Merciful Gatling Bodhisattva

Under the guidance of Qian Duoduo, Grey Wolf picked up the Tungsten Steel Engraving Knife and began to carve the most basic energy-gathering array onto a piece of scrap metal.

Although it was his first time, Grey Wolf progressed rapidly; from his initial clumsiness to gradual proficiency, the depth and curvature of every stroke quickly became uniform.

Qian Duoduo watched, dumbfounded, and couldn't stop praising Grey Wolf as a once-in-a-millennium genius, noting that an average apprentice would need hundreds or thousands of practice sessions to achieve the results Grey Wolf produced on his first attempt.

While Grey Wolf learned to carve arrays, Feng Tianyu used the flames of a Soul Guidance Furnace to soften another piece of Whale Rubber.

Feng Tianyu consumed the Whale Rubber, and as its energy diffused through his body, his blood surged; his amber eyes turned crimson once more, and he gasped for air, sweat pouring from his cheeks down to his neck.

This was his second time consuming Whale Rubber, and while the benefits were far less significant than before, they were still not enough to completely overwhelm his consciousness.

Enduring the surging blood, Feng Tianyu picked up a hammer and began to clang away, forging a rough piece of Soul Guidance Metal.

He panted heavily, venting the endless, near-inexhaustible strength surging within him into the raw Soul Guidance Metal.

Feng Tianyu was not swinging aimlessly; with yesterday's experience, every strike was methodical. He didn't just use his hands, shoulders, or back, but his entire body, with his tendons and bones resonating and his muscles contracting and relaxing in a highly rhythmic fashion.

His body was like a machine with a tightened spring, every strike gathering the strength of his entire frame—an instinct Feng Tianyu had gradually carved into his very bones under Qian Duoduo's guidance yesterday.

While outsiders could not learn the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, a master blacksmith like Qian Duoduo, with decades of experience, could certainly devise a hammer technique with its own unique merits.

Feng Tianyu studied the decades of experience in the man's hammer technique, and relying on the endless strength surging within him, his technique improved rapidly. Sparks flew from the raw Soul Guidance Metal under his hammer, impurities were blasted away, and a hint of iron-gray metallic luster began to bloom from within the rough piece.

The man and the wolf were both making rapid progress in their respective fields!

Over the next ten days, Feng Tianyu and Grey Wolf lived like ascetics: they arrived at the Soul Guidance Department in the morning to forge and carve arrays, then returned in the afternoon to cultivate their soul power until late at night, only sleeping to recover their energy when they were utterly exhausted.

Feng Tianyu had finished his Whale Rubber; ten pieces of over 3,000 years of age had built up a resistance in his body while pushing his physique to its current limit.

Now, although Feng Tianyu looked lean, his muscles were well-defined, filled with the power of a fierce tiger.

Qian Duoduo had personally tested Feng Tianyu, confirming that his physique surpassed that of the vast majority of Soul Elder, and he would have no problem absorbing a 2,000-year soul ring.

This was due to both the Whale Rubber and his forging exercises!

To continue training his body, Feng Tianyu used his burgeoning hammer skills to forge a piece of Iron Vest for himself from the Soul Guidance Metal he had crafted.

The Iron Vest did not look very large, covering only his chest and back, but it weighed over a hundred pounds.

Feng Tianyu now wore this Iron Vest every day while forging, ensuring that by the end of the day, his body was pushed to its absolute limit.

It was only thanks to Feng Tianyu's good diet—nutritious meals made from the flesh and blood of century-old soul beasts—that his six-year-old body wasn't completely hollowed out.

As for Grey Wolf, under Qian Duoduo's guidance, it had learned hundreds of Soul Tool arrays. Although they were all carved onto scrap metal, the depth and curvature of the lines were perfectly standard, earning Qian Duoduo's approval.

Qian Duoduo marveled at Grey Wolf's learning speed and finally gave the go-ahead for it to start carving arrays onto actual Soul Guidance Metal.

The Soul Guidance Metal Grey Wolf used was the very metal Feng Tianyu had forged.

Holding the Soul Guidance Metal, Grey Wolf's lupine face was full of confidence; it had practiced on scrap metal hundreds of times and was already well-prepared.

The Tungsten Steel Engraving Knife in its claw moved across the Soul Guidance Metal like a dragon or snake, fluid and natural. Winding lines emerged on the metal, their depth and pattern appearing perfectly natural.

It didn't look like it had been carved with a knife; rather, it looked as if the patterns had formed naturally on the Soul Guidance Metal itself.

Qian Duoduo held his breath, not daring to make a sound, his eyes flashing with excitement.

A genius!

Grey Wolf was born for Soul Tool!

In a sense, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call Grey Wolf a god-level martial soul.

To surpass the progress of a Soul Tool master who had studied for one, two, or three years in just ten days—this level of intelligence and manual dexterity was truly chilling.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Grey Wolf put down the carving knife:

"Done!"

It then injected soul power into the shuttle-shaped Soul Guidance Metal, which was now covered in arrays. A faint light radiated out as the soul power circulated through the Soul Guidance Array, being compressed and condensed.

Seeing this, Qian Duoduo said in an excited voice:

"Ten days! To become a first-level Soul Tool master in ten days—Grey Wolf, I, Qian Duoduo, am willing to call you the greatest genius of Soul Tool masters on the continent!"

"Not to mention the Heaven Dou Empire, the Spirit Heaven Empire, or the Star Luo Empire, even in the Sun Moon Empire, it would be impossible to find anyone who became a first-level Soul Tool master faster than you!"

Grey Wolf grinned, its eyes full of pride:

"What can't this Great King create!"

"Watch as this Great King crafts the outer and inner shells for this Soul Guidance Ray Gun!"

As soon as it finished speaking, Grey Wolf ran to the machine tool, picked up a large piece of Soul Guidance Metal, and began cutting, drilling, polishing, and other processes, quickly producing a pile of firearm parts.

Grey Wolf assembled the parts with the core array, and a first-level Soul Guidance Ray Gun appeared in its hand.

It raised the Soul Guidance Ray Gun and took aim.

Qian Duoduo quickly said:

"This is a workshop, it's too cramped. If you want to test the power of the Soul Guidance Ray Gun, why don't we head to the testing area?"

Grey Wolf didn't seem interested; it tossed the Soul Guidance Ray Gun to Qian Duoduo:

"This kind of Soul Guidance Ray Gun that releases ray attacks by compressing soul power—a soul master can fire it at most five to ten times before their internal soul power is completely drained. Plus, the power is just average; it doesn't even compare to this Great King's Wind Blade Array."

"What a piece of junk!"

"The Fixed Soul Tool you mentioned to this Great King last time is somewhat interesting, but I believe it can be further improved."

Qian Duoduo caught the Soul Guidance Ray Gun, intending to warn Grey Wolf not to be overly ambitious; becoming a Level 1 Soul Master in ten days and crafting a Level 1 Soul Guidance Ray Gun was already a world-renowned achievement.

To think of mastering the Fixed Soul Tool in such a short time, let alone improving it, was truly too whimsical.

However, he ultimately decided against dissuading him. Letting Grey Wolf suffer a minor setback, learning from failure, and tempering its temperament would be a good thing, lest its tail grow too high in the air.

The result!

Just twenty days later, the brand-new "Fixed Soul Tool" improved by Grey Wolf appeared in Qian Duoduo's workshop.

Qian Duoduo stared at the peculiar launcher with its six barrels; even as a Title Douluo with Level 94 soul power, a chill rose in his heart, as if he were looking at a peerless weapon of mass destruction!

Qian Duoduo could not recognize what this was, but Feng Tianyu certainly could!

Merciful Gatling Bodhisattva!

Beside the Gatling Launcher, Grey Wolf was waving a small hammer, knocking bullets—each the thickness of an adult's thumb and about ten centimeters long—into the ammunition belt.

These bullets!

Following Grey Wolf's modifications, they were not filled with gunpowder or primers; instead, they were inscribed with an Explosion Array and a Combustion Array.

With only a negligible trace of soul power to activate the Combustion Array, the array would trigger the Explosion Array, generating a massive amount of high-temperature, high-pressure gas within the confined space. This would propel the warhead out, into the barrel, and use the rifling to induce rotation and acceleration, creating a spiral effect to ensure a stable flight trajectory.

The bumpkins of the Douluo Continent used compressed soul power within a fixed launcher to propel fixed soul shells.

Although this was relatively soul-power efficient, the consumption was still significant.

But under Grey Wolf's improvements, by combining firearm technology and replacing primers and gunpowder with Combustion Arrays and Explosion Arrays, it could propel bullet warheads using high-temperature, high-pressure gas, trading a negligible trace of soul power for terrifying, unparalleled lethality.

Furthermore, Grey Wolf had not yet inscribed additional soul arrays onto these bullet warheads; if it were to do so in the future, it could further enhance their power.

Once the bullets were loaded onto the belt, it would be time to head to the testing area to experiment with its power...