Douluo Continent: A Man of Unparalleled Talent and Heaven-Defying Comprehension

Chapter 173 Ning Tian's Bewilderment

"Don't worry, our Sun Moon Empire has already taken precautions for this competition."

Jing Hongchen hadn't expected Su Yu to have this side to him, so she smiled and explained it to him.

"Master, are you referring to the protection of soul guidance technology?" Su Yu was not unaware of the movements inside Mingde Hall, and he was speechless.

Su Yu didn't know whether Douluo Three Kingdoms wanted to develop.

But it's certain they want to cause trouble.

So many powerful individuals are hiding in the shadows, all for the sake of obtaining a level nine soul guidance technique?

Not too possible.

The Sun Moon Empire is aware of the development level of its soul tools, knows its greatest strength in suppressing the Douluo Three Kingdoms, and understands the power of its most advanced soul tools. But the Douluo Three Kingdoms are unaware of this.

Just a few years ago, there was the top academy on the continent that resisted soul tools.

"Oh? Where do you think there's still danger?"

Seeing that Su Yu had other concerns, Jing Hongchen, though not particularly concerned, still asked him about it.

"arsenal."

Su Yu uttered three words, and Jing Hongchen's expression changed drastically.

Jing Hongchen looked at Su Yu with a somewhat grim expression. Considering the possibility of the other party attacking the weapons depot from another perspective, she realized that it was indeed possible.

"Master, I can sense that the number of evil spirit masters within the Mingdu area has begun to increase significantly."

Su Yu's baffling words didn't make any sense to Jing Hongchen, who said, "Don't worry about that. Our emperor has countermeasures. Although it's still like dealing with a tiger, at least he still has some bottom line."

Xu Tianran was merely using the power of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Ultimately, the Holy Spirit Cult will certainly not be allowed to grow and expand.

After realizing this, Jing Hongchen stopped caring about Xu Tianran's affairs.

Focus on improving your strength and wait for that guy to make his move. If he succeeds, great; if he fails, you'll have to wipe him out with sheer power.

His current strength is not enough; he needs to improve by at least two more levels. At the same time, he needs to perfect his super battle armor and develop the virtual soul core technology as soon as possible, incorporating it into the super battle armor.

Only in this way could he have the confidence to deal with a Limit Douluo, and with Kong Deming by his side, he would have a chance to suppress the Holy Spirit Cult.

"Master, you've misunderstood me." Su Yu shook his head and said, "What I meant was that there are too many evil soul masters in Mingdu. If a chaotic battle breaks out, Mingdu will likely suffer heavy losses."

"In the early stages of the battle, evil spirit masters won't contribute much; the more they die, the greater the benefits they will gain."

Jing Hongchen frowned, pondering what Su Yu had said.

"Furthermore, even if the location of the armory cannot be found out in Douluo Three Kingdoms, there's no guarantee that evil soul masters won't stir up trouble."

As soon as Su Yu finished speaking, Jing Hongchen's expression turned ugly.

Evil spirit masters are really capable of doing such things.

Hey!

It seems that the defense system of the armory must also be strengthened.

However, in such fundamental national matters, measures must be approved by Xu Tianran before they can be implemented.

He disregarded the need for intelligence exchanges and set off immediately to meet Xu Tianran.

Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Jing Hongchen's anxious expression.

He certainly didn't want to accidentally stand right above the armory and get blown up.

The top-secret information about the armory was known only to a few people, including Jing Hongchen and the emperor; even Su Yu knew very little about it.

Those who are not related to this system cannot be understood.

The relevant personnel are under close surveillance to prevent any risk of information leaks.

Even now, he still doesn't know the exact number of fixed-equipment soul-guided cannons in the Sun Moon Empire.

Even with the original work as a reference, he could only roughly guess that the number of level nine fixed-position soul-guided shells reached double digits, and the two arsenals combined might reach triple digits.

So many level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannons, if they were to explode, it would be no laughing matter.

Su Yu carefully recalled the details in the original work, filling in any gaps or omissions.

In the final five days, this last danger was eliminated.

"Apart from the explosion of its own arms depot, there is nothing else to worry about."

In the last few days, Su Yu did not continue cultivating.

Recently, due to the large increase in the number of foreigners, a lot of precious rare metals have flowed out of Mingdu.

Many of the rare metals were not from the Sun Moon Empire, but rather from private collections that were released during this grand event in hopes of fetching high prices.

The Sun and Moon Empire is an empire of soul tools, and Mingdu is home to the Mingde Hall, which represents the highest achievement in soul tools. Rare metals can be sold at the highest prices during the Soul Battle Tournament held in Mingdu.

Su Yu also planned to spend more time visiting various auction houses and shops in Mingdu during the competition.

The rare metals in Mingde Hall are resources gathered from the entire Sun Moon Empire, but that does not mean that all rare metals are available in sufficient quantities.

For example, Mingdetang does not have the extremely rare and precious crystal, the Extreme Ice Divine Crystal, which is formed by the presence of fragments of ice that have been frozen for thousands of years.

There are also various other rare natural treasures that can be used to inscribe the core magic array, but Mingdetang has no stock of them.

Su Yu's own battle armor certainly couldn't always be made using the most common rare metals.

Super battle armor and even ultimate battle armor require extremely rare and high-grade materials to be incorporated into them.

Otherwise, how can we continue to upgrade?

Su Yu intended to nurture and perfect it until it became a divine artifact or even a super divine artifact, so the raw material certainly couldn't be bad.

Kong Deming has also incorporated many precious materials from his collection into the battle armor to enhance its material quality.

After three days of wandering around, Su Yu stopped going to high-end stores and instead decided to try his luck at street stalls.

"At this time, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's function became apparent, but unfortunately the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was an enemy."

Su Yu continued to wander.

Fortunately, he had a good ability to identify rare metals and rare materials, and he had Electrolux in his mind, so if it was something of absolutely high quality, he would definitely be able to sense it.

"Huh~"

Su Yu arrived at a shop called "Genuine Goods Shop" and looked at a crystal with a restrained radiance among a pile of counterfeit magic crystals.

Anti-magic crystal?

Good heavens, even the magic crystals in the genuine goods store are counterfeit products, many are fake, yet they can still find a magic-banning crystal.

Su Yu picked up the magic-suppressing crystal and examined it with his mental energy.

This has been confirmed as a magic-suppressing crystal.

The anti-magic crystal can weaken energy attacks and is also extremely hard. It is considered a top-tier rare metal. When Su Yu challenged Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, he added some anti-magic crystals to his level-three soul tool. Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming were surprised to find that Su Yu had some.

To put it another way, one kilogram of anti-magic crystal is equivalent to more than thirty kilograms in the standard share. Depending on the quality of the anti-magic crystal, if it is high enough, it can be equivalent to several hundred kilograms.

The anti-magic crystal in Su Yu's hand was of average quality, slightly better than the one-to-thirty crystal Su Yu had used before, and was about one-to-forty in quality.

However, this magic-suppressing crystal was quite large, even bigger than Su Yu's fist. Although Su Yu picked it up, it was actually incredibly heavy.

It weighs at least ten kilograms.

If it were sold outside, it would cost at least hundreds of thousands of gold soul coins.

However, this genuine store mixed this magic-resistant crystal with counterfeit magic crystals and sold it at the price of a genuine magic crystal, which was enough to buy for three thousand gold soul coins.

"Sect Master, over here!"

A clear female voice rang out behind Su Yu, and then the group entered the store.

A girl with short, neat blonde hair came in and looked at the anti-magic crystal in Su Yu's hand.

Su Yu looked at the group of people behind the girl.

It turned out to be someone I knew.

Tang Ya, Bei Bei.

As for the other four, Su Yu could roughly determine their identities based on their characteristics.

Wang Dong is clearly a woman disguised as a man.

Jiang Nannan with rabbit ears on her head.

Wearing a leather jacket, a cat tail on her back, and cat ears on her head.

That's unclear, but judging from her intimate interaction with another tall, imposing man exuding masculinity and with unusually bright eyes, Su Yu guessed that they were disciples of the White Tiger Duke and the Netherworld Cat Zhu family.

Could it be Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin in this age group?

Su Yu wondered to himself, "These two actually became teammates with Bei Bei and the others?"

As for the blonde girl at the front, her clothes were covered in sparkling jewels, and the label of being rich was practically written all over her face.

Having identified six of the seven people, Su Yu also deduced from their logic that they were from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

After all, the current lineup of these seven people makes it hard not to think of the original Shrek Seven Devils.

Aside from the fact that the Evil Phoenix Ma Hongjun was replaced by Bei Bei, the Blue Dot Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Sausage Oscar was replaced by Wang Dong, the other configurations were copied exactly.

Therefore, the most likely candidate for the Tang Sect's top prodigy of this age group from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to team up with Tang Ya and Bei Bei is Ning Tian, ​​right?

Su Yu's mind worked quickly, and he identified all seven people in just two or three seconds.

"It's you!"

Tang Ya and Bei Bei recognized Su Yu and looked wary.

At the same time, there was a lot of hostility in his gaze as he looked at Su Yu.

After Shrek's defeat, among the voices that damaged their reputation, a significant portion was due to Su Yu being the last person to end their championship hopes in the individual competition.

Although it wasn't a seven-in-a-row victory, the fact that Shrek's struggling situation was completely cut off by one person was even more distressing.

"Oh? Long time no see, you two," Su Yu greeted.

"Sect Leader, do you know him?" Ning Tian turned to look at Tang Ya and asked with a surprised expression.

"Su Yu. How could you not recognize him?" Bei Bei stepped forward, shielding the other six people behind her, and pointed out Su Yu's identity.

Jiang Nannan remained silent, but since she had fought with Su Yu, she naturally recognized him, though she wasn't as startled as Tang Ya.

Seeing the situation in the store, the owner thought a conflict was about to break out and stepped forward to try to stop it.

Upon hearing Su Yu's name, he paused for a moment, then looked more closely and recognized that Su Yu was indeed that Su Yu.

Seeing that the other seven people were clearly hostile to Su Yu, and judging from their accents and physical characteristics, they didn't seem to be from the Sun Moon Empire, the boss didn't continue to try to dissuade them.

A group of seven people together, are they probably a participating team?

Su Yu's reputation as a genius resounds throughout the Sun Moon Empire, so he certainly won't suffer any losses.

As for what gets damaged in the end...

The boss was already thinking about how to get those seven people to make the first move, and then how to protect his own rights.

"Boss, how much is that piece of metal he has?" Ning Tian asked, remembering his purpose for this trip.

"Ah, you mean that magic crystal? Five thousand gold soul coins?"

Ning Tian was initially pleased to hear the shopkeeper say it was magic crystal, but upon hearing the price of five thousand, he immediately frowned.

Profiteer!

Where can you find magic crystals that are so expensive?

Three thousand is the maximum.

"He hasn't bought it yet, has he? I'll take this magic crystal."

However, since the boss has already made an offer, it means that Su Yu has not yet bought the metal.

Ning Tian's thinking is exactly the same as Shrek's.

As he spoke, he pulled out a black card, ready to buy the magic crystal in Su Yu's hand.

At the same time, in the spare moments between asking the shopkeeper about the price, she also expressed hostility towards Su Yu, making it seem as if she was wasting money by buying the metal to disgust Su Yu.

They're quite smart.

But Su Yu wouldn't tolerate it.

"Boss, I'll buy it for 10,000 gold soul coins."

So you can buy it first since I haven't bought it yet?

Sorry, you have a card, but you haven't swiped it yet.

Ha, this young lady doesn't even carry cash when she goes out; it's so convenient to just carry a card.

When the shopkeeper saw the two arguing, he initially thought it was just a fight between two people who were being impulsive. However, as the two managed to snatch 30,000 gold soul coins from the price, he realized something was wrong.

"Gentlemen, if you're interested in magic crystals, there's plenty in stock over there. This one is so small, and I feel bad that you're spending 30,000 gold soul coins to buy it. People will say I, Old Wang, am ripping them off."

As soon as Boss Wang said this, the competition between Su Yu and Ning Tian stopped.

"Boss, let me be frank with you. This is a magic-suppressing crystal, worth about 200,000 gold soul coins. I'll buy it for 200,000 gold soul coins. Will you sell it or not?"

Su Yu stopped hiding it.

The main reason for the scarcity of magic-resistant crystals is not their price.

Even if you buy the anti-magic crystal at the original price, it's still a good deal.

As for Ning Tian buying it at a high price?

If they weren't losing money, which Sun Moon Empire would do business like this?

This isn't an auction.

Sure enough, after praising Su Yu for being a straightforward person, Boss Wang carefully examined the anti-magic crystal and finally sold it to Su Yu.

Two hundred thousand gold soul coins.

No bargaining.

As for Ning Tian's incessant nagging and constant price increases, even raising the price to 400,000, the boss reluctantly refrained from selling it to her.

Even bosses know how to read people's expressions.

The young woman, who seemed quite wealthy, reluctantly raised the price to 400,000, meaning that in her opinion, this was the highest possible price for the metal.

Considering the different demands for rare metals between the sun and moon and the outside world, the price difference, and the extra price difference that a rich young lady with money to burn can make.

Through all of this, he determined that the anti-magic crystal was indeed of the quality and price Su Yu had described, and that he had not misjudged it again.

It was incredibly lucky that Su Yu recognized it and sold it for 200,000 gold soul coins, instead of it being snatched up by someone else.

Since Su Yu was so sincere, the boss couldn't refuse him.

After all, being a citizen of the Sun Moon Empire, he had his own sentiments, plus he also needed to do business in Mingdu.

"This girl, trying to snag such a big bargain right off the bat, she's no good girl."

The boss was heartbroken, having to pay the price of losing 200,000 gold soul coins just to sell the anti-magic crystal to Su Yu.

"Never mind, I don't want it anymore," Su Yu suddenly said.

The shopkeeper paused for a moment, then realized what Su Yu meant and turned to look at Ning Tian. "Sir, do you still want this magic-suppressing crystal?"

Four hundred thousand gold soul coins!

Wow, I'm rich overnight!

Ning Tian was completely baffled by Su Yu's unconventional competitive approach.

(End of this chapter)