Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 64 Self-made and self-developed Soul Guiding Array!

Lin Xia's thoughts were still churning in the heat and cold of the "Flame Fist" and "Frozen Fist," and the faint electric arcs from the lightning fist seemed to linger on his fingertips. His desire for attribute ores spread like wildfire in his heart.

Just then, footsteps approached, and Lou Gao's face, marked with the smoke and deep lines of a stove, was now filled with an almost childlike, pure, and uncontrollable ecstasy.

His eyes shone with an astonishing light, like the most intensely burning core in a furnace, and his beard trembled slightly with excitement.

Before Lin Xia could fully recover, Lou Gao's calloused, iron-like hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her into the forging room without a word. The force was so great that Lin Xia stumbled.

"Teacher? Slow down... What... what happened?"

Lin Xia was completely bewildered by the sudden enthusiasm and Lou Gao's expression that seemed to say, "I've found a treasure that I must share immediately." She subconsciously asked a question.

Lin Xia had just snapped out of the excitement of the Thunder Fist and was still a little out of sync with her teacher's pace.

"Haha! This is amazing! Xia, you did it! You did it!"

Lou Gao made no attempt to keep anyone in suspense; his voice boomed and echoed throughout the training room, every word brimming with indescribable excitement and eagerness.

Lou Gao stopped, turned around, and grabbed Lin Xia's shoulders tightly with both hands. His burning eyes were fixed on Lin Xia, as if he wanted to inject the light in his eyes directly into Lin Xia's mind.

"After this period of time, no, after all this relentless torment day and night!"

Lou Gao spoke extremely fast, his spittle almost spraying onto Lin Xia's face.

"It's all thanks to that treasure we brought back—the Void Stone Ore! I was holding it so tightly my eyes almost went blind! Guess what?"

Lou Gao excitedly waved his arms and legs, as if describing a shocking secret.

"I've discovered a huge secret! Soul guidance arrays! The mysterious and incomprehensible arrays on those ancient soul guidance artifacts likely originated from the patterns on these precious minerals formed by nature! Especially these Void Stones!"

Lou Gao's fingers gestured forcefully in the air, as if outlining those invisible lines.

"I compared the moving, flowing stardust patterns on the Void Stone with the magic array markings on your storage soul tool ring under a magnifying glass, bit by bit!"

"Hey! Damn it! Almost identical! They're basically from the same ancestor! It's just that the one on the Void Stone is more primitive and more 'alive'! It's like the difference between tree roots and leaves!"

The building suddenly spread its arms wide, as if to embrace the whole new world.

"I simply followed the example, disassembled and simplified those 'living' patterns on the Void Stone, and then recombined them according to the flow of soul power! Guess what? It worked! It really worked!"

Lou Gao counted the items on his rough fingers to Lin Xia, raising his voice with each item he mentioned.

"An energy storage array! It works on a similar principle to a storage ring, but it can store more soul power and is more stable!"

"A magic array that links different soul tools! Like building blocks, it allows energy to flow between different components and connect them!"

"And the most crucial one—the power magic array!"

The towering building roared almost loudly, filled with unparalleled pride.

"A magic array that makes a dead iron lump move on its own! I've even managed to create one!"

Lou Gao gave Lin Xia a final, forceful pat on the shoulder, making her jump. Her eyes were blazing as she made her resolute announcement.

"Xia! Now, as long as the top-quality materials are in place, that huge thing you drew on the blueprints—the Soul Guiding Mech!"

"I'm 70% confident I can get you a rough prototype! A metal lump that can move! A metal lump that can throw a punch!"

boom!
Lou Gao's words were like a heavy hammer blow, striking Lin Xia's heart.

Soul guidance array... mecha prototype... power core... Soul guidance device—these concepts, representing the pinnacle achievements of another lost civilization, were actually deduced by Lou Gao in such a short time, solely based on the natural patterns of a void stone vein containing spatial power?
They even "developed" a completely new type of magic array?

Lin Xia felt her mind go blank, her thoughts completely frozen, with only a buzzing echo.

Looking at the old man in front of him, who was so excited that he was gesturing wildly and his beard was shaking, his eyes were completely numb, as if he were looking at a monster wearing human skin!

No, even "monster" doesn't do it justice!

This is simply a brutal and unreasonable act that has torn apart the insurmountable barrier between the Douluo Continent and the Soul Guidance Civilization!

They are truly monstrous geniuses who crush the times!

The heroes of the world are as numerous as carp crossing a river; there is no wrong way to address them!

At that moment, Lin Xia gained a profound understanding of those words.

The other two so-called master craftsmen
Compared to the terrifying creativity of building height, everything else seems somewhat... overshadowed.

After the immense shock came an overwhelming ecstasy and a thirst for knowledge, like a volcanic eruption!
Lin Xia suddenly snapped out of his daze, his eyes flashing with a light even more intense than Lou Gao's. He grabbed Lou Gao's arm with his other hand, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

"Teacher! You...you're amazing! Teach me! You have to teach me! How did you do that?!"

"Hahaha! Nonsense!"

Lou Gao burst into laughter at Lin Xia's reaction, his pride practically overflowing.

"You're my last disciple, who else should I teach if not you? Come on, let me show you around!"

Lou Gao laughed loudly, pulled Lin Xia up again, and strode into the core area of ​​the forging room.

When Lin Xia stepped into this space dominated by high temperature and metallic smell, the scene before him made him gasp instantly and stand there completely stunned!

The area that was originally filled with forging tables, molds and semi-finished metal ingots has now been cleared out into a large open space.

On this open space, instead of the familiar felt and hammer, there were... a dazzling array of metal objects of various shapes, radiating either faint or strong energy fluctuations!

They are no longer just lines on a blueprint, but real soul tools made of metal and soul power arrays!

Although most of them look rough, simple, and even have obvious signs of welding and repair, their existence itself is a miracle!
"Hehe, are you dumbfounded, kid?"

Lou Gao looked at Lin Xia's dumbfounded expression, stroked his beard smugly, like a child eager to show off a toy.

Lou Gao walked up to the nearest device.

This is a cylinder about half the height of a person, with a base made of heavy refined iron, while the main body is made of a basketball-sized piece of void stone crystal that has been cut and polished.

Inside the crystal, the flowing stardust points were more active than what Lin Xia had seen in the mineral vein. As if guided by an invisible force, they flowed at high speed along the complex grooves etched on the crystal surface, forming a miniature, constantly rotating nebula vortex.

The entire device emitted a deep and steady hum, and the surrounding space was slightly distorted, radiating strong spatial and soul power fluctuations.

"Did you see that?"

Lou Gao carefully pointed a steel probe at the nodes of the nebula's flow.

"This is the first thing I figured out—an energy storage array! It's a direct copy of the core pattern of the Void Stone!"

"See this vortex? It automatically absorbs, compresses, and stores spatial energy and free soul power! Its efficiency is more than ten times higher than the charging soul tools we use now! And it's more stable! This is the prototype of the power furnace, the heart of future mechs!"

(End of this chapter)