Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor

You really can't miss seeing the blueprints for the soul tools of the Sun Moon Empire.

Electrolux could certainly achieve a perfect combination of core magic arrays through research, but why bother with the tedious manual crafting when there are readily available options?

First, take a look at the optimal solution of the Sun and Moon Empire, and then spend some effort to upgrade and transform it based on the optimal solution of the Sun and Moon Empire. Isn't that much easier than starting from scratch?

It can only be said that our prison has crashed again, slapping itself in the face.

This misconception made Ye Qing re-examine his arrogance as a transmigrator, and he became even more diligent in learning soul guidance technology.

He has no right to be arrogant, at least not now.

After putting down the Level 7 Eye of Fear blueprint, Ye Qing let out a long sigh of relief, stood up and stretched, then walked skillfully to the door and put the money that Ming Lei Douluo had given him into his pocket.

In the past three years, Ye Qing has earned nine figures in gold soul coins just from collecting these rare metal resources. These rare metals have piled up almost like mountains in the undead demiplane.

In addition to the rare metals that the Holy Spirit Cult sends him every month, he occasionally goes out to beg for alms, earning some extra money in Mingdu or the Jingyang Mountains.

The amount of rare metals required to create the Soul Armor is unknown, so naturally, the more of these consumables the better.

As for Ye Qing's progress in learning soul guidance technology, he has reached the level of a seventh-level soul guide master. With the reminder from Electrolux, Ye Qing skipped learning soul guides below level five, but starting with level six soul guides, he will try to learn how to make them.

He is now able to create a level 7 soul tool on his own and can easily pass the level 7 soul tool master assessment of Mingde Hall.

This kind of progress would have been absolutely impossible in the early stages of his cultivation. Not only would it have slowed down his cultivation speed, but his efficiency in learning soul tools would not have been as high as it is now.

Back then, he wasn't nearly at the level of spiritual power required to reach the tangible and substantial spiritual realm, and his speed in learning about soul tools was nowhere near what it is now.

In three years, he went from nothing to becoming a level seven Soul Master.

Ye Qing was already very satisfied with what she had achieved.

The development of the Soul Armor also did not stagnate. In the past three years, Ye Qing has been learning about the core magic array, while Electrolux has been simulating the possibility of forging spirit alloys.

From the initial stages of Hundred Forging and Thousand Forging to the final Heaven Forging, which can be used as a material for Four-Character Battle Armor, all of these are within Electrolux's simulation range.

As a veteran who once crafted a divine artifact by hand, Electrolux was certainly not a complete novice when it came to materials science. He was simply simulating how to combine the forging methods of the Holy Demon Continent with those of the Douluo Continent.

Blood sacrifice and spirit communication—these forging methods that imbue metal with life are not uncommon on the Holy Demon Continent, but Electrolux is not particularly proficient in them.

All I know is a tiny bit.

Combining the powers of the two worlds can naturally be accomplished overnight.

Fortunately, our great magician finally completed the task, living up to the reputation of the old man with the golden finger in the peerless Tang Sect.

Now that the forging method is in place and the blueprints for the core magic array have been learned, all that's left is for Ye Qing to put the theory into practice.

"The theory is complete enough; now it's time to try to build it." Electrolux appeared beside Ye Qing, raising his hand to send a message into Ye Qing's mind.

"This is a forging technique that I have derived over the past three years using the weapon-forging techniques of the Holy Demon Continent, combined with the spirit-infused forging method you mentioned. As for the name, let's call it Spirit-infused Forging."

"However, three years is not enough time for me to push the spiritual forging technique to an extremely profound level. At most, I can only reach the level of ten thousand forgings of living beings. If I want to reach the soul forging technique you mentioned, unless I use a metal like the living being gold, which is of a quality that has already reached the level of heavenly forging, I can only try alloy forging."

"As for alloy forging, it also requires experimenting with different proportions of metal, which I do not yet have the necessary conditions for."

After Ye Qing closed his eyes and received the information transmitted by Electrolux, he opened his eyes and nodded to him.

Well then... let's give it a try.

Chapter 251 Past

After leaving the Xishui Alliance, Ye Qing went to a secluded alley, changed his clothes, and returned to his original appearance.

For three whole years, he maintained the appearance of the Nightmare Douluo, studying the core magic array day and night, wanting to create the Soul Armor as soon as possible so that he could have a powerful enough divine weapon in the future.

This is something that must be done, not only because it relates to his future combat power after becoming a god, but also because of those two good dogs from the Haotian Sect who might stand in his way.

After Tang San resurrected the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, although Tang San suppressed their strength to level 99 and 98 respectively due to the rules of the God Realm, who says they won't resort to desperate measures?

Limit Douluo and God are two completely different concepts. Even a quasi-god is weak and vulnerable in front of a God.

Before he became a god, the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Ape were always a threat that could not be ignored.

Otherwise, Ye Qing wouldn't have spent three years creating the Soul Armor just to capture this hard-won inspiration.

Of course, the development progress is also encouraging.

If we follow the battle armor system of ten thousand years later, the spirit forging metal that Electrolux deduced is already enough to manufacture two-word battle armor. In addition, with Ye Qing and Electrolux's secondary development, it has the possibility of communicating with the soul bone. The power of the soul armor will be more than twice as strong as the two-word battle armor.

As for the classification of Soul Armor levels...

Ye Qing hadn't figured it out yet, and for now, he planned to use four levels—Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow—to label them. The idea that one had to reach a certain level before being able to use a title with a certain number of characters to name their battle armor was actually quite abstract to Ye Qing.

A level is a level, and a name is a name. Does adding or subtracting a word from the name of a battle armor really affect its prestige or strength?

Of course, he hasn't decided on the name for his future soul armor yet. It will most likely be named Holy Evil Emperor Armor (feel free to leave a comment if you have any good suggestions, and the author will consider them). But since nothing is certain yet, he's not in a hurry.

There's no rush to forge your own soul armor.

After three years of painstaking research, he was actually quite tired, not physically, but mentally. Ye Qing felt like a dog author who had been dragged to the basement by readers and forced to write for three years, and he was in a daze.

This state is clearly not conducive to the forging of Soul Armor.

Bathed in sunlight once again with his original appearance, Ye Qing even felt as if he had been released from prison, as if he had been through another world.

"Let's relax for a bit. Let's think about the time. It's been a full four years since the last competition ended, in about a month. I wonder what has happened in these four years." Ye Qing stretched.

Moon has given up. Without his leadership, would Shrek Academy still be able to hold any exchange student activities with Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy?

Ye Qing felt this was a serious problem.

In the entire Shrek Academy, only Moon truly saw the future of soul tools.

Despite being the dean and vice dean of the Soul Guidance Department, Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo's development of Soul Guidance Devices may not necessarily stem from their vision of its future.

One reason is naturally to prove themselves, believing that we Shrek people are no less capable than others. If Mingde Hall can research soul tools, then Shrek can certainly do the same.

This is more like an arms race during the Cold War, and has nothing to do with how far-sighted they are.

If Xianlin'er and Qian Duoduo had a long-term vision, why would they come up with some nonsensical Extreme Individual Soldier Plan? What does this have to do with the future of soul tools?

To put it bluntly, it's just that arms dealers want to create a powerful enough weapon.

The second reason is even simpler: because they belong to the Soul Guidance Department, they want to develop the Soul Guidance Department, which is in the interest of their group, so they naturally need to fight for it.

Putting aside these two reasons, they may not necessarily like or love soul tools that much; they are just developing for the sake of development. Without Mu En's initiative, they wouldn't have had the brains to think of organizing an exchange student program with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

This can be seen from the fact that Ye Qing lived in Mingdu for three years without hearing any rumors.

This plan was absolutely never brought up.

Ye Qing was just focused on researching the Soul Armor; he wasn't in seclusion. Besides, Huo Yuhao was a troublemaker in the original story, so it was impossible for him not to cause some big news after arriving in Mingdu.

But he didn't hear a word of it.

Excluding the exchange student program, there are no other major events during these five years.

The biggest event was the fall of Moon, but the Moon in this world had already been cured by him, and his old life could last for another ten years or so. It was impossible for him to die so hastily.

As for the rest... I'll inquire about it later.

Ye Qing sensed that his soul power had reached a bottleneck and decided to get a soul ring to break through it.

Three years ago, he had a soul power of level 76. It was impossible for him not to have improved his level at all three years later. Even though the quality of his soul power was comparable to that of a Super Douluo, and even though he had been obsessed with soul armor and hadn't cultivated much in the past three years, he still reached level 80 a few months ago.

This is roughly the passive effect of the Soul Core. Even without cultivation, the Soul Core can automatically gather the Yuan Power of Heaven and Earth to enhance Ye Qing's cultivation level.

"Let's eat before we break through."

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Just as Ye Qing had guessed, the exchange student program was indeed not initiated.

In the original story, it was Moon and Jing Hongchen who facilitated the exchange student program.

But now that Mu En has retired and is giving up, he thinks that with his prized disciple Ye Qing going to the Sun Moon Empire, the exchange program is irrelevant. He doesn't need to push it forward; Ye Qing is already in Mingdu learning about soul tools.

Mu En wasn't worried that Ye Qing wouldn't learn; smart people can thrive anywhere, and he had a lot of confidence in Ye Qing.

Mu En could never have imagined that Ye Qing would not only thrive in the community, but also replace Xuan Zi as the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, while secretly exploiting the Holy Spirit Cult and developing overpowered equipment for the third playthrough.

Jing Hongchen has even less reason to go to Shrek Academy.

In the original story, the Sword of Judgment was stolen by Xuanzi, which is why he tried to get it back. In this world, Xiao Hongchen personally lost the Sword of Judgment to Ye Qing, so even if he has a thick skin, he can't bring himself to ask Shrek Academy for it.

He even had to praise Xiao Hongchen for doing a good job.

As a cunning old fox, Jing Hongchen could certainly see that Xiao Hongchen was a bit dim-witted, but this time he did a really good job. He used a sword of judgment to establish Xiao Hongchen's image of brightness and benevolence, which was well worth it.

Compared to Xiao Hongchen's growth, a sword of judgment is naturally not that important in Jing Hongchen's eyes.

If we lose, we lose; at worst, we can just make another one.

Chapter 252 I will take care of your wife and children, so you need not worry.

One reason Jing Hongchen didn't go to Shrek Academy is that Xiao Hongchen also began to cultivate diligently after the competition ended.

The reason for his cultivation was naturally the leg bone of the 100,000-year-old demonic orca he had purchased at the Starlight Auction House.

Xiao Hongchen has great ambitions. He wants to break through to the Soul Saint level within the next five years and have a fair and square showdown with Ye Qing in the next competition.

Without this 100,000-year-old soul bone, Xiao Hongchen would have to overdraw his potential to break through to the Soul Saint realm, just like in the original story, where he would force a breakthrough and then make no further progress for at least five years.

But with this soul bone, things are different.