Theoretical Feasibility of Forging Divine Artifacts with Mortal Strength

"I've given you the specific steps, so hurry up and learn so you can take over the Lin Pavilion soon."

After carefully handing over the operation steps for the Machine Tool Soul Tool to Ning Tian, Chen Fu completely let go and let her tinker with it.

Molding a machine tool by hand was something even Ordinary People could do, let alone him with his martial soul's blessing for focused micro-manipulation. Plus, the precision needed to handle Level Five Soul Tools and below wasn't that high, and the required soul tool circuit inscriptions were minimal, so it took no effort at all.

As for the precision issue of the Machine Tool Soul Tool, that was something for the little girl Ning Tian to discover on her own. When she realized she needed higher precision, it would mean her soul tool technology had taken a qualitative leap.

Once you know what you need, technology will continue to advance further.

"You're clearly just squeezing me dry as child labor!"

She said that, but Ning Tian's hands never stopped manipulating the machine tool for material shaping. She was starting to grasp the joy of "using tools to make tools" and "starting small to achieve big things."

A Level Nine Soul Engineer building a Level Nine Soul Tool cannon—you could call that impressive.

A Low-level Soul Master, with energy core support, building and firing a Level Nine Soul Tool cannon—you could call that insane.

But what about an Ordinary Person with no Soul Power?

She quickly shook her head to toss out those terrifying thoughts. Anyway, she didn't care—the development of soul tools massively benefited their Nine Treasures Glazed Sect.

"By the way, Teacher, I'm a bit curious..."

Chen Fu, staring at his own deep blue Data Divine Ring in thought, looked up at Ning Tian upon Hearing This.

"Can you build a Level Nine Soul Tool?"

After all, Level Nine Soul Engineers had always been monopolized by the Sun Moon Empire.

"First, tell me what you understand a Level Nine Soul Tool to be."

When answering someone's question, Chen Fu always asked for their definition and understanding of the issue first, then responded based on the actual situation.

"Uh, well..."

When it came to Level Nine Soul Tools, Ning Tian's mind instantly flashed with images of long guns and short cannons.

"All kinds of high-power, high-energy-consumption killing weapons, right?"

Chen Fu summed it up for Ning Tian. Inspired by his disciple, Fan Yu was now a Level Eight Soul Engineer and closing in on Level Nine (absorbing the Ark's Energy Technology to boost cannon power), but his only specialty was still building cannons.

"Take away the Ark—can you, a one-ring soul master, build a Level Three Soul Tool?"

"Can't keep up with the consumption, right? Without updating Energy Technology and always using yourself as the core, that path was wrong from the start."

Chen Fu spread out the data model again, multitasking to explain to Ning Tian.

"A soul tool that only a Titled Douluo can control is a Level Nine Soul Tool—which genius came up with that classification?"

"Look at this data. What's the difference between a Level One Soul Tool salute cannon and that cannon the idiot at the academy is designing as a Level Nine Soul Tool?"

'I'm going to report you for badmouthing the grandmaster behind his back!' Ning Tian muttered super quietly in her mind.

Two soul tool models—one simple, one complex—were placed before Ning Tian. She knew her Teacher was testing her again.

"That Level Nine Soul Tool, aside from its complicated material processes and schematics, under the main framework, it just increases the energy output limit within the material's tolerance. Its technical structure hasn't actually advanced..."

Ning Tian quickly flipped through the knowledge in her mind, combining it with the models to give her answer.

"How could it advance? The Sun Moon side has a bunch of Level Nine Soul Engineers, but soul tool development has basically stagnated for the last hundred years. Know why?"

Chen Fu had gathered plenty of intelligence from the Sun Moon Empire, both from the academy and from Long Xiaoyao.

"Because they don't have a Peerless Douluo, not even a Super Douluo Above Level 95." Ning Tian had her own intelligence channels too.

"Teacher means the soul engineer's cultivation limits the development of soul tool technology?"

"Then do you think I'm limited?"

Thinking about her Teacher's series of soul tool technology theories that made her scalp tingle, Ning Tian felt her mind opening up.

"Uh, well, then doesn't that mean Teacher is already a Level Nine..."

"I've never built a Level Nine cannon, so I'm not."

Chen Fu refuted that. A soul engineer who hadn't built a Level Nine Soul Tool cannon didn't deserve to be called a Level Nine Soul Engineer.

Watching Ning Tian, who had been shooed away and was now full of energy tinkering with the Machine Tool Soul Tool, Chen Fu opened a new data model with one hand and murmured to himself:

"Forging divine tools with mortal strength? Sorry, but I think I've already gotten ahead."

The new model was rapidly simplified and modularized in Chen Fu's hands, with many complex steps even removed at the cost of performance.

"The main material compatibility issue is basically solved. Modify one production line, start by covering Shrek City, and align it with the [Ascension] plan."

Staring at the gradually simplified glasses model before him, Chen Fu sank into thought.

"Have the academy and Nine Treasures City handle the frame. I'll just make the core chip. I really don't have that much time to waste on trivialities like this. Let Teacher Fan Yu take a break too—stop always narrowing his path."

Once the plan was set, Chen Fu instructed Uncle Fu to handle it. He generally didn't want to touch messy things like faction trade.

"What kind of soul tool is this?"

Over at the academy, Uncle Fu asked Ma Xiaotao to go to the Soul Tool Academy and communicate with Fan Yu.

"Chen Fu named this the Battle Soul Instrument. It can record objects and analyze them."

Ma Xiaotao demonstrated the operation steps to Fan Yu, then gestured for him to try it out.

The latter put on the Battle Soul Instrument, a pair of goggles brimming with technological flair, with curiosity.

[Target: Female Human (Editable)] [Martial Soul: Fire-Attribute Beast Martial Soul (Editable)] [Soul Power Level: Sixth-Rank (Editable)] [Soul Skill: Not Yet Recorded, None (Editable)]

"It can serve as a communication tool to send messages within a certain range, and you can edit your own information into the Battle Soul Instrument's database, then copy that data to your friends—including but not limited to a Soul Master's name, rank, Soul Skills, and knowledge of various plants, minerals, and Soul Beasts. And in terms of cost, Chen Fu has compressed it to under a thousand Gold Soul Coins."

"...This..."

Fan Yu found it somewhat unbelievable. If a Titled Douluo were to pass on their breadth of knowledge to their juniors, it could almost indirectly create a Low-level Soul Master with extensive experience.

"Can it be reverse-engineered?"

Fan Yu knew it was a pipe dream, but his curiosity about the unknown still compelled him to ask.

"If Teacher wants the Academy to go bankrupt, then by all means, start this project. Those were Chen Fu's exact words. The core component of the Battle Soul Instrument is this card, named the [Soul Core]."

Taking the Battle Soul Instrument from Fan Yu's hands, Ma Xiaotao retrieved a square chip of unknown metal, two centimeters on each side, from an inner compartment.

"All the Soul Tool programs embedded in the Battle Soul Instrument's framework exist solely to serve this card."

The large Qilin seal pattern on it extinguished any thought Fan Yu had of trying to reverse-engineer it. Over the past three or four years, with the combined efforts of all the teachers and students in their Soul Tool Academy, they had only managed to successfully reverse-engineer one of Chen Fu's Soul Tools—and that one didn't even have the Qilin seal pattern.

Any Soul Tool bearing the Qilin seal had its internal Soul Tool circuits all stacked on top of each other, and some even shared a single circuit line, running in staggered intervals... Even without the seal, they could barely make heads or tails of it, let alone with the self-destruct seal that made the cost of trial and error prohibitively high.

In terms of raw power, Fan Yu was certain he could slap that little brat to death with one palm. But in terms of technical skill, ever since Chen Fu had crafted the [Ark], he had already advanced to a level the Academy could no longer comprehend, unshackled from the limits of soul power.

"How does this cooperation work?"

"Chen Fu provides the [Soul Core], and the Academy handles the production of the Battle Soul Instrument."

Though Chen Fu's approach was partly to lighten the computational load on the Technology Throne [Youlan], there was no denying...

"What a clever little bastard."

Fan Yu rubbed the chip in his hand and let out a chuckle of admiration.

Thank you for the monthly ticket from Breaking the Ice, tail number 3179, and thank you to all my good brothers for your support.