Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 254

As you walk through the passage and step into the room, the temperature instantly rises from tens of degrees below zero to around twenty-six degrees Celsius, from extreme cold to the most comfortable temperature for the human body. Coupled with a light fragrance wafting from the room, it brings a sense of pleasure.

The room was a rather simple office, with metal desks and chairs covered with simple wooden cushions. A huge soul guidance screen hung on the wall behind them, and two figures stood there quietly, looking up at the screen.

The video displayed above is from external surveillance cameras, showing the area Lin Xingyu had just passed through...

Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but feel even more sorry for those four unlucky guys.

The two people standing there, although about twenty years apart in age, looked quite similar, and it was obvious without asking that they were probably related.

The younger woman wore a white military uniform, the major's insignia on her shoulders reflecting a golden sheen. She had short brown hair, fair skin, and a tall figure. The fitted uniform gave her a dashing and heroic air.

As the female major put on her uniform, she glanced at Lin Xingyu, her gaze sweeping over his crimson-gold eyes. She paused slightly, then regained her composure and spoke.

"Your senses are very sharp, which is good and an advantage. However, in the Blood God Legion, everything is based on military merit. The best way to gain military merit is to have real strength."

At this point, the female major paused, looking at Lin Xingyu's black clothes, which seemed to offer little protection against the cold. Although Soul Masters are generally immune to heat and cold, that's under normal conditions. How many degrees below zero is the temperature outside here?
From the moment we entered the snow-capped mountains, everything was under the surveillance of the Blood God Legion. For several days in a row, being exposed to this environment had no effect whatsoever.

To have achieved this level of skill, one can't underestimate their strength. A glint of curiosity flashed in the major's eyes.

"As long as you have enough strength and military merit, you can get promoted at a speed that you can't even imagine."

"There's never a shortage of opportunities to earn military merit here!"

Lin Xingyu nodded slightly, indicating that he understood the danger involved.

The female major turned around and gestured for Lin Xingyu to follow. The two arrived at a warehouse.

"Choose any weapon. Next, we'll go to the place where you'll be tested. You can't use your soul power there; you can only use the weapons here and your own strength. If you fail the test, you'll go back to where you came from."

Although I felt that as long as nothing major happened, the people in front of me would basically be able to stay.

But the female major didn't say anything more, only offering a simple reminder: if they failed, saying more would be pointless; if they succeeded, there would be plenty of time later.

Lin Xingyu's gaze swept across the scene, finding mostly modern weapons and equipment, including soul-guided guns, soul-guided cannons, and even some weapons mounted on mechs, while various melee weapons were also displayed on the side.

Lin Xingyu stepped forward and walked to the cold weapon area, intending to randomly choose a suitable long spear. With his strength, no matter what cold weapon he used, the effect would be similar. However, the long spear was the most suitable for him and had the greatest power.

He casually picked up one, tossed it lightly a couple of times, and then, remembering the location of the assessment where he couldn't use his soul power, he suddenly turned to the modern weapon beside him.

How did these soul-guided guns function there?

Thinking of this, Lin Xingyu put down the long spear in his hand and chose a single-person soul guide gun that he was familiar with.

Seeing that Lin Xingyu had chosen his weapon, the female major led him to the tallest building in the center of the camp.

Entering from the side, we finally saw several dozen people. They were all dressed in white military uniforms, and their ranks were mostly captains.

"Major!"

As they walked, people kept saluting the female major who had brought Lin Xingyu with her, and the female major would return the salute in return.

The Blood God Legion's salute is performed by clenching their right fist and pounding their chest.

There were quite a few girls here, and every time they bowed, it was like a surging tide.

This made Lin Xingyu want to meet the person who designed this set of military salutes; he was a talented individual.

The elevator doors closed, and the familiar feeling returned; he could clearly sense that the elevator was descending.

Judging from the situation, Lin Xingyu felt that the Blood God Legion was resorting to the old traditions of various forces on the Douluo Continent, and had probably already hollowed out this mountain.

A moment later, the two arrived at a room through the metal passage.

Inside the room was an entrance and exit similar to a spirit transmission tower or spirit ascension platform, which Lin Xingyu was quite familiar with.

The major stepped forward and quickly operated the system, slowly opening two trading positions.

Have you been to the Ascension Platform?

"Of course I've been there!"

She pointed to the equipment in front of her and said, "Inside is a space similar to the Spirit Ascension Platform. Your test is to protect me until this test is over."

Lying inside the cold machine, that familiar feeling returned once again.

When light returned, he was standing in a snowy field, holding the very soul-guided gun he had just chosen.

Feeling the realism of the things around him, Lin Xingyu couldn't help but sigh in his heart once again.

The development of technology on the Douluo Continent remains a mystery. Virtual reality technology has already been developed and is used quite skillfully, but the communication technology on the continent is still quite lagging behind, let alone traveling to other planets.

It's almost like the tech tree was misdeveloped. No, it's not that it was misdeveloped, but rather that due to various circumstances, the technology wasn't fully developed. I doubt many people know what the result was.

After carefully examining his body, Lin Xingyu noticed that his soul power had been suppressed and had inexplicably dissipated, leaving only a small amount. This small amount was left from his efforts to resist the outside world, but its quality seemed to be very high. His blood and qi power, on the other hand, remained.

The surging power of blood and qi flowed quietly within his body. Putting aside everything else, the adaptability of blood and qi martial arts is truly formidable.

As long as a living being possesses the power of qi and blood, it is difficult to exert much influence on it; at most, there will be different emphases.

As long as life exists, and as long as blood and qi flow within a living being, the martial arts of blood and qi are difficult to suppress.

From this perspective, his combat strength has not been weakened much.

'Foundation, adaptation, quality and quantity!' Lin Xingyu silently pondered the difference between blood and soul power.

A moment later, the female major appeared not far away and sized up Lin Xingyu.

"follow me."

She walked directly to a deep pit and jumped down into it.

Lin Xingyu followed and jumped down as well.

After falling about a hundred meters, a large net caught their bodies. Lin Xingyu spread his mental energy. The walls around the cave were uneven, with round holes all around. The larger holes were more than ten meters long, while the smaller ones were only about two meters long.

The female major walked directly towards one of the holes, and Lin Xingyu followed her.

"Next is your assessment. As we go further in, the higher your score will be."

Without waiting for Lin Xingyu's reaction, she rushed inside.

Seeing that the other party had taken the initiative to increase the difficulty of the assessment, Lin Xingyu finally couldn't help but twitch his lips and quickly followed.

He unleashed his mental energy and carefully observed his surroundings.

Just like his blood and qi, Lin Xingyu felt that his mental power was not suppressed much.

Lin Xingyu was quite clear that the space here was a simulation of the environment inside the abyss passage.

This simulates the laws of the Abyss Plane. The passage between the Abyss Plane and Douluo Continent is primarily dominated by the Abyss, holding an absolute advantage. The laws within it are mostly those of the Abyss Plane. Douluo Continent occupies only a relatively small portion.

As a pure energy plane, the Abyss Plane naturally has its own characteristics.

After the conflict of laws from another world, the strongest suppression naturally came from the power system of Douluo Continent.

If we use the analogy of spirit, energy, and vitality, then the soul power of a Soul Master belongs to the aspect of energy, which is energy.

Therefore, when facing an energy plane like the Abyss, soul power is suppressed the most severely.

On the contrary, mental strength and blood energy are difficult to be affected by the opponent.

In particular, Lin Xingyu relied on external aids to make his mental power both of high quality and quantity, and his blood and qi power greatly increased his resistance to external forces after achieving the Golden Realm.

Even in this environment, Lin Xingyu could feel that it seemed to be of considerable help to his progress in tempering his golden body.

'Extreme external environments can enhance the tempering of a golden body, so isn't this external environment, with its ever-changing laws of heaven and earth, an even more extreme environment?'

'So coming this time was definitely the right decision!'

Releasing his mental energy, Lin Xingyu sensed a distinct foreign object approaching and raised his right hand, gently pulling the trigger.

"puff!"

With a crisp sound, the Soul Guidance Gun, guided by Lin Xingyu's mental power, struck the bat-like creature's head with remarkable accuracy. The attacking monster vanished instantly.

Of course, under this level of firepower, whether or not to harm the opponent, given their size, becomes irrelevant.

He raised the gun muzzle upwards and gently blew on it.

"This thing is much more effective than those cold weapons!"

As he said this, Lin Xingyu was indeed speechless.

He originally wanted to see if the Blood God Legion had made any progress in soul guidance technology, so that they could use soul guidance devices in the abyss environment.

Soul tools are also powered by soul power.

I just took a closer look at the soul-guided gun when I fired it.

He then realized that this thing was simply a cheat code...

It can be used normally in the abyss environment, but its efficiency is greatly reduced and its consumption is much greater...

'No, it's not exactly like using a cheat code. While soul power is suppressed, consumed more quickly, and reduced in total amount in the abyss, it still takes time.'

"So the principle behind this thing is to fill it with enough soul power to slow down the rate at which the soul power dissipates, while simultaneously replenishing it from the rear."

'It's all about the sheer force of a brick flying through the air.'

A look of surprise flashed in the major's eyes. This place had a great suppression of mental power, and coupled with the surrounding environment, it would be difficult for ordinary people to accurately lock onto the attacking monster even if they spotted it.

But now, the opponent has just entered the weapon's attack range and has been dealt with by Lin Xingyu.

This shows that Lin Xingyu's perception range is quite large, at least far exceeding that of himself.

Thinking of this, she immediately quickened her pace and ran quickly into the depths.

Although the sound of the soul-guided gun firing wasn't particularly loud, it was enough to startle these bat-like creatures.

Coupled with their undisguised actions, screams echoed from nearby.

Lin Xingyu then raised the soul-guided gun in his hand and fired with remarkable precision.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As a series of sounds rang out, the bat-like creatures died instantly before they could even get close to the two of them, and then exploded and dispersed like energy.

After walking several hundred meters, we arrived at the end of the passage, where there was a huge cave, covering an area roughly the size of a football field, with a three-dimensional structure above it covered with countless holes.

Four-clawed bats were circling everywhere, but the major showed no intention of slowing down.

As the two rushed in, screams rang out, and like a black wave, a tide of four-clawed bats crashed towards them.

"Crack!"

A crisp knocking sound rang out, but this time no rays were emitted from the soul-guided gun.

The stored soul power has been exhausted.

Seeing this, Lin Xingyu sighed softly and casually tossed the Soul Guidance Gun aside.

"Indeed, external forces are unpredictable; in the end, it all comes down to oneself."

Lin Xingyu stepped forward, and his blood and qi surged forth.

The flesh and bones inside the body transformed into a faint gold color in that instant.

Outside his body, crimson smoke rose from his body.

He stomped hard on the ground, and crimson light gathered in his right hand, first as if it were wrapped in flames, and then as the power of blood and qi gathered.

His hand seemed to be holding a small sun as the black tide rushed towards the two of them.

Lin Xingyu clenched his fist and punched forward.

"Boom!"

In an instant, a burst of light, like the sun bursting forth, appeared here.

The terrifying impact, carrying massive amounts of heat and light, burst forth recklessly in all directions.

Countless four-clawed bats died in that instant, then dissipated as energy.

Lin Xingyu did not stop, but instead slammed into the ground, his entire body hurtling towards the distant swarm of bats like a meteor.

In that instant, he transformed into a pure killing machine.

The moment any bat comes into contact with Lin Xingyu, he will smash it to pieces.

In just a short while, all the bat-like creatures were blasted into dissipated energy.

The female major couldn't help but slightly open her mouth at that moment.

So strong!

It's much stronger than expected!

(End of this chapter)