Homemade Soul Tool, Heaven-Grasping Bottle

"Sister Guyi, my dear sister, can't you see that I was just in a hurry?"

"I'll definitely be careful next time!"

Ma Xiaotao merely offered Ning Que an apologetic smile before taking Ye Guyi by the hand, intending to return to the inner courtyard.

"A-Que, I'm going to help her suppress her evil fire first."

Though Ye Guyi felt quite displeased, she did not refuse Ma Xiaotao's request.

"Come back early!"

Ning Que did not stop her; after all, this was a transaction.

Back when he and Guyi first arrived at Shrek Academy, Dean Yan Shaozhe discovered that Ye Guyi's holy attribute could suppress the evil fire within Ma Xiaotao, and he immediately wanted Ye Guyi to help out for nothing.

Ning Que would naturally never agree to such a thankless task.

As the next sect master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, he was no commoner without backing; how could he allow Shrek to oppress them?

After much bargaining, Shrek Academy finally agreed that as long as Ye Guyi helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire, she would be granted an extra month of cultivation inside the Golden Tree cave every year.

Watching his fiancée leave with Ma Xiaotao, Ning Que returned directly to the Soul Tool department's dormitory.

At fifteen, he was not only a level 48 auxiliary-system Soul Ancestor but also a level 5 soul engineer.

As an auxiliary-system soul master, he was not as foolish as the people of the three Douluo nations, who were extremely resistant to soul tools.

Over the years, the business between the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect and the Sun Moon Empire had flourished, making them the largest underground trading syndicate on both continents; he had never lacked for advanced soul tools or blueprints.

It could be said that his status as a level 5 soul engineer was one certified by the Mingde Hall of the Sun Moon Empire.

And truth be told, soul tools were a perfect match for the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect.

Not only did they grant auxiliary-system soul masters the power to fight, but more importantly, the martial soul of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect possessed an inherent ability to detect gems and the like, allowing them to discover and locate rare metals much more easily than other soul masters. Coupled with the fact that the sect's disciples possessed spiritual power far exceeding soul masters of the same rank, it was a perfect synergy.

Within the current Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, there were already three level 8 soul engineers, and countless others below level 7; the sect had recently set its sights on cultivating a level 9 soul engineer.

Because he occupied the position of a core disciple in the inner courtyard of the soul tool department, he did not need to live with the outer courtyard disciples or fight for space in a dormitory; he had his own independent villa.

Upon returning to his residence, Ning Que did not waste a single moment and immediately immersed himself in the busy work of drawing blueprints.

He always felt that the path of soul tools in this world had gone astray; whether it was the mechas or humanoid soul tools of the future, they all ultimately relied on the soul master's own strength.

The optimal solution was to allow the soul master to remain out of harm's way, eliminating enemies while ensuring their own safety.

The spaceships of the future were the correct path.

Currently, he was combining the experiences of his past life to draft the blueprints for his first-generation fighter aircraft.

He had long since mastered the technology of sealed milk bottles through the relevant theories of storage batteries.

Now, all that was lacking was the construction of the core soul tool arrays.

Once successful, he would seize air superiority and completely rewrite the wars of the entire Douluo Continent.

Scientific research was a maddening pursuit; once a spark of inspiration struck, Ning Que became completely obsessed, spending three whole days and nights continuously drawing and revising his blueprints.

It wasn't until Ye Guyi appeared that he stopped his work.

"Did it succeed?"

Seeing the joy on Ye Guyi's face, Ning Que knew that the project they had been struggling with for three full years had finally yielded results.

"We have successfully filled two Heaven-Grasping Bottles, and each one contains power comparable to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."

As she spoke, Ye Guyi produced two half-man-tall, bottle-shaped soul tools.

The shell of this soul tool was crafted from spirit-forged grade deep-sea sunken silver and gold foil of life, lined with a combination of crystal silver and soft jade marrow. The inscription medium was stardust sand, with time-acceleration and space-confinement arrays carved inside. The entrance featured an element-stripping soul tool array, inlaid with void silver crystals to conduct and amplify the array's operation, reducing soul power consumption...

Limited by technology, it was only a level 8 soul tool, but the resources consumed by each one far exceeded the manpower and material resources required to forge a level 9 soul tool.

It was built according to Ning Que's ideas, with the full effort of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's high-level soul engineers.

He named it the Heaven-Grasping Bottle because it could constantly absorb the primordial energy of the outside world. Through the element-stripping core array, it extracted the required energy into the bottle, then used the internal time-acceleration and space-confinement arrays to nourish the ten-thousand-year medicinal herbs at the bottom of the bottle at five to ten times the normal speed.

Even so, it would still take over a hundred years to nurture the herbs they needed.

To this end, Ning Que chose to "shear the wool" of the Golden Tree.

As the core of the entire Douluo plane, the Golden Tree contained not only light and life attributes but also divine attributes; the heaven and earth energy it possessed allowed plants to grow rapidly.

Combined with the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and the environment at the bottom of the bottle, which simulated the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, it could maximize the growth of the medicinal herbs he required.

For these past three years, the Heaven-Grasping Bottles had been active every moment, constantly absorbing the primordial energy between heaven and earth, then filtering it to leave only the life and light power of the Golden Tree.

This was the main reason why Ning Que agreed to let Guyi help Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire.

Being inside the Golden Tree cave, the energy absorbed in a single day was more than what could be absorbed in a year outside.

And within these Heaven-Grasping Bottles were two ten-thousand-year medicinal herbs that the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect had spent a fortune to acquire.

One was the Eternal Glazed Stamen, and the other was the Divine Dawn Light Grass.

Ning Que intended to attempt to catalyze them into immortal herbs!

Over the years, he had not failed to consider plotting for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, but he had never found a way.

The sect's Titled Douluo had also gone to investigate the Sunset Forest, but they had never been able to find it.

Still, he managed to discover some clues; there were faint traces of spatial folding in that area.

In other words, anyone who was not a Child of Destiny or chosen by Tang San would be completely unable to enter and locate the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

As such, he would have to find another way.

Even if he could not cultivate true Immortal-Grade herbs, achieving semi-Immortal-Grade ones would be enough to push him a step further. After all, his Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda had already begun to manifest the phantom of an eighth floor.

Furthermore, Ye Guyi's martial soul was already at the half-step Ultimate attribute level.

"Continue helping Ma Xiaotao purge her evil fire; we still need to gather energy for those three ten-thousand-year herbs to accelerate their growth."

"But remember one thing: do not rush. Prioritize stability above all else; none of these things are as important as your safety."

Ning Que looked at his fiancée before him; she had truly been running back and forth to help him with this task over the years.

He knew that Mu En was connected to the Golden Tree. If he were ever discovered, given the nature of the people at Shrek, it was possible that sacrificing the better part of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect wouldn't even satisfy them.

Therefore, he had been extremely cautious, stealing only a few thousand years' worth of energy at a time. To the massive Golden Tree, the loss was less significant than a fallen withered branch compared to the energy possessed by a ten-thousand-year soul beast, which was why he hadn't been detected.

"Rest assured, I will handle it with caution. You should get some proper rest and sleep for a while."

Seeing the somewhat exhausted Ning Que, Ye Guyi insisted that he take a forced rest.

Just as Ning Que was about to obey and sleep, his communication Soul Tool lit up.

"Rest? Only those useless to the soul master world would rest. With evil soul masters lurking everywhere and the continent in such a precarious state, this is exactly the time for ambitious people like us to shine—how could I possibly rest!"

Ning Que rubbed his face, putting on a look of righteous indignation.

The moment his communication Soul Tool lit up, he knew it was time to execute his plan to intercept the opportunity.