From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 239 The Soul Ring with Solidified Soul Bone Energy! [Please Subscribe! Please Vote!]

"It was a casual creation that gave me some extra inspiration."

In the Soto City research lab, at the signal translation center that resembled an iron throne, Chen Hong sat atop it, one hand on the armrest, the other stroking his chin, his gaze somewhat strange.

The Sage-type auxiliary soul tool jewelry was an item Chen Hong created while practicing. Chen Hong didn't have high expectations for these items, since only those reaching the level of the Sage's Ring could truly be considered combat soul tools.

Over the years, Sage-type auxiliary soul tool jewelry has evolved from simple jewelry to smaller parts such as rings, bracelets, and pocket watches. After Chen Hong started having his own soul masters in the Technology Chamber of Commerce, he open-sourced the most basic runes of the Sage's Ring, simplified them, and left them to the Technology Chamber of Commerce to expand its business and provide more practice opportunities for those who are just starting out as first-level soul masters.

May the light of Soto illuminate your every day!

This is the slogan of the merchants in Soto City who sell sage-related trinkets. Because most of the sage-related trinkets circulating in the market, except for the Sage's Ring, can calm the wearer's mind and bring less complaining and more understanding and happiness every day.

At least, after Chen Hong opened up the Sage's Artifact Rune, the crime rate in Soto City has been decreasing. There are very few brainless Soul Masters who bully others and fight in the streets, and there is much less cursing and insults. Moreover, work efficiency seems to have improved a bit.

"If a stable weak mental network can be established, then we need to work on the sage-type auxiliary soul tool. First, we need to establish a stable mental environment, and second, we need to enable the sage-type soul tool to amplify the user's mental power in order to connect to the Soto mental network."

As Chen Hong pondered silently, he nodded to himself, "Hmm, if it's about actively amplifying mental power, could we consider adding a paid feature? For example, if a user wants to actively use their mental power to connect to the Soto mental network via a sage-like soul tool, then charging 5 units out of 10 units of mental power would be quite low, right?"

Chen Hong thought, what's wrong with Soul Masters being able to get knowledge for free through the Soto Spiritual Network and charging a little fee?

"Hmm, it seems this approach doesn't fully utilize the user's initiative."

Chen Hong suddenly thought of a term, "mental data traffic." Simply put, it is "mental traffic," a term that only emerged after technological civilization pointed out the internet technology.

"If all the behaviors of users in the Soto spiritual network are turned into spiritual traffic, I, as the operator, can naturally control the amount of exploitation—well, the amount of blessings—by controlling the exchange price of spiritual traffic."

"For example, if I were to set a price now, requiring users to use two units of Spirit Points to exchange for one unit of Spirit Traffic, wouldn't my lovely netizens be willing to recharge my Sotho Spirit Network with Kuku's payment to accumulate more Traffic?"

Compared to directly deducting users' mental energy, Chen Hong felt that his method better highlighted the subjective initiative of netizens.

"After all, a prerequisite for the emergence of a turbulent flow of faith is that it must be voluntary. Although we don't know if forcibly deducting a Soul Master's spiritual power will cause any negative consequences, there seems to be a precedent for such behavior, Qianyu, right?"

Chen Hong took out the spirit crystal embedded in the armrest, and at the same time took out a black iron box from the shelf next to him. He opened the iron box and revealed a small and exquisite skull that looked like blood jade.

The ancient skull, the king's carriage has been moved!

The moment the exquisite blood jade skull was taken out, an invisible spiritual fluctuation tried to spread, but Chen Hong blocked it all with his martial soul power.

Chen Hong is now far superior to Qianyu's remnant soul in her half-crippled state in terms of spiritual realm!

"You brat! What...what have you done?!"

Chen Hong used his mental power to seal off the spiritual perception of the Linglong Blood Jade Skull, and then slowly placed the spiritually potent crystal on the forehead of the Linglong Blood Jade Skull. Under the attraction from their origins, the two halves of the remnant soul in the two soul containers actually began to overlap slightly!

However, when faced with the program consciousness within the spirit crystal that Chen Hong had carefully fed, the remnant soul of Qianyu in the Linglong Blood Jade Skull was stunned by the program consciousness's madness, coldness, and brutality!

Within the spiritual crystal, the program consciousness maintained its form with the Sage's Divine Rune and transformed into raging fire with the Overclocking Divine Rune, directly refining the remnant souls that the program consciousness was unwilling to absorb!

The soul power of the remnant soul of Qianyu itself is not important to the program consciousness. What is important is the soul concept in the remnant soul of Qianyu. It is a very mysterious thing that Chen Hong cannot understand. The program consciousness is also confused. However, the subconscious instinct of the program consciousness tells it that swallowing or killing the other half is beneficial to it!

Therefore, the program consciousness strictly followed its own soul instincts, using the overclocking divine runes to manifest a white flame armor, directly following the traces of Qianyu's remnant soul, and entered the exquisite blood jade skull to launch a cruel pursuit of Qianyu's remnant soul.

The programmed consciousness of the spirit crystal transformed into a star with a ring within the exquisite blood jade skull. All the soul techniques that Qianyu's remnant soul used to try to assimilate the programmed consciousness with memories were burned to ashes by the star ring, which was burning with raging flames. Every time Qianyu's remnant soul was caught up, a large amount of its soul essence power would be torn off by the star ring.

After blocking out the screams of Qianyu's remnant soul, Chen Hong's ears finally regained their peace.

Chen Hong looked at the 'Strange Spiritual Mechanism Soul Bone', which had transformed into a unicorn skull, with a curious expression on his face.

As the Spirit Crystal frantically devoured the remnant soul of Qianyu within the Exquisite Blood Jade Skull, the Spirit Crystal seemed to have entered into a strange fusion state with the Exquisite Blood Jade Skull.

"Soul Bone. A Soul Ring with Solidified Energy." Chen Hong murmured to himself as he silently observed this scene that didn't surprise him much.

"The spirit crystal is a soul. A soul absorbing a soul bone is equivalent to a soul absorbing a soul ring. Hmm. A ghost cultivator?"

Strange thoughts kept popping into Chen Hong's mind. He shook his head to clear his mind of these distracting thoughts.

"That bastard Qianyu was able to split his soul in two, one half trying to possess me, and the other half trying to lie dormant in his soul bone, waiting for a destined person. This actually shows one thing: soul rings and soul bones are essentially the same thing at their core."

Chen Hong, whose soul ring contained a remnant soul, had already discovered this when he first had an epiphany about soul rings.

(End of this chapter)