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"It hasn't changed at all here."
Looking out over the endless grassland before her, Huo Wu put on her knee-high boots, donned gloves, then turned to look at the silhouette of White Cloud City in the distance. "But White Cloud City has expanded a bit in the past two years."
With the expansion of the Martial Soul City, major cities within the Tian Dou and Star Luo regions, under the guidance of the local Martial Soul Halls, have begun establishing new industries and flourishing.
The major aristocratic families, enjoying the benefits, naturally wouldn't hinder the progress. Instead, under the propaganda of the Martial Soul Hall, they joined in and invested a considerable amount of capital.
It can be said that the establishment of industries by the major Martial Soul Branch Halls cannot do without the "support" of these aristocratic families. However, these aristocrats are unaware that in the near future, they will no longer be any nobler than ordinary people.
Compared to commoners who can create wealth, aristocrats are merely consumers, parasites who don't do any real work and need to be eliminated.
Have any aristocrats realized the development model of the Martial Soul Hall?
Yes, but they don't believe that the Martial Soul Hall would target aristocrats. After all, constrained by the times, their mindset leads them to think that even if the Martial Soul Hall establishes a country in the future and conquers the entire continent, they will still need these aristocrats to manage the massive population.
Although there are quite a few people in the Martial Soul City, they are mostly soul masters. While they may be good at law enforcement, when it comes to managing the population, as long as the common people aren't displaced, they are considered competent!
As for the population of the six major cities outside the Martial Soul City... aristocrats who haven't personally visited the Martial Soul City would only think that the Martial Soul Hall is exaggerating the data.
After all, imperial cities like Tian Dou City and Star Luo City only have a population of nearly a million.
A million?
Haha!
Not all aristocrats have such far-sightedness. For most aristocrats, their "long-term vision" is only relative to the impoverished lives of ordinary people.
Just like how the Martial Soul Hall announced the population of the Martial Soul City to the entire continent through the new version of the Soul Guide Camera Sphere, except for the high-level members of the two empires, the personnel of the major Martial Soul Branch Halls, and the vast majority of commoners, the rest of the large and small aristocrats would not believe that the Martial Soul City truly has so many people.
As for seeing is believing?
These aristocrats believe that the images displayed by the camera sphere are not real, similar to soul-guided movies. Some have even begun to believe that after the end of the Continental Elite Tournament, the battle between Tang San and Bibi Dong was also a movie, and the fighting scenes were special effects.
However, no matter what these people say, it cannot change the fact that the Douluo Continent has begun to change under the efforts of Tang San, Bibi Dong, and the entire Martial Soul Hall membership.
Just like at this moment, the White Cloud City behind Tang San and Huo Wu has also begun to expand.
Honestly, Tang San felt quite proud!
After all, this world has changed because of him!
"This is also thanks to the improvement of the Soul Power Steam Propulsion by Guang Ling, which has greatly increased the productivity of the Martial Soul Hall," Tang San said.
Huo Wu naturally understood the concept of productivity, but she was more concerned about Soul Guides. "Speaking of this, people probably can't imagine that mere steam can produce such powerful thrust, driving machinery to operate, it's simply unbelievable."
"But, Soul Guides are even more miraculous. Different combinations of basic Soul Guide attributes can actually form so many Soul Guide circuits and produce effects similar to Soul Skills."
"Just, why not research Soul Guide weapons?"
In fact, when the Soul Guide Technology City was established, Lou Gao learned about the twelve basic attributes of Soul Guides and wanted to research Soul Guide weapons, but was stopped by Tang San.
"The reason is simple, because this would cause an unprecedented impact on the soul masters of this era," Tang San said, pulling out an attack-type Soul Guide similar to a pistol—black surface, gleaming with metallic luster, with golden Soul Guide patterns on it, converging at the muzzle.
Aiming it at a large tree about a hundred meters ahead, Tang San pulled the trigger.
Bang!
With a loud bang, a fist-sized piercing hole appeared in the trunk of the large tree.
The two leaped to the front of the tree, with Huo Wu inspecting the wound and assessing the damage, exclaiming, "It's a formidable attack, capable of piercing through trees, it could easily penetrate a human body. Without the defense of top-quality Martial Souls, it's impossible to block such an attack."
"Yeah, the effect is indeed astonishing."
Tang San reversed the Soul Guide pistol, pressing down on the protruding blue part below the grip with one hand.
With a click, an oval-shaped cylindrical object jumped out, entirely blue, with a long glass panel on the side, ninety percent of which was green, and ten percent white.
Huo Wu knew that this was a Soul Guide energy storage device, also known as a Soul Power battery, or milk bottle.
If the Soul Power is full, the glass panel will all turn green.
The bullet just now consumed one-tenth of its soul power. With this type of soul power battery, it's enough to condense ten soul power bullets.
"A mere Soul Guide pistol, with the soul power of a Level Ten Soul Master, can break through the defense of a Soul Emperor. If we continue researching, could we create offensive Soul Guides threatening even Soul Douluo or even Titled Douluo in the future?"
"Soul Masters would definitely strongly oppose such things, as it would make their hard training seem like a big joke—"
"Usually, a Soul Master with some talent, training to become a Soul Emperor, takes about thirty years, starting from the age of six, twenty-four years to become a Soul Emperor. Then, a Soul Master pulls the trigger of a Soul Guide pistol, with a bang, and the twenty-four years of training of that Soul Emperor turn into nothing."
It was then that Huo Wu realized how much impact Soul Guide weapons would have on the profession of Soul Masters, and whether ordinary people obtaining such pistols could threaten Soul Masters.
Soul Guide weapons are indeed too dangerous.
"Of course, the most important thing is that the current promotion system of the Martial Soul Hall is based on strength." Tang San handed the Soul Guide pistol to Huo Wu. "Although after the establishment of the six major outer cities, there is the situation of 'specializing in a particular field' under 'selecting talents', Soul Masters still value their own strength greatly and use it to determine status."
"However, Soul Guide weapons are not without research. In the Soul Guide Technology City and the Martial Soul Hall, some personnel are researching Soul Guide weapons. It's just that it's not suitable for large-scale production at the moment, nor is it suitable for mass distribution to the members of the Martial Soul Hall."
"Otherwise, the Martial Soul Hall would be in chaos internally."
"It's not the right time yet..."
When is the right time to conduct large-scale research and mass production of Soul Guide weapons? It's naturally when war breaks out!
Only during such times do Soul Masters not have the time to care about the impact of Soul Guide weapons on their own status.
And in times of peace, we can only try to improve the overall moral cultivation of the members of the Martial Soul Hall first, allowing existing Soul Masters to accept the fact that lower-level Soul Masters can defeat higher-level Soul Masters with Soul Guides.
Otherwise, weapons like Soul Guide weapons cannot be researched and developed on a large scale.
However, raising the moral cultivation of all the members of the Martial Soul Hall is not as simple as building six cities in two years; it requires time to settle...
...
"Oh, I see." Huo Wu toyed with the Soul Guide pistol in her hand. "Then can I have this gun?"
"No problem." Tang San shrugged it off, after all, this Soul Guide pistol was just one of the defective products produced by Guang Ling's research—unable to automatically absorb the energy of heaven and earth to charge itself, it was considered a defective product in Guang Ling's eyes.
It must be said that Guang Ling's requirements for Soul Guide weapons are a bit high.
But only by pursuing perfection and constantly improving, rather than being dominated by a mentality of "making do with what we have," can progress be made.
"Thanks." Huo Wu stored the Soul Guide pistol in her storage-type Soul Guide, then followed Tang San into the White Cloud Forest, feeling the warm colors of the forest. Suddenly, she laughed, "I found that this place seems very suitable for a date. Why haven't the nobles of White Cloud City thought of developing it here? Clearly, all the millennium spirit beasts in this area have been consumed by that Blood Sword Norman."
"You said it yourself, since Blood Sword Norman appeared here, for those nobles, who knows what terrifying legends might spread about him. For example, after Blood Sword Norman's death, his spirit remains in the White Cloud Forest, specifically preying on the souls of Soul Masters who come to hunt for souls in this forest." Tang San told a dark joke.
"Oh, I'm so scared!" Huo Wu looked around, her eyes flashing as if she were really scared. She jumped onto Tang San's back, hugged his neck, and clamped her legs tightly around Tang San's waist.
Tang San said speechlessly, "I seriously doubt you're taking advantage of me."
Huo Wu loosened her legs somewhat embarrassedly, jumped off Tang San's back, coughed, feeling that she was indeed not suitable for that kind of joking temperament. Then she changed the subject and asked, "Which kind of spirit beast is suitable for me to obtain my sixth soul ring from?"
Huo Wu's first five soul skills are: Sun Star Ring, Rising Sun, Fiery Dance, Flame Transformation Armor, and Twin Suns Crossing the Sky. It can be said that each soul skill has the same attribute, and they can also be combined to practice Fusion Skills.
However, her physical qualities are not strong (compared to Tang San, Xiao Wu, Guang Ling, and others), so she cannot complete a fusion like Tang San's and can only release all the energy in her soul ring in a burst pattern.
This is the traditional Fusion Mode.
Extremely dangerous!
Therefore, after Tang San guided her in creating her own Gravity-based soul skills, Huo Wu gave up on fusion and focused on the application of Gravity, even frequently consulting Tang San for related knowledge. This led Tang San to use the simple physics formulas he remembered to conduct complex deductions, and then simplify them, relearning much of the physics knowledge he had forgotten from his previous life.
Therefore, the spirit beast suitable for Huo Wu's sixth soul ring, in addition to the necessary light attribute/fire attribute, should also have properties similar to Gravity.
Such as gravity.
Or levitation.
Mainly to deepen Huo Wu's understanding of Gravity through the Sun Goddess's soul skills, making her faster and more stable.
And among the spirit beasts that meet these conditions, there are only three types recorded in the "Spirit Beast Encyclopedia":
"Variant of the Titan Ape: Titan Blazing Ape."
"Bright Crystal Beast."
"Radiant Flame Cloud Bird."
(End of Chapter)