Douluo Jueshi: I Don't Want to Be an Evil Soul Master

Lin Jiayi's eyes lit up, "Yes, it has reached the power of a third-level soul guide cannon."

As he spoke, he lowered his head again and looked at the soul guide on the ground that was beginning to readjust its position. He said in amazement, "I didn't expect that you could actually make this soul guide."

Lin Xiao's eyes also fell on his achievements this year, but he shook his head slightly, "It's still a little different from what I expected. Right now, it still needs the soul guide to determine the target. When it can combine the detection soul guide to determine the target by itself, it will be considered to be truly what I want."

"Haha, don't be too greedy." Lin Jiayi stepped forward and patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder. "It's already very good that you can make such a soul guide with a third-level soul guide. If you want the soul guide to attack itself as you said, I'm afraid it will only be possible with an eighth-level or even ninth-level soul guide."

"By the way, this is the first soul guide you've designed and built yourself since becoming a soul guide. Give it a name."

"Let's call it..." Lin Xiao hesitated, "Self-Propelled Soul Guide Cannon."

He had just mentioned it casually in the Jingyang Mountains, but after returning, he wanted to try whether this idea could be realized through the soul guide.

Over the past year, in addition to learning about soul guides and practicing, he also read a lot of records of the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy, which was considered to be a gain.

Based on the principle of the existing sound-transmitting soul guide device, he improved the self-propelled soul guide cannon and equipped it with a component that could receive commands remotely, allowing it to launch attacks without the soul guide's manual operation, and the source of soul power was the charging soul guide installed inside it.

It’s a pity that although it is called “self-propelled”, it still needs to be controlled by a soul master, and it is still quite far from what he had imagined.

As if sensing Lin Xiao's dissatisfaction, Lin Jiayi stepped forward and picked up the self-propelled soul guide cannon. "Soul guides improve through constant experimentation. No soul guide can create a soul guide that satisfies them completely from the outset."

"Ever since the emergence of rechargeable soul guides, many people in the academy have been researching how to utilize them in the use of soul guides to reduce the pressure on soul engineers. However, no one has yet completely separated the soul guide from the soul engineer like you have done. This is a path that no one has ever taken, so of course there will be many difficulties."

"As your strength continues to improve, you will naturally get closer and closer to your goal." Lin Jiayi smiled, "Also, your soul guide is not as bad as you think."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao looked up at Lin Jiayi.

"Soul guides are used not only in the battles between soul masters, but also on battlefields and in wars. Previously, due to the limited number of high-level soul masters, there weren't many soul guide cannons that could be set up at the same time. But have you ever thought about applying your idea to more advanced soul guide cannons..."

Lin Jiayi's speech speed gradually slowed down.

"By then, even at this level, a high-level soul engineer will be able to simultaneously operate several high-level soul guide cannons. Although the cost of soul guide cannons will increase significantly, as long as both sides can suppress the opponent with crushing firepower at the first moment of confrontation, it will be enough to change the outcome of a war."

"Okay, I'm just giving you an example. You should know better than me how to use this idea of ​​yours." Seeing Lin Xiao's thoughtful look, Lin Jiayi's face suddenly became a little serious. "Now, teacher has one more thing to ask you."

"Teacher, just tell me directly."

"Are you willing to sell this idea of ​​yours to the academy?"

"Ah? Teacher, how do I sell this?"

Lin Jiayi laughed, "You really don't know yet. In fact, every soul guide has their own unique ingenuity in their soul guide device. Like your self-propelled soul guide cannon, before you, no one has ever proposed the idea of ​​completely separating the soul guide and the soul guide cannon."

"Therefore, the academy wants to offer some compensation to teach your idea to other students in the academy. If other soul masters have any improvements to your idea, the academy will also let you know."

"of course can."

Lin Xiao had already understood. Sometimes, the appearance of a soul guide might be due to an inspiration. Although there was no such thing as a "patent" in this world, there were already some established rules among soul guides.

Although the academy had bought his "idea," upon hearing the compensation, he realized it was actually providing an opportunity for students to exchange ideas. One person's wisdom was limited, but the others' wisdom was far greater, so he naturally had no reason to refuse.

"Okay, I'll register your self-propelled soul guide cannon later."

While Lin Xiao and Lin Jiayi were talking, there was a knock on the door.

"I'll go and take a look." Lin Xiao hurried to open the door, but found that the person standing at the door was not a stranger to him.

"Who is it?"

"Teacher, I am Teacher Xuan's student."

"Oh." Lin Jiayi replied helplessly, "Are you here to ask the academy for rare metals again?"

Chapter 74 Happy Event

"Hello, Director Lin." The person who came was Orange.

Lin Jiayi glanced at Juzi and sighed helplessly, "When I saw Xuan Ziwen accepting a student before, I thought he was finally getting the hang of it and wanted to take on a disciple. But it turns out he only accepted you as a disciple to run errands."

"No, Teacher Xuan still taught me a lot." Orange comforted Xuan Ziwen.

"You don't have to speak for him. I know him. He didn't teach you much and let you learn on your own. That's not the behavior of a teacher."

This was Xuan Ziwen's first time accepting students, so Lin Jiayi naturally paid more attention to him. He was somewhat dissatisfied with this free-range teaching method.

"Forget it, what does Teacher Xuan need now?" Although he said he was disgusted, as the director, Lin Jiayi still had to give Xuan Ziwen what he wanted.

"Here is the list that Teacher Xuan asked me to bring."

Lin Jiayi quickly glanced at it, then looked back at Lin Xiao, "You stay and try again. I'll go help Teacher Xuan apply for the materials he needs first."

"Good teacher."

"Yeah." Lin Jiayi nodded, then turned to look at Juzi, "If you want to stay here, you can take a look. Your teacher Xuan is too busy. If you have any questions, you can ask Lin Xiao."

As Lin Jiayi spoke, he pushed the door and walked out.

Lin Xiao retracted his gaze, picked up the self-propelled soul guide cannon on the ground, and shook his head slightly. In fact, the most sophisticated part of the entire soul guide device was the charging soul guide. The other parts were not particularly sophisticated. Unless there were any unexpected events, it would have to wait until later to fully realize its intended function.

"Senior Lin, what are these?"

Lin Xiao paused slightly. This wasn't the first time Orange had run errands for Xuan Ziwen, but for some reason, hearing Orange call him that made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Turning around, he saw Orange staring at him with wide eyes.

It is not known whether Orange deliberately acted like this in the academy, or whether life in the academy really changed her, or perhaps both, but compared to the Orange that Lin Xiao knew before, the person in front of him was indeed a lot more lively.

"These..." Lin Xiao looked at where Orange was pointing, where some things that looked like metal fragments were piled up. "They are the failed products of my previous experiment."

"These appear to be metal, but I've never seen them before."

Of course, Juzi had never seen it. Not to mention her, even Lin Jiayi had never seen these "failures" of Lin Xiao.

For most soul engineers, the purer the material used to make soul guides, the better. However, Lin Xiao's failed products were made from a mixture of several metals.

Now that he had the idea, he naturally wanted to try to see if he could create a similar alloy material in this world. Unfortunately, the process of trying was much more difficult than he expected.

What kind of metal to use, what proportion to use, and how to fuse them together—all of these things require not only a deep understanding of various metals, but also a lot of trial and error. This wasn't something Lin Xiao could accomplish on his own in a short period of time.

Fortunately, even if he failed, the metal would not be wasted and would eventually be fed to his left arm bone. Although his growth was not obvious during this year, he could still feel some changes compared to a year ago.

After asking this question, Orange was no longer curious and turned to look at other things on the table. From time to time, he turned his head to look at Lin Xiao fiddling with the soul guide in his hand.

"What's wrong? Just ask if you want to ask anything."

Although he wasn't looking, Lin Xiao could still sense Orange's gaze.

"No." Orange quickly looked away.

In fact, it wasn't just Lin Xiao who felt a little uncomfortable. When Juzi saw Lin Xiao in the academy, she also found it hard to believe that the person in front of her was the same Lin Xiao she had met before.

"If not, get ready to leave here. It's getting late. Do you want to go to the cafeteria together?"

"I... better not get too close to other people."

Lin Xiao paused slightly when he heard this, and without saying anything else, he walked out the door first.

"I……"

Orange opened her mouth, but the painful look on her mother's face when she was seriously ill due to missing her seemed to reappear in front of her. In the end, she didn't say anything. After a long time, she left silently.

Lin Xiao sighed softly and stopped thinking about Orange. Now that the self-propelled soul guide cannon had taken shape, another matter also needed to be put on the agenda.

During this year, he not only improved his soul guides, but also his soul power. Now he has reached the bottleneck of level 60, and it is time to hunt for the sixth soul ring.

When he went to the Star Dou Great Forest to prepare for the soul-raising ceremony, Sleepy Nightmare Douluo also took a fancy to a soul-summoning tree, which indeed had similar properties to his.

He had only gone through the soul-raising ceremony and later consumed two medicinal herbs. His physical strength and the age of the soul rings he could withstand were far greater than before, so the soul-summoning tree was no longer suitable.

"You said you wanted to take some time off to hunt for the sixth soul ring?"

It was already late, and the light of the soul guide lighting device was lit in Lin Jiayi's soul guide research room, and Lin Jiayi's voice was also heard from inside.

"Yes, teacher." Lin Xiao was standing in front of Lin Jiayi.

"You saw it last time. If there is a chance, the academy will help students obtain spirit rings. Do you want to wait for a while?"

"No need, teacher. My martial spirit is quite special and it is not convenient for me to be with other students."

Lin Xiao didn't say anything directly. Lin Jiayi looked at him with some concern, "Are you going alone?"

"Well... there are other elders accompanying us."

"That's fine." Lin Jiayi finally nodded. "After all, you are still a spirit master, and your requirements for spirit rings are not low. Hunting for spirit rings alone can take time. I will grant you a long vacation, so don't worry."

He didn't know Lin Xiao's specific background, but since he was specially recruited into the academy by Jing Hongchen, he didn't doubt anything.

"Thank you, teacher. I'll leave tonight."

"Well, let's go."

After saying goodbye to Lin Jiayi, Lin Xiao returned to the dormitory, packed up briefly, and then headed out of the college.

However, after arriving at the Holy Spirit Sect's branch and skillfully opening the mechanism, they found no trace of Sleepy Nightmare Douluo underground. Not only him, but even the other elders were not here. The only person in charge here was a Holy Spirit with a cultivation level of seven rings.

"Lord Holy Envoy."

"Where are the other elders?"

"Your Excellency, the elders have all returned to headquarters."

Back to headquarters?

Lin Xiao tried to recall carefully, but whether it was his memories of his past life or his experience in the Holy Spirit Church, he could not remember what had happened recently.

It wasn't an important day for the Holy Spirit Church, and he had no recollection of the Holy Spirit Church encountering any major incident at this time that required all the elders to return together.

"Have the elders ever said what it is?"

"I don't know about that either. I just happened to hear the elder mention it, and it seemed like a... happy event."

Chapter 75 Preparation

The wind whistled in his ears, and Lin Xiao was already on his way back to the Holy Spirit Church headquarters.

Just like the "Holy Emperor" before him, even though he had lived in the Holy Spirit Church for more than ten years, he did not dare to say that he understood the entire picture of the Holy Spirit Church. On the contrary, the deeper his contact with it, the more mysterious he found it.

Even in the past ten years, with the status of a Holy Envoy, he had not met all the priests and elders in the Holy Spirit Church.

He only knew that several of the priests were Super Douluo with cultivation levels above level 95, and among the elders, the mysterious chief elder had never shown up.

And now, he wanted to know what this thing called "happy event" by a group of evil soul masters was?

The flying soul guide was extremely fast, and the Demon Forest was not very far from Mingdu. Lin Xiao had already seen the vague outline of the Demon Forest in the middle of the night. Before he got close, a depressing atmosphere slowly spread over him.