Stellar Martial Path and Soul Guidance System (3)

Stellar Martial Path and Soul Guidance System (3)

The amount of information in Qin Ming's words was immense.

Everyone focused on something different.

"Seven against one, and they didn't even last thirty seconds?" This was what Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun focused on. Ma Hongjun, who had been shouting the loudest, asked again in disbelief, "Are you sure it was the 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's second squad than the Royal Fight Team they had narrowly defeated.

A genius who could crush the Royal Fight Team within thirty seconds was merely the maid of the person he had just mocked. He could not imagine what kind of nightmare awaited him next. In any case, it definitely would not be pleasant!

He could only hope Qin Ming had misspoken.

That way, he might still be able to struggle a little.

However, Qin Ming never made mistakes in matters this important. Shaking his head, he shattered Ma Hongjun's fantasy. "I'm absolutely certain that the Royal Fight Team defeated within thirty seconds was the same Royal Fight Team that fought you. I was their leading teacher at the time. The Royal Fight Team's lineup was no different from what it is now. If there was any difference, it was that the Royal Fight Team had only just accepted Yu Feng back then and was still in its adjustment period. The Royal Fight Team you faced was nearing its complete form. Over the past year and a half, Yu Feng had gradually integrated into the Royal Fight Team..."

Flender pushed up his glasses speechlessly.

Yu Feng, whose martial soul was countered by Ma Hongjun's non-pureblood Phoenix due to the gap in martial soul quality, did not have much impact on the Royal Fight Team's overall strength, whether or not he coordinated well with the other members. All the Royal Fight Team needed was a Soul Elder with flight capabilities to suppress their opponents and strengthen their aerial defense. Their main damage dealer was still Yu Tianheng, their main controller was still Dugu Yan, and their main healer was still Ye Lingling. The other members could all be replaced or optimized away.

That small difference barely mattered.

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

As an auxiliary-system Soul Master herself, she understood very well just how enormous an impact the emergence of Soul Guidance Technology would have on all auxiliary-system Soul Masters.

Although Soul Tools were not cheap to produce.

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

Attack-type, defense-type, and support-type Soul Tools were bound to be even more expensive.

But the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect lacked nothing but money!

I, Ning Rongrong, am not short on money!

Blue Tyrant Academy had developed a Seventh Level Soul Tool and was willing to display it for Qin Ming, a teacher formerly affiliated with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, to see. That could only mean Blue Tyrant Academy's research into Soul Tools had definitely gone beyond the seventh level. But even if Blue Tyrant Academy had only developed them up to the seventh level, it would still be enough for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!

Just name your price!

We want both the finished products and the blueprints!

An ordinary Storage Soul Guidance Device sold for between twenty thousand and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins on the market. Since Soul Saints could afford to commonly own Storage Soul Guidance Devices, the price of a Seventh Level Soul Tool should fluctuate between two million and five million Gold Soul Coins. Blueprints were the core of Soul Tools. Mastering a blueprint was equivalent to possessing the ability to mass-produce Soul Tools. Multiplying the price by a hundred was merely a standard exchange rate. Therefore, buying a Seventh Level Soul Tool's production blueprint would only cost between two hundred million and five hundred million Gold Soul Coins. Even if the price doubled, one billion Gold Soul Coins would be enough!

Was one billion Gold Soul Coins a lot?

That was merely the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's monthly income!

Using a month's income to give disciples with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul the ability to protect themselves, even allowing them to gain lethality comparable to assault-system Soul Masters of the same realm—this deal could not be measured by whether it was worth it or not. It should be measured by just how massively profitable it was. No matter how much they profited, it would be an absolute steal!

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 required the spouses of direct-line disciples to be battle Soul Masters, who would ever complain about being too capable of protecting themselves?

Oscar, also an auxiliary-system Soul Master, had suffered because he lacked self-protection abilities. Hearing Qin Ming's utterly unfair description, his eyes turned red with envy.

However, he could not compare to Ning Rongrong, a little rich girl who never lacked money. He could only hope Shrek Academy would merge into Blue Tyrant Academy. That was the only way an auxiliary-system Soul Master from a commoner background like him could gain a platform to study.

This was where Yu Xiaogang differed from Ning Rongrong and Oscar—such a great academic achievement should naturally bear the recognition of a Grandmaster like him. Ning Rongrong only wanted to spend money to carve out a path, while Oscar merely wanted to become part of this system. He, Yu Xiaogang, an elder of Spirit Hall and the universally acknowledged Grandmaster, was the one who should become the leader of this new system. Let him use his profound knowledge to make up for the shortcomings in this new system!

Yu Xiaogang immersed himself in a sea of fantasy.

He grandly found himself a grand excuse.

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

If they were not cut from the same cloth, they would not piss in the same pot.

"And Stellar Martial Path is another new system that can rival Soul Guidance Technology..." Qin Ming steadily caught the slips of paper Ye Qingcang tossed from afar, tearing them apart one by one. As he handed them out to the Shrek group, he explained, "Blue Tyrant Academy has relevant regulations. Outsiders who are not Blue Tyrant Academy students are strictly forbidden from entering. There are two ways to get in. The first is to fight your way in. The second is to have a Blue Tyrant Academy student guarantee you. Ordinary students can guarantee up to five people at once, Human Ranking students can guarantee ten, Earth Ranking students can guarantee twenty, and Heavenly Ranking students can guarantee fifty. The guarantee period is twenty-four hours in all cases. Hold on to your own slips. These are your temporary identification certificates... What was I talking about just now?"

"You were talking about Stellar Martial Path..." Tang San examined the unremarkable slip in his hand, a trace of gravity involuntarily flashing through his eyes. "By the way, Senior Qin, regarding the Soul Guidance Technology you just mentioned, does its secret art—Alchemy—have any particular significance?"

"Of course it does."

"Let's talk as we walk."

Watching the gates of Blue Tyrant Academy open, Qin Ming took the lead, walking at the front. At the same time, he gave Tang San a meaningful look and asked, "Junior Tang, what do you think is the flaw of Soul Guidance Technology?"

"The blueprints?" Tang San guessed.

Qin Ming shook his head.

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

Qin Ming shook his head again.

"It should be the price, right?" Oscar, born a commoner, could not stand watching any longer and interjected, "The cost of raw materials is probably beyond what ordinary Soul Masters can afford. Like the Storage Soul Guidance Devices at auctions, they sell for tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins each. While that is the selling price and the cost definitely is not tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins, a Seventh Level Soul Tool with power comparable to a Soul Saint's full-force attack must cost no less than tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins. If production succeeds, it is fine. But if production fails, a large portion of those tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins will certainly be lost. It burns money like crazy?"

"Exactly." Qin Ming nodded. Looking at Ning Rongrong, who did not take it seriously, and the rest of the Shrek group, who had all breathed sighs of relief, he spoke in a faint tone. "The drawback of Soul Guidance Technology is that it burns money—an extreme amount of money. The losses from a failed attempt to develop a Seventh Level Soul Tool start at one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins... And the reason Alchemy is praised as the secret art of Soul Guidance Technology, becoming the secret art every Soul Engineer dreams of learning, is because Alchemy is a secret art that can transform all things into one another. A Soul Engineer who has mastered Alchemy can turn water into fire, earth into gold, and wood into gemstones. An ordinary Soul Engineer needs to consume expensive raw materials to make a Seventh Level Soul Tool. A Soul Engineer who has mastered Alchemy only needs to grab a handful of dirt from the ground and use Soul Power to transform it into the needed metal, allowing them to make Soul Tools as they please without spending a single coin. Even if they fail, they lose none of their own property. If they lack money, they can grab a handful of dirt, add a little Soul Power, and turn it into gold. That is why Alchemy is praised as a secret art. Only Soul Engineers who have mastered Alchemy are qualified to represent the upper limit of Soul Engineers. Every one of them can become rich enough to rival a nation!"