From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 108 Soul Bone? Schrödinger's Cat?! [Please Subscribe! Please Vote!]

In the dark, dense forest, Chen Hong slowly opened his heterochromatic eyes, looked at the century-old peregrine falcon that had crashed into the ground and was unconscious, and then smiled at Ning Quan and said softly, "I have reached a completely new realm in another way, which I call an array master."

Ning Quan stared in disbelief at Chen Hong, who was bathed in moonlight and seemed to blend into the天地之气 (heaven and earth), and asked in surprise, "You...you're only so young..."

"Age doesn't mean anything, does it?" Chen Hong's eyes flashed with a strange light as he scoffed, "Soul beasts have lived for so long, yet they haven't developed their own civilizations, have they? If everything in this world were based on age and seniority, wouldn't soul beasts still be the rulers of the world now?"

Ning Quan stared blankly at Chen Hong, knowing that the other party had already walked his own path and did not need to repeat the old path of the evil soul emperor Qian Yu. Although he did not understand how the other party had done it, Ning Quan was still sincerely gratified for his nephew.

Congratulations on finding your path.

"Same to you, Ning Quan too." Chen Hong smiled. Ning Quan had also made a breakthrough in sword intent, though not as terrifyingly as Chen Hong had shown.

Under the cover of night, Chen Hong and Ning Quan chatted for a few more minutes before starting to dissect the berserk baboon's corpse.

Chen Hong made a special effort to preserve the blood and bones.

During this time, the century-old peregrine falcon woke up. Chen Hong originally wanted to let it go, but he found that the bird's weak consciousness had been almost destroyed by Chen Hong's Sage Divine Mark and Berserk Divine Mark. The bird stood there blankly, as if it had gone mad.

"What should we do?" Ning Quan squatted down next to the dissected corpse of a soul beast, looking at the century-old peregrine falcon with a dazed look on the other side.

A strange light flashed in Chen Hong's eyes as he carefully examined the century-old peregrine falcon. Finally, he shook his head at Ning Quan and said, "It's hopeless. Let's send it on its way."

"Alright." Ning Quan nodded slightly, then flashed to the century-old peregrine falcon that was standing there dumbly. He pointed his sword finger at the falcon's head, preparing to unleash his sword intent to destroy its life spiritually. However, the century-old peregrine falcon seemed to sense the danger and let out a miserable cry. Then it flapped its wings and tried to leave.

Ning Quan turned to look at Chen Hong.

"It's beyond saving. You should go after it and take a look." Chen Hong paused for a moment, then said helplessly.

Ning Quan gave Chen Hong a deep look, and after confirming that the other party really had a certain ability to protect himself, he nodded and said, "Then be careful, I'll follow him and take a look."

As he spoke, Ning Quan waved his hand towards the twinkling starry sky, and a beam of starlight descended from the sky, landing in Ning Quan's hand and transforming into an infinitely magnificent star sword.

Ning Quan planted his martial soul, the Star Sword, in the ground, and then his figure vanished instantly, leaving only a magnificent Star Sword emitting a faint starlight in the dim night.

Chen Hong looked at the Starry Sky Martial Soul Sword left behind by Ning Quan, his eyes sparkling with curiosity and interest.

Ning Quan's Seven Star Sword, aside from its inability to break through to the eighth-ring Soul Douluo realm, is a near-perfect Star Martial Soul. During normal times, this Star Sword appears as an ordinary weapon Martial Soul, but only at night does its appearance take a unique turn. It emerges directly from starlight falling from the sky, leaving a sword wedge in its place. This wedge serves as the core of Ning Quan's exclusive Martial Soul self-created Soul Skill, the Seven Star Sword Formation, allowing for instantaneous spatial teleportation when needed.

"Once I get back and thoroughly study the soul bone skills in Qianyu's skull, I might be able to be as carefree as Uncle Ning Quan."

Watching Ning Quan leave, Chen Hong murmured softly. Among the head soul bones that Qian Yu had revealed was a soul bone skill called something like "Clone Replacement," which Chen Hong considered to be a very good spatial coordinate teleportation soul skill. If he could master it, theoretically, he could not only achieve spatial movement surpassing "Clone Replacement," but could even advance the establishment of spatial teleportation arrays.

"If the root logic of soul skills exists in the divine runes within the underlying code of this world, and is present in soul rings, then it naturally also exists in soul bones. However, what is the origin of the soul bones of soul beasts?"

By the stream under the cover of night, Chen Hong used a sharp soul-guided carving knife to carefully cut off a bone from a berserk baboon. After washing it in the clear stream water, he placed it in front of him, his eyes gleaming with a strange light.

Enveloped in a subtle, faint mental force, Chen Hong had a rough idea of ​​the patterns on the soul beast's bones.

Chen Hong once thought his martial soul's mental power could be concentrated to ambush the weakest points of an enemy soul master, such as their eyes. However, as his understanding of his martial soul deepened, he discovered that his martial soul's mental power was essentially a form of mental power mutation. This allowed Chen Hong to extend his mental tentacles even at a low soul power level, but the trade-off was that his martial soul's mental power was extremely weak. Against those with lower soul power levels, he might be able to surprise them by poking their eyes. But against those with higher soul power levels, and against the soul power protective aura that soul masters spontaneously form during battle, Chen Hong's martial soul's mental power simply couldn't penetrate it.

However, as the saying goes, weakness has its advantages. Chen Hong's mental perception range is extremely large. Before his breakthrough, he could maintain a mental perception range with a radius of twenty meters. After his breakthrough, at level twenty-four, he could normally maintain a mental perception range with a radius of twenty-five meters. Although his mental power is weak and feeble within this mental perception range, making it difficult to lift anything over ten pounds, it is almost a purely auxiliary martial soul.

However, for Chen Hong, this was the best martial soul in his mind. This martial soul was like a high-precision microscope and machine tool that could grow and evolve, allowing Chen Hong to skip many steps and begin researching soul tools, directly building a natural moat for his soul tool research—a gift from heaven. Before Chen Hong actively developed the microscope, machine tool, and other tools that could assist in soul tool research, it would be as difficult as Yu Xiaogang breaking through level 30 for other soul masters on the continent to catch up with his progress.

"Soul bones can be absorbed into the body. Perhaps a soul bone is actually just a solidified energy soul ring?"

Looking at the beast bone in his hand and feeling the residual soul power on it, Chen Hong couldn't help but gain a completely new perspective and understanding.

(End of this chapter)