Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 510 Smuggling Selection (Daily 10,000 words)

In an instant, Huo Yuhao gained a deeper understanding of the value of the giant starlight sapphire storage soul tool in his hand.

If Huo Yuhao hadn't possessed the Gate of the Dead, a demi-plane that shouldn't even exist on the Douluo Continent, this giant starlight sapphire would practically be a chosen item for reselling rare metals.

To transport hundreds of thousands or even millions of tons of rare metals from the mining area to the border for handover without anyone noticing is absolutely impossible unless you have countless spatial storage devices.

Although storage soul tools are more common on the Douluo Continent now than they were 10,000 years ago, the fundamental reason that they are limited as a means of transportation is that their capacity is generally not large, or even extremely small.

Storage devices such as storage rings, storage necklaces, and bracelets, which are most common on ordinary days, are generally considered expensive luxury items if they have a volume of three cubic meters or more. Five cubic meters is a storage soul tool that only the presidents of many large merchant guilds and sect leaders are qualified to use.

As for ten cubic meters, that's truly a top-tier storage soul tool that only top-tier forces like Shrek Academy, Body Sect, and Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School can afford.

This is why the sixth guard of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, who was chasing Huo Yuhao back then, could boast about his Doples Sapphire storage soul tool, which was the size of a pigeon's egg, for so long. This kind of thing is really rare.

Storage soul tools with a volume of two cubic meters, one cubic meter, or even smaller are the norm.

This space is barely enough to fit two pigs, let alone buy and sell rare metals.

The rare metals that the scalpers traded were enough to supply individual Soul Masters, but for a behemoth like the Empire, it was simply a drop in the ocean.

Due to various limitations, storage soul tools cannot transport much stuff at all.

If you really want to transport large quantities of rare metals, you have to go back to the most traditional and convenient animal-powered transportation. Two earth dragons paired with a sturdy cart can carry several tons of goods, and a caravan can carry hundreds of tons of supplies in one trip.

If transported by water, it would be no problem to move tens of thousands of tons of goods at once.

This is the real commodity trade; compared to it, the rare metals that those "mule" traders on the border are really just a drop in the ocean.

Fortunately, Huo Yuhao didn't have this problem. Besides the starlight storage soul tool with a size of one hundred cubic meters, he also had a demi-plane of the dead with an unknown number of square kilometers. Who would be stingy with you about this?

If Huo Yuhao gets the chance, he can empty half of the Sun Moon Empire's reserves in one go. Aren't you scared?

Huo Yuhao couldn't help but feel excited as he acquired the remains of the giant three-legged ammonite.

This thing is the best material for condensing artificial soul cores. It can withstand the enormous destructive force that erupts when solid soul power rotates, without even leaving a mark. Electrolux has already tested this in the undead demiplane with the fragment that Huo Yuhao cut off.

Just like the Soul Master whose Martial Soul was a trilobite, the giant three-legged ammonite fragment that Huo Yuhao just obtained should be a life form from roughly the same era as the trilobite. That Soul Master only had one Martial Soul, yet its defensive power was already unparalleled in the world. Not to mention that what Huo Yuhao had in his hands was a genuine giant three-legged ammonite fragment.

Compared to the Trilobite Martial Soul, the Diamond Mammoth Martial Soul's defense is laughable, earning it the reputation of being "unable to be harmed by swords, axes, spears, or stabbing swords, and unaffected by fire, ice, poison, or smoke."

This is just a martial spirit, not a soul beast; otherwise, its defensive power would be even higher.

The giant three-legged ammonite is on par with trilobites. In terms of defense alone, it is definitely no worse than the opponent, and may even be stronger. Such a huge shell, if Huo Yuhao had not had the divine artifact-level creature carving knife, there would be no way to deal with this thing.

It's still early, let's not waste time.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao slowly took out the Conferred God Platform, intending to take this time to study its internal structure.

Now that he was facing Tang San head-on, he needed to prepare some countermeasures in advance.

Who knows what other tricks Tang San had up his sleeve in Douluo Continent besides the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python?

Huo Yuhao looked at the white tray in his hand.

On the tray was a wooden stand inlaid with at least a hundred gemstones of various colors. Above this small wooden stand, a wisp of pure white air rippled gently.

Despite its simple design, the technology it contains is incredibly advanced. Huo Yuhao activated his spiritual detection and began to study the internal structure of the Conferred God Platform inch by inch, integrating it with the technology he currently possessed, and began to draw nourishment from the Conferred God Platform.

As for what was locked inside the Conferred God Platform, Huo Yuhao didn't care.

It's just a 100,000-year-old soul beast. The few white beads he took out from the Clear Sky Sect before were all divinely bestowed soul rings. As long as he and Wang Dong's physical abilities can withstand it, those are several 100,000-year-old soul rings.

In the eyes of others, a 100,000-year-old soul beast is a rare treasure that is hard to come by. In particular, it is forbidden to kill 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the Star Dou Forest. For most people, the value of a 100,000-year-old soul ring has been further enhanced.

But for Huo Yuhao, it's nothing special. What he needs now is a soul beast soul ring that matches his required attributes, rather than a so-called 100,000-year soul ring. The appearance of the divinely bestowed soul ring came at just the right time for Huo Yuhao.

After all, the soul skills and attributes of a divinely bestowed soul ring can be adjusted according to the needs of the soul master, and perhaps even more ingenious uses can be developed in Electrolux's subsequent research.

However, Huo Yuhao was too lazy to pay attention to the 100,000-year-old soul beast inside the Conferred God Platform. But the 100,000-year-old soul beast sensed Huo Yuhao's mental detection and approached him first.

"Despicable humans, one day you will pay the price for hunting us soul beasts."

"Even if I die, I will never allow your despicable mentality to prevail. Give up your delusional fantasies!"

A chilling mental energy fluctuation, as if it were the sound of eating two pounds of ice cream on a sweltering summer day, forcibly entered Huo Yuhao's mental detection network, startling him.

Something's wrong. Has the other party detected my mental detection?

That's impossible. Huo Yuhao can understand that the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python could detect his mental energy fluctuations. They are god-level beings who are called Limit Douluo or God Officials. It would be strange if they couldn't detect him.

The reason why Du Bu Si was able to detect his mental energy fluctuations was because this old guy was only one step away from becoming a Limit Douluo, and could be considered a demigod, at least a peak half-step demigod at the Great Perfection. It was normal for him to be discovered by the other party.

But how could a 100,000-year-old soul beast, especially one imprisoned within the Conferred God Platform, possibly detect his spiritual energy fluctuations?

(End of this chapter)