Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 447 The Concept of Artificial Soul Cores (Daily Ten Thousand Words)

Since his battle with Ji Juechen, Huo Yuhao has never encountered him again, as if he had never existed.

Huo Yuhao focused on learning theoretical knowledge from Xuan Ziwen. Xuan Ziwen understood that Huo Yuhao was unlikely to settle down and systematically learn soul tool making from him, so he simply kept Huo Yuhao by his side and lectured him in a haphazard and disjointed manner, going wherever the topic led.

Huo Yuhao was very interested in what Xuan Ziwen was talking about, and often put forward ideas that impressed Xuan Ziwen. As a result, Xuan Ziwen would spend most of his study time with Huo Yuhao, hoping to get some interesting inspiration from him.

Time passed little by little, and half a year flew by. Huo Yuhao's soul power level reached level forty-five.

Director Lin, who was in charge of observing He Caitou, would occasionally keep an eye on Huo Yuhao's situation, especially after hearing Xuan Ziwen say that Huo Yuhao was very talented in soul tools. However, after observing for half a year, he also felt relieved about Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao has produced quite a few things in the past six months, but how to put it...

The things this guy makes seem impressive, but they don't seem to be very useful. For example, there's a special soul-guided pipe that can smoke ten cigars in one go, soul-guided chopsticks that can blow out cold air when eating noodles, and a soul-guided air cannon that looks impressive but is actually very useless in actual testing.

Well done! Keep it up!

Director Lin was grinning from ear to ear. When Huo Yuhao started making the soul-guided air cannon, Director Lin thought that this guy had suddenly had an epiphany. If he really combined some of the high-tech technologies of his academy to create some kind of killer weapon, then he, as the director, would really be out of a job.

Huo Yuhao's soul-guided air cannon was initially intended for air defense, which really frightened Director Lin, since Huo Yuhao's explanation sounded quite convincing.

What? The interceptor missiles launched by this weapon's active defense system are not physical projectiles, but rather a type of "directed energy weapon."

The soul-guided sensor actively identifies incoming aerial targets and then counterattacks using "pressure waves".

Simply put, Huo Yuhao hoped to use compressed air to be ejected in an instant, and the powerful airflow would severely interfere with the flight trajectory of ballistic weapons, causing them to deviate from their targets and achieve an air defense effect.

This thing is so incredible that even Jing Hongchen's expression turned serious when he heard that Huo Yuhao was working on it. But when he learned that Huo Yuhao had asked Xuan Ziwen to create a bunch of core formations, and the air cannon that was finally assembled only had a maximum kill range of fifty meters, he laughed until his stomach hurt.

What a fine air cannon with an anti-air range of only fifty meters! I was actually fooled by Huo Yuhao, thinking that the other party had some kind of ingenious idea. Yes, compressed air is still air no matter what. What good can it do if it is shot into the sky?

Huo Yuhao, unaware of what Jing Hongchen and the others were thinking, sat at an experimental table in Mingde Hall, continuing to tinker with his air cannon.

Huo Yuhao's air cannon was not as simple as it looked, because from the beginning, Huo Yuhao did not intend to use this thing to compress air. What he wanted to compress was the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the soul power elements floating in the air.

The training area of ​​the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy has provided a clear answer on how to obtain and condense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth: create an extremely large spiritual energy collector to draw in the surrounding spiritual energy and release it in a small area within the training area, thereby increasing the concentration of spiritual energy.

What Huo Yuhao wanted to do was to compress the gathered spiritual energy of heaven and earth again, and finally compress it into a substance. Huo Yuhao once took the opportunity to ask Qian Duoduo what would happen after the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was compressed into a substance.

Qian Duoduo was taken aback. Wasn't that a soul core?

Huo Yuhao's research soon encountered a Waterloo. It wasn't that the air cannon was too ineffective, which he had expected. The problem Huo Yuhao encountered was that he could no longer compress the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The reason is simple: a soul core can only be formed at the level of a Title Douluo, and it needs to be carefully stored in the body to maintain maximum balance. Huo Yuhao's idea of ​​using rare metals to restrict this thing is simply wishful thinking.

If Huo Yuhao could produce a compressed version of the primordial energy of heaven and earth so easily, then Sun Moon Academy would have produced a tangible version of the primordial energy of heaven and earth, or rather, a soul core, many years before Huo Yuhao.

The materials are not good.

Huo Yuhao took a deep breath. In the past few days, he had squandered all the rare metals in his share. No rare metal could withstand the ravages of the compressed spiritual energy. It seemed that condensing a soul core was still a privilege reserved for Title Douluo.

No, he still has something good he hasn't tried yet. If even this thing can't withstand the compressed spiritual energy of heaven and earth, then Huo Yuhao will have to temporarily give up the idea of ​​compressing spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

However, this is definitely not something that can be attempted inside Mingde Hall. There are too many people around, so it's best to maintain the persona of someone who is clueless about soul tools.

At this time, He Caitou and the others, under Qian Duoduo's instruction, had already found an excuse to go out for a meal. Only Huo Yuhao remained in Mingde Hall to avoid arousing suspicion among the people from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

The Body Sect had sent a notice a few days ago, indicating that a surprise attack would be launched this afternoon. It's only noon now, but that's fine. If I leave Mingde Hall at this time, no one should notice me.

Just as Huo Yuhao had collected all his rare metals and was swaggering away from Mingde Hall, an extremely dangerous sensation made him instantly drop to the ground.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Four consecutive booming sounds rang out simultaneously within the massive Mingde Hall experimental base. The terrifying explosive force instantly unleashed a near-destructive shockwave inside.

Noumenon Sect!

Huo Yuhao immediately wanted to curse. The surprise attack was supposed to be in the afternoon, and it was only one minute past noon!

You call 12:01 PM?!

The four bursts of light appeared in four different directions, but they were all in the areas where researchers gathered the most.

The explosion happened so suddenly that the Soul Masters at the epicenter didn't even have time to react. At least a hundred Soul Masters were instantly vaporized at the initial stage of the blast.

Hundreds of lab tables were torn apart by the terrifying force of the explosion, metal fragments flying everywhere, transforming into a horrific metal frenzy. Screams mixed with the stench of blood erupted outwards like a geyser under the impact of the terrifying shockwave.

(End of this chapter)