Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 65 Cutting-Edge Technologies (35 words per day)

At first, the other party was just a moderately well-known repairman of second-hand soul tools, at most an outstanding graduate of Shrek Academy. But in the blink of an eye, the other party pulled out cutting-edge technology that even the soul tool department of Shrek Academy might not have.

The last time Huo Yuhao encountered something so shocking and unbelievable was back when Genichiro fought him to the death with the Black Mortal Blade.

After all, Huo Yuhao could never have imagined that the Black Undying Blade's function was to knock on the gates of the underworld and bring the dead back from the road to the underworld.

When Huo Yuhao saw Genichiro sever his own neck with the Black Mortal Blade, he realized something was wrong. Then, Huo Yuhao watched helplessly as Isshin Ashina, at his peak, crawled out of Genichiro's neck.

The fact that Huo Yuhao didn't go insane despite witnessing such utterly irrational events is perhaps thanks to his extensive experience killing the Headless Warrior and the Seven-Faced Warriors. Having seen so much of the underworld, he's become unfazed by anything.

"The college believes that the technological path I chose is too unconventional, and the subsequent R&D costs will be a bottomless pit."

Ning Ge turned his head and took off the pure purple-gold helmet on his head. As the helmet was removed, the mechanical arm that had been mimicking Ning Ge's movements instantly went offline and got stuck in mid-air in a lifting position.

"After all, I am only a support-type Soul Master. My mental power is insufficient. Even if I am just controlling this arm to perform a simple action, I need the headband made of pure purple gold to help me regulate the overflowing mental power fluctuations and integrate them into a mental cluster to be launched. Otherwise, my own mental power can only control this half of the palm and three fingers at most."

As he spoke, Ning Ge raised his hand, forming a grip with one original index finger and three metal fingers, and then slowly unfolded his four fingers one by one.

So Brother Ning has been controlling these three metal fingers with his mind all along? That's amazing. But what's the technical principle behind it?

For a moment, Huo Yuhao's eyes were filled with curiosity, and this desire for unknown technology kept stirring in his heart.

Everyone knows that the one-armed wolf of Ashina is a martial arts prodigy with an extremely high talent and desire to learn various martial arts techniques. However, what is unknown is that, in addition to martial arts, Huo Yuhao is also eager to learn about other problems that people would rather avoid.

"You must be curious about how I control my three metal fingers with my mental power."

Ning Ge immediately saw the undisguised longing in Huo Yuhao's eyes. That almost pathological thirst for unknown knowledge was a common trait among almost every Soul Master qualified to reach level seven or above. Without an extreme thirst for advanced knowledge, it would be difficult to break through the barrier of becoming a level seven Soul Master.

When Ning Ge saw the thirst for knowledge in Huo Yuhao's eyes, he knew that Huo Yuhao was the same kind of person as him.

"Don't rush. As long as you are interested, all this knowledge belongs to you and only to you. After all, you are the only spiritual soul master I know who has the potential to reach the seventh level or even higher. Without you, these things would most likely have been buried with me and would have remained a half-finished product until my death."

Ning Ge put the helmet back in its original position and stroked the soul-guided metal arm on the shelf with a complicated expression.

"To complete this work and control it as one's own arm, the user needs to be at least a Soul Saint-level Spirit-type Soul Master. Even then, the Spirit Power Rectification Helmet might be needed. In addition, the user needs to be a Level 7 Soul Master, otherwise, it would be impossible to understand the operating principle of this metal arm."

At this point, Ning Ge turned around and looked at Huo Yuhao.

"Yuhao, do you see the complete 'Arm Kinetic Propulsion Device Combined with Soul Guiding Core' used on this arm?"

Huo Yuhao nodded. This was also a cutting-edge technology exclusive to the Sun Moon Empire. Although it had been used in the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools more than a hundred years ago, it was a technology that almost no one in the Douluo Three Kingdoms had mastered. Even the records in Shrek Academy only mentioned a few possible technical paths.

"Brother Ning, could it be that you???"

Huo Yuhao's eyes widened in excitement. The "Soul Guiding Array Joint Core" technology was a closely guarded secret of the Sun Moon Empire. Through this technology, four level-three soul guiding core arrays could be combined with one level-four soul guiding core to produce an effect no less than that of a level-five soul guiding core. It was truly cutting-edge technology!

"No, don't get too excited, Xiao Yuhao."

Ning Ge patted Huo Yuhao's head to help him cool down.

"With so many level seven and eight Soul Masters in our school, which one of them wouldn't want to replicate this technique? If they couldn't accomplish it, don't overestimate me."

Ning Ge said, "Although I didn't use the 'Soul Guiding Array Joint Core' technology, I used kinetic energy constraint to link them together. This idea of ​​joint use was applied not only to the arm's kinetic energy propulsion device, but also to the entire metal arm and my three fingers."

"See that helmet made of pure purple gold? Pure purple gold is a rare metal that can greatly resist the penetration of spiritual power. I used this pure purple gold to embed more than seventy miniature trigger-type level one soul guidance core arrays in each of my fingers, and linked them together through kinetic energy constraint."

Ning Ge's words immediately enlightened Huo Yuhao, making him understand the driving principle of the metal arm and Ning Ge's metal fingers. Pure purple gold has a strong resistance to mental power, but precisely because of this, when mental power is transmitted through these miniature trigger-type first-level soul guidance core arrays, it will immediately trigger their reaction.

By using a miniature soul guide core made of pure purple gold as a bridge, Ning Ge was able to successfully remotely control the soul guide device with his mental power and make it perform subtle operations.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up. Ning Ge could use this method to control his soul-guided metal fingers, and he could also hang a large number of soul-guided devices on his back, then use his mental power to make subtle and precise adjustments, and finally unleash his firepower with precision.

With twenty level-one soul-guided ray guns hanging on his back, each one locked onto the head and could hit wherever it was pointed. If he were to participate in the freshman competition, he could probably beat two Soul Masters with their Martial Soul Fusion Skills and make them run away with their heads in their hands.

Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

If Huo Yuhao in Ashina Castle had a blank, zombie-like face except when he was in front of the Divine Child, then during his year at Shrek Academy, his heart, which had been gradually frozen, began to thaw with the help of like-minded friends and mentors.

To put it bluntly, Huo Yuhao is finally becoming more and more like a normal ten-year-old child, rather than a ninja burdened with a huge mission, with a bitter and resentful expression and hiding everything in his heart.

(End of this chapter)