Douluo's self has a soul beast clone

The Azure Serpent Empress truly lives up to her reputation as a top-tier soul beast bloodline.

During this period, Li Chang'an's serpent clone continuously increased its age by hunting and preying on soul beasts. Even though some of the power gained had to be shared with the main body, it still managed to evolve from a hundred-year soul beast to a thousand-year soul beast in a short amount of time!

However, after reaching the thousand-year mark, Li Chang'an learned from the fragmented information inherited through his bloodline that his growth would not be as rapid from then on. Initially, it was only because he was too weak, coupled with the noble nature of the Azure Serpent Empress bloodline and its high inherent potential, that he was able to become a thousand-year soul beast in less than a year after birth.

But from the thousand-year level onwards, increasing his age would not be so easy. Conservatively estimating, it would probably take the Azure Serpent Empress twenty to thirty years, or even several decades, to become a ten-thousand-year soul beast.

As for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, it would probably take two to three hundred years, or even several hundred to a thousand years.

A hundred thousand years is considered a form of enlightenment for soul beasts, a level that cannot be reached in just twenty years.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. If Li Chang'an could devour a large number of high-age soul beasts with powerful bloodlines, or some natural treasures, such as immortal herbs, he could speed up this growth process.

However, no matter how much he speeds it up, there is still a limit; he can't become a fatty with just one bite.

With the Azure Serpent Empress's bloodline, it would be impossible for him to become a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, or even a million-year soul beast, within twenty years, even with the help of immortal herbs.

Unless he possessed the same abilities as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, he should just go to sleep and dream on.

Speaking of which, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, a soul beast with the ability to devour, is actually very powerful. Its devouring ability allows it to quickly convert the cultivation of its prey into its own use in a short period, thereby achieving tremendous growth!

Ordinary soul beasts, on the other hand, need time to digest and absorb their prey after hunting and swallowing them. Moreover, there is a significant loss of energy during the digestion process, and it is not 100% absorbed.

From this, you can see how big the difference is between the two.

Of course, even the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, such a perversely powerful soul beast, has no future to speak of, given that the path to godhood for soul beasts is blocked by the God Realm.

Therefore, in Li Chang'an's view, he still has to rely on his human body to become a god.

He can't count on the soul beast clone here.

In his opinion, the role of this clone is to share cultivation with the main body to aid in cultivation, allowing himself to grow rapidly.

Humans and soul beasts are different and do not need to worry about the power shared by the soul beast clone being insufficient.

Purely in terms of the amount of soul power, soul beasts completely overwhelm humans. Because the energy that can be carried in that massive body is far beyond what humans can compare to.

Don't think that soul rings only allow soul masters to increase one or two levels and assume that the energy within a soul beast is similar to or even less than that of a soul master. That would be wrong.

Li Chang'an once tried to swallow a small soul beast alive directly, without giving it a chance to condense a soul ring after death. He discovered that, at the same level, a soul beast that had not manifested a soul ring contained more energy than one that had.

This led him to speculate that the soul ring that appears after a soul beast's death is only a few tenths or even less of the total energy within the soul beast. The energy that humans absorb from the soul ring is, at most, only a small part of the soul beast itself. The remaining energy either dissipates into the world or remains in the soul beast's corpse. Occasionally, it may even turn into a soul bone.

Otherwise, if the energy contained in the soul ring was all the energy within the soul beast, how could a soul master only increase such a tiny bit in level after absorbing a soul ring?

So, after discovering this.

Li Chang'an would kill his prey as quickly as possible when hunting soul beasts, not giving the corpse time to condense a soul ring, and then eat it. Sure enough, the energy gained was far more than before.

The appearance of soul rings after a soul beast's death is a world rule that has been artificially modified. But condensing a soul ring takes time, so as long as you eat the corpse as quickly as possible during this time, a soul ring will not appear.

This is the result he discovered after many experiments.

And because the soul power reserves within a soul beast are not comparable to those of humans, even if the soul beast clone's level increases more slowly than the main body's, the soul power it can share is still enough to support his continued rapid progress.

To become a Titled Douluo within the next twenty years, with the soul beast clone's contribution, is not too difficult for Li Chang'an. The only thing he needs to care about is whether he can obtain an immortal herb to completely transform himself. Because this is related to whether he can gain the approval of the Vast Sea Barrier and inherit the Sea God's position.

...Time Skip...

Tian Dou Royal Academy.

Li Chang'an opened his eyes in his dormitory and subconsciously looked out the window. He saw that the sky was already bright, and the morning sun was rising, making it a good time for morning exercises.

He got out of bed, washed up, and changed into a set of close-fitting exercise clothes.

He came to the spacious courtyard of the dormitory.

Raising his hand, he summoned the Azure Serpent Sword, and then began to practice each basic sword move.

—Chop, Thrust, Flick, Sweep, Intercept, Hang, Collapse, Point, Smear, Lift, Cloud, Parry, Block, Lead, Pierce, Slash, Shave, Support.

The eighteen most basic sword moves were displayed in his hands as smoothly as flowing water.

These were not powerful sword techniques, but simply the most basic ways to use a longsword, allowing him to become more familiar with his spirit weapon.

Lest he not even know how to use a sword when facing an enemy in the future, which would be extremely embarrassing.

In Li Chang'an's view, he currently doesn't need to pursue any powerful sword techniques. He only needs the sword in his hand to be faster and sharper than the enemy's!

Then, no matter how exquisite the opponent's sword moves are, if they can't keep up with his speed, and he easily wipes their neck or pierces through their defense, it's all empty talk.

In the world of martial arts, speed is the only thing that matters!

When the sword in his hand can be so fast that the opponent can't react and easily takes the enemy's life, then no matter how exquisite his moves are, it's all in vain.

Strength can overcome skill; that's the principle.

Moreover, in this world, everyone relies on soul skills, and there are no powerful sword moves that he can learn. Even Sword Douluo, who is named after the sword, only relies on the power of the Seven Kill Sword and soul skills.

Douluo people do not pay attention to skills; they only value soul skills. Therefore, there are no powerful and dazzling sword techniques like in martial arts or Xianxia worlds. Because soul skills are enough to make up for all shortcomings.

For example, Tang San's many martial arts in the original work, such as Controlling Crane Catching Dragon and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps... seem very impressive, but they are only useful in the early stages. Later, when facing those real experts, the effect of these martial arts is very limited.

You can use Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps to dodge?

Then I'll just use a soul skill to lock on, so that no matter where you escape, you can only take this move in the end.

Controlling Crane Catching Dragon to transfer attacks?

I'll spray a cloud of poison to cover you; let's see how you transfer it.

The only advantage of these martial arts is that everyone can practice them, but they are not necessarily that powerful. In addition, even the most powerful and exquisite martial arts depend on the user's situation.

A Soul Master at the Titled Douluo level, even with a simple release of soul power, can easily smash huge rocks and form powerful destructive force.

Conversely, even if you give a Great Soul Master at level ten-something a hundred-thousand-year soul skill, the destructive force they can exert is pitifully weak.

Everything is based on level, and only strong self-strength is fundamental!

Having seen through all of this, Li Chang'an understands that he doesn't need to painstakingly research self-created soul skills like in other fan fiction novels, or covet the Tang Sect's secret techniques of a nobody. He only needs to quickly increase his level and acquire some good soul skills, which is enough to crush countless peers.

Am I, a level fifty Soul King, going to lose to a level thirty Soul Grandmaster? Do you understand what level suppression is!

Of course, this is not to say that skills are not important, but compared to skills, it is better to improve your strength first and then consider studying skills. Without strength, everything is empty talk.

Speaking of this, I have to mention a typical negative example in the original work.