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

Chapter 471 Laughing at the Mortal World: Good Grandpa, you're so filial to me!
"Chen Ping, give me your divinely bestowed soul ring, which is filled with divine power."

Electrolux spoke, using his telekinesis to hold the blank divinely bestowed soul ring as he spoke to Chen Ping.

“Okay.” Chen Ping immediately took out the golden divine soul ring.

The translucent golden light, accompanied by the ever-fluctuating golden mist around the jewel, looked like a dream.

After Chen Ping's explanation, Huo Yuhao roughly understood just how valuable a divinely bestowed soul ring truly was.

Although he already has two powerful cheat codes, Tianmeng and Bingdi, who would complain about not having enough cheat codes? So he looked at the divinely bestowed soul ring with some longing.

He didn't really want this divinely bestowed soul ring that much. After all, even if he were given it now, with his physical attributes, he could only get a soul ring of tens of thousands of years.

Huo Yuhao was waiting for Chen Ping and Electrolux to figure out how to mass-produce this thing, so he could sit back and wait to be carried along.

Just because he worked for Chen Ping for so long without doing any work, he'll get a few soul rings when the cost of artificial soul rings comes down.
Just as Huo Yuhao's mind was racing, Electrolux had already taken Chen Ping's divinely bestowed soul ring and touched the blank divinely bestowed soul ring against the golden one.

Immediately afterwards, the originally translucent divinely bestowed soul ring turned white, like a shimmering white pearl.

“Alright,” Electrox said, holding the white jewel between two fingers, a look of satisfaction flashing in his eyes. “This Sea God Pillar is still too small. Even if it were only one-tenth the height of the inheritance pillars in Haotian Fortress, I could use it to create a God-given Soul Ring that could bear the power of a 100,000-year-old Soul Beast Soul Ring.”

"But it doesn't matter. In the theoretical verification stage, it's already good enough to have a finished product."

As he spoke, Electrolux slightly squeezed the white jewel with his thumb, and a ten-year soul ring emitting a faint white light floated in the middle of Chen Ping, Huo Yuhao, and Electrolux.

"Done?"

Chen Ping was immediately shocked and spoke up.

Electrolux smiled: "The technology is all readily available; it's not like we're developing it from scratch. Do you think it's difficult?"

"I have merely done what my predecessors have done. The angel god who invented the Inheritance Pillar was the real genius, but unfortunately I had no chance to meet him."

"The most divine-given soul rings I can create right now are only ten years old. This is related to the size of the sacred pillar. The larger the pillar, the longer the maximum lifespan of the divine-given soul rings that can be formed."

“Any soul ring like yours, Chen Ping, can only support a maximum lifespan of 990,000 years.”

"However, I don't have any divine power right now. If I want to mass-produce ten-year level artificial spirit rings, I'll have to draw energy from your fully charged divine spirit ring and transfer a little bit of it."

"The divine power stored in this divinely bestowed soul ring is enough to produce tens of thousands of artificial soul rings of the tenth grade."

"But considering that each undead needs at least five soul rings in the later stages of its life to have enough combat power, this amount of divine power is just enough to arm a thousand-strong undead legion."

"So, I've already solved part of the problem of how to mass-produce artificial spirit rings. The rest is up to you."

"Just as you can see, the Sea God's Inheritance Pillar was actually created by the Angel God first. As long as there is enough divine power, mass-producing artificial soul rings is not a difficult task, especially ten-year level soul rings."

After meeting with Elder Yi and learning about his latest research progress, Chen Ping once again focused on his cultivation—while also pondering how to find some other divine power for Elder Yi.

Chen Ping's first thought was definitely Tang San, who had already won a gold coin at Haotian Fort last year.

Unfortunately, not long after Electrolux used the Inheritance Pillar to remotely extract a tube of divine power from Tang San, the abundant spiritual energy on Haotian Peak disappeared, clearly indicating that the Inheritance Pillar controlling the gathering of spiritual energy had been shut down.

Even Da Ming and Er Ming had privately suspected that Tang San had forcibly severed his connection with the human world, which essentially eliminated Chen Ping's chance of a second chance.

But besides Tang San, where else could he find some unwanted divine power?

For the past few months, Chen Ping has been quite troubled by this problem.

If this were ten thousand years ago, Chen Ping would have had plenty of ways to find places on the Douluo Continent where divine power might exist; he could have just searched for those places of inheritance.

But in this era, Tang San is the only sun on the Douluo Continent, and he can't even use this sun to generate electricity for himself, which naturally gives Chen Ping a headache.

Could it be that he really intends to visit the Valley of Love and Destiny someday?

Or is he eyeing the Silver Dragon King, who is currently recovering from his injuries?
He felt that one of these two options was like lighting a lamp in a latrine—a suicidal act, while the other was like an old man eating poison—a death wish. Ah, if only the Sun Moon Empire had a few self-made gods!
If that's the case, Chen Ping won't consider leaving today; he'd rather continue as a Soul Master trainee in the Sun Moon Empire for another two and a half years.

Yes, Chen Ping's two and a half years of studying abroad actually went by very quickly, with most of the challenging and opportunistic experiences concentrated in the first year.

This is actually a good thing for Chen Ping. In just half a year, he has leveled up one and a half levels and is not far from level 49.

If Chen Ping had only obtained the information about the structure of the Sea God Pillar and the secrets of the Vast Ocean Universe Cover from the Haotian Sect and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect at the end of the second year, without Elder Yi's more than a year of dedicated research, he would still have had to wait a long time to achieve the freedom of a ten-year-level divinely bestowed soul ring!
After changing back into Shrek Academy uniforms, the exchange program between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy has finally come to an end, starting today.

Perhaps out of consideration for face, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy held a farewell ceremony, and Jing Hongchen, the head of Mingde Hall, even attended in person.

But only Chen Ping understood that Jing Hongchen had simply given up on his plan to reverse engineer the Thousand-Forged Metal and instead decided to acquire it instead of developing it himself.

Whenever he thinks of this, Chen Ping always sighs that although he has changed to a different world, the affairs of the human world still operate in the same way.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again—that is the principle.

"Young Chen Ping, you have fifty-eight silver dragon scales. That's all the silver dragon scales in our Sun Moon Empire's treasury."

"In addition, there are five tons of purple gold copper, five tons of celestial silver, and half a ton each of solar refined gold and star-moon alloy."

"And that deep-sea sunken silver mother you wanted, I've mobilized all the reserves from all the academies, including the Empire and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, totaling 1.145 tons. That's all I have."

"This price is the last time I'll offer you and Shrek Academy this price. You'll never see a higher offer again."

At this moment, in front of Chen Ping, Jing Hongchen's face was slightly dark, with a hint of blue and purple, and she gave a price almost through gritted teeth.

This price isn't just emptying Mingde Hall's warehouse; it's wielding a knife against the total reserves of certain top-tier rare metals of the Sun Moon Empire. No single strike deals less than 20% damage, and the highest single strike deals 100% damage.

It's fair to say that if Jing Hongchen had even the slightest chance of reversing the production method of Thousand-Refined Metal within the past year and a half, he would never have given Chen Ping this price list.

When a good person does business, the damage they inflict can be directly reflected in the percentage of an empire's metal reserves!
If it weren't for the fact that even several ninth-level soul masters in the Imperial Hall of Worship had fainted from bloodletting alchemy, and that Jing Hongchen had fainted three or four times in the past year and a half due to continuous bloodletting, and still hadn't figured out the refining method for thousand-refined metal, Jing Hongchen would never have been able to talk to Chen Ping in such a humble manner.

“Dean Jing Hongchen, I have told you many times that we would never sell this kind of thing. This is really not a sales tactic I'm using to ask for a higher price.”

Chen Ping sighed helplessly: "Would you sell all the level-nine fixed-position artillery shells of the Sun Moon Empire to our Shrek Academy, even if our Shrek Academy handed over all the tax revenue for the next thousand years to your Sun Moon Empire?"

"What if I add another one for you—a level 9 fixed-load shell?"

Jing Hongchen took a deep breath, stared intently at Chen Ping, and, forcing herself to remain calm, delivered her final offer.

He already owes the Empire a mountain of debt, so he's not afraid of incurring another debt of level 9 fixed-mount artillery shells.

If he can't pay it back, he can just let Xiao Hongchen pay it back for him later. Isn't that what you call a grandson?

Since he's already in debt to his grandparents and grandchildren, the debt of one more level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shell is like having too many lice to itch.

If we can acquire the refining technology for thousand-refined metal, the entire soul tool industry of the Sun Moon Empire will undergo a major transformation from top to bottom.

Afterwards, no one in the Sun Moon Empire felt that there was anything wrong with the exorbitant price he quoted; they only thought of him as a great hero of the Sun Moon Empire.

The battle for the throne that he cared about most would also be brought to a complete end with the appearance of the Thousand-Refined Metal!

However, how could Chen Ping not understand all of this, which Jing Hongchen understood?

Although Chen Ping only needed to say a few words to tell Jing Hongchen that they were just thinking wrong, that Hundred-Refined Metal focuses on purification, while Thousand-Refined Metal needs creation, not further purification, to obtain a massive amount of top-grade rare metals.

But if Chen Ping does this, it's like selling himself the rope that will hang him.

The gap between the Sun Moon Empire and the Douluo Three Kingdoms was already large enough, and then the Sun Moon Empire was given the method to make thousand-refined metal.

Chen Ping suspected that if the Sun Moon Empire, having fully switched to Thousand-Refined Metal, launched its war at the same time as the start of the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, the Sun Moon War might end a little earlier than the tournament itself.
(End of this chapter)