Stellar Martial Arts and Soul Tool System (Part Three)

Chapter 13 13. Stellar Martial Arts and Soul Tool System (Part Three)

The information Qin Ming had revealed was overwhelming.

Everyone focused on something different.

"Seven against one, and they didn't last thirty seconds?" This was what Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun focused on. Ma Hongjun, who had been shouting the loudest, asked in disbelief once more, "Are you sure it was the same Royal Fight Team that fought us?"

Because Heaven Dou Royal Academy had a second team.

So, even though he knew Qin Ming was talking about the Royal Fight Team, Ma Hongjun, unwilling to accept the truth, would rather believe Qin Ming meant the Royal Fight Team Second Team instead of the team they had defeated by sheer luck.

A genius who could crush the Royal Fight Team within thirty seconds was merely the maidservant of the person he had just mocked. He couldn't imagine what kind of nightmare he would face next. In any case, it definitely wouldn't be pleasant!

He could only hope that Qin Ming had made a mistake.

If that were the case, perhaps he could still struggle a little.

However, Qin Ming never made mistakes when it came to matters this important. He shook his head, shattering Ma Hongjun's fantasy. "I'm absolutely certain that the Royal Fight Team crushed within thirty seconds was the same Royal Fight Team that fought you. I was their supervising teacher at the time. The Royal Fight Team's lineup was no different from the current one. If there was any difference, it was that the team had only just accepted Yu Feng back then and was still in its adjustment period. The Royal Fight Team you faced was closer to its complete form. In a year and a half, Yu Feng had gradually integrated into the Royal Fight Team..."

Flender silently pushed up his glasses.

Yu Feng had been countered by Ma Hongjun, a non-pure-blooded phoenix, because of the difference in martial soul quality. Whether he coordinated well with the other members of the Royal Fight Team had little effect on the team's overall strength. All the Royal Fight Team needed was a Soul Elder with flight abilities to suppress their opponents and strengthen their own aerial defense. Their main damage dealer was still Yu Tianheng, their primary controller was still Dugu Yan, and their main healer was still Ye Lingling. The other team members could all be replaced or optimized away.

This difference made little difference either way.

Ning Rongrong's focus differed from that of Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun. In this regard, she shared the same view as Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Oscar, though they differed somewhat in the details.

Because she herself was a Support Type Soul Master, she understood perfectly how great an impact the emergence of Soul Guidance Technology would have on all Support Type Soul Masters.

Although Soul Tools were not cheap to make.

At present, even a Storage Soul Tool could drain most Soul Ancestors of their lifetime savings. Only Soul Saints and above could afford to own them commonly. Among Soul Masters below the Soul Saint rank, only one in a hundred possessed a personal Storage Soul Tool.

Attack-type, defense-type, and support-type Soul Tools would certainly be even more expensive.

But money was the one thing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had no shortage of!

I, Ning Rongrong, am not short of money!

Blue Tyrant Academy had developed a Rank Seven Soul Tool and was capable of displaying it. For Qin Ming, a teacher who had once belonged to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, to see it could only mean that Blue Tyrant Academy's research into Soul Tools had definitely gone beyond Rank Seven. But even if Blue Tyrant Academy had only developed Rank Seven Soul Tools, that would already be enough for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!

Name your price!

We'll take both the finished product and the blueprints!

A standard Storage Soul Tool had a market price of twenty to fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins. Judging from the fact that Soul Saints could popularize Storage Soul Tools, the price of a Rank Seven Soul Tool should fluctuate between two and five million. As the core of a Soul Tool, the blueprints were equivalent to possessing the ability to mass-produce Soul Tools. A hundredfold increase in price was merely a normal conversion. Therefore, buying the blueprints for a Rank Seven Soul Tool would only require two hundred million to five hundred million Gold Soul Coins. Even if the price doubled, ten billion Gold Soul Coins would still be enough to take them down!

Was ten billion Gold Soul Coins a lot?

That was merely the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's income for one month!

Using one month's income to grant the disciples whose martial soul was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda the ability to protect themselves, and even give them offensive power comparable to that of an attack-type Soul Master of the same rank—this deal couldn't even be evaluated by whether it was worthwhile. It should be evaluated by how much of a killing it was. No matter how much they earned, it was still a massive profit!

More importantly, Soul Tools could make up for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's lack of security. Even though the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had a rule that the partners of its direct descendants had to be Soul Battle Masters, who would ever complain about having too much self-defense ability?

Oscar, another Support Type Soul Master, had also suffered from his lack of self-defense ability. Hearing Qin Ming's outrageous description, he was green with envy.

However, he couldn't compare with Ning Rongrong, a wealthy young lady who wasn't short of money. He could only hope that Shrek Academy would merge into Blue Tyrant Academy. That way, a Support Type Soul Master of commoner origins like him would have a platform on which to study.

The difference between Yu Xiaogang and Ning Rongrong and Oscar lay here. Such a magnificent academic achievement should, in principle, have the certification of a Grandmaster like him. Ning Rongrong only wanted to smash money into opening a path, while Oscar only wanted to become a member of this system. He, Yu Xiaogang—the Spirit Hall elder and universally acknowledged Grandmaster—was the one who ought to become the leader of this new system. He would use his extensive knowledge to make up for its shortcomings!

Yu Xiaogang was immersed in a sea of fantasies.

He had found himself a lofty-sounding reason with great solemnity.

It had to be said—he truly was Tang San's teacher.

They were cut from the same cloth and perfectly suited to each other.

"And Stellar Martial Arts is another new system comparable to Soul Guidance Technology..." Qin Ming caught the sheet of paper Ye Qingcang tossed over from a distance and tore it into individual pieces. As he distributed them to the members of Shrek, he explained, "Blue Tyrant Academy has relevant regulations. Outsiders who aren't Blue Tyrant Academy students are absolutely forbidden from entering. There are two ways to get inside. The first is to fight your way in. The second is to have a Blue Tyrant Academy student vouch for you. An ordinary student can vouch for five people at the same time, a Human Ranking student can vouch for ten, an Earth Ranking student can vouch for twenty, and a Heaven Ranking student can vouch for fifty. The guarantee lasts twenty-four hours. Keep your slips safe. They are your temporary identity credentials... Where was I?"

"You were talking about Stellar Martial Arts..." Tang San examined the unremarkable slip in his hand, a trace of solemnity flashing through his eyes. "By the way, Senior Qin, regarding the Soul Guidance Technology you just mentioned, what can you tell us about its secret art—the Alchemy?"

"Of course I can."

"We'll talk as we walk."

Looking at the open gates of Blue Tyrant Academy, Qin Ming took the lead. At the same time, he asked Tang San meaningfully, "Junior Tang, where do you think the flaw in Soul Guidance Technology lies?"

"The blueprints?" Tang San guessed.

Qin Ming shook his head.

"The size or weight?" Tang San guessed again.

Qin Ming shook his head once more.

"It should be the price, right?" Oscar, who came from a commoner background, couldn't stand watching anymore and interrupted. "The cost of the raw materials is probably beyond what ordinary Soul Masters can afford. Take the Storage Soul Tools at the auction house, for example. They often cost tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins. Although that's the selling price, the cost certainly isn't tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins. But a Rank Seven Soul Tool with power comparable to a Soul Saint's full-strength attack must cost at least tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins to make. If it succeeds, that's one thing. If it fails, a large portion of those tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins will certainly be lost. It's extremely expensive, isn't it?"

"That's right." Qin Ming nodded. Looking at Ning Rongrong, who remained unconcerned, and the other members of Shrek, who had all breathed sighs of relief, he said quietly, "The flaw in Soul Guidance Technology is that it burns money—extremely large amounts of money. The minimum loss from a failed Rank Seven Soul Tool is one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins... And the reason Alchemy is hailed as the secret art of Soul Guidance Technology, becoming the secret art that every Soul Tool Master dreams of learning, is that it is a secret art capable of transforming all things into one another. A Soul Tool Master who has mastered Alchemy can turn water into fire, soil into gold, and wood into gemstones. An ordinary Soul Tool Master needs to consume expensive raw materials to make a Rank Seven Soul Tool, but a Soul Tool Master who has mastered Alchemy only needs to scoop up a handful of dirt from the ground and use Soul Power to transform it into the metal they need. Then they can make Soul Tools freely without spending any money. Even if they fail, they won't lose any of their own wealth. If they run short of money, they can just grab a handful of dirt, add some Soul Power, and turn it into gold. That is why Alchemy is hailed as a secret art. Only Soul Tool Masters who have mastered Alchemy are qualified to represent the upper limit of Soul Tool Masters. Every one of them can become richer than an entire kingdom!"