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

Chapter 782 Necrometallurgical Cluster
Chen Ping's thoughts were racing, while Elder Xuan's mood was relatively calm.

Everything at Shrek Academy is now developing in a positive direction. The soul tools equipped by the Shrek City Defense Army have been replaced, and orders from the three major empires are pouring in like snowflakes.

After the operation in Mingdu, and upon learning that Chen Ping possessed a small world, Elder Xuan understood the true reason why Chen Ping had created a subordinate force in the first place: it was to use those Soul Masters to cover up the terrifying, ever-increasing production capacity of the Liches!

Elder Xuan was shocked by these undead creatures with the attribute of light, but he quickly realized that the undead army in the Other Shore Small World was capable of much more than what Chen Ping had shown by deliberately restraining his production capacity.

While it's true that liches are capable of crafting more sophisticated and refined soul tools, their numbers are actually quite small compared to the boundless undead army. The real wealth of the Other Shore Small World should lie in this disciplined undead legion.

Mining, metallurgy, non-ferrous metals, and transportation are all industries that have a large number of low-complexity jobs that require a large workforce to fill.

For example, in mining and metallurgical engineering, using drilling soul guide vehicles to mine is naturally highly efficient, but the sealed baby bottles made by Shrek Academy must be reserved for the city guards and military sales, so where would they find so many baby bottle supply equipment?

This means that once the soul power of the soul masters using the drilling soul guide vehicle is exhausted, the mineral mining operation will be shut down.

In comparison, while individual units are not very efficient, their sheer numbers and tireless nature give them an advantage.

If Chen Ping hadn't suddenly decided to check if Shrek Academy's mining areas were suitable for the undead army to mine during Ning Tian's previous soul ring hunting operation, he wouldn't have coincidentally encountered the golden-haired lion mastiff.

For this reason, in the major mining areas of Star Dou Forest at this time, not only were the miners divided into Soul Master groups and Undead Creature groups, but several new metallurgical production lines were also added.

Compared to the former, the undead army, which Chen Ping had specially arranged according to the mining mode of the industrial age, had already achieved basic unmanned operation. At most, if there was a problem with the production line, Nana and the Dan Pavilion members would need to take a look.

At this rate of development, Elder Xuan had a premonition that perhaps in less than fifty years, the resource reserves, soul guidance technology, and other gaps between the three great empires and the Sun Moon Empire would be within reach.

Even if Shrek Academy and the three great empires were given only twenty years, these gaps would be enough to narrow them to the same level. Combined with the power of the three great empires, they would be able to compete with the Sun Moon Empire in terms of soul tools and soul masters.

"Elder Xuan, Chen Ping, something terrible has happened! Our men just received intelligence from the front lines via the soul-guided communication station: the Sun Moon Empire has made its move!"

The next moment, Han Ruoruo, who had successfully graduated from the inner academy and was temporarily serving as the head of the Shrek City communications station, rushed over, while Chen Ping and Elder Xuan stood up abruptly.

"What? How could it be so fast?"

Chen Ping was shocked. The timeline of the war was actually earlier than in the original story!
Stealing the Sun and Moon Armory, exporting new equipment to the three great empires, and curing the old emperor to cause internal chaos in the Sun and Moon Empire—these were all efforts made by Chen Ping to delay the arrival of war.

He is now close to level 70. If he can hold off the Sun Moon Empire for two or three years, he has a very high chance of directly reaching the Title Douluo realm. If he has five years, once he leaves the mountain, the Sun Moon Empire will have to face a Limit Douluo with all his stats maxed out.

Unfortunately, while everything Chen Ping did objectively weakened the Sun Moon Empire's military capabilities and political coherence, and significantly enhanced the war potential of the three great empires, it did not mean that the Sun Moon Empire would reassess the cost of going to war with the three great empires.

The internal conflicts within the Sun Moon Empire have reached the point where even the Soul Master Corps is sabotaging each other over the new equipment that must be replaced. Under these circumstances, only war can temporarily unite the Sun Moon Empire once again.

Realizing this, Xu Tianran, after a month of effort, united various forces to submit a petition, which allowed Xu Shiliu to fully activate the war machine of the Sun Moon Empire.

A few hours ago, in Yuming City.

Far away in the Mingdou Mountains, the new recruits of Yuming City were undergoing training. Princess Xu Yun's personal arrival made them feel valued and filled them with excitement.

However, just as Princess Xu Yun was having a friendly chat with the new recruits in the military camp, a sudden change occurred.

A sudden flash of light appeared on the distant Mingdou Mountains, drawing everyone's attention.

A white-incandescent ball of light shone in the distance, forming a semi-circle that slowly spread outwards.

The intense light was so dazzling that it brought tears to people's eyes.

Most people are forced to look away after just one glance.

The earth trembled slightly in the next instant.

Immediately afterwards, a rumbling sound like muffled thunder rolled in, and the entire camp began to tremble violently.

Almost everyone lost their balance during the earthquake-like tremors, and some with poor balance even fell to the ground.

Three level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells, symbolizing one of the highest technological achievements of the Sun Moon Empire, exploded.

The other three exploded further away, beyond the reach of Yuming City.

Sensing the rapid growth of military strength displayed by the three great empires in their feigned hostage rescue operation, the Holy Spirit Church and the Sun Moon Empire could no longer restrain themselves from revealing their true colors.

With the collapse of the Mingdou Mountains, the Sun Moon Empire officially sounded the clarion call for this continental war.

The Mingdou Mountains and the Xingluo Empire became the sites where the first shot of this continental war was fired.

The front lines have collapsed.

The Star Luo Empire had no ability to intercept level 9 fixed-position soul-guided cannonballs, or even to intercept their explosive aftershocks.

Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for is that Marshal Dai Hao of the Northwest Army Group of the Star Luo Empire was not within the kill range of the level 9 fixed-load shell.

The Sun Moon Empire has deployed an outrageous number of high-altitude probes along its borders. Even Chen Ping is not confident that he can lead his team to bypass these densely packed "eyes in the sky" and enter the Sun Moon Empire's territory.

But this doesn't mean they can keep track of Dai Hao's every move. After all, the Star Luo Empire has already purchased more than three-digit numbers of high-altitude detection soul tools from Shrek Academy.

A large number of high-altitude detection soul guides were deployed along the border of the Mingdou Mountains. This not only allowed them to monitor the movements of the Sun Moon Empire's army, but also served to detect whether enemy high-altitude detectors were present in their own airspace.

In this situation, the motivation for the Sun Moon Empire to control Dai Hao is actually far from easy.

(End of this chapter)