From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 412 The Three Eras of Douluo! (Filling in the gaps) [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

At the bottom of the Ice God Mountain Range, at the bottom of a newly excavated glacial tunnel, Chen Hong stood within the ruins of the Ice God that he had previously discovered. Looking at the towering, runic ice pillar that had stood for over ten thousand years, he subconsciously stroked his chin. Behind him, the Ice Emperor, now back in her twin-tailed human form, and the Snow Emperor watched him silently.

"The legacy left by that soul tool civilization records a technology. It is somewhat incomplete, but we can roughly see the ideas it wanted to express from these soul patterns."

Inside the ruins of the Ice God, the ground was covered with broken ice and runes. Chen Hong looked at this magical soul rune civilization and couldn't help but sigh.

Soul-guided metal is merely a means to an end. Ancient pioneers of soul-guided devices, adapting to local conditions, abandoned soul-guided metal, which was inconvenient to preserve in icy environments, and instead adopted ice marrow crystals as the carrier for their soul-guided devices. Ice marrow crystals can both store and conduct energy, making them an excellent environmentally friendly soul-guided carrier.

The Soul Guidance Civilization, which was born at the end of an era, may have had a more advanced technological level than Chen Hong imagined.

"As a super soul beast with a lifespan of over 100,000 years, do you have any information about human history? In exchange, I will tell you what I saw in this runic ice pillar," Chen Hong said to the Ice and Snow Emperors behind him.

Qian Daoliu has now returned to Soto City with two humanoid packages. The super healing module can only slowly restore the two people's life status, which may take one or two months. However, with Ye Lingling's support, it will be much easier. In addition, Ning Quan also needs to be sent back to Soto City, which has complete experimental equipment, for the purpose of subsequent experimental plans.

The key to Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong's control over Xue Di lies in the fact that Xue Di cannot keep Qian Daoliu. Therefore, as long as Qian Daoliu is safe, Chen Hong is also safe. So Chen Hong let Qian Daoliu go with complete peace of mind, so much so that Xue Di herself couldn't help but doubt herself, wondering if her strength would really be surpassed by humans in ten years.

At this moment, Hyotei suddenly fell silent and said, "There are some things that Yuki doesn't know, only I know them, but because the memories are too distant, I can't tell you any precise information."

"I understand." Chen Hong, with his back to Hyotei, silently sensed the incomplete soul patterns on the runic ice pillar with his mental power, nodded, indicating that he understood.

Chen Hong didn't really expect that a 100,000-year-old soul beast could produce any clear memories. The books said that the brains of 100,000-year-old soul beasts were no less than those of humans, but they didn't mention how a 100,000-year-old soul beast could maintain the sharpness of a human soul master's brain amidst tens of thousands of years of garbage memories.

So it's understandable that he's a little slow-witted.

"As far as I know, this world has gone through three eras in total. To put it simply, the ancient era (Dragon God), the dark era (chaotic war), and the era of Soul Masters." The twin-tailed little girl, Hyotei, frowned slightly, as if this kind of memory was a great burden for her.

"The era of Soul Masters. Counting from the Angel God, it has been about ten thousand years." Almost all super ferocious beasts have a very vague perception of time. On the one hand, their lifespan is too long, and on the other hand, their cultivation speed is far beyond that of ordinary soul beasts. Their cultivation level is far greater than their age.

"The Dark Ages... it seems to have spanned 70,000 or 80,000 years, maybe even 90,000 years. In any case, from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the current Soul Master era, about 100,000 years have passed." Ice Empress said with a frown. Snow Empress listened silently with a curious expression. This was something Ice Empress had never talked to her about before. It wasn't that she was hiding anything, but Snow Empress had never asked about it before.

Chen Hong's previous book, *The Study of Soul Beast Cultivation*, already demonstrated that the cultivation speed of soul beasts isn't literally a matter of gaining one year's cultivation every year, nor does a 100,000-year-old soul beast necessarily need 100,000 years. Cultivation level must be separated from time. Generally speaking, soul beasts capable of cultivating to the 100,000-year-old soul beast realm usually have some kind of lineage. From a scientific perspective, this means that soul beasts with higher bloodlines possess stronger ancestral soul power factors than ordinary soul beasts, thus absorbing soul power faster and cultivating at a faster pace.

This perfectly explains the existence of the 100,000-year-old soul beast Xiao Wu, and her two younger soul beasts, the Azure Sky Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, whose cultivation levels are approaching the threshold of Red 2 (200,000-year) ferocious beasts. Chen Hong had seen the Titan Giant Ape and even obtained its blood, understanding that the Titan Giant Ape's cultivation level was not the typical 100,000 years, but rather hovering around 130,000 to 140,000 years. The Azure Sky Bull Python was likely even stronger, its soul power level possibly reaching between 150,000 and 200,000 years.

Xiao Wu's ability to transform into human form is something only those who have just broken through to become 100,000-year-old soul beasts can do. Alternatively, one could wait until they reach 200,000-year-old advanced ferocious beast status to unlock the dual-form function. Xiao Wu's cultivation level is lower than her two younger brother soul beasts, but she seems older, indicating that in the early stages, she was the oldest and strongest, thus securing her position as the eldest sister. Later, she was surpassed by the Azure Sky Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, becoming the publicly acknowledged eldest sister.

"Currently, the 100,000-year-old soul beasts that are publicly known are basically products of this range. Only ferocious beasts with a cultivation level of over 300,000 years have the potential to come into contact with information from the ancient era 100,000 years ago. Xue'er is an exception. Xue'er's cultivation speed is too fast. You cultivated to the 690,000-year level in less than 100,000 years. You are the fastest cultivating soul beast of the younger generation that I have ever seen!" Ice Emperor looked at Snow Emperor beside her with complicated eyes, her tone carrying a hint of inexplicable emotion.

The Snow Empress is very special. Her cultivation time is generally around 80,000 years, because her birth occurred almost exactly 10,000 years after the Ice God's fall. And the Ice God's fall symbolized the beginning of the Dark Ages.

"Hmm," Xue Di hummed softly, her eyes shifting as if she were lost in thought.

"What about ancient times?" Chen Hong continued to ask. Sure enough, instead of doing archaeology, it would be better to just catch a super ferocious beast.

According to Bingdi, those who would have the opportunity to witness soul beasts from three eras must be super ferocious beasts at least 300,000 years old. Those from the ocean can be excluded. The Sea Orca King's cultivation level is higher than Bingdi's, but its actual lifespan is probably similar. Furthermore, the ocean is too vast, meaning the Orca King wouldn't be very aware of the situation on land. Besides, at that time, the ocean soul beasts were all being hunted by the Deep Sea Demon Whale King and had no time to care about anything else. Moreover, the super soul beasts of the ocean all have some degree of mental problems, including poor memory.

Just from their nicknames, which imply they are either evil or demonic, you can tell that the ocean environment is not as peaceful and sunny as Poseidon seems.

(End of this chapter)