Research

Li Ming turned to look at the others present, his gaze sweeping over some of the people from Spirit Hall in particular.

"I accept your Pope's gift. Three days from now, I shall go to the Pope's Palace myself to return the courtesy."

After leaving those words behind, Li Ming vanished directly and returned to the City Lord's Mansion.

Hmph, that Bibi Dong, she really does as she pleases!

In a corner of Purple Heaven City, Golden Crocodile Douluo of the Elder Hall could not help letting out a cold snort. As the Second Elder of the Elder Hall, he was extremely dissatisfied with Bibi Dong's move, as she had not informed them at all or consulted with them.

"That is not necessarily the case. Who knows if these people are Bibi Dong's subordinates, or perhaps some people hostile to Spirit Hall maliciously splashing dirty water on us.

This matter still needs to be discussed with that City Lord to avoid any misunderstandings."

Beside Golden Crocodile Douluo stood Greenlark Douluo, dressed in a cyan-blue robe with short deep-blue hair and smoky-blue eyes. He possessed handsome features and a clear voice, and no one would ever guess that he was the Third Elder of the Elder Hall.

At the moment, he appeared to be making excuses for Bibi Dong, but in reality, he did not want this matter to be directly linked to Spirit Hall.

It was just a few people talking nonsense; who dared say they were definitely people from Spirit Hall?

This matter was not yet ready to be pigeonholed, and furthermore, Bibi Dong's attitude did not determine Spirit Hall's stance toward Purple Heaven City.

"Then let us go find that City Lord and make things clear."

Golden Crocodile Douluo naturally understood Greenlark Douluo's meaning and spoke immediately.

"There is no need to be so hasty. Did he not just say he would personally go to the Pope's Palace?

We can simply welcome him with open arms and talk things through clearly then.

It will be a good chance to meet this unfathomable City Lord.

However, this matter still needs to be reported to the Chief Elder first."

Greenlark Douluo wore a confident smile, appearing thoroughly calm.

Meanwhile, hearing Li Ming's statement, most of the others wore smiles in their eyes.

They were naturally happy to see someone fight Spirit Hall; no matter who it was, it was a good thing for everyone.

As soon as Li Ming returned to the City Lord's Mansion, he received an alert from the Satellite AI.

He immediately activated the Satellite Panel to find out what had happened.

The banks in several cities of the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire were under attack.

Li Ming did not even need to think to know this was Bibi Dong's method, clearly attempting to disrupt his Purple Heaven City by striking at his Dream Coupons.

Once problems arose with the money in the banks, the credibility of the Dream Coupons would take a hit, which would naturally affect the development of Purple Heaven City in due course.

However, the places being attacked were all major cities, excluding the imperial capitals of the two empires, otherwise this would have been a direct provocation to the two empires. Bibi Dong apparently did not want to openly antagonize them just yet.

Li Ming let out a cold snort and issued an instruction to the Satellite AI. Soon, the satellites suspended in orbit released three soul rings, and solar energy was rapidly mobilized.

Before long, a flash of bright light unexpectedly swept across various locations, instantly triggering explosions.

The Spirit Emperor who had originally slaughtered the bank guards and was happily loading up money was suddenly struck by a beam of light.

His body instantly turned to charcoal, followed by the release of a massive shockwave that blew his entire body apart, leaving not a single piece of good flesh.

Watching the red dots on the map rapidly disappear, Li Ming's mood instantly became much more relaxed.

A sofa materialized behind him, and he half-reclined onto it comfortably.

Bibi Dong, is it?

Li Ming had anticipated Bibi Dong's retaliation long ago, but he just hadn't expected it to take this form.

She had tracked down so many dream and mental experts, simply wanting to sniff out his location.

Unfortunately, Li Ming cared deeply about his own safety and had upgraded his security system and firewall during the server downtime.

Moreover, he now had the Fate AI providing him with destiny concealment, capable of blocking some rather bizarre soul skills, so he was much safer.

As long as no one could find him, he remained in an invincible position.

As for Bibi Dong, he had been fretting that he lacked someone to test the Thousand-Fold Pulse Beam on, and this was a timely opportunity.

The reason he had to wait three days was because the satellites' solar energy needed to recharge.

There was no helping that; although the Thousand-Fold Pulse Beam had impressive might, it required massive energy support and could only fire once per shot.

Still, it was ultimately a free shot. Being able to fire once every three days without any risk meant it would be a waste not to use it.

Li Ming then proceeded to review the report of this incident.

Although a single hundred-level pulse beam had wiped out that unprepared Spirit Saint, using it on a person for the first time still revealed a few minor issues.

For instance, when facing a target shielded by cover, while the pulse beam successfully killed the person, it failed to unleash its maximum potential in substance; the pulsed laser's power had already been diminished by the architecture when it struck the opponent.

In particular, half of its impact force had been expended on the building.

This needed improvement, and Li Ming directly handed the improvement task over to the Satellite AI.

His gaze then fell back onto the little Three-Eyed Golden Lion before him.

"I'll call you Xiao Yun from now on."

"Understood, Master!"

The little Three-Eyed Golden Lion cried out excitedly.

Li Ming began to review the data Xiao Yun had just gathered.

Tang Hao's Chaos Cloaking Hammer Technique, Great Sumeru Hammer, and Ring Detonation.

Di Tian's Black Dragon Sword, Destructive Aura, Dark Annihilation Domain, and Dark Power.

Qian Daoliu's soul skill, Angel's Eye.

He could not help rubbing his hands together in excitement; these were all good things.

According to Xiao Yun, it could conduct research on these soul skills.

Among them, the simplest ones were the Chaos Cloaking Hammer Technique, Great Sumeru Hammer, and Ring Detonation.

These were merely applications of force. The Chaos Cloaking Hammer Technique was a special force-exerting skill, while the Great Sumeru Hammer was a technique for condensing soul power, channeling the soul power of all soul rings into the martial soul simultaneously to unleash power that surpassed limits.

As for Ring Detonation, it detonated all soul rings completely and channeled the erupting soul power into the martial soul to gain even greater strength.

Strictly speaking, these were all ultimate arts concerning technique, only more suited to the Clear Sky Hammer, which did not mean such ultimate arts could not be used on other martial souls.

If he could strip away their techniques and apply them to his own martial soul, it might just bring him a surprise.

Take the Chaos Cloaking Hammer Technique, for example; it was indeed very difficult to unleash such a technique using the Satellite Spirit.

Yet his physical constitution was extremely strong. If he could extract its template and use it on his long saber, his strength should improve significantly!

As for the Great Sumeru Hammer, it was inherently a method of channeling soul ring soul power into the martial soul to elevate limit power, which shared a certain similarity with his pulsed laser beams.

If he could apply this method to his pulse beam, it might make his pulse beam even more powerful.

Li Ming's eyes brightened slightly. With the Fate AI, his research standards had risen straight to a new level.

Compared to the Satellite AI, the Fate AI was clearly better suited for researching martial souls and soul skills.

Relative to everything else, the data obtained from Tang Hao was the most suitable for research.

He immediately issued instructions to Xiao Yun to conduct an in-depth analysis of these three self-created soul skills.