Douluo Continent: My Days in the Tang Sect

The barbecue party at the Soul Tower construction site was cozy, with milky-white soul guide lights illuminating the dark night.

The villagers used to look up and see the stars, and use the few rays of moonlight to identify the path on the ground, or do some handicrafts, or farm under the moon.

But now, a soul-guiding lamp, brighter and softer than the full moon, stands on the earth!
"Is this also a soul tool? I heard that soul tools are weapons used by soul masters?"

"Hey! You don't understand! This is a charging soul tool invented by Lord Eternal Frost Douluo! It's a revolutionary new product with a built-in soul tool battery! It no longer requires the soul master to input soul power in real time to drive it! This is a product of the new era!"

"Holy crap! How do you know so much, Erniu! You play cards with me every day, when did you become such a knowledgeable person? Be honest! Did you kidnap Erniu and pretend to be him?!"

"Pah! You idiot! I was at the village chief's house listening to him read that... what's that Chamber of Commerce newspaper?! That's what it said!"

"That's good, you scared the hell out of me! I thought you'd left me behind to become a scholar! Who am I supposed to throw away all the cow dung I pick up when I'm tired from plowing the fields?"

"Damn it!"

Various voices of discussion were heard under the milky white light.

An elderly woman stared at the Soul Guiding Lamp with surprise in her eyes. She raised her hand and grasped it twice, as if trying to touch the soft light. The next moment, a smile appeared on her face.

"Great, great! From now on, we won't have to lean against the oil lamp to spin thread at night anymore, and we won't have to worry about starting a fire!"

Several team members carried out several large boxes and placed them in front of the villagers.

“Old village chief, you’re in luck! We happen to have a batch of farming tools produced by the Aodu Chamber of Commerce. The brigade thinks your cured meat is delicious, so they want to exchange some of ours for some of your cured meat.”

One of the team members, with a warm smile on his face, put his arm around the village chief and offered him a cigarette.

"How can that be! It's just cured meat, it's not worth much! If you want it, we'll just give it to you!"

"Hey! We're exchanging value for demand! We've all contributed our labor, and this is because the brigade really appreciates you, old village chief. This is the brigade's appreciation; I've worked for years and never even caught their attention!"

After the team member launched into a long, rambling explanation of "values" and "the appreciation of important figures," the old village chief gratefully accepted the large boxes.

The village chief pushed open the box, and a hoe with a high-tech feel came into view.

"A hoe?! And a charged soul tool version at that?! How can this be used?"

The team member glanced at it and then said, "Old village chief, this thing is actually worthless in our eyes. It's just a simple vibration core array made of low-grade alloy. In our hall, it wouldn't even qualify for the entry test."

Upon hearing this, the villagers breathed a sigh of relief and acknowledged the "exchange transaction."

Ye Nanxiao lay on a chair on a piece of floating ice, watching the excited villagers. They looked at the farming tools in their hands with eyes as burning as if they were gazing at a lover.

The team member who had tricked the village chief into making the deal returned to Ye Nanxiao's side. "Captain, they have accepted the idea of ​​bartering."

“In the early stages of a major reform, you sometimes have to be a little disdainful. What they treasure is just a tablecloth in our world. The popularization of charged soul tools is not so easy. To break down the barrier between commoners and soul masters, you can only do it by slowly boiling the frog in water.”

"However, if they want to use them, they still need to exercise more and hone their own qi and blood so that they can better use these civilian versions of soul tools and break down class barriers in the world one by one."

After listening to Ye Nanxiao's words, the team member looked at the village chief and others who were carefully holding their soul-guided hoes in the field. He nodded slowly, as if he understood why Ye Nanxiao did this.

Some things that they take for granted are often treasured by outsiders. Ye Nanxiao quietly watched the villagers' excited faces, his eyes burning with a flame of faith under the campfire.

He knew that what he was doing was changing the rules of Douluo Continent.

The strong are not limited to Soul Masters and Soul Instructors, nor are they limited to Soul Masters with powerful Martial Souls and Soul Power.

Ordinary people can also, through their own efforts, escape the fate of being like ants and have their own light.

Only by expanding the scope of power to all of humanity can we increase our chances of defeating the Crimson Domain, the mastermind behind the Abyss World, and these chances will continue to increase from now on.

Just then, Ye Nanxiao's soul communication device, which was hanging on his waist, rang. He glanced at it, then flicked his toe, sending himself and his bed flying away.

The team member watched Ye Nanxiao's departing figure. He didn't know what this supreme powerhouse who saved the world was thinking, but he knew that everything Ye Nanxiao did was for all of humanity.

"Hello? Moshi Moshi, who is this?" Ye Nanxiao took out a silencing bead and connected the soul communication.

"Master! It's me! Your chief mecha master!"

Xiao Hongchen's voice came through the soul communication device.

Ye Nanxiao's brow twitched. "Good heavens, the communication lines were just set up today, and you're already calling? Let me make this clear first, I have no business with funding for the mecha project! Go find your sister!"

"No, my dear brother-in-law and mentor! You know the project still has many shortcomings! Funding shortages are a common occurrence!"

Laughing at the world, I have a bellyful of bitterness to pour out.

With the end of the Abyss War, Xiao Hongchen successfully preserved the main body of the Sword Dragon Soul Guidance Mech and obtained a large amount of combat data.

It was the collection of data that led to a new breakthrough in the development of Soul Guide Mechs.

Previously, Ye Nanxiao's first soul-guided mecha, "Sword Dragon," was powerful, but its control system had a major flaw—it had to rely on Xiao Hongchen's liquid metallization ability to connect to the drive system. Once Xiao Hongchen's soul power was insufficient, or the liquid metal was impacted, the mecha would go out of control.

In order to improve the Sword Dragon, Ye Nanxiao had previously devoted most of his time to the mecha research and development department.

The R&D department is located in a valley on the outskirts of Mingdu City, surrounded by mountains. The quiet environment is suitable for focused research and development, as well as for taking the mechs out for a spin, firing a shot, or blowing up a small hill.

Xiao Hongchen also spent almost every day in the R&D department, working with Ye Nanxiao to test the connection between liquid metal and the drive system using the special nature of his own soul skills, recording the data from each test, and looking for directions to improve the physical control system.

"The prototype of the cockpit is complete. When are you coming back to be the first pilot?"

After listening to the words from the soul communication device, Ye Nanxiao silently dispelled the ice bed beneath him, took a lollipop from his pocket, and bit it into his mouth.

"It's just around the corner!"

After Ye Nanxiao finished speaking, a dimensional seal materialized in his hand.

"Xiao Deng, open the door for me!" (End of Chapter)