Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

The problem with Chapter 49 is most likely with the materials!
Lou Gao's eyes burst with immense joy. He carefully picked up the fine iron plate that he had personally inscribed with the soul guidance array, as if he were holding a rare treasure.

Although it was just an experiment, this groundbreaking first step was of immense significance!
"Xia, look! We've succeeded in the first step!"

Lou Gao's voice trembled with excitement, and his face was filled with barely suppressed elation.

Lin Xia also felt her heart pounding, her eyes filled with anticipation.

"Teacher, please try it!"

Lou Gao nodded heavily, eagerly picking up a fist-sized piece of ordinary iron ore next to him for testing.

Lou Gao took a deep breath and slowly injected his soul power into the fine iron plate engraved with the magic array, while simultaneously bringing the ore close to the center of the magic array.

Under their tense gazes, a miracle occurred!
The moment the ore came into contact with the light of the magic array, it vanished without a trace, as if swallowed by an invisible space!

"Hahahaha! It's done! It really is done! Storage! Spatial storage!"

Lou Gao was overjoyed. The immense excitement almost made him jump up like a child, his face beaming with an unprecedented sense of accomplishment.

The mystery of the soul tool that had troubled him for more than ten days, or even longer, was finally partially revealed by his own hands!
However, just as Lou Gao was overwhelmed with ecstasy, Lin Xia keenly sensed something was amiss.

The soul power fluctuations on the iron plate did not stabilize after the ore disappeared. Instead, they flickered violently for a moment before quickly dimming. The light of the magic array lines also became extremely weak, even faintly revealing a sense of unstable "depletion".

"teacher!"

Lin Xia's heart tightened, and she immediately spoke up to remind him, her voice tinged with urgency.

"Quick! Try to get that ore out!"

Lou Gao was pulled back to reality by Lin Xia's shout, and the smile on his face instantly froze.

Lou Gao then realized that he had overlooked the most crucial step—storage and retrieval!
If you can only "store" something in but not "retrieve" it, what kind of storage soul tool is that?

An ominous premonition instantly welled up in Lou Gao's heart.

Lou Gao hurriedly mobilized his soul power again, concentrated his mind, and tried to communicate with the magic array space inside the refined iron plate to retrieve the ore that had just been stored there.

As soul power was injected, the lines of the magic circle lit up slightly again, but the light was extremely dim, like a candle flickering in the wind.

Lou Gao strained his mental energy to search and sense the faint spatial nodes constructed by the magic array... However, no matter how hard he tried, the missing ore seemed to have sunk into the sea without a trace!
The air inside the forging room seemed to freeze.

The ecstasy I felt just now was instantly extinguished, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over me.

"No... missing?"

The color drained from Lou Gao's face quickly, his eyes filled with shock, confusion, and immense disappointment.

Lou Gao tried repeatedly, even increasing his soul power output, but the magic circle on the iron plate only flickered a few times as if there was a poor connection, and then there was no further response.

The feeling was as if he had just opened an extremely unstable spatial rift that collapsed instantly, and the ore was thrown into an unknown void turbulence, with no stable "space" for him to retrieve it.

"Failed……"

Lou Gao's voice was dry and filled with a deep sense of defeat. He stared blankly at the iron plate in his hand, which seemed to have lost all its spirit.

"How could this be... The magic circle was clearly engraved, and the item was successfully sent away... Why... Why can't we get it back?"

The stark contrast plunged Lou Gao into a brief period of confusion. He had clearly seen the dawn of success, yet he had fallen into the abyss just when it was within reach.

Lin Xia frowned as she looked at her teacher's distraught appearance, her mind racing.

Lin Xia forced herself to calm down and began searching through fragmented memories for deeper knowledge about the creation of soul tools.

The vague impressions of his past life, the fragments mentioned in the original work, and the knowledge he had accumulated during this period of research were rapidly combined and deduced in his mind like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Step one: Design and conception – they completed this. The building perfectly replicated the core magic array of the storage soul tool.

Step Two: Material Preparation and Metal Forging—Lin Xia's gaze suddenly locked onto the ordinary refined iron plate in Lou Gao's hand! A crucial point struck him like lightning!
"Material!"

Lin Xia blurted out, her voice tinged with a sudden, excited realization.

"Teacher! The problem is very likely with the materials!"

Lou Gao suddenly looked up at Lin Xia, his gaze shifting from confusion to focused inquiry.

Lin Xia strode forward, pointed at the refined iron plate, and analyzed it rapidly:
“Teacher, look! The metal we’re using is just the most ordinary refined iron! Although you’ve forged and purified it perfectly, it’s not a special metal that can conduct and store soul power well. More importantly, it doesn’t contain any spatial properties at all!”

Lin Xia pointed to the dim and lifeless magic array patterns.

"The core of a storage soul tool is to create a stable subspace or spatial node! This requires a magic array to guide and construct it, but the 'foundation' and 'container' for constructing this space must be metal itself!"

"Ordinary refined iron simply does not possess the essential attribute of bearing spatial power! Its structure, its affinity with soul power, and especially its compatibility with spatial rules are far from sufficient!"

Lin Xia recalled the key steps in the creation of soul tools from her mind.

"Step three: Inscribe the core magic array. You have succeeded in this step, inscribing the magic array onto the metal, but the metal is simply unable to stably support it!"

"The result is that the space collapses instantly, and the stored items are naturally lost, or even torn apart by the spatial turbulence!"

"The magic array itself was also damaged because the carrier could not withstand the force, and it could no longer be stably operated!"

Lin Xia's tone was resolute:
"Therefore, failure is almost inevitable! The metal we are using is fundamentally incompatible with spatial arrays! It's like trying to build a dam that requires precision and pressure resistance with mud; it's destined to collapse!"

Lou Gao listened to Lin Xia's clear and logical analysis, and the confusion in his eyes was quickly replaced by sudden understanding and a deeper solemnity.

Lou Gao is indeed a master craftsman; he understands things immediately.

He carefully examined the fine iron plate in his hand, feeling the almost vanished faint soul power fluctuations and the deathly stillness of the magic array lines, and completely understood the root of the problem.

"That's it...that's it!"

Lou Gao sighed heavily, his disappointment replaced by a strong thirst for knowledge.

"I misunderstood!"

Lou Gao looked at Lin Xia with eyes full of admiration and satisfaction.

"Xia, your analysis is absolutely correct! The key to this problem lies in the materials! Not only do we need a special metal that can bear soul power, but we also need... materials that contain spatial properties!"

Lou Gao rubbed his chin, his thick eyebrows furrowed, lost in thought.
"Materials containing spatial properties... these are truly rare! Stardust? Void Stone? These are legendary items, extremely rare and hard to come by! In Gengjin City's warehouse... there seems to be a record of a small amount of stardust powder stored there in the past? I wonder if it's still there..."

(End of this chapter)