From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 323 Chen Hong's Humanoid Soul Bone Path [Thanks to 'Don't Call Me If You're Still Sleepy' for the donation]

Two months later, under the cover of the endless night, outside Soto, a giant ship a hundred meters long was quietly sailing down the Barak River amidst the bright lights along the riverbank.

Chen Hong, whose soul power level had reached level 40, stood on the deck and looked at the lights that flickered on both sides of the riverbank from time to time, speechless.

Behind Chen Hong stood a large group of technicians from the Soto Shipyard, including King Barak's son, Barry, who had become a core member of the Science and Technology Chamber of Commerce.

"You're just burying your head in the sand." Beside Chen Hong, a simply dressed young man with an almost imperceptible aura looked up at the banks of the Barak River. His level 99 peerless Douluo spiritual power allowed him to easily spot the Soul Masters and civilians standing on the shore in the darkness.

"We still have to put on a show," Chen Hong said helplessly, spreading his hands. "The Haijiao ship is actually fine, it's not important. The main thing is to use this behavior to cover up the fact that a large number of core technical staff at the Soto Shipyard have left."

The Zihuang-class soul-guided warship, the Haijiao, employs more advanced soul-guided technology and possesses advanced functions not found in the first batch of warships, such as...

hum~

A faint buzzing sound rang out, and the energy patterns hidden beneath the steel armor of the Sea Dragon Ship flickered slightly, as if the core engine had been activated, and energy was being poured into the entire Sea Dragon Ship. Then, the huge ship began to move forward with very little noise.

This is a new sound-absorbing material discovered by the research department. At the same time, a genius figured out a simple sound-absorbing pattern from it, making the quiet effect of the Haijiao ship even more convenient.

"I have to admit that the soul tool civilization is not without its merits." On the deck, Qian Daoliu released his spiritual power and silently felt the coordinated operation of the soul power of the Sea Dragon Ship during the voyage. The scene of hundreds of people working in an orderly and unified manner in their respective positions made Qian Daoliu, who had seen many storms, sigh in admiration.

"By the traditional definition of soul tools, this Sea Dragon ship can already be considered a giant soul tool."

Chen Hong invited Qian Daoliu to accompany him on his journey from the mainland to the Sea Soul Islands for safety reasons. Furthermore, Qian Daoliu could conveniently help Chen Hong hunt for his fourth spirit ring along the way.

For this fourth spirit ring, Chen Hong definitely hopes to achieve the standard of a "sacrifice spirit ring," after all, that would save a lot of time in arduous cultivation!

Chen Hong is now fifteen years old and has a soul power of level forty. He seems like a genius, but only Chen Hong himself knows how many precious resources he has consumed.

First, there's Ye Lingling's soul power meridian, which was later 'slightly evolved' by the successfully mutated Ye Lingling, raising her innate soul power talent from level three to level five. Then there's Ning Lu's own production-type martial soul, whose soul wine, brewed by combining martial soul power with rare medicinal herbs, has been consumed continuously for many years.

Then there's Chen Hong's rather unique soul ring hunting. Sacrificing a soul ring brings a soul master far more soul power than normal soul ring hunting. Furthermore, the age of Chen Hong's soul rings has always been beyond common sense. Ultimately, every time Chen Hong breaks through his realm, he directly reaches the fourth or fifth level. Starting from the second ring, each realm he enters is actually only around the fifth or sixth level, depending on his own cultivation level.

Finally, there was the Soul Power Essence, which he had accidentally tested in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley. That substance was currently the only treasure in the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Valley interest group that Chen Hong was not restricted from using; everyone else had to wait in line to use it, but Chen Hong had priority. It was under these circumstances that Chen Hong barely managed to catch up with the likes of Hu Liena.

As for super geniuses like Tang San and Xiao Wu, as well as Qian Renxue and Chen Hong, who have innate soul power level 20, their paths are still very long.

Of course, if Chen Hong is willing to absorb soul bones, then he should be able to break through to Soul King within a year, and then break through to Soul Emperor within two years.

However, Chen Hong clearly had a better option in mind. He would not absorb the soul bone. Instead, he would analyze the soul bone and use it to cultivate himself into a "humanoid soul bone".

Chen Hong's research on soul bones has progressed to the point where he can begin to record complex divine runes. Soul bones are more complex than soul rings. In Chen Hong's perception, a soul ring is a single divine rune controlling the flow of energy. However, a soul bone is a composite divine rune, which, in addition to imprinting soul skills, also has the function of condensing and etherealizing energy entities.

As long as Chen Hong can figure out the complex divine patterns on the soul bone, he will be close to mastering the art of creating artificial soul bones.

"It's rare, isn't it? The Soul Master civilization is a civilization of individual extraordinary beings, while the Soul Tool civilization is a civilization of collective extraordinary beings." Chen Hong originally wanted to say mortals, but then he thought that unless the mystery of soul power could be cracked and the gap between mortals and Soul Masters eliminated, then the Soul Tool civilization could truly penetrate the entire world.

Even though a Limit Douluo like Qian Daoliu might not necessarily be smarter than some ordinary geniuses, and ordinary geniuses can still use the power of Soul Masters to complete their research on Soul Tools. For example, the Soul Tool Engraving Knife, which is widely circulated among the Soul Masters of the Technology Chamber of Commerce, can now be used by ordinary people to carve Soul Tool patterns with the support of Soul Power Bottles.

However, Qian Daoliu may not necessarily be smarter than ordinary geniuses, but his terrifying mental strength instinctively endowed him with an astonishing speed of mental processing. If we were to use computational methods as a metaphor for the level of human intelligence...

The minds of ordinary people and geniuses are equipped with second-level operations, such as multiplication and division, or even more advanced operational rules like functions and calculus, while ordinary people are essentially just simple handheld computers.

The kind of people like Qian Daoliu have no concept of basic arithmetic; they only know basic addition and subtraction. But Qian Daoliu himself is a mini supercomputer the size of a wardrobe. So even if Qian Daoliu adds numbers one by one using the formula "+1+1+1+1", he can still outpace ordinary geniuses.

However, top-tier Soul Masters like Qian Daoliu, whose brains have simple algorithms, cannot comprehend some highly difficult research problems with their brains that can only handle addition and subtraction. Since they cannot comprehend these problems, they naturally cannot use their "+1 brain" to calculate the results.

Conversely, ordinary people and geniuses, although slow in calculation, are able to understand highly difficult problems and thus slowly calculate the results.

As for Chen Hong, he benefited from the advanced civilization of an interstellar civilization, and his intelligence was extraordinary. The combination of these two factors meant that even with only level 80 mental strength, Qian Daoliu could not out-calculate him, no matter how hard he tried.

(End of this chapter)