Douluo: Dragon King's Tai Chi Mystery

Upon seeing the three-headed monster, many students were filled with fear. Being eliminated meant they could see the subsequent battle through the Soul Guidance Screen.

Zhao Xuanzhen's subduing of dragons and tigers, the elemental fission of the ancient moon, and Ye Xinglan's soaring sword intent—these scenes were deeply etched into everyone's minds. They would find it difficult to muster any resistance in the future; even the proud and arrogant Nine Gates were utterly shattered.

Wu Siduo huddled in a corner, hugging her knees, seemingly lost in a deep sense of isolation. Zhao Xuanzhen's words, "You've tried your best," will probably stay with her for the rest of her life.

Luo Guixing, Xu Yucheng, Yang Nianxia, ​​and Zheng Yiran all looked dejected like defeated roosters, needing some time to regain their former confidence.

Xu Lizhi lowered his head, feeling that he had betrayed Ye Xinglan. He didn't dare to look the goddess in the eye, afraid that she would show the slightest displeasure.

In fact, Ye Xinglan didn't care at all, and even breathed a sigh of relief. Xu Lizhi was finally no longer following her around like a little shadow.

Tang Wulin was the most level-headed one because his innate soul power was only level three. He was not a born genius and had experienced countless taunts on his path to growth. He was much more resilient to pressure than the other members of the Nine Gates.

If you lose, just run and chase; it's no big deal.

Wu Changkong announced: "Class 1, Grade 1, Class Monitor: Zhao Xuanzhen. Vice Class Monitors: Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan."

One year later, all trainees can challenge the three class leaders and deputy leaders; the winner takes the position, and the loser is eliminated.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xuanzhen and Gu Yue remained calm, while Ye Xinglan's eyes flashed. Her combat strength was the lowest among the three, and Tang Wulin and Wu Siduo in the class both had the ability to challenge her.

"I can't stop, I must put in more effort to improve..." she silently warned herself.

"Next, we will select four class officers," Shen Yi said. "You all had a second career test in your entrance examination. The academy recorded your secondary career levels, and the four class officers will be selected from those with the highest career levels."

Zhao Xuanzhen is skilled in mecha design, mecha manufacturing, and mecha repair, and each of his secondary professions is at the advanced level of level five. He should rightfully serve as a member of all three committees.

Tang Wulin is a Level 5 blacksmith and serves on the blacksmithing committee.

Everyone gasped upon hearing this. Although it was not unusual for someone to serve as a class officer, Shrek Academy once had a big shot who held four positions: vice class monitor, mecha design committee member, mecha manufacturing committee member, and mecha repair committee member. However, Zhao Xuanzhen directly surpassed his predecessor and became a new legend.

Their confidence stemmed from their strength, and everyone was convinced of their abilities. After the class officers were appointed, the class teacher, Wu Changkong, announced the end of get out of class.

In the afternoon, Zhao Xuanzhen, Gu Yue, and Na'er returned to the Spirit Pagoda headquarters to level up by farming in the Spirit Ascension Platform as usual.

After dinner, the three of them returned to Shrek Academy together. When they passed the outer courtyard, Gu Yue grabbed Na'er and asked her to move into the outer courtyard dormitory with her. Although Na'er was reluctant, she still nodded in agreement.

To be honest, Zhao Xuanzhen had a hard time not suspecting that Gu Yue had some kind of leverage over Na'er...

A cool night breeze blew, refreshing and pleasant. Zhao Xuanzhen thought for a moment and decided not to go to Haishen Island. Instead, he walked towards the work-study student dormitory to complete the agreement.

The dormitory for work-study students was dilapidated, with moss covering the mottled wooden planks, and several broken windows that were faintly visible in the moonlight. The outer skin of the wooden doors had long since peeled off, revealing the blackened wood grain inside.

"Boom, boom, boom."

In the quiet night, three muffled knocks were particularly clear. The door slowly opened, and first a faint fragrance wafted out, followed by the figure of a young girl appearing in the doorway.

Bathed in the silvery moonlight, her chestnut-red short hair shone with a soft luster, and her pale, jade-like face was captivating. The girl wore only a thin white sports vest, which could barely conceal her graceful and voluptuous figure. Her bare, lotus-root-like arms gleamed with a beautiful pearly luster under the moonlight, and every inch of her skin shone brightly.

"boss?"

Yuan Enhui looked at Zhao Xuanzhen with clear eyes, her voice as melodious as a mountain stream.

"I'm free tonight, so I'd like to take a look at your battle armor blueprints and study the manufacturing method," Zhao Xuanzhen said without changing his expression.

Yuan Enhui blinked and stepped aside to make way for him.

"Please come in, boss..."

Chapter 66: Yuan En, who has been thoroughly manipulated by Zhao Xuanzhen, is sinking deeper and deeper into the trap. I need to understand you more deeply (4K)

The moonlight, like a silver veil, fell, outlining the girl's undulating curves; the white cotton vest clung tightly to her full bust.

As her chestnut-red hair swept across the back of her neck, the faint blue veins on her shoulder blades became faintly visible, like the intertwined branches and vines of a dark rose.

Zhao Xuanzhen followed Yuan Enyehui into the room. The dormitory for work-study students was not even shabby; it could only be described as dilapidated.

The wooden cabin was drafty on all sides, and the soul-guiding lamp hanging from the ceiling flickered from time to time, giving it a feeling of being in a supernatural world. A small bed and a wooden table and chair were all the furniture in the entire dormitory.

"Sorry, boss, the dormitory conditions are limited."

Yuan Enhui's pretty face showed embarrassment. Asking for help without offering a decent condition was indeed unacceptable.

"No problem."

Zhao Xuanzhen had anticipated this, after all, the East China Sea F4 in another timeline were in an even worse situation, with two men and two women crammed into a small wooden house, separated only by a curtain.

Yuan Enhui at least lived in a single dormitory room. The room was clean and tidy, clearly not that of a dirty and messy girl. Moreover, Zhao Xuanzhen could smell a pleasant fragrance, a scent that was refreshing and pleasant. It seems that pretty girls all smell nice.

"Give me the blueprint."

"Ah."

With a swift movement of his palm across her slender waist, Yuan Enhui produced a stack of blueprints.

The One-Word Battle Armor cannot be clearly drawn from a single blueprint; it consists of multiple components, including the chest armor, arm armor, and headband.

The top-tier battle armor has eleven parts, each of which requires individual design details. Mecha designers need to draw the core magic array as well as the connections and soul power pathways. Complex parts require multiple drawings to complete, thus reducing the manufacturing difficulty for mecha manufacturers.

Zhao Xuanzhen sat down at the wooden table, spread a stack of blueprints out on the table, and began to look through them one by one.

Yuan Enhui gently poured him a cup of hot water, then suddenly remembered something. His boss came from the Spirit Pagoda and usually drank all kinds of spiritual teas. The coffee in Xuanlong Cafe also contained a small amount of spiritual ingredients and was widely popular among Shrek Academy students.

With this thought in mind, Yuan Enhui reached into her storage soul tool and searched for a long time before finally finding half a bag of treasured tea leaves. She picked up a clump of dark green tea leaves with her jade fingers and sprinkled them evenly on the water, adding a touch of color to the plain water.

There was only one wooden chair in the work-study student dormitory. Yuan Enye stood silently behind Zhao Xuanzhen, her beautiful eyes fixed on the cool and capable young man as he studied the battle armor design.

After carefully reviewing the drawings, Zhao Xuanzhen returned to the first overall design sketch, took out a pencil, and began sketching.

An expert's skill is immediately apparent. Yuan Enhui is a Level 4 mecha repairman, and mecha repairmanship involves two major professional knowledge areas: mecha design and mecha manufacturing. She can be considered a half-baked mecha designer.

After obtaining the design blueprint for the One-Word Battle Armor, Yuan Enhui studied it privately and could barely understand it, but there were a few parts that were obscure and difficult to understand. When he saw Zhao Xuanzhen's revisions and annotations, he suddenly felt enlightened and secretly rejoiced to have such an excellent boss.

Two and a half hours passed quickly. The two of them sat and stood, drawing and looking, until all the drawings were circled. Zhao Xuanzhen rubbed his temples and turned to look at the red-haired girl beside him.

A misty vapor rose upwards as Yuan Enhui held the cup of hot tea, releasing her soul power from her palms to maintain its temperature and prevent it from cooling down. From Zhao Xuanzhen's angle, he could just see the moonlight shimmering in the hollow of the girl's collarbone, like fine wine swaying along her exquisite curves.

Seeing that Zhao Xuanzhen had finished reading, Yuanen Yehui hurriedly handed him hot tea and asked impatiently, "Boss, how are the battle armor blueprints? Can we use them to manufacture battle armor directly?"

"Um……"

Concentrating intently on studying the design blueprints was extremely mentally taxing. Zhao Xuanzhen first took a sip of tea; the bitterness mixed with the taste of wood chips rushed into his mouth. He swore he had never drunk such terrible tea in his two lives. His handsome features contorted in a moment of frustration, and he sighed sincerely:

"What a cruel way to treat guests!"

Yuan Enhui was taken aback, then walked to the side and silently and painfully threw the tea leaves he had treasured for many years into the trash can, replacing them with a glass of plain water.

Zhao Xuanzhen nodded in satisfaction, waved his hand to conjure a stone chair, and gestured for Yuanen Yehui to sit beside him. He then unfolded the entire sketch of the battle armor and said:

"This battle armor design has many flaws, and I will explain them to you one by one."

One thing is obvious from your battle armor: you possess twin martial souls. One is a power-type beast martial soul, granting you a robust physique and expertise in close combat. The other martial soul is of the dark and evil attribute, allowing you to cultivate both ranged and melee combat, and possesses the ability to corrupt with curses…”

Yuan Enhui nodded repeatedly. She had only gone to Xuanlong Cafe to work and earn money. She had not revealed her twin martial souls to Zhao Xuanzhen, and the two had never sparred or fought. They had always been a wealthy boss and an excellent employee.

It's not surprising that Zhao Xuanzhen revealed the truth in one sentence, because battle armor must be compatible with the soul master himself. A high-level mecha designer can completely identify the soul master's martial soul characteristics at a glance just by looking at a battle armor design drawing.

For example, the design blueprint for the One-Word Battle Armor that Yuan Enhui presented contained two core ideas: to enhance the Titan Ape's berserk power and to amplify the Fallen Angel's evil abilities.

“You have twin martial souls, so here’s the problem.” Zhao Xuanzhen continued, “The design difficulty of single martial souls and twin martial souls is incomparable, even though they are both one-word battle armors.”

The design of battle armor for twin martial souls is far more complex, especially for a genius like you with twin top-grade martial souls. To design a one-word battle armor that perfectly suits you would probably require a mecha designer approaching level six, while that designer only seems to be level four.”

“She’s already the highest-ranking mecha designer in our class…” Yuan Enhui sighed.

"Perhaps due to limitations in design skills, this drawing is far from perfect, and there are many areas that I believe can be improved."

Zhao Xuanzhen pulled out the blueprint for his right hand armor and said, "For example, judging from the designer's design concept for the battle armor, after the martial spirit is attached to your body, your body will undergo tremendous changes, and your fists used for offense will expand rapidly."

Therefore, the flexibility of the gauntlets is very important, and the palms should be equipped with deformation arrays so that the battle armor can continuously cover any changes in your fists and forearms.

The core array on the back of your hand is best used to enhance your blood and qi and amplify your soul power; it's best designed as a dual-circuit array..."

Zhao Xuanzhen explained the design issues to Yuan Enyehui, and his suggestions for improvement were incisive. The latter listened with rapt attention, immersed in the power of the future One-Word Battle Armor. Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "Boss, can you help me improve the Battle Armor design?"

"can."

Under Yuan Enhui's hopeful gaze, Zhao Xuanzhen nodded slightly, then changed the subject, his expression turning serious:

"But you have to pay more."

Yuan Enhui almost fell headfirst onto the table, her pretty face contorted in a grimace as she asked, "Is it 61% off this time?"

Don't rush to negotiate the price.

Zhao Xuanzhen smiled at the poor girl and said leisurely, "This one-word battle armor still has a fatal flaw, and I think you need to seriously consider it."

“Boss, what do you want to say?” Yuan Enhui’s spirits lifted.

"Forged metal".

Zhao Xuanzhen bluntly stated: "Thousand-refined metal is the foundation of one-word battle armor, and most one-word battle armors choose thousand-refined metal."

However, your situation is rather special. Designing a one-word battle armor with twin martial souls is almost as difficult as designing a regular two-word battle armor. Even a thousand-refined first-grade metal can only barely support two martial souls.

Instead, we could use spirit-forged metal to create a one-word battle armor, allowing it to truly fuse with the Soul Master, eliminating the need for wearing it and making it an extension of the Soul Master's body.

To be even more extravagant, you can directly manufacture a one-word battle armor using spirit alloy, with the two spirit-forged metals used in the alloy being adapted to twin martial souls respectively.

Spirit Forging evolves into Soul Forging; Thousand Forging cannot evolve into Spirit Forging. This is the difference between One-Word Battle Armor and Spirit Forging Battle Armor.

In this way, the one-word battle armor achieves a near-perfect fit, and upgrading to two-word battle armor will no longer require repeating the four steps of the one-word battle armor.

Yuan Enhui fell into thought, her fair and smooth chin caressing her delicate hand. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Zhao Xuanzhen's words made sense.

Ordinary one-word battle armor has too many drawbacks. The process of wearing it alone is extremely fatal. Moreover, thousand-refined metal cannot be upgraded to spirit-refined metal. It is equivalent to spending money to buy spirit-refined metal when forging two-word battle armor and asking mecha designers and mecha manufacturers to complete the design and manufacturing.

Zhao Xuanzhen calmly awaited Yuanen Yehui's decision. She was a smart woman and a Soul Master who pursued power; there was no other option for her.

No matter what, the little monkey can't escape the true Buddha... the true boss's five-finger mountain!

As expected, Yuan Enhui's expression gradually hardened, and he said in a deep voice, "Boss, I want to forge a one-word battle armor using spirit alloy!"

"I support you."

Zhao Xuanzhen chuckled, then went straight to Yuan En's weak point: "By the way, what materials do you plan to use for the Spirit Alloy? Do you have the channels? Do you have enough savings?"

A deadly triple strike!

Yuan Enhui leaned back tactically, making her already high and full chest stand even more prominent.

Zhao Xuanzhen pressed on, saying, "If we switch from Thousand Refinement to Spirit Refinement, the design and manufacturing difficulty of the One-Word Battle Armor will increase dramatically. I'll have to raise the price too."

A knowing blow!

Yuan Enhui was struck by lightning and instantly brought back to reality. He was so focused on how to enhance his One-Word Battle Armor that he forgot he was penniless!

Shaking his head, Yuan Enhui looked at the gentle and refined young master in front of him and tentatively asked, "Boss, if I buy spirit alloy from you, including all the design and manufacturing costs, approximately how many Federal Credits would it cost?"

"Go through my channels..."

Zhao Xuanzhen took out his soul-guided communicator, opened his calculator, and started typing: "Let me calculate. Spirit alloys aren't cheap. It depends on the degree of fusion. There's a world of difference in price between 90% and 60%."

The fusion rate is calculated at 75%, the alloy type is above average, there are eleven pieces of battle armor, plus the fee I paid...

Wow, you've got such a long string of numbers without me even realizing it. Let me count them for you.

One zero, two zeros, three zeros, four zeros, five zeros…

"Stop reading, boss, stop reading!"

The unscrupulous boss meticulously calculated the price, each zero like a spear piercing Yuanen Yehui's heart, causing her angina to flare up, and she interrupted Zhao Xuanzhen with a pained expression.

"Then should we still make the Spirit Forged One-Word Battle Armor?"

“I will do it!” Yuan Enhui said firmly.

Having seen the ocean, one finds it hard to be satisfied with a mere stream. After Zhao Xuanzhen's analysis and his own reflection, Yuanen Yehui decided to sell everything he owned to forge the Spirit Forged Battle Armor!

"How much savings do you have? Is it enough?"

"This topic is a bit sensitive. I can only say that the contribution points I've accumulated over the years are between ten thousand and one million." Yuan Enhui was a little guilty and chose to give a vague answer.

Zhao Xuanzhen pondered for two and a half seconds before asking, "Is it between twenty thousand and one million?"

Yuan Enhui: Σ(°△°|||)︴

Oh no, he's figured it out!

The exchange rate between Shrek contribution points and Federal currency is roughly one to one hundred. Yuan Enhui held multiple positions over three years, and after deducting her daily expenses as a work-study student, she accumulated more than 10,000 contribution points, which is equivalent to more than one million Federal currency.

At first glance, it seems like a lot, but in reality, a white ten-year soul spirit from the Spirit Pagoda sells for 100,000 Federal Credits, and even a million or more can't buy a high-quality hundred-year soul spirit. The dream of forging a one-word battle armor is even more distant. Yuanen Yehui is still penniless.

The evil capitalists! Even a woman as big as a giant ape can't be brought down by a single penny!

"Boss, can I write you an IOU and work to pay off the debt slowly?"