Douluo Continent: The Evil-Eyed Dragon God, Many Women, Many Blessings

Chapter 323 Teaching Begins

Xuan Ziwen glared at him irritably and continued, "Tell me, what is the greatest significance of the emergence of soul tools?"

Huo Yuhao suddenly recalled the night he arrived in Mingdu, and the strangely familiar feeling of seeing the brightly lit and bustling city from the sky. He exclaimed, "It's the progress of civilization!"

Upon hearing Huo Yuhao's answer, Xuan Ziwen's body trembled slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "Why do you say that?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head slightly: "In my hometown, there is an old saying: 'What is the difference between humans and soul beasts? It is the ability to make good use of things.' Of course, this refers to ordinary soul beasts, not those that have cultivated for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years and whose intelligence is no less than that of humans. Soul beasts have lived on the continent for far longer than humans. Their average lifespan is hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times that of humans, not to mention their individual strength."

"But now, in just tens of thousands of years, humans have become the sole overlords of the continent, while those once incredibly powerful soul beasts can only cower in their settlements across the continent, afraid to venture out easily. The reason for this is that human civilization has been advancing rapidly, while the soul beasts have remained stagnant, with no difference between ten thousand years ago and ten thousand years later."

Huo Yuhao glanced at the various advanced soul tools in Xuan Ziwen's laboratory and exclaimed, "For humans, soul tools are actually no different from soul rings. They can both be seen as tools that humans gradually learn to use after continuous exploration and discovery, enabling humans to continuously become stronger and make progress. They are essentially the same as pots and pans, swords and spears—they are all 'things' that we can utilize!"

Upon hearing this, the entire laboratory fell silent. After a long while, Xuan Ziwen slowly exhaled, looking at Huo Yuhao with amazement and praising, "To have such a recognition, Yuhao, you truly are a genius soul master!"

"Your thoughts are exactly my thoughts. Although the research on soul tools is mainly used for combat at present, I have always maintained that the fundamental purpose of researching soul tools is ultimately to better promote the evolution of human society and make humans a more powerful existence. I firmly believe that in the near future, one day, humanity will be able to conquer any race, or even other worlds outside our world, through soul tools!"

"Our current strength is still too insignificant, but as soul tools continue to evolve, we humans will also evolve. Yuhao, do you believe that one day, even humans without a trace of soul power will be able to hunt down 100,000-year-old soul beasts using soul tools!"

"Over the past few thousand years, human evolution has been extremely slow. I believe that without the collision between the Sun and Moon Continents, this slow evolution of the Douluo Continent would have continued. Even now, the three countries that originally belonged to the Douluo Continent have not fully taken soul tools seriously."

"If we don't consider top-tier Soul Masters, I dare say that the Sun Moon Empire could already unify the continent entirely through Soul Tools. This is a clear difference in civilization."

"However, our research on soul tools has also reached a bottleneck. The reason is simple: this bottleneck comes from soul masters. When soul tools were first developed, they were used by soul masters and activated by soul power. As a result, for thousands of years, all research has been focused on this aspect, which has caused the major drawback that soul tools cannot be widely used."

"Soul Masters are, after all, the elite among humans, a very small minority, not the general public. If the development of Soul Tools cannot reach the world of ordinary people, then it will never become a truly groundbreaking technology that promotes the evolution of human civilization. The absurd logic that a more powerful Soul Tool requires a more powerful Soul Master to use it has led to the current stagnation in Soul Tool research." "Our current research direction is on how to make Soul Tools usable by ordinary people, which is why I was so amazed by the Soul Tool you just saw."

“Although you haven’t completely solved the problem, at least you can make Soul Masters just a vessel for charging the baby bottle. After charging, the Soul Tool you made can be used by ordinary people. That’s what I’m most concerned about, not the power of your Soul Tool.”

"In other words, the most important core technology of your soul tool lies in how to guide the charging array through mechanical structure, rather than using soul power."

"So, if you want to impress me, you need to do your best to research civilian soul tools. Currently, the relatively successful cases are still limited to fixed soul tools. However, the production cost of fixed soul tools is too high, especially high-level fixed soul tools. Even Mingde Hall rarely produces them now, and the Sun Moon Empire has only equipped one fixed soul tool division."

At this point, seemingly realizing his slip of the tongue, Xuan Ziwen smiled wryly and said, "Just pretend you didn't hear that last sentence!"

Huo Yuhao smiled and tentatively asked, "Getting ordinary people to use soul tools is both difficult and easy. Once the problem of the energy required for soul tools is solved, ordinary people can use them freely. For example, I use that soul tool to supply soul power to a milk bottle, but the requirements for conserving soul power are more stringent. Besides that, it's about finding other energy sources that can replace soul masters in outputting soul power."

Xuan Ziwen nodded approvingly and said, "You're right. One of my current research topics is how to better store soul power and reduce its natural dissipation. I've recently made a significant breakthrough. I believe that before long, we'll achieve some progress in how to preserve soul power for a long time."

Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow. "Heh, it seems the sealed baby bottle is almost finished! I'll have to find an opportunity to learn from it properly later. This thing is incredibly useful at this stage!"
Xuan Ziwen's interest was now fully aroused, and he began to talk at length about his understanding of soul tools, as well as some of the principles of soul tools and some research directions and conjectures of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, was like a dry sponge, constantly absorbing this knowledge. With his amazing memory, he was able to imprint all of this content in his mind without any mistakes.

Unlike Fan Yu's calm and composed style, Xuan Ziwen is the complete opposite. He is a Soul Master with wildly imaginative ideas, and his whole being is full of creativity and vitality.

His research rarely leaned towards war, but some novel ideas gave Huo Yuhao a sense of sudden enlightenment. Some things he didn't understand about soul tools or couldn't figure out before, with the guidance of Xuan Ziwen's ideas, although not completely clear, at least allowed him to find a new path to explore.

This teaching method, which didn't rely on rote memorization but instead focused on explaining innovative concepts, was quite popular with Huo Yuhao. With the solid foundation laid by Fan Yu, he found it much easier to grasp these advanced soul tool concepts now, as if he were reviewing and reorganizing all the knowledge he had learned before—the gains were immense!

(End of this chapter)