Douluo Continent: When Huo Yuhao Becomes the Lord of the End

Chapter 174 The Prototype of Soul Armor, Modular Embedding Technology

Huo Yuhao put the soul orb away.

"Senior brother, why are you in such a hurry? I told you, this is just a first-generation soul orb. In some ways, it's not even a half-finished product."

"Even if I wanted to do something, I'm powerless to do it now, aren't I?"

To put it simply, this soul tool called Soul Ball is just a soul tool that can store special energy, similar to an advanced low-level God Consecration Platform.

Huo Yuhao has yet to come up with solutions to many of these problems.

For example, after capturing a soul beast, how do we resolve the quantum superposition state of its body and soul?

For example, how can a captured soul beast share its power with the captured soul master? How can their body size, age, and attributes be matched?
There are many problems to be solved here, including how to ensure that spirit beasts are willingly subdued, their lifespan, and whether subdued spirit beasts can be passed down through generations of spirit masters.
This involves a great deal of necromancy, numerous core magic arrays, and also requires bypassing and redesigning the underlying rules of this world, as well as the influence of soul beasts.
After Huo Yuhao explained everything, Xuan Ziwen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"As long as you have an idea."

He was really scared just now.

He thought his junior brother had gone mad. What if Soul Masters stopped hunting Soul Beasts in the future and instead used this method of subjugation to acquire their power and grow stronger?

This will undoubtedly break the rules of the entire world today.

At that time, will the level of innate soul power still be an obstacle to the strength of a soul master? In addition to soul masters and soul mentors, won't there be another profession, soul beast master, or beast tamer?

Nowadays, Soul Masters kill Soul Beasts and then absorb the Soul Rings condensed by the Soul Beasts to become stronger. But what would happen to the world if Soul Masters stopped hunting Soul Beasts?

Soul bones can be passed down through generations. If we can subdue and utilize the power of soul beasts using something like a soul orb, wouldn't soul masters be able to pass on their skills from generation to generation?

If the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker, that would be terrible.

Frankly speaking, it's impossible for a person to imagine a world they've never seen. Xuan Ziwen thinks that might be very interesting, since if it were really possible, then talent would no longer be an obstacle preventing humans from becoming strong.

However, a series of problems will still arise, and these will inevitably involve the coexistence between soul beasts and humans, which is a very terrifying thing.

Fortunately, his junior brother was aware of the situation. Otherwise, if this information were to spread, those nobles who had displayed their nobility through generations of martial spirit inheritance would surely launch a plan to kill his junior brother without hesitation.

The reason is simple: nobles and certain countries are unwilling to even awaken martial spirits for the common people, let alone such a new 'profession' that could shake their rule.

It's good to have the will but not the ability, a half-finished product is good too!

It would be best if this thing wasn't created before my junior brother became a Limit Douluo and the strongest person on the continent, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

Even so, a sense of excitement still filled Xuan Ziwen's heart.

He felt as if he had inadvertently become a part of history, and then he quickly dismissed these thoughts. Why think so much? His junior brother had already created plenty of innovative soul tools.

"Oh, right," Xuan Ziwen reminded him, "Yuhao, the metal you need has been approved by the Hall of Offerings. When do you have time to pick it up?"

"And your level six soul tool creation, the one called Soul Armor, could you let me take a look at it?"

Soul Armor is a novel contraption that Huo Yuhao created by combining soul bones and soul tools.

It is different from battle armor.

Battle armor is based on metal and is essentially an evolving metal armor that is deeply integrated with the Soul Master's Martial Soul. Soul armor, on the other hand, is based on Soul Bones and is a completely new system of Soul Guidance Device evolution created on the basis of Soul Bones.

Huo Yuhao's soul armor wasn't something he could create on his own. With the guidance of his teacher Kong Deming and the ninth-level soul masters in the Hall of Worship, he was able to build upon the work of his predecessors and create something like this.

The Soul Armor adopts a symbiotic evolution path, with its core architecture using the Soul Bone as the energy core, drawing inspiration from the Soul Guidance Device and Human Fusion Technology of Mingde Hall.

The metal shell, through special metal control, uses spiritual and living metal to transform the soul bone and soul guide technology, giving it life characteristics, and allowing the two to achieve bidirectional energy circulation through the soul power circuit.

Huo Yuhao also excelled in the evolution mechanism. By fusing with compatible metals, he gradually unlocked higher-level attributes by absorbing the overflowing primordial energy of the soul bones.

There's no need to worry about compatibility. Soul masters only need to periodically inject the power of their martial soul's origin and soul power to cause the metal and soul bone to mutate synchronously. At the same time, when summoning the soul bone soul tool, all that's needed is to activate the core magic circle on the soul bone to instantly possess it.

Huo Yuhao nodded. He didn't care about the metal, but he did take the next sentence to heart.

"Senior brother, what do you need the Soul Armor for?"

He wasn't worried about his senior brother's reckless research. After all, this level-six soul bone and soul tool was just an experiment. Although the ten-thousand-year soul bone involved was precious, it was insignificant to Huo Yuhao. This level-six soul tool was more of a reference, a standardized template, for the fusion of his own soul bone and metal that he had prepared in advance.

Xuan Ziwen explained the reason directly: "I want to study the core arrays in your soul tool, which you call the modular interlocking technology."

Modular chimera technology, also known as soul-bone inlay technology.

The principle is to use the soul bone as a spiritual medium, embed it into the core array of the soul tool, and give the soul tool the ability to circulate energy autonomously.

The emergence of this technology was based on Huo Yuhao's own external soul bone, laying the foundation for the continued evolution of his soul armor.

It adopts a split design, dividing the soul bone into multiple energy nodes, such as joints and spine, and each node can be independently wrapped with a replaceable metal module.

It also allows for dynamic enhancement of Soul Masters.

For example, once this technology matures, it can selectively enhance specific nodes by forging metals with different properties, achieving targeted evolution, such as strengthening the defense module or speed module of the Soul Armor.

On the other hand, it can also improve the risk control of the Soul Armor. If it encounters a powerful opponent, even if a certain module of the Soul Armor is damaged, it can be repaired separately, avoiding the overall deterioration of the Soul Armor. Moreover, the Soul Bones in the whole body are independent of each other, and each one is the energy center of the Soul Armor.

Once this thing is fully completed, it will allow the soul bone and soul tool to not only possess the characteristics of a soul bone, but also to contain spirituality and autonomously absorb the energy of heaven and earth to power it, giving it the attributes of continuous improvement and flexible evolution.

For example, if we consider the Emerald Scorpion Tail as a module, then Huo Yuhao only needs to continuously melt and forge metal to cover the Emerald Scorpion Tail and be able to collect and summon it. The Emerald Scorpion Tail can then continue to evolve and gain metal properties.

He could also possess the ability of a soul tool. At that time, he could even create the Ice Jade Scorpion King Cannon or the Metal Storm Giant Cannon, and unleash a tail ray.

Of course, more importantly, it's laying the groundwork for future evolution, so as to acquire a full set of max-level divine gear for oneself.

Now, all he lacks is one last challenge: the fusion of martial soul mimicry, which is how to achieve synchronous mimicry even after the soul bone has melted through different metals.

Simply put, it's about how to make the metal shell simulate the form of a martial soul, reshape the metal's microstructure through the martial soul's essence released by the soul bone, and combine it with metal-controlled soul skills to achieve a perfect fit.

At that time, soul bones and soul tools can achieve hierarchical evolution, allowing them to advance along with the martial soul and automatically generate new properties in the metal, such as domain fusion and metal regeneration.

"Modular interlocking technology?" Huo Yuhao nodded and took out the level six soul tool.

That is, it is a level 6 fusion-forging soul tool that is based on the level 4 soul bone soul tool Ice Soul Spirit Chain and fused with a new ten-thousand-year soul bone.

As for the name, it will still be called Ice Soul Spirit Chain. After all, what kind of soul tool has more modules than a chain?

"Don't blame me for not reminding you, senior brother. Our teacher has a backup of this technology. It seems that the royal family has started to take notice, but our teacher and the dean are planning to apply it to the Sun and Moon Needles and the Grim Reaper first."

"What if the technology is leaked?"

The Hall of Offerings used to specialize in forbidden areas, such as the prototype of high-altitude soul guide devices, and the Grim Reaper and super fixed-position soul guide cannons.

However, with the advent of airplanes, the former has gradually been abandoned by the temple.

The maturity of flight control systems and soul power compression technology means that the Sun and Moon forces no longer need to blindly fight against super high-altitude soul guides. Aircraft can solve most of the problems, and all they need to supply are powerful soul guide bombs to achieve fire coverage.

However, the Grim Reaper and the Super Top-Tier Soul-Guided Bomb are still progressing rapidly, as is the Sun and Moon Divine Needle of Mingde Hall, both of which will utilize this modular interlocking technology, as well as the fusion of soul-guided devices and human bodies.
If it were to leak out accidentally, Xuan Ziwen, as his senior, might not be able to handle it, after all, he has Xu Tianzhen and Ju Zi as his students.

Xuan Ziwen waved his hand dismissively.

"Don't worry, Senior Brother knows what he's doing. I also know that the royal family has their eye on this technology and has disagreed with the two top institutions of the empire, but they are planning to apply it to the Soul Master Legion."

"My senior brother will be wary of his subordinates and will not leak the technology."

Huo Yuhao shrugged and handed the item to Xuan Ziwen. After all, Xuan Ziwen was his personal soul tool maker, and the more he knew about these things, the less trouble he would have to deal with them in the future.

As for the Soul Master Legion, countless historical facts have proven that only by allowing technology to first benefit a portion of the population and undergo thorough validation can it be better adapted to the army.

He was the first to propose the concept of "firepower coverage," and it is now gradually taking root in the minds of many people.

He believed that if this continued for a while longer, he could completely reverse the distorted war mentality of the sun and moon.

Given how low the proportion of Soul Masters in the original Douluo Three Kingdoms has fallen, it's incredibly idiotic to still think about relying on large-scale legion battles and one-for-one exchanges with top-tier experts.

A superior horse should be paired with a superior horse; the sun and moon do not need inferior horses.

(End of this chapter)