The Three-Year Deadline Had Arrived! Welcome the Dragon King's Return! Three Years of Massive Accumulation!

"Mom, I told you, this weapon is enough to change the balance of the continent."

Song Ye hurried forward to claim credit.

Hearing this, Bibi Dong looked at her son, both moved and excited.

"Ye'er, I underestimated you! I truly never expected you to possess such astonishing talent!"

"If this thing were equipped to an army, just imagine it—a force of ten thousand soldiers armed with this weapon. Even top-tier Soul Masters wouldn't be able to withstand them!!"

The more Bibi Dong spoke, the happier she became. She swept Song Ye into her arms.

Song Ye sat there on Bibi Dong's arm.

The next second, Bibi Dong suddenly kissed him on the cheek.

Song Ye was slightly embarrassed and said modestly,

"Still, Mom, this thing is difficult to make. Although I drew the blueprints, it requires skilled blacksmiths to forge it."

"And with only one type of weapon, once the enemy studies it thoroughly, they'll find a way to counter it."

"In every battle under heaven, knowing yourself and your enemy ensures victory in every fight!"

"I still need to develop more weapons and vary our methods for future battles."

Bibi Dong nodded, using her other hand to stroke Song Ye's little head.

She was now completely gratified. Song Ye was only six years old, yet the meticulousness and strategic insight he displayed were already no weaker than anyone else's.

Bibi Dong said, "You're right. From now on, Mom will definitely support your research!"

"As for blacksmiths, Mom has some connections. I'll try contacting the Blacksmith Association."

"That'll do."

Song Ye continued, "I previously said that I wanted to win over the Single-Attribute Four Clans and those Elemental Academies."

"Now that I have a chance to recruit people after obtaining my second Soul Ring, I still need to build up my strength for a while."

"Mom, try to find me a blacksmith assistant next. I'll handle the design and research, while he handles the manufacturing."

"For the next two years, I'll focus on producing weapons and cultivating!"

"Fine, Mom will listen to you in everything!"

Just as Song Ye had said, although he now had the Xuande Divine Crossbow and his own resource output, his foundation was still far too shallow.

He only had one weapon, and it did not form a complete system.

He was also only six years old. Even simply going out would make people distrust him.

For the next two or three years, Song Ye would likely have to accumulate strength first.

In any case, regarding Soul Rings, Song Ye's goal was to directly absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring for his third ring. He would not break through anytime soon, so there was no rush.

Bibi Dong continued stroking Song Ye as he began teaching her how to use the Xuande Divine Crossbow, taking out the blueprints to show her as well.

The more Bibi Dong looked, the more astonished she became. She could not understand how her son had come up with such things.

In the time that followed, everything proceeded as Song Ye had said.

Bibi Dong left the following day. Upon returning to Spirit Hall, the first order she issued was to send people to Gengxin City to seek cooperation with the Blacksmith Association!

Although those Spirit Hall elders did not understand why Spirit Hall wanted to cooperate with blacksmiths, they still carried out the order.

However, the blacksmiths of Gengxin City were not friendly toward Spirit Hall. Winning them over would take a long time.

Next, Bibi Dong selected a blacksmith with the cultivation of a Soul Emperor from among her trusted subordinates.

This person also held some influence within the Blacksmith Association. She sent him to Song Ye's small courtyard, both to look after Song Ye and to help him make weapons.

Song Ye was delighted. Although his mother was a Soul Saint, she could still find him a Soul Emperor blacksmith. As expected, she held some status within Spirit Hall.

Afterward, Song Ye immersed himself in secluded cultivation, rotating between three tasks: cultivation, researching weapons and pharmacology, and producing Soul Bones.

In the blink of an eye, three years passed.

Three years later...

Song Ye had smoothly reached the age of nine. Though he was still far from an adult, as a future emperor and Soul Master, he was already comparable to fourteen- or fifteen-year-old youths.

Song Ye had grown much taller, and his entire bearing had become somewhat more imposing.

With the blacksmith's assistance, Song Ye developed even more weapons over the three years and had already begun researching the proportions for Gunpowder.

On this day, Bibi Dong returned to Song Ye's small courtyard.

Song Ye was introducing the newly made weapons to Bibi Dong.

"Mom, this is called a Sleeve Arrow. As the name suggests, it's a weapon used in secret and hidden inside the sleeve."

"It is also launched through an elastic mechanism."

"Over the past three years, I improved the original elastic mechanism by combining special metals with stored force from mechanisms."

"When the Sleeve Arrow fires suddenly, it can instantly kill a two-ring Soul Grandmaster and injure a three-ring Soul Elder!"

"This is called a Poison Burst Grenade. I still haven't perfected the Gunpowder formula, so it relies on a special poison that continuously generates gas until the pressure explodes and attacks."

"Its power isn't particularly great. It can deal with two- or three-ring Soul Masters, but its advantage lies in its poison, which can inflict area damage."

"This is called an Ejection Bomb. It also fires through an elastic mechanism. When the ejected sphere hits an enemy, it shoots out more than a dozen steel needles. Used properly, it can kill a Soul King-level expert!"

Song Ye introduced the four or five weapons he had developed over the past three years to Bibi Dong one by one. Most were powered by air pressure or elastic mechanisms.

He had also been constantly studying Gunpowder ratios, but he had not reached a perfect result yet, so he had not designed firearms or cannons.

Even so, what Bibi Dong saw was already enough to leave her shocked and awed.

Among them, the Ejection Bomb could even kill a Soul King. Although it was somewhat troublesome to make, its effectiveness was beyond doubt.

The more Bibi Dong looked, the more alarmed she became, repeatedly exclaiming,

"Ye'er, Mom truly wants to know how your brain grew!"

"Is this even something a person can make?"

"With these weapons, as long as we can raise a great army, conquering the world will be as easy as taking something from a bag!!"

Song Ye smiled as he listened. "Mom, these are only the first versions. They'll need further improvements in the future."

"And once the Gunpowder formula is perfected, that's when we'll have true weapons of mass destruction. These are all just little toys."

"Over the past three years, I haven't only researched weapons. I also finished studying the pharmacology ancient texts you found for me and gained quite a bit of understanding in that field."

"I can only say that Spirit Hall truly deserves to be one of the longest-inherited powers. It really possesses a vast number of excellent theoretical books for me to study."

Bibi Dong nodded. Over these three years, after hearing that Song Ye wanted to study pharmacology, she had practically emptied Spirit Hall's relevant archives.

Spirit Hall's accumulated knowledge was incredibly vast. Why had Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan been able to recognize those Immortal Herbs in the original story?

It was because Spirit Hall possessed pharmacological texts whose knowledge reserves were no weaker than Tang San's. Others could not be bothered to read them, but Yue Guan had read them with great enthusiasm.

If Yu Xiaogang had read books related to Immortal Herbs back when he plagiarized Spirit Hall's theories, perhaps he could have relied on an Immortal Herb to break through level thirty himself.

Over these three years, although Song Ye's Soul Power cultivation had been stuck at level thirty and he had not obtained a Soul Ring, his overall accumulation had reached an extremely formidable level.

Song Ye continued,

"And Mom, aside from weapons and pharmacology, over these thirty-six months, I've also produced three Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bones and one piece of Thirty-Thousand-Year Whale Glue."

"These things will also be a major weapon when we recruit people in the future!"