Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor

It doesn't matter what happens now. Once Ye Qing reveals his true nature as an evil soul master, Long Xiaoyao will reconsider his attitude towards Ye Qing.

Next, the few ninth-level Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Sect, Nether Thunder Douluo, accompanied Ye Qing to Mingdu under Ye Xishui's arrangement.

Ye Qing didn't need to go to the royal family to learn about soul tools. Xu Tianran had already provided him with a complete set of soul tool technology knowledge for the Holy Spirit Cult to use themselves.

Of course, the soul guidance technology in this system is definitely not the most advanced in the Sun Moon Empire; it is probably thirty to fifty years behind the latest level of Mingde Hall.

Roughly two eras.

But it's enough. After all, it's the soul guide technology tree that the Sun Moon Empire has summarized over countless years. It's not like the Soul Guide Technology in Douluo Three Kingdoms, where you get the blueprints and work backwards bit by bit. Even the basics are incomplete.

Huo Yuhao's soul guidance technology is already the best in Shrek Academy, and Shrek Academy's soul guidance technology is already the most advanced in Douluo Three Kingdoms.

However, when he went to the Sun Moon Empire for the exchange student program, he found that even a random soul master of the same level from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy had a more solid foundation and more advanced theories than him.

Ye Qing doesn't need to delve into soul guidance technology to an extremely deep level; that would be completely meaningless.

Technology is built upon a foundation.

To develop science and technology, the most indispensable elements are ideas and practice.

He only needs to understand the basics, the core of the soul tool, and learn the different soul tool core arrays that can perform different functions. That will be enough for him.

After all, Ye Qing's goal was not to become a powerful Soul Master, but to use the foundation of Soul Tools and combine the concepts of Battle Armor and Magic to create a combination of Soul Bone Armor and Battle Armor that did not belong to this era.

Learning the core magic array is a completely different concept from learning how to make soul tools, and it does not require spending too much time to improve the level of a soul master.

In the following period, Ye Qing began to study the knowledge of soul tools at the headquarters of the Mingdu Xishui Alliance.

To learn about soul tools, one must first understand soul tools and have a certain concept of them.

Ye Qing's concept of soul tools is also very simple: they are tools that are based on a core magic array, made of rare metals, driven by the soul power of soul masters, and ultimately able to play different roles.

Ye Qing's concept was also recognized by Electrolux: whatever it is, once it falls into human hands, it becomes nothing more than a tool.

Regardless of the tool's function, it ultimately has only one meaning: to make life more convenient for humans.

This concept sounds simple, but more than 95% of people in the Douluo Continent can't understand it, including many Soul Masters of the Sun Moon Empire.

Not everyone can be Xuan Ziwen.

Next, Ye Qing started learning from the most basic core array knowledge, beginning with the first level charging soul guidance core array. This is almost the most basic array for all soul tools. Only when it can be charged can soul power be infused and the soul tool be put into use.

Thanks to Ye Qing's powerful mental strength, learning these basic magic arrays is now as easy for him as calculating one plus one for a high school senior wearing a mask of pain.

In modern terms, the core magic array is like a circuit board with numerous complex electrical circuits. Only by inscribing specific circuits on the 'circuit board' can soul power flow through the circuits and successfully play its due role.

Just like a circuit on a circuit board can short-circuit due to an error, if the patterns on the core magic array are engraved incorrectly, the magic array will also short-circuit.

The most classic example is the destruction of the core magic array.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario. In reality, the depiction of the core array does not need to be a perfect one-to-one replica. Even if there is a few percent error, the core array can still function. This involves another concept, namely the degree of perfection of the soul tool.

Although the same soul tool can be used, the difference in power can be caused by the perfection of the engraving of the core magic array inside.

This is why the soul tools produced by Mingdetang are more expensive in Douluo Three Kingdoms.

Unlike the amateurish and half-baked Soul Masters of Douluo Three Kingdoms, the Sun Moon Empire has much stricter requirements for core arrays. The Mingde Hall is even more demanding. Even the flawed products that they consider to be imperfect still have core arrays that are more perfect than those of the Soul Masters of Douluo Three Kingdoms.

However, after Ye Qing finished reading and learning this level one charging array, he fell into deep thought.

He sensed that the core of the soul tool was not simple; there must be some secrets to be discovered, and these secrets were not insignificant.

At the very least, it will be a tremendous help to him in developing his Soul Armor.

But after careful consideration, Ye Qing found that he couldn't come up with anything. The fleeting flashes of inspiration that crossed his mind became elusive when he tried to grasp them.

"What exactly is it...? Why do I feel that this thing is very important to the Soul Armor?" Ye Qing frowned.

At this moment, nothing in Ye Qing's body disturbed his thoughts, and everyone could see that Ye Qing seemed to have entered a state of enlightenment.

Only Electrolux, like Ye Qing, stared intently at the simple lines forming the level one energy-charging array on the blueprint.

Chapter 248 The Most Fundamental Secret of the Core Magic Array (Qingye's Peak of Imagination!)

After an hour or two of deep thought without finding an answer, Ye Qing gave up trying.

"Since thinking alone won't yield any answers, why don't I just take action?" Ye Qing said.

Any theory needs to be put into practice. Perhaps in the process of practice, you will naturally grasp the flash of inspiration that has passed through your mind.

As for the rare metals and carving knives to be used in the practice, Nether Thunder Douluo had already prepared them for himself. He handed over nearly ten tons of various rare metals to Ye Qing in a soul guide storage device. Although not all of these rare metals were precious, quite a few were valuable enough.

That's enough to make level seven or eight soul tools, which Ye Qing can squander for a while.

After casually taking out a piece of rare metal, Ye Qing shaped it into a core prototype of a magic array that could be inscribed. Then, he picked up a carving knife and began to slowly carve it.

Under Ye Qing's powerful mental strength, his left hand, which was holding the core magic array, and his right hand, which was holding the carving knife, were both extremely stable.

In fact, given his strength and mental power, carving a first-level core magic array was not difficult at all. With each stroke, he could perfectly present the patterns on the surface of the core magic array.

But he didn't rush to finish. Instead, he slowly carved, stroke by stroke. With each stroke, Ye Qing's eyes would become even brighter.

As the final blow fell, a lingering smile appeared on Ye Qing's face.

"Interesting, I think I understand now."

He put down the carving knife with his right hand and lightly touched the core magic circle in his left hand, injecting a trace of soul power. The core magic circle, replenished with soul power, emitted three inches of white light. The soul power flowing in the magic circle's patterns was gradually consumed by the magic circle, releasing the magic circle's intended effect.

Charge.

As he watched the core array gradually dim, Ye Qing's smile grew even wider. However, he did not rush to verify his guess, but instead began to learn about other first-level core arrays.

Acceleration, explosion, aggregation, compression...

After learning each level-one core magic array, Ye Qing would practice and inscribe it. After completing the inscription, he would inject his soul power to observe it. Only after obtaining the desired result would he move on to learn the knowledge of the next core magic array and repeat the previous actions.

In three days, Ye Qing learned eight level-one core magic arrays and tried each one.

Given his abilities, learning about first-level soul tools shouldn't have taken him this long, but he spent a lot of time observing and thinking.

Only after learning the eighth level-one core magic array did Ye Qing finally let out a long sigh of relief, sit on the sofa, and close his eyes to meditate.

The patterns of the eight core magic arrays were drawn by Ye Qing with his mental power after he closed his eyes, and they appeared above his mental sea.

"Old Yi, what do you see?" Ye Qing looked at the eight core array patterns floating above the Sea of ​​Spirit with a half-smile.

Electrolux, dressed in a black robe, quietly appeared, gazing thoughtfully at the core magic array patterns.

"I have some guesses, but I don't know if they're the same as yours."

"More practice is needed. If my guess is true, then soul tools are really interesting." Even in his spiritual form, Ye Qing's smile remained deep.

After deciding to develop Soul Armor, Ye Qing thought about this question.

Everyone knows about soul tools, and they know that soul tools are weapons or tools that can be activated by soul power. So why can soul tools activate their proper abilities by injecting soul power?

Just those core magic arrays?

Stop joking, those things are utterly useless.

This inspiration came from when Ye Qing used a circuit board as a metaphor for the core magic array.

He racked his brains but couldn't think of anything that the circuit board could offer him. It wasn't until he decided to personally inscribe the core magic array and successfully inscribed the first core magic array that he finally grasped this spark of inspiration.

As for the information contained in this glimmer of inspiration, it's quite simple.

A circuit is a circuit. No matter how complex the circuit is depicted, it is still a circuit. The current flowing in the circuit board will not change from current to water flow just because the circuit is complex.

This is the most fundamental law.

So... here's the question: why is the circuit of the core magic array so absurd that simply changing the engraved patterns can make the soul power injected into the core magic array play different roles?

The soul power remains the same; nothing has changed. Only the patterns on the soul power have altered.

Does this... look familiar?

It looks familiar!

Because every Soul Master carries a natural core magic array, which is the Soul Ring on the Soul Master's body!

When the idea first popped into Ye Qing's head, even he was startled, because the idea was really too bold. However, the core array forced Ye Qing to connect the two things together.

A Soul Master's Soul Rings can release different Soul Skills as Soul Power is injected, which is the same as the underlying structure of the core magic array, isn't it?

The same soul power, when injected into different soul rings or core formations, produces different effects. This seems to be a rule, like...

It's just like those strange patterns engraved on the surface of the spirit ring!

Ye Qing summoned his martial soul. The seven blood-red soul rings, apart from suppressing his aura to prevent it from leaking out, were not hidden at all. Facing his soul rings directly, Ye Qing finally discovered something he had not noticed before.

Besides the golden patterns representing the heavenly tribulation, the soul rings conceal extremely deep and difficult-to-detect complex patterns.

In fact, this information is reflected in both the Douluo Continent comics and the Douluo Continent anime. As long as a soul ring reaches ten thousand years or even a thousand years, it will be adorned with magnificent patterns. However, these patterns have never been noticed by anyone.

No... The genius who first invented the Soul Tool must have discovered this information, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to create something like the Soul Tool.

Aren't these soul rings just natural core magic arrays?

The complex patterns of the core magic circle represent the different power of the soul skills under different age levels of the soul ring. The higher the level of the core magic circle, the more rules and patterns are hidden in the soul ring of higher age.

Ancient geniuses, using rare metals as carriers, inscribed the patterns in the soul rings, thus inventing the soul tool, a technological achievement unique to soul masters.

Back then, they were probably just respecting the power of Soul Masters and worshipping everything about them, which is why they went to study everything about Soul Masters and accidentally discovered the secrets in the Soul Rings, so they carved them on the stone tablet.

Later, it was discovered that stone slabs were not suitable for storage, so a more durable metal was used instead. When a genius, or rather, a chosen one, inscribed the complete pattern of the soul ring onto a carrier strong enough to withstand soul power, and coincidentally injected soul power into it, it was discovered that it could release a unique soul skill.