The Azure Luan Communicator Is Unveiled! The Beginning of Taking Control of the World (Two-in-One)

The inner court.

Half the teachers and students of the Soul Tool Department had gathered in Xiang Bei's workshop.

Among the teachers, practically everyone was there, except those who had accompanied Huo Yuhao and He Caitou to the Sun Moon Empire or gone out on missions.

Xian Lin'er looked at Xiang Bei, who stood nearby with his head lowered in thought, and spoke:

"Xiang Bei, what are you planning to do, gathering so many people in such a hurry?"

"Something important, of course," Xiang Bei said with a smile. "I plan to build a city here in the Virtual World. It'll include training grounds, wilderness zones, an arena, a mission area, a war simulation zone, and so on.

"Once it's finished, students will be able to enter through External Brain-Computer Interfaces to study and train."

"!!!" Xian Lin'er's expression changed dramatically. Her brows furrowed slightly, and she was almost swept away by her immense delight.

A city in the Virtual World, where students could train and gain experience, and even have the environments needed for missions simulated so they could adapt to them.

In that case...

Wouldn't that greatly reduce the students' death rate?

But as a genius disciple of Mingde Hall, would he really build such an advanced Soul Tool for Mingde Hall's enemy?

The question arose in Xian Lin'er's mind. As dean of the Soul Tool Department, she naturally had to give it more thought.

"Really? Then... who would be in charge once it's built?"

"Shrek Academy, of course. I'll only provide technical support." Xiang Bei never spoke without dropping a bombshell; he sounded like a saint.

Meng Hongchen discreetly tugged his sleeve and whispered, "Brother Bei, they haven't brainwashed you, have they?"

Xiao Hongchen pulled down the brim of his hat and lowered his head in thought. He really couldn't understand what Xiang Bei was trying to do.

"What are you talking about, Xiao Meng?" Xiang Bei shook his head.

He did intend to hand control over to Shrek Academy, but ten thousand years from now, this thing would require the Federation Master Brain to control it with precision.

Even if he handed control over to Shrek, they wouldn't be able to make it work without Xiao Yu operating it.

Besides...

He planned to issue a new kind of currency in the Virtual World—Virtual Currency.

Want to train on location? Want to gain experience in the wilderness zones? Want to increase the age of your Soul Rings?

Trade Virtual Currency for it.

With Virtual Currency, he could obtain the closely guarded secrets of the great sects, countless Gold Soul Coins, and rare metals.

Once the resources were concentrated and the Virtual World expanded to cover the entire continent...

By then, whatever he wanted to do or obtain, he would only need to post a mission, and plenty of people would be willing to run errands for him.

And all he would spend was virtual currency, of which he could have as much as he wanted.

"All right, Teacher Xian Lin'er, it's still too early to talk about that. For now, I'm going to train you into qualified workers, with each person responsible for one step."

Xiang Bei flashed an old-money smile, then took a large quantity of rare metals out of his Storage Soul Tool.

"Teacher Xian Lin'er, you're in charge of assembling the Soul Guidance Chips for the signal reception component."

"Dean Qian, you're in charge of engraving the arrays for the energy conversion component. There are only a few Lithography Machines, so focus on engraving the core chips."

"As for the remaining students, I've written everything else that needs doing as missions and sent them to your personal terminals. Just find your places on the assembly line over there. If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask Xiao Yu."

As soon as he finished speaking,

Xiao Yu's virtual image appeared. "Everyone, manufacturing and assembly of the Soul Tool Satellites can begin."

Meng Hongchen stared at Xiang Bei with her big, adorably innocent eyes. "Brother Bei, they all have work to do. What about me?"

Xiang Bei put on a serious expression. "Xiao Meng, I have a very difficult task for you. You wouldn't want your brother to..."

Meng Hongchen said, "Boo-hoo, Brother Bei, I'll do whatever you ask."

"I was joking. You can take charge of the final inspection of the finished products." Xiang Bei raised an eyebrow.

Hearing that, Meng Hongchen pouted, looking reluctant. "Actually, if you wanted me to... I could do that too."

After assigning the workers on the assembly line, Xiang Bei went to a room in the back.

At the center of the room was a silver-white cube: the core of the Virtual World.

"Whew!"

"Xiao Yu, take out the materials I exchanged for at Shrek," Xiang Bei said, breathing out a stale breath as he addressed the air.

"Yes, Master." Xiao Yu multitasked, devoting half its computing power to the satellite manufacturing outside and using the rest to serve Xiang Bei.

With a series of faint clinks, all kinds of heavenly treasures and rare metals were neatly arranged on the floor.

Most were heavenly treasures. After all, Shrek's shortage of rare metals was common knowledge across the continent.

"I didn't expect Shrek Academy to have Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow," Tian Meng said in his mind. Just from the sound of his voice, Xiang Bei could tell someone was drooling in his Sea of Consciousness.

Among the heavenly treasures Xiang Bei had exchanged for were three drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, Soul Condensing Grass, Millennium Whale Rubber, and more.

Besides those,

while clearing the battlefield, he had also obtained a trophy: an External Soul Bone from a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear with fifty thousand years of cultivation. It was now fused with his left hand.

"Don't even think about it. You slept for a million years. How much Profound Ice Marrow did you absorb?"

Xiang Bei rejected Tian Meng's request to eat it.

"Xiao Yu, take two drops. Store the rest for now."

"Yes, Master." Xiao Yu's eyes had long since been drawn to the Profound Ice Marrow. It was highly beneficial to someone with an ice attribute like her.

After swallowing it, Xiao Yu's eyes became livelier. Her computing power hadn't increased, but her intelligence had improved considerably.

If her intelligence had previously been that of a ten-year-old child, it was now roughly equivalent to that of a fifteen-year-old.

Xiang Bei picked up an object from the floor that fit over a sleeve and murmured under his breath.

"Enter."

A spatial rift tore open out of thin air, and Xiang Bei stepped inside.

With the assembly line at work, the number of satellites would soon see explosive, gusher-like growth. After that, he would need something else to assist them.

The familiar space appeared on the Sky Screen, and Tian Meng entered it as well.

Feeling the unfamiliar presences around him and seeing sights he had never encountered on the continent, Tian Meng became cautious even in his speech.

"Where is this?"

"There are so many twinkling dots in the distance. Could this be the Divine Realm?"

With a humming vibration, a star nearby flickered for an instant, then rapidly approached. An incomparably powerful presence swept over them.

Tian Meng was almost suffocated by the oppressive presence. He had never encountered such a terrifying, restrained presence before.

The other party looked utterly unremarkable, even like an ordinary person, but as a million-year Soul Beast of the Mental Attribute, he could vaguely sense the world-destroying power within her.

The visitor this time was that familiar woman. Her white lab coat made of nanomaterial and her hair composed of information cables were particularly eye-catching.

"Little brother, do you have anything good for your big sister? I had a hard time snatching a chance to trade this time. Don't worry, your big sister has plenty of good things."

The woman spoke with a smile. Every smile and frown carried a charm all its own.

"Ahem..." Xiang Bei cleared his throat and took out a round object. "This is a Silent Sleeve Arrow. It's driven by a mechanical trigger, and when activated, it can fire three poisoned Sleeve Arrows. Nothing could be better for catching someone off guard."

It was a Hidden Weapon he had previously found in Shrek's treasury and bought with points while he was there.

Watching this, Tian Meng sneered.

A Silent Sleeve Arrow?

Was it useful?

From what he had learned over the past few days, most Soul Masters on the continent carried Defensive Soul Tools, especially Shrek's students, whose equipment was lavish.

This kind of weapon had been all right before Soul Tools appeared, but now it was probably fit for nothing but gathering dust. No wonder a layer of dust had accumulated on it.

Wouldn't he get beaten to death for offering something like that?

An unprecedented light burst from the woman's eyes. "An antique! A superb antique, and so well preserved! The quality of this metal, these marks on the surface..."

A virtual screen appeared in the woman's pupils, and she discreetly scanned the Silent Sleeve Arrow.

"Not bad. It's at least over a hundred thousand years old. It uses a traditional trigger mechanism that we phased out thousands of generations ago. I like it very much. Little brother, what would you like?"

Xiang Bei looked into her eyes.

"I'd like a special communicator. Besides communication, it should preferably have a spatial teleportation function. It can't be too expensive to make, and it needs to be able to absorb various forms of energy for storage, preferably including dissipated Soul Power."

The woman narrowed her eyes and said nothing.

For once, Xiang Bei felt a little embarrassed. He understood that his conditions were a bit outrageous.

"If that's not possible, a higher production cost is fine, but the spatial teleportation function needs to stay."

"That's it?" The woman blinked. "It's that simple?"

Xiang Bei rubbed his nose. "Ah!"

"A piece of cake. I can create a new one for you anytime with technology that was already outdated thousands of years ago." As she spoke, the woman took a pair of square objects from her pocket.

"This is what you asked for. It has a built-in spatial teleportation array that can send inanimate objects to a designated destination. It can receive signals from electromagnetic waves, radiation, and all kinds of light waves, and absorb Soul Power, solar energy, thermal energy, nuclear energy, cosmic rays, and many other forms of energy for storage."

"This is the manufacturing process for the spatial teleportation array. You can give it directly to your intelligent system. Once it learns how, it'll be able to produce them on an assembly line."

A translucent USB drive was handed to Xiao Yu, who gulped and ate it.

"Well then... see you next time, little brother."

The trade ended.

Xiang Bei returned to the room and looked down at the pair of communicators in his hands, a knowing smile on his face.

Now that he had satellites, how could he go without communicators?

"Master, manufacturing the spatial teleportation arrays requires Mithril as a base for the arrays and Lithography Machines to engrave them. I've already used your black card to exchange for fifty kilograms of Mithril and various materials from Shrek's treasury. An estimated one hundred communicators can be made in three days."

Xiao Yu spoke while sitting on Xiang Bei's shoulder.

"All right. Put the principles behind it into my mind in a way I can understand," Xiang Bei said. Before leaving, the woman had left him a back door. When it came to technology, it was better to master it himself.

If nothing else, there could always be an intelligent machine crisis.

"Also, restrict the communication and teleportation functions on the communicators made later. Set communicators capable of teleportation to the highest level. Without authorization, they'll only retain communication and connection to the Virtual World."

"When they're manufactured later, leave one hundred-thousandth of your computing power as a subsystem in each communicator to record data and information. Once a database is established, it can be archived."

"Yes, Master."

Xiang Bei picked up a communicator. Its square form instantly changed into the smartphone he was accustomed to using, with an edge-to-edge screen.

This was the communicator's built-in adaptation function, which could change it according to the user's habits.

Of course, only the first two communicators could do this.

There were only three apps on the screen, corresponding to communication, teleportation, and connection to the intelligent system.

After entering his personal ID, Xiang Bei first tried out the teleportation function.

When he tapped teleport, a silver spatial vortex appeared on the screen. At the same time, a vortex appeared on the screen of the other communicator.

Xiang Bei casually tossed a pebble into it. With a pop, the pebble flew out of the surface of the other communicator.

"It worked!"

He was a little excited. "From now on, let's call this the Azure Luan Communicator."

Douluo Continent.

Countless Soul Masters stared blankly at the scene on the Sky Screen, utterly baffled.

Most of them were merely astonished that an object with a little technical sophistication could be traded for something with a spatial teleportation function.

The Worship Hall.

"Fixed-point spatial teleportation? And on something so small? What kind of Soul Skill is this?" Qian Daoliu exclaimed repeatedly.

As far as he knew,

even a Titled Douluo with a spatial-type Martial Soul couldn't give another object the ability to teleport through space.

"Great Enshrined, this thing doesn't look like much. At most, it can just teleport objects," Golden Crocodile Douluo said with a frown. Limited by the understanding of his era, he truly couldn't see its significance.

"Golden Crocodile, you don't understand how frightening it is."

Qian Daoliu spoke meaningfully. "This young man has a grand plan in mind. Once that plan succeeds, I have a feeling his status ten thousand years from now will be comparable to a god's!"

"If this so-called communicator really is as he says, allowing unhindered communication and the unhindered transmission of information in wartime, just think what that means!"

"Hiss!"

With that reminder, Golden Crocodile instantly understood what made it so frightening.

Why did Spirit Hall establish branch halls everywhere, if not to expand its influence? With these communicators, a single command could swiftly spread across the entire continent, giving it unprecedented control!

The Pope's Palace.

Bibi Dong's eyes shone. "A good thing, an absolutely wonderful thing!"

"The Virtual World uses Virtual Currency. If this Virtual World can expand without limit, it's practically a new continent. Whoever controls the right to mint its currency will possess nearly unlimited resources."

"This Xiang Bei is ambitious indeed."

Shrek Academy.

After experiencing the degeneration of his Martial Soul and losing his position in the Golden Iron Triangle, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang felt that his life had become utterly bleak.

Now,

he was like an angry ordinary man, possessing Soul Power but unable to let out so much as a fart.

All he had left was his mouth.

[Yu Xiaogang]: "A Virtual World? Your consciousness enters it? Doesn't that mean I could summon wind and rain in the Virtual World?"

[Di Tian]: "You're dreaming. Everyone's spiritual power is different. How would you be able to summon wind and rain? More like you'd be sitting in a wheelchair."

[Yu Xiaogang]: "Damn you, Di Tian. Just wait until my disciple becomes a god."

[Ning Fengzhi]: "Speaking of which, what marvelous uses do this Virtual World and the so-called communicator have? Grandmaster, you're well-informed. Could you explain?"

Hearing someone flatter him, Yu Xiaogang was immediately delighted.

[Yu Xiaogang]: "You don't understand, do you? Let me explain it to you."