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

Chapter 365 The System Fails, Old Man Yi Steps In! (4K)

At this moment, Jing Hongchen was certainly unaware that two groups of people were already eyeing his 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to remain so calm while listening to Lin Jiayi's work report.

Lin Jiayi stood beside Jing Hongchen and asked, "Master, are you really going to let him study here indefinitely?"

"This Chen Ping already has Mo Fang's guidance. Mo Fang has always been unwilling to bow down to you, Hall Master, so he probably won't hold back when teaching Chen Ping. He's learned a lot from Mingde Hall."

Jing Hongchen was well aware of this. He had invited Mo Fang to teach the students out of desperation, but his intention was purely to use someone else to do his dirty work.

Taking advantage of Mo Fang's displeasure with him, he could casually mentor Chen Ping and muddle through the next two and a half years. Mo Fang would think he had gotten his revenge, but in reality, he would have wasted two and a half years of Chen Ping's study time.

When he spoke to Shrek Academy, he also gave them an explanation: "I've already invited a level nine Soul Master to teach your students, isn't that enough sincerity?"
However, this seemingly ingenious plan was clearly unsuccessful, especially after the bullying incident three months ago. Mo Fang's initiative to support Chen Ping showed that the other party had already seen through his tactics.

Jing Hongchen waved his hand and said, "Forget it, he has to learn something, otherwise how can we explain it to Shrek Academy? Let him go and learn. Can one person's strength change a war?"

"Have someone keep an eye on his actions, but as long as he doesn't do anything too outrageous, you don't need to pay him any attention."

"Instead of paying attention to this guy, He Caitou is a more worthy target of attention. He's a level six Soul Master with an extremely high talent for fixed-installation Soul Tools. We should slow down his learning progress as much as possible, and not let him get too carried away."

"Yes."

Lin Jiayi agreed.

After disconnecting the mental energy probe, Chen Ping focused his attention primarily on the soul-guiding experimental table in front of him. He followed the instructions in the manual and began experimenting with the table's functions.

This seemingly simple experimental table is actually a multi-functional workbench.

Almost any processing method that an ordinary person in any industrial field can think of can be easily handled on this large table, which is five meters long and three meters wide.

It can be said that as long as there are enough materials, it is not impossible to make a level seven or eight soul tool on this table.

Even with just this simple, standard-sized table, the technology and sophistication are already beyond anything Shrek Academy can match.

With mines, technology, and talent, Chen Ping had no idea what Xu Tianran in the original novel was so anxious about.

If he had delayed his invasion by another thirty or fifty years, he could have easily flattened the Douluo Continent simply by brute force.

Anyway, Huo Yuhao had probably ascended to immortality by then, and no one could stop the Sun Moon Empire from unifying. So why cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult?
They thought they could take care of the Holy Spirit Cult, but in reality, the Holy Spirit Cult was just a bag of excrement in a torn plastic bag. You have to be careful when using it, let alone disposing of it.

They really aren't afraid of accidentally splashing themselves with water.

When Chen Ping and Mo Fang, both exhausted, walked out of Mingde Hall and arrived at the Soul Guidance Trial Grounds, it was already completely dark outside.

"How are you feeling?" Mo Fang asked with a smile.

Chen Ping blurted out, "It's alright, it feels like evening just flew by."

Mo Fang looked at him with some surprise and said, "Not bad, it seems you're integrating very quickly."

"Since you seem to be in good spirits, let's go."

As he spoke, Mo Fang led Chen Ping into the Soul Guidance Trial Grounds of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

At this moment, violent roars echoed throughout the Soul Guidance Trial Grounds.

Chen Ping watched helplessly as the two five-ring Soul Kings on the field activated the Fortress Battle Strategy almost simultaneously, then engaged in a fierce exchange of cannon fire, ultimately being blasted away one after the other.

Well, it seems we've encountered a Stand of the same type.

The fortress tactic is indeed effective against other types of Soul Masters. Regardless of whether you can win or not, you can at least make your opponent suffer by unleashing a round of damage right from the start.

However, when facing an opponent who also uses the fortress strategy, it really comes down to whoever strikes faster; the one who strikes faster has a greater chance of winning.

However, based on the battle just now, the speeds of both sides should be about the same.

Chen Ping was speechless. It turned out that the saying that Soul Masters were usually not good at Soul Battles wasn't entirely Shrek Academy's way of making fun of them. Some Soul Masters really were good at just pressing the fire button.

The next moment, the soul-guided cannonballs flying all over the arena started flying towards the audience seats, with one or two even flying straight towards Chen Ping.

Chen Ping subconsciously gripped the Red Dust Protection, only to see Mo Fang chuckle and wave his hand.

Immediately afterward, a golden hexagonal light screen rose up not far in front of the two, accurately intercepting the flying soul-guided cannonballs. Several other light screens that intercepted other missiles also lit up at the same time.

"I rely on!"

When Chen Ping saw this, his eyes widened in surprise. This was a linked defense soul tool! When defending, all that was needed was to raise a light screen at a fixed position for precise defense.

In situations that are particularly difficult to defend against, they can also cooperate to defend against each other, achieving 80% or even 90% of the defensive effect of a large-scale defensive soul array with very low soul power consumption.

This is much simpler than the protective shield that required all 108 Star Luo Empire Soul Masters to hold down the metal pillars in front of them to form in the previous Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament. This kind of linked defensive soul guidance array can be fully used by just one powerful soul master.

If such a soul-guiding array were to pull together more than a hundred soul masters at once, and simultaneously activate the linked defensive soul-guiding devices in front of it, it could even withstand the soul skill bombardment of a hundred-person soul master battle group.

But soon Chen Ping noticed Mo Fang sighing imperceptibly.

"Professor Mo, what's wrong?"

Chen Ping was still reeling from the simple and efficient defensive effects of the linked soul tool when he saw Mo Fang sigh, and he was immediately puzzled.

"The linked defense soul tool is effective and suitable for large-scale operations. There is no need to set up or dismantle defensive formations on the spot; each person can carry a controller of the linked defense soul tool while running."

"But to truly deploy a full-scale defense, the soul power consumed will be even greater than that of an ordinary defensive soul guidance array, and it also requires sufficient coordination and training within the soul master corps to be able to execute it."

"My research on soul tools is unrelated to the optimization of soul power consumption, and I know nothing about the field of soul power storage."

"Although I have spent a lot of my own money over the years to push forward this project, which is considered to have failed, I guess I will never see this soul tool shine in my lifetime."

At this point, Mo Fang's eyes showed some regret, but he shook his head and said, "Never mind, this might actually be a good thing."

"Although the linked defense soul tool is not a soul tool used directly for killing, the fact that fewer people died on the Sun Moon Empire side means that more people from your Douluo Three Kingdoms will likely die after the war begins. That's actually a good thing."

Mo Fang's tone still carried a hint of dejection. His most outstanding achievement in his life was only used in the academy's Soul Guidance Trial Grounds. Apart from that, he had no other notable accomplishments. This was indeed a rather poor ending for a level nine Soul Guidance Master.

"Alright, stop spacing out. I'll take you to the control room and explain the working principle of this linked defense soul tool. You're lucky to have caught up with this. Although my technology hasn't been adopted for military use yet, it won't hurt to teach it to you. But it does have the potential to be used for military purposes."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping felt a slight tremor in his heart.

This linked defensive soul tool has absolutely no potential for military use. Equipping a soul master regiment with this thing could actually trap and kill a Super Douluo. It's just that Xuan Ziwen's sealing bottle technology is still not complete, and ordinary baby bottles will run out of air after a while. Stockpiling a lot of them might leak out before they're even used, which can't compensate for the huge soul power consumption of the linked defensive soul tool. That's why it hasn't been officially deployed.

In other words, the Sun Moon Soul Master Corps at this time was still like a glass cannon, and when defending, they fought independently, using their own defensive soul tools to make do. It wasn't until the sealed milk bottles that could be mass-produced, stockpiled, and powered came out that the linked defensive soul tools really began to have a market.

"Then you must explain it to me carefully, I will definitely listen carefully."

Chen Ping's lips curled into a wide smile; Huo Yuhao in the original novel had missed this technique.

It's probably because every time he comes here it's because Ji Juechen calls him to fight, so the other party didn't even notice that there was a linked defensive soul tool in the school's soul guidance trial ground.

This time, he had the founder of this field personally guiding him through the technical principles, which was much more enjoyable than staring at blueprints and trying to guess the function and structure of each soul guide core.

The three hours of cooking at night passed in a flash.

Chen Ping's mind was filled with various technologies related to the linked soul tool. He just needed to go back to his dormitory that night to study them carefully and thoroughly digest these technologies.

But just as Chen Ping was about to leave the Soul Guidance Trial Field, he subconsciously glanced at the center of the field and bumped into a "familiar face".

It was Ji Juechen, whom I had just seen at Mingde Hall that morning. Clearly, this guy had managed to snag a Soul Master he was going to challenge.

"Professor Mo, I'll watch some more of 'Fighting Soul' first, so I won't stay with you."

Chen Ping quickly explained to Mo Fang, who had also stopped, and Mo Fang just smiled and said, "This black-haired kid on the Soul Arena is very powerful. I heard that he beat up all the Soul Masters in the Inner Academy whose cultivation level was only Soul Saint."

"If you're interested, you can have a match with him."

After saying this, Mo Fangbian left the Soul Guidance Trial Grounds alone.

The entire Soul Guidance Trial Arena was now empty except for Chen Ping in the audience, Ji Juechen on the stage, and two other girls.

Yes, Ji Juechen took on two opponents at once.

The two female soul masters on the stage, one of them looked very ordinary in appearance and figure, and the most striking impression she gave was that she was unremarkable. At this moment, she was covered in a layer of purple smoke, or rather, she had turned into smoke.

Almost instantly, Chen Ping guessed who the other person was: Jing Ziyan.

As for the girl next to Jing Ziyan, her appearance can be described as decent.

Not only that, the other person had a healthy wheat-colored complexion, a slender figure, and was over 1.8 meters tall, almost taller than Chen Ping.

The opponent held two short swords, one red and one green, both clearly level five close-range soul tools. The two women lunged forward, only to be met with Ji Juechen's sword strike in an instant.

A semi-transparent sword beam suddenly slashed out without Ji Juechen using any soul skills, making Chen Ping almost shout "Holy crap!"

Is this guy already capable of unleashing attacks with a casual sword strike that resemble a self-created soul skill?

However, neither Jing Ziyan nor the girl beside her seemed to be affected by the sword light. Jing Ziyan, who had already turned into a cloud of purple smoke, was unaffected. The other girl even made a fleeting illusion to dodge the sword light that Ji Juechen had unleashed.

Ghost Nana!

In just a moment, Chen Ping recognized the girl's identity. His vertical pupil between his eyebrows opened slightly, and he carefully observed all of her physical data.

Under the scan of the Eye of True Sight, all of Nana's data was laid bare.

Age, gender, soul power level, weight, three dimensions... cough cough.

The reason why Chen Ping reacted so strongly to this ghost Nana, even more so than to Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, is quite simple: it was because of her ghost martial soul.

Although he has now arrived in the Sun Moon Empire, he rarely leaves the school, so where would he find those people from the Holy Spirit Cult?

At this time, Nana, who possesses the Ghost Martial Soul, became an easy research subject.

Chen Ping didn't know the specific differences between the Ghost Martial Soul and the Phantom Martial Soul, but the differences shouldn't be significant.

If we can't study Ghost Douluo, who has been dead for over ten thousand years, can't we at least study this Ghost Nana?

At this moment, Electrolux also separated a wisp of his divine sense to carefully examine Nana, who was fighting fiercely on the Soul Arena, and occasionally let out a few sighs in Chen Ping's spiritual sea.

"Oh, I see."

"Wonderful! So, a Ghost Martial Soul doesn't necessarily have to turn a person's entire soul into a ghost. Right, otherwise, wouldn't the Ghost Martial Soul just become a Body Martial Soul?"

"It seems that the case of Ghost Douluo turning into a living dead is just an isolated incident. Not all Soul Masters who awaken a spirit similar to an undead will turn from the living into the dead."

Chen Ping could understand some of the comments Electrolux made when he first observed Nana's fighting spirit, but he quickly became more and more confused.

Even though Electrolux was talking about knowledge points related to martial spirits, Chen Ping listened as if he were hearing gibberish.

But it's clear that Electrolux, after only three months of careful study of the Martial Soul system, already understands what Martial Souls are better than Chen Ping.

The accumulation of wisdom over thousands of years enabled Electrolux to completely understand the knowledge of martial spirits in just a few months, knowledge that ordinary people could not learn in a lifetime.

Chen Ping's assessment of this was: "The system is disappointing, so I'm stepping in to make a difference!"

He didn't feel ashamed at all that his martial spirit knowledge, which he had studied for so long, was completely crushed by Elder Yi in just three months. After all, Elder Yi was his right-hand man, and he could just ask him any questions he had in the future. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Just as Chen Ping was listening to Elder Yi's words and watching the battle spirits on the battle spirit stage, Nana's third and fourth spirit rings flashed at the same time.

Her two soul skills are called Ghost Possession and Vengeful Spirit, respectively. The former allows Nana to completely transform into a ghost state for one second, making her immune to all physical attacks.

The next soul skill allows Nana to create an invisible vengeful spirit to control Ji Juechen's actions.

This move is activated while the user is possessed by a ghost, making it invisible and intangible. Even Ji Juechen cannot sense it and can only rely on prediction to guess when Nana will activate her soul skill.

But at that moment, Nana caught a glimpse of Chen Ping, who had been watching the match from below the Soul Arena, out of the corner of her eye. She noticed Chen Ping slightly tilting his head, following the trajectory of her vengeful spirit flight to watch the match.

"Why can he see the vengeful spirits I've unleashed? Who is he? Was he sent by the elders to monitor me?"

A nameless fear rose in Nana's heart, and her body even trembled uncontrollably.

Nana mustered her courage and looked at Chen Ping again, only to find that the vertical pupil that seemed to have been there between Chen Ping's eyebrows had disappeared, leaving only an incredibly smooth forehead.

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