Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 122 Equipment Design

Upon seeing the girl appear in Huo Yuhao's courtyard, Du Busi was taken aback for a moment, then laughed loudly and said, "I won't disturb you, I'm leaving now."

Then Du Bu Si left immediately because he could tell that the girl had become inexplicably wary after he appeared.

After noticing this change, Du Busi did not immediately take action against the girl, but waited for Huo Yuhao to explain to him.

Seeing Du Busi leave, Huo Yuhao looked at Di Ruier beside him, who seemed about to explode with anger. He patted her head to calm her down and then said to her.

"I'll be right back. Wait for me in the yard for a bit."

When Di Rui'er first met Du Bu Si, she felt an instinctive panic due to her keen intuition.

In her eyes, as an imperial auspicious beast, the aura emanating from Poison Undying was more terrifying than that of any person she had ever seen, or even any ferocious beast.

Of course, this does not refer to how powerful Du Bu Si's own strength and realm are, or even that he can surpass Di Tian's level.

It's because of his snow-white swan neck that, despite his best efforts to conceal it, Poison Undying is different from ordinary Limit Douluo.

He was like a walking, giant source of poison. This was because, when condensing his second soul core, Du Busi, with the help of the Snow-White Swan Neck and the Azure Phosphorus Poison Pearl, combined with Huo Yuhao's martial soul theory, once again evolved his original martial soul.

The soul power, imbued with the poison of his destiny, replaced most of the original components of his martial soul.

Originally, Poison Undying's innate poison was hidden within his martial soul, but now, the innate poison flows through every part of Poison Undying's body along with his martial soul, spreading and gradually growing stronger with each flow.

This is precisely why Du Busi was able to release toxins within the Body Sect that could cover the entire sect and be freely controlled and regulated.

Compared to his previous self, the innate poison that Poison Undying now possesses has been greatly enhanced in both quality and controllability, along with the evolution of his martial soul.

However, as the innate poison flows, even without the possession of a martial soul, a layer of poisonous cloud always surrounds Poison Undying's body, only under its control, it becomes invisible and harmless.

However, although the poison could not kill the invisible poison that seemed to be constantly surrounding him, under his deliberate control, its existence was not much different from ordinary air, and could not be detected.

However, for Di Ruier, this was far too strange. After all, even among soul beasts, she had never seen such an unstable existence.

Fortunately, Poison Undying had an extremely strong ability to control the toxins around his body, and after he left, those invisible toxins left with him.

Seeing that Di Ruier had relaxed a bit, Huo Yuhao offered a few more words of comfort before leaving his courtyard and heading to Du Busi's study.

Du Busi had obviously been waiting there for a long time. Upon seeing Huo Yuhao's arrival, he nodded slightly, indicating that Huo Yuhao should sit down first.

After Huo Yuhao sat down, Du Busi remained silent for a moment before saying, "That girl must be someone special. What's her background?"

In fact, Du Busi already had some guesses in his mind at this time. After all, the name that Huo Yuhao just mentioned was really a bit strange, and the name he had heard in Di'ao Academy was not the same.

After gaining Huo Yuhao's memories, Di Ruier was not so foolish. Although she gave herself a name, she concealed the surname Di Tian took from her name when she joined Di'ao Academy.

She was registered as a team member of the Imperial Academy under the name Rui'er. Although it was obvious that this name was not her full name, the people of Imperial Academy did not investigate further because of the existence of the Golden Dragon Martial Soul.

However, when Du Busi heard the name Rui'er, he didn't react much at first. But when he combined the characters "Di" and "Rui," and knew that Huo Yuhao and the Emperor Beast had once had an attribute connection, he was surprised.

Then this girl, whose origins are unknown, whose martial soul is extremely special, and for some reason, who has a close relationship with Huo Yuhao, who rarely goes out, is indeed too conspicuous.

Huo Yuhao smiled. He could tell, of course, that Du Busi was asking the question with the answer in mind: "Master, didn't you already figure it out?"

Upon hearing this, Du Busi sighed, "Yuhao, are you serious? I originally wanted you to come out and broaden your horizons, to enrich your experience, but I didn't expect you to open my eyes instead."

Poison Immortal raised an eyebrow and said, "So this girl is a reincarnated Emperor Beast who secretly ran away? According to what you said before, Di Tian won't have gone crazy because of this, will he?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "It's not a matter of rebuilding her cultivation, it's just a transformation. She told me about the circumstances of her departure, and Di Tian was aware of it. As long as she doesn't encounter any danger, she'll be fine."

After hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Du Busi frowned. Although he trusted his disciple, Di Ruier's background was truly astonishing.

After all, the fact that a 100,000-year-old soul beast can be reborn as a human is a legendary event, and it is rare to see such a thing even once every few hundred years, let alone a mythical beast transforming into human form, which has never been heard of before.

However, the fact that a 100,000-year-old soul beast can be reborn as a human means that the two most coveted treasures of soul masters, the 100,000-year soul ring and the 100,000-year soul bone, have appeared in the human world with an acquisition difficulty that is as easy as drinking water.

Compared to a 100,000-year-old soul beast, the appearance of an Emperor-level auspicious beast is undoubtedly much rarer, and also a source of much excitement.

Although his cultivation has now reached its limit, and without knowing Di Tian's true strength and the Dragon God Claw, Du Busi is confident that he can fight Di Tian without being defeated. However, this does not mean that Du Busi wants to make enemies of the Body Sect for no reason.

Huo Yuhao had told him about the Emperor Beast before. It was just that although its existence was unique in the world, its status as an Emperor Beast meant that it could not be killed by human soul masters and then fused with soul rings and soul bones.

However, this also means that keeping a humanoid imperial beast by your side is actually not beneficial, but will instead bring about a constant stream of crises and risks.

After all, if this imperial beast were to be accidentally injured one day, and Di Tian came knocking on their door, where would they go to seek justice if they couldn't be poisoned to death?

However, looking at Huo Yuhao, Du Busi thought again. Huo Yuhao was a genius that only appeared once in ten thousand years. Anyone who could catch his eye could not possibly be an ordinary person.

As for the strangeness of getting along with soul beasts, didn't Tang San, the ancestor of Shrek Academy ten thousand years ago, also have a legendary romance with a soul beast?

Although the reasons and processes involved have become distorted over thousands of years of transmission, the idea that poison can't kill doesn't actually have much to do with it, given that many such cases have occurred over the past ten thousand years.

As for sending this imperial auspicious beast back to the Star Dou Great Forest, after much consideration, Du Busi still didn't make a direct decision and decided to listen to Huo Yuhao's opinion first.

After all, this kid is quite opinionated. Rather than making a decision that may or may not be good, it's better to let him figure it out himself.

After a moment of wild speculation, Du Bu Si finally realized what was going on: "You brought her right under my nose today, you should have thought about how you're going to explain this to me, right?"

Poison Undying stood up, turned his back, and looked out the window at the dark night and the faintly visible starry sky.

Before Huo Yuhao could finish his prepared explanation, Du Busi waved his hand impatiently: "Go back, Yuhao. I know you're full of tricks, but I'm too lazy to listen to them today."

"No matter what you do, no matter what decision you make, I will believe in you."

"As for this Beast God Emperor Tian, ​​humph, just remember, no matter who you face, I'll always be backing you up. Never let my Body Sect's momentum be diminished!"

After hearing this, Huo Yuhao retracted what he was about to say, cupped his hands in greeting to Du Busi, and then left.

He originally intended to discuss the matter in detail with Du Bu Si using various benefits and advantages, but now it seems unnecessary.

But what about trust and support?

For some reason, as he left, Huo Yuhao's lips curled up slightly, revealing a barely perceptible smile.

Admittedly, by understanding the original plot and calculating the various points, Huo Yuhao could give a reason that no one could refuse, thereby achieving his goal.

However, there is only one downside to this: it is too tiring. For Huo Yuhao, it is simply too tiring. After rational calculation, there is very little space left for emotion.

Huo Yuhao is also a person. Even though he can establish his own direction, sometimes he also hopes to relax a bit.

The trust that Du Bu Si gave him today made him feel a rare sense of ease, unlike when he was facing the innocent Di Rui'er.

In the following days, just as Du Busi had said, he did not disturb Huo Yuhao and Di Ruier, nor did he allow anyone else from the Body Sect's residence to approach the courtyard where Huo Yuhao lived.

In the past few days, apart from occasionally going out for a walk with Di Ruier, Huo Yuhao has spent most of his time organizing the theories of those soul tools and planning how to carry out rapid assembly line production.

Based on the information on soul tools obtained previously, Huo Yuhao designed a total of six production lines for soul tools.

The Level 3 Soul Guidance Device - Portable Machine Gun is a single-soldier soul guidance hand cannon designed primarily with mechanical structure and secondarily with soul power. It has a destructive power of around Level 3 and is specifically designed to target the human body.

This was designed by Huo Yuhao based on firearms from his previous life, using specially made metal bullets instead of the usual method of directly converting soul power into soul-guided rays.

The pure soul guide ray consumes a lot of energy, and in battles between low and mid-level soul masters, its physical damage is enough to produce good results.

By using soul power to propel it, the metal bullet itself can absorb soul power to enhance its destructive power.

The power of the metal bullet, combined with the propulsion of soul force, is used to kill enemies. At the same time, because the metal bullet can absorb soul force, it can effectively counter some defensive measures formed by soul force.

After all, in the Douluo Continent system, even a Soul Saint can be injured by hidden weapons without activating their Martial Soul True Body and Soul Skills. The physical strength of a Soul Master is far inferior to that of a Soul Beast of the same level.

The Level 3 Soul Tool - Multifunctional Detector is the most difficult to manufacture among all the Soul Tools.

Overall, it is a soul tool shaped like a goggle, but it can perform a series of complex reconnaissance commands such as telescope, scan, insight, and night vision, and also has the function of short-range communication.

This serves as a way for soldiers to replace ordinary Soul Master reconnaissance methods, while also enabling them to better receive orders and adapt to changing tactics.

The Level 2 Soul Tool - All-Terrain Walking Assist is primarily mechanical in structure and requires only a small amount of soul power to sustain it for extended periods.

It allows ordinary soldiers to have movement speed comparable to a Soul Master of the Soul Venerable level, but the drawback is that they cannot maneuver within a small area and can only be used for rapid marches.

The Level 2 Soul Tool - Combined Protective Shield, once activated, displays a hexagonal plane of soul power, capable of resisting and distributing energy and physical attacks.

Its maximum strength is roughly equivalent to a single blow from a level 3 soul tool, but the advantage is that it can increase its defensive strength and coverage through multi-faceted superposition.

The Level 2 Soul Tool - Quick Access Belt has limited space and can only store the above equipment and a small amount of supplies, but it can be used to quickly access the above Soul Tools.

However, Huo Yuhao specially designed a level seven soul tool for this purpose. Through this level seven soul tool, the holder can forcibly activate the quick access belts of one hundred soldiers within a certain range.

At the same time, this level-seven soul tool also utilizes certain spatial techniques to quickly retrieve the quick-access belts from the soldiers, thereby avoiding losses on the battlefield.

The level-two soul power encapsulation device, because most of Huo Yuhao's entire set of soul tools adopts a structure that combines mechanical power with soul power to exert force, has a significantly reduced requirement for soul power and a much lower manufacturing difficulty.

This level-two encapsulated soul power charging device is the second most difficult to manufacture, after the multi-functional detector.

However, a level 2 soul power encapsulation device is sufficient to cope with short-term battles. Furthermore, due to its low level, even a Great Soul Master or a Soul Master can charge and create it.

Once fully charged, it can support the above equipment at full power for one hour of combat output, although it is not enough to support long-term combat.

However, due to its low manufacturing difficulty and small size, it can equip each soldier with at least five encapsulated soul power charging devices for alternating use during wartime, greatly extending the endurance.

(End of this chapter)