Douluo: Brains Over Bloodline

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The interests of the Spirit Pagoda have never been about one person's benefit or a small group's agenda.

Xu Shengqun represents his own interests, not those of anyone else.

And within his interests, Xu Yuan's growth plays an enormous role.

Therefore, from Xu Yuan's perspective, even if it conflicts with many of the headquarters' policies, he will act accordingly and doesn't see anything wrong with it.

Because from the beginning, they were already at odds with Qiangu Dongfeng.

Or to put it another way, if the intelligence gathered by the system monitoring Shrek were used solely for internal purposes within the Spirit Pagoda, Xu Shengqun wouldn't feel so justified in helping Xu Yuan.

However, this system has already leaked intelligence to evil soul masters, crossing the line of what benefits the Spirit Pagoda.

This is no longer about the Spirit Pagoda's interests—it's a disaster for the Spirit Pagoda.

The path has gone astray.

If that's the case, then it must be corrected.

On the verge of breaking through to the Limit, Xu Shengqun's thoughts began to grow more active.

Without the power of a Limit Douluo, he naturally had no claim to the position of Tower Master. But if he were to break through?

Given Qiangu Dongfeng's current actions—once proven—Xu Shengqun could justifiably claim the title of Tower Master under the banner of restoring order.

"Being constantly targeted isn't sustainable. Since the Holy Spirit Sect still intends to act, we should lure them out once and teach them a lesson."

Xu Yuan nodded slightly.

"My breakthrough will be as discreet as possible. If I don't reveal it, I can serve as a hidden force. And your teacher—he may not have officially broken through yet, but he should already possess Limit-level combat ability. With the two of us working together, even if a quasi-god arrives, we can at least hold them off until Elder Yun arrives."

To lure the snake out of its hole, the enemy must believe they have an opportunity to strike; thus, Yun Ming absolutely cannot accompany them.

However, Yun Ming could prepare during that time and be ready to intervene at any moment.

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On the third day after Xu Yuan returned, Xu Shengqun adjusted his state and entered a meditative trance.

Xu Yuan observed quietly nearby.

Ye Yuan was also present, closely watching Xu Shengqun.

Breaking through to the Limit is an exceptionally unique milestone.

It represents the pinnacle of the current soul master path and the starting point for the next stage of cultivation.

Breaking through to the Limit is difficult, but once achieved, it opens up an entirely new realm for the soul master.

At this moment, even before Xu Shengqun broke through, noticeable fluctuations began to appear around his body.

These fluctuations weren't intense, nor did they have particularly strong penetrative power. Under the isolation of the pre-prepared soul-guided array, they couldn't spread outward at all.

Nevertheless, these fluctuations were quite distinct, clearly felt by both Xu Yuan and Ye Yuan present.

"It feels like everything has become much clearer."

Xu Yuan silently marveled.

He didn't speak or make any movements to avoid disturbing Xu Shengqun.

At this moment, he simply focused on sensing the fluctuations of the ambient energy.

Laws are not tangible entities—they are essentially mechanisms, natural principles.

They can be utilized, but mastering them isn't like solving a problem by finding the question, seeing the question, and directly answering it.

Understanding laws requires feeling and experiencing them.

Feeling the changes in heaven and earth.

Sensing the part of natural law represented by the laws and then using one's own strength to influence and replace that portion of natural law—this is how one masters the power of laws.

Xu Yuan still has a long way to go in comprehending laws, but he is no less capable than any Super Douluo.

After all, comprehension depends on insight, thought processes, and the perception level of spiritual power.

In terms of insight, Xu Yuan wouldn't boast, but in terms of cognitive ability and spiritual power strength, he surpasses a significant number of Super Douluos.

Even if his insight falls short, Xu Yuan can leverage the existence of the dream realm to verify and compensate for this weakness.

By combining the real and the illusory, he can bridge this gap.

In fact, Xu Yuan's insight isn't low—it has always been top-tier.

With this combination of real and illusory methods, his efficiency in gaining insights far exceeds that of ordinary geniuses.

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Three months later.

Unlike Xu Yuan's week-long process of condensing his soul core, Xu Shengqun's breakthrough took a full three months.

And this was despite him having already broken through to the Spirit Domain Realm long ago, with everything falling into place and preparations fully complete.

Over these three months, Xu Yuan's progress was nothing short of remarkable.

First and foremost was his advancement in soul power.

Before returning home, he had just condensed his soul core, broken through to Level 60, and fused the third soul ring of Huan Xing, smoothly advancing to Level 61.

Now, three months later, he quickly broke through to Level 62.

Of course, this is only the most basic change in soul power.

In reality, over these three months, his focus on cultivating soul power through meditation wasn't the greatest.

The most significant progress over these three months was in the evolution of his dream realm.

"Xiao Yuan, the fluctuations around you..." Xu Shengqun looked at Xu Yuan, somewhat surprised. After carefully sensing, he hesitantly said, "Are you about to ascend spiritually?"

Xu Yuan smiled and nodded.

That's right. By closely observing the fluctuations in ambient energy brought about by breaking through to the Limit, Xu Yuan advanced the process of solidifying his dream realm even further.

And the evolution of the dream realm also triggered Yao Yao's breakthrough.

Yao Yao had been stuck at the ten-thousand-year bottleneck for quite some time.

Now, finally on the verge of breaking through, the little beast had already frolicked several rounds in the dream realm.

"Since you're about to break through, let's prepare properly. If you need to enter the Ascension Platform, I'll arrange for you to access a high-level Ascension Platform."

Currently, most of Xu Yuan's spirit souls have reached the ten-thousand-year level. To undergo ascension via the Ascension Platform, only the high-level Ascension Platform would suffice; otherwise, the efficiency would be extremely low.

One aspect is that the spiritual energy of the intermediate Ascension Platform isn't ineffective for ten-thousand-year soul rings—it's just that the quality is too low. Raising the duration of ten-thousand-year soul rings would result in greater losses.

This is one factor.

It's also theoretically related to efficiency loss.

In practice, the Spirit Pagoda itself has designed the mechanism of the Ascension Platform so that when absorbing soul power to increase the duration of ten-thousand-year soul rings in the intermediate Ascension Platform, the absorption ratio is secretly reduced.

Thus, apart from theoretical efficiency reduction, there's also this systemic penalty.

"The high-level Ascension Platform is only available at the Spirit Pagoda's headquarters. For now, I don't plan to enter their platform."

After some thought, Xu Yuan declined.

Any equipment comes with detection.

While it's not necessary to keep all of Xu Yuan's abilities completely secret, it's better not to reveal them unnecessarily.

There's no need to rush and offer himself up for scanning.

Besides, even entering the high-level Ascension Platform, with Xu Yuan's current number of ten-thousand-year soul rings, it wouldn't lead to a qualitative change in a short period.

Seeing this, Xu Shengqun didn't press further and instead asked about another matter.

"Have you contacted Teacher Mu Ye?"

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