Sun Moon Empire's Top Ten Beauties, Ranked from Hot to Lame

"Qiu'er, help me open this Soul Tool."

Lin En set down the Soul Tool Analysis produced by the Sun Moon Empire and hooked a ring-shaped storage Soul Tool set with a ruby onto his finger.

Just from its design, it was obvious that this Soul Tool was worth a fortune. Compared to ten thousand years ago, Soul Tools truly were no longer rare in this era.

But that was only in comparison to Soul Masters. For ordinary people, Soul Tools had not changed their lives. The price of a storage Soul Tool was something they could never hope to reach in their lifetime.

Perhaps the situation was slightly better in the Sun Moon Empire, but only slightly.

If one truly had to choose a place to live, the Sun Moon Empire was definitely not a good choice. It looked glamorous on the surface, but Evil Soul Masters ran rampant within it.

Whenever those high-level Evil Soul Masters acted, they demanded tens of thousands of souls as the price. Where did those souls come from? Most of them came from the people of the Sun Moon Empire.

In this world where everyone was competing to be less terrible, nowhere could be called wonderful.

Qiu'er took the Soul Tool and yawned. To crack a storage Soul Tool, weaklings generally relied on spiritual power to guess the password, much like picking a lock with a wire.

The strong had no such concerns. Overwhelming force was an eternal truth. Erasing the previous user's imprint with one's own spiritual power and tearing the lock apart directly was much faster than trying bit by bit.

Qiu'er's spiritual power was the strongest among all those at her level. After all, her primary attribute was spiritual power; Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire were merely extras.

The spiritual power of an Auspicious Beast stirred within the ruby ring, filling the widow's ring to the brim. The spiritual imprint inside let out a powerless wail and could only watch as the Soul Tool completely changed owners.

As Miss Can Opener worked, she asked curiously:

"Partner, what are all those books you're reading? I often see you gritting your teeth. Do books bite people too?"

Since they had always lived together, Qiu'er often saw Lin En making strange expressions at piles of books. This innocent Soul Beast raised in the forest could not understand why.

Lin En said helplessly, "They're a bit of a mess. Some are about Soul Tools, some are about Soul Beast knowledge, and some cover basic Soul Master theory."

"If this knowledge were coherent, I'd be able to memorize and understand it very quickly. But these materials come from different sources, and even the writing differs somewhat.

They're far too fragmented. Quite a few books skip over a lot of foundational theory, assuming the reader has already learned it, so some of the technical terms leave me completely confused."

"For example, this Fundamentals of Soul Tool Core Formations directly starts talking about fourth- and fifth-level core formations. The first, second, and third levels must be in another book. There's a break in the knowledge."

"I'm planning to skip this stuff for now. There's no point learning it. I might as well read more basic Soul Master theory."

He was not joking. Lin En truly had no plans to study Soul Tools right now. There was no meaning in it. Wasn't knowing how to use them enough?

Moreover, Soul Masters had a particular trait: the higher their cultivation, the stronger their spiritual power, and the stronger their spiritual power, the greater their memory and comprehension.

That was why many people only began seriously studying Soul Tool manufacturing after reaching the rank of Titled Douluo. Combined with their usual insights, they learned particularly quickly.

With Little Sage, and having been an engineer in his previous life, Lin En could master Soul Tool knowledge with ease as long as he seriously wanted to learn it. It would not take long at all.

Lin En was confident that once he reached Titled Douluo, he could master this era's cutting-edge Soul Tools in at most a year.

Besides, at this era's level of Soul Tool development, even fighting an Ultimate Douluo was difficult. Instead of wasting time on that, he might as well study Dragon Clan Alchemy.

Alchemy was the science of the Dragon Clan. The seven great kingdoms of alchemy involved the operation of laws; they were the true crystallization of Dragon Clan wisdom.

By controlling the seven great kingdoms, Lin En might not be unable to become this world's Vinster King, Nidhogg.

Qiu'er nodded thoughtfully. In truth, she understood none of it, but since her partner said so, all she needed to do was agree.

She tossed the cracked storage Soul Tool to Lin En and continued cracking the second one.

Lin En caught the Soul Tool and sent his spiritual power inside, intending to see what good things it contained.

"Let's see what we've got."

With a light sweep of his spiritual power, Lin En discovered a large number of books, which immediately excited him. Books were precious treasures.

Having Little Sage scan and record them could enrich its knowledge base and provide valuable theoretical foundations for deduction and calculation.

However, some theories needed to be carefully distinguished. If he encountered poisonous theories, the entire knowledge base could be contaminated.

The most famous poisonous theory was the Ten Core Theories of Soul Masters. It could not be said to be completely wrong, but it was far too limited by its era and simply did not apply to Lin En.

After Little Sage finished scanning the books, it suddenly fell silent.

Lin En was somewhat puzzled. In the past, after this freeloader finished scanning, it would always tell him what knowledge it had recorded. Why was it so silent today?

"Bean Bun—ptui, Little Sage, why are you quiet? Did you find some especially exciting little tidbit?"

"Don't keep it hidden. Your Uncle Lin En is curious."

Little Sage: "..."

After a while, a faint female voice quietly echoed through the Sea of Spirit.

"Yes, Master. Recorded diagrams of human female body structures, the principles behind the attraction of special low-fabric clothing to human males, Sun Moon Empire's Top Ten Beauties, Ranked from Hot to Lame, On the Ten Greatest Merits of Mature Women, and twenty-eight volumes of the light novel Kill That Lolicon."

"Should this knowledge be evaluated and recorded in the database?"

"Little Sage believes these theories can effectively assist in analyzing Master's XP preferences, better refine Little Sage's conversational language logic, satisfy your emotional needs, and possess some research value."

Lin En: "?"

"What the hell?"

Little Sage's words left Lin En utterly dumbfounded. Wasn't this knowledge a little too exciting?

Were all the books in this damned thing actually erotic magazines and dirty novels?!

It was absolutely no injustice that this guy died in the Mixed Zone!

A Soul Engineer refused to properly study Soul Tool knowledge, yet collected this crap inside a storage Soul Tool! And even brought it into the Star Dou Great Forest to adventure!

Did he think that if he died in the Star Dou Great Forest, these things would not leak out and cause him social death?

Lin En felt that the younger generation of the Sun Moon Empire was probably doomed.

"So, Master, should this portion of knowledge be recorded?"

Little Sage spoke faintly once more. Lin En gave a light cough and said with an angry expression:

"Heretic!"

"Talking about the ten greatest merits of mature women—this guy clearly doesn't understand where women's true charm lies!

He deserved to die. There are still more good Soul Beasts in this world. I hope he gets reincarnated into Warhammer or Stellaris in his next life."

"Delete it all! Don't contaminate the database!"

"..."

"Well, that thing—Sun Moon Empire's Top Ten Beauties, Ranked from Hot to Lame—keep that. I need to carefully study the psychological state of the Sun Moon Empire's youth. Just how hot can the beauties over there be?"

Little Sage: "?"

Even an AI with an enormous database and immense computing power was left with nothing but question marks at that moment.