Chapter 4: One Step to the Top!
[Role Playing System Create a persona. The more people believe in it and experience shock, admiration, or fear toward it, the more real it becomes!
Current Role: Twin Martial Souls Ye Cheng (100%)
Previously Played: Twin Martial Souls Ye Cheng
External Plugin: Livestream Spoiler System 50% (Absorption progress insufficient. Only low level permissions available can create questions, fabricate and modify videos, and set rewards and punishments for Q&A. Cannot receive Q&A rewards. Only at 100% full absorption can the system be completely controlled.)]
Staring at the system panel, Ye Cheng trembled with excitement!
Just as he had predicted after one future video was played, his persona completion had instantly reached 100%!
Without this future video, it would have been nearly impossible for him to perfect this persona and convince the entire world to believe in it. Let alone reaching full completion so quickly!
"Fusion!"
Suppressing his excitement, he immediately issued the command.
In the next moment
BOOM!
A deafening roar echoed in his mind.
It felt like the heavens and earth had collapsed.
An overwhelming flood of memories and power poured into his body…
Ye Cheng closed his eyes, silently feeling this metamorphosis, a transformation akin to a caterpillar breaking out of its cocoon into a butterfly!
After a long while
When he reopened his eyes, his entire aura had changed drastically.
He slowly raised both hands summoning his Martial Souls.
Left Pagoda. Right Sword!
The pagoda the world's strongest auxiliary Martial Soul, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda!
The sword a long blade with a white jade hilt and a crystal clear blade the Flying Rainbow Sword!
Gazing at the two Martial Souls in his hands, feeling the unstoppable, heaven defying power surging within him, Ye Cheng's lips curled into a smirk.
Then, that smirk widened.
And finally he burst into uncontrollable laughter!
"Hahahahahaha!"
What does it truly mean to rise to the top in a single step?
THIS is what it means!
By fabricating one future video, he had transformed from a useless failure into a supreme powerhouse at the very peak of the soul master world!
Indeed, transmigrators with cheats and transmigrators without cheats were simply two different species!
After indulging in his own triumph for a while, Ye Cheng finally began to assess his current state.
First his soul power was now Rank 99, Ultimate Douluo.
He was just one step away from becoming a god!
As long as he could condense a God Position, he would break through into divinity!
Second his Martial Souls.
His Flying Rainbow Sword had a soul ring configuration of Yellow, Yellow, Purple, Purple, Black, Black, Black, Black, Red a perfect soul ring setup in the eyes of soul masters!
As for the soul skills, Ye Cheng had no interest in flashy abilities.
Instead, he had designed all of his sword's soul skills to solely enhance its attack power.
To put it simply
His first soul skill doubled his sword's base attack power.His second soul skill doubled the power again.The third soul skill doubled it once more.This pattern continued, multiplying with each soul ring!
By the ninth soul ring, the attack power of his Flying Rainbow Sword had been amplified by hundreds of times!
Because every single soul skill was purely focused on attack power, the destructive capability of this sword was beyond human comprehension!
It was a weapon of absolute annihilation!
Next his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
Originally, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had fixed enhancement percentages
With one soul ring, it boosted 20%.With two soul rings, it boosted 30%.With three, 40%…At nine rings, it doubled all attributes (100% boost).
But Ye Cheng's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was different.
Unlike normal soul masters, all of his nine soul rings were hundred thousand year soul rings!
And hundred thousand year soul rings came with mystical properties
So instead of each ring adding 10%, his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda followed a different rule
Each ring DOUBLED the enhancement effect!
By the time all nine rings were attached, his enhancements were TEN TIMES the normal level!
For example if he activated a soul skill that enhanced soul power, his soul power would surge by TEN TIMES!
Tenfold increase!
Although temporary, the effect was outrageously overpowered.
With this kind of ridiculous amplification, Ye Cheng was certain
His Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was the strongest auxiliary Martial Soul in the world!
Of course, if someone else in the future also obtained a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and equipped it with nine hundred thousand year soul rings, they still wouldn't be able to replicate his absurd power.
Why?
Because Ye Cheng's enhancement ability wasn't just due to his soul rings.
It was due to his "Role Playing System."
Thanks to the system, his Martial Soul had been custom designed to be overpowered turning the impossible into reality!
To put it simply
He had cheats. That's why his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was so absurdly broken!
At this point, some people might ask
"If the Role Playing System is this powerful, why didn't Ye Cheng design an even more ridiculous persona? Like an immortal cultivator, or the creator of the universe?"
The answer was acceptance rate.
For example his current persona was a Twin Martial Soul user with innate full soul power.
He cultivated one Martial Soul to the peak before attaching soul rings to the second, allowing him to achieve nine hundred thousand year soul rings.
While this persona was insanely overpowered, it still remained within the realm of possibility.
After all, theoretically, this strategy could work it was just that no one had ever done it before.
This made it believable.
But if he had tried to create a persona of a godly immortal, no one would truly believe it and thus, it wouldn't become reality.
This was why Ye Cheng had crafted his role carefully strong enough to dominate, yet still plausible enough to succeed.
And now
He was unstoppable.
But if he were to suddenly create a persona as an immortal cultivator or a creator god, that would far exceed the limits of common sense in this world.
The result? People's understanding of such a persona would be vague, or even outright rejected on a subconscious level.
Even if the truth were right before their eyes, they would refuse to accept it, refuse to believe in it!
So creating an overly exaggerated, completely unrealistic persona was absolutely not feasible. Even with future videos boosting completion, the progress would still be extremely low!
Moreover, the stronger the persona, the more people would need to believe in it before it could become reality.
If Ye Cheng really tried to create a persona as a creator god, then the population of the Douluo Continent alone wouldn't be nearly enough. Even if every single person believed in him, the completion rate probably wouldn't even reach one billionth of one percent.
And without reaching 100% completion, he wouldn't be able to acquire the persona's power. If reality and the persona didn't match, he'd be exposed immediately!
So he couldn't aim too high too soon.
Right now, what Ye Cheng needed most was to first create a persona that fit within people's common sense, gain some actual strength, and get rid of his status as a weakling.
Thus, he had created this Twin Martial Soul persona.
Of course, this Twin Martial Soul persona was just the foundation. Later, he could design more personas to overwrite it.
For example his future video had only shown him reaching Ultimate Douluo.
But what happened after that?
That was where he had room to maneuver.
He could later create a new persona "Sword God Ye Cheng", claiming that he had ascended to godhood.
Or perhaps he could invent a unique cultivation method, establishing himself as the Martial Ancestor or Immortal Ancestor.
In short if he wanted to become stronger, all he had to do was keep creating personas!
...
Now, Ye Cheng had suddenly acquired the power of an Ultimate Douluo.
However, he wasn't in a hurry to immediately design his next persona.
After all, until recently, he had been an ordinary person.
Now that he had gained such immense strength, his mindset hadn't fully adjusted yet.
He needed time to adapt.
Right now, he was like a poor man who had suddenly become rich overnight.
Even though he now possessed wealth equal to billionaires, his perspective and mentality were still that of someone who had once had nothing.
He had money, but not the corresponding mindset and experience to wield it properly.
He was still far from those who had truly climbed their way from weakness to power step by step.
So his plan was to first adapt to his new strength to cultivate the mindset and presence that matched his power.
Only after that would he consider creating his next persona.
After all, with his current Ultimate Douluo strength, he could roam freely across the entire Douluo Continent.
There was no rush to become even stronger.
Even against gods, if he went all out, he might not necessarily lose.
After all, the gods of this world were honestly not that impressive.
In the original story, Qian Renxue, a legitimate First Class God, was stabbed through the heart by a mortal Tang San.
Sure, there was the protagonist's plot armor, and sure, Qian Renxue was emotionally compromised but even so, it still showed just how underwhelming the gods of this world really were.
So with his Ultimate Douluo strength, as long as he didn't provoke the God Realm, he could do whatever he wanted in the Douluo Continent!
...
Having made up his mind
Ye Cheng suddenly raised his hand, and a ring appeared between his fingers.
This ring hadn't existed before, yet it now naturally manifested in his hand.
Clearly it was a product of his persona.
The persona system didn't just grant him power.
It also gave him items, background settings, and even fabricated histories.
(For example if his persona claimed that he had trained in a certain place in the past, then even if someone investigated it, they wouldn't find any contradictions.)
As for this ring, according to his Twin Martial Soul Ye Cheng persona, it was something he had once discovered in an ancient ruin a spatial soul tool for storing items.
Inside was a vast internal space, capable of holding an enormous number of things.
Ye Cheng activated his thoughts and nine beams of red light instantly emerged from the ring!
These nine beams of red light floated around him, each one surrounding a skeletal object.
A hand bone. A leg bone. A skull. A torso bone…
Without a doubt these were soul bones.
And not just any soul bones hundred thousand year soul bones!
To say that any one of these soul bones could cause an earth shattering storm in the soul master world was not an exaggeration!
As for where these nine soul bones came from?
Naturally they were byproducts of his persona.
In his previously fabricated future video, Ye Cheng had slain nine hundred thousand year soul beasts in the ocean.
And hundred thousand year soul beasts always drop soul bones!
So from them, he had obtained nine soul bones.
These nine soul bones were exactly the ones shown in the video.
As for any items that hadn't appeared in the video those truly didn't exist.
"Soul bones, huh…"
Ye Cheng looked at the nine soul bones, which could drive countless people insane with greed.
But his heart remained calm
Because he already had better ones.
According to his persona's backstory, since he had been able to cultivate to Titled Douluo, endure Twin Martial Soul conflicts, and withstand eighteen soul rings without exploding, then
His body had to be fully equipped with soul bones.
Head, torso, four limbs a complete set.
And these soul bones had already fused into a soul bone set!
Each and every soul bone in his body was a hundred thousand year soul bone the absolute pinnacle!
This was precisely why his persona's "past self" had been able to withstand the conflict between his Twin Martial Souls, forcefully attach nine hundred thousand year soul rings to his second Martial Soul, and push through to Rank 99 Ultimate Douluo!
Had his body been even slightly weaker, he would have exploded and died from the Martial Soul conflict long ago.
In fact when designing his persona, Ye Cheng had even considered making all six of his soul bones million year god tier soul bones.
But in the end, he chose to be reasonable.
Instead of something too outrageous, he compromised settling for six hundred thousand year soul bones.
(End of Chapter)
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