Pulsed Scorching Beam

Li Ming's eyes were full of anticipation as he summoned another satellite.

Scorching Beam!

Three Soul Rings appeared around the satellite—two yellow, one black.

The next moment, a beam shot into space.

It was incredibly fast, appearing in the distance in an instant before swiftly leaving the satellite's detected view.

Fast!

Absurdly fast!

Li Ming's eyes lit up, and he could not help feeling exhilarated.

This was the speed of light. Who could possibly dodge it if it struck them?

This was the Soul Skill he wanted!

Li Ming clenched his fists excitedly. With this Soul Skill, his Satellite Weapon Project finally had a chance of becoming reality.

After a while, he calmed down again. Even with this Soul Skill, there were still many problems to solve before the Satellite Weapon Project could truly be realized.

Simply being able to fire a Scorching Beam did not mean it could be launched directly from low orbit to the ground to attack enemies.

This was different from using a Soul Skill on the ground.

He had studied the relevant knowledge in the Satellite AI's database.

First, a Satellite Laser Weapon fired from orbit at the ground would be weakened and disrupted by the atmosphere. Various substances in the atmosphere would absorb and scatter it, causing its energy intensity to plummet.

It was very possible that a Scorching Beam fired from a satellite toward the ground would leave nothing but light by the time it arrived.

This problem had to be solved before the Satellite Laser Weapon Project could become possible.

Second was the issue of laser accuracy. Precisely striking a ground target from such a great height was difficult. For one thing, satellites moved through the sky, and even the slightest displacement would make their aim inaccurate.

However, the Satellite AI could solve this problem by compensating for and calibrating positional deviations caused by satellite movement.

Finally, there was the laser's energy issue.

Li Ming had fortunately solved that problem. With more than a thousand satellites serving as backup resources, he had enough to support firing lasers at the ground.

However, laser weapons had different methods of attack.

One method was to fire a Continuous Laser, relying on the laser's heat to burn through and destroy the target.

The second was a Pulsed Laser, sending a short burst of high-powered laser fire from orbit to the ground and using the high temperature and pressure released upon impact to directly destroy the target.

In theory, the latter was far more destructive than the former.

The former used the laser's high temperature to burn the target, while the latter used both high temperature and high pressure.

When a Pulsed Laser struck a target, it would release a powerful shockwave at the moment of impact. That shockwave was generated by the intense heat released when the laser hit its target.

In other words, a Pulsed Laser would not only melt its target with high temperatures, but also strike it with high pressure.

The difference between a Pulsed Laser and a Continuous Laser was that a Pulsed Laser could create a short burst of extremely high-powered laser light. This required sufficient energy and machinery.

But...

That was precisely what Li Ming could solve!

In terms of energy, he had the sunlight energy stored by a thousand satellites.

The key was that this was fundamentally different from the solar energy absorbed by solar panels.

Solar panels converted light energy into electrical energy for storage and use. A large proportion of energy was lost during that conversion process, and using the converted electricity as energy to produce lasers would result in even greater losses.

His Soul Skill, however, stored sunlight energy directly rather than electricity. When he released his Soul Skill, it directly converted sunlight energy into a Scorching Beam. There was no middleman, making the efficiency extremely high!

Therefore, the sunlight energy stored by a thousand satellites was already more than enough.

As for the laser's power, that was even easier to solve.

This was the power of a Soul Skill, after all. He could determine the power of the laser beam he released. The higher the power, the more Soul Power it consumed and the shorter its duration. If the energy—or rather, Soul Power—was insufficient, the laser beam's power could not become very high.

Even though he was now a Spirit Elder, that small amount of Soul Power was still not enough to release a sufficiently powerful Scorching Beam.

But the sunlight energy from a thousand satellites solved that problem perfectly. He could use immense amounts of energy to create an extremely high-powered Pulsed Laser. The energy consumption would be outrageous, but under such circumstances, the Pulsed Laser's power would definitely be sufficient!

Having thought everything through, Li Ming was extremely excited. Most of the issues regarding the Pulsed Laser had been resolved.

Only one problem remained.

How could he solve the energy loss caused by the laser passing through the atmosphere?

Once he solved that, his satellite-based Pulsed Laser Weapon would be complete!

In the future, he could strike wherever he pointed. More importantly, he would not even need to be present. Anywhere his satellites could cover would be within his strike range.

Moreover, this Pulsed Laser was so fast that no one could possibly dodge it.

He simply did not yet know how powerful it would be, or how much damage it could inflict on high-level Soul Masters and high-year Soul Beasts.

But... so what if someone survived his Pulsed Laser?

Could they find him? He could fire a second shot, a third shot. As long as he spent time continuously recharging, he could keep firing his Pulsed Laser.

Unless they hid for the rest of their lives, they would eventually be struck by his Pulsed Laser.

Although he had not yet solved this problem, it still meant he had gained a powerful means of killing.

A Scorching Beam fired from space to the ground needed to overcome the problem of atmospheric attenuation.

But... he still had a Satellite Spirit of his own.

If he used his original Satellite Spirit to unleash a Pulsed Scorching Beam, it would truly be a devastating weapon.

Li Ming's eyes gleamed. He desperately wanted to test the exact power of this Pulsed Scorching Beam and see just how terrifying it could become.

Could a Pulsed Scorching Beam released using the sunlight energy stored by a thousand satellites make even a Title Douluo bleed and die?

Unfortunately, he was still in the carriage and could not conduct an experiment.

And the problem of how the Pulsed Scorching Beam could overcome atmospheric attenuation could not be solved in a short time, so he temporarily set the matter aside.

For now, he had finished reviewing the gains from this trip.

He needed to solve some problems.

For example, the changes that had appeared in his Martial Soul.

Whether it was the satellite navigation this time or the unknown power he had clearly sensed within his Satellite Spirit, both indicated that something was wrong.

Take the Satellite Navigation this time, for example. They had not encountered a single Soul Beast along the entire journey, which was highly abnormal.

How did the Satellite AI know that they would not encounter Soul Beasts along this route?

The Soul Beast corpses and Soul Master corpses they had encountered along the way all proved that this route should have had Soul Beasts, yet they had strangely failed to encounter even one.

It was as though the Soul Beasts had deliberately avoided them.

Was it merely a coincidence, or...?

Li Ming did not believe in coincidences. Combined with the unknown power he had sensed within his Martial Soul, he knew something must have changed, and he needed to know exactly what that change was.

There were not many ways to find out.

He was not an engineer or a programmer. Could he really dismantle his Satellite Spirit or inspect whether something had gone wrong with the Satellite AI's program?

The simplest and most feasible method was actually to ask the Satellite AI directly.