Douluo: The Thousand-Faced Angel in the Dragon King

Chapter 18 The Mortal Family? Beginner's Guide to Soul Tools

The refined-looking white-haired, green-eyed youth adjusted his monocle, a faint smile always playing on his lips.

"My name is Duan Hongchen, please give me your guidance."

Qian Mo twitched the corner of his mouth. This name, combined with his identity as a Soul Master, could he be from that family?

To confirm his suspicions, Qianmo tentatively asked, "What is your relationship with the Hongchen family?"

Duan Hongchen stroked the teacup with his left hand, raised an eyebrow, and said in surprise, "Oh, I didn't expect that anyone would still remember my Hongchen family."

Qian Mo leaned back in his chair, smiled calmly, and said softly, "How could the once-famous Soul Master family, which led the Mingde Hall ten thousand years ago, not be known to others?"

A hint of desolation and resentment flashed in Duan Hongchen's eyes. He clenched his right fist, gave a bitter smile, and said, "You said it yourself, it was ten thousand years ago. The Hongchen family now is just an insignificant little family in Tiandou City."

Ten thousand years ago, during Huo Yuhao's time, Jing Hongchen, the head of the Hongchen family, founded the Mingde Hall, a sacred place for soul masters, in the Sun Moon Empire, which greatly promoted the development of soul tools.

However, after Jing Hongchen successfully helped Xu Tianran, the prince of the Sun Moon Royal Family, ascend the throne, Xu Tianran turned his back on him and appointed Jing Hongchen as the city lord of Tiandou City, which was actually a demotion in disguise, and directly kicked him out of the center of power.

It now appears that after Jing Hongchen, the descendants of the Hongchen family did not escape their predicament; instead, they gradually faded away with the changing times.

However, after carefully observing Duan Hongchen, Qianmo secretly estimated that he was only in his early thirties and was already a level seven Soul Master. He wondered if Duan Hongchen's Soul Saint cultivation was genuine or achieved through drug use.

If it was achieved through genuine cultivation, then this generation of the Hongchen family could truly be extraordinary!

Qian Mo's eyes flashed with a sharp light. After a moment of contemplation, he changed the subject from reminiscing about the Hongchen family's past and asked a question that concerned him more.

"Mr. Hongchen, you are a level seven soul master. How could you condescend to be my teacher, a child who has just entered the field of soul tools?"

Duan Hongchen gently interlaced his fingers on the table, a polite smile still on his face, and replied, "The work is easy, the pay is high, and it's close to home, so I came."

"However, I now think," Duan Hongchen smiled mysteriously, "this will probably be a very interesting experience."

Qian Mo snapped his fingers and said lightly, "Great minds think alike, and I think..."

Leaning forward, Qian Mo said mysteriously, "This will be an opportunity for you."

Duan Hongchen gently pushed up his monocle, a smile playing on his lips, and said softly, "I'm looking forward to it."

"Well then, Teacher Hongchen, please guide me in the coming period of time."

Qianmo and Duan Hongchen exchanged a smile, and the atmosphere between them was quite harmonious.

The next afternoon, after finishing her lessons at the Forging Masters Association, having lunch, and resting, Qianmo returned to her large villa.

After greeting Chen Luo and Gu Yuena, who were training in the backyard, Qian Mo went straight into the innermost room of the villa.

Upon opening the room, one finds a spacious interior, neatly arranged with various sizes of equipment, clearly a soul guidance laboratory. Duan Hongchen, dressed in a white lab coat, sits at the lab table, writing and drawing with a pen.

This soul-guided laboratory was temporarily built to facilitate Qianmo's learning of soul-guided tools. The facilities are basic, but sufficient.

Qianmo changed into a white coat, sat down next to Duan Hongchen, and called out, "Teacher Hongchen!"

Without looking up, Duan Hongchen asked, "What do you think is the most important part of a soul tool?"

Qian Mo paused for a moment, then quickly replied, "The core magic array!"

Duan Hongchen nodded in satisfaction and continued, "That's right. Soul tools are actually a technology formed by carving core magic arrays on rare metals and gemstones."

"Therefore, from today onwards, I will teach you the method of carving the core magic array."

"Watch closely, I'm going to teach you how to carve a basic first-order core magic array."

After speaking, Duan Hongchen picked up a hexagonal metal block and, holding a carving knife, slowly and clearly demonstrated the carving process to Qianmo.

When inscribing the core magic array, the Soul Master needs to have certain skills and focus, because the core magic array is very complex, and the slightest carelessness will result in the failure of all previous efforts.

But none of this mattered to Qian Mo. His extremely high mental strength, coupled with the focus he had honed through brutal training, helped him notice the details of the complex core array. Throughout the entire process of engraving the array, his hand did not tremble at all.

After Duan Hongchen demonstrated the engraving process of the first-order core magic array, Qian Mo closed his eyes and went through it in his mind. Then he was able to pick up the engraving knife and perfectly replicate it one by one.

Upon witnessing this scene, Duan Hongchen remained outwardly silent, but inwardly he was astonished. Qian Mo's talent was terrifyingly powerful; it seemed this teaching journey would not be ordinary.

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After calming down, Duan Hongchen began to explain the essence of the soul tool to Qian Mo, from the surface to the core, why the effect of this inscription is release, and why the ability of inscription in this shape is absorption, etc.

Qianmo listened intently, for this would be the foundation for him to create soul tools in the future.

At the end of his study of soul tools, Duan Hongchen handed a notebook to Qian Mo and instructed him, "This contains some of my understanding of soul tools. Take a look at it often. Now that the soul tool system is almost complete, if you want to make a breakthrough, your research direction still needs to be towards mecha, battle armor, or large soul tools."

Qian Mo nodded in deep agreement. Mecha in Douluo Continent are divided into two types: large mecha and battle armor. Among them, battle armor has been developed the best and is the favorite of soul masters.

However, large mechs turned out quite the opposite, becoming perfect cannon fodder. Even the god-level mechs that were hyped up to the skies in the original work, giving people the feeling that wearing one would make them a powerful figure on the continent, turned out to be surprisingly weak in terms of win rate...

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Yun Ming killed them all with a single shot, and Tang Wulin killed them all with a single punch. Even Mu Ye, who was extremely passionate about mechas, would only transform his god-level mecha into a greatsword and wave it around a couple of times during the battle.

Why not wear the mecha on the outside? That god-level mecha might not even be as tough as Makino's body, so what's the point of wearing it?

The protagonist of the original novel, Tang Wulin, also loved mechas and had participated in many mecha battles. However, the more Qianmo read the original novel, the more she felt that using mechas limited Tang Wulin's power, actually weakening him rather than increasing his combat strength.

Furthermore, large mechs are divided into white, yellow, purple, black, and red from low to high. Starting from the purple level, there are considerable requirements for the operator's soul power and physical fitness.

It's like these large mechs are disliked by the strong and unusable by the weak; this development is truly a failure.

(End of this chapter)