Peerless: The Evil Soul Master's Guide to Saving the World

Chapter 172 Soul Guidance Science no longer exists (edited)

"Your Majesty, the way to sell soul guides in the black market of the Sun-Moon Empire has been completely destroyed. It seems that Xu Cheng has come into contact with some secrets in the Xingluo Empire..."

A minister looked embarrassed.

"Alas, after all, at that time, I never thought that he could leave the imperial capital alive, so I let him visit the auction. Who could have thought." Xu Jiawei had a hard time saying it and shook his head helplessly.

Ever since Xu Cheng broke through the defenses and returned to the Sun-Moon Empire, he began a large-scale purge of "traitors" and crushed all the clues they could have contacted in the Sun-Moon Empire's black market. In the past, they relied on selling the Sun-Moon Empire's cutting-edge technology from the black market to ensure that they would not fall behind, but now, they are completely in the dark...

"Is it possible that our own soul guide technology can never keep up?" Xu Jiawei asked with a hint of anger.

“Your Majesty, our soul guide technology is more than a little stronger than Shrek’s…” the minister said helplessly, “But the strength of soul guides is mainly determined by the number of high-level soul guides. For example, we and the other two countries, even with Shrek included, don’t even have a ninth-level soul guide…”

Xu Jiawei: "..."

He automatically ignored the latter part and was extremely happy about the first part, which was far better than Shrek.

"Ahem, alright." Xu Jiawei's anger instantly dissipated. "In the past, the funding for the Soul Guidance Department was not small. Now that the times are changing and the country is facing a crisis, let's double the funding..."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!!!" the minister said excitedly.

He is in charge of soul guides and is also aware of their research and development. Each scientific research achievement is made with hard work. Without money, there is no point in developing soul guides.

However, he did not expect that His Majesty would be so generous.

But he was so happy that the Finance Minister next to him was about to cry.

"Your Highness! The treasury is now in deficit. In previous years, more than 10% of the empire's income was invested in the research and development of soul guides. But now we want to catch up with the Sun-Moon Empire. How can we accomplish this in just a few years or decades? Just last month, a typhoon hit the southern coastal areas of the empire, and the people suffered heavy losses and are still waiting for relief food from the empire. In the northern Tianwen Province near the Star Dou Great Forest, an animal plague broke out the year before last, and that rotten hole has not been filled yet. I hope Your Majesty will think twice..."

There is only one word to describe the finance minister: poor. Anyway, you can't blame me if there is any trouble.

Xu Jiawei suddenly felt a bit overwhelmed.

What are the sources of income for a country? Imperial taxes, state-owned enterprises (Star Dou Auction House, Arena, ordinary soul guide equipment sales shops), land profits (very small, the food grown on the land is just enough for civilians, the main economic output is the flesh and blood of soul beasts), and the most important is the soul beast industry chain in the Star Dou Great Forest (soul rings, flesh and blood, fur, all in one).

The imperial cycle of the original Douluo Continent was deformed.

There are hundreds of millions of people in total, but the economic output depends entirely on a very small number of soul masters. Almost the entire country is used to serve these minority groups. Ordinary civilians... just need to stay alive. If during the Spirit Hall period, civilians could rely on their talents to change their fate and provide a steady supply of blood, then in recent years, with the nobles monopolizing the awakening ceremony, the entire country has become increasingly dependent on soul masters.

In the past, the soul master's training system was all about becoming stronger, which required hunting soul beasts, swallowing elixirs, purchasing soul bones, etc. This was a natural economic cycle and was also the main source of income for the three countries on the original continent.

But now, under the impact of soul guides, the traditional imperial system is obviously difficult to sustain. What soul masters can do, my soul guide can do, and what soul masters can't do, my soul guide can do too! Even at a lower cost.

In addition, Xu Jiawei's previous hasty promotion of soul guides and a series of reforms had seriously infringed upon the rights and interests of the nobles. Although they would not say anything, they were secretly making moves.

You're financially strapped? Then I'll just take in and not spend.

The hoarding of countless gold soul coins, food and other resources caused a panic in the entire Star Luo Empire.

"Your Highness, the civilians are also your people. Now they are living in dire straits..." The Minister of Finance really didn't want to bear this stigma, so he begged bitterly.

"Superficial! What if they go hungry for a few meals? As long as the empire's soul guides can be developed and keep pace with the Sun and Moon Empire, there will be plenty of meat to eat!" The minister in charge of soul guides said angrily.

He got the benefits with great effort, and you want to snatch it from me? No way!

Xu Jiawei was somewhat resentful. He was naturally aware of the secret operations of the hidden families of the Xingluo Empire, but he could do nothing about it.

Their power networks are complicated and intertwined. The aristocratic families are permanent, but the dynasties are changing. With the passage of time, no one knows how terrifying their power network is, and they are very united. He had thought about targeting one family before, but the next day, several heads of the families wrote to him and visited him, so he gave up the idea.

Therefore, the aristocratic families cannot be touched.

Then you can only...

"Forget it, let the people suffer, and I will bear the blame..." Xu Jiawei said helplessly. "Those disaster relief workers should all stop their work, and give them orders to deal with it on their own. They can eat wild vegetables and other things, as long as they don't starve to death. They can just dig a hole to live in, right?"

Everyone looked at each other: "..."

……

Star Luo Palace.

"Brother, you are here."

Xu Jiujiu hurriedly stood up and respectfully performed a court salute to Xu Jiawei.

"Haha, let's see you."

Xu Jiawei glanced at Xu for a long time with a complicated expression, and sighed softly: "Still can't forget him?"

"Family and country always come before children's love affairs. Jiujiu understands this." Xu Jiujiu pursed her red lips and said softly.

"Ugh……"

Xu Jiawei shook his head.

Fortunately, the boy did not take Xu Jiujiu with him before he left.

Otherwise he would have lost both the wife and the army.

Originally, he was thinking of getting Jiujiu to marry him, or using the beauty trap, but he didn't expect that guy to be so slippery and just turned around and left. Instead, his sister was deeply involved and couldn't extricate herself.

However, Xu Cheng's strength easily crushed his peers, and he was also at the age of a young girl in love. When the two met...

Forget it.

“Jiujiu, you are my sister, and our future can only be a marriage of arrangement. There is no love at all. I once had someone I loved deeply, but she is in the inner courtyard of Shrek. We can’t pursue our love. The queen today is just a tool to stabilize the aristocratic families…” Xu Jiawei sighed.

"Yeah." Xu Jiujiu looked at the stars outside the window and said silently.

……

"Marshal, I want to try..." Juzi half-knelt on the ground, staring at Huo Qing with firm eyes.

The latter looked hesitant. She naturally knew that Xu Cheng was confident in handing the orange to her because he intended her to be the future military commander. This showed how important she was. That was why she only dared to give her patrol tasks in the past, and treated any friction as training.

But recently the friction between the two countries has been quite intense, and there was even a tendency to cause a small-scale war. The number of casualties, including ordinary soldiers, has reached hundreds. Once Orange is released, what if he is captured by the other side...

"Aunt Qing, I need military merit." Juzi stared at Huo Qing with burning eyes.

The latter stagnated.

Orange's sincere words really moved her.

According to the current form of friction, as long as both countries have no intention of going to war, I am afraid that they will call off their troops in the near future, or even order the current battalions to return to Mingdu, and then replace them with other battalions to take over the defense, so as to reduce the degree of friction.

It will be difficult to achieve meritorious service at that time.

At this moment, the Fire Phoenix Soul Mentor Group's momentum has reached its peak, and with the addition of the Mecha Team, they are worried about having no place to grind their teeth...

"Don't run too far." Huo Qing hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

The Xingluo army on the opposite side is also a bit arrogant, so it would be good to put a damper on their arrogance.

"Thank you, Marshal!" Orange said with a smile.

……

"So what I'm going to talk about today is the basic structure of the soul guide device's core formation. I've already talked about the range, firing rate, soul guide device formation switches, and various circuits a few days ago. If there are students who don't understand, you can come to me..." As he spoke, Xu Cheng glanced at Zhang Lexuan, who was sitting at the back and feeling drowsy.

The corner of his mouth twitched.

He walked slowly to his side and patted his neck.

But there was a striking blue mark on the fair neck.

"hiss……"

Xu Cheng instantly remembered the madness of last night. He lifted his collar to cover the deep scar, coughed twice awkwardly, and avoided Zhang Lexuan's suddenly awakened and resentful eyes.

It seemed to be saying: It's all your fault... Several people listened very seriously and asked questions enthusiastically about the basic structure of soul guides, especially the theoretical knowledge, and Xu Cheng answered all of them.

"Teacher...what do you think the future development trend of soul guides should be?" Wang Dong said with anticipation before the get out of class was about to end.

Although she was temporarily unable to access soul guides, after studying with Xu Cheng for a few days, she developed a strong interest in this huge technological building.

"I don't know." Xu Cheng smiled faintly.

"Perhaps it is artificial intelligence technology, or the abolition of soul masters, so that ordinary people can also control high-level soul guides, or fly to the sea of ​​stars. I am also exploring and correcting my own thoughts."

"You spare no effort to teach us knowledge, aren't you afraid that we will become enemies after returning to Shrek Academy?" Mo Xuan couldn't help asking.

"Hehe..." Xu Cheng laughed.

It was a smile that truly came from the heart, and Mo Xuan was a little confused.

He looked at Mo Xuan: "Not everyone is qualified to be our enemy. Just like the knowledge stored in Shrek's Sea God Pavilion, it was accumulated by genius ancestors over thousands of years. The soul guide development of the Sun-Moon Empire over tens of thousands of years is definitely not something that Shrek can catch up with in a few days. You know, since Xu Jiawei took office, the Xingluo Empire has allocated a large amount of funds to develop soul guides, and its level of attention is dozens of times that of Shrek. But now their development of soul guides is just at the level of the Sun-Moon Empire more than 5,000 years ago..."

He was not exaggerating; the figure of five thousand years was actually very conservative.

It is precisely because of the accumulation of tens of thousands of years of the Sun-Moon Empire that he can point to anything and hit it. With the input of gold soul coins and resources, he can instantly build it, such as mechas, missiles, etc.

Mo Xuan was silent.

What he has seen now is just the tip of the iceberg of the Sun and Moon Empire.

Before coming here, I was probably a little worried about whether the Sun Moon Empire would make things difficult for me, but I didn't expect Xu Cheng to teach me everything he knew without keeping anything for himself...

Because when it comes to soul guides, they don't consider themselves as competitors at all.

"Okay, Wang Dong, come to my office."

In the eerily quiet atmosphere, Xu Cheng clapped his hands and said, "Never mind."

Turn around and leave the classroom.

"Big sister, it is indeed extremely difficult for the academy to develop soul guides. According to what I have learned these days, as long as the Sun Moon Empire strictly prohibits rare metals, it is equivalent to blocking our upper limit, because many high-level soul guides require rare metals to construct, and if we want to rely on a few of us to develop Shrek's soul guide system, it will take at least hundreds of years...Big sister?"

Mo Xuan waved his hand and looked at Zhang Lexuan who was in a daze.

"fine……"

Zhang Lexuan said calmly.

"Hey, Senior Sister, your neck is injured?" Xiao Xiao exclaimed.

"Yes, there is a bruise." Wang Dong said in surprise.

After all, with the strength of the eldest sister, especially in a "safe area" like the Royal Academy of the Sun-Moon Empire, how could she be injured?

"Senior Sister, if you are bullied, let's go find Teacher Xu Cheng. As the prince of the Sun and Moon Empire, he will definitely not sit idly by." Mo Xuan said angrily.

"I..." Zhang Lexuan's earlobe was tinged with red.

What should she say.

The person who "bullied" her is the teacher Xu Cheng you mentioned?

And he bullied her all night, causing her to not get a good rest?

"It's okay. I just had a simple "discussion" with the students of Mingde Hall." Zhang Lexuan pretended to be calm and covered the bruises with her collar. "Okay, Wang Dong, go quickly. Xu Cheng... the teacher asked you to go to the office."

"Oh oh..." Wang Dong was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses and walked out of the classroom.

In the corridor.

Wang Dong felt a little excited.

Ever since Xu Cheng promised in the Xingdou Great Forest that he would lift the ban that had tortured her for so long, she had been waiting for this day. Now...

Sure enough, as soon as I arrived at the office.

Xu Cheng smiled and said, "Although the soul fragment has been broken, the seal must have tortured you enough. Leave it to me from now on. Remember, no matter what you see, don't make a sound..."

"Yeah!" Wang Dong widened his eyes and looked at Xu Cheng eagerly.

Xu Cheng's expression gradually became solemn, his eyes shrank slightly, and blood-red pupils suddenly appeared, the second form of his martial soul. The room was instantly flooded by the blood pouring in from Xu Cheng's body, and fell into a red ocean, and its size became vast.

"Yilao."

Xu Cheng called softly.

In the sea of ​​​​spirituality, a dark door slowly opened, and the shadow of Alex appeared.

"Is this the little girl?" Electrolux nodded slightly and pointed his skinny fingers at Wang Dong lightly.

A mysterious figure holding a triangular fork and emitting a light blue aura suddenly appeared behind him.

Wang Dong looked at this scene in shock.

Alex frowned, "It's a bit difficult."

Xu Cheng was shocked, "Mr. Yi, even you..."

"The person who cast this forbidden spell is extremely powerful and of high status. If my real body were here, I would be able to remove it silently and not alert the people behind him. But now I am just a fragment of my soul. If I want to remove it... it will inevitably alert the people behind him." Alex murmured.

"The most important thing is, from what I've observed, that person is still alive. If we alarm him, I'm afraid the consequences will be..."

Xu Cheng pondered for a moment.

Bomb disposal is risky.

But the risk is not great.

What Yi Lao didn't know was that he had already met a certain God King when he was in the Star Dou Great Forest.

If Tang San had the ability to interfere with the Douluo plane, why would he send an incarnation down and make himself so miserable?

Combined with the reaction of the God of Destruction before, he was almost certain that the situation in which Tang San dominated the God Realm had disappeared. Even if it was really demolished, if it was discovered by the God King Tang, he would probably only be helpless and furious...

"Tear it down, Master Yi. I know what's going on." Xu Cheng smiled and touched Wang Dong's hair. "This girl has been tortured for too long. She doesn't want to be a tool for someone. I will bear all the consequences."

Ah? ? ?
Wang Dong raised his head and stared at Xu Cheng.

It feels like my underwear is being seen through.

But she was still quite moved. Facing the gods, just with one sentence, "I will take responsibility for all the consequences," Xu Cheng's position in her heart suddenly rose.

She had been back to Haotian Sect before and asked her grandfather.

But not only did the elder not stand by her side, he asked in shock and anger about what happened to the soul fragments in the auspicious beast. This made her very sad, and for the first time, she had a clear understanding of this world.

The people closest to her didn't care about her life or death, but a former "enemy" now waved his hand and blocked all counterattacks and revenge...

"Hahaha, good boy!" Electrolux laughed heroically.

"Okay, I'm going to dismantle this bomb today! Even gods can't stop me, I say!"

As he spoke, he clapped his hands lightly, and his fingers deftly drew several complex patterns, which slowly formed a formation that enveloped Wang Dong.

"Buzz!"

The formation rotates.

The light blue shadow behind Wang Dong suddenly screamed.

(End of this chapter)