I Pick Up Fragments in Douluo Continent: Chapter 24

"Still, this was as far as my research into hidden weapons could go." Lu Feng sighed and stored the Godly Zhuge Crossbow in his Soul Tool.

Crafting hidden weapons placed extremely high demands on both forging techniques and materials.

The Peacock Plume and Buddha Rage Tang Lotus—creating such powerful hidden weapons required black iron.

In the original story, in order to successfully forge hidden weapons such as the Pear Blossom Rain Needles and Buddha Rage Tang Lotus, Divine Craftsman Lou Gao had even thrown himself into the furnace, using his own blood and vitality to awaken the sharpness of Deep Sea Sunken Silver.

Lu Feng respected everyone with dreams, but he had no intention of "dying for the sword."

For this Godly Zhuge Crossbow alone, Tang San had spent two months just preparing the materials. Then Lu Feng had personally forged and assembled it, taking another month before finally completing it.

Once again, thanks to Brotherly Kin for their wholehearted contribution!

Among the Tang Sect's techniques, what Lu Feng valued most were the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eye.

Next came knowledge of Immortal Herbs and poison preparation.

As for Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Mysterious Jade Hand, Lu Feng merely treated them as supplementary techniques.

With a thought, Lu Feng scanned several wooden barrels in another corner of the Soul Tool's storage space.

Black Powder!

Without question, it was currently Lu Feng's most destructive weapon.

That Greenwood Python had gotten intimately acquainted with Black Powder back then, then passed away quite peacefully.

At Lu Feng's graduation ceremony, the Nuoding Academy headmaster had suddenly felt inspired and demonstrated his fourth soul skill for the students, putting on quite a show.

Judging from the damage left on the training ground, Lu Feng estimated that Black Powder was definitely more powerful than the soul skills of ordinary Soul Ancestors, perhaps even enough to kill a Soul King-level expert.

"Still, gunpowder has too many restrictions. It has to be planted in advance." Lu Feng sighed and withdrew his consciousness from the Soul Tool's storage space.

Having transmigrated into another world—especially Douluo Continent, a place known as the "floor of fantasy worlds"—Lu Feng had also wanted to follow the path of "nuclear peace" like certain other transmigrators.

But in his previous life, Lu Feng had only been an ordinary undergraduate.

Build a nuclear bomb?

E=mc

Come on, let's get started!

"So, cultivating Soul Power is my true foundation!"

With a thought, Lu Feng slipped a pair of knuckle guards onto his hands.

Then light flickered within the carriage as one Martial Soul after another appeared in succession.

Yellow Quality Black Iron Rod

Yellow Quality Five-Colored Flower

Purple Quality Cannon Five

The Five-Colored Flower was a Martial Soul Lu Feng had obtained from Teacher Mo. Teacher Mo was specifically responsible for managing Work-Study Students—the same teacher who had given Tang San a quilt in the original story.

The Five-Colored Flower was an exceptionally powerful support Martial Soul. Every time it obtained a soul ring, it gained a percentage-based enhancement soul skill.

If its enhancement ratio could be increased repeatedly, the Five-Colored Flower might even rival the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Of course, Teacher Mo's Martial Soul had only been White Quality. To upgrade the Five-Colored Flower, Lu Feng had dismantled both Blue Silver Grass and Gale Bird Martial Souls.

If he dismantled an already synthesized Martial Soul, he could only obtain half the Light Points—five, in other words.

After ten Yellow Martial Soul Light Points were fed into it, the Five-Colored Flower upgraded from White Quality to Yellow Quality.

Naturally, the result was highly satisfying.

Five-Colored Flower's first soul skill: increased the target Soul Master's strength by 5%, while also increasing vitality recovery by an additional 5%.

Judging from the effects of its first soul skill alone, it was already a cut above most support Martial Souls.

"Still, my greatest gain over these past two years has to be this Martial Soul."

A faint dark glow flashed, and a small black hammer appeared in Lu Feng's right hand. The moment it appeared, the atmosphere inside the carriage instantly became oppressive.

"Whoa!" The coachman tugged the reins, trying to calm the agitated horse.

"Lord Soul Master, I don't know why the horse was suddenly startled. Please forgive me," the coachman said from outside the carriage.

"Mm, I understand."

Soul Power surged through Lu Feng as he put away the Clear Sky Hammer Spirit.

"As expected of the number one Tool Martial Soul in the world. It has only been fitted with one soul ring, yet it already possesses such intimidation! I wonder what the current Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao, looked like at the height of his power."

Lu Feng shook his head. Remembering the scruffy blacksmith from Holy Soul Village, he simply could not connect him with a Title Douluo.

"My daily supervision of Tang San's smithing for nearly half a year wasn't in vain after all."

"Unfortunately, Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul is currently only ordinary Blue Silver Grass, not the Blue Silver Emperor. Looks like I can only continue our 'Brotherly Kin' relationship in a few years."

"As for skill-type abilities..."

Soul Power surged through Lu Feng, and his figure Teleported onto the roof of the carriage.

Looking into the distance, he saw sunlight spilling over the vast grasslands as a gentle breeze swept by, sending waves of emerald grass rolling across the plains.

Black Quality Teleportation!

This skill could truly be called divine. No matter the world, time and space were supreme attributes.

Though Lu Feng also found it strange. Xiao Wu's true form was merely a Soft Bone Rabbit, so why had it produced such an absurdly powerful Soul Bone Skill?

Could it be that she was a special kind of rabbit?

Back when Lu Feng had hunted his first soul ring, if he had not possessed this soul skill, he would likely have paid quite a price.

When Lu Feng was level ten, using Teleportation four or five times would exhaust his Soul Power. Now, with Soul Power approaching level twenty, he could use it more than ten times, and the distance had increased to twenty meters!

However, there was an interval between activations. Forcing consecutive use would damage his meridians, and in serious cases, could even cause his cultivation to regress.

Of course, Xiao Wu's other Soul Bone Skill had also fallen into Lu Feng's hands.

Black Quality Invincible Golden Body!

For three seconds, it granted immunity to all physical attacks below god-level, while doubling the user's strength. For every ten levels of Soul Power gained by the user, both the duration of the Golden Body and its strength enhancement increased by one second.

Invincible Golden Body consumed far more Soul Power, roughly twice as much as Teleportation.

Unless absolutely necessary, Lu Feng would not expose these two skills.

Looking at his packed fragment storage and feeling the Soul Power within him that was infinitely close to level twenty, Lu Feng smiled knowingly. "I've walked on thin ice these past two years. Now, I can finally be considered to have achieved something!"

Lu Feng pressed together the index and middle fingers of his right hand, and an invisible stream of energy shot into the horse's body.

Black Quality Light Attribute!

At once, a flash of light passed through the horse's eyes, and its agitation was instantly soothed.

"You beast, you've finally decided to settle down." The coachman wiped the sweat from his forehead and scolded it with a smile.

If the startled horse angered Lord Soul Master, this trip would hardly be worth the trouble.

"My lord, the horse has calmed down. Let's continue. Huh! My lord, why are you on the roof?" The coachman looked at Lu Feng, seated atop the carriage, in confusion.

"Don't mind me. Keep going."

"Alright! Hyah!"

"My lord, at our speed, we'll be able to see the Star Dou Great Forest after another day of travel."

Chapter 34: Star Dou Great Forest

"Buns! Old Li's hot buns! Keep your Soul Power brimming every day!"

"Candied hawthorn!"

Lu Feng stopped outside a small town and paid the coachman the remaining fare.

Shops lined the streets, with every kind of store imaginable. Their primary business was all related to Soul Masters.

As the saying went, those who lived by the mountains ate from the mountains, and those who lived by the water ate from the water. Around the Star Dou Great Forest, there were no fewer than eighty Soul Hunting Markets, if not a hundred.

However, most of these markets had been built more than a hundred kilometers outside the forest.

The Star Dou Great Forest was no kind place. Not only were the soul beasts here ferocious, they also enjoyed attacking humans. Some soul beasts from the outer regions often wandered beyond the forest's boundaries. If towns were built too close to the Star Dou Great Forest, things would likely turn ugly.

"Welcome."

Lu Feng entered a hotel, and the attendant at the entrance smiled and gave him a ninety-degree bow.

Lu Feng glanced at the youthful, beautiful waitress, then immediately turned his head away. In that brief instant, he felt as if he had stared into an abyss.

Unfathomably deep!

"No wonder the teachers always said that the Soul Master world was filled with danger everywhere!"

Lu Feng gave a light cough and walked into the hall with an unchanging expression.

Hmph. Lu had grown up beneath the red flag in his previous life, righteous and upright, with clean hands and an honest heart.

His heart had only two colors.

The hotel was a two-story building. The first floor was a dining hall, while the second floor provided lodging.

The hall was packed with guests, all chatting among themselves.

"Ah, things haven't been peaceful lately!"

"Yeah. I heard a fallen Soul Master has appeared around the forest outskirts. Wherever he goes, humans and soul beasts alike are drained into nothing but skeletons."

"Huh? Why did I hear it was the work of a Man Faced Demon Spider?"

Lu Feng casually ordered several signature dishes and listened with great interest to the people at the next table boasting.

In the first Douluo story, while things were generally peaceful, there were still quite a few fallen Soul Masters.

However, people did not judge evil Soul Masters based on their Martial Soul attributes, but on what they did.

Bibi Dong, Gu Rong, and Ghostly Douluo—if they were in Douluo Two, their Martial Souls alone would probably get them suppressed on sight.

After lunch, Lu Feng rented a room on the second floor. Naturally, he politely declined the beautiful waitress's kind offer.

After riding in a carriage for several days straight, even a production team's donkey would not be able to endure it.

The Star Dou Great Forest was one of the three most famous soul beast habitats on Douluo Continent. It stretched across two great empires, and its area was nearly equal to the entire territory of the Balak Kingdom.

"The scent of freedom!"

Upon arriving before the forest, gusts of fresh air blew toward him, refreshing both body and mind. Lu Feng took a deep breath of the clean air and felt every pore in his body open up.

Soul Hunting Forests had limited varieties of soul beasts. To obtain soul beasts with special attributes, he still had to come to a wilderness forest.

Lu Feng had long made plans for his second soul ring.

Among the Five Elements, wood was warm by nature, and fire lay hidden within it. Rubbing wood produced fire, so wood generated fire.

Water was moist by nature, and trees grew from it, so water generated wood.

Whether he chose a fire attribute or water attribute, it could complement the wood attribute of his first soul ring.

If he chose fire, he could combine it with the Greenwood Python's strength attribute and select a soul beast with strong defense and vitality.

If he chose water, he would first need to follow the path of an agility attack-type or energy-type Soul Master.

He could hunt speed-type soul beasts such as Jadewater Birds and Sword Shadow Fish, or energy attack-type soul beasts such as Squirtle, Blastoise, and Frost One-Eyed Fish.

As Lu Feng walked, he swung his Firewood Chopper to cut through the weeds blocking his path.

The terrain inside the forest was extremely complicated, and there were no paths at all. Some weeds even rose above his head.

Before long, Lu Feng discovered a soul beast group.

It was a group of ten-year Soft Bone Rabbits, led by a hundred-year soul beast. It occasionally raised its little head and looked around vigilantly.

"Wah!"

Lu Feng Teleported before them and let out a shout.

The little rabbits had been foraging when a Soul Master suddenly appeared before them. Their ears shot upright in fright as they scattered in every direction.

The leading little rabbit accidentally crashed into a tree stump and immediately passed out.

Obtained White Attribute Point: Speed Fragment ×1 (1/10)