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

Chapter 404: The Reversal of Extremes!

early morning.

A thin mist hangs in the air, carrying a touch of coolness and a hint of moist freshness.

Chen Ping changed into casual clothes, which didn't quite fit the habit of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master students who, after finally getting a break and not having to wear school uniforms, immediately went back to wearing gold and jade and embroidered brocade.

This is what is meant by "money gives poor people courage".

People who have very little money tend to dress themselves up in a dazzling manner, wanting everyone to see that they have money.

For a first-generation creator like Chen Ping, none of this matters. He can swallow a soul bone worth tens of millions of gold soul coins without hesitation, so why would he care about those cheap decorations?
Looking into the distance, the sun in the east had already peeked out halfway, and in the distance, two slender figures gradually came into his sight.

They walked very fast and arrived in front of Chen Ping in no time.

Ning Tian changed into a white outfit that perfectly accentuated her slender figure.

Her fair skin and white clothes complemented each other beautifully, giving her a crystalline and elegant look. The only detail on her wrist was a storage bead bracelet made of starlight sapphire.

The petite and charming Wu Feng wore a red-sleeved, gold-patterned ochre-yellow robe that looked tight and neat. Her figure was proud and curvaceous, and her curves were in no way inferior to Ma Xiaotao's when Chen Ping first met her.

Could it be that all female Soul Masters with Fire Attributes naturally have good figures?

As Chen Ping looked at the two youthful and energetic people, his thoughts drifted off somewhere else.

Seeing Chen Ping lost in thought, the two women were naturally annoyed. Wu Feng put her hands on her hips and said coquettishly, "What were you looking at like that just now?"

"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you volunteered this time. I'm keeping an eye on you, you rascal."

Chen Ping shrugged helplessly, made a gesture of invitation, but didn't say anything more.

Ning Tian glanced at Wu Feng with amusement. She actually wanted to say that Chen Ping's gaze had lingered on her more than usual.

If Chen Ping was watching him the whole time, it wouldn't be a big deal, since he still had Wu Feng as his bodyguard.

However, Chen Ping is much greedier than most people, taking both food and gifts. Wu Feng should really consider his own safety more.

Ning Tian said, "Let's go. Chen Ping, you said before that we're going to the Jingyang Mountains this time. How does the Jingyang Mountains compare to the largest demon forest in the Sun Moon Empire?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping recalled the part of the original work where Ju Zi described the Jingyang Mountains, and combined it with what he knew from the book, and said: "In terms of area, the Jingyang Mountains are far smaller than the Demon Forest."

"If we were to rank the gathering places of soul beasts on the Douluo Continent, excluding the sea, the Star Dou Forest would undoubtedly be the number one gathering place of soul beasts."

"The Demon Forest is larger than the Frozen Forest excluding the far north, and ranks third in area on the continent." "As for the Jingyang Mountains, their area is similar to the Sunset Forest, but they are better off without the poisonous miasma that blocks out the sky. Their overall shape is like a giant spider, with a vast core and eight branches that resemble eight spider legs."

"In the Jingyang Mountains, the number of soul beasts in the eight branch veins is relatively small but the mineral resources are abundant. The central mountain range is the opposite. Not only are there many soul beasts, but they are also quite old. Ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are also common. As for the mineral resources, I don't know, since mining them is too difficult."

"For the Sun Moon Empire, soul beast resources are more precious than mineral resources, which is the exact opposite of our Douluo Continent. Naturally, we cannot do something like draining the pond to catch all the fish, forcibly clearing the central mountain range just to obtain rare metals."

At this point, Chen Ping paused slightly.

If he remembered correctly, in the original work, besides mentioning the abundant precious mineral deposits in the Jingyang Mountains, and the fact that only the branch veins could be mined due to the large number of soul beasts in the main vein, Ju Zi also seemed to have mentioned the garrison near the Jingyang Mountains.

Thinking about it this way, Ju Zi already had a rather impressive background in the military back then, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to know the exact location of the Sun Moon Empire's garrison so clearly.

But Chen Ping didn't care too much about it. After all, the Jingyang Mountains were among the top five largest soul beast forests in the entire Douluo Continent. It wasn't so easy for them to run into the garrison that Ju Zi mentioned.

Instead of considering that, it would be more meaningful to think about how, when they go hunting soul beasts, they might accidentally stumble upon some restricted or even secret metal veins. How to secretly mine some of them in the most efficient way would be more meaningful, since that possibility is obviously much greater.

Having learned a little about the Jingyang Mountains they were about to visit, Ning Tian and Wu Feng said nothing more. The three of them took off one after another, their broken wings already unfolded behind them. Two blue tail flames with several Mach rings spewed out from behind the broken wings, propelling the three of them into the air rapidly.

At this moment, all three of them had switched to a new type of flying soul tool specially made of thousand-refined steel. In addition, all three of them were at the fourth ring of cultivation, so their flying speed was extremely fast. With their three pairs of wings spread out in the air, they flew straight to the north in a flash.

Although the three of them are using level four flying soul tools, at their current speed, a level five flying soul tool might not be able to catch up with them, and a level six flying soul tool might not be more agile than these soul tools.

This is also why Dai Hao, who was clearly stationed in the Mingdou Mountains to oversee the border region, still had to submit a memorial to Xu Jiawei during the competition; his border troops desperately needed such a mobile device that would allow the reconnaissance troops to move swiftly and freely.

With this thing, Dai Hao no longer needs to worry about whether the Sun Moon Empire has spies within the border army or whether their soul-guided detection devices are truly advanced, making things difficult for them. You should catch up with them first.

Low consumption and high speed—these two advantages alone are enough to make the Sun and Moon garrison in the Mingdou Mountains extremely annoyed.

It's not easy to see such a group entering the airspace. A four-ring Soul Master of the same level simply can't catch up. Only a five-ring Soul Master with a five-ring flying Soul Tool can give them a chance.

The problem is that no matter how many five-ring Soul Masters there are, they can't possibly outnumber four-ring Soul Masters. It's fine to do this once or twice, but what if you do it every time?
The answer is that there's no other way but to endure it, because Dai Hao has been holding his nose and enduring it ever since Xu Tianran's father took power.

Back then, the Sun Moon Garrison was the fastest and longest-lasting among Soul Masters of the same level.

People want to fly over and see what you're up to, whether you're practicing military exercises, or whether you're setting up large equipment somewhere, and you can't say a word about it.

Now, the situation has been completely reversed.

Although the Sun Moon Empire's detection devices and anti-aircraft soul guides prevented the Star Luo garrison from repeating what the Sun Moon garrison had done at will, they could still occasionally do so and make the Sun Moon garrison feel uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)