder sister, for fear of being beaten to death.

Time flew by, and soon a year passed; in that year, besides having completely shed his mundane self and mastered the Slaughter God Domain, Gu Xuan also did a shocking, earth-shattering deed.

The cause was still Gu Jian's little brothers, because Gu Xuan used the Golden Armor Earth Dragon to subdue many soul beast little brothers, but because of this, many disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Sect, when they want to hunt soul beasts in the Sunset Forest, also have to take this into account.

After all, if they killed Gu Jian's little brothers, the Golden Armor Earth Dragon and those soul beasts would naturally no longer be wholeheartedly obedient to Gu Jian.

But there is a problem: not all soul beasts can keep growing.

Some soul beasts, due to fighting other soul beasts, have sustained injuries, and their lifespans are nearing their end.

So Gu Xuan used Gu Jian to take the lead, letting those soul beasts whose lifespans are about to end sacrifice themselves to the Soul Masters within the Seven Treasure Glazed Sect who need soul rings to break through.

And it is precisely because of this idea that Gu Xuan saw the viability of the spirit method.

In the original novel, Douluo One is still fine, because at this time there are still many soul beasts, and there is no situation where a Soul Master breaks through but cannot find a soul ring to advance; however, tens of thousands of years later, humans become ever stronger, the soul beast race declines, and their numbers keep dwindling.

This also leads to the situation where Soul Masters wanting to advance cannot find soul rings; and now, because of Gu Jian, some of the Sunset Forest's soul beasts that have died a natural death have chosen to sacrifice themselves to humans, so Gu Xuan sees the viability of the spirit method.

Although the situation of ten thousand years later does not yet exist now, Gu Xuan can still make early plans; and if Gu Xuan solves this problem now, there will be no future problem of soul beasts retaliating against humans.

Moreover, this can also solve the tense relationship between soul beasts and humans, because spirit is different from obtaining soul rings by directly hunting soul beasts.

Spirit can be inherited; if a soul beast becomes a human's spirit, then when that Soul Master dies, the spirit can still exist and be passed on.

However, Gu Xuan is not familiar with the spirit method; he only knows what is described in the original novel.

After more than half a year of experimentation on the spirit, the first spirit appeared, and moreover, the first person to possess a spirit is also closely related to Gu Xuan.

This person is Chen Yuan, the son of Chen Xin's younger brother; now the Seven Treasure Glazed Sect is prosperous, and although Chen Yuan's talent is ordinary, the fifty-year-old him has also broken through to rank seventy.

In the spirit experiment, he was the first person to obtain a spirit.

Moreover, precisely because the first spirit appeared, the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest that have submitted to Gu Jian saw hope, because although they do not have a hundred-thousand-year level, they also possess considerable wisdom.

Especially the Golden Armor Earth Dragon; it also participated in the spirit experiment. Although it does not fully understand the meaning, it clearly knows one thing: becoming a spirit of a Soul Master can grant immortality.

Though it may not be true immortality, it can at least continue to exist in another way, and its strength can further improve; even if the Soul Master dies in the future, their spirits can still survive.

However, the only problem now is that if a Soul Master dies, the spirit can indeed survive, but at most for only one year; if within that year they do not find a suitable host, they will still dissipate.

Therefore, although the spirit method has begun to be perfected nowadays, there is no vessel for storing spirits.

For a period of time, perhaps it's not a problem; after all, even if not every Soul Master can become a god, living a bit longer, one or two hundred years is still no problem.

But later, however, it is one month and, for example, after a thousand years, most Soul Masters already possess spirits, but if a Titled Douluo dies, his nine spirits cannot possibly all find hosts at once.

Spirits below the fifty-thousand-year level are still manageable, but spirits above the fifty-thousand-year level are hard to find hosts for, because although Soul Masters cultivate faster than soul beasts, they also have a limit; it's impossible to break through to Titled Douluo within a year, right?

Therefore, a vessel for storing spirits is absolutely necessary, but given Gu Xuan's current strength, making such a thing is extremely difficult; in the original novel, Huo Yuhao's Spirit Transmission Tower was also only built after he became a god, right?

However, there's no need to rush now, after all, the time left for Gu Xuan is still long.

Moreover, if Gu Xuan cannot unify the continent in the future, then this idea naturally also has no chance to be realized; therefore, what is most important now is not this, but unifying the continent.

Only then can Gu Xuan, relying on the spirit method, unite the entire soul beast race and achieve true unification of the Douluo Continent.

And what Gu Xuan currently needs most is a seventh soul ring.

ps: First correct the typos, then revise.

(End of chapter)