After sternly rebuking the new apprentice, the old craftsman gazed at the blazing furnace flames, his eyes seeming to see through the rot festering within the court. "Do you really think the imperial family can cover the sky with one hand?"
"The current Heaven Dou Imperial Family has long been strong on the outside but hollow within, swaying in the wind and rain."
"Emperor Xue Ye has been bedridden for years and can no longer personally govern the court. Back then, the second prince, the most gifted of them all, inexplicably died overnight."
"Not long after, the third prince, who had been riding high, also died under strange circumstances. Two cases involving princes that shook the empire were both hastily closed in the end, left unresolved."
At this point, the old craftsman could not help but sigh softly.
"In times like these, the imperial family is trapped in its own internal strife. How could they possibly spare any thought for a mine in some remote barren mountain? Only by working for the great clans can we live safely through this chaotic age."
"When all is said and done, no matter how glorious the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's authority may seem, it still relies on the great clans to secure its imperial power. Dynasties come and go, but the great clans endure!"
Every word was the private whisper of craftsmen from the lowest levels of society.
This was a piece of history with no written records, no eyewitness testimony, and no electronic devices to preserve it.
Yet this conversation, which should have vanished with time, was now forcibly dragged out of "time" by Qin Moyu!
Before the Myriad Heavens Diary, the girls watching held their breaths, all of them too stunned to speak.
Soul Land II Xiao Xiao: "...What kind of ability is this? It can completely recreate the entire process behind the creation of a Gold Soul Coin?"
Soul Land II Ice Empress: "It's only an ordinary Gold Soul Coin, yet it can trace back the timeline and even display this conversation among unknown commoners without the slightest error... Is this the Martial Soul ability of human Soul Masters?"
Soul Land II Snow Empress: "It is a Martial Soul, yet not a Martial Soul. This is a unique authority belonging to that young man, part of the ability known as 'omniscience and omnipotence.'"
Soul Land II Snow Empress: "If ordinary Martial Souls could accomplish this, there would have long been no secrets left in the world, and all soul beasts would have lost their habitats long ago..."
Soul Land II Ju Zi: "...There are no absolute secrets in this world. So long as something happened, it cannot escape his eyes?"
Soul Land IV Lan Mengqin: "Is this scientific? Things from the past have already disappeared with time. Without any Soul Tool acting as a recording medium, how could he restore them so clearly?!"
No one had expected that an inconspicuous Gold Soul Coin could trace back to a historical scene unknown to anyone...
Heaven Dou Empire.
"So this is his Martial Soul, the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core, capable of analyzing all things?"
The pen Qian Renxue had been using to review memorials slowly lowered. Her beautiful eyes stared blankly at the exquisite spherical technological creation in the diary's image.
"Divine Core."
It was a power that did not belong to Douluo Continent's Martial Soul system, yet it strangely aligned with the essence of Martial Souls, as though some existence had forcibly embedded it into Douluo Continent's Martial Soul system...
"This is a true God King Level Martial Soul..."
Qian Renxue murmured softly, her tone carrying a trace of reverence that even she had not noticed.
With only a distant glimpse, she could vividly sense the terrifying majesty dormant within that "Divine Core." Even the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul could not peer into its full nature.
Ordinary Soul Masters could only see the Divine Core's splendid phenomenon, assuming it was some rare special Martial Soul.
Only Soul Masters like Qian Renxue, who possessed powerful Martial Souls, could clearly sense the terror buried deep within the Divine Core.
It was the absolute gaze of a superior Martial Soul looking down upon an inferior one, an oppressive feeling born from the difference in their levels of life!
Soul Land II, Sun Moon Empire.
Meng Hongchen lounged lazily on a soft, large bed. Her delicate white dress accentuated her snow-white skin, while her jade feet wrapped in translucent white stockings gently swung in the air.
The girl hugged the diary to her chest. Her long eyelashes trembled lightly, and her beautiful eyes gleamed.
"Seemingly ordinary objects are all records of time in his eyes..."
"If this ability were applied to Soul Tools..." Meng Hongchen rested her small hand against her rosy lips, her thoughts instantly becoming lively.
As the Sun Moon Empire's foremost Soul Guidance prodigy and the granddaughter of Jing Hongchen, master of the Hall of Virtue, she saw through the essence of the Divine Core's authority at a glance—research dimensional suppression!
This was not a combat Martial Soul at all. It was a research cheat powerful enough to crush the entire civilization of Soul Guidance Technology.
Technical barriers that countless Soul Engineers could not overcome even after repeatedly studying blueprints and generations of trial and error, even lost crafting techniques that had vanished from the world—for Qin Moyu, all it took was a single glance to trace their origins and perfectly reproduce them.
So long as an object remained, history would never disappear!
And this was only the tip of the iceberg of the technology called the "Divine Core"!
The underlying logic of the Herrscher of Reason Divine Core was that understanding meant control, and analysis meant replication.
So long as one thoroughly understood the principles of Soul Guidance Technology and possessed sufficient raw materials, one could ignore the production process, create objects from nothing, and replicate every Soul Guidance weapon!
The Herrscher of Reason's terrifying power of construction was enough to turn one person into an army. A single body was a war machine!
More than that, an independent individual could be an entire mobile technological civilization. One person was a civilization!
Such an unsolvable authority truly deserved the title of technological civilization's most unstoppable arbiter!
"No wonder he was so confident. This is a Martial Soul that hasn't even obtained a Spirit Ring yet..." Meng Hongchen's eyes trembled as she could not help but sigh.
The Soul Guidance technology of Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago had been impoverished and backward, completely burying such an authority.
In contrast, only the Sun Moon Empire, where Soul Guidance Technology flourished and the atmosphere for research was strong, could truly bring out the abilities of this Divine Core.
Meng Hongchen lay at the edge of the bed, lightly pursing her red lips. A trace of longing quietly surfaced in her eyes as she began making plans in her heart.
This was a top-tier prospect that appeared only once in ten thousand years!
If she could bring Qin Moyu into the Hall of Virtue, Sun Moon Continent would surely produce an unprecedented top Soul Engineer!
The current Sun Moon Empire truly needed a powerful Soul Engineer too badly.
The entire empire appeared prosperous and flourishing, but undercurrents were surging beneath the surface. No one knew when the Holy Spirit Cult had begun appearing frequently in the cities, leaving people anxious and unsettled...
Meanwhile, Qin Moyu's Soul Power was running low, and he exited his Martial Soul Possession state.
The "memories" being replayed before him instantly dispersed like smoke. He returned to the Rose Hotel, and only a few seconds had passed during this entire experience.
"Is this all Herrscher-level power can do?"
Qin Moyu shook his head lightly, gaining a clearer understanding of his own combat strength and the limits of his authority.
With a thought, he summoned the diary interface and wrote down the realization in his heart...
[What a pity. The Herrscher of Reason Divine Core from the Dark Plane's Herrscher System is ultimately not the Herrscher of Reason from the Honkai system.]
[The Dark Plane Divine Core originated from dimensional technology created by the Star Kingdom Civilization. It possesses the authority of time, but it is merely dimensional technology corresponding to four-dimensional time.]
[The Herrscher of Reason in the Honkai system, however, has the Herrscher of Truth as its ultimate evolved form. It has long transcended the limitation of "replicating existing objects" and possesses the supreme authority to create things that do not exist from nothing.]
[For example, could God create a stone that even he could not move? But God was supposed to be omnipotent, so how could he fail to move it?]
[The physical laws of the mere fourth dimension—the time dimension—cannot yet contain an authority of this level.]
[The Herrscher of Truth has clearly touched upon the authority of a higher dimension. Only then can it "create things that do not exist"!]
[According to the dimensional hierarchy of the Star Kingdom Civilization's Technology Herrscher System, the "Herrscher of Truth Divine Core" must at least rank above the tenth dimension—the parallel universe dimension—and involve even deeper dimensional technology...]
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