Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor

Soul guides... came into being.

Ye Qing didn't know if his guess about the ancient times was correct, but even if the soul tool didn't appear as he guessed, it should be pretty close.

As for the possibility that Soul Guidance Technology once threatened the God Realm in ancient times and was eventually artificially erased by the God Realm, Ye Qing felt it was unlikely.

The upper limit of soul tools is limited. In the ancient Douluo Star, the Dragon God suppressed everything. After the Dragon God's fall, in the memories of Di Tian and Xue Di, soul beasts were the dominant species. Humans did not have such a glorious past at all.

Moreover... if the patterns of the core magic array were truly inspired by the spirit rings, how could ancient human spirit masters have seen the patterns of those powerful spirit rings?

Let's think about the effects of the core magic array again.

Charge - A status-enhancing soul skill.

Burst - A burst attack soul skill.

Acceleration - Speed-enhancing Soul Skill.

Compression - A single-target attack soul skill.

Invincible Shield – Soft Bone Rabbit's Invincible Soul Skill.

Although the fact that Ye Qing could use rare metals of different attributes to force the core magic circle, which should have had a different effect, to release an attack of the corresponding attribute, slightly confused him.

For example, an energy-charging array inscribed with a magnetic lightning crystal can naturally transform an ordinary energy-charging array into a lightning energy-charging array.

But this kind of thing is actually quite easy to understand.

This is no longer the effect of the magic array, but rather the effect naturally attached to the materials. The magic array is still the same magic array, and the effect it releases is ultimately the same soul skill that inspired this magic array in the first place.

The door to the soul tool seemed to have been completely opened for Ye Qing, revealing all its secrets to him.

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P.S.: That's quite a bold idea...

Chapter 249 Soul Armor is in Hope

Of course, all of this was just Ye Qing's own speculation.

There is almost no historical evidence to prove the origin of Soul Tools in Douluo Continent, so he can only infer it based on what he knows and the plot of the original work.

Of course, Ye Qing had no need to understand how soul tools came to be. He wasn't from the Douluo History Department, so searching for these histories buried in the river of time was meaningless.

All he needs to do is determine whether the core magic circle is truly related to the soul ring.

This was important for his subsequent research.

If the core magic circle is indeed related to the patterns in the soul ring, then conversely, do soul bones, which can also be equipped with soul skills, also have similar patterns?

If the same rule patterns exist within the soul bones, then could connecting the rule patterns in different soul bones together create the legendary soul bone armor?

This conjecture is not impossible, because the fusion of regular patterns has already been demonstrated in the secret technique of 'fusion ring'.

Since spirit rings can be fused, spirit bones can certainly be fused as well, to some extent.

No, it should be called a combination.

Soul bones are inanimate objects. If you want to connect soul bones into a whole, you need a medium. What exactly is this medium? Our Great God King Tang has already told Ye Qing the answer.

That is the external soul bone.

If we really look at it this way, Ye Qing already has the prototype of a soul bone armor, which is the main body of the soul bone that combines the eight wings of holy light, the scorpion tail of the Ice Emperor, and the torso bones of the Snow Emperor.

These three soul bones have been perfectly fused together and have become a whole. Although the Holy Light Eight Wings and the Ice Emperor Scorpion Tail are slightly weaker, they do not cause any other conflicts with the Snow Emperor's torso bone.

So... if the regular patterns attached to the torso bones were extended to Ye Qing's head and limbs through the power of the external soul bones, would it be possible to make all of his soul bones form a whole and then assemble them into a soul bone armor?

Since the soul bones can be connected, the core magic array created based on the soul ring patterns, when engraved on the spirit alloy, allows the soul ring patterns to resonate with the soul bone patterns...

In this way, Soul Armor has a chance!

Ye Qing never expected that his initial idea for a soul armor would actually be completed under such circumstances, making the soul armor, which was originally just a wild idea, a real possibility to be manufactured.

When he explained his ideas, including the possible rules and patterns that might be attached to the spirit rings and spirit bones, to Electrox in detail, Electrox agreed.

“I am indeed not knowledgeable enough about the Martial Soul cultivation system. My previous guess was just a connection between the core magic array and the rules of heaven and earth. After all, the foundation of magic is the same. Magicians release magic by chanting and using runes that can communicate with the power of heaven and earth. This is similar to the function of the core magic array,” Elex explained.

"But the rules of your world are truly wondrous, that you can actually inscribe the patterns that connect with the power of heaven and earth on your spirit rings. I have examined them and found that, as you said, your spirit rings naturally contain incredibly complex patterns. Perhaps it is because your spirit rings are too old that the patterns inside are so complex."

As for the soul bone...

Ye Qing took out the 90,000-year-old torso bone that he had prepared to give to Old Deng, and began to examine it carefully with Electrox.

Through the exploration of the old man's divine sense, after breaking through the hard outer shell on the surface of the soul bone, which was almost entirely composed of solid soul power, he also discovered patterns similar to those inside a soul ring inside the soul bone.

"Congratulations, your Soul Armor is complete." Ilex chuckled and stroked his beard.

Everything is based on one or a few unbreakable theories.

Just like one plus one equals two, it is a simple but unbreakable theory and an unassailable understanding.

Only through the theory that one plus one equals two can endless knowledge be derived. Just like the eight level-one core magic array blueprints placed in front of Ye Qing, they are not complicated, but they are the most basic logic for Ye Qing to leverage the rules of Douluo Continent and create soul armor.

"Next, I'll need your help even more. I can offer assistance with inspiration and the general direction, but when it comes to development and manufacturing, I can only be an assistant." Ye Qing bowed deeply to Electrolux earnestly.

He is very self-aware.

Transmigrators are not omnipotent. Before transmigrating, Ye Qing was just an ordinary person. Perhaps he had read many novels and had ingenious ideas that Electrolux and the others could never have come up with in their entire lives. But when it came to realizing these ingenious ideas, he couldn't do without the help of these local experts.

Ultimately, he was just a Soul Saint with extraordinary luck. Compared to his peers, he was already far too powerful. But if you put him together with Electrolux...

He still has a lot to learn.

Electrolux did not refuse; he himself loved innovation and development, just like how he quietly created the groundbreaking concept of spirits in the original work.

What Ye Qing presented to him was something equally novel, even more interesting than the Soul Spirit Technique he was already pondering.

Tired? Busy?

nonexistent.

He had nothing to do.

With the aid of the Life Gold, Electrolux was no longer troubled by the incompleteness of his divine consciousness. Instead of needing to sleep, he was quite bored, and having something to do kept the old man active.

In the following period, Ye Qing and Electrolux immersed themselves in a long period of learning and creation.

The first thing to learn is naturally the soul-guided core arrays of the Sun Moon Empire.

According to Ye Qing's guess, the soul guidance core arrays from level one to nine are simply the difference in complexity of the same soul skill pattern within soul rings of different ages.

For the same soul skill, the higher the age of the soul ring, the more complex the internal rules and patterns, and the greater the power released. It's like the difference between a level one charging array and a level nine charging array.

Even though the difference in their levels is huge, even a level nine charging array is still based on a level one charging array.

What Ye Qing and Electrolux wanted to study was why these magic arrays became more powerful after some patterns were added, what the significance of adding these patterns was, and whether they could be replicated on the Soul Armor.

During his studies, the well-informed Electrox even planned to try to optimize these magic arrays and overturn these core magic arrays that had been optimized by countless people in the Sun and Moon Empire and had reached the point where there was no further progress.

Is there nowhere left to go?

Electrolux will show you with his skills that if you're not good enough, just practice more.

Chapter 250 Yi: I Only Know a Little Bit

Ye Qing had originally planned to take a stroll around Mingde Hall to see if its more advanced soul-guided technology would be of any help to him.

In reality, all of the Sun Moon Empire's soul-guided technology knowledge is built upon these core magic arrays.

The complete collection of core magic arrays of the Sun Moon Empire has not been updated for countless years. For them, these core magic arrays represent the optimal solution obtained after generations of optimization.

Well... it just fits the stereotype of Soul Masters in Douluo Continent. Even Soul Masters can't find this strange cycle of relying on past achievements.

The Sun Moon Empire's new soul tools are more about rearranging and combining these soul guidance arrays in different ways with ingenious ideas, changing the function of the core array and the shape of the soul tool's outer shell, so that the soul tools can exert greater power.

To put it in simpler terms, the Sun and Moon Empire has always been boiling water.

Since the invention of the steam engine, the way humans obtain energy has always been by boiling water. The difference lies in how to obtain more energy in the process of boiling water in a more convenient and energy-efficient way.

This has remained true even now.

The same goes for the Soul Masters. They rack their brains to develop new Soul Tools, squeezing every bit of power out of these core arrays, in order to make them play a greater role.

Upon learning this news, Ye Qing immediately abandoned the idea of ​​going to Mingde Hall.

To put it bluntly, soul tools are of no help to him at all. No matter how new the soul tool is, they all use the same set of magic arrays. If we really want to talk about how to make the magic arrays more efficient, can the soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire be stronger than Ilex?

All Ye Qing needs to learn is the knowledge of these core magic arrays.

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"Elder, this is the rare metal quota that the Holy Church has allocated to you this month."

Ming Lei Douluo respectfully placed a storage soul tool on the table by the door.

"Okay, just put it over there. You can go now." Ye Qing waved his hand without turning his head.

"Yes." After taking an empty storage soul tool, Ming Lei Douluo left.

Three years have passed since Ye Qing joined the Holy Spirit Cult and came to the Xishui Alliance to learn about soul guidance. During these three years, Ye Qing has been studying all the core soul guidance arrays of the Sun Moon Empire almost day and night, and occasionally he also looks at the blueprints of high-level soul guidance devices collected by the Holy Spirit Cult.

As he delved deeper into the study of the core magic array, Ye Qing overturned his previous ideas one by one.

Because he was proven wrong again.