Douluo: AFK to Become a God

One year later.

Two figures, one big and one small, walked through the Soul Hunting Forest located 400 miles northeast of Notting City.

After three years since his martial soul awakening, the now 9-year-old Chu Chengzhou had finally raised his innate half-level soul power to the 10th level, becoming a Soul Master.

Chu Chengzhou: "Three years, three years, and three more years. I can finally become a Soul Master!"

Attribute Panel

Host: Chu Chengzhou

Soul Power: 10th-level Soul Master

Martial Soul: True Spirit Flag

Skills: Meditation (Purple), Body Refining (Yellow), Spirit Refining (Yellow)

Another year passed, and the martial soul that had been in the second of two slots in the automatic leveling panel had finally upgraded to top-tier quality.

As a perfect martial soul with no flaws, the original limitation of the Elemental Spirit Summoning Flag, which could only accommodate six soul rings, had disappeared. Now, as long as Chu Chengzhou could break through the bottleneck, he could continue to cultivate all the way to the nine-ringed Title Douluo realm.

Moreover, after the martial soul evolved, the Spirit Summoning bloodline, which had previously been suppressed to top-tier quality, was now enhanced to below the god-level.

Most importantly, after the transformation, the summoned spirit would now possess intelligence.

As a primate, Chu Chengzhou knew how important intelligence was. If the summoned spirit did not have intelligence, it would be a significant weakness. In such a case, if he were controlled by a spiritual-type Soul Master, and his summoned spirit lacked intelligence, it would become a mindless beast, and without his guidance, it would be easily defeated by the enemy.

However, with intelligence, the summoned spirit would not only avoid such a fate but could also be trained to fight like a coordinated soul master team, even defeating enemies stronger than itself.

This was why Chu Chengzhou named his evolved martial soul "True Spirit Flag."

Of course, this wasn't the most important part. The most significant benefit was that after the martial soul evolved into the True Spirit Flag, his soul power cultivation speed had also increased!

If the ordinary Elemental Spirit Summoning Flag had a soul power cultivation speed of 1, the advanced Elemental Spirit Summoning Flag had a speed of 2, and now, the top-tier True Spirit Flag had a cultivation speed of 3.

While the increase wasn't a full doubling of the original speed, Chu Chengzhou was still satisfied. With his top-tier martial soul and the current purple-level Meditation skill, his soul power cultivation speed was not far behind that of someone with innate full-level soul power. The benefits of automatic leveling were significant, and Chu Chengzhou had originally planned to continue leveling his martial soul.

However, when he saw that upgrading his True Spirit Flag martial soul to a god-level martial soul would require ten times the time—nearly 10,000 days, or more than 27 years—he immediately gave up on the idea.

After all, 10,000 days was a long time, and he couldn't afford to wait that long. Nevertheless, he believed that the efficiency of automatic leveling would increase over time, so upgrading to a god-level martial soul could be put off for later.

For now, the only one in the younger generation of Soul Masters who could surpass him in terms of martial soul rank was Qian Renxue.

Having previously been dissatisfied with the decreasing effectiveness of his yellow-level Body Refining skill, Chu Chengzhou decisively removed his martial soul from the first automatic leveling slot and placed Body Refining in it instead.

"Chengzhou, have you decided to choose the Sky Blue Tree for your first soul ring?" Su Nan asked as he looked at Chu Chengzhou in the forest.

"Yes, but it's not set in stone. A 600-700-year-old healing-type soul beast would also work," Chu Chengzhou nodded first, then shook his head.

His martial soul was unlike many others in the world—it had no inherent bias, and any soul beast's soul ring could be added to it.

However, considering his own cultivation needs, Chu Chengzhou had chosen to focus on a healing-type soul beast for his first summoned spirit.

In the world of Soul Masters, if there were to be a ranking of healing-type martial souls, the Nine-Star Begonia would undoubtedly rank at the top.

Among soul beasts, the Emerald Swan was considered the top healing-type soul beast, although such rare and powerful soul beasts were extremely hard to find.

However, the Soul Hunting Forest he was in was part of the artificial Soul Hunting Forest of the Tiandou Empire, which didn't have the same variety of soul beasts as the Star Dou Forest. Thus, the chances of finding such top-tier soul beasts were virtually nonexistent.

Instead, the Sky Blue Tree, a more commonly found plant-type healing soul beast, could be found in many of the continent's Soul Hunting Forests.

Although the Sky Blue Tree wasn't well-known among soul beasts and had a relatively weak bloodline, and no soul master had ever seen a 10,000-year-old one, for Chu Chengzhou, the bloodline level of the target soul beast wasn't the key factor.

Both martial souls and soul beasts could undergo transformations as their cultivators advanced.

Even if a martial soul started as an ordinary-quality one, as long as the Soul Master reached level 90 or above, their martial soul's quality would never be lower than top-tier.

Soul beasts followed a similar pattern—any 100,000-year-old soul beast would possess a top-tier bloodline.

For example, the Blue Silver Grass, a famous weak martial soul, could transform into the Blue Silver Emperor after evolving, becoming a top-tier martial soul or soul beast.

Since Chu Chengzhou had the ability to accelerate the automatic leveling of soul rings, even if the Sky Blue Tree's bloodline wasn't impressive initially, as long as he leveled it up to 10,000 years, its bloodline would be upgraded to high-tier. If it reached 100,000 years, it would become a top-tier soul beast, and if it reached 1,000,000 years, it would likely evolve into a divine beast.

Of course, once the Sky Blue Tree's bloodline was enhanced, it would no longer be called the Sky Blue Tree.

Just like how a flood dragon would become a true dragon after evolving.

"600-700 years?" Su Nan raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, but he didn't object.

He was well aware of the mysterious body-refining technique his grandson had developed. Although the effects were negligible for him, a Soul King, it was undoubtedly a legendary "divine technique" for a child who hadn't yet become an official Soul Master.

A 600-700-year-old soul ring was far from excessive for someone like Chu Chengzhou, whose physical strength far exceeded that of his peers and most Soul Masters of the same rank.

Translator's Note: From here on it'll be 3-5 chapters a day