chapter 4 part 2
Speaking of which, some might ask.
Since this persona system was so effective, why didn't Ye Cheng design an even stronger and more abnormal persona? For example, an immortal cultivation practitioner, or a Creator God or something similar.
This brings us to the issue of recognition degree.
For example, the persona he designed now: Twin Martial Soul, innate full soul power. Then, after cultivating one Martial Soul to its peak, he added Spirit Rings to the other Martial Soul, thus obtaining the abnormal Nine Rings, hundred-thousand-year configuration.
Although this persona still seemed abnormal, it was still within the range of conventional knowledge acceptable to others. After all, such a setting was theoretically feasible; it was just that no one had ever tried it before.
However, if you suddenly came up with something like an immortal cultivation practitioner, a Creator God, or something similar, it would far exceed the scope of others' conventional knowledge.
The result of such an operation would be that others' perception of this persona would be vague, and some might even subconsciously be unable to accept it! Even if the facts were laid out before them, they would refuse to accept, refuse to believe!
Therefore, creating an overly exaggerated and unrealistic persona all at once was absolutely not permissible; even with the help of the future video, the completion rate obtained would definitely be very low!
Furthermore, the more high-end the persona, the more people it would require to believe in it for it to eventually become real.
If Ye Cheng really created a Creator God persona, the mere number of people in a single Douluo World would be far from enough. Even if everyone in the world believed, the completion rate might not even reach one-hundred-millionth.
And if the completion rate didn't reach 100%, he wouldn't be able to obtain the persona's power. At that point, wouldn't the discrepancy between reality and the persona expose him?
Therefore, he couldn't be overly ambitious.
What Ye Cheng needed most at present was to first fabricate a persona acceptable within everyone's conventional knowledge, gain some strength, and shed the fact that he was a weakling. Thus, this Twin Martial Soul persona came into being.
Of course, this Twin Martial Soul persona was just the foundation. Later, he could design more personas to overlay this Twin Martial Soul persona. For example, in the video he just fabricated, it only showed him becoming a Limit Douluo. But there was nothing after that.
And at this point, there was a lot of room for manipulation.
For example, he could fabricate a persona of Sword God Ye Cheng, who later achieved godhood, or a persona of a Martial Ancestor or Immortal Ancestor who created unique cultivation methods... In short, if he wanted to become stronger, diligently fabricating personas was the way to go.
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Currently, Ye Cheng suddenly possessed the strength of a Limit Douluo, but he wasn't in a hurry to immediately design his next persona, because he was, after all, just an ordinary person before. Now that he had suddenly gained such immense power, his mindset hadn't yet adjusted; he needed to spend some time adapting.
He was now like a pauper who had suddenly become rich overnight; although he was no different from other wealthy individuals in terms of fortune, in terms of perspective and mindset, he was still that destitute fellow. He had money but lacked the matching inner foundation.
He was far inferior to those strong cultivators who truly rose from weakness to power, cultivating bit by bit.
So, he planned to first adapt to the strength he possessed and cultivate a matching mindset. Only then would he consider fabricating his next persona.
Anyway, with his current Limit Douluo power, he could completely walk unhindered across the Douluo Continent. There was no need to rush for stronger power.
Even against a deity, if he went all out now, he might not be unable to defeat them.
After all, the deities in this world, to be honest, were quite watered down. In the original work, Qian Renxue, a dignified level 1 god, could even be pierced through the heart by Tang San, who had not yet achieved godhood.
While there were certainly factors like the protagonist's halo and this woman's love-struck mind involved, it wasn't hard to see how pathetic the gods in this world were.
Therefore, with his current Limit Douluo strength, as long as he didn't encounter the God Realm, he could essentially do as he pleased and traverse the Douluo Continent freely!
…
After making his plans.
Ye Cheng suddenly raised his hand, and a ring appeared between his fingers. This ring hadn't existed before, but now it had naturally manifested in his hand. Clearly, this item was also a product of the persona.
The persona's settings could not only bring him power but also certain items and background settings. (For instance, if the setting stated he had undergone trials in certain places in the real world, then the persona's power would ensure that anyone investigating wouldn't find a single flaw.)
As for the ring on his hand, in the setting of the Twin Martial Soul Ye Cheng persona, it was a soul tool for storing items, obtained from an Ancient Relic. It contained a vast space, capable of storing many things.
With a thought from Ye Cheng, a light flashed on the ring. Then, nine red rays of light appeared.
These nine red rays of light hovered around him. Upon closer inspection, one could see that at the center of these lights were bone-like objects: hand bones, leg bones, skulls, torso bones…
Undoubtedly, these nine bones were precisely Soul Bones. And they were extremely rare hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones!
It was no exaggeration to say that any single Soul Bone among them, if thrown out, would be enough to stir up a bloody storm in the Soul Master world!
As for how these nine Soul Bones came to be, they were naturally a byproduct of the persona.
In the previously fabricated future video, Ye Cheng had slain nine hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts in the Great Sea, and hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts were guaranteed to drop Soul Bones! Thus, he obtained nine Soul Bones from them. These nine Soul Bones were precisely the ones from the video.
As for anything else that didn't appear in the video, there genuinely was none.
"Soul Bones, huh…"
Ye Cheng looked at the nine hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones before him, enough to drive countless people mad, yet his heart showed no great fluctuation. Because he already possessed something better.
In his character persona setting, since he could cultivate to Titled Douluo and his body could bear eighteen Spirit Rings without exploding and dying.
Then, without a doubt, the Soul Bones on his body must be complete.
Head, torso, four limbs—all six Soul Bones were complete, and had long since fused into a Soul Bone set.
Every single Soul Bone on his body was a top-tier hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone!
It was precisely because of this that the 'him' in the setting could suppress the conflict of the Twin Martial Soul, forcefully adding nine hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings to the second Martial Soul, and then leveraging that immense soul power to break through to level ninety-nine Limit Douluo!
If the 'him' in the setting had slightly poorer body quality, he would have long since exploded and died from the Martial Soul conflict.
Initially, when fabricating the persona, Ye Cheng even madly considered making all six Soul Bones on his body million-year god-level Soul Bones. Later, he gave up after considering reasonableness. As a second best, he settled for six hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones.
(end of chapter)