Godly Zhuge Crossbow, Hehe

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The days passed one by one, and in the blink of an eye, it was time for vacation.

As Ye Wen's newly acknowledged sworn little sister, how could he not take her home and let old Ye Buyi have a good look at her? After all, this sworn little sister had already been upgraded into a romantic little sister.

Still, in his spare time, Ye Wen could not help but sigh.

Ah Yin possessed Innate Full Soul Power, yet she had been discarded by Spirit Hall and sent to study in a remote place like Nuoding City simply because her Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass.

Even if they did not know that Martial Soul quality was tied to Innate Soul Power, Ah Yin's Blue Silver Grass could still have been trained as a Support Soul Master. Someone with Innate Full Soul Power could at least grow into a Junior Soul Douluo, yet they had simply let her slip away like that.

All he could say was that Spirit Hall's stewards were truly useless fools, every last one of them the dregs left behind by Soul Master quality education.

They could not recognize such an enormous Mutated Martial Soul?

They did not know that Martial Soul quality was linked to Innate Soul Power?

And they did not find such a cute Little Girl pleasing to the eye. Ahem~

Back to the point, Ye Wen had not merely been cultivating his Martial Soul at Nuoding Academy. He understood the original work, sure, but Tang Jia Three Spoons constantly contradicting his own settings was normal, and Tang Sanshao had openly used cheats all over the original work.

So he could not trust the original work one hundred percent. He had to form his own understanding of this world. Thus, aside from cultivation, Ye Wen had been gathering all kinds of information to refine his theories about the world.

Fine, his occupational habit had mostly flared up.

Besides, Ye Wen planned to take the scholar route. After all, the average intelligence on Romance Continent was truly worrying. A cultivation civilization that had developed for tens of thousands of years could not even figure out the core logic of Soul Ring absorption, yet later they let Yu Xiaogang come up with some so-called Extreme Soul Ring Absorption Theory. That was it?!

Wasn't plagiarizing this something anyone with hands could do?

Moreover, being a scholar meant he would not have to fight and kill at every turn. To be honest, the deeper he came to understand this world, the more distorted it appeared. They were clearly representatives of the extraordinary, yet those low-level Soul Masters had to fight and kill for that meager bit of income. It was simply speechless.

And injuries sustained in battle—even with those healing Soul Skills—were, in Ye Wen's eyes, merely treating the symptoms rather than the cause. Their meridians had not fully reconnected, their wounds had not been disinfected. Bodies that looked intact were actually riddled with damage, and their future cultivation potential would decline even further.

What was even more absurd was that medicine in this world had made no progress at all. After tens of thousands of years, it was still the same old routine. Soul Skills, Soul Skills, and still Soul Skills.

They turned a blind eye to medicinal herbs that grew everywhere in the forests. When ordinary people at the bottom fell ill, they could only endure it and wait for death. Their average lifespan did not exceed thirty years. It was so tragically absurd that words failed him. And this was supposed to be a supernatural world? It truly deserved its reputation as the sewer of fantasy worlds.

Those Soul Master families that had done some research into medicine would not waste effort studying remedies for ordinary people, much less lower themselves to refine medicine for them. After all, ordinary people could not afford Soul Master products.

Therefore: hide his cultivation, research medicine, cultivate a Soul Master force, and use the identity of a theoretical Grandmaster to bless the low-level Soul Master world. With such a persona, surely no bored Douluo powerhouse would come after him, right?

Did they understand the value of a high-IQ talent or not?!

Ye Wen laughed wildly. o(￣▽￣)o

But all of that was still merely in the planning stage.

The reason he had such thoughts was because the original work mentioned how top forces would assassinate the geniuses of rival sects. Without a background, one had to honestly develop in a corner where no one could see them, then shock everyone once they truly matured. Do not recklessly show off like Tang San in the original work. If he had not had a good father, he would have died countless times over.

So if one had an ordinary background but top-tier talent, they should not even think about joining some top sect. Who knew when a hostile sect might take a dislike to them and have them assassinated?

By now, Ye Wen had been enrolled for a full year and had begun preparing for his First Soul Ring. Yet his Martial Soul had no offensive power, and Ah Yin's was the same.

Although Ye Wen had proposed the idea of a Self-Created Soul Skill to Ah Yin based on one of his wild ideas—such as Flowers and Leaves Can All Wound, using Soul Power to strengthen Blue Silver Grass before throwing it with a powerful technique to gain a certain offensive advantage—

Unfortunately, their bodies were still far too young. Even with the idea, they could not put it into practice, so they could only set it aside. Thus, Ye Wen sought another path and thought of an exceptionally powerful cold weapon from his Previous Life.

The compound pulley crossbow—

It used the principle of pulleys to reduce the force required to draw the bow, multiplying the power of an ordinary Hand Crossbow several times over. It could also be drawn in advance, stored inside a Storage Ring, and taken out at any time to deliver a fatal blow to an enemy.

After all, the Godly Zhuge Crossbow Tang San made in the original work had set the terrifying precedent of instantly killing a Soul Ancestor when they were not defending with their full strength. This also showed that ordinary Soul Masters had quite limited defenses, unless they were Defense-type Soul Masters who specialized in defense.

Tang San's trigger-type crossbow was, when all was said and done, merely a crossbow made with mechanisms like springs. Its power was limited, given its size. Yet even that could kill a Soul Ancestor. How much more so a compound crossbow combined with modern knowledge? Even a Soul King probably could not withstand such terrifying penetration force head-on.

So what kind of trash was the Godly Zhuge Crossbow?

While making this compound crossbow, Ye Wen could not help thinking that Tang San's anti-imitation structure was completely pointless. Although Douluo I never explicitly mentioned spiritual-type Soul Masters, that did not mean they did not exist. Those scheming old sects in particular surely knew something about such things.

They could simply use clairvoyance or a spiritual scan. As long as they did not dismantle it, that was enough. Yet he had made it so complicated, making himself look rather ridiculous.

Still, it was a weapon capable of killing a Soul King. Ye Wen could not afford to be anything less than cautious. He divided the compound pulley crossbow he had designed into several component blueprints, had different blacksmith shops make them separately, and assembled it himself in the end.

Looking at the exquisitely crafted heavy crossbow before him, gleaming with a metallic sheen, Ye Wen could not help but rejoice.

He tried firing a bolt. It instantly pierced through a tree as thick as a child's waist, then flew several more meters before embedding itself in the ground—and that was from thirty meters away.

Ah Yin was also fortunate enough to witness its terrifying power, and she looked at Ye Wen eagerly as she begged for one.

Seeing those alluring little eyes, Ye Wen's heart stirred. He then gave Ah Yin his ancestral Storage Soul Tool.

It was not that Ye Wen had been bewitched by lust. Rather, the Storage Ring had already become somewhat redundant to him. After a year of research, he discovered that his Nabu Martial Soul came with one cubic meter of Storage Space, though so far it could only hold inanimate objects.

And by now, he could skillfully put things into it and take them out. Compared with the Storage Ring, its drawback was that anything stored inside continuously consumed his Soul Power. However, that consumption was so slight it could practically be ignored.

Furthermore, that consumption could accelerate his cultivation speed, though not by much. Still, something was better than nothing. So whenever Ye Wen cultivated, he kept his Storage Space packed full.