Peerless Tang Sect: Becoming a God Through Medicine.

Chapter 203 The Steel Art of Mirror Red Dust

Xiao Hongchen shrugged: "Since the dream hasn't ended and I'm going into seclusion, let's just forget about it. I was originally planning to make her battle armor first."

"And you, what are you going to do next? I remember you already reached the level 80 bottleneck before you condensed your soul core, right? When are you going to acquire a soul ring?"

"Let's do it now. Obtaining a spirit ring is no longer just about breaking through cultivation; it's also part of the second part of my divine trial," Lin Nuo said. "I'll go say hello to Grandpa Mirror and then we'll set off immediately."

"Yes." Xiao Hongchen nodded.

Lin Nuo thought for a moment, then reached out and touched Xiao Hongchen's forehead. Lin Nuo transmitted his insights about life and spirituality to him through spiritual communication.

This was what Lin Nuo sensed from the laws of life in the demiplane of living beings after condensing the core of the world, through the connection of the soul core. A large part of it came from Lin Nuo's understanding of the attributes of life.

These insights will help Xiao Hongchen go further on the path of spirit forging, increase the success rate of spirit forging, and reduce the difficulty in the forging process.

"These insights should be helpful to you, but I think you don't need to push the Soul Forging upwards now. This isn't something that can be done in a short time. Let's wait until I get my eighth Soul Ring and have some free time. I have a powerful figure here who can help." Lin Nuo withdrew his finger and said to Xiao Hongchen.

"Moreover, the foundation of soul forging is alloy forging, which is quite difficult, especially the degree of fusion between alloys during forging. The degree of fusion largely determines the quality of the alloy."

"Sigh, what a life of toil," Xiao Hongchen shook his head helplessly.

He'd only rested for a short while before he had to go back to being a beast of burden, studying and forging.

"Alright then, I'll start trying fusion forging. Soul forging is up to you. I've already reached a point where it's very difficult for me to break through to the realm above spirit forging, so I can only rely on you."

After parting ways with Xiao Hongchen, Lin Nuo went to Mingde Hall Laboratory No. 1 and found Jing Hongchen, who was working hard to develop mechs.

The Tang Clan's hidden weapon structure did indeed greatly help Jing Hongchen. With the dual assistance of the thousand-forged metal and the hidden weapon structure, the mecha, a powerful weapon on the battlefield, was beginning to take shape.

Where the No. 1 experimental subject was originally placed in the laboratory, a ten-meter-tall robot, no smaller than the No. 1 experimental subject, now stands.

But compared to the original bulky test subject, this mecha's appearance is undeniably cool.

Lin Nuo, the first test subject, had seen it several times, and each time he couldn't help but complain that the thing was so swollen that it looked just like Ma Hongjun. How could a robot built with hundreds or thousands of core magic arrays like building blocks have any aesthetic appeal?

The mecha before us was entirely made of the cold, dark black color characteristic of metal. Its streamlined body, with its sharp angles, was both smooth and powerful. On each side of its arms were two weapons: an energy cannon and a heavy battle blade, one for long-range and one for close-range combat. In particular, there was a three-meter-long hollowed-out gun barrel on its left shoulder.

Do you still remember the Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle that Lin Nuo first brought to Jing Hongchen's great shock?

That was the first time Jing Hongchen refreshed his worldview, opening the door to physics from the original bombardment of soul energy.

Kinetic attack.

This is practically the Three-Body Problem technology in the Soul Guidance System of Douluo Continent; it's a path that Soul Guidance Masters have never imagined.

Lin Nuo inadvertently pointed out this path. Even though Jing Hongchen's mind was usually preoccupied with the two soul tools from the future, namely the battle armor and the mecha, he still hadn't forgotten the shock that Lin Nuo had brought him.

Thus, this hollowed-out cannon was born.

Based on the level of soul tools, this hollow cannon can only be considered level eight, and it should be classified as a fixed soul tool because it causes damage by firing physical cannonballs, rather than directly using soul power to drive the firing of energy beams.

But even at level eight, its penetrating attack power against a single target surpasses that of the new version of the Sun and Moon Divine Needle.

Simply because—it's an electromagnetic railgun!

To create this level 8 electromagnetic cannon, Xiao Hongchen worked like a slave for half a month, just to forge the materials given to him by Jing Hongchen into a finished product of at least the thousand-refinement holy grade.

This material is called Myriad Calamity Thunder Stone. Although it is named after a stone, it is a top-grade rare metal. More importantly, it has a strong magnetic force, which can be understood as an enhanced version of a magnet. It also contains abundant lightning energy and can be used as a battery.

It is a rare metal that integrates the functions of magnets, storage batteries, and superconducting materials.

The Thunder Cannon, which appeared in the original work, requires the Myriad Tribulations Thunder Stone to inscribe its core magic array. The core magic array of the level nine Thunder Cannon must be entirely inscribed with the Myriad Tribulations Thunder Stone.

Just like Lin Nuo did back then, in order to create the theoretically most perfect weapon with limited technology and materials, Jing Hongchen directly used the precious materials used to inscribe the core magic array as the cannon barrel, and then used the properties of the thousand-forged metal to inscribe the core magic array on the surface of the cannon barrel.

The final result is this level 8 electromagnetic cannon mounted on the mech.

After this thing was made, it greatly shocked Jing Hongchen. After testing, even the Royal Soul Master Corps' Battle Armor Squad, which erected a linked soul guide shield, could not withstand a single electromagnetic cannonball.

Although it only penetrated rather than shattered the soul guide shield, which could be quickly restored, the power was real.

Even a titled Douluo couldn't stop it!

In terms of technological level, this mech is definitely inferior to the black-level or even purple-level mechs from the Legend of the Dragon King era, since this thing cannot be used by ordinary people.

But in terms of battlefield lethality, it is undoubtedly the top-tier Black-class mech.

It has an eighth-level close-range soul guide for melee combat, a burst cannon for mid-range combat, and an electromagnetic cannon for long-range kills beyond visual range. The machine can also be equipped with one hundred and eight level eight healing bottles with full soul power.

Even a Soul Saint can use it to unleash the combat power of a powerful offensive Title Douluo.

This is the masterpiece that Jing Hongchen once dreamed of completing: a large humanoid soul tool, a steel butcher on the battlefield, a ruthless killing machine!

This is his unique art of steel.

When Lin Nuo found Jing Hongchen, he was optimizing the energy transmission circuit on the mecha.

Mechs are not human bodies, unlike Soul Masters who can control their internal Soul Power at will. These energy circuits are the mech's meridians. Without increasing the strength of these energy circuits, the energy output is simply insufficient to equip it with a level nine Soul Tool.

This is why all the weapons it carries are only level eight.

It's not that Jing Hongchen doesn't have the money to install it, but rather that his technology has hit a bottleneck.