Chapter 343 The Return of the Pope and Conjecture about the Soul Guidance Device (Two in One)

The bloody light was like a shooting star, cutting through the night sky and leaving a long mark.

Under Meng Yuan's full speed flight, he quickly flew from the far north to Wuhun City.

The first thing he did when he returned to Wuhun City was that Meng Yuan held a plenary meeting of the top management of Wuhun Palace.

It has to be said that the strength of Wuhun Palace has been quite withered now. After the death of Ghost Douluo, only Ju Douluo and Lingyuan Douluo were left among the titled Douluo level elders.

Now the top management of Wuhun Palace is in urgent need of supplements.

This is the most important thing now.

However, the appearance of Meng Yuan also made the panic-stricken Wuhun Palace instantly calm down. As long as nothing happens to the boss, it means that there will be a turn for the better in the future.

Mengyuan also stayed with his teacher Ju Douluo after the meeting and talked with him about Ghost Douluo. After knowing that Ghost Douluo still had a chance to be reincarnated as an adult, Yueguan was very happy, and his eyes that were originally lifeless also regained their brightness.

Not long after Mengyuan came back, Qian Renxue also came to Wuhun City. Her purpose of coming to Wuhun City was to go to the Consecration Hall to invite foreign aid. After meeting Meng Yuan, the two had an in-depth conversation in a secret room of the Pope's Palace and discussed major events in the future.

The next day, we visited the Enshrinement Hall and the Historical Corridor.

Is this the place where all kinds of precious notes from Wuhun Palace are stored?

At this time, Meng Yuan was carefully checking the information.

Tianyue stood aside and looked at Meng Yuan with her head in her hands.

After Mengyuan came back, Tianyue was the happiest person besides his teacher Yueguan and sister Lingyuan Douluo.

Now that Mengyuan was coming to the worship hall to check information, of course she came with him.

There is also a soul bone placed on the table in front of Mengyuan.

Soul bone is produced in the body of a soul beast. It is a special product formed by condensing the soul fragments of the soul beast and its vitality before death.

Now that the high-end combat power of Wuhun Palace has been greatly reduced, in order to prevent this kind of accident from happening again in the future, Meng Yuan began to study soul bones in depth, hoping to find a breakthrough from this.

Soul bones are a very wonderful thing.

After being absorbed by the soul master, it can be integrated into the human body and replace the human bones. However, after the person dies, the soul bones will return to their original appearance and have the function of storing soul power.

The folk customs in Douluo Continent are simple. Although soul masters have developed for many years, their own soul skills have never been systematic. Normally, soul bones exist as a soul master's biggest trump card and secret.

Because having a soul bone means one more soul skill. Maybe this extra hidden soul skill can save his life at a critical moment.

In addition, soul bones can also improve one's physical fitness, and can really increase the upper limit of the number of years one can absorb soul rings. For this reason alone, no matter how trashy a soul bone is, it has a strong appeal to a soul master.

Of course, soul bones also have inconveniences. For example, a person can only absorb up to six soul bones. Once the upper limit is exceeded, a higher price will be required to replace it with a better soul bone.

Meng Yuan plans to use soul bones to create soul guides to enhance the combat effectiveness of the backbone.

First of all, what is a soul guide?

Mengyuan defines soul guides as man-made props that use soul power as driving energy. To put it bluntly, a soul guide is a special prop made by carving a core array on rare metals and gems.

The soul bones are the natural embryos for making soul guides.

Mengyuan, who has not mastered the technology of making soul guides, can only use soul bones to create powerful soul guides.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps came.

Tianyue turned her head and focused her gaze on the visitor.

Her long golden and gray hair is spread over her shoulders.

Qian Renxue is wearing a bold and revealing dress. Her temperament is both sacred and noble, but also has a different kind of charm. Her exquisite facial features are like a combination of angel and devil, both sacred and mysterious.

After seeing Tianyue, Qian Renxue was also stunned for a moment.

Because she noticed the mark on Tianyue's head.

But it’s not the Nine Tests of God, so it doesn’t matter.

She ignored Tianyue and went straight to Mengyuan, projecting all the items in the storage soul guide onto the table: "I brought everything you asked for yesterday."

There are many books projected onto the table, in addition to many soul guides of different shapes.

She just went back and forth to Tiandou Imperial City to get this.

"These soul guides are only helpful to people under the Soul Sect, and are really useless to us. Fortunately, the Tiandou royal family has existed long enough, and we can still find some basic operations for making soul guides."

These books look very old, and some are even bound with animal skins.

Mengyuan smiled and said: "Thank you for your hard work, young master."

Under the nose of Qian Daoliu in the enshrinement hall, Mengyuan didn't mind giving Qian Renxue a bit of verbal respect.

Even if Qian Daoliu left here temporarily.

After that, Meng Yuan picked up a book with the words "Development of Soul Guidance Device" written on it.

According to the records in the book, the earliest soul guide was born in the hands of religious priests in ancient times.

In order to more easily spread their faith to their fellow tribesmen and make money, some priests made huge statues of gods out of wood, with soul masters controlling them with soul power behind them.

Later, some craftsmen developed the technology of engraving soul power patterns of specific specifications and strengths on precious metals. With the appropriate metals and gems, soul guides with various functions could be made.

If you observe carefully, the lines engraved on the soul guide are very similar to the light array that appears when the soul skill is activated.

I have to admire the wonderful ideas of these craftsmen.

According to the content in the book, the craftsmen marked soul skills as specific formulas, which could be reproduced as long as soul power was injected into them. The original soul guidance device was called a "solid soul ring" by these ambitious craftsmen.

However, due to material limitations, most of the soul guides at that time were flashy toys with almost no practical value.

This has also resulted in people’s current impression of soul tools being “vases”. The only thing soul masters are interested in are storage-type soul tools.

This is roughly the function of the soul guide.

Qian Renxue played with the soul bones on the table boredly. When she saw Mengyuan concentrating on reading books, and seeing Tianyue doing nothing, she couldn't help but said: "I remember that you are the granddaughter of the second grandfather?"

Tianyue said respectfully: "Yes, young master."

She respects Qian Renxue from the bottom of her heart.

Qian Renxue hugged her shoulders and said, "I'm in a good mood today. Is there anything you want to ask me?"

The arrogant little angel doesn't mind giving the trusted people around him a chance to understand themselves.

Tianyue was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Young Master, why do you want to go undercover in the Tiandou Empire? For you, this seems to be a thankless task."

This is not only her doubt, but also the doubt of everyone in the worship hall except Qian Daoliu.

Qian Renxue raised the corners of her mouth slightly: "Because it's fun."

Yes, the reason is that simple.

"For gods, a hundred years is just a snap of the fingers, so the time lost is nothing."

Before you become a god, you have the mentality of a god.

This is arrogance.

"Then, Your Highness, what kind of empire do you want to leave behind?"

This question made Qian Renxue think carefully.

Then she said with a serious face: "In my vision, the future empire is a completely orderly empire where soul masters will not interfere casually in the lives of civilians."

"The soul master sect will no longer exist in the empire. What the empire needs to rule various places is the nobles who are attached to the royal family. Use strict laws to limit the behavior of the nobles and ensure the interests of the common people."

"As for the civilians, the empire will awaken their martial souls for them. Those who are talented will enter specialized soul master schools for training. If they are not talented, they will just do whatever they want."

"In the final analysis, it is to restrain the soul masters and allow the people to have food and clothing. I guess this is the happy life that the people long for."

Qian Renxue is much more mature now.

She has figured out what kind of empire she wants to build.

"I see!"

At this time, Mengyuan smiled and put the book down.

Then he picked up the soul guide collected by the Tiandou royal family that Qian Renxue brought and carefully observed and analyzed it.

Through the attached soul bone [Eye of Cursed Death], Meng Yuan could easily see the formation carved by the craftsmen on it.

"Sure enough, as I suspected, the patterns on the soul guides have certain similarities."

Hearing this, Qian Renxue asked curiously: "What are the so-called common features on the soul guides that you mentioned?"

Mengyuan picked up a pen and sketched three simple patterns on the drawing, namely a triangle, a prototype, and a square.

"Soul guidance tools can be roughly divided into three categories. The most common ones are naturally offensive soul guidance tools. Generally speaking, offensive soul guidance tools have mainly straight edges and right angles."

With that said, Meng Yuan injected soul power into an offensive soul guide brought by Qian Renxue. Then the soul guide flashed with light. If you look closely, you can see that the patterns on the soul guide are made of square frames.

Mengyuan said to Tianyue: "Yue, you can try to use your first soul skill to carefully feel the operation of soul power."

Hearing this, Tianyue closed her eyes, and the spirit ring appeared behind her, and the Golden Crocodile King's martial spirit also appeared beside her. As the first yellow century-old spirit ring flashed, the Golden Crocodile King opened its bloody mouth.

It can be clearly seen that when the soul power appears, the golden soul power moves in a straight line and right angles when it condenses in the mouth of the Crocodile King.

Finally, as the light converges, the light color of the lines on the teeth is mostly square, which is the basic composition.

Meng Yuan played with the soul guidance device in his hand: "In addition to offensive soul guidance devices, there are two types: defense and auxiliary."

"The pattern outlined based on the triangle represents assistance, while the circle represents defense. After determining the most basic point, you can know the guidelines for the development of soul guides."

Hearing this, Tianyue frowned and said, "But, Yuan, the key to the soul guide lies in the materials. How should we obtain the characteristics and effects of these materials?"

Meng Yuan smiled and took out a thick book from his soul guide: "This book contains the properties of various precious mineral materials that I collect in my daily life."

This is what Mengyuan asked for from Ning Rongrong at the Qibao Glazed Sect.

In addition to assisting, the Qibao Glazed Pagoda Spirit can also perform treasure appraisal. The Glazed Sect also does a lot of research on the characteristics of these ores. These are the summary of the Glazed Sect.

Of course, the other part was written by Mengyuan himself, and this part comes from Tang San's memory.

After killing Tang San, the knowledge recorded in "Xuan Tian Bao Lu" was naturally known to Meng Yuan. The characteristics of the precious materials recorded in it were also summarized by Meng Yuan.

Of course, Meng Yuan did not have sex for nothing in Ning Rongrong's hands.

Now the complete version of "Xuan Tian Gong" Mengyuan has been given to this close friend whose status is equal to that of his wife. In the future, this will be passed down as the most precious secret skill of the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect.

Mengyuan took out various precious ores collected in his soul guide, and then continued: "Of course, making a soul guide is not that simple. If you want to make a soul guide, the most important thing is the soul guide. The properties must match the materials used.”

"Human soul power will differentiate into different attributes according to the martial soul, and the same is true for these ore materials. For example, this piece of heavy silver looks like gold, but is actually the crystallization of water."

"If you carve a fire-attribute formation on heavy silver, you will definitely not be able to get the soul guidance device you want. This is why so many soul guidance devices made of precious materials have always been difficult to achieve as expected."

As he spoke, Meng Yuan pointed regretfully at the attack-shaped soul guide he had just used: "For example, this is obviously a firestone from the center of the earth, but it is carved with a metallic formation."

"Under the conflict of soul power, the reason why it didn't explode directly is because of the excellent material."

After hearing this, Tianyue sat down and sighed and said, "There is a reason why the soul guidance device has never been able to develop."

"Just talking about the characteristics of these materials, except for the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect that can clearly identify the essence of these ores, other forces simply do not have the conditions, and the craftsmen will not make these years of exploration and testing public."

Qian Renxue said with a smile: "That's why the unification of the world is even more important now. After unifying the entire continent, we can fully mobilize resources to research soul guidance devices."

Mengyuan did not answer this question.

Unifying the continent is meaningless.

Even if the current continent is unified, it will collapse after Qian Renxue becomes a god. There is no other way, the plate is too big, and the Tiandou Empire’s consideration cannot support it.

For the sake of future generations, it will be the best solution for Douluo Continent to remain in its current state.

Seeing that Mengyuan didn't answer, Qian Renxue curled her lips, then picked up the soul bone on the table with interest and said, "In my opinion, the soul bone looks like a semi-finished soul guidance device that has not been processed."

Meng Yuan agreed and said: "Yes, if a powerful soul bone is processed properly and reasonably, it can really be used as an external soul ring for a soul master."

However, the manufacturing cost is a bit high.

For a titled Douluo, processing precious soul bones into soul guides is not as cost-effective as directly absorbing them.