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In the Technology Guild Research Department of Suotuo City, Chen Hong lay in a rocking chair, staring blankly at a necklace-shaped Soul Tool in his hand.

Three months had passed since the Technology Guild's first road had opened to traffic and he had suddenly fallen unconscious.

During that time, the Technology Guild had gradually gotten on track. On one hand, it used cement with a brand-new formula to continuously reinforce the roads around Suotuo City; on the other, it kept producing Soul-Powered Trucks to sell to Spirit Master nobles near Suotuo City. The standard version of a Soul-Powered Truck cost only 20,000 Gold Soul Coins. Additional services, such as upgrading it into a more comfortable sedan model, required extra fees. Meanwhile, the Technology Guild had kept production costs below 5,000. Once the employees became more skilled in the future, it might be reduced to below 3,000.

Since the Technology Guild's products were all relatively harmless production machinery, the Balak Kingdom, where Suotuo City was located, was quite supportive of the Technology Guild's development in every respect.

After its initial operations, the Technology Guild now had an Infrastructure Department, Soul Vehicle Department, Operations Department, and the recently established Research Department, which consisted of only Chen Hong and Chen Lin.

The Soul Vehicle Department could currently produce only ten Soul-Powered Trucks a month. Though that was not much, it was enough. Chen Hong had taught Chen Lin the Soul Power Compression Technology at the core of his Soul Engine. Although the Soul Engines Chen Lin made could only achieve seventy to eighty percent of Chen Hong's results, that was sufficient.

Ever since that sudden fainting spell, Chen Hong had hidden himself completely behind the scenes. He left all the attention-grabbing matters to his old man, Chen Lin.

Why?

When the Technology Guild's sponsored road officially opened and was handed over, the cheers of tens of thousands of people rang through the sky. At that moment, Chen Hong's mind instantly exploded. The immense clamor slammed into his soul, leaving his ears immediately deaf and his wide-open eyes immediately blind. Stray thoughts that even Sage Time could not suppress scattered his will, and his brain's self-protection mechanism directly pulled the network cable!

Brain: Beep, I'm dead.

Chen Hong: No! You're not!

After the system rebooted, Chen Hong slowly regained consciousness. After that, he became much more low-key, reduced his outings, and spent all day meditating on his soul ring. Finally, three months later, he successfully comprehended the Sage Inscription.

I've comprehended runes again! I'm so strong now that even I scare myself!

From a three-dimensional perspective, the energy circulation pathways inside this Soul Tool with mental-soothing effects are like an exquisite three-dimensional painting.

Inside the empty workshop of the Research Department, Chen Hong withdrew his Mental Power, then looked at the necklace Soul Tool in his hand with amazed fascination.

This Soul Tool necklace was a Class 3 Soul Tool with the effect of calming the mind and focusing the spirit. During this period, while the Technology Guild was conducting external business, his mother Ning Lu had specifically used her connections to collect it for Chen Hong.

Chen Hong believed that his Spirit Martial Soul was too sensitive. Once too many people gathered nearby and their emotions were stirred, the Mental Fluctuations they inadvertently emitted would be sensed by his Spirit Martial Soul. Chen Hong, a mighty Level 12 Spirit Master, simply could not process so many chaotic Mental Ripples so subtle that even Spirit Masters found them difficult to notice with his tiny brain, so his brain directly went on strike!

Brain: Uh, I'm dead.

Chen Hong: !!! Get up! Get up!

Little head: (Pokes its head out) Okay! I'm up!

"Mm!" Chen Hong could not help shuddering. He shook all the indecent lewd thoughts out of his head, then summoned his soul ring and activated Sage Time.

"The Sage Inscription is far more complex than the Calming Engravings in this Soul Tool. It only took me a week to successfully memorize it. In that case, melt it down. This precious Mental Attribute Metal is the real treasure!"

In the simple workshop, Chen Hong rose and tossed the Soul Tool necklace in his hand into a crucible beside him, slowly beginning to break down the Mental Attribute Metal within.

After restoring the Soul Tool to liquid metal, Chen Hong used his Mental Power to examine it and discovered that the Calming Engravings inside had been destroyed. The necklace immediately lost its Soul Tool properties.

"This world's archaeological-style Soul Tool research really makes me uneasy sometimes. I'm terrified that I might accidentally run into some mysterious existence's Bottom Line and get wiped out by Divine Path fanatics."

After refining the mental metal, Chen Hong used his simple little Machine Tool to shape it while silently muttering to himself.

When Chen Hong discovered that this world possessed high-level Soul Tools but lacked a corresponding Soul Tool Technical System, he could not help feeling a little creeped out.

He did not dare touch weapon-type Soul Tools at all.

Only production-type Soul Tools allowed him to barely make a living while further researching higher-tier Soul Tool technology.

Once the mental metal had cooled and taken shape, Chen Hong took out his slightly modified Soul Guidance Engraving Knife and began filling the metal with hair-thin Soul Power Conduction Wires, combining them into the Sage Inscription in his mind. It was an extremely delicate task. Chen Hong moved slowly and gently, and the Soul Guidance Engraving Knife in his hand periodically changed intensity under his control of Soul Power, carving three-dimensional circuits onto a flat surface.

The technical principle behind the Soul Guidance Engraving Knife was Soul Power Compression Technology. Logically speaking, Chen Hong could now attempt to use Soul Power Compression Technology to develop a Soul Power Cannon, but he did not dare.

Chen Hong could say with certainty that the cannon would be made in the morning, he would be gone by noon, and by evening, he would be in the Pope's bedchamber at Spirit Hall getting his little steel cannon inspected.

(The initial compression technology definitely wouldn't be mature, so he wouldn't dare make a big cannon. Thus, it would be a little steel cannon.)

It was not that he would be eliminated on humanitarian grounds. Rather, a Technology Guild capable of manufacturing weapons of mass destruction would instantly transform from a strategic partner into a strategic target for plunder—those who obey me prosper, those who defy me perish.

If you made gas cylinders to sell for money and support your family, people would come buy them when they needed them and would not harbor any other ill intentions toward you. After all, without gas cylinders, they could still use cheap materials like coal and firewood.

But if you stuffed sugar and steel balls into those gas cylinders, then sorry, tonight you'd be singing, "Goodbye, Mom, tonight I'm going off to wander."

Naturally, Chen Hong did not want to become a wandering child without a mother. Before his own foundations were strong enough, he would never stuff steel balls into gas cylinders or rifle steel pipes—such behavior was like Lu Bu riding Dian Wei with no horse.

Chen Hong spent a total of three nights before finally completing a ring-shaped Soul Tool that looked remarkably like a Golden Hoop.

Name: Put It On, and You Will Gain the Wisdom to Save Her, But Why Would You, Who Desire Nothing, Still Save Her? That Is a Question.

Short name: That Is a Question. Alternate name: [Sage]'s Ring.

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