Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor.

Chapter 248 The Most Fundamental Secret of the Core Magic Array (Qingye's Peak of Imagination!)

After an hour or two, Ye Qing, who had been racking his brains but could not find an answer, chose to give up thinking about it.

"Since thinking alone won't yield any answers, why don't I just take action?" Ye Qing said.

Any theory needs to be put into practice. Perhaps in the process of practice, you will naturally grasp the flash of inspiration that has passed through your mind.

As for the rare metals and carving knives to be used in the practice, Nether Thunder Douluo had already prepared them for himself. He handed over nearly ten tons of various rare metals to Ye Qing in a soul guide storage device. Although not all of these rare metals were precious, quite a few were valuable enough.

That's enough to make level seven or eight soul tools, allowing Ye Qing to squander it for a while.

After casually taking out a piece of rare metal, Ye Qing shaped it into a core prototype of a magic array that could be inscribed. Then, he picked up a carving knife and began to slowly carve it.

Under Ye Qing's powerful mental strength, his left hand, which was holding the core magic array, and his right hand, which was holding the carving knife, were both extremely stable.

In fact, given his strength and mental power, carving a first-level core array was not difficult at all. With each stroke, he could perfectly present the patterns on the surface of the core array.

But he didn't rush to finish. Instead, he slowly carved, stroke by stroke. With each stroke, Ye Qing's eyes would become even brighter.

As the final blow fell, a lingering smile appeared on Ye Qing's face.

"Interesting, I think I understand now."

He put down the carving knife with his right hand and lightly touched the core magic circle in his left hand, injecting a trace of soul power. The core magic circle, replenished with soul power, emitted three inches of white light. The soul power flowing in the magic circle's patterns was gradually consumed by the magic circle, releasing the magic circle's intended effect.

Charge.

As he watched the core array gradually dim, Ye Qing's smile grew even wider. However, he did not rush to verify his guess, but instead began to learn about other first-level core arrays.

Acceleration, explosion, aggregation, compression...

After learning each level one core magic array, Ye Qing would practice and inscribe it. After completing the inscription, he would inject his soul power to observe it. Only after obtaining the desired result would he move on to learn the knowledge of the next core magic array and repeat the previous actions.

In three days, Ye Qing learned eight level-one core magic arrays and tried each one.

Given his abilities, learning about first-level soul tools shouldn't have taken him this long, but he spent a lot of time observing and thinking.

Only after learning the eighth level-one core magic array did Ye Qing finally let out a long sigh of relief, sit on the sofa, and close his eyes to meditate.

The patterns of the eight core magic arrays were drawn by Ye Qing with his mental power after he closed his eyes, and they appeared above his mental sea.

"Old Yi, have you figured it out?" Ye Qing looked at the eight core array patterns floating above the Sea of ​​Spirit with a half-smile.

Electrolux, dressed in a black robe, quietly appeared, gazing thoughtfully at the core magic array patterns.

"I have some guesses, but I don't know if they're the same as yours."

"More practice is needed. If my guess is true, then soul tools are really interesting." Even in his spiritual form, Ye Qing's smile remained strong.

After deciding to develop Soul Armor, Ye Qing thought about this question.

Everyone knows about soul tools, and they know that soul tools are weapons or tools that can be activated by soul power. So why can soul tools activate their proper abilities by injecting soul power?

Just those core magic arrays?

Stop joking, those things are utterly useless.

This inspiration came from when Ye Qing used a circuit board as a metaphor for the core magic array.

He racked his brains but couldn't figure out what inspiration the circuit board could provide for him. It wasn't until he decided to personally inscribe the core magic array and successfully inscribed the first core magic array that he finally grasped this glimmer of inspiration.

As for the information contained in this glimmer of inspiration, it's quite simple.

A circuit is a circuit. No matter how complex a circuit is depicted, it is still a circuit. The current flowing in the circuit board will not change from current to water flow just because the circuit is complex.

This is the most fundamental law.

So... here's the question: why is the core array's circuitry so absurd that simply changing the engraved patterns allows the soul power injected into the core array to play different roles?

The soul power remains the same; nothing has changed. Only the patterns on the soul power have altered.

Does this... look familiar?

It looks familiar!

Because every Soul Master carries a natural core magic array, which is the Soul Ring on the Soul Master's body!

When the idea first popped into Ye Qing's head, even he was startled, because the idea was really too bold. However, the core array forced Ye Qing to link the two things together.

A Soul Master's Soul Rings can release different Soul Skills as Soul Power is injected. Isn't this the same as the underlying structure of a core magic array?

The same soul power, when injected into different soul rings or core formations, produces different effects. This seems to be a rule, like...

It's just like those strange patterns engraved on the surface of the spirit ring!

Ye Qing summoned his martial soul. The seven blood-red soul rings, apart from suppressing his aura to prevent it from leaking out, were not hidden at all. Facing his soul rings directly, Ye Qing finally discovered something he had not noticed before.

Besides the golden patterns representing the heavenly tribulation, the soul rings conceal extremely deep and difficult-to-detect complex patterns.

In fact, this information is reflected in both the Douluo Continent comics and the Douluo Continent anime. As long as a soul ring reaches ten thousand or even a thousand years, it will be adorned with magnificent patterns. However, these patterns have never been noticed by anyone.

No... The genius who first invented the Soul Tool must have discovered this information, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to create something like the Soul Tool.

Aren't these soul rings just natural core magic arrays?

The complex patterns of the core magic circle represent the different power of the soul skills under different age levels of the soul ring. The higher the level of the core magic circle, the more rules and patterns are hidden in the soul ring of higher age.

Ancient geniuses, using rare metals as carriers, inscribed the patterns in the soul rings, thus inventing the soul tool, a technological achievement unique to soul masters.

Back then, they were probably just respecting the power of Soul Masters and worshipping everything about them, which is why they went to study everything about Soul Masters and accidentally discovered the secrets in the Soul Rings, so they carved them on the stone tablet.

Later, it was discovered that stone slabs were not suitable for storage, so a more durable metal was used instead. When a genius, or rather, a chosen one, inscribed the complete pattern of the soul ring onto a carrier strong enough to withstand soul power, and coincidentally injected soul power into it, it was discovered that it could release a unique soul skill.

Soul guides... came into being.

Ye Qing didn't know if his guess about the ancient times was correct, but even if the soul tool didn't appear as he guessed, it should be pretty close.

As for the possibility that Soul Guidance Technology once threatened the God Realm in ancient times and was eventually artificially erased by the God Realm, Ye Qing felt it was unlikely.

The upper limit of soul tools is limited. In the ancient Douluo Star, the Dragon God suppressed everything. After the Dragon God's fall, in the memories of Di Tian and Xue Di, soul beasts were the dominant species. Humans did not have such a glorious past.

Moreover... if the patterns of the core array were truly inspired by the spirit rings, how could ancient human spirit masters have seen the patterns of those powerful spirit rings?

Let's think about the effects of the core magic array again.

Charge - A status-enhancing soul skill.

Burst - A burst attack soul skill.

Acceleration - Speed-enhancing Soul Skill.

Compression - A single-target attack soul skill.

Invincible Shield – Soft Bone Rabbit's Invincible Soul Skill.

Although the fact that Ye Qing could use rare metals of different attributes to force the core magic circle, which should have had a different effect, to release an attack of the corresponding attribute, slightly confused him.

For example, an energy-charging array inscribed with a magnetic lightning crystal can naturally transform an ordinary energy-charging array into a lightning energy-charging array.

But this kind of thing is actually quite easy to understand.

This is no longer the effect of the magic array, but rather the effect naturally attached to the materials. The magic array is still the same magic array, and the effect it releases is ultimately the same soul skill that inspired this magic array in the first place.

The door to the soul tool seemed to have been completely opened for Ye Qing, revealing all its secrets to him.

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P.S.: That's quite a bold idea...

(End of this chapter)