Douluo Continent: Huo Yuhao obtains the Flame Emperor template

Chapter 128 Miss Meng is really playing a fancy game.

When Di Ruiqiu saw that Meng Hongchen didn't understand what battle armor was, his eyes darted around. He recalled the story in the Great Silver Dragon Orb that he had read before. Although Gu Yuena ultimately died for love, she had an exceptional talent for designing battle armor.

Although the story of the Great Silver Dragon doesn't detail the manufacturing principles behind the forging and design of battle armor, the existence of battle armor is only mentioned incidentally during Gu Yuena's suicide pact.

However, the concept of battle armor was enough for her to explain to Meng Hongchen.

"Miss Meng, you don't understand. Do you know what the prototype of the battle armor is?" Di Ruiqiu asked lazily, waving the Golden Dragon Spear.

Seeing that Di Ruiqiu seemed to know a lot, Meng Hongchen secretly wondered if there was any connection between the battle armor and the soul guide full-body armor.

"The prototype of the battle armor..." She thought for more than ten seconds but couldn't figure it out. Meng Hongchen slowly shook her head. "What? Rachel, you know a lot about it?"

"Haha, I understand."

Di Ruiqiu quickly devised an explanation using the vast knowledge within the Great Silver Dragon Orb: "Actually, the Battle Armor... is somewhat similar to the Soul Guidance Full Body Armor that Senior Sister Meng mentioned. Its prototype seems to be something like... oh right, a humanoid Soul Guidance Device."

In the light sphere Huo Yuhao gave to the Great Silver Dragon, he briefly mentioned that the battle armor during Gu Yuena's time was the Ice Extreme Battle Armor created by the Huo humans in the light sphere given to her by Yuhao. After ten thousand years of development and improvement, it gradually evolved into battle armor.

Di Rachel blinked and asked with great interest.

"Miss Meng, since your grandfather is so skilled in researching soul tools, you must know about humanoid soul tools, right?"

Meng Hongchen pondered for a moment: "In my memory, I seem to have heard my grandfather mention the term 'humanoid soul tool,' but I have never seen him make one myself."

The concept of humanoid soul tools is not an absolute secret. Soul masters with some expertise in soul tools can all use the term. However, most soul masters are completely clueless or have no idea how to actually make humanoid soul tools.

Meng Hongchen glanced at Huo Yuhao, who was focused on forging, and a hint of surprise appeared in her azure eyes.

"Rachel, I overheard Grandpa having a meeting with some research professors once, and he was worried about humanoid soul tools. Could Yuhao be able to make one?"

"Well... how should I put it, there's still a big difference between hard work and innate talent."

"Furthermore, battle armor is graded, unlike humanoid soul tools which are all high-level. The grades of battle armor... seem to be based on the number of characters, like one-word battle armor, two-word battle armor..."

Di Ruiqiu earnestly explained basic knowledge about battle armor to Meng Hongchen.

Although Meng Hongchen didn't quite understand, she still nodded. After all, judging from Di Ruiqiu's appearance, her understanding wasn't very comprehensive either. At present, she could only say that there was such a thing as battle armor.

She immediately activated her soul power, and her originally fair arms were now bathed in an icy blue aura, which quickly activated the specially made soul-guiding storage rings on her left and right index fingers.

As the storage rings on Meng Hongchen's left and right index fingers glowed with blue light, a pair of ice-blue longswords appeared in her hands in the next instant.

"Grandpa made me a complete set of level six full-body armor. I haven't worn the soul-guided armor for the other parts yet. I practiced with this pair of longswords during my vacation."

Meng Hongchen held a pair of ice-blue longswords and twirled them in the air, her movements both graceful and beautiful.

"Rachel, I am now a level 53 Soul King. I feel that just by equipping these longswords, my combat power has increased significantly. I can even fight against an ordinary six-ring Soul Emperor."

"If I were wearing a full set of level six full armor, I might be able to overpower the Soul Emperor."

This is what her grandfather told her during his holiday. As long as Meng Hongchen can master a complete set of level six full-body armor, let alone a Soul Emperor with a poor-quality martial soul, even a six-ring Soul Emperor with a top-tier martial soul would be no match for Meng Hongchen.

Upon hearing Meng Hongchen's words, which essentially implied that her level six full-body armor was quite powerful, Di Ruiqiu asked, "Senior Meng, is there anything else you don't understand?"

"The first level of battle armor is called One-Word Battle Armor, right...? How does its benefit to Soul Masters compare to the Level 6 Full Body Armor that Grandpa made?"

Meng Hongchen was worried that Huo Yuhao might go astray in his research if he was working alone. What if Yuhao put in a lot of effort to make a battle armor, only to find that it wasn't as good as a soul guide armor? That would be a huge waste.

Since Yuhao is interested in this, it would be better to let his grandfather personally teach him some knowledge about humanoid soul tools.

Meng Hongchen was mainly heartbroken that Huo Yuhao's hard work would be wasted if he didn't find the right research direction.

Di Rachel held the Golden Dragon Spear and thought for a moment. Within the light sphere of the Great Silver Dragon, the Battle Armor provided a basic explanation of how it could enhance a Soul Master's abilities.

"Miss Meng, all I know is that a one-word battle armor requires at least a five-ring Soul King level to wear. Wearing the battle armor should increase a Soul Master's strength by one or two rings, right..."

Di Ruiqiu didn't give a particularly definitive answer, since Yuhao hadn't finished making it yet, so naturally there had to be some room for improvement.

Meng Hongchen's eyes brightened slightly: "It can improve by one ring, wouldn't that make me a Soul Emperor? That's great, it's no worse than a level six full-body armor."

Di Ruiqiu nodded in agreement: "Yes, it's definitely no worse than the Soul Guidance Full Body Armor."

At this moment, the banging sounds in the laboratory stopped. With the help of Electrolux, Huo Yuhao completed the forging of the thousand-forged metal and forged a sufficient quantity of thousand-forged titanium.

With a thought, he put the Xuanzhong Ruler in his hand back into his storage soul tool.

Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Meng Hongchen and Di Rachel, and asked, "Rachel, finished exploring the campus? How did it go?"

Di Rachel smiled and said, "That's great. It's a pity Wang Dong'er isn't at this school, so I won't have the chance to have her clean my dorm."

She and Meng Hongchen stepped forward and came to Huo Yuhao's side.

Meng Hongchen put the ice-blue longswords in both hands back into her soul guide storage ring, and chuckled softly while covering her mouth.

"Rachel wanted to buy a piece of whale glue to eat with you tonight. It's a real shame she couldn't."

After a little thought, Huo Yuhao could roughly guess that Meng Hongchen had taken Di Ruiqiu to visit the auction house where the ten-thousand-year whale glue had been auctioned. Di Ruiqiu, who was never one to suffer humiliation except in front of the Silver Dragon King, immediately prepared to buy a piece as well.

Meng Hongchen looked at the thousand-forged titanium on the forging table. The patterns on the surface faintly radiated purple light. Compared with the hundred-forged metal, it was several levels higher, which was a qualitative change in performance.

She could clearly sense the energy contained within, which was completely contained within the metal, indicating that the metal's inherent quality and tolerance had greatly improved. Similarly, the energy released was also significantly enhanced.

Meng Hongchen felt that even if he couldn't make battle armor, if he used this metal to make soul tools, its power would be several times greater than that of hundred-refined metal.

Di Ruiqiu blinked and asked with delight, "Yuhao, are you going to use this thousand-refined metal to make battle armor next?"

She remembered that after forging the metal, she would need to design the battle armor, right? Where did Yuhao get the design drafts?

If there are no design drafts and the only goal is to increase forging proficiency with refined metal, then there is no need to use bloodline power, since the metal being forged now may not necessarily become the raw material for the battle armor.

However, when she and Meng Hongchen came in, they saw that Huo Yuhao had even used the bloodline of the Ancient Void Dragon. It was clear that he wanted to directly use these metals to make battle armor.

Thinking of this, Di Ruiqiu asked with some doubt, "Yuhao, if you don't have any design drafts, are you planning to forge some armor casually to practice?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head, about to respond to Di Ruiqiu, when Meng Hongchen spoke first.

Meng Hongchen crossed her arms and said with a smile, "Rachel, who said Yuhao and I don't have any design drafts?"

"Hmm?" Di Ruiqiu suddenly turned to look at Meng Hongchen. "Miss Meng, what does this mean?"

"Where did the design draft come from, and who was it designed for?"

Meng Hongchen glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, then calmly took out a stack of drawings from his storage container.

She casually picked out a few sheets from the stack of drawings and handed them to Di Rachel, her lips moving slightly: "Here, take a look, these are the design drafts."

"As for who it was designed for..."

Meng Hongchen's lips curved into a beautiful smile. She gestured with her eyes to the few sketches in her hand and said casually.

"Rachel, take a look for yourself, you should be able to tell."

Di Ruiqiu was taken aback when she saw Meng Hongchen take out a stack of design drafts, but she quickly realized that these drafts were definitely designed for Meng Hongchen.

Her gaze kept shifting between Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen.

Oh dear, I'm so angry at the mythical beast! How many things has Meng Hongchen been hiding from her, forcing Yuhao to do? He's even finished drawing up the design drafts for the battle armor.

Meng Hongchen sensed Di Ruiqiu's somewhat annoyed gaze and could roughly guess what she was thinking.

She rubbed a strand of silvery-white hair between her fingertips: "Rachel, these designs were created by Yuhao and me last semester."

Di Ruiqiu gave a soft hum and took the design draft handed to her by Meng Hongchen.

She randomly picked out a few of them, activated her soul power, and made these drawings float in front of her.

Meng Hongchen sighed leisurely and added happily, "Rachel, you don't know, Yuhao and I encountered a lot of difficulties when we were designing these drafts."

Di Ruiqiu naturally wouldn't give her a pleasant look, and said angrily, "What difficulties? I think it's just an excuse you're using to get closer to Yuhao."

Meng Hongchen pursed her lips but did not refute it. She did indeed ask Yuhao to draw a comic for her back then.

At first, she thought Huo Yuhao had just drawn a regular character portrait for her. But after today's incident, Meng Hongchen realized that it was actually a design draft for her battle armor.

Huo Yuhao had been considering this matter since the last semester, and Meng Hongchen was very happy to think of it.

She seemed completely unfazed by Rachel's angry accusations: "Rachel, I told you that my sister and Yuhao drew the same part of her body several times, and they all looked really good, but Yuhao was still not satisfied."

"So it was for designing battle armor for my sister. That makes sense."

Meng Hongchen smiled broadly, remembering how Yuhao had used the excuse of drawing comics to design drafts for her, and she felt secretly pleased.

"What? Several paintings?"

Di Ruiqiu was so angry after hearing Meng Hongchen's words that she stomped her feet.

Meng Hongchen smiled and replied, "Yes, our initial design drafts were just ordinary drawings."

"Yuhao needs to continuously add the necessary lines and textures to the design draft based on the characteristics of the martial soul, so that the draft is more like the design draft of the battle armor."

Although, as Huo Yuhao said, the ordinary drawings at the beginning were already considered scrap for the design draft.

However, Meng Hongchen still kept them. After she finished using the original design drafts, she made them into a commemorative album. Whenever Di Ruiqiu made a fuss in front of her, she would take out the commemorative album and show it to Di Ruiqiu.

Upon hearing this, Di Ruiqiu gritted her teeth and looked at the several design drafts floating in front of her.

They are all design drafts for calf armor.

As Meng Hongchen said, the first few drafts were all drawings of beautifully drawn calves, showing a slender and fair calf.

In the later drawings, the lines became increasingly complex, with many crisscrossing lines covering the calves.

Until the very last draft, which was the design draft that Huo Yuhao would use to make the battle armor.

Intricate, crisscrossing lines cover the calves, and the intersecting auxiliary lines divide the calf contours into a grid of small grids, drawing various fine patterns and marking the places used to support the core magic array.

Di Ruiqiu looked at the calf design drawings and grew angrier with each look: "Meng Hongchen! You've drawn these calf designs so many times and marked them so meticulously, what about the designs for the other parts...?"

Meng Hongchen smiled and replied, "Rachel, you don't understand."

"The first few designs were a bit unfamiliar, so Yuhao and I had to try a few more times to gradually familiarize ourselves with the techniques before we could draw up the actual battle armor design drafts."

Di Ruiqiu snorted coldly, and with a wave of her small hand, all the design drafts of the calves in front of her fell onto the table.

Immediately, a thought struck her, and she picked out a few more design drafts, which floated before her eyes once more.

This time, all the designs are for thigh armor.

The first thigh design sketch, just like the previous one, is like a lifelike painting, depicting a beautifully curved and symmetrical section of a fair thigh.

While Di Ruiqiu was angry, she looked at the design draft of the thigh armor from left to right repeatedly. Several pairs of Meng Hongchen's white thighs were shown. For some reason, a blush appeared on her pretty cheeks.

Meng Hongchen quickly noticed Di Ruiqiu's unusual behavior and asked with concern, "Ruiqiu, what's wrong? Why is your face so red?"

Di Ruiqiu murmured, "Miss Meng, you're really playing games..."

The drawing just now showed fair calves, and now it shows fair thighs. She couldn't imagine what kind of situation Meng Hongchen and Huo Yuhao were in when they were drawn.

Meng Hongchen was taken aback upon hearing this: "No, Yuhao and I were just designing the battle armor blueprints."

"Rachel, what are you thinking about?"

Di Ruiqiu blushed and said in a voice barely audible, "The design draft for the calves was passable, but look at this design draft for the thighs, the side lines go all the way up to the waist."

(End of this chapter)