"Cooperation is no problem! Give me a list of the materials you need, and then we can discuss the delivery date and quantity for the first batch of soul tools."
After lunch,
Yue Guan spoke with a smile.
"Sounds good."
Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan exchanged a glance, knowing they had cleared the first hurdle.
That afternoon,
the two quickly left Spirit City.
Once outside Spirit City, Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan glanced behind them out of the corners of their eyes. Their Flying Soul Tools suddenly surged in speed, and they vanished into the horizon.
In midair,
a ghostly silhouette appeared.
Gui Mei stared after the two old men, astonished by their speed.
Gui Mei returned to Spirit Hall.
"Your Holiness, I lost them."
"Useless!"
Bibi Dong spoke in a low voice.
"You're a rank-95 Super Douluo who specializes in speed, and you still lost two people whose ranks are lower than yours?"
Gui Mei lowered his head and explained, "Your Holiness, they were too fast. I... truly couldn't keep up."
Bibi Dong frowned.
This Sun Moon Sect
was growing more mysterious by the day.
Bibi Dong said coldly, "Send people to search the surrounding mountains immediately. Do everything possible to find out exactly where this Sun Moon Sect is!"
"Yes."
Gui Mei left.
Yue Guan stood beside her, watching Gui Mei get berated without daring to say a word.
There was nothing they could do.
A new ruler meant a new set of favorites.
After all, they had served the previous Pope, Qian Xunji.
Now that a new ruler had taken power,
Bibi Dong saw the two of them as nothing more than tools.
She gave them every dirty, exhausting job, yet would not even spare a single soul bone as a reward.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei had no choice
but to endure it.
In the Flowing Cloud Mountain Range,
Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan returned to their temporary base, roaring with laughter.
"That was hilarious, Old Zheng! We completely left that fellow in the dust!"
"Hahaha, that felt great! Just like that brat Li Chen said, technology changes lives!"
Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan immediately explained the details of the agreement to Kong Deming and Ju Zi.
"Excellent. Old Ye, Old Zheng, you two did well this time. With this first batch of metals, we can make at least ten High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools."
"While Spirit Hall is still unfamiliar with soul tool technology, let's ask for more rare metals and try to launch a Soul Tool Satellite first."
Kong Deming immediately summoned Xiao Hongchen and his sister, instructing them to produce a batch of Soul Guidance Milk Bottles, Soul Tool Lamps, and Soul Guidance Water Heaters.
For simple soul tools like these,
the siblings and their subordinates were more than capable.
Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen and the others hurried to take the metals and get the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools made first.
"Old Kong, I reckon this won't be so simple. That Bibi Dong really isn't easy to deal with. This was our first collaboration, and she sent someone to tail us the moment we left Spirit City."
"I suspect that now the tailing attempt has failed, Bibi Dong will send people to investigate."
"The biggest question is whether our Sun Moon Sect actually has a Limit Douluo. That's the key. If we don't, I'm afraid Spirit Hall will make the first move against us."
Ye Yulin spoke with some concern.
Kong Deming nodded.
Old Ye had a very good point.
Just then,
Li Chen stepped forward.
"Elder Ye, it's fine. There's no need to worry for now. Bibi Dong won't dare act rashly."
"In fact, we shouldn't take the initiative to display our strength right now. Bibi Dong is suspicious by nature. If we're too eager to show our power, she'll suspect we're putting on a front to hide something."
Li Chen's supercomputer martial soul had run a precise simulation of Bibi Dong's personality.
For someone who had suffered what she had in that secret chamber,
combined with the Rakshasa God's influence, her personality had long since become severely warped.
Suspicious and bloodthirsty,
she was not a normal person.
When dealing with someone like her, their display of strength had to be timed just right.
If it seemed deliberate, it would do more harm than good.
"That makes sense. In that case, why don't we go explore the continent?"
"Let's relax a little. This really is our first visit to the Douluo Continent in this era, after all. Traveling around would be a perfectly natural response."
Kong Deming suggested, "Li Chen, your martial soul is nearly at rank 50, right? And that brat Yuhao is nearly at rank 60."
"Let's take this opportunity to bring you out to hunt suitable soul beasts."
Li Chen nodded.
Huo Yuhao was naturally delighted.
All he could think about now was growing stronger, then finding Tang San and killing him outright!
"Should we go to the Star Dou Great Forest?"
Kong Deming considered it.
He was also very familiar with the map of the Douluo Continent.
The largest soul beast habitat was naturally the Star Dou Great Forest.
Of the ten great ferocious beasts,
most lived there,
including the strongest, Beast God Di Tian.
Kong Deming was not sure how powerful Di Tian was at this point in time... but however he looked at it, Di Tian ought to be stronger than an ordinary Limit Douluo.
"Di Tian and the others are probably in the Star Dou Great Forest. Should we choose somewhere else?"
Jing Hongchen spoke up.
If they were unlucky enough to run into them, they would be in serious trouble.
Li Chen shook his head. "No need."
"It isn't that easy to run into Di Tian and the others. They're in the Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest."
"As long as we don't venture into the Core Area, there's no chance we'll encounter them."
Kong Deming nodded. "Good point."
"In that case, let's go."
Kong Deming took Li Chen and Huo Yuhao into the air and headed straight for the Star Dou Great Forest.
Along the way,
Kong Deming asked with a smile, "Li Chen, what soul skill are you planning to choose this time?"
"Chip Splitting. It can control enemies and soul tools over extremely long distances."
Kong Deming nodded. "Excellent, excellent. Your martial soul really is powerful, lad. You can even choose your own soul skills. What about you, Huo Yuhao? What kind of soul beast are you planning to choose?"
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment. "One with a mental attribute."
Because of Li Chen's arrival,
some of Huo Yuhao's opportunities had been taken by Li Chen.
Li Chen had obtained Electrolux's fragment, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm still belonged to Huo Yuhao.
The supercomputer had no shortage of spiritual power, so Li Chen did not need Tian Meng's spiritual bestowal.
Necromancy, on the other hand,
interested Li Chen far more.
Thus, Huo Yuhao had still obtained the Ice Empress as his second martial soul.
However,
with the supercomputer's analysis, Li Chen had already become highly proficient in necromancy.
What was more,
the Snow Empress Embryo was also in Li Chen's possession.
Li Chen was highly confident that, while the Snow Empress was still an embryo, he could use his supercomputer to simulate Huo Yuhao's actions and directly acquire his own second martial soul.
"Good. Geniuses really are so much easier to teach."
Kong Deming sighed with feeling.
Some of the poor students at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy posed no threat to him in academia, but in education, they could practically ruin his reputation.
A top-tier genius like Li Chen was much better.
He mastered anything he learned immediately, and even far surpassed Huo Yuhao when it came to soul tools. His photographic memory was simply too unfair.
In fact,
in soul tool research and design,
Li Chen had already surpassed Kong Mingde. Printed out, his registered soul tool patents could fill more than a dozen sheets of A4 paper.
The three soon arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest.
Outside the lush green woods,
they could faintly make out other soul masters hunting along the forest's outskirts.
"The limit for the soul rings you two can withstand should be around forty thousand years. I'll take you straight into the deeper region."
Kong Deming flashed forward, heading straight into the depths.
Not long after he left,
Ghost Douluo Gui Mei appeared and swiftly followed.
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