Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 502: Silver Dragon King + Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm = ?

Chen Ming also did not forget those Soul Masters who were still stationed in various industries in Rising Sun City. He planned to check on the results of these people and then select some of them to come back to Douluo Continent for further study and to participate in the research of Soul Guidance Mechs and Battle Armor.

To his surprise, Chen Ming was taken aback by what he saw.

In the years since he left, the Soul Masters of Rising Sun City have formed a secret society. Centered around the Soul Masters originally chosen by Chen Ming, they have created a shadow government within Rising Sun City, the capital of the Rising Sun Empire, whose style is extremely out of place in the current Douluo world.

Because there was a powerful figure above them who held the power of life and death, and because they shared a common secret, the group that was originally fighting amongst themselves gradually showed signs of unity under pressure, and gradually used this to gain more benefits.

These Soul Masters colluded to form several factions, outwardly targeting each other, but in reality using their authority to collect various precious Soul Guidance Device technologies and secretly share them. The younger generation even intermarried, forming a complex web.

This shadow government is even preparing to interfere in the succession struggle among the princes within the Rising Sun Empire's royal family, which is a clear indication that it is planning to sideline the country.

If several decades had passed, Chen Ming would have thought this pace of development was quite normal. The problem is, only a few years have passed! How could these people, without any instruction, have already established a shadow government within a feudal empire and begun to gradually undermine imperial power?

If these people weren't all on his side, Chen Ming would have really wanted to curse them as scoundrels. It's so hard to learn good things, but they can easily learn bad ones. How did a bunch of technicians end up getting involved in politics?

However, thanks to the expansion of this group, Chen Ming also gained a lot of useful information.

Some soul guidance technologies that were originally expected to take decades to develop were completed within a few years. Various soul guidance formations were also collected, recorded, and expanded. Some hidden soul guidance technologies from various families were also gradually improved through internal exchanges, further expanding the breadth and universality of soul guidance technologies.

As for various rare metals.
This group not only monopolized the source, but also tried every means to pry open the door of the national treasury and smuggled out a lot of treasures.

Furthermore, leveraging the close relationship between the Rising Sun Empire and the Bright Moon Empire, this group secretly plundered a considerable amount of soul tool technology from the Bright Moon Empire. Although they operated as a secret society, they not only didn't fall behind in technological development, but actually accelerated it considerably.

Chen Ming really didn't know what to say to this group of people. He could only reward them according to their contributions after taking the items. Those who needed to have their lives extended were given new life, and those who needed to have their impurities removed were removed. He also picked out some people who weren't too ambitious and took them back to Douluo Continent for further training.

The development of faith power on the Sun Moon Continent was progressing smoothly, providing more faith than the Douluo Continent, which had only been developing for a year. However, since nearly 70% of the world's fortune was concentrated on the Douluo Continent in this era, Chen Ming only took a short stroll through the gathering place and demonstrated a miracle.

Within the settlement, the Blue Silver Emperor, Alan, remained unchanged, simply observing humanity's development. Meanwhile, the 100,000-year-old Explosive Bear King, who had been sent there as a henchman, was gradually adapting to his new life.

Soul beasts have very long lifespans; even insect-type soul beasts often have lifespans of several decades, hundreds or even thousands of times longer than their normal counterparts. Furthermore, because the development of the Douluo World has always been very slow, soul beasts are quite insensitive to time.

A year is a long time for humans, but for spirit beasts, it's equivalent to only one or two days in human terms. For spirit beasts with long lifespans of 100,000 years, it might be just a blink of an eye.

Alan was still wondering why Chen Ming had come back so soon after leaving, and why he was about to take away the Soul Master he had only left there recently. The Exploding Bear King even worried that Chen Ming had changed his mind and was planning to turn him into a Soul Ring or Soul Bone.

In short, it seems that they were completely unaware of the changes happening around them.

After bringing those who should be taken away to the Sun Moon Continent and those who should be taken away back to the Douluo Continent, Chen Ming gradually began to try to develop Soul Guidance Technology, attempting to introduce it into the development of the Douluo World tens of thousands of years ahead of schedule.

The soul guidance technology that Chen Ming currently possesses is completely incomparable to that of the Sun and Moon Continent ten thousand years from now. However, relying on the blacksmith system that modifies materials, soul guidance technology has embarked on a path of overwhelming power and incredible speed.

While using formations, Soul Masters would also start to consider having blacksmiths forge a metal whose properties matched their imagination, and then further enhance it by leveraging the metal's inherent characteristics to create a Soul Guidance Device.

Is the transmission power of the core formation temporarily unable to be increased?
Then I'll use a better metal material to supplement it! My metal wire has a higher conductivity than the soul-guiding array, right?

Is the soul tool not strong enough?

Special metals were added! The strength of composite materials is just that high!

The special abilities of soul tools are useless?

This metal with special properties will be used to make up for it!

Previously, Soul Masters adapted to metal; now, with the help of Blacksmiths, it is metal that adapts to Soul Masters. Although this development direction deviates from the normal path of Soul Masters, no Soul Master would reject this unique development path.

Whoever is useful is on the right path, and whoever is useless is on the wrong path. Academic debates have always been like this; apart from a very few stubborn and mentally unstable individuals, no one wants to be labeled a heretic.

With advancements in materials science, the development of products such as guided missiles has accelerated rapidly.

Although the overall development of soul guidance technology is only just beginning to touch the edge of level eight soul guidance devices, if they are willing to spend money and extra effort to forge metals, the soul guidance masters under Chen Ming can even create level eight soul guidance cannons that can threaten Super Douluo.

If we were to be even more extravagant, invest more, and spend even more time, we could completely rely on soul guidance technology and a massive amount of special metals to create a special soul guidance shell that could unleash a strike equivalent to that of a peerless Douluo, which is equivalent to the power of a level nine soul guidance shell in later generations.

As for close-combat soul tools, which were originally developed based on materials science, they can be forged into powerful equipment with strength comparable to the souls of beast soul masters at the Title Douluo level. A Soul Douluo-level beast soul master wielding such a weapon could directly confront an ordinary Title Douluo.

If combined with the current rudimentary form of soul-guided armor, it could allow an ordinary Soul Master at the Soul Douluo level to unleash combat power surpassing that of a typical Title Douluo. However, due to cost and technological limitations, it cannot be deployed on a large scale.

Furthermore, due to the fact that the God of Forging was imparting special techniques and otherworldly forging methods to Lou Gao during his divine trials, Soul Guidance Technology was gradually showing signs of overtaking others. Within a hundred years at most, the technological level of Soul Guidance Devices could be directly raised to nearly the level of the Douluo Continent era, ten thousand years later; in reality, implementation would only be faster.

The sealed milk bottle, which was originally developed in the later part of the Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect storyline, was completed ten thousand years ahead of schedule thanks to advancements in materials science. It can directly store the soul power of soul masters in batches.

Under Chen Ming's guidance, some Soul Masters developed a prototype of a steam engine, and boldly replaced the fuel needed for combustion with a special array that converted soul power into heat. They even created a unique soul-guided steam engine using sealed milk bottles. Subsequently, they began to manufacture soul-guided electrical devices using the array.

While still far from full civilianization, infrastructure has been significantly improved. Settlements can provide free hot water to the general public 24/7, and public bathhouses can operate for 18 hours a day. Guide lights can also be manufactured along the roads using technology similar to that used in sealed baby bottles.

On fixed trunk lines, soul-guided vehicles travel, transporting everyone to their desired destinations at low prices. Soul-guided landline telephones are under research, and it is expected that basic fixed line laying will be completed within a few years.

With the support of new technologies, the territory as a whole has begun to develop into a city like the capital of the two great empires.

A large influx of merchants brought all sorts of goods, and at the same time, they purchased local specialties and rare spatial soul tools from Chen Ming's territory at high prices, driving the city's economic development.

According to estimates from professionals provided by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, the entire territory could enter a truly profitable phase in at most two or three years.

Keep in mind that this was done even though Chen Ming didn't care about the cost of expansion at all, only wanted to improve his living standards and quality of life, and even tried to reduce or exempt taxes in every possible way.

(After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is paying for it all, so naturally they don't feel the pinch since it's not their own money.)
After returning to Douluo Continent, Chen Ming began to improve his strength. In one year, his Evil God clone had acquired two 100,000-year spirit rings, both obtained through Ah Yin's abilities from top-tier 100,000-year spirit beasts with special abilities and bloodlines found in the corners of Douluo Continent.

Chen Ming did not absorb the two 100,000-year-old soul bones dropped by the two soul beasts. Instead, he handed them over to Dugu Yan to absorb and improve her strength. He also wanted her to hone her own abilities in preparation for absorbing the Azure Bull Python's soul ring and beginning her dragon transformation.

Currently, Chen Ming's first martial soul, the Scorpion King, or rather the Poison God, is ready to absorb its ninth spirit ring at any time, breaking through its limits and directly reaching the level of a demigod. His second martial soul, the Dragon Ascension Sword, also has six empty slots that can be used to attach spirit rings for further enhancement.

Thor and the God of Destruction have completed six of their seven trials, while the Angel God has completed five, currently stuck on the sixth trial: eliminating a sufficient number of evil spirit masters. Although Chen Ming's soul power has not increased further due to the limitations of the world's rules, this dormant power is still preserved within him, ready to be instantly fused once his ninth soul ring returns to its place.

His immense accumulation of power has blurred the line between him and godhood, making him a potential god at any moment. Everything is moving in a positive direction.

However, just as Chen Ming was performing miracles in the pioneering area, showing his face to the people while checking the progress of various aspects and whether there were any bad apples among his subordinates, a silver-haired little girl among the people on both sides of the road suddenly caught Chen Ming's attention.

She was a girl who looked to be around thirteen or fourteen years old, with long, silver-white hair that reached her shoulders, and reddish-brown eyes. Her cheeks were slightly chubby, and she looked very pretty, but for some reason, she didn't seem very smart.

In the instant their eyes met, Chen Ming felt a slight vibration emanating from his second martial soul, the Ascending Dragon Sword, as if the power within it was resonating with something it sensed.

The unprecedented vibrations jolted the sleeping dragon and tiger inside the sword awake. Had Chen Ming not suppressed them, they would have appeared directly behind him and entered battle mode.

With his naked eye alone, Chen Ming couldn't see anything amiss about the girl; he could only vaguely sense a pure and noble silver dragon aura emanating from her. But Chen Ming's methods of observation went far beyond just his eyes; his special abilities related to his eyes were far from insignificant.

The third eye quietly opened, and under the Heavenly Eye, nothing could hide.

In another perspective, Chen Ming saw a phantom behind the girl, a giant dragon hundreds of meters long with silver-white scales.

The enormous figure instantly reminded Chen Ming of the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, but upon closer inspection, Chen Ming discovered that the dragon's phantom was too illusory, and the details did not resemble the real Silver Dragon King at all.

The dragon shadow behind the girl seemed unstable and unreal, somewhat as if it had been pieced together by some means. Upon closer inspection, ten dimmed golden rings could be seen on the dragon's body.

Furthermore, from the perspective of a dragon like the Silver Dragon, which excels in elemental abilities and is considered the most beautiful dragon race, the dragon shadow behind the girl appears somewhat bulky, some scales look fragile as if they were newly born, and the proportions of her limbs are not quite harmonious.
It's like a silkworm that's had plastic surgery?

"Hiss, could this be the Silver Dragon King possessing the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm?" Chen Ming thought with some surprise, but he didn't dare to continue using his spiritual abilities to observe in detail.

After all, the Silver Dragon King was a product of the Dragon God's split. Considering the possibility that the Dragon God might have a grand plan that no one could understand, Chen Ming dared not rashly try to probe the Silver Dragon King's true nature without preparation.

Feeling Chen Ming's gaze, the little girl in the crowd immediately showed an excited smile.

"Hehehe, yes, hehehe, that's it!"

"Indeed, gold shines wherever it is. I, Silver Dream Ice Silkworm, finally escaped from the Star Dou Great Forest and came here to find that so-called thing related to the gods, and then go back to take revenge on those people!"

Feeling the dragon energy emanating from Chen Ming that made her instinctively want to get closer, the girl was extremely excited.

Just as Chen Ming had thought, this girl was not the real Silver Dragon King, but the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm who was supposed to start Huo Gua's magnificent life in the original timeline of the Peerless Tang Sect ten thousand years later.

However, unlike the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm in the original timeline, this girl who considers herself the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is not the true Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

Within the spiritual sea of ​​the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, ten golden points of light hung high like ten enormous suns. In the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's perception, these ten golden points of light were manifestations of her own cultivation. However, in reality, a hidden outsider was mixed within these ten points of light.

(End of this chapter)