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

Chapter 432 Chen Ping, the King of Empty Promises
Visible to the naked eye, a cone-shaped, semi-transparent shockwave appeared out of nowhere in front of Ning Junping's palm, which was covered with simple metal finger bones!

Even though he hadn't yet used the entire structure of his soul-guided exoskeleton to propel his movements, Ning Junping's hand chop was still far faster than the speed of sound, shattering sound barriers in mid-air.

Wu Fentian also stretched out a hand to intercept Ning Junping's chop strike. After their bare palms collided with the iron hand covered by metal finger gloves, both of them actually took a step back at the same time!
"hiss--"

Wu Fentian was taken aback and subconsciously shook his hand. He felt that his little finger had just touched Ning Junping and almost fractured. He no longer had any intention of underestimating this soul-guided exoskeleton equipment.

Just think about how Tang Hao, when Tang San first entered the academy, beat Zhao Wuji and Flander black and blue with his bare hands without activating his martial soul or using soul rings. You can probably understand how powerful Ning Junping's chop was just now.

Although Zhao Wuji and Flander probably didn't dare to fight back much at that time, Tang Hao's cultivation level was also several levels higher than Wu Fentian's at that time.

But one thing is certain: a powerful attack-type Title Douluo can absolutely defeat a Soul Saint who has activated their Martial Soul with just their physical strength, leaving them covered in wounds. The destructive power of each punch is almost the same as that of a Soul Skill.

Ning Junping, simply by activating the soul-guided exoskeleton before him, was able to clash with Wu Fentian, a powerful offensive titled Douluo, on a purely strength level with his hand-blade strike.

This is already considered a horror story in the Douluo Continent genre for Soul Saints of the same level as Ning Junping.

Once Chen Ping further refines this soul-guided exoskeleton, using some lightweight rare metals to encase the exposed metal frame and form a true suit of armor, it will undoubtedly be an indispensable piece of equipment for any soul master.

Such equipment is enough to allow a support-type Soul Saint to fight against Soul Masters of the same level with ease, instead of being forced to passively take hits.

At the same time, such equipment is enough for a level 70 Weapon Soul Saint to greatly make up for the difference between himself and a Beast Soul Saint.

Even if a level 70 weapon spirit master is a power-attack type, they are actually inferior to a beast spirit master of the same level because their own spirit body cannot directly amplify themselves.

Now that Chen Ping's equipment is out, even Soul Saint-level Beast Soul Masters who activate their Martial Soul True Form will be overwhelmed by the equipment, while Soul Saints with Weapon Souls can perfectly unleash the combat power of this equipment.

This is actually why the one-word battle armor from the Dragon King Legend era could be forged using thousand-refined metal, while the two-word battle armor equipped for Soul Saints had to be forged using spirit-refined metal.

If this equipment cannot be absorbed into one's body and its size changes according to one's will, it will conflict with the true form of the martial soul and become equipment exclusive to weapon martial soul masters.

Although Chen Ping's soul-guided exoskeleton at this time cannot be considered a true battle armor, it is clear that it has only barely reached the level of a quasi-seventh-grade soul-guided exoskeleton and has begun to exhibit various problems that make it unsuitable for all soul masters.

To further resolve this issue, Chen Ping cannot stop here; he needs to continue pushing forward step by step until he creates the real battle armor.

This leads to the fundamental reason why Chen Ping took out his soul-guided exoskeleton as soon as he arrived at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School: he also wanted to collect the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's gold coins.
To be precise, what Chen Ping wanted to reveal wasn't the gold coins of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, but rather the various top-grade rare metals that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had accumulated over the past ten thousand years.

Chen Ping wasn't actually lacking in pure gold soul coins, but the rare metals of the Sun Moon Empire, especially the various materials of the Hidden level, were hidden even more tightly than a 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo.

After all, Chen Ping had indeed obtained the embryo of a 100,000-year-old soul beast from Mingde Hall. However, he really didn't know where to begin with those top-grade rare metals. "Alright, young friend Chen, stop keeping me in suspense," Ning Junping said. "Since you've brought out this soul-guided exoskeleton, you must have something in mind. Tell me, what are your plans?"

"If you want to sell us the technology for making this soul-guided exoskeleton directly, you can name your price, and your uncle will not haggle."

"Of course, if you are unwilling, I can understand. After all, this is a soul tool that will shine brightly in the future, and its potential for improvement is enormous. Its value is even higher than the new flying soul tool made by your teacher, Qian Duoduo."

"As long as you can mass-produce these soul-guided exoskeleton equipment just like Shrek Academy mass-produces new-type flying soul tools, we can also offer you a price that is attractive enough."

"The only requirement is that once the improved soul-guided exoskeleton is produced, our Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School must have priority in purchasing it."

Ning Junping's words carried a sense of grandeur and magnanimity, and the conditions he offered were absolutely reasonable. He maintained the basic attitude of doing business while showing great respect for Chen Ping, the future son-in-law of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Just as some birds cannot be caged, their every feather shimmering with the light of freedom, a genius like Chen Ping cannot be forced to relinquish his skills to others unless they wish it to.

Therefore, Ning Junping directly offered the same conditions that Ning Fengzhi had offered when purchasing hidden weapons for Tang San, and even more, directly handing over the pricing power to Chen Ping.

However, to Ning Junping and Wu Fentian's surprise, Chen Ping did not accept either of the two proposals, but instead put forward another proposal that was quite characteristic of Blue Star.

He used the several sets of soul-guided exoskeletons he had created as a PowerPoint presentation, so it's quite obvious that Ning Junping in front of him is the investor that Chen Ping brought in.

According to Chen Ping, since the theoretical demonstration of the soul-guided exoskeleton has been completed, he intends to skip the stage of mass development of the soul-guided exoskeleton and directly develop the One-Word Battle Armor, using the One-Word Battle Armor as the starting point for mass production.

The development of battle armor, especially high-level battle armor, requires a considerable amount of high-grade rare metals that are difficult to purchase even with money. This depends on whether the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School has reserves of high-grade rare metals in its sect treasury to support research and development.

Chen Ping's condition really hurt Ning Junping.

For the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, money has never been a problem. The high-grade rare metals that require not only money but also a lot of luck, which might take decades to acquire, are the reserves that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School cherishes even when it comes to spending them.

Even so, Ning Junping was still tempted.

After all, the skill of "drawing a pie in the sky" was an initial skill that Chen Ping had when he first arrived in Douluo Continent and started begging for food, so he was very proficient at it.

In just over ten minutes, Chen Ping explained the concept of the three-step approach of product-standard-platform to Ning Junping and Wu Fentian.

Ning Junping painted a beautiful picture of a future where all high-level Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent would use Battle Armor, and the best Battle Armor in the world would come from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, just as the most powerful Soul Tools in the past came from the Mingde Hall.

(End of this chapter)