Steps forward

After Chen Feng left, Hu Liena and the guide continued walking towards the Hell Slaughter Arena.

"He was my previous guide," the guide suddenly said.

"Oh? What a coincidence?" Hu Liena said, somewhat surprised.

"Unfortunately, I'm on duty during this period, and unless someone else arrives soon, someone else will be able to take over."

"So that's how it is. How long has he been here?"

"More than ten days."

"It hasn't been long."

"But during this period he participated in the Hell Slaughter Arena twice a Frequency and appeared to be unaffected."

Is this Frequency very high?

"He's very tall, but I wonder how long he can keep it up."

Upon hearing this, Hu Liena subconsciously recalled the scene during the competition when Chen Feng's eyes gleamed with blue light, and her spiritual Soul Skill had no effect on him.

It's certain that it's a mental defense-type Soul Ring Skill, but this is the City of Slaughter, Soul Ring Skill should... wait.

Hu Liena frowned. If they were in that strange space, could the Rules of the City of Slaughter still affect Chen Feng? And what was that move Chen Feng just used? These two questions began to echo in her mind.

After returning to his residence, Chen Feng made the usual adjustments.

He calmed himself down with Ice Heart mindset and used remote calls to soothe his mood. After doing all that, he was back to being a sunny and cheerful young man.

Chen Feng leaned back in his deck chair, chatting with Zhu Zhuqing through A Fei while enjoying the virtual sunshine and beach, letting out a comfortable sigh.

"I, Chen Feng, didn't cheat; it's all thanks to hard work and sweat."

A Fei was already very intelligent and had communicated with Chen Feng spiritually for a long time. Now, after undergoing Soul Contract, its intelligence has grown further. It quickly learned to speak and became a mouthpiece for Chen Feng and the school.

The ten-minute sunbathing session ended quickly, and Chen Feng emerged refreshed. Soon after, he heard a knock on the door. The person who came in was Hu Liena, who had just finished a battle in the Hell Slaughter Arena.

Chen Feng opened the door and let Hu Liena in. With the Yin Yang Sword in hand, he wasn't worried about being ambushed, and Hu Liena, who had just arrived, wouldn't be so heartless as to kill him.

"You seem much more energetic now?" Hu Liena asked after looking Chen Feng up and down.

"After resting for a while after coming back, I naturally felt better," Chen Feng replied with a smile.

Hu Liena didn't delve into it further. "I just went to the Hell Slaughter Arena."

How are you feeling?

"It's insane. We have to fight like this a hundred times, and there's no peace outside either." Hu Liena's expression was somewhat gloomy.

And whether it was her imagination or not, after arriving here, she felt that her mentality had been affected to some extent, and she had become a little restless.

However, this restlessness wasn't obvious, making it impossible for her to determine whether it was a natural change in her mood after arriving in this crazy place, or if there was something wrong with this awful place itself.

"Take your time. Since it's a trial, there's no need to rush. Also, a word of advice: try not to eat or drink anything here, especially Bloody Mary," Chen Feng said, offering this advice out of consideration for a fellow human being.

"Not eat or drink what's here? How can you survive like that?" Hu Liena asked in astonishment.

Didn't you bring any food or water with you?

"Without...

"No one told you about this place before you came?"

"They said yes, but they didn't say anything about preparing food and water." Hu Liena was a little confused.

Chen Feng couldn't help but rub his forehead. "You know perfectly well that you're coming to a bloody Land of Slaughter, yet you think the food and drink here are safe?"

Hu Liena was speechless; she hadn't really thought of that.

"Forget it, as long as we don't touch Bloody Mary, there shouldn't be any major problems," Chen Feng said after thinking for a moment.

The City of Slaughter is inherently poisonous, so the food and water here will naturally be affected to some extent, but it shouldn't be as severe as Bloody Mary, otherwise, Slaughter God could never have been born here.

Chen Feng prepared living supplies in advance mainly as a precaution, to avoid ingesting toxins as much as possible.

Hu Liena understood Chen Feng's words. Since people had been able to leave before, including her teacher, it meant that even if there were problems with the food and drink here, they weren't too serious and could definitely be resolved once they left.

However, I'll feel a little uneasy about eating here in the future.

"Speaking of Bloody Mary, that drink we had when we came in was unavoidable, wasn't it?" Hu Liena asked.

"I just stormed in; I have no interest in drinking human blood." Chen Feng shrugged.

"Impressive. I never expected you to choose this method. I thought you would use a gentler approach, after all, you are Sage of the Sacred Hall."

"I'm just adapting to local customs, and there's no rule that says Sage can't use violence, is there? There will always be some unreasonable people in this world, and in those situations, violence is an indispensable means."

"That makes sense." Hu Liena looked at Chen Feng and asked a question that had been lingering in her mind for a long time, "Why... why did you share what you've researched? In the past, if someone had insights into cultivation, they would hide them away as family secrets."

"What happens after it's hidden away? Is it lost due to an accident or upheaval after being passed down to a certain generation? Or is it passed down for so long that later generations, lacking the necessary aptitude, gradually fail to understand its principles, becoming merely aware of what it is but not why it is? What is the point of a lost technique?" Chen Feng countered.

Hu Liena fell silent.

Chen Feng continued, "Technology needs to keep improving, but human wisdom and lifespan have limits. It's difficult for one person to complete the iteration of technology, so it can only be handed over to future generations. But who can guarantee that all blood relatives will be successful? Let's not talk about useless people and spendthrifts. There are many examples of years of accumulation being wasted in one generation. Mediocre people alone can cause technology to stagnate."

"Since that's the case, it's better to spread some basic knowledge, then select a group of outstanding individuals to discuss and exchange ideas together. This will make it easier for technology to advance rapidly, or what we might call a technological explosion. That's why I abandoned my family and sect and chose a school, even though I come from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."

Hu Liena pursed her lips and remarked with admiration, "Your vision is indeed broad; you truly deserve to be Sage."

"Actually, this isn't about vision; it's just that I want more than those who only think about their families."

What do you want?

"I want to shape this world with my own will," this thought swirled in Chen Feng's mind, and what came out of his mouth was. "I want my name to be remembered for eternity."

Hu Liena gave him a deep look. "Let's leave it at that, but I feel you're not just after fame."

The two chatted for a while longer before going their separate ways.

In the days that followed, Chen Feng continued to participate in the Hell Slaughter Arena every two days as Frequency. This high Frequency quickly attracted the attention of others, and what followed was a multi-person attack.

However, with the Mystic Class Dou Technique "Rat Possession" and the External Soul Bone"Wrath of Vengeance," Chen Feng is not afraid of group battles at all. In this place where the use of Soul Ring Skill is prohibited, Chen Feng's combat power is quite strong, as he has both Soul Bone and Soul Skill.

Wrath of Vengeance can form Lightning Armor, and when attacked, it can unleash a lightning counterattack, providing a significant advantage when surrounded.

The Rat Possession allows Chen Feng to use both Swift Thunder and Flying Sword. With the combination of the two, even when surrounded by hundreds of people, Chen Feng can fight his way out without suffering serious injuries.

While Chen Feng was fighting a bloody battle in the City of Slaughter, the school, thanks to the joint efforts of its teachers and students, also achieved considerable results.

The first thing was Soul Tool that could contain Soul Beast. Lu Yi brought his family's inherited Storage Soul Tool making technology, as well as a soul tool alloy formula suitable for making Storage Soul Tool. After combining it with the Rune knowledge from the school, Lu Yi and Tang San improved the circuit structure and made Storage Soul Tool with a larger capacity. Then, the two naturally began to study the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.

After research, the two discovered that the circuit of the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch was actually just a part added to the circuit of the Storage Soul Tool, and it was not complicated. The key was the material that made up the circuit. It was a kind of fine thread that was neither metal nor fiber. This fine thread was woven together with another kind of fiber thread through a special method, and finally became the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch that could preserve living things.

After discovering the problem with the materials, the two tried various metals and alloys, but all attempts failed, and the research process came to a standstill.

It wasn't until Xiao Wu came to him during an experiment that, after learning of his troubles, she casually said, "Since it's thin thread, why don't you try spider silk? Some spider-type Soul Beast can eat ores, and the silk they spit out will have some different properties."

Tang San's eyes lit up immediately. "Do you have any recommended Soul Beast?"

"Cave Demon Spider."

From then on, the research entered a new stage. After capturing a 30,000-year-old Cave Demon Spider, Tang San fed it various soul-guiding ores and successfully found a type of spider silk suitable for making the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.

The Soul Beast Cave Demon Spider a cunning and treacherous predator, and its temperament is definitely not gentle. After being captured, it was uncooperative for a time, and even Xiao Wu and Gu Yue Ling had no way to deal with it.

One day, when Cang Xiao was returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, he passed by the place where the Cave Demon Spider was imprisoned, and after that, the Cave Demon Spider became much more obedient.

By the way, Cang Xiao has been appointed as a professor of Soul Beast Studies because she is very knowledgeable about the characteristics of Soul Beast in the Death Desert, has some knowledge about Soul Beast in other places, and knows some little-known Soul Beast knowledge. The professorship is well-deserved.

The reason she went to the Star Dou Great Forest was to see the Soul Beast there and see what was special about them.

After solving the material problem, the next issue to address was the manufacturing process. Fortunately, one of the Engineering lecturers hired by the school was an expert in textiles.

Thanks to her tireless efforts, the final hurdle in creating the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch was overcome, and the Storage Soul Tool capable of preserving living beings was finally created.

Furthermore, with Chen Feng's reminder, Gauss realized that the current Mathematics calculation methods were too cumbersome. After a long period of deliberation, he successfully designed a simple and easy-to-use symbolic language, making Mathematics calculations more intuitive and convenient.

Since Engineering and Mathematics are closely related, Lu Yi and Gauss became good friends. After learning about Gauss's achievements, Lu Yi also had an idea. After consulting Gauss, he adopted some of the symbols created by Gauss and created some of his own. By combining the two, he used the dry Rune to represent the soul guide runes, so that the existing Rune all had their own corresponding symbols, which made it easier to write, understand and teach the dry symbol.

The Arts District was also bustling with activity. Tang Yuehua, as Tang San's aunt, spent a lot of time with her nephew. During a casual chat, she learned about the existence of Music Box from Tang San, which sparked her idea to make music popular and no longer the exclusive domain of a few.

After understanding the principles of Music Box, she attempted to combine sheet music with mechanics. With Tang San's help, she successfully created a soul-guided phonograph that could play complete music, which quickly became popular across the continent. While bringing music to the Qian Family, it also further deepened the influence of Hydra University in people's hearts.

Li Miao, Agricultural Science, also achieved results. Because the growth time of ordinary crops is too long, he turned his attention to a legume crop with a shorter growth cycle.

Through experiments and observations, he discovered that some parental traits of this legume crop will appear in the offspring, while others will not. However, sometimes the offspring of two parents who do not have a certain trait will actually have that trait.

By observing this phenomenon, Li Miao proposed the concepts of dominant and recessive traits, and he found that the number of offspring with these two traits seemed to follow a certain pattern after different parental generations reproduced.

However, he was not good at Mathematics calculations, so he sought help from his friend Gauss. Gauss quickly concluded through calculations that the genetic factors affecting individual traits should consist of two parts, provided by the father and the mother respectively.

Based on this hypothesis, Li Miao began further experiments, but these experiments were time-consuming, so there were no further results yet.

A year later, Chen Feng emerged from the Hell Slaughter Arena once again. It was quiet outside, and no one dared to attack him until he returned to his residence.

Why? Because all those who did that before are dead. Not only that, but what's even more terrifying is that Chen Feng has now completed more than eighty killing matches, yet he still looks perfectly normal.

To outsiders, this is the most abnormal thing.

A person who has spent a year in the City of Slaughter and has thousands of lives on their hands, yet still appears sunny and cheerful, inevitably gives people a rather chilling feeling.

Therefore, no one dared to provoke Chen Feng anymore, and most people here didn't even dare to approach him. Every time he came out of the Hell Slaughter Arena, he would see a quiet, deserted street, which could be said to be quite impressive.