Douluo Continent: The Legend of the Gods

"Zhizhi, have any nobles been causing trouble at the herb garden lately?"

"No, ever since Princess Jiujiu, along with Shattered Star Douluo, warned a few nobles who were openly in power, those underhanded methods have all been put away."

Zhizhi is not only the second doctor in Qinglin Hall besides Yun Qinglin, but also Dan Chen's assistant in the herb garden. Her Blue Silver Grass martial soul is quite useful for planting herbs, as she can sense the vitality of the herbs and make timely adjustments.

Four years ago, Xu Jiawei officially conferred the title of Viscount upon Yun Qinglin, citing his significant contributions to the Star Luo Empire.

Yun Qinglin is not short of money at all now. He has improved many soul tools, including basic soul tools such as soul ray, soul cannon, and defensive soul tools. Each blueprint has raised the level of the Star Luo Soul Tool System by a notch.

Gu Qinghong went from initial shock to numbness, her face remaining expressionless each time she received the blueprints. But she didn't skimp on the payment.

Each time, at least 30% of the revenue would be given to him, as long as he handed over the blueprints. If the power was increased even more, he would even receive 60% or 70% of the revenue.

The progress of Star Luo Soul Guidance Devices cannot be kept secret.

Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance Department has noticed that the Soul Guidance Devices produced by Star Luo in recent years are much more powerful than before, and some models are even better than those produced by Shrek Academy itself.

They have been trying to dismantle and analyze how Xingluo managed to increase the power of the soul tool in just a few years.

However, the Sun Moon Empire is still unaware of the advancements in the Star Luo Soul Tool. Their superior technology means they simply don't pay attention to its development. Of course, Gu Qinghong is also very careful in the sales process, delaying the Sun Moon Empire's discovery, which might have a surprising effect.

Xingluo's defenses were also very tight. Yun Qinglin had left a backup plan when designing the system. Each blueprint had a self-destruct device embedded in its core array, not a physical explosion, but an energy-level collapse.

If anyone attempts to forcibly dismantle the core magic array, the self-destruct mechanism will be triggered first, burning the patterns in the key parts into a pile of rubble.

Without blueprints, you can't figure anything out even if you disassemble a hundred units.

Even compared to the soul tools of the Sun Moon Empire, it is only inferior in terms of craftsmanship and consumption, and the materials are not as economical, but its power is already comparable.

Shrek Academy's Soul Guidance Department has been trying to unravel the mystery of the Star Luo Empire's Soul Guidance Devices, but Star Luo is very cautious about this. Yun Qinglin added a self-destruct device to it, and he also added another layer of protection: a mental barrier.

The detection capabilities of the Heavenly Pivot and Huo Yuhao's mental detection in the original work made it clear to him that a sufficiently strong mental-type Soul Master could detect the internal structure of the core magic array through its outer shell.

If he can do it with his own mental strength, then others with similar skills can do it too.

Therefore, he added a layer of mental energy barrier between the outer shell and the core magic array, using a special metal coating to completely enclose the magic array. When external mental energy probes in, it will be repelled by that coating and nothing will be seen.

Mysterious Gold is the main rare metal material in that thin metal film.

These rare metals have never been taken seriously because they do not have the ability to conduct soul power, but they have a very special property: they have a natural repulsive effect on mental power.

Any spiritual energy that probes into the Xuanming Crystal will be guided by the silver patterns and wander inside the crystal, like entering a maze, unable to find its way out, and eventually being completely worn away.

This characteristic has always put it in an awkward position in the research of soul tools. It is not suitable for use as a core magic array because soul power cannot flow through it, nor is it suitable for use as an outer shell because it is too brittle and cannot withstand impact.

It wasn't until later that Yun Qinglin discovered that coating it on the surface of the core magic array could effectively shield against external mental energy detection.

Mental defense isn't actually that difficult.

The principle is simple: a metal interference loop is placed around the core array. When external mental energy probes in, it will be guided by the loop to spin in circles, and no useful information will be taken away.

The challenge was finding a balance between the interference loops and the operation of the magic array itself, and it took him a long time to find that.

The final solution used was to add a tiny buffer node between the interference loop and the main loop, separating the energy flow on both sides so that they go their own way and do not interfere with each other.

He learned this design from the soul tools of the Sun Moon Empire; the branching loops at those sharp-angled bends inspired him.

At first, Gu Qinghong said that Yun Qinglin's membrane was useless because the Douluo Continent at that time was still too crude in its use of mental power and there was no soul skill similar to mental detection.

Later, Yun Qinglin disassembled the internal structure of many of the soul tools he designed in front of him, which made Gu Qinghong take it seriously.

Gu Qinghong taught Yun Qinglin without reservation over the past six years. Moreover, Gu Qinghong took full responsibility for all the material losses in Yun Qinglin's research. He knew Gu Qinglin's character well and knew that Gu Qinghong would not reveal information about his second martial soul.

After learning about Yun Qinglin's second martial soul talent skill, Mental Detection, Gu Qinghong looked at Yun Qinglin with a hint of jealousy. This was a divine skill for researching soul tools!

Given the nature of Douluo Continent, where one is useless without soul skills, there are very few geniuses who can create their own soul skills, let alone divine skills like mental detection. Therefore, Xuan You Gold is very cheap on the market, and Yun Qinglin immediately told Gu Qinghong to buy it in large quantities.

Xingluo bought up almost all of the Xuanyou Gold available on the market. The Sun Moon Empire didn't want this rare metal at all, and was quite happy with Xingluo's act of being a sucker. They raised the price slightly as a token gesture, but didn't go too far.

After all, these rare metals are completely ineffective in making soul tools, so what's the point of collecting them? It's better to sell them and make some money.

Because of Gu Lao's suggestion, Xu Jiawei gave him a noble title, mainly because he didn't know what else to bestow upon him.

The Star Luo Empire doesn't have any healing-type soul bones; all the previous stock was given to Wang Xian'er. And Wang Xian'er herself doesn't even have a full soul bone, which shows how rare healing-type soul bones are.

However, Yun Qinglin actually possesses a soul bone, provided to him by Qingxiao. It is the left arm bone of a jade swan, which he has not yet absorbed and is preparing to use as an experimental subject for soul bone research.

It wasn't that he disliked it; the Emerald Swan's ten-thousand-year soul bone was better to him than the soul bone of a regular hundred-thousand-year soul beast, since it shared the same origin as his martial soul. However, in the Star Dou Great Forest, Bi Ji said that there was a hundred-thousand-year Emerald Swan's left arm bone stored inside the Emerald Swan, which she would give to him when he became a Soul King.

The reason for not giving it to him in the early stages was that absorbing a 100,000-year-old soul bone too early would put him under great pressure, and a slight mistake could even affect his foundation. Even though the Emerald Swan's soul bone was relatively mild, Yun Qinglin did not try it rashly.

What Yun Qinglin was really after was not the title itself, but the fiefdom that came with it.

Dan Chen has reached level 57 in soul power in the past few years, and he is very likely to break through to Soul Emperor in the future. He has been very happy during this time.

Being a teacher at the Star Luo Royal Academy was actually quite easy; he spent most of his time tending to the herb fields on Yun Qinglin's fiefdom.

Xu Jiawei placed Yun Qinglin's fiefdom in a town next to Xingluo City, which was a round trip that could be completed in half an hour for a Soul King.

Although the fiefdom is not large, it contains a considerable amount of farmland, which is very suitable for growing medicinal herbs.

Yun Qinglin hired several plant-type Soul Masters to take care of the herb garden, and Dan Chen would occasionally go over to supervise. Gold Soul Coins were now just a number to Yun Qinglin.