Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 162 The Excited Qian Duoduo (Daily Ten Thousand Words)

The two left the laboratory and headed towards Qian Duoduo's office area.

Yes, unlike Ning Ge and Huo Yuhao who only have their own independent laboratories, Qian Duoduo, a master of soul guidance, has a separate experimental area, which makes it convenient for him to experiment on the gadgets he makes at any time.

"Yuhao, you probably still don't quite understand what kind of luck it means that you chose this technology at first glance."

Ning Ge shook his head and said, "Currently, the mainstream soul tools in the soul master world are divided into three categories: melee, ranged, and fixed."

"These three major categories of soul tools each have a wide variety of soul tool types. Taking melee soul tools as an example, there are countless types such as staffs, guns, knives, and gauntlets."

"Within this sub-category, each type of soul tool has multiple technical optimization paths, from the depiction and layout of the core array to the adjustment and arrangement of the shape, as well as the selection of various rare metals. It can be said that no two high-level soul tools made by each person are exactly the same."

"In addition, each type of soul tool has various optimization paths, and each optimization path represents a different technology."

"The accumulation of all these technologies constitutes the foundation of the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools over ten thousand years."

Ning Ge's analysis was like a wake-up call, helping Huo Yuhao realize the complexity and vastness of the technological paths in the field of soul tools. Among such a vast sea of ​​technologies, he just happened to choose a particular technological path to try to optimize.

This technical route happens to be one of the routes that the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Guidance Domain has not been perfected due to the rarity of its own Soul Bones.

For a nation like the Sun Moon Empire, which only has the Sun Moon Great Forest, the rarity of high-level soul beasts goes without saying, and the price of top-tier soul bones is even more expensive than in the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

This resulted in the Sun Moon Empire only being able to use the secondary soul bones to make soul tools; they simply couldn't bear to take out the good soul bones and throw them into the soul tools.

However, this also led to the fact that no one in the Sun Moon Empire would consider the secondary use of soul bones. If it is a defective soul bone, what's the point of you going through all the trouble to take it out?

However, for the Douluo Three Kingdoms, every technology that has flowed out of the Soul Guidance World of the Sun Moon Empire is a model that has been honed countless times. The fact that the Sun Moon Empire chose the forging method for making Soul Bone-type melee Soul Guidance Devices must have a profound reason.

Therefore, they only need to learn these advanced technologies well, and don't need to think about optimization at all.

This is precisely why, despite the development of soul bone-type melee soul tools over the years, since their emergence from the Sun Moon Empire, there has been almost no optimization.

The Sun and Moon Empire believed that there was no need to further optimize this technology, and the Soul Masters of the Three Empires also believed that the technology had been optimized to its limit; they only needed to learn how to implement the technology.

Until one day, a greedy fellow obtained a ten-thousand-year-old soul bone as a reward from Shrek Academy. In order to maximize the use of this soul bone and prevent it from becoming a disposable item, he resolutely began to optimize the "forging method," a technical path that had been established for countless years.

Soon, the two arrived at Qian Duoduo's test area.

They passed through thick metal walls and arrived at a desk-like table where Qian Duoduo was fiddling with something.

Knowing that the worst thing to do when you're focused is to be disturbed, the two of them found a place to sit down and waited quietly.

After a long while, Qian Duoduo suddenly cursed something and slammed his hand on the table, making a loud bang.

It was obvious that his research had been thwarted. Ning Ge glanced at Huo Yuhao and said that this was the normal daily routine of a Soul Master. People like Huo Yuhao, who could just pick a technical path and find the right direction, find inspiration by chatting with their roommates, and produce results in less than a month, were a very small minority.

"Teacher, we're here."

Huo Yuhao spoke up.

Qian Duoduo was stunned for a moment, but when he saw that it was his two precious apprentices, his expression immediately changed from gloomy to sunny.

"Why did you two get here? Did you encounter some problem that you need to solve? Here, let me take a look at it."

Qian Duoduo never considered that Huo Yuhao had already made initial progress. In his mind, allocating 500,000 gold soul coins to Huo Yuhao was simply a waste of money.

Why is the Soul Guidance Department always so poor?

Starting a project casually can easily cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of gold coins, and there's a high probability that there will be no return. Even if there are results, it's difficult to actually monetize them, and they can only serve as technical reserves within Shrek Academy.

After all, the advanced level of Sun Moon Soul Guidance is already two worlds ahead of Douluo Three Kingdoms. Even if the soul tools developed by Shrek Academy are similar in quality to their counterparts, their costs are often much higher.

The production cost of soul tools in the Sun Moon Empire is low because the Sun Moon Empire is rich in various rare metals, making the materials inexpensive, and because the base of soul tool masters is large, resulting in low labor costs for producing soul tools.

The combination of these two factors turned the Soul Guidance research of the Three Empires and Shrek Academy into a series of money-grubbing, inefficient endeavors where no return could be seen from the money invested.

"Teacher, this is the first draft of our paper on the 'nesting method' that my brother Ning Ge and I have. Please take a look."

Huo Yuhao took out the stack of papers and handed them to Qian Duoduo. Qian Duoduo glanced at them dismissively at first, then took a sip of tea, found a stool, and began to read them with a serious expression.

The two remained silent and waited quietly.

Soon, Qian Duoduo's expression changed from serious to solemn, and then from solemn to joyful. He stood up, paced back and forth, and muttered to himself.

"Yuhao, where's that soul bone you took out? Let me see it."

Huo Yuhao handed the yellow soul bone that he had removed from the soul tool to Qian Duoduo. As soon as Qian Duoduo saw the soul bone, he could no longer suppress the excitement in his eyes.

He was in charge of the finances of the school's Soul Guidance Department. He personally approved the Soul Bone for Huo Yuhao, and he had also personally witnessed the Soul Bone being installed into the Soul Guidance Device when he checked Huo Yuhao's project progress.

Now that the soul bone was lying quietly in his palm, how could Qian Duoduo still suppress his inner joy?

Qian Duoduo slammed his hand on a bell on the lab table and shouted excitedly, "Wife, and Teacher Fanyu, come to my lab right now! Our Soul Guidance Department is going to make a spectacular comeback this time!"

"Yes, let me tell you two, this is a multi-million dollar deal. I'm going to crush the Sun Moon Empire's melee soul tool market in one fell swoop, leaving half of their ridiculously expensive mid-to-low-tier soul tools rotting in their warehouses!"

(End of this chapter)