From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 1: An Invention Powerful Enough to Change the World - Soul Motion! [Please add to your favorites! Please vote!]

"Is this considered a success?"

In a beautiful mountain village surrounded by white clouds on the outskirts of Soto, a handsome boy named Chen Hong, about ten years old, stood in front of his blacksmith shop's workbench, his eyes sparkling as he looked at a roughly made metal object the size of a face in his hand, and said excitedly.

The metal object had exposed gears of unknown function, and through the loose gaps, one could see the grease-coated axles inside.

"Let's try injecting soul power!" the young Chen Hong excitedly muttered to himself, then circulated the faint soul power within his body and injected it into the mechanical creation in his hand.

As Chen Hong slowly poured his soul power into it, the axle in the middle of the originally silent, crude metal object began to slowly rotate!

Kong. Kong. Kong.

Although the spinning speed was like forcing an eighty or ninety-year-old man to run a 100-meter sprint, before he could even take a few steps, he started cursing and swearing on the spot.

"Forehead"

Chen Hong looked at the "rough, inferior, handmade, 0.1 Soul Engine" in his hand, and after making a few "kong kong" sounds, it stopped spinning. He felt his face getting hot and a little embarrassed.

"It's alright, it's alright! The fact that it can turn at least means that I'm heading in the right direction! This kind of magical soul power does indeed have some kind of mysterious magnetic field. In the hands of a soul master, it can be used to retrieve objects remotely or even fly against gravity, so it can naturally drive the axle to turn!" Young Chen Hong comforted himself like this. Although his soul engine project had only just begun, he felt that the project's future was still very bright.

"Hey Mr. Chen! Are you home? I've come to mend a hoe!"

Just as Chen Hong was pondering how to further optimize his 0.1 version of the Soul Motion, a rough, masculine voice suddenly came from outside the blacksmith shop. Upon hearing this, Chen Hong immediately put down his "treasure," went outside to the shop, and replied to the burly man in plain clothes, "At home! Uncle Wang! What treasure did you dig up this time?"

Chen Hong took the hoe with a large chip from the uncle in the village, glanced at it briefly, and then threw the chipped part into the stove next to him to heat it. At the same time, he said to the uncle, "Uncle Wang, this chip is too big. We need to heat it until it softens and then cut off a section. We can still use it."

The burly villager, Uncle Wang, chuckled and quickly pulled a fist-sized stone from his pocket, handing it to Chen Hong. He said, "It's alright! It's alright! Little Chen, do you need this stone? I dug it up on the mountain today; my hoe broke. You mentioned in the village that you wanted to buy ore, so see if this will be useful."

Chen Hong's village is called Baiyun Village. It has a simple and honest folk culture and a beautiful environment. Since Chen Hong was brought here by his father Chen Lin due to the war, he has settled down here.

Chen Lin was a Soul Master blacksmith in his thirties. He started his blacksmith business and settled down in Baiyun Village. Later, as Chen Hong grew up, he showed excellent blacksmithing talent. So Chen Lin handed over the blacksmith shop in Baiyun Village to Chen Hong to practice on his own, while he took his wife to Soto City to open a blacksmith shop and make money. Chen Hong was a very worry-free child, which was why Chen Lin and his wife were willing to leave their child behind and enjoy their own life.

As the saying goes, the partner is the true love, and the child is just an accident. Chen Hong said this was really going too far.

"Hmm, let me see." Upon hearing this, Chen Hong took the ore from the villager's hand, examined it briefly, tapped the surface with an awl, and then held it up to the sunlight to check if the cross-section reflected light. He then placed it in a crucible and said to the villager, "It has a metallic luster, so it should contain metal. I'll try smelting it later and let you know the results."

The villager laughed heartily and quickly said, "It's good that it's useful! It's good that it's useful! Master Chen repaired our tools for free, so of course we should help him if we can!"

It turns out that Chen Hong repaired farm tools for the villagers of Baiyun Village for free—no, it had been free since Chen Hong's father's generation, as a way of repaying the kindness of Baiyun Village in taking in his family back then. This was also one of the reasons why Chen Lin eventually went to Soto City to open a blacksmith shop; after all, Chen Hong had grown up, and Chen Lin needed to save some money for his son's wedding, so he couldn't continue living like before.

Of course, Chen Hong himself didn't believe that. They clearly thought Chen Hong was too old to show affection in front of an "accident".

After exchanging a few pleasantries with the villager uncle, Chen Hong noticed that the iron sheet in the furnace was beginning to soften. He used tongs to take it out, placed it on an anvil, took some pliers to cut off a corner, held it in place with one hand, and began to hammer it little by little with a small hammer in the other.

Thanks to the nourishment of his soul power and the training he received in his daily life, ten-year-old Chen Hong still had considerable strength and could easily hammer a hoe.

when!when!when!

The sound of the hammer striking the iron block was very crisp and rhythmic. If an expert were present, they would notice that Chen Hong's force and angle of each strike were very precise and even. This kind of terrifying observation and control undoubtedly demonstrates that Chen Hong is no ordinary person.

Of course, Chen Hong was able to achieve this thanks to two things: his martial spirit and his intellect.

If there is a system panel, then Chen Hong's data will be as follows:

[Person: Chen Hong]

Age: 10

[Martial Soul: Telekinesis]

Soul Power: Level 11 (Innate Level 3)

[Soul Skill: First Soul Skill (Yellow) - Mental Focus (As for its effect, Chen Hong calls this skill "Sage Time.")]

Fortunately, for Chen Hong, the amount of soul power didn't matter; having any was enough.

A person grows up three times in their life. The first time is when they realize the ordinariness of their parents, the second time is when they realize their own ordinariness, and the third time is when they realize the ordinariness of their children.

Having realized the truth of the first two times, after breaking free from the mystery of his past life at the age of three and slowly awakening his memories of his previous life, Chen Hong no longer harbored any unrealistic fantasies about the "innate" nature of this world.

Of course, Chen Lin (innate soul power level 5) said that he realized he had grown three times, which left Chen Hong speechless.

It's worth mentioning that when Chen Hong was undergoing his Martial Soul Awakening, the Spirit Hall's Soul Masters almost thought that Chen Hong didn't have a Martial Soul. It wasn't until his father, Chen Lin, insisted on testing his Soul Power and discovered that Chen Hong actually had Soul Power that the misunderstanding was resolved.

The Spirit Hall in Soto City actually quite coveted Chen Hong's spirit, but his innate spirit power was too low, so the Spirit Hall didn't insist. They simply registered him and gave him a spot at the Soto City Spirit Staff School.

Six-year-old Chen Hong spent a day at that martial spirit school before packing up and leaving.

Because he discovered that the future of this world was bleak.

(End of this chapter)