Douluo: Legend of the Holy Land

Chapter 21 The Beginning of Soul Tools

The Dragon Extreme Sect, which had reigned supreme in the capital city of the Kingdom of Sylvia for over a decade, was wiped out overnight, a devastating blow to the entire city.

Just as people were speculating about the sudden appearance of the Nine Star Palace, the Nine Star Palace sent people to distribute money and treasures to comfort families who had been persecuted by the Dragon Extreme Sect in the past. They also sent dozens of notorious Dragon Extreme Sect disciples, stripped of their soul power, to the victims' homes to be disposed of at their discretion. In an instant, the people were in an uproar again, and countless people spontaneously joined the Nine Star Palace in their cause, calling them a righteous alliance that was eliminating evil for the people and acting on behalf of Heaven.

As for the authorities, they couldn't even suppress the Dragon Extreme Sect, let alone easily destroy the Nine Star Hall, which belonged to the Dragon Extreme Sect. Moreover, the Nine Star Hall's way of doing things was clearly different from that of the Dragon Extreme Sect. In the past, the Dragon Extreme Sect ran rampant in the city and caused countless troubles. Now that the Dragon Extreme Sect has been destroyed, the city's security has improved a lot. Only a madman would go looking for trouble with the Nine Star Hall.

After the Nine Star Palace occupied the auspicious land where the Dragon Extreme Sect was originally located, it demolished and rebuilt the mountain gate, and then took action to destroy several sects that had a great deal of public resentment. Not only did it initially establish a good reputation in the Soul Master world, but it also acquired a lot of wealth.

However, this way of making money is certainly not a long-term solution. For the long term, Xiao Yu must create a continuous source of income for the sect.

In the original novel, the Tang Sect's biggest source of funding was the sale of hidden weapons. Back when he was still at Shrek Academy, Tang San sold 500 sets of complete hidden weapons from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, earning 5 million gold soul coins.

However, since the hidden weapons were Tang San's creations and not products of the Douluo Continent, there were no hidden weapon crafting methods for sale in the system shop. But Xiao Yu discovered something even better than hidden weapons in the system shop: Soul Tool Crafting.

Soul tools were a central theme in Douluo Continent II and the root cause of the decline of Tang Sect's hidden weapons. They were only introduced into the Douluo Continent's technological system after the collision between Sun Moon Continent and Douluo Continent.

However, soul tools are not a technology unique to the Sun Moon Continent. In fact, the Douluo Continent should also have the inheritance of soul tools, but for some reason, it has been lost. Only a few storage soul tools have survived, such as Tang San's Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon.

Fortunately, the soul tool inheritance provided by the system is comprehensive, including not only the creation of storage soul tools, but also the creation technology of offensive soul tools with powerful attack capabilities.

There are quite a few types of soul tools, including melee soul tools, ranged soul tools, fixed soul tools, storage soul tools, auxiliary soul tools, flight soul tools, and defensive soul tools.

In Xiao Yu's understanding, close-combat soul tools are actually somewhat similar to Tang Sect hidden weapons, except that soul tools are driven by soul power and have greater destructive power than Tang Sect hidden weapons.

Of course, this comparison is only relative to the most common Tang Sect hidden weapons. For those hidden weapons that can threaten Title Douluo or even injure gods, such as Guanyin Tears, Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus, and Rain of Pear Blossom Needles, hidden weapons are still superior.

Xiao Yu suspected that the Tang Clan's rapid decline during the second battle was not unrelated to the fact that Tang Shenwang, who always said that you already have a way to die, kept these top-notch hidden weapons secret and did not pass them down.

Both remote and fixed soul tools are soul tools with offensive capabilities. Remote soul tools are soul tools that launch ranged attacks by injecting soul power. Relatively speaking, within a certain range, close-range soul tools are more powerful.

The fixed-position soul tool is a new type of soul tool developed by Fan Yu during the second era of Douluo Continent, therefore it did not appear in the soul tool inheritance available for exchange in the system. Its principle is simple: it separates the soul tool and the attack weapon into two parts, with the soul tool only serving as a launch and detonation device. It possesses immense power and consumes very little soul power, but it is difficult to locate.

As the name suggests, a storage soul tool is a soul tool that can store items, and it is the soul tool that is still circulating in Douluo Continent.

The most typical example of an auxiliary soul tool is the milk bottle, which can be used to restore a soul master's soul power.

Defensive soul tools are soul tools with defensive capabilities, such as shields, protective gear worn on the body, and light shields that cover the arena. The most common example is the protective shield from the second era of the Douluo Continent.

A flying soul tool is something that can be worn on the body and infused with soul power to grant the ability to fly.

In Xiao Yu's vision, the sect could start by focusing on melee and defensive soul tools. These two types of soul tools would be a godsend for support-type soul masters; once word got out, there would be no shortage of buyers. Especially Ning Fengzhi, the only sect leader among the three upper sects without offensive capabilities; once he witnessed the power of soul tools, he would surely come knocking on Xiao Yu's door.

As for the fact that the Soul Masters of the original Douluo Three Kingdoms in Douluo II were very averse to Soul Tools, Xiao Yu felt that the Soul Masters of Douluo Continent were not so much rejecting Soul Tools as they were rejecting the Sun Moon Continent. In the original work, it was mentioned many times that if it weren't for Soul Tools, the Soul Masters of the Sun Moon Empire would not be able to compare with the Soul Masters of Douluo Continent.

Over time, this became an obsession for the original Soul Masters of Douluo Continent. The more they understood the role of Soul Tools between Soul Masters on the two continents, the more they wanted to prove themselves and defeat Soul Masters of the same level by relying solely on their own cultivation without the aid of Soul Tools, in order to subdue the Sun Moon Empire.

Of course, the price was extremely heavy. If it weren't for a certain God King intervening and using the advantage of Soul Tool technology, the Sun Moon Empire would have almost unified the original Douluo Continent.

In the world of Douluo Continent I, before the Sun Moon Continent clashed with Douluo Continent, Xiao Yu's Nine Star Palace also belonged to the indigenous forces of Douluo. They proposed that the Soul Guidance Device technology would not be rejected by Soul Masters as it was in Douluo Continent II.

Otherwise, before Tang San appeared, the concept of hidden weapons did not exist in Douluo Continent. At most, there was Meng Yiran who created a large-handled throwing knife, which was far from being a hidden weapon. So why did no one reject the existence of hidden weapons?

Ning Fengzhi purchased hidden weapon equipment from Tang San and gave it to the disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. The Heaven Dou Empire established the Tang Family Army, which mainly used hidden weapons, and no one seemed to object fiercely.

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After establishing himself in the Kingdom of Sylvia, Xiao Yu began to act as a hands-off manager. After arranging the general direction, he began to study soul tools behind closed doors, leaving most of the sect affairs to Mu and Xuanwu.

Mu is a disciple of Pope Shion of the Sanctuary. After the Saga Rebellion was quelled, Dohko remotely orchestrated events from Mount Wulao, and Mu handled and controlled most of the affairs of the Sanctuary. Genbu was also a person with a great sense of the big picture during the Omega era, and he performed remarkably well in both the Mars Saga and the Pallas Saga. With these two in charge, Xiao Yu was extremely at ease.

(End of this chapter)