#297 - Battle armor, spiritual metal, Xuan Ziwen's shock (4k)
In fact.
In the original novel, Tang Hao, the Lord of this plane, may have mixed in some of his own personal opinions.
But the resurgence of the blacksmith profession is actually inevitable.
Since automated soul guide processing cannot keep up, we can only rely on manual crafting.
This is also the great breakthrough made in rare metal materials science that has led to the revival of manual hammers.
Moreover, the emergence of battle armor is also an inevitable historical choice.
In a sense, battle armor is a substitute for spirit bones.
Due to the decrease in the number of soul beasts, soul masters basically could not see any soul beasts during the Douluo Dalu period, and they had to absorb souls honestly.
Not to mention obtaining wild soul bones, which is extremely difficult.
Therefore, in order to continue the soul master's cultivation path, souls and battle armor naturally replaced the traditional soul ring and soul bone system.
Although battle armor is less versatile than soul bones, each set of battle armor is bound to the soul master personally, and only a few can be passed down.
However, the practicality of battle armor is extremely strong, and it can be said that it greatly raises the upper limit of the individual combat power of the soul master.
This is absolute individualism.
It is also inextricably linked to the inherent thinking cultivated by soul masters.
Especially in the last period of Peerless Tang Sect, traditional soul masters were gradually unable to cope with high-level soul guides, and the limitations of their martial soul avatars and soul skills were gradually exposed.
With the gradual integration of soul masters and soul guides, battle armor came into being, making up for the shortcomings of soul masters' martial souls, such as insufficient defense, poor soul power endurance, etc.
In addition, there is also the influence of the Douluo plane's autonomous intervention.
With the disappearance of the God Realm, in order to fight against the Abyss Plane with god-level strength, Douluo Continent needs to breed god-level power on its own, and the Tianduan Metal that has passed the test of heavenly tribulation is undoubtedly the genuine god-level material.
In Huo Yuhao's opinion.
If soul guide devices continue to develop normally, standard soul guide devices such as mechas will actually be the proper development route for soul guide technology.
Unlike battle armor, mecha is extremely versatile.
And then there is the reusable feature.
No wonder Mingdetang is so obsessed with the No. 1 mecha experiment.
Mingdetang has not failed to research soul guide armor for soul masters.
In the last Soul Master Competition, the secret weapon of the Sun and Moon Team was the Soul Guidance Full Body Armor, which could increase the user's offensive and defensive capabilities, and even eliminate the gap in cultivation.
Of course, soul guide armor and Dou Kai are not the same thing.
Simply put, soul guide armor is equivalent to wearing a layer of metal on the body. It is basically driven by the soul master by injecting soul power or by the strength of the body.
Therefore, in most cases, in order to achieve better offensive and defensive effects, soul guide armor will inevitably need to sacrifice its own flexibility.
Therefore, whether it is soul guide armor or humanoid soul guide device, they still belong to the category of external objects. They simply provide external force enhancement, which ultimately has its limits and the cost-effectiveness is not high.
The battle armor based on spiritual metal can not only be controlled with ease and communicate with the mind, but also has the effect of amplifying the martial soul and can even become a component of the martial soul.
This is the dimensionality reduction attack of spiritual metal, which fundamentally strengthens the martial soul.
The quality of rare metals can actually be preliminarily determined.
It is divided into five levels, namely rare metals, spiritual metals, spiritual metals, life metals, and god-level metals.
They correspond to the five realms of Hundred Forging, Thousand Forging, Spirit Forging, Soul Forging, and Heaven Forging respectively.
The emergence of spiritual metal may be just a small step for Huo Yuhao, but for the entire field of soul guides, it is a huge innovation.
However, Huo Yuhao estimated.
At present, it has basically stopped at spiritual metals.
It will take a long time to develop a mature and complete forging system like the subsequent soul forging or even sky forging.
For example, soul-forging-level life metal requires the cooperation of Ji Juechen's practice method of integrating the soul into the sword. It is definitely an accidental discovery and is impossible to replicate.
If I had known this, there would be a gap of 10,000 years between the Second and Third Divisions.
Although ten thousand years is the customary fixed time interval of the Douluo series, the difficulty can be seen from the fact that it took such a long time to develop a mature and complete forging system.
From another perspective, battle armor can also be regarded as metaphysical black technology.
If you rely solely on luck to test the forging techniques, you might achieve a breakthrough on the spot in Longchang, or you might make no progress for tens of thousands of years.
In short, there is still a long way to go if you want to truly develop the battle armor technology tree.
However, spiritual metals can be used for more than just battle armor.
The future soul guides are based on spiritual metals, and they have developed into battle armor, mecha, soul guide trains, soul guide planes, god-killing soul guide shells, and spaceships...
Very versatile.
The reason why Huo Yuhao was able to find a new way to achieve the spiritualization of specific metals in just a few months.
He also referred to the Blade of Guardian of Living Beings that was nurtured in his sea of consciousness.
In fact, the starting point of the Gold of Life is the level of life metal. Now that it has been deeply integrated with Huo Yuhao, it has reached the level of a divine weapon.
It may sound a bit Versailles to say it out loud.
It is also because the starting point of the living creature carving knife is too high that the research progress is slow.
You can't learn to fly without thinking about walking, right?
That would be a bit too ambitious.
That was why Huo Yuhao thought of giving the rare metals spirituality through the Fire of Creation first.
Although this method is only effective for specific rare metals with ice and fire attributes, it also has certain requirements on their original quality and is not universal.
All things are difficult at the beginning.
As long as you take the hardest step from nothing to something, the rest will be easy.
There is no need for meaningless trial and error. As long as you follow this successful template as a case, you can basically find the most suitable forging method quickly by slowly following the instructions.
It can be said that the time and cost of trial and error are greatly reduced.
Huo Yuhao planned to let Xuan Ziwen lead the subsequent research in this area.
In the field of scientific research, one person's power is ultimately limited.
Brainstorming is the best option.
The other party's sealing bottle project is also about to be completed.
Such a useful and wealthy eighth-level soul guide tool is simply a perfect researcher.
A soul engineer who can’t forge iron is not a good soul engineer.
Presumably, after hearing the concept of spiritual metal, the other party would be willing to work for Huo Yuhao. It’s a two-way street.
It is also because Xuan Ziwen and Huo Gua made the most basic version of the battle armor in the original work, the Ice God Armor.
Xuan Ziwen called it an unreplicable super humanoid soul guide.
Because the entire set of armor is made of Ice Divine Crystal.
As the Ice Pole Divine Crystal that accompanies the Ten Thousand Years Mysterious Ice Cave, although the Ice Pole Divine Crystal itself is not as valuable as the Ten Thousand Years Mysterious Ice Marrow, it is also a rare treasure.
It is the hardest ice-attribute metal and also the most flexible ice-attribute metal. It looks like a crystal, but it has the ductility of metal.
The Ice Pole Divine Crystal used to make the Ice Pole War God Armor is an extremely special existence. After countless years of natural evolution, it has already given birth to an ice spirit with a certain breath of life and emotions.
It can be said that the Ice Divine Crystal with ice spirit is the best conductor and amplifier of ice attribute soul power, and is a natural spiritual metal.
It is a pity that if you want to mine the Ice Divine Crystal without destroying its internal structure, you need to inject the soul power of ultimate ice.
Almost no one noticed this naturally spiritual metal, which greatly slowed down the development of spiritual forging.
It was only after the appearance of the Ice War God Armor that the soul masters and soul mentors of Douluo Continent noticed this field and initiated research.
What Huo Yuhao has to do now is to start this project in advance and conduct manual intervention to speed up the process.
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Xuan Ziwen had no doubt at all about Huo Yuhao's talent.
However, he could see that although Huo Yuhao also liked to study soul guides, his enthusiasm was similar to that of his martial soul training.
Or rather, he was just more interested in a specific field of soul guides.
For example, the spiritual network space.
It's a bit like making dumplings just for this dish of vinegar.
However, with Huo Yuhao's current soul power level, we cannot ask for more from him.
It's impossible to let a Soul King reach the level of a seventh or even eighth level soul engineer in advance, right?
Xuan Ziwen never doubted that Huo Yuhao could not become a top soul instructor while cultivating his martial soul.
He is the type who teaches students in accordance with their aptitude.
At the beginning, as an instructor, he was filling in the gaps left over from Huo Yuhao's studies at Shrek, and also taught him some of the most important theories of soul guides.
However, it took Huo Yuhao only a few weeks to absorb this knowledge, which shocked Xuan Ziwen completely.
After entering Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao would come to him with a lot of questions every day, and he would answer them one by one.
Such good days only lasted for a few months. Huo Yuhao's questions became fewer and fewer, and more and more tricky.
Xuan Ziwen even had to ask his own teacher for help on some issues, which was simply outrageous.
It was also because of the other party's amazing talent that Xuan Ziwen simply pulled him into his sealed milk bottle research team.
In the eyes of others, Huo Yuhao might have come here to gain experience and knowledge.
Only Xuan Ziwen knew that this was not the case.
It is said that the master can only lead you to the door, but the practice is up to you.
When it comes to Huo Yuhao, it seems a bit like he is going against Tiangang.
Especially the other party's understanding of various energies, whether it is soul power, original power, or even spatial power, Xuan Ziwen is inferior to him.
He also received a lot of useful inspiration from Huo Yuhao, which greatly advanced the research progress of sealed milk bottles.
And Huo Yuhao's idea of using soul power as an alternative energy source really hit Xuan Ziwen's target.
This also reaffirmed that the two people share the same ideals.
After Huo Yuhao guaranteed that he would be promoted to the Titled Douluo, Xuan Ziwen's thoughts also changed a little.
Simply creating some soul guide concepts and models can no longer satisfy his current pursuit of soul guides.
He wanted to go one step further and reach the level of a ninth or even tenth level soul engineer.
It is said that everyone's energy is limited, and the higher the level of cultivation, the more focused one needs to be to comprehend the profound knowledge.
But Xuan Ziwen felt that this law was completely ineffective against Huo Yuhao.
He is now full of curiosity about Huo Yuhao, especially about his research on the mysterious spiritual network space.
Ever since he personally experienced the magic of the spiritual network space, Xuan Ziwen has often felt lost and itchy, and can't stop wanting to learn more.
It’s just that Huo Yuhao did a very good job in concealing his purpose.
Even with Xuan Ziwen's ability in soul guides, he couldn't tell anything.
Whether it was through the wild questions that Huo Yuhao asked, or through his recent conventional research, there was no way to find out.
Arrived at Huo Yuhao’s dormitory.
"Tell me, what do you want from me?"
After finding a place to sit down, Xuan Ziwen looked at Huo Yuhao and said, "Are you finally willing to share the technology of the Spiritual Network Space with me?"
Because he is not from the Sun-Moon Empire, Xuan Ziwen has no wholehearted thoughts about Mingde Hall. The only thing that can arouse his interest in this world is soul guides.
Since he had already accepted Huo Yuhao's invitation, he was also ready to leave Mingde Hall and go to Shrek's Soul Transmission Tower.
As long as Huo Yuhao can wait for the task of sealing the milk bottles to be completed, he can go wherever he wants to shine.
“It’s another good thing.”
Huo Yuhao shook his head. "Even compared to the Spiritual Network Space, it is the technology that truly changes soul guides."
"Um?"
Xuan Ziwen's eyes lit up and he sat up straight, "Let me see!"
His interest was immediately aroused, and he was very curious about what kind of thing could receive such an evaluation from Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao did not say anything. He just took out a piece of extremely warm black metal with ice-blue patterns on its surface and emitting a chill from the storage soul guide and placed it on the table.
"Frost Heart Iron Essence? Ice Extreme Divine Crystal? None of them look like it..."
After Xuan Ziwen opened his mouth, he quickly shook his head to deny himself.
Then he pointed at the metal and asked, "Yuhao, can I pick it up and have a look?"
He had a hunch that this piece of metal was definitely not as simple as it appeared.
"certainly."
He turned the metal over and over in his hands to examine it, and Xuan Ziwen even used his soul power and mental power to conduct an in-depth investigation.
Finally, he came to a horrifying conclusion.
The internal structure of this unknown rare metal is very special, and its strength and soul power conductivity far exceed almost all rare metals currently available!
He could even sense a faint spirituality in it.
Is this really still a rare metal?
As if he had noticed Xuan Ziwen's doubts, Huo Yuhao started to explain:
"In fact, this was just ordinary cold iron essence at first. With my special soul skill, I forged it into a spiritual metal and sublimated it to produce special effects..."
This is the thousand-forged level spiritual metal that he specially prepared for Xuan Ziwen.
Don't take too big steps at once, take it one step at a time.
After explaining its origin and effects, Huo Yuhao also took out a more advanced spiritual metal as a reference.
He also emphasized that this was most likely replicable and did not even require his special soul skills.
Xuan Ziwen's initial confusion gradually turned into surprise, then shock, and finally undisguised enthusiasm.
"Such a method of turning decay into magic!!"
He stood up boldly, and a powerful wave of soul power suddenly surged out from his body.
The layman watches the excitement, while the expert watches the details.
If the emergence of spiritual metal is just the addition of a top-grade rare metal.
Well, spiritual metals are completely different. Rare metals that can fuse with the user's body are simply unheard of!
If it can be promoted on a large scale as Yu Hao said, this spiritual metal will definitely have a huge impact on the existing soul guide system!
It can even be said that the existing soul guide classification will not last long.
A professional soul guide must dare to draw conclusions.
He made such a guarantee with his vision as an eighth-level soul mentor!
Xuan Ziwen took two deep breaths, calmed himself down, and said slowly:
"You always come up with something new for me..."
