From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 167 Mermaids? Mermaids! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

Standing in the slave night market, Chen Hong watched as the Shar caravan drove Sophie Soya away in a soul-powered vehicle. Ning Quan, standing behind him, then asked in confusion, "Hong, what are you buying this for? This isn't like you."

"That depends on how you interpret my style." Chen Hong glanced at Ning Quan silently, then turned and walked deeper into the slave market.

Chen Hong's aura, enhanced by his black and gold soul-guided robes, was extremely ethereal. Those around him would easily lose their senses of him if they weren't paying attention, and Ning Quan was no exception. Therefore, after Chen Hong caused a commotion in the slave night market, he and Ning Quan quickly "disappeared" into the crowd, and those who wanted to follow them ultimately failed.

"Or perhaps you're planning to conduct some strange research on those orcs again?" Ning Quan thought he might have guessed the jackpot.

"Strange? Is this the kind of evaluation you get for my research?" Chen Hong, whose aura blended into the crowd, felt somewhat helpless and could only continue, "Indeed, as you said, I want to study the phenomenon of beast transformation. I understand this phenomenon as a kind of martial soul disease. As long as we can develop an antidote, this martial soul disease can be completely eradicated from the Douluo Continent."

The two cat-eared girls, Sophie and Soya, were merely unexpected gains for Chen Hong, not something that would truly make him stay. Among the sounds Chen Hong heard within the turbulent flow of faith, there was an extremely peculiar one. How peculiar was that, to Chen Hong, the turbulent flow of faith above Soto City only had two distinct characteristics. But now, a third characteristic had appeared.

"Yeah, that's definitely your style, but I still don't think this is something you would do." Ning Quan, who was following behind Chen Hong, still didn't quite understand.

"So, in your eyes, what kind of things should I be doing?" Chen Hong was somewhat speechless at Ning Quan, but still asked.

"Hmm, you're the kind of guy who won't do anything without a reason. Healing those two cat-eared girls won't create much value for you, but you're not into women. That's why I think your purpose goes beyond that."

"What do you mean I'm not interested in women?" Chen Hong frowned slightly upon hearing this, wondering who was spreading rumors about him.

"What I call being able to control my small head with my big head is having strong self-control, okay? Healing the two half-orcs, Sophie and Soya, doesn't really bring me much benefit. In fact, I don't care about them. In my eyes, they are two very precious research specimens for martial souls. Of course, as payment, I will redeem them and cure their martial soul diseases. It's just a win-win situation."

Chen Hong had never considered buying slaves for himself, and he didn't even have that inexplicable, moralistic aversion to slave night markets. Chen Hong's only prejudice against slave night markets was: how did this whole thing even end up in Soto City?

Chen Hong now has a rudimentary understanding of the power of faith. The mental disturbances that living beings unintentionally dissipate in their daily lives are, in Chen Hong's view, the lowest level of disordered faith power. The next level is the faith disturbance that involves subjective emotional fluctuations in a certain thing. The highest level is the true power of faith, which has true believers.

The unobservable phenomena that appeared above Soto City should be considered as Level 2 Faith Turbulence, which means that one has certain subjective emotions towards a certain object. These subjective emotions can be good or bad, which is why Chen Hong called it Faith Turbulence. Only Level 3 Faith Power is a truly positive Faith Power.

If Chen Hong were to write a book about the power of faith in the future, perhaps it could be titled something like "The Three Realms of Faith"? However, Chen Hong felt there was no need for him to write such a thing, because he felt that being able to perceive faith was already incredibly crazy.

If it were a more normal world, Chen Hong's terrifying spiritual sense might be able to look directly at the Old Gods.

Without a doubt, the new city lord of Soto City, Earl Xuesen, a descendant of the royal family of the Heaven Dou Empire, has brought a "dedicated building" to Soto City. As time goes by, this "dedicated building" of Earl Xuesen will undoubtedly reduce the happiness of the residents of Soto City, increase the pressure on public security, and lower the common people's evaluation of Soto City.

After Chen Hong cleans up the bloated things that had sprung up in Soto City six months after he left, he will go and have a good talk with the new city lord to ask him if he wants to do a good job or hurry up and go back to Tiandou City.

In the past, it would have been a bit troublesome for Chen Hong to deal with a noble count, but now, after Chen Hong discovered that the Faith Turbulence could extract spiritual essence and then improve his spiritual realm, he found that the world's difficulty suddenly dropped to easy.

Nourished by the first drop of spiritual essence, Chen Hong's spiritual power, which had been stuck at level six, finally broke through to level seven. Chen Hong predicted that if he could absorb the turbulent flow of spiritual energy accumulated by hundreds of thousands of people over two years above Soto City, his spiritual power would definitely reach the late stage of level seven. If he was lucky, he might even be able to break through? If he couldn't break through, then Chen Hong would give a drop to each of his parents and uncles.

Ning Lu: Let's share the wine!

Ning Quan: We must fight together against any enemy!

Chen Hong: Share the cheat codes!

Chen Lin: We'll share both good times and bad!

Chen Lin: When the four of us teamed up, we were absolutely ruthless!

"Of course, this kind of martial soul disease is also a way for me to carry out martial soul research." Chen Hong only told Ning Quan this much, and he didn't say anything more.

Although the moment he saw the cat-eared girl, his gaze seemed to transcend time and space, witnessing the birth of the first Soul Master in the desolate era millions of years ago, Chen Hong's conjectures still contained many inexplicable aspects, so he did not explain much.

Once Chen Hong has made certain progress in his research on martial spirits and achieved certain results, he will naturally announce his astonishing achievements to the world.

Just like the Soul Ring theory, it remains silent until it makes a sound, and when it does, it will shake the whole world.

"Hmm, we've arrived." Suddenly, Chen Hong, who was walking through the slave night market, finally reached the innermost area.

He saw a large crowd gathered around a pool of water, and at the same time, Chen Hong heard a familiar voice:

"Holy crap! Boss! It's a merman! Oh no, I feel like I'm losing control of my lust!"

(End of this chapter)