Douluo Continent: I can nurture soul beasts and even perform super evolution.

Chapter 171 Advanced Studies, Level 8 Soul Tool, Villain Wang Shaojie

He cut off a piece of the heavy silver, and then, to Xuan Ziwen's astonished gaze, kneaded it. The hard metal seemed unusually soft in Su Wen's hands, as if he were tearing a piece off a dough.

As an eighth-level Soul Master, he naturally knew how tough this rare metal was, and that it could be "kneaded" at will with bare hands... Xuan Ziwen's mind quickly calculated the lower limit of his strength.

Soon, the metal was kneaded like clay into pieces that were exactly the same shape as the level-six soul tool next to it. Then, Su Wen took out a green carving knife.

Xuan Ziwen stared in disbelief.

At this moment, he finally understood what Su Wen was trying to do—to replicate the core of the soul tool array he had given him!
This is simply unbelievable for a Soul Master who has only been exposed to Level 2 and 3 Soul Tools. The difficulty in making the core of a Soul Tool is divided into analysis and hands-on work. Generally speaking, the former is more difficult because it requires a large amount of mental energy to be poured into the array. The array is interconnected, especially the core array of Soul Tools above Level 5, whose complexity and difficulty are many times higher than those below Level 5.

Once the analysis is successful, the remake won't be too far away.

Su Wen's hand movements never stopped.

Pick up the metal plate, infuse your spiritual power into the carving knife, and as the emerald green light shines, a pattern slowly takes shape on the metal plate.

"call……"

"All right."

Su Wen looked at Xuan Ziwen, who was already dumbfounded.

"Teacher Xuan, please take a look."

Without a word, Xuan Ziwen took the metal disc, examined its patterns and textures, and infused it with soul power until the entire disc glowed with a vibrant green light, the patterns densely connected without any malfunctions. Then he fell silent…

perfect.

This doesn't mean that this level-six soul guidance array core has reached the pinnacle of his vision for similar soul guidance tools. Rather, it means that the array core that Su Wen replicated is exactly the same as the level-six soul guidance tool array core that he took out! Even the minor mistakes he made during its creation were completely replicated.

It should be noted that, due to various factors, even the same Soul Master will have different results when making the same type of Soul Tool.

This also shows that Su Wen's analysis was not just a pretense; he actually already knew it and was truly learning and applying it on the spot!

"A level six soul tool..."

"Even a level six soul master from Mingde Hall would need at least half a month to analyze and replicate a level six soul tool that has never been seen before."

Xuan Ziwen spoke with difficulty, staring at Su Wen as if he were looking at a ghost.

He was starting to believe it.

"But you only used two hours, and that even includes the time you spent carving the array..."

“I’m a pretty quick learner,” Su Wen grinned.

“Comprehension, comprehension…” Xuan Ziwen pondered the words, then shook his head after a long while: “It seems you are a genius. I take back what I said before. It is an honor for me as a teacher to have a student with such monstrous talent as you, even if it was only once.”

"The test is over. Come with me."

Xuan Ziwen waved his hand, signaling Su Wen to follow.

Entering another laboratory, Xuan Ziwen explained, "You'll be working in this laboratory in the future. By the way, you should be a Soul Emperor, right? I've seen your physical test data, and with this talent, you should be able to try out a level seven soul tool..."

"Soul King".

Su Wen shook his head.

"His soul power is just inflated."

"..."

Xuan Ziwen stumbled, and looking at the smiling Su Wen, his lips twitched slightly.

Soul power can be artificially inflated?!

"Fine, I'll definitely let you pass in ten days anyway. Don't hesitate to ask me anything you don't understand these days..."

Xuan Ziwen waved his hand and said.

"Also, this is my student, Orange."

As he spoke, he nodded slightly to a girl in the laboratory who was polishing metal while looking up at the two of them.

The girl had fair skin, and behind her protective goggles, she wore gold-rimmed glasses, exuding a quiet, scholarly beauty. Her gaze towards Su Wen was initially blank, then filled with astonishment…

"This is... Su Wen?!"

"Teacher, what makes you think you're qualified to teach him?"

Orange looked shocked.

Xuan Ziwen's face darkened, and he said irritably, "I am a consultant of Mingde Hall, an eighth-level Soul Master, only one step away from the ninth level. Why am I not qualified to teach him?"

"Oh, oh." Her orange-brown eyes remained fixed on Su Wen, clearly ignoring Xuan Ziwen's response.

"Really handsome."

After a long while, she nodded slightly.

"Alright, once everyone's here, you can introduce them for me. I'm busy now." Xuan Ziwen grumbled as he left, clearly hurt by his apprentice's doubts.

Su Wen wore a smile throughout.

They also figured out Xuan Ziwen's personality, which is pretty much the same as in the original work. He's the kind of guy who's a bit of a repressed, brooding science and engineering student, and he's a bit like Wang Yan.

Orange came over and asked all sorts of questions.

This was somewhat unexpected.

After all, he remembered that in the original novel, her attitude towards Huo Guayi at the beginning was not friendly, and it was even the fuse that ignited the Wang Shaojie incident.

It seems that first impressions vary from person to person. In this Soul Master Competition, he didn't kill the Sun Moon Empire Royal Team, which earned him some goodwill. In the original story, Huo Yuhao's Shrek team, including Xu Sanshi and Ma Xiaotao, slaughtered five or six members of the Sun Moon team. Huo Yuhao only isolated and troubled them when he went in, and it was already very tolerant of him not to take direct action.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

Besides listening to Xuan Ziwen's lectures in the laboratory about all aspects of soul tools and techniques, Su Wen also practiced them. Su Wen's rapid progress led to the emergence of a second victim whose Dao Heart was shattered.

Xuan Ziwen watched as Su Wen went from a complete novice who knew nothing about soul tools to successfully replicating the pinnacle of level seven soul tools—the fixed-position soul tool.

Many of these formations are even comparable in complexity to level seven soul tools that are at least level eight.

Su Wen was also quite strange. The other people in the lab were on missions and had temporarily left the school, but when Ju Zi was introducing them on her fingers, she mentioned a junior brother named Huo Yuhao.

He truly hadn't expected that Huo Gua would, by a twist of fate, also end up in Xuan Ziwen's laboratory.

It seems that he also gained a great opportunity from that incident.

To die and then to live.

Su Wen didn't care. Huo Yuhao was fine. Even if he fell into the Holy Spirit Cult and joined the Body Sect, it would be difficult for him to amount to anything after losing a considerable amount of his luck.

Mu Qiu'er was quite troubled. She was quite enthusiastic about forging, but she was somewhat powerless when it came to soul tools, which were things that could penetrate formations and mobilize spiritual power.

On the contrary, Wang Dong'er was very interested. Perhaps it was because Tang San's forbidden spell had a counterproductive effect, arousing the rebelliousness in the girl's heart, so she listened to the lessons with extra care every day.

Lou Yingying and Song Lei had some basic knowledge, and after ten days of learning, they both successfully joined Mingdetang.

Needless to say, Ye Xiaosheng and the others.

"Om..."

In the laboratory.

Su Wen focused intently, holding the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife in his hand, carving the array with concentration. A green line slid across the metal plate from the tip of the knife.

Orange watched cautiously from the side, not daring to utter a sound.

What Su Wen is trying to carve is an eighth-level defensive soul tool, the most classic defensive shield model of the Sun Moon Empire - Titan Fortress 002. Although it is very old and cannot be ranked among the current eighth-level soul tools, as long as he can successfully carve it, it will mean that Su Wen can enter the ranks of eighth-level soul tool masters.

The higher the level of the soul tool's core array carving, the more it requires holding one's breath and concentrating, the absolute focus of the wielder, and the absence of excessive external noise.

Therefore, she was extra careful, afraid of disturbing Su Wen.

"Wow, this test was an unexpected success! With Professor Xuan's improvements, I think the all-terrain self-propelled detector is ready for mass production. This thing is a killer weapon on the battlefield. It ignores terrain and can adapt to various combat environments. Plus, with the accompanying baby bottle, it's incredibly powerful..."

With a metallic beep.

Keke walked into the laboratory, beaming with pride.

The others also had smiles on their faces.

The more prestigious the name Xuan Ziwen is, the better the treatment his disciples will receive in the future, whether they join the army or Mingde Hall.

"Let's make a few more improvements. It's a bit too early to put it on the battlefield now."

A gentle voice sounded.

Huo Yuhao said.

He found this about Xuan Ziwen quite interesting, because he had "joined" the Tang Clan for a period of time and had learned some of the Tang Clan's exquisite methods of making hidden weapons, which was the key to his success in staying in Xuan Ziwen's laboratory.

Clearly, Xuan Ziwen was quite interested in this and also agreed with the idea of ​​integrating Huo Yuhao's ingenious hidden weapon structure into the formation.

He was also quite interested in the all-terrain self-propelled detector. Whether it was for detection or for future transformation into a self-propelled artillery platform equipped with heavy artillery, this thing had a lot of operational potential.

In the future, he might be able to acquire some resources from the Holy Spirit Cult, thereby strengthening its power to launch a counterattack against Shrek Academy, or perhaps avenge the Duke and roam freely within the Star Luo Empire.

"Shhh!!!"

The group was chatting happily.

Suddenly, Orange covered Coco's mouth, who had the loudest voice, widened her beautiful eyes, and held up a finger in front of her mouth.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, he pointed to Su Wen in the corner.

"Su Wen! Carve the core array of the soul tool."

Orange lowered her voice.

"Su Wen?!"

Only then did everyone realize that Su Wen was intently carving the core array in the corner of the laboratory.

Huo Yuhao's breathing suddenly quickened, and his light blue eyes flashed with a cold killing intent as he looked at Su Wen in the distance.

His hands are stained with too much blood.

Although most of them deserved their fate, there were also many innocent people. This transformation made him increasingly cold-hearted, which explains why Zhongli Wu praised him as a born evil soul master...

Therefore, even if he killed Su Wen here, he would not feel any burden.

And it is also the best opportunity.

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes slightly.

Shortness of breath.

If, if I could kill him here.

Shrek Academy would likely be on the verge of war with the Sun Moon Empire, which was exactly what he, and indeed the entire Holy Spirit Cult, wanted to see...

(End of this chapter)