Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 296: A Little Test
Even though Chen Ming was very good at cultivating his Qi, he still had the urge to roll his eyes when he saw the fifth-level soul guide in his hand, which was said to be a top-notch product on the Sun-Moon Continent today.

He returned the level 5 soul guide to Xu Bai, who looked nostalgic and respectful, and asked Xu Bai to show him the basic textbook of soul guides. Then, with a snap of his fingers, the poisonous soul power changed and released, turning into a refreshing fragrance, awakening the guards and soul masters around him who were knocked unconscious by his aoe.

This move made Xu Bai so astonished that his opinion of Chen Ming was raised to a higher level. He even began to suspect that the person in front of him was a Soul Douluo-level expert.

Chen Ming was too lazy to care about such a terrifying thing. After telling Xu Bai not to say anything that shouldn't be said, he directly drove Xu Bai out of the room that belonged to Xu Bai, and started flipping through a basic book that was more than half a person's height at the table.

Chen Ming's mental power has been upgraded to divine consciousness, and seeing things is no longer a simple description of ten lines at a glance. Instead, he can scan almost everything with just a thought.

What Chen Ming called flipping through the book and reading it was actually thinking about the formation in the book while using his soul power to pick up a few pieces of metal from the table and start carving.

Because he had replenished a wave of goods (various metals) when he sent Lou Gao and Golden Crocodile Douluo to Gengxin City, the raw materials in Chen Ming's hands were fully able to support his basic training.

He had obtained the information of the first three levels of soul mentors when he was in Douluo Palace. After comparing it with the information of soul mentors of levels one to four that he had obtained from the Sun-Moon Continent, Chen Ming had a deep understanding of the soul mentor system.

The soul guides in Douluo Continent tend to be storage soul guides, and there is no research on attack and defense soul guides. However, the research on soul guides in Sun Moon Continent is more comprehensive, involving storage, attack, and defense.

Just these basic materials alone introduced in detail more than a hundred types of soul guide arrays. From ray guns to shields, they were divided into many attributes and various types. It even recorded the production method of soul guides such as fixed soul guide shells.

However, as basic textbooks, these books record a lot of formations, but they are just records. There are no detailed explanations and explanations of the principles and what to pay attention to in each place in these books. Instead, Xu Bai wrote a lot of principles and precautions in small words next to each soul guide and formation.

Although he didn't put too much thought into it, with Chen Ming's current mental strength and soul power control ability, he made several soul guide cores of different levels in just a few minutes.

The first-level ray gun core has one paralysis and one blast, and its power is equivalent to the ten-year soul skill of an ordinary quality martial soul master. One first-level shield, no attributes, manually triggered, and its defense can withstand one shot of the first-level ray gun.

One secondary ray gun core, burning attribute. One secondary shield core, gold attribute, manually triggered, can withstand two to three attacks from the same level of ray guns.

One third-level fixed-type soul guide cannon core and two third-level fixed-type soul guide cannon shell cores, both with explosive properties.

One level 4 storage soul guide core and one level 4 shield core.

After he did it himself, Chen Ming had a slightly different view of the soul guides of this era. Although it is absolutely indescribable to take it as the main training, but in fact, for low-level soul masters, soul guides are still a very good auxiliary means.

For low-level soul masters with only one or two soul rings, a level one or two ray gun and a level one or two shield soul guide are equivalent to giving them two extra soul skills. If they train well, it is normal to increase their combat power by half, even if it does not double.

Especially the soul guide shield. The second-level soul guide shield can actually withstand several soul skills of the second-ring great soul master or the third soul skill of the 30th-level soul master. The third-level shield can block the fourth soul skill of the soul lord. The fourth-level soul guide shield can even resist one or two thousand-year soul skills of the soul king.

You know, most of the soul skills of soul masters have a cooling time. Every soul skill that is offset can greatly determine the direction of the battle. The fixed soul guide shells are even more destructive.

Equipped with a shield and soul guide cannon, a level 30 soul master is also qualified to kill a level 50 soul king. And the best thing about soul guide cannon shells is that they can be stockpiled in large quantities in advance. It is indeed a must-have artifact for killing people above their level.

If Chen Ming could make a level 10 or 11 soul guide shell, then even if it was impossible to achieve the destructive power of razing the entire Shrek City to the ground in later generations, it would be possible to kill a demigod (the kind without a demigod status) if used well.

"It's not very useful in high-level combat, but if we equip low-level soul masters with it in large quantities and train them, we will get a powerful army." Chen Ming rubbed his temple and continued to mutter to himself.

"I now have the ability to plant a seed in ordinary people who don't have innate soul power. Through the practice, a young and middle-aged man can become a soul master in two to three years. My ability can also corrupt martial souls, making them evil to improve their quality, and allow martial souls to gain simple devouring abilities."

"The ability to devour does not necessarily require devouring humans or soul beasts. It can also improve a soul master's absorption of ordinary food and medicinal herbs. Even ordinary people can grow quickly as long as they are willing to train to death and have access to sufficient food."

"If we add it all up, we can create a legion of great soul masters in about five years. And if we add soul guides..."

Chen Ming didn't want to build such a legion to help him fight. He was mainly considering it for the sake of faith.

With his current ability, he could definitely form a team among the civilians who had no soul power but wanted to become soul masters. Because the number of civilians was large enough, he could choose those with the strongest will, the most hard work, and the strongest faith to transform them into soul masters, and then improve them little by little.

There doesn't need to be many, as a grassroots, level 30 is enough. This group of people can be used as a benchmark to attract civilians to join their beliefs, and they are also capable of defending their beliefs.

Chen Ming's idea is to select some of the most devout believers, the most determined and the most hardworking people to build a team of people with the strength of Soul Saints and equipped with level 6 soul guides as his own religious guards, just like the Spirit Hall, to help him deal with the conquered territory and expand the faith. Later, he will develop the two remaining continents.

After all, he couldn't do everything himself, could he? Gods were not cattle or horses, and occasionally appearing once or twice was the best option. If he did everything himself, it might have a negative effect.

After all, human hearts are something with an infinite gap between the highest and the lowest. Although Chen Ming never belittles them, he also never overestimates them.

Chen Ming thought for a while, then put away part of the soul guide core on the table, selected the first and second level ray guns and the first and second level shields to keep and build the outer shell.

After assembling the four soul guides, Chen Ming used his mental power to convey a message to Xu Bai, asking him to return to the house as he had something to talk to him about.

As the leader of the tribe and the strongest spirit master, Xu Bai's power in the tribe is absolute. Even if he didn't explain why people fainted just now, as long as he opened his mouth, people would actively forget about it.

Xu Bai, who was searching the entire tribe for beauties, fine wines, delicacies, and treasures to present to Chen Ming, shuddered when he heard Chen Ming's telepathic voice. Amid the puzzled looks of the guards, he quickly returned to the stone house and ordered the guards to guard outside the door.

(End of this chapter)