Douluo: Wuhun Qimen Formation, control everything!

Chapter 120 History Needs to Be Recorded
After leaving Yan Shaozhe, Zhou Xuan went straight to the Soul Guidance Academy.

"I've been away for so long, I wonder how everyone's doing." He walked to the lab door and pressed the combination lock a few times.

To be honest, he was still somewhat hopeful, after all, these students were all personally selected by him.

"Click~"

Zhou Xuan walked into the laboratory with his hands behind his back, looking quite like a leader on an inspection tour.

Seeing everyone engrossed in their work, he nodded in satisfaction.

Now he finally understood why so many people in his previous life liked being leaders. It must have been really satisfying to be a leader and watch others do their work.

Two people who were reading saw Zhou Xuan enter, their faces lit up with joy, and they were about to greet him.

Zhou Xuan put his finger to his lips and made a shushing gesture.

He quietly inspected the laboratory members who were working in turn.

The group was so focused that they didn't even notice Zhou Xuan passing by behind them.

"Not bad," he thought to himself.

After all, they were all handpicked by him, and they certainly didn't disappoint him.

I haven't been back for a month, but my spot is still tidy, and there isn't even a speck of dust on the recliner.

It seems that the group cleaned quite diligently.

Zhou Xuan waved his hand, signaling the two members who were reading to continue, while he lay down on the recliner.

He had something to say, but seeing how serious everyone was, he felt embarrassed to interrupt.

Anyway, there's no rush, so let's just wait until everyone has finished their work before we talk about it.

Although he can now replace sleep with cultivation, he still prefers to take a nap if there's nothing else to do.

Around dusk, the group of people gradually finished their work.

"Finally done!" A boy with messy hair stretched.

The girl next to him rolled her eyes at him: "How dare you say that? Senior Brother Zhou assigned you the task before he left, and you only finished it today."

The boy felt embarrassed: "Didn't you guys just finish it a couple of days ago? It's only been a few days since I finished mine."

The girl sneered, "You have the nerve to say that? If you hadn't been so slow to finish, would we have been so late?"

The boy was speechless for a moment, then mumbled for a while before finally managing to say, "This part is too difficult for me, isn't it normal for it to take a while?"

“Yu Xi, don’t talk about Zhi Jie. His part is indeed difficult, and he’s been living in the lab for the past few days because of it. Look at his hair, it’s so oily you could fry vegetables in it.”

At the workbench nearby, a bespectacled young man smiled and offered his advice.

“That’s right, that’s right.” Yin Zhijie nodded repeatedly.

Shao Yuxi glared at him, but didn't say anything more.

Zhou Xuan had already woken up and was watching the two discussing with great interest.

What they were talking about was one of the two tasks he had given them before he left.

One task was to compile the technology of the Soul Guided Phone into a book, and this step was also very important in some ways.

Just like writing a thesis, is what you produce important? Yes!
But it's all for naught without a paper.

In Zhou Xuan's view, the current research system in the Douluo world is extremely incomplete.

Therefore, he also had ideas to change this situation.

It is often said that first-class companies set standards, while second-class companies make products.

Zhou Xuan is ambitious. Although the Sun Moon Empire's soul guidance technology is very strong now, Shrek Academy's soul guidance system is actually not very weak either.

However, the existence of a traditional martial spirit system leader like Yan Shaozhe has resulted in a less than ideal living environment for the soul guidance system.

Naturally, the research environment for Soul Guidance Technology is not considered excellent.

These are all things Zhou Xuan plans to change, and his laboratory is the starting point for those changes.

Seeing that everyone had finished their work, Zhou Xuan slowly got up.

"It seems everyone did a great job while I was away."

The group of people who were discussing the matter were startled when they heard Zhou Xuan's voice.

"Senior Brother Zhou? When did you get back?" the bespectacled man asked, somewhat surprised.

They should have called him "teacher," but since Zhou Xuan wasn't exactly a teacher in the Soul Guidance Department, they compromised and chose to address him as "Senior Brother Zhou."

Apart from the two students who had already noticed Zhou Xuan, the others then realized that there was an extra person in the laboratory.

"I arrived a while ago, but I saw you were working, so I didn't disturb you. I've seen what you've made, and it's done well. You've completed the first phase of the task."

"Senior brother, you flatter me. These are just minor improvements."

To be honest, everyone felt very comfortable in Zhou Xuan's laboratory, except for the fact that they received a considerable salary every month.

Most importantly, when they have any new ideas, Zhou Xuan never suppresses them immediately, but lets them try them out first.

Unlike some teachers who insist that students do things their way.

While this approach has its advantages, for research-oriented work involving soul tools, the disadvantages always outweigh the advantages.

Having received over a decade of traditional Chinese education in his previous life, Zhou Xuan felt he had some authority to speak on this matter.

In terms of basic education, Chinese education is undoubtedly number one, but as for other aspects, it's hard to say.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with the group, Zhou Xuan's expression became slightly serious.

After all, he was still the boss of this laboratory. Although he didn't mind being a little closer to his subordinates, he still had to be serious when necessary.

"I came here mainly for one thing. Before I left, I think I asked you to organize the files on the Soul Guide Phone, right? Has that been done?"

"It's done." Shao Yuxi nodded and took out a notebook from under her workbench: "I took the lead in this, and all the technical data for the first version has been compiled."

She placed the booklet in front of Zhou Xuan.

"Hmm." Zhou Xuan nodded and took the notebook.

This notebook isn't actually very thick, only about twenty or thirty pages of A4 paper. This is because soul-guided technology is, in some ways, much more convenient than traditional technology from my previous life.
Otherwise, even the technical manual for a mobile phone wouldn't be only twenty or thirty pages long.

Zhou Xuan responded and then focused on reading, but the more he read, the more his brows furrowed.

This expression almost brought Shao Yuxi, who was standing next to her, to tears.

The others couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Because of his cultivation attainment of the "Ruling the World" realm, Zhou Xuan naturally possessed an aura, but they hadn't really noticed it because he was smiling just now.

But now, with his stern face, they instantly felt immense pressure. The entire laboratory suddenly fell silent, with only the sound of Zhou Xuan turning the pages of a book audible.

Zhou Xuan flipped through the pages faster and faster, finally letting out a heavy sigh and closing the notebook.

Although he had anticipated that they would not write well, he did not expect them to write this badly.

"Ah~"

His sigh startled the others: "Senior Brother Zhou Zhouxuan, if I haven't done well, please tell me directly, I can accept it."

Shao Yuxi was most afraid of Zhou Xuan's expression.

Just like when you go to a clinic, you're not afraid of the doctor laughing or crying, but you're afraid of the doctor sighing and not saying anything.

This is the most agonizing thing.

Zhou Xuan nodded: "Then I'll get straight to the point."

In his opinion, this document was written terribly and lacked any standard.

However, this is from his perspective in his previous life. After all, in his previous life, the scientific research system had developed for many years, and there were already standardized ways of writing some things.

Although he often scoffed at such norms, he had to admit that many things exist for a reason.

However, since this is Douluo Continent, Zhou Xuan doesn't intend to criticize them, after all, everyone has a first time.

When he wrote his first thesis in his previous life, wasn't he also criticized terribly by his supervisor?

"What you wrote is, in my opinion, utterly a mess."

The people in front of him all trembled. One of them said shakily, "I think it's written quite well." After all, it had taken them quite a bit of time to write this.

The others couldn't help but glance at him. Although they thought so too, none of them dared to say it aloud.

I couldn't help but give him a thumbs up in my heart.

"Not bad?" Zhou Xuan wasn't too angry about his statement. After all, neither of them had ever seen how a proper technical manual was written, nor did they know what a qualified paper should look like.

"Come on, everyone, come and take a look."

Zhou Xuan gestured for the others to gather around, opened the notebook, and pointed to a spot on it: "Look, this is what you wrote here."

He quickly flipped the notebook to the back: "Look, your writing style has changed again here."

Then, Zhou Xuan pointed out no fewer than twenty unclear points in the description alone.

The student who had initially thought it was quite good was now speechless.

The expressions on the faces of the others also grew increasingly grim.

What they initially thought was decent writing turned out to be utterly a mess after Zhou Xuan's explanation.

But just then, a student who had been listening for a while said, "Senior Brother Zhou, although what you said is all correct, we are Soul Masters, why do we need to learn to write this kind of thing?"

Zhou Xuan raised an eyebrow and glanced at him. To be honest, he had thought the same thing when he first wrote his thesis.

If the experiment is done well, and something is produced, isn't that enough? Why make it so complicated, and writing a paper involves endless revisions, which is extremely troublesome.

However, as he read more and more papers, he gradually understood.

Without a unified framework, it will be difficult for others to understand what you have written. To put it bluntly, the paper is not written for yourself.

"You think this is useless?"

The man nodded straightforwardly: "We are soul tool makers. As long as we know how to make soul tools, isn't that enough?"

"Is that what you all think too?" Zhou Xuan looked around and noticed that most people had their heads down.
They all clearly agreed with the student's statement, but out of respect for Zhou Xuan, they didn't bring it up.

Seeing that none of them spoke, Zhou Xuan understood what they meant: "It seems that you all think the same way."

He shook his head: "Your thinking is wrong. Perhaps you all know that the Sun Moon Empire's soul tool technology is very advanced."

But does any of you know that soul-guided devices actually appeared here tens of thousands of years ago?

Zhou Xuan found it strange that although soul tools had already appeared in the Douyi era ten thousand years ago, they only became truly widespread ten thousand years later.

This was something he simply couldn't understand.

After all, in the previous life, it only took a few hundred years from the steam engine to modern society, but in Douluo Continent, this process took tens of thousands of years.

The students shook their heads blankly. Although they were all top students in the Soul Guidance Department, they didn't really know much about the history of Soul Guidance Devices.

So now, people are quite surprised to hear that soul artifacts existed tens of thousands of years ago.

"That's right, I don't know. I doubt even the Sea God Pavilion's library has any records of this history."
I only found a few fragments from some ancient books.

"But what does this have to do with us?" Zhou Xuan picked up the notebook in front of him: "The answer is right here."

"Do you think that if someone had written down the method for making soul tools back then, even if it was damaged during preservation, it would have been worthwhile?"

But it shouldn't have come to this, where almost no one knows about ancient history. History needs to be recorded.

"That's why I asked you to compile all the results of the laboratory's soul-guided device research into a booklet. This isn't for our own benefit."

Everyone here is a Soul Master, and there's no reason why someone who makes a Soul Tool should need blueprints to build it. But what about those who come later?

If you die one day, your prized soul tool will gradually disappear over time.

Even if someone later creates something similar, it won't concern you anymore.

Zhou Xuan paused here, observing everyone's expressions: "I believe none of you want things to turn out this way, right?"

"Therefore, a standardized way of writing is very necessary, otherwise, if you write like this..."
Even if the method for making soul tools is passed down, others might still not be able to learn it.

At this point, everyone nodded in agreement.

They genuinely didn't intend for anyone else to see it when they wrote it, so many of their statements are only understandable to themselves.

It looks like an encrypted telegram.

"Now that you understand, I'll write this one myself. This will establish a standard. We'll hand over our lab's next achievement to you. If it's still written like this then..."

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "You probably don't want to know the consequences."

Seeing Zhou Xuan's somewhat sinister smile, everyone couldn't help but shudder.

"Senior Brother Zhou, don't worry! It definitely won't happen again!"

"Yes, but since Senior Brother Zhou said that, do you already have ideas for a new soul tool?"

Compared to their fear of being punished by Zhou Xuan, they were more interested in the new soul tool.

“Got it.” Zhou Xuan nodded calmly, then took something out of his storage soul tool.

(End of this chapter)