Song of Ice and Fire for Mortals: [Pandora]!

"Need some help?"

Standing on the cracked bluestone street, the man stopped and looked at the youth slumped helplessly in front of a ruin. He was covered in blood and bruises, and fine pale blue stone dust had gotten into his wounds, his dark red fingers faintly revealing a hint of paleness.

"..." The youth stared blankly at the unrecognizable flesh and blood within the ruins before him, responding with silence.

He remembered his sister telling him that Shrek City was the safest place, and as long as he didn't anger any Lords Soul Master, he could earn a lot of money.

Crack

The man felt something he had held onto for many years shatter. The world suddenly appeared before him from a completely new perspective. Vaguely, he seemed to hear a crying sound. When he turned his head, what appeared in his eyes was no longer just collapsed houses and damaged roads.

Through the gaps in the collapsed houses, faint traces of white and red liquid were flowing. Beneath a stone by his feet lay a slender, pale arm. It was as if the seemingly deserted street had always been populated, but these people were simply not valued or noticed. They were low-level soul masters with soul power below level ten, and even more were ordinary people who added to the atmosphere of this giant city, acting as its lubricant.

With this perspective, Chen Fu looked again at the ruins in front of the youth. It had a very pleasant name, given by Chen Fu himself: Lin Pavilion.

He suddenly remembered Uncle Fu, the ordinary person who had followed him for over ten years. Honestly, Uncle Fu was so careless. After being his shopkeeper for more than a decade, he still managed to have his clothes stolen. He would definitely dock his pay if he caught him.

And his god-daughter, what was her name, Bai Ping? She always yawned during work. She said she had a brother to take care of and also worked the night shift. He didn't know why Uncle Fu didn't fire such a salty fish employee.

As for that green hamster, it said last week it was going back to its hometown to dig for some treasures and would return after a while.

"Will they be punished?"

Are you referring to being punished for not finding any relevant information in your laboratory? Long Xiaoyao, who stood with his sword, dared not answer rashly. After a moment of thought, he tentatively asked:

"Probably not."

Although their channels seemed different, the answer was the same.

"Oh."

Chen Fu let out an "Oh," showing no expression.

"Bai Qi, right."

Chen Fu, who couldn't even seem to remember the yawning girl's name, called out the youth's name in one go.

"Come with me."

After speaking, he no longer paid attention to the tragic scene around him and walked towards the city's outskirts alone.

Long Xiaoyao, who stayed inseparable from him, followed with his sword, a few steps behind.

"Sir, they've arrived."

Walking through Shrek City, which was devastated by soul power and now a wasteland, Jin Lin led more than twenty students from Shrek Academy, silently following Chen Fu's footsteps.

He glanced back at Shrek City, which had survived the soul power big bang and the melee of more than twenty Titled Douluo. The once prosperous super great city was covered in scars. Then Chen Fu focused his gaze on the academy students who had followed, such as Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao.

Their bright eyes, once filled with the radiance of ideals, now seemed to hold a trace of bewilderment about the future.

His gaze lingered briefly on the Light Butterfly Girl following behind the Spirit Eye Youth, then turned to face everyone and asked:

"Do you know where we're going?"

"...No." Amidst the silence, a student from the Original Soul Tool Academy finally broke the atmosphere. This person had previously worked under Chen Fu.

Truly, a bunch of hot-blooded fools.

Chen Fu remained noncommittal, as he had once led a team just as foolish as them.

"It's fine if you don't know, just follow along properly."

Chen Fu had said the exact same words before.

The Super Douluo from the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect left after safely delivering Ning Tian to Chen Fu's side, departing through shattered void. Ning Tian was making a significant decision and needed to return to report to the Sect Master.

"...Are you sure Ning Tian said that?"

Although shocked that such a weird soul tool could exist in this world, it wasn't that important to Ning Yi. Because even without facing this evil artifact, he couldn't defeat anyone in a one-on-one fight.

"Yes, Sect Master, she shouted it out in front of all the Shrek high-level."

Ning Yi suddenly felt a headache, but at the same time, he felt relieved.

Achievers disregard trivial matters. A leader should have the courage to decide everything.

"Immediately notify all clan members in the city to gather, bring nothing! Head towards Chen Fu's direction at once!"

The main family members must all flee, as there's little necessity of being alive for them. As for others, perhaps this is the "loss" the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect needs to pay in terms of gain and loss?

The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect rose to prominence through wealth. They understood deeply that wealth is only useful if people are alive.

They needed to rendezvous with Chen Fu at the fastest possible speed, otherwise, they would die miserably. To be the person who eats crabs first, one must bear the risk of being poisoned to death.

When that young man produced that evil artifact named [Banished Immortal], it was destined that he would be intolerable to the Soul Master World. If he only possessed this weapon, Ning Yi might have preferred to expel Ning Tian from the family rather than stake all his wealth and life on it. But what is the current situation? A Level Nine Soul Tool with replicability!

Combined with that person's unique Melting Ring Technology, it felt as if this world had quietly patched itself up in an instant, leaving them, traditional soul masters, with no psychological preparation whatsoever.

Fortunately, Nine Treasures City was not far from Shrek City.

As Ning Yi led his clan members out of the city, they saw the unmatched sword qi that permeated heaven and earth, sweeping in all directions.

Long Xiaoyao, one man, one sword, faced the hastily formed Expeditionary Alliance of over twenty Titled Douluo from the Douluo Continent. He activated the Azure Blue Light Sword in his hand at maximum power. The slender light sword, thousands of meters long, split heaven and earth into a white light.

No Titled Douluo could withstand three strikes from him. The intangible Spirit Sword, when swung, dealt no physical damage, but once struck, a soul ring would inevitably be severely damaged. Douluo who didn't rely on soul ring skills or had self-created soul skills were fine, their combat power not significantly affected. But for those Titled Douluo who extremely relied on Soul Ring Skills, it was a terrifying matter.

If he weren't afraid of Chen Fu being stolen, Long Xiaoyao would have loved to hug his Treasure Sword and run two laps around the Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent right now, slashing anyone he found unpleasant along the way, under the guise of: helping you master your self-created soul skill sooner.

In the future, his actions would ignite a vigorous wave of self-created soul skill exchange and learning between the two continents.

After felling several more Titled Douluo, the area within a thousand meters of Long Xiaoyao became a forbidden zone.

It is worth mentioning that Long Xiaoyao, to prevent being attacked from both front and back, unleashed his sword energy indiscriminately.

However, Chen Fu had anticipated this. Upon meeting, he instructed Long Xiaoyao to use the shallow logic of [Banished Immortal] to precisely sever the residual souls of the Original Soul Tool Academy students' soul rings without harming their spirits, as a preparatory step for the Energy Storage Rings.

Notably, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were unaffected. The former's soul ring's soul remained intact, thus unaffected by the induction, while the latter was completely isolated by an unknown power. Chen Fu didn't say much about this. The vast Sea God divine power was something he would never forget. However, as the saying goes, every debt has its creditor. Bullying a young girl did not align with Chen Fu's principles.

Although he felt Wang Dong's presence here was indeed untimely.

"Is everyone here?"

Standing outside Nine Treasures City, Chen Fu asked Ning Tian. They had rushed to Nine Treasures City after leaving Shrek City.

Aside from the matter of "Dual Divine Positions," Chen Fu's predictions were always comprehensive.

"Where are we going?"

Ning Yi, who had reunited with his daughter, finally relaxed his worried heart. At the same time, he rejoiced that the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had backed the right horse!

"Star Dou Great Forest."

"Help me open the Space Ring."

Sitting in a carriage, Chen Fu handed the Space Ring he carried with him to the golden-haired girl who had been silently waiting by his side.

Behind them was a convoy crammed together, within Long Xiaoyao's attack range.

The people from Nine Treasures City, upon discovering that someone was waiting to receive them outside the city, returned to load up on supplies before following Chen Fu towards the Star Dou Great Forest. Chen Fu had many places he could go, and many factions would have begged him to visit. However, the only place that could continue to drive him towards his goal was the Star Dou Great Forest.

Golden Scale took Chen Fu's ring and activated her soul power to open the Space Ring.

"In the E6 area, there are 6 black and red Ark Cores. Take one out."

Without Soul Power Factors, Chen Fu could not store soul power within his body, nor could he even retrieve items from a Spatial Soul Tool.

The only Ark Cores he could utilize, the second-generation Ark and the third-generation prototype Nuclear Ark, were both inside the Space Ring.

Frustratingly, activating the Ark Core still required soul power.

"Concentrate your soul power and strike the embedded dot with all your might."

Chen Fu instructed Golden Scale to condense her soul power into a needle and forcefully strike a specially marked firing pin on the black and red metal cube.

Buzz!

The Nuclear Ark erupted with powerful soul power fluctuations amidst the black and red light.

His gaze first swept towards the distant void. The [Azure Blue] database was damaged, but his mental realm had not declined. In that emptiness was the strongest person of this era who traversed the void with his physical body—the Demigod Mu En!

"Finally willing to wake up and face this terrible world? My dear protector."

He then retracted his gaze and used [Azure Blue] to mobilize his Spiritual Power to control this temporarily externalized Soul Source.

"Tian Meng, let's make a deal."

Tian Meng's contingency plan, prepared to guard against the protector's momentary confusion, could now be used elsewhere.

As for how to use that gift from nature to counter Mu En, who surpassed limits, Chen Fu valued Tian Meng's total mental capacity. While its offensive power was weak, it didn't mean [Azure Blue]'s offensive power was weak. At the very least, a limit burst could temporarily wash the soul of a divine body that hadn't yet deified into an idiot.

The price of momentary confusion was a lifetime of confusion, so it was better not to be confused.

[High-density Mental Soul Source captured, absorbing...]

"Yu Hao! We're going to be rich! Take off, take off! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Even though most of the mental soul source within his body was being consumed and digested by [Azure Blue], Tian Meng appeared very happy in Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea.

"When the time comes, we can ask Chen Fu to help us deal with that gray ball, ah! Help, I didn't say anything! Yu Hao, save me!"

"...Old Yi, Brother Tian Meng is just joking..." Huo Yuhao couldn't help but worry as he watched Tian Meng, who had lost ninety percent of his soul source, being manhandled by Electrolux in his spiritual sea.

"...That person has extraordinary talent in the path of karma. This is an opportunity for this fat worm." After a moment of thought, Electrolux gave his assessment.

[Azure Blue Divine Ring system restarting]

Clang!

The shattered Azure Blue Data Divine Ring reappeared behind Chen Fu. The broken blue runes on it began to evolve anew, finally filling the newborn, transparent, glazed Azure Blue Divine Ring wheel bit by bit.

However, the four small, transparent good brothers from before were gone.

[Divine Ring System Update, officially updated to: Ascension Light Wheel]

The four soul rings had been completely erased by divine power. With his current technology, he couldn't add a sixth soul ring across four rings, so his soul ring cultivation path was blocked.

However, soul rings did not affect soul power accumulation. It was just that, generally speaking, a level sixty Soul Elder would be beaten so badly by a level fifty Soul King that their parents wouldn't recognize them, so there was no such need.

Unfurling the Ascension Light Wheel, reborn from devouring Tian Meng's origin, a silver-blue crystal appeared in Chen Fu's hand.

This was something [Azure Blue] discovered in the Golden Ancient Tree's spiritual sea. From the memories of the Golden Ancient Tree's soul source, he learned that this was... Tang San's mother.

This was the fundamental reason why the Asura God's third and final strike had been delayed.

The first strike shattered the wonder of the [Ascension] Soul Tool composed of the Golden Ancient Tree. [Azure Blue] then discovered the Divine Sense Crystal that suddenly erupted and tried to escape.

But who was He, [Azure Blue]? The ultimate nightmare above Shrek City, the feeder of the fat silkworm Tian Meng, the ruler of the Super Domain Mental Network, and the master's nickname: Little Blue! A top-tier spiritual hunter!

The boundless spiritual power spider web instantly captured Tang San's mother's Divine Thought Crystal.

Even though the Asura God's second strike completely destroyed the Golden Ancient Tree, the carrier, it did not retrieve his mother from [Azure]'s hands.

The reason the third strike was delayed was that [Azure] couldn't deal with the Divine Thought Crystal wrapped outside. However, He discovered that the Asura God's power could.

Continuing to place the Divine Thought Crystal into the Ascension Light Wheel was not something he could handle right now.

Clang!

The Azure light wheel let out a crisp sound like shattering jade, and the soul power continuously generated within the Nuclear Ark was absorbed and converted by the light wheel.

[Ascension Operating System has been connected]

[Ascension], which Long Xiaoyao always held in his arms, suddenly transformed into a stream of light and appeared before Chen Fu, happily spinning around, seemingly very pleased.

In reality, it was [Azure] controlling it.

"Old Dragon, [Ascension] is not meant to be used like that."

Taking out the 2.5 Generation Ark Core from the sword body, Chen Fu embedded the same model, the Third Generation Prototype Nuclear Ark, into it and activated it.

Compared to the endurance of the 2.5, the 3rd Generation excelled in burst power.

"Golden Scale, what kind of Soul Beast qualifies as your kin?"

Chen Fu, controlling [Azure], moved the corpse of a Level 92 Agility Attack Titled Douluo, who had tried to steal from him but was slapped to death by Long Xiaoyao, to his front. [Ascension] only enriched Long Xiaoyao's attack methods, but he himself remained a Level 99 Limit Douluo.

"Anything below ten thousand years is food."

Watching the Titled Douluo's corpse dissolve and disperse into dust in Chen Fu's hands, the girl's beautiful eyebrows couldn't help but furrow.

"In that case, the target will be set below one thousand years."

[Mission Target has been determined]

"Go."

Waving his hand, he let [Azure] take [Ascension] out for a spin.

Instantly, a streak of rainbow light streaked across the sky.

One hand continued to control the authority of the Technology Throne, gradually decomposing the Douluo's corpse, while the other hand utilized computation to retrieve materials from the Space Ring and begin hand-crafting a prototype Nuclear Ark.

Currently, this Nuclear Ark was good, its energy output limit could reach the level of a Titled Douluo, but it was just too unsustainable. Its maximum energy output could only be maintained for one minute before the high-energy substance manufactured from scraps of Mysterious Sky Meteorite inside would be depleted.

With [Azure] using the Ascension Light Wheel as a base station, it could currently radiate a range of a hundred kilometers. This meant that [Azure]'s operational range was limited to this area before [Ascension]'s energy ran out.

In the distant forest, a Hundred-Year Soft Bone Rabbit was drinking water. Suddenly, its ears perked up. A stream of rainbow light descended from the sky, piercing its head. The immense heat instantly evaporated the marrow in its brain.

Immediately after, [Azure] began to wield its authority using [Banished Immortal]'s energy, breaking down and absorbing the thoroughly dead Hundred-Year Soft Bone Rabbit. Ten-odd seconds later, after collecting what it wanted, [Azure] transformed into a blue arc of light and flickered deep into the dense forest.

Not long after, Chen Fu gathered what [Azure] had collected and compared it with what he held in his hand. As expected, they possessed the same properties.

He then re-equipped the Nuclear Ark for [Banished Immortal], allowing [Azure] to continue this process.

Until...

"What exactly are you doing?"

Approaching the interior of the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian, who could no longer stand it, suddenly appeared a thousand meters away from Chen Fu and roared in anger. He had wanted to get closer, but he was pushed out of the void by someone.

"Even if Hundred-Year Soul Beasts are food, they can't withstand you doing this!"

Centered around Chen Fu's convoy, there were no Hundred-Year Soul Beasts to be seen within a hundred-mile radius!

Chen Fu opened his Spatial Soul Tool and began selecting materials. The two major forces of Shrek Academy and Nine Treasures City had enriched his treasury considerably.

Little by little, the materials were broken down into metal particles by Chen Fu, and then, with the assistance of [Azure], they were compiled into the form he desired.

"I already told you, they're just raw materials."

The Youth said, compressing and condensing the Blood-Colored Granules in his hand, uttering words that made Di Tian's eyelids twitch.

[Azure] manipulated specially made metal particles mixed with Soul Power Inscriptions crafted with Nanoscale Soul Tool Craftsmanship, gradually blending them into the compressed blood-colored particles in Chen Fu's hand. The blood-colored particles and nano-soul tool particles were arranged in a Multi-dimensional Geometric Matrix, ultimately forming a Blood-Colored Fleshy Metal Cube, about the size of an eyeball and not much different from the Ark Core, on a macroscopic level.

"What are you doing?"

Di Tian was attracted by the new trick this young man was playing, but he quickly remembered that he hadn't gotten an explanation from him yet!

"Soul Beasts are truly blessed by heaven."

Looking at the exquisite creation in his hand, Chen Fu couldn't help but sigh with genuine emotion.

"..." Di Tian felt these words sounded familiar.

Screech!

Chen Fu disinfected [Banished Immortal] and used its sharp blade to stab open his own chest.

"You...!"

The blonde girl beside him frowned but said nothing. Di Tian, however, was startled.

His Soul Power realm was severed, but his physical realm, honed by Melting Ring, remained.

Chen Fu used [Azure] to stop the bleeding, then embedded the Blood-Colored Fleshy Metal Cube, forged from the Soul Power Factors of a Titled Douluo and hundreds of thousands of Soul Beasts, into the center of his chest. Afterward, the mixed particles within the metal cube merged with his flesh, eventually becoming one. Apart from a small, glowing cube in the center of his chest, it looked as if it had grown there naturally.

Buzz!

The Soul Power Level engraving on the Azure Blue Ascension Light Wheel slowly lit up from the inner ring to the outer ring at a visible speed, only stopping at the Sixty-Fifth Mark.

This was Chen Fu's original physical Soul Power capacity.

"What did you do?!"

Seeing Chen Fu's suddenly recovered Soul Power cultivation, Di Tian's intuition told him this was not a good thing.

"This is a surprise, and also a disaster."

Chen Fu forced a smile onto his face, looking at Di Tian with his calm, ink-black eyes.

This is an Era of Mortals!

This is an Epic of Mortals!

This is a Song of Ice and Fire for Mortals!

Because it is called:

"[Pandora]."

Technology is a double-edged sword, and this time it swung the handle towards the Soul Beasts' heads.

Thanks to [Book Friend 5624] for 100 reward, thanks to [Tetu 5] for 100 reward, thanks to [Hu Yan Ji Qing] for 100 reward, thanks to [Shadow 7930] for 100 reward, thanks to [Demon God Million] for 600 reward, thanks to [Xue Sheng Deng Feng] for 200 reward, thanks to [Bitterly Entering Book Mountain Without Self-Pity] for 100 reward (σ′▽‵)′▽‵)σ

Thanks to my good brothers for the monthly tickets (over thirty! Too many to type out (┯_┯))(σ′▽‵)′▽‵)σ

Thanks to all my good brothers for the recommendation tickets (σ′▽‵)′▽‵)σ

Good brothers, I feel like I'm taking off, whoosh whoosh whoosh. The data has been lifted so high by all my good brothers (σ′▽‵)′▽‵)σ

Super long chapter, writing from afternoon until now, ahhh, such a loss. I should have split it into two chapters, but seeing the rewards from my good brothers, I would feel too embarrassed if I split it (σ′▽‵)′▽‵)σ

[Pandora] has returned to its place!

The Synopsis Three Core Technology Puzzles are finally complete!

Finishing with flowers, whoosh whoosh whoosh.