Douluo Dragon King: I am the Lord of the Abyss, the King of Eternal Night.

Chapter 257 Mechanical Ascension Project, Data Explodes! Source Material!

The voluptuous woman was none other than Ling Zichen, the director of the Tang Sect's Soul-Guided Artillery Research Center.

"How is it possible to transfer an entire soul into a mecha? And to preserve the soul intact? This is a major breakthrough..."

Ling Zichen stared intently at Mu Ye's mecha on the soul guide screen. As a top-notch scientific researcher, she could tell at a glance that Mu Ye's god-level mecha was extraordinary, as there was a soul inside!
Although she doesn't know whether the soul comes from a soul beast, a human, or a spirit, it is undoubtedly a major breakthrough.

After all, these are essentially souls, and combining souls with mechs is something no one in history has ever done before.

Immediately, Ling Zichen took out an extremely thin soul communication device, and with a gentle swipe of her slender fingers, a phantom blue screen appeared in front of her.

Ling Zichen immediately wrote down his guess on it:

"Could one achieve immortality by perfectly transferring a human soul into a mecha or metal?"

"Or, could we replace the human body with metal, and live indefinitely while controlling the power of the metal?"

"Flesh and blood are weak and fragile. If we use Heaven-Forged Metal as the bone, Mecha as the flesh, and Soul Guiding Array as the blood, can we succeed?"

"Will may perish, but matter endures!"

Ling Zichen quickly jotted down his guess, and at the very top of the blue screen were four large characters:

"Mechanical Ascension!"

After finishing recording, the fervor in Ling Zichen's beautiful eyes not only did not diminish but increased, and there was even a hint of longing.

“Soul power is such a wonderful thing, but I don’t have any…” Ling Zichen rubbed his temples and murmured with a flicker in his eyes.

That's right. Although she is the director of the research lab, the most important department in the Tang Sect, she is actually an ordinary person who doesn't even possess soul power.

She has been able to get to where she is today entirely because of her top-notch research capabilities.

Although she is a mortal, most of the top technologies of the Tang Sect in the past decade have come from her.

Both the heavy particle soul guide ray and the new type of thunder soul guide cannonball were created by her own hands.

After a sigh, Ling Zichen turned his gaze back to the screen, continuing to observe the fusion of the mecha and battle armor on Mu Ye's body, showing no sadness whatsoever due to the lack of soul power.

"Xiao Ai, scan the data of everyone present."

Through the monitoring, seeing so many top-tier Title Douluo-level powerhouses, Ling Zichen seemed to suddenly think of something, and then gave an order to the soul guidance machine next to him.

"Yes!"

A mechanical voice devoid of any emotion rang out, and at the same time, the soul-guided flight monitor, located far outside Shrek City, began to flicker red.

Immediately afterwards, countless analytical data appeared on the screen, and Ling Zichen browsed through them one by one with great concentration.

Suddenly, Ling Zichen froze, rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and showed a rare look of shock.

"Is this the kind of data a teenager should have?"

A piece of data was displayed on the soul guide screen:
Jiang Xiu, ranked first on the list of young geniuses, is fourteen years old, with a soul power level of fifty-eight. His physical strength is comparable to a level seventy-six beast soul master. His martial soul, mental strength, intelligence, and soul bone are all unknown...

Based on the comprehensive data assessment, her talent... is off the charts!!!
"Beep beep beep! Exceptional genius detected, automatically added to the database!"

Immediately afterwards, the soul guide screen emitted a piercing beeping sound, and Jiang Xiu's data was automatically saved.

"Fourteen years old, with physical strength comparable to a Soul Saint, is that right?" Ling Zichen adjusted his black-rimmed glasses, momentarily stunned.

She had browsed through the physical test data from the past ten thousand years. The last person with such astonishing data was Huo Yuhao, the Spirit Ice Douluo, their Tang Sect ancestor, ten thousand years ago.

However, according to Mi Zi's records, the reason for this data was that Huo Yuhao's ancestor had integrated the entire origin of the Ice Emperor, one of the three great heavenly kings of the far north, spanning 400,000 years.

Even so, Huo Yuhao's ancestor's body at this age was only comparable to that of a Soul Emperor.

Now that soul beasts are nearly extinct, and the far north has been declining ever since losing the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, it's impossible for any soul beasts to be sacrificed to Jiang Xiu.

"Strange, how did they do that?" Ling Zichen murmured repeatedly, her beautiful eyes filled with shock and curiosity.

However, a hint of eagerness flashed deep in Ling Zichen's beautiful eyes. She opened the communication soul tool in her hand again and opened another plan: "Add one more bloodline breakthrough talent."

"If only I could get more source material, then after integrating it into my mecha, I wouldn't have to be so hesitant if I had enough energy." After doing all this, Ling Zichen pursed her red lips slightly and couldn't help but sigh.

If any other researchers were present, they would surely have kept their distance upon hearing the words "source material".

This source material is precisely what is used to make God-Slaying Fixed-Mount Soul-Guided Cannonballs. It takes several tons of rare metals to extract just one gram of this substance. Furthermore, the reason why God-Slaying Fixed-Mount Soul-Guided Cannonballs have such explosive power is because of this material.

One can imagine how dangerous the energy of this substance is.

But now Ling Zichen is going to integrate this source substance into his own mecha!
"If only we could study the Eternal Heaven, we might make some new discoveries." Ling Zichen's beautiful eyes sparkled as she licked her dry red lips and murmured to herself.

She dared to believe this so firmly because her ancestors had participated in the creation of the Eternal Kingdom, and her parents had died researching the Source Material. However, because the resources consumed by the God-Slaying Fixed-Position Soul-Guided Cannonball were too terrifying, the Federation had long since stopped researching it, and the Source Material was strictly prohibited from being extracted.

"Why don't the two temple lords dare to fight the Federation?"

Ling Zichen suppressed this thought slightly, after all, the three level 12 fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells were protected in the Federation's most secure District 13, which was not open to anyone other than special Federation personnel, so it was impossible for them to be transported out.

"what!"

Suddenly, Ling Zichen exclaimed in surprise as she realized that the boy named Jiang Xiu was watching her soul-guided monitor hidden in mid-air.

It was as if he wanted to see her through the monitor.

"Interesting, so interesting!"

Ling Zichen's red lips curled up, and a fervent look appeared in her beautiful eyes. A Soul Master as extraordinary as Jiang Xiu had already caught her attention.

"I really want to study you and see why you are so different..."

Outside Shrek City, Jiang Xiu, who was staring at the metal ball-like soul tool, suddenly felt a chill down his spine, as if he had been targeted by some madman.

"What is this? A monitoring soul tool...? To which side does it belong?" Jiang Xiu pondered, puzzled.

With so many forces present, he didn't know for a moment which side the soul-guided monitor came from.

However, Jiang Xiu soon stopped paying attention, because regardless of which side was involved, whether the recorded video was leaked or not would benefit their Body Sect.

Not only did Long Yeyue's conspiracy fail today, but it also handed his master, Dong Zi'an, a sharp blade to stab Chen Xinjie.

"Why does it seem like the more chaotic Long Yeyue acts, the faster Shrek Academy will perish?" Jiang Xiu's eyes flashed, and he muttered to himself.

"No, we can't slander Elder Xuanzi of the Holy Spirit Cult anymore. Long Yeyue is clearly superior to him."

Just as Jiang Xiu was pondering, Mu Ye in the sky above had already begun to extort money.

"Tell me, how does Shrek Academy plan to compensate our Body Sect?" Mu Ye asked the elder of Shrek Academy in a tight voice.

"Compensation? What compensation? Shrek Academy has its own Shrek Inspection Team, which has the duty to eradicate evil and maintain peace. Do you think your Body Sect has done anything wrong?" an elder retorted directly.

Upon hearing this, Ao Rui's face darkened even more.

Shrek Academy not only has its own self-defense army, but also this Shrek Inspection Corps, which claims to have the responsibility of monitoring evil spirit masters throughout the world and upholding justice.

Shrek Academy upholds justice, so what are the Federation doing here?

The merciful Shrek Academy, and the Federation is a complete waste?

Isn't this tantamount to turning against them?
Dong Zian's expression also darkened.

"So, you're not willing to pay compensation?" Makino's face turned cold.

Before Dong Zian arrived, their Body Sect was bullied and oppressed. Now that Dong Zian has arrived, if their Body Sect is still bullied and oppressed, then Dong Zian's visit was in vain.
"Hmph, you want money? No way! You want my life? I won't give it to you either!" the elder of the Sea God Pavilion said without hesitation.

“Everyone, it is true that you have slandered the Body Sect, so it is only reasonable for you to make some compensation,” Ao Rui said, trying to calm things down.

“God of War Ao, you don’t know, our Shrek Academy spends a lot of money teaching and educating people, where would we get the money to give to their Body Sect?” Zhuo Shi said with a bitter expression, shaking his head.

Mu Ye's lips twitched as he looked at Zhuo Shi's expression.

Shrek Academy doesn't have money? Looking at these elders of the Sea God Pavilion, he figured their gold bars would probably fall out after a couple of steps.

"Exactly, why should Shrek Academy pay compensation? At worst, we can bring Elder Long here to continue testifying."

Hu Jie, however, remained righteous and continued to secretly supply fire, relentlessly pursuing Long Yeyue.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Ao Rui stepped in the middle and advised, "When two forces are talking, they should be magnanimous."

The two sides engaged in a heated debate, and Zhuoshi, having carelessly lost the immortal, had no choice but to offer advice.

"Brother Ming, let's leave this matter here. Don't forget there's a continent-wide tournament coming up in the Star Luo Empire. Let's not waste any more energy on this kind of thing."

Watching this scene, Ya Li secretly transmitted her voice to Yun Ming beside her, saying, "What's more, it was Sister Yue who started this first..."

Yun Ming's eyes flickered, and he sighed softly.

Long Yeyue wanted to target the Body Sect, but obviously failed again. Fortunately, this time the incident mostly occurred in the War God Temple, and Shrek Academy suffered no damage.

"Chen Xinjie is probably in for a headache this time..."

(End of this chapter)