Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Clay, the Creator of All Things

Of course, this was just Lu Yan's guess.

Whether it's right or wrong, it doesn't prevent him from using the "interface" concept to take advantage of the encapsulation of martial souls and soul rings.

Lu Yan has indeed been unable to complete the manual creation of his martial soul during this period.

But he completed part of the process, which was to create the prototype of the magical item.

This blank is somewhat like a condensation of the origin of life and the origin of spirit.

Using his shaping abilities, Lu Yan fused this condensate with external matter.

The overall process is somewhat similar to the process of creating life forms of elements.

Thus, Lu Yan possessed the rough draft of a magical item, which can also be understood as a "blank external martial soul".

Furthermore, Lu Yan's high-dimensional observation of the two women when they were attaching spirit rings allowed him to find the corresponding "interface" for the spirit rings.

Thus, a magical item was created by combining the fundamental laws that carry the soul rings with a blank external martial soul.

The principle behind Lu Yan's disassembly of the spirit ring is the same; he simply uses the power of his primordial spirit to temporarily "pull out" the interface between the martial soul and the spirit ring.

Just put it back in.

As for being able to change soul rings at will, as the three of them thought, it is not impossible.

That would require Lu Yan to have in-depth research on martial souls and the internal laws of soul rings.

In the context of my previous life, this means that the programs of the martial soul and soul rings need to be decoded.

When Lu Yan can fully understand its internal "code", he will naturally be able to modify it.

Moreover, he has even gained some inspiration from the soul tool.

Through Lu Yan's observation, he discovered that the soul tool seemed to utilize the code of the law, or rather, the runes of the law.

However, Lu Yan's research in this area is still too superficial.

This was also one of his purposes in creating magical items.

That is, to collect soul rings in this way so that they can be used as materials for further research.

Instead, the magical item itself is a byproduct of the process.

After all, he couldn't just use his own spirit rings as research material, could he? What if he broke them and couldn't put them back together? That would be embarrassing.

This also sparked his interest in the Haotian Sect's unique technique of exploding rings.

Perhaps we will have the opportunity to observe this during the recent operations.

Thus, Lu Yan and his group stayed in the Sunset Forest for half a month.

After Lu Yan had collected enough materials, he returned to Tian Dou City.

The operation to purge the nobility began to take initial shape the day after Lu Yan returned to Tiandou City.

Political struggles cannot be resolved simply by killing each other.

That would cause a huge mess.

According to the investigation results provided by Xue Qinghe, although the noble forces infiltrated by the Spirit Hall's Papal faction are currently...

It is far from reaching the exaggerated level of the Martial Soul Empire era.

However, it also involved more than two hundred nobles, both large and small.

Excluding barons, these two hundred-plus are at least viscounts or higher, nobles with considerable fiefdoms.

Most importantly, among them are two Grand Dukes who are Soul Douluo-level beings who control the duchy.

They were respectively Grand Duke Slok, who was enfeoffed between the Kingdom of Hagendas and the Kingdom of Barak.

And the Grand Prince of Kurk, who was enfeoffed between the province of Fasno and the Kingdom of Barak, straddling the Barak River.

Besides these two heavyweight figures, there is also a marquis who is also at the Soul Douluo level, and nearly ten marquises and earls at the Soul Saint level.

As for viscounts at the Soul Sect, Soul Emperor, and Soul King levels, and barons whose numbers are too numerous to count, there is no need to elaborate further.

If we calculate it this way, if this group of nobles really started a disturbance, they could easily raise hundreds of thousands of elite troops.

Even Soul Masters could probably muster a force of one or two thousand.

If this is not handled properly, it could absolutely trigger a massive rebellion that spreads to several kingdoms and provinces within the Heavenly Dou Empire.

Such a far-reaching matter naturally requires a certain procedure.

On the surface, Xue Qinghe submitted a memorial to Emperor Xue Ye, citing the issue of taxes paid by numerous princes and nobles within the Tiandou Empire in recent years.

We earnestly request the Imperial Central Government to dispatch officials to the local areas to investigate taxes.

This kind of thing happens every year, so it's nothing new.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Xue Qinghe, Emperor Xue Ye, and many other nobles with vested interests had already divided up the spoils.

With the cooperation of many parties, they planned to use tax issues as a pretext to attack and divide up this group of nobles.

Ironically, the most legitimate and appropriate reason to win over these nobles was actually tax issues.

As for the other misdeeds of these nobles...

Greed, cruelty, bloodthirstiness, extravagance, incompetence, and treating the people of the empire like dirt are all nothing compared to this.

On the contrary, it violated the tax contract between the vassal and the lord, and on the surface, it was the best excuse to take them down.

As for colluding with the Spirit Hall, this reason is naturally invalid unless there is a complete break with the Spirit Hall.

Moreover, their operation this time also requires the help of the Spirit Hall.

After all, these nobles controlled such a large army.

The best approach would naturally be a decapitation strike, taking down these leading noble Soul Masters first.

Otherwise, even if some of the imperial nobles have already secretly mobilized the power of their fiefdoms.

But if it really causes a major upheaval, it will be very difficult to control.

The Heavenly Dou Empire still faces the watchful eye of the Star Luo Empire, an external enemy.

Therefore, after several days of exchanging benefits, Lu Yan was pushed by Xue Qinghe into the position of chief tax envoy for this operation.

Of course, this is based on Lu Li, whose identity already has a certain reputation in Tiandou City.

Death Judge, Vice President of the Heavenly Dou Empire's Civilian Relief Association.

Even though many people may know that Lu Li is Lu Yan, and know his true identity and age.

However, with the visible achievements of the new Tiandou City district, coupled with Xue Qinghe's strong support, there were ultimately not many dissenting voices.

Regardless of their inner thoughts.

Ultimately, this massive force of 30,000 people, led by Lu Yan, left Tiandou City.

Of course, this team was only nominally led by Lu Yan.

The internal workings are much more complex.

Besides the more than 5,000 people in the relief association that Lu Yan could directly command.

And Xue Qinghe, during this period, brought in three thousand new recruits under the pretext of maintaining order in the new district.

The remaining personnel represented Emperor Xueye's 10,000 Royal Knights and some of his trusted officials.

And a series of noble representatives representing the aristocratic factions, along with their trusted confidants.

As for the people from the Spirit Hall, they naturally wouldn't travel with them directly.

According to the discussion between Xue Qinghe and Lu Yan, Lu Yan's team will be the same tax officials as in previous years.

The members of the Spirit Hall's faction will serve as both catalysts and external support.

The faction that serves as the guardians of the Spirit Hall will conduct internal investigations of the Spirit Halls in various regions, exposing all the problems in this regard.

Then, the people from the Spirit Hall applied to Lu Yan and his group of representatives from the central government of the empire for joint law enforcement.

Thus, they had a legitimate reason to unite with the Spirit Hall and, with the help of the Spirit Hall, carry out a decapitation operation against high-ranking nobles.

This is also an important reason why Xueye and the group of nobles were willing to carry out this operation.

What they witnessed was the infighting within the Spirit Hall.

It cannot be that only their empire's power is weakened; if that's all there is to it...

Emperor Xueye and the nobles on the imperial side may not be so determined to eliminate this part of the noble force.

However, if everyone weakens the spirits together, and the spirit hall also fights internally, resulting in heavy casualties, then there will be no problem.

At the same time, this will also be part of a delaying tactic.

It's all about exploiting information asymmetry.

These purged nobles and members of the Spirit Hall from the papal faction are unlikely to react quickly.

The faction that worships the Spirit Hall has actually reached a cooperation agreement with the official government of the Heaven Dou Empire.

When you see a small number of people being cleared out, you might feel a sense of relief.

Thus, as long as Lu Yan and his group act quickly enough and keep information under control effectively, they can succeed.

That would be enough to calm things down before they escalated.

Tsk tsk, Lu Yan felt a surge of joy just thinking about it.

How many thoughts of faith will he gain from this operation?

It makes me really excited!

Chapter 140 First Encounter with Qian Renxue's True Appearance

With a group of 30,000 people, the journey was naturally not going to be very fast.

It took Lu Yan and his group more than a month to finally arrive in the Duchy of Slock.

On this day, he served as the chief tax envoy dispatched by the Imperial Central Committee.

Lu Yan, along with a group of high-ranking officials and nobles in the group, received a warm welcome from Grand Duke Slock.

At the palace banquet, as the leader of the entire group and the representative of the eldest prince, Xue Qinghe, Lu Yan was naturally the central figure surrounded by everyone.