The Asura God Pulls the Strings! Lou Gao Spent All Night Thinking-Not Because He Figured It Out, but Because Dawn Came

"Great Enshrined!

You may have made a pact with Tang Chen, but Tang Hao killed Qian Xunji, Spirit Hall's former Pope!" Yue Guan said through gritted teeth.

Anyone else in the world could curse Qian Xunji, but Yue Guan and Gui Mei could not. Without Spirit Hall, Yue Guan would never have come this far!

Qian Daoliu swept him with a cold gaze. "What? Must I say it a second time?"

Bibi Dong scoffed. "Fine. Let Tang Hao and his son get out of here! Great Enshrined, I hope you won't regret this someday."

With that, Bibi Dong turned to Yu Xiaogang. "What are you waiting for? Take your precious student and go."

"Huh?"

Yu Xiaogang froze.

Then delight surged through him. He hoisted Tang Hao onto his back and helped Tang San away.

Spirit Hall really is full of fools.

Hmph!

When I return with Tang San one day, I'll raze Spirit Hall to the ground!

Yue Guan watched helplessly as Yu Xiaogang took Tang Hao and his son away, his heart sinking.

Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu...

How had he become like this?

After all,

He had not been like this when they attacked Sea God Island!

Nor had he been like this when Spirit Hall rose to power!

Back then, Qian Daoliu had decisively killed countless powerful figures who defied Spirit Hall. Even Chen Jianjun, father of today's Sword Douluo Chen Xin and a level 97 Super Douluo at the time, had died by his hand!

The continent's foremost executioner—that was the fearsome name Qian Daoliu had earned in the Soul Master World!

Even if age had dulled the Great Enshrined's thirst for blood, he still had no reason to be so softhearted!

Yue Guan was full of questions, but he could say no more. He could only bow.

"Great Enshrined, Your Holiness, Gui Mei is still watching Kong Deming and his people. I'll go check on him in case anything happens."

Bibi Dong nodded.

Yue Guan turned and left.

"Next time, don't act on your own authority!"

Qian Daoliu left Bibi Dong with those words and walked away.

An eerie red glint flashed through his eyes.

Bibi Dong tightened her grip on her staff.

Act on my own authority? If I had, I'd have scattered your damned Qian Family's ashes long ago!

Bibi Dong made up her mind.

She had to speed up her cooperation with the Sun Moon Sect. They were sure to have devastating Soul Tools. Once she acquired them and completed her Rakshasa God Divine Examination, Qian Daoliu would be the first she destroyed!

Meanwhile,

High above in the Divine Realm,

The old Asura God watched the scene through his divine sense, a sinister smile spreading across his face.

"Li Chen, since you refused my Godhood, I, a God King, will make certain Tang San destroys you!"

The Asura God snorted.

A red glow flickered in his hand, and the red light in Qian Daoliu's eyes faded down on Douluo Star.

That was right. The Asura God had just influenced Qian Daoliu's mind. Otherwise, Tang Hao and his son would never have left Spirit Hall alive.

"Evil, Good, you want Li Chen to become a god? Dream on!"

Heaven Dou City.

At the center of the inner city, Li Chen, Huo Yuhao, and the others stood in the square, facing a dense crowd of Forging Craftsmen.

"All the Soul Tool blueprints are here. Just follow the instructions to make the parts. The Sun Moon Sect will send people to assemble them, and then they'll be ready to use."

Drawing on his earlier experience working with Spirit Hall, Li Chen had simply used a Computer to write a booklet this time.

Apart from inscribing the Core Magic Arrays, he had handed every other component over to these local craftsmen.

That would reduce the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy's workload.

Without the Core Magic Arrays, even if these locals from the Douluo I Era assembled the Soul Tools, they would have nothing but scrap metal.

Li Chen had already made his plans.

He needed a secure location for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy's permanent base.

Living next to Spirit City was still somewhat risky.

Once he established an assembly line for inscribing the arrays, the academy would have barely any work left to do. It could sit back and collect money.

"My god! How did anyone come up with this?"

"Exactly! This metal-purification technique looks like something only Lou Gao, the master smith, could pull off."

"Ah, it's embarrassing. We've spent our whole lives forging metal, yet we haven't even mastered Thousand Refinement systematically. The Sun Moon Sect truly has some remarkable experts!"

The local blacksmiths of Heaven Dou City marveled at the designs.

This was the Douluo I Era, after all. They had yet to fully grasp metal refinement techniques such as Hundred Refinement and Thousand Refinement.

Li Chen had had no choice but to print all those techniques in the manual.

Xue Ye stood behind them, with the Forging Association President at his side.

Standing beside Xue Ye, the president did not even dare straighten his back.

That was life in the Soul Master-dominated Douluo I Era. In the past, Spirit Hall's people would not even have bothered killing members of an organization like the Forging Association.

"Your Majesty, these things from the Sun Moon Sect are extraordinary. Their technology is at least a thousand years ahead of ours!"

The Forging Association President smiled. "Your Majesty's wisdom knows no bounds!"

"Hmph!"

Xue Ye looked displeased.

Wisdom?

I bought all this with a torrent of Gold Soul Coins!

Fifty million Gold Soul Coins!

That's nearly a tenth of the Heaven Dou Empire's annual tax revenue!

"I did not come here to hear your flattery. Tell me, how long will your association need to replicate the Sun Moon Sect's technology?"

"Well..."

The Forging Association President hesitated. "Forging the Soul Tools themselves isn't difficult, but the crucial step is inscribing the Core Magic Arrays. The Sun Moon Sect's manual doesn't explain that..."

Xue Ye sneered. "What? Are you waiting for them to write it down and hand it to you? If they had, what would I need you useless fools for?!"

"I want you to reverse-engineer the array inscriptions from the finished products! How long will it take?"

The association president hurriedly dropped to his knees. "Your Majesty is right!"

Sweat soaked the aging Forging Association President's white hair.

"The Sun Moon Sect's technology is far too advanced for us. I... I'd estimate at least ten years, to be safe."

Xue Ye laughed in fury. "Ten years? You expect me to keep paying the Sun Moon Sect for another ten years?!"

Cold sweat poured down the president's face. "Your Majesty, ten years is already an optimistic estimate. Even copying what's in front of us might not work. I..."

Xue Ye held up three fingers. "You have three months."

"What?!"

The Forging Association President was dumbfounded.

Your Majesty, are you playing games with me?

Crack technology a whole era ahead of ours in three months? If I could fucking do that, would I be here groveling to you?!

"Three months. Fail, and your entire clan will pay with their lives!"

Xue Ye swept away.

The Forging Association President crumpled to the ground.

"President! President, are you all right?"

The association's young craftsmen rushed to help him up.

"His Majesty... His Majesty is truly trying to kill this old man!"

The president, over a hundred years old, buried his face and wept.

The old man wiped away his tears and scrambled to his feet:

"Quick, help me find Lou Gao! Didn't he recently come from Gengxin City for an exchange?"

"If anyone in the world can replicate the Sun Moon Sect's technology in three months, it's him!"

After all, Lou Gao was from the Star Luo Empire.

But faced with Xue Ye's threat to wipe out his entire clan,

The old president could no longer afford to care.

Without a family, what good is a country?

If my family is about to be wiped out,

Why should I care whether the Heaven Dou Empire lives or dies?

Before long,

The Heaven Dou City Forging Association President shook Lou Gao awake as he rested at the association.

The old president quickly explained everything to Lou Gao.

Lou Gao laughed in disbelief. "What kind of Soul Tool has the Sun Moon Sect made? The Heaven Dou Emperor is so desperate to copy it that he's threatening your entire clan?"

"Lou, stop laughing and take a look for me."

Lou Gao smiled and picked up the Soul Tool Hand Cannon, studying it closely.

As it turned out,

Lou Gao stood there studying it all night.

Not because he had figured it out. Dawn had simply come.