Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 102: Answering the first question correctly

Twenty minutes later, Xu Lin emerged from the golden ancient tree, holding a disc about thirty centimeters in diameter, with ancient patterns on it and some silver starlight.

"Elder Xing, I've chosen this soul tool, the Star Chart," Xu Lin said excitedly. "According to the description, it's an auxiliary soul tool. Once placed on the ground and infused with soul power, it can draw starlight to assist soul masters who are sensitive to the stars in their cultivation. It also has some auxiliary effect on soul kings. Range: 20 meters in radius, centered on the Star Chart."

"Hmm, not bad."

Elder Xing took the star chart and put it into his storage soul tool, looking very satisfied.

Compared to offensive attacks, this type of supportive attack is more effective.

This thing is essentially a mobile, simulated environment; it's a treasure that can increase the cultivation speed of the younger generation in the sect.

Seeing that the Star Crown Sect had gained benefits, the others couldn't sit still any longer and began to challenge them. The final spoils were distributed according to the amount of effort each of the four forces had put in.

However, the humanoid soul-guided mechs were indeed difficult to defeat. In the past five days, apart from the Star Crown Sect's first experiment which was relatively lucky and they defeated a humanoid soul-guided mech in five attempts, the four teams cooperated together in the following ten days and only managed to produce a total of five soul-guided devices. Four of these were storage soul-guided devices, with each of the four teams having one, and each device having a storage space of more than ten cubic meters.

For most Soul Masters, they have more faith in their Martial Soul and Soul Skills. For them, offensive Soul Tools are far less practical than Storage Soul Tools.

Only the old man from the Star Crown Sect was someone who cared a bit.

During these ten days, Tang San did not participate in any one-on-one challenges. Instead, he observed the different soul guidance patterns that appeared on the surface of the humanoid soul guidance mechs when they fought against different soul masters, and summarized the principles behind their release of soul skills.

Although the underlying cause is still unclear, its outward appearance is actually similar to, or even identical to, the operation of everyday soul tools, only slightly more complex.

Tang San did manage to summarize some of the effects of different constructions of soul guide patterns over the past ten days.

But these are just some, and they can be taken out individually. How to combine them is a big problem. Tang San felt that his brain was about to give out.

"It seems we'll need to recruit more people interested in soul tool research in the future." Tang San rubbed his temples, deeply understanding what it meant to be short-sighted.

However, Tang San discovered that Guang Ling was very interested in the soul guide patterns he had summarized, even more so than in his research on martial souls.

"As expected of my disciple."

Tang San thought to himself with a touch of narcissism, and then began his first challenge.

As he stepped onto the arena, everyone turned to look, eager to see just how powerful this master of martial spirit theory truly was.

But Tang San's actions took them by surprise.

"I want to take the questionnaire challenge."

As soon as he finished speaking, golden light emanated from the eyes of the giant soul-guided mecha, constructing a virtual picture in front of Tang San, with a high-tech feel full of science fiction elements.

[Questionnaire Challenge Now Open!]

The rules are as follows:

[1. You may ask for help from people outside the room while answering questions, but you will only have three chances.]

[II. For each correct answer, you can receive a level-one soul tool or spend one hour cultivating in the cultivation space; for each incorrect answer, you will be required to accept a one-on-one challenge, and you cannot surrender.]

[III. There are one hundred questions in total. Participants can stop immediately after answering correctly to collect their reward and choose to continue the challenge. However, if they answer incorrectly, their reward will be reset, and they will be subject to a penalty.]

[IV. Ten level-one soul tools can be exchanged for one level-two soul tool. There are nine levels of soul tools in total, and so on.]

[V. If all one hundred questions are answered correctly, the inheritor will become the heir to the Golden Civilization, and all Soul-Guided Mechs will obey the inheritor's commands.]

Everyone saw the rules for answering the questions, especially the fifth one, which made everyone's breath catch in their throats.

To become the inheritor of the Golden Civilization? To command all the Soul Guidance Mechs here?

Wouldn't that make them invincible?

The exact combat power of these mechs is unknown, but a Soul Saint tried to force his way in and was instantly killed. Moreover, the giant mech only slightly raised its head, and its eyes emitted light.

At least at the level of a Title Douluo!

There are over a thousand giant soul-guided mechs here!

Please answer the first question!

After the rules were announced, twelve naturally formed soul guidance patterns appeared on the screen in front of Tang San, connected end to end, resembling Mebius rings of different shapes.

This left the others completely bewildered, wondering what these things were.

[The Soul Guidance Pattern consists of twelve basic Soul Guidance Patterns. All Soul Guidance Devices function through the combination of these twelve patterns. Please state the elemental attribute represented by each of these twelve basic Soul Guidance Patterns.]

Niu blurted out, "Who could possibly know?"

Elder Xing sneered, "That's why I said no one can answer this correctly. Even if Tang San is a master of martial soul theory, he definitely doesn't know what those soul guidance patterns represent."

Bai Luo of the Holy Dragon Sect put his hands on his chest, shook his head and sighed, saying, "If these twelve soul guide patterns had colors, it would be possible to guess them. After all, different attributes of soul power have different colors, but these twelve soul guide patterns are all gray, which makes it difficult to guess."

Tang San recalled the patterns on the life soul tools he had disassembled and examined before, and identified seven of them: light, wind, thunder, water, earth, fire, and ice.

Among the life-related soul tools, there are soul lamps that emit light, soul fans that blow air, soul lighters for starting fires, soul freezers, and so on. Tang San was naturally able to find the corresponding attributes.

For the remaining five, Tang San could only rely on his own observation to make judgments and guesses.

For example, light and darkness are opposite elements. The soul guide pattern of light has been found. Then the soul guide pattern corresponding to the dark element should be similar in shape to the soul guide pattern of the light element, but opposite.

It's uncertain whether this is really the case, but this is the only conclusion Tang San can draw at the moment.

Subsequently, based on his previous speculations, he found that the patterns on the soul tool were related to the flow of soul power within the soul ring. Following the pattern on his Blue Silver Grass martial soul's soul ring, he found the next similar pattern, assigned it the life attribute, and then, based on the appearance of the pattern, found the corresponding death attribute.

The last two soul guide patterns, one of which is the purest Mebius ring, without any superfluous shapes, was labeled with a spatial tag by Tang San.

The last one remaining was also a Mebius ring, but it was indeed vertical and looked more ethereal than the other eleven soul guide patterns.

Tang San hesitated for a moment, but finally chose "time" as the answer.

After all, if space exists, then time must also exist, and time only has meaning when it is attached to space. In fact, it is hard to say whether time even exists in reality.

Congratulations to the person who answered the question correctly!

"You got it right!"

"How is this possible?"

"He's cheating!"

Elder Xing, Niu Gang, Bai Luo, and the others were incredulous, but Huo Feng asked Xiao Wu, "Has Tang San ever researched soul tools?"

"Yes, he bought a lot of life-related soul tools." Xiao Wu first glanced at the Star Crown Sect, the Imperial Clan, the Holy Dragon Sect, and the commoner soul-hunting group to make sure they weren't paying attention before whispering a little unimportant information.

(End of this chapter)