Peerless: I Became Huo Yuhao's Dark Personality

Chapter 98: A Little Shock to the Ninth-Level Soul Master (Two-in-One)

The area that Huo Yumiao chose to reuse the patterns left a larger and more operational area than the mirror replication, and the difficulty was almost doubled.

As time passed, a layer of fine beads of sweat seeped out of Huo Yumiao's forehead. Without practice to become proficient, he could only spend more time and energy.

The time he spent on this second core magic array was more than twice as long as the previous one. After completing the second core magic array, Huo Yumiao began to engrave the third core magic array.

With the experience of reusing the pattern the first time, Huo Yumiao spent about 20% less time on engraving this time.

Still coming? Looking at Huo Yumiao who kept swinging the carving knife, Guan Lao was secretly surprised. He could see that Huo Yumiao was already mentally exhausted at this time, but he didn't expect that the other party still had no intention of stopping.

Huo Yumiao's performance had already exceeded his expectations. When he engraved the core magic circle for the first time, Guan Lao did not have high expectations. He was as cautious as Huo Yumiao is now when he engraved it for the first time.

What surprised him most was Huo Yumiao's progress. The first time he tried to engrave the core magic array, it took him half an hour. The first time he tried to reuse the pattern, it took more than an hour. But the second time, it took less than fifty minutes.

As the first time carving a core magic circle, this speed of progress is quite good.

Old Guan's eyes narrowed, and he saw that the core function of the magic circle that Huo Yumiao was engraving at the moment was absorption, which meant that the engraving was nearing the end.

Absorption and compression, soul guide rays? Guan Lao understood. Ninety-nine percent of soul guides' first soul guides were soul guide rays.

Soul guide rays are very simple and can be constructed with only two types of arrays: absorption and compression. Of course, these are low-level soul guide rays. Higher-level soul guide rays will be improved by adding core arrays with more functions such as acceleration or transformation.

Hmm? Elder Guan frowned. Huo Yumiao was indeed engraving an absorption core array as he had expected, but it was not for absorbing soul power, but for absorbing mental power.

Moreover, Huo Yumiao continued and engraved three core magic arrays in succession, one for acceleration, one for amplification, and one for absorption, but this time the absorption array was used to absorb soul power.

The mental force absorption array is connected to the compression array, the soul force absorption array is connected to the amplification array, and these two arrays with soul force amplifier function are connected to the acceleration array.

There was a hint of shock in Guan Lao's eyes. As a ninth-level soul engineer, he immediately saw the final form of this core, a mental attack soul guide that used soul power to increase attack speed.

It's a very simple principle, but it's a direction that Guan Lao had never imagined. In the past, when he wanted to increase the speed of his attack, he only used an acceleration core array. If the speed was not enough, he would add another acceleration array.

Although Huo Yumiao's use of the soul amplifier to amplify the acceleration array may occupy more area, the benefits are also greater.

"Master Guan, I'm done." Huo Yumiao exhaled, his expression full of fatigue. The seven core magic arrays took more than four hours. For him, who was trying to engrave the core magic arrays for the first time, the energy consumption was undoubtedly huge.

The combined core magic array, the second-level soul engineer is sure to win, Huo Yumiao felt a little relieved. Huo Yuhao made an indispensable contribution to the completion of this time.

If there were no mental detection, Huo Yumiao's mental strength would not be able to support such a mentally demanding production, and he would not be able to bear it more than engraving five core magic arrays.

The image analysis and processing of mental detection saved Huo Yumiao a lot of thinking time, which led to the creation of this soul guide core.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're trying to create a spirit-guided device for mental attacks, right?"

Seeing Huo Yumiao nod, Guan Lao said anxiously, "You want to use the soul amplifier on the acceleration array to increase the attack speed, right?"

Huo Yumiao continued to nod, not feeling surprised. The soul guide core was made in front of several people. Making a soul guide core in front of a soul guide was no different from typing code line by line in front of a programmer, who would know what he wanted to do at a glance.

"Tell me, son, how did you come up with this idea?"

Hearing Guan Lao's question, Huo Yumiao appeared calm on the surface, but smiled slightly in his heart. Just as he thought, his acceleration method had indeed attracted attention.

In the world of soul masters, the most important thing besides talent is creativity. Soul masters without creativity are destined to be unable to break through the shackles of high-level soul masters.

The development of soul guide technology has become extremely mature and powerful, but Huo Yumiao, as a time traveler with a God's perspective, discovered a very strange problem.

The functions of the magic arrays are too independent. The most critical core magic arrays of the soul guide are divided into various types, which is good, but the connections between them are too scattered.

If you want speed, just engrave more advanced and larger numbers of acceleration arrays. If you want power, do the same, just engrave more advanced and larger numbers of compression arrays. There are very few linkages and combinations between the multiple arrays.

Powerful soul masters are a group of guys who can fully understand the more complex and obscure core magic arrays. This is purely based on talent, and hard work is unlikely to be effective.

The more complex and obscure the core magic array is, the more powerful the functions it can carry are, resulting in the fact that no one has discovered the linkage of the basic core magic array.

Logically speaking, the soul guide technology tree has been developed to such a powerful level that this kind of thing should not happen.

But that's the fact. With such a complete manufacturing chain for soul guides and soul engineers, things like assembly lines should have appeared long ago.

As a result, even now, metal smelting is still done manually with hammers, and single magic array soul guide cores, which require completely repetitive operations, are still made purely by hand.

Is this right?
Huo Yumiao dared to guarantee that as long as his talent in soul guide manufacturing was not extreme, it would be very easy to create a new era of soul guides. He had too many creative ideas in his mind.

"When I was studying the basic core array theory, it said there were only two ways to make the soul guide more effective.

One is to engrave more core magic arrays that can achieve this effect, and the other is to engrave higher-level core magic arrays. At that time, I was thinking, is there a third method?
I thought about this problem for a long time afterwards, and soon I had an idea.

If one acceleration array is not enough, then engrave two. This is simply the result of one plus one equals two, using double the soul power to do double the work.

The maximum speed at which the magic circle can access soul power depends on the upper limit of the metal itself, but the maximum speed at which we can inject soul power is limited by our own cultivation level.

The more core magic arrays there are, the speed of injecting soul power is constant, that is, the amount injected in the same time period is constant. The less soul power each core magic array can receive in the same time period, and the more time is wasted.

Also, because there are too many magic arrays and the soul power is too dispersed, more leakage will occur, further increasing consumption.

Our solution to this problem is to increase the input of soul power. This solves the speed problem, but it also further exacerbates the loss of soul power."

Huo Yumiao paused at this point, and after seeing the recognition in Guan Lao's eyes, he continued:
"If that's the case, why choose to increase the quantity instead of finding a way to increase the speed of soul power inflow? It's almost impossible for a soul master of the same level using a soul guide of the same level to exceed the upper limit of the soul power injection speed.

"Dual acceleration versus one acceleration and one amplification: the former disperses soul power into two streams, while the latter injects it completely. Although the number of arrays appears to be the same, the actual loss and injection speed are different. In other words, for the same soul power consumption, the latter can have a stronger effect than the former."

After Huo Yumiao finished speaking, everyone was silent for a long time. Xian Lin'er was shocked. These words had a huge impact on her. From this moment on, Xian Lin'er understood that the other party's future attainments in soul guides would definitely not be weaker than hers.

After hearing what Huo Yumiao said, Boss Guan was shocked. This was a completely subversive technique. As one of the top soul engineers, he understood even more clearly what this meant.

Guan Lao's face was serious, and he turned his gaze to Lin Jiayi, "Jiayi..."

"Don't worry, Master Guan, I will never tell anyone about this technique even if I die."

Lin Jiayi's expression froze. Huo Yumiao's words had greatly inspired him, but he was destined to never be able to break through to the Titled Douluo realm in this lifetime. His soul power had not improved in the entire ten years, and his path as a soul engineer had basically come to an end.

For the world of soul masters, Huo Yumiao's words were like a thunderclap. It is unknown whether they can help countless people to make further progress. It cannot be measured by benefits.

He does not have the noble spirit of sacrificing himself for the benefit of all mankind. He just needs to try it himself. He can still distinguish right from wrong, otherwise he would not be able to sit in this position.

Old Guan's eyes softened a little. It could almost be said that he had watched Lin Jiayi grow up, and he also regarded him as half a disciple.

But he was well aware of the groundbreaking nature of Huo Yumiao's remarks. In the face of interests, he was really afraid that Lin Jiayi would be possessed by evil spirits, which was not what he wanted to see.

When Huo Yumiao and the other two saw Lin Jiayi's quick statement, their evaluation of Guan Lao's identity rose again. It seemed that his identity was even more noble than Jing Hongchen's.

"Yu Miao, I have a question. Since you chose to use the soul amplifier to activate the acceleration array, why didn't you create a compression array instead of engraving three compression arrays?"

Old Guan expressed his doubts. Logically speaking, the two processes should be exactly the same, so why did Huo Yumiao use it on the acceleration array but not on the compression array?

"I don't know how strong a mental impact the blue jade copper can withstand. There's no record of mental impact in the books. I can only use the safer method of three compression arrays."

Huo Yumiao said somewhat helplessly that no matter what type of energy it is, the essence is the same, only the form of expression is different. Soul power has impact, and so does mental power.

But when he studied soul guides through Huo Yuhao's perspective, the record of blue jade copper only said that it could withstand the soul power impact of the Soul Master level, and there was no mention of mental power.

Therefore, compared to letting one area bear a large amount of mental impact, dividing it into multiple pieces is undoubtedly the best way. Of course, it is also a helpless method.

"So that's how it is." Old Guan showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, looked at Huo Yumiao's helpless expression, and smiled kindly.

"This is normal. Even I don't know the upper limit of Lan Yutong's ability to withstand spiritual power shocks, because there are so few spiritual attribute soul masters, and even fewer who can become soul mentors.

By the time non-spiritual soul masters can freely use their spiritual power, they will at least be Soul Sage-level strongmen, and at this time the rare metals they use to make soul guides are extremely demanding.

It is impossible to choose common rare metals such as blue jade copper, so these metals basically only have records of soul power impact, not mental power. "

Now it was Huo Yumiao's turn to suddenly realize. This was the reason. He had thought that the development of soul guides in Douluo Continent was too backward, resulting in incomplete understanding of rare metals.

"Yu Miao, your ideas are very good, and these techniques are groundbreaking. Although these core arrays of yours are relatively basic, as combined core arrays, you are at least a second-level soul master.

But you have to know that this is your first time making a soul guide core. This is extremely amazing. As long as you practice more, you will soon become a third-level soul guide. Yu Miao, do you have a master?"

After hearing the last sentence, Huo Yumiao's heart moved and his mind instantly became active. Does this seem like he is planning to accept a disciple?

Judging from Lin Jiayi’s introduction just now, the Sun-Moon Empire’s top soul engineer must be at least level nine.

As for Mingde Hall being the best? That's impossible. Kong Deming is the boss. It's just that although Lao Deng is recorded in Mingde Hall, he spends 90% of his time in the palace researching humanoid soul guides.

"I don't have a teacher, and all the knowledge I have about soul guides is theoretical." Huo Yumiao's entire understanding of soul guides comes from seeing the world through Huo Yuhao's eyes. There is no practical experience at all, it is all theoretical teaching.

"Are you willing to take me as your master?" Old Guan looked at Huo Yumiao eagerly. He made this decision for many reasons, two of which were the most important.

One is the talent of Huo Yumiao's twin martial souls, which are not only the spiritual attributes of the original martial soul, but also the ultimate ice.

In other places, ultimate attributes may be the most sought-after, but for Master Guan, spiritual attributes are the first, not only because spiritual attributes are of great help in the production of soul guides, but also because Plan No. 1 lacks an operator.

Plan No. 1 is actually a huge humanoid soul guide, a true war machine. As long as it becomes complete, it will definitely be able to control the war situation.

Since Plan No. 1 was proposed, construction has begun to take shape, but it has been difficult to find a suitable person to drive and control it, because the huge size and complex design place too high demands on the operator.

After a series of experiments, it is almost certain that only a spiritual soul master can control this soul guide. Even a Titled Douluo cannot control the various complex and delicate controls inside.

The second reason is Huo Yumiao's insights into soul guides. Through his groundbreaking speech just now, Master Guan can conclude that Huo Yumiao must be one of the top geniuses in the field of soul guides.

Being able to have this kind of creativity and this kind of thinking is proof of talent, which can never be achieved through hard work. If hard work is useful, there would be no definition of genius.

Of course, Old Guan was delighted to see such an amazing talent. He not only liked Huo Yumiao, the genius soul guide, but also wanted to cultivate a pillar for the Sun Moon Empire.

Old Guan even felt that Huo Yumiao might become like Kong Deming in the future. That would not only be the pinnacle of soul guide manufacturing, but also a symbol, the mainstay of the Sun-Moon Empire.

"Yu Miao, Master Guan is not only a ninth-level soul mentor, but also one of the best in the entire Sun-Moon Empire." Lin Jiayi saw what Master Guan was thinking, and of course he spared no effort to assist him.

Mr. Guan is embarrassed to praise himself like this, so let him come.

Everyone's attention was focused on Huo Yumiao.

Apprenticeship?

(End of this chapter)