Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 364 Industrial Flavor Soul Guidance System (4K)

For a considerable period afterward, Chen Ping's life returned to normal.

During the day, he studies soul tools; at night, he researches spatial transformation and necromancy, and incidentally assists Ilex in continuing his experimental project on awakening his necromancy life spirit.

Three months later, Chen Ping and the others received some very exciting news: they, the Shrek students, would finally be able to study at Mingde Hall.

This excited Chen Ping quite a bit. Of course, his excitement wasn't for the experimental table that could be used in Mingde Hall, or for many other seemingly strange technologies.

When Mo Fang talked about these things, he didn't hold back at all. He explained how stacking several low-level core magic arrays could create a high-level magic array, and how special-structured defensive soul tools could evenly distribute the force of an attack to various locations, maximizing the damage-bearing capacity of the defensive soul tool.

Mo Fang taught these little tricks, which would be closely guarded secrets to others, without the slightest hesitation, making Chen Ping even have a vague feeling that Professor Mo might be terminally ill.

Given his willingness to impart all his knowledge, it's hard for Chen Ping not to have doubts!

But the key point is that, whether it's Chen Ping's subtle hints or his observations of Professor Mo Fang, this old man can live for at least another thirty years. Although he's already over seventy, he's still energetic and has a good appetite.

This is strange. If this old man really wanted to choose a successor, he could have waited another ten years for a suitable successor to appear and then taught him personally. Why is he making it seem like he's entrusting his son to someone else now?

Just because he deliberately tricked Jing Hongchen?
Chen Ping couldn't figure out the reason, so he could only bury this doubt in his heart for the time being and follow Professor Mo toward the Mingde Hall.

For him right now, the most urgent task is to enter Mingde Hall and find out exactly where the Snow Emperor's embryo is located. If he can also take the first experimental subject with him, that would be even better.

Don't pass up a free opportunity to make money.

After he leaves Mingde Hall, he can continue to seek out Professor Mo to observe the practical application of the other party's linked soul tool in the soul tool trial field of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

Mingde Hall is located in the heart of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. On the surface, it is just an inconspicuous building.

But once inside, Chen Ping discovered that the scale of Mingde Hall was far greater than he had imagined.

Upon entering the ordinary building, which occupied less than 500 square meters, Mo Fang led Chen Ping through three checkpoints. Some were guarded by Soul Masters, while others were directly protected by Soul Guidance Devices.

Upon entering the building, Chen Ping saw twenty elevators arranged in an arc. Each elevator had a metallic feel and could accommodate more than ten people.

Mo Fang led Chen Ping into an elevator and scanned his identity card onto a soul tool. Then, he reached out and grasped the metal pillar in the center of the elevator, channeling his soul power into it. The elevator immediately began to slowly descend.

Stepping out of the Soul Guidance Elevator, the densely packed, neatly arranged five thousand Soul Guidance Master experimental tables gave Chen Ping a tremendous shock.

The scale of Mingde Hall is even larger than many large-scale modern workshops he has seen on Earth!
Looking at the researchers, each wearing the standard uniform of Mingdetang, who were bent over their work at the experimental tables, Chen Ping realized for the first time the source of the Sun Moon Empire's strength.

Although only about half of the five thousand experimental tables in Mingde Hall were in normal use at this time, and the other half were reserved early on as redundancy for researchers who were conducting experiments outside and might return at any time, this was already terrifying enough.

Throughout the entire Sun Moon Empire, each generation, aged fifteen to forty-five, is in their prime, possessing both robust bodies and sharp, capable minds, and is engaged in what they excel at.

These two thousand-plus people, who represent almost the entire Sun Moon Empire's field of soul tools, willingly buried themselves hundreds of meters underground, like worker ants in an anthill, methodically producing the fruits of their intellectual labor.

The industrial age of the Sun and Moon Empire is almost complete!

Chen Ping took a deep breath. Compared to the Douluo Three Kingdoms era, where the production of various soul tools was still in the small-scale agricultural economy and resembled a handicraft workshop, the Sun Moon Empire's soul tool production had already begun to touch upon industrialization.

Of course, this is far from true industrialization; at best, it can be considered an industrialized soul tool manufacturing system.

After all, although the soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire already had high-precision soul guidance lathes that integrated processing modes such as punching, molding, cutting, grinding, and pressing, they still made soul tools by themselves in small workshops. At most, they just replaced the hand-rubbing process with laboratory table processing.

This is why Chen Ping said that the Sun Moon Empire was merely an industrialized soul tool manufacturing system.

Chen Ping did not believe that the reason why the Sun Moon Empire had not pointed out the industrial assembly line was simply because it had not thought of it. One or two people might not have thought of it, but could it be that the two thousand or so smartest people in the entire Mingde Hall could not have thought of this?

Looking at the more than two thousand soul-guided experimental tables in the distance, which were completely dark because no one was present, Chen Ping already had a vague answer in his mind.

Soul power is not a highly efficient energy source that can be continuously supplied by simply pulling a wire from a power plant.

To bring the production of soul tools into an industrialized, assembly-line era, the Sun Moon Empire must first master the ability to reliably acquire free-floating primordial energy from the world through industrialized assembly lines.

The reason why such a huge Mingde Hall has 24-hour uninterrupted lighting, a fresh air system, and more than 20 soul-guided elevators that can be raised and lowered with the push of a button is likely due to the fact that it requires several groups of hundreds of soul masters working in three shifts to provide power.

Without these human batteries that replenish the various devices of Mingde Hall with the soul power they absorb, Mingde Hall, located hundreds of meters underground, would not be able to operate normally at all.

This is also why Mingdetang can only possess an industrial-style soul guide production system.

Five thousand soul-guided experimental tables would require at least three groups, each with three to five thousand Soul Masters at the Soul Venerable level, working in three shifts every day to power the Mingde Hall experimental tables, in order to achieve a truly streamlined operation.

Just by supporting this group of people, Mingde Hall has to burn enough gold soul coins every year to buy half a 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo.

But this is just one Mingde Hall. To replicate this industrial production line, we need more energy supply teams of this scale.

It is almost impossible.

The limits of human strength are several orders of magnitude greater than the strength in the industrial field. The rumored limit of strength for a god in the Douluo Continent is one million jin (approximately 500 kg), which translates to no more than five hundred tons.

Back in Chen Ping's hometown on Blue Star, a boat of this tonnage would only be considered a slightly larger vessel. Even slightly larger fishing boats would be in the thousands of tons, and cruise ships that easily reach tens of thousands of tons would weigh over a hundred tons just by dropping a few anchors.

This is just a comparison with the most powerful gods and the tip of the iceberg of industrial system figures, let alone ordinary little soul masters with lower soul power levels?
The soul power produced by these human dry batteries is barely enough to maintain the ventilation and lighting systems. Even the soul guidance experimental table requires manual power supply from the experimenters when making the soul guidance device. How could it possibly enter a production line mode?
However, this also gave Chen Ping a lot of inspiration.

Therefore, to truly achieve industrialized mass production of various low-tech, inexpensive soul tools, one must have cheap rare metal ores, which Shrek Academy has already achieved.

After all, Elder Xuan's head was still a bit dazed from all the banging he'd made during this time, and the amount of crude ore mined from the various mountains of the Star Dou Forest was absolutely remarkable.

To prevent Xuanzi from actually crashing into the mine, Xian Lin'er, who remained at the academy, combined the engineering blueprints of the Sun Moon Empire drawn by Huo Yuhao in the first batch, and drew inspiration from the design of Xuanzi's Taotie Divine Ox, to create a batch of Soul Guided Mining Machines with levels generally between three and five, thus freeing Xuanzi from his predicament.

As for the second point, there must be cheap and stable soul power energy as the cornerstone to drive the operation of various soul tools. It is definitely not feasible to rely on soul masters as human dry batteries like Mingde Hall.

Although there are many low-level Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent, even if they are ten times more numerous than the Sun Moon Empire, the Soul Power they can provide is only one order of magnitude higher than that of the Sun Moon Empire, which is far from meeting the basic requirements for starting industrialization. Moreover, the number of Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent is far less than that.

Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin.
When it comes to cheap soul energy, Chen Ping immediately thinks of solar energy. And when it comes to solar energy, one cannot ignore Starry Sky Douluo, the creator of the Sun and Moon Needle and the Sun Needle.

Both of the opponent's soul tools have built-in charging effects, and they are charged by absorbing the radiance of the sun and moon. If we can get our hands on this technology, we might be able to make a difference in the matter of cheap soul power energy.

"Kid, are you stunned by the scene before you?"

Seeing Chen Ping staring blankly into space, unable to calm down for a long time, Mo Fang patted Chen Ping's shoulder with amusement.

Chen Ping then came to his senses and followed Mo Fang to his own soul tool experiment table, numbered 1688.

After leading Chen Ping to sit down at the lab table, Mo Fang left.

Chen Ping's speculation about the relationship between Mo Fang and Jing Hongchen was correct.

The other party doesn't even have a dedicated laboratory inside Mingde Hall; all their research is conducted in the laboratory in their own teaching building number six.

Chen Ping looked around at the other people nearby. At this moment, He Caitou and the others also arrived.

However, they were assigned to the same remote and peripheral locations as Chen Ping. If it weren't for his mental energy helping him scan the area, Chen Ping wouldn't have been able to spot them.

But soon, Chen Ping's gaze faltered as he saw a young man of about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, carrying a dark iron bar that looked no different from a fire poker.

The young man's face looked unhealthy and pale. His long black hair was simply tied back with a headband. His eyes were expressionless as he leaned against the passageway on one side of Mingde Hall.

Chen Ping was stunned when he saw this. Wasn't this Ji Juechen? This guy didn't even have a Soul Master badge. How did he get into Mingde Hall?

Even a fool could guess that this guy was probably here to stake out Mingde Hall, and he wondered which unlucky soul master had been targeted by him.

As long as he wasn't the one being ambushed, Chen Ping didn't care about Ji Juechen's actions. However, looking at the other party's so-called fire poker made of meteorite iron, Chen Ping felt a bit itchy, like a cat's paw.

He was a little curious about what kind of material the meteorite iron sword in Ji Juechen's hand was made of. Although it was smashed by Huo Gua with the Great Cold Snowless Sword after a few battles in the original work, who knew what the effect would be after it was forged a hundred times, a thousand times, or even spiritually forged?

Ji Juechen was naturally unaware that someone had already set their sights on the meteorite iron sword that had been with him for over twenty years, even though he had only been at Mingde Hall for a short time. However, the sudden chill made Ji Juechen instinctively hug the meteorite iron sword to his chest.

Since blocking people at the entrance of Mingde Hall would have the same effect, he decided to go outside and block them anyway, as he always felt there was something dirty inside Mingde Hall.

Holding the user manual for the experimental table that Mo Fang had given him, Chen Ping ostensibly studied how to use the table, but in reality, he was secretly controlling his mental energy to leave his body.

Let me see where the first experimental subject and the 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo are kept.
Chen Ping's spiritual power was like a small snake, recklessly burrowing and twisting beneath Mingde Hall, and soon found a small room that resembled the target location.

However, his mental strength only allowed him to scan a corner of that room.

Feeling the solid, rare metal wall, at least half a meter thick, that his mental energy scanned, Chen Ping nodded.

This might be the location where Experiment Subject No. 1 was stored?
Feeling the thick, secret chamber that was even deeper than the one buried in Mingde Hall, Chen Ping nodded slightly before switching his mental energy to a vertical scan.

Then, his mental scan detected himself.

Well, that's not quite right. It should be said that his mental scan reached Jing Hongchen's office, and that old man Jing Hongchen was silently watching what the Shrek Academy students were doing through a soul guidance screen.

At this moment, Jing Hongchen's expression was quite serious, and Lin Jiayi next to him was still saying something, so Jing Hongchen did not feel the mental energy fluctuations that Chen Ping was spreading with extreme caution.

Even so, after confirming that the 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo was on the shelf in Jing Hongchen's office, Chen Ping quickly withdrew his mental energy.

Next, we'll see when those penniless bastards from the Body Sect will dare to raid Mingde Hall's hideout for a hundred million gold soul coins.
Chen Ping chuckled inwardly. If Jing Hongchen had known that the Body Sect had dug all the way from outside the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy to Mingde Hall just for a 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo worth 100 million gold soul coins, he probably wouldn't have fought so fiercely with the Body Sect.

After all, the economic losses that these people caused to Mingde Hall during their visit were far more than 100 million gold soul coins.

All I can say is that Jing Hongchen is used to a good life and spends money extravagantly. Every year, he handles tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of gold soul coins. It's hard to imagine what a sect with no money but plenty of strength would do.

(End of this chapter)