area51novel Chapter 276 The True Spatial Law Soul Tool
Chapter 276 The True Spatial Law Soul Tool
With his thoughts connected to the "small crossbow model" on the table, and with a little time left before the competition started, Long You began to conduct a final test of his "masterpiece". If he found anything inconsistent during the test, Long You planned to take advantage of today's time (and materials) to make some targeted adjustments.
Five minutes later, Long You, who had been closing his eyes slightly, opened them again: "The consumption is a bit high. If it weren't for Xiao Yan and Bourne helping me with the data processing, even though I have a mental strength level far exceeding that of an ordinary Soul Saint, I probably wouldn't be able to process so much information at the same time without the support of mental soul skills, and also convert this perspective, which is similar to a projection from a higher dimension, into a common three-dimensional perspective."
From this perspective, the 'Touch of God' soul tool doesn't seem to have much of a future. After all, just reaching this level already makes it difficult to create a level seven soul tool. If we add the 'dimensional transformation' function (not a real dimensional transformation, but just a switch between perspectives), it will definitely require the use of the power of laws. The final product of the 'Touch of God' will probably be far more difficult to create than I imagined.
"Forget it, there's no use thinking about this now. If I don't have other opportunities, I'm afraid I still have a lot of pitfalls to overcome if I want to make further progress in my understanding of the laws of space."
"Speaking of which, Xiao Yan, I feel that your ability to deduce and witness has improved a lot compared to before! In the past, you seemed unable to deduce the soul tool blueprints that involved laws, especially high-level laws like the law of space, completely on the first try!"
My abilities have indeed improved. In essence, I am merely a derivative of the rules of the Douluo World. Before the laws were inscribed into me and my essential biochemical transformation was completed, any deductions about the laws were actually beyond my capabilities.
However, the Illusion Pearl in your sea of consciousness seems to be some kind of high-level treasure. Previously, I could only partially utilize its power to access places I couldn't otherwise reach. Now, the Illusion Pearl is showing signs of completely merging with me, and I can mobilize more and more of its power, making the deduction of laws much easier than before.
"The Pearl of Imagination? Yes, it has long shown a tendency to merge with you and completely integrate into this world. However, after realizing that it wasn't entirely unconscious, I deliberately isolated it and haven't paid attention to it for a long time."
It's entirely plausible that a high-ranking item from a mysterious world possesses the ability to directly perceive and analyze laws!
I have no worries about you, Xiao Yan, but those involved are often blinded by their own perspective. Xiao Yan, you need to pay attention to any reminders from Bourne. I don't want my martial spirit consciousness to wake up one day and have become a mere illusion.
Don't worry, Xiao You. After sensing that the Illusion Pearl was showing signs of merging with me, I already had Bourne keep a close eye on my condition.
A slight smile appeared on Long You's lips. The reliability of his "little partner" always brought a genuine smile to his face. The competition had just officially begun, and Long You was about to start making the soul tool.
For Long You at this point, crafting a milk bottle soul tool, even a level six one, wasn't particularly troublesome or time-consuming. Back in the reception room, Long You had already sensed that the Ordinary Alliance didn't truly believe in his soul master level. After all, the soul master level badge on his left chest was only a level five badge. To maximize his benefits from the contract that couldn't be openly discussed, Long You needed to demonstrate that he truly possessed the "value" of a level six soul master.
This match is the best opportunity for Long You to showcase himself. It is believed that when a level 6 milk bottle, which is made on-site and is far more difficult than a normal level 6 soul tool, is brought out, the contract given by the Ordinary Alliance will definitely be able to exert its highest effectiveness.
Half an hour later, a palm-sized, realistic baby bottle appeared on Long You's workbench. After waving his "work" at the surveillance camera not far above his head, Long You calmly took out new rare metals from the materials cabinet attached to the workbench and began to openly make his own goods.
Before that contract appeared, if Long You wanted to use public resources for private purposes, he needed to put on a semblance of disguise to make the final product at least appear to be a complete unit. But now, that's no longer necessary. The level-six milk bottle that Long You just shook at the monitor, along with that contract, is enough for Long You to freely use the rare metals provided by the Ordinary Alliance to create his own custom soul tool without using excessively precious or abundant rare metals.
As for what kind of rare metals are considered excessively precious? And what kind of quantity is considered excessively large? Look at the material storage cabinet. Longyou can use everything in that cabinet, and use it all.
This is VIP treatment. Why is it that only the VIP "private rooms" have material storage cabinets, while materials at the outdoor tables can only be obtained from waiters? This is a difference in value. The "VIPs" deserve more investment from the Ordinary Alliance because they can bring more to the Ordinary Alliance.
As for what Long You is doing now? In essence, it is actually a barrier-generating soul tool. Barrier-generating soul tools are very common soul tools. After Long You's soul tool making level reached level two, he frequently made various barrier soul tools: physical space isolation barriers, defensive barriers, detection barriers, etc. But all of the above barriers, in the final analysis, are energy light membrane barriers.
Because this type of barrier doesn't involve the power of laws, its strongest effect is merely physical spatial isolation. To describe the effect, it's roughly like adding a few walls to an empty room, turning it into two rooms.
This type of barrier-based soul tool is completely useless for Long You's next plan. More accurately, without a reliable law-based barrier to help Long You isolate himself from the vision and senses of the divine realm through the power of the laws, Long You simply wouldn't dare to proceed with his next plan.
This wasn't the first time Long You had created a soul tool that utilized the power of laws. In fact, after obtaining a sufficient quantity of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, he had quickly made a trip to the offshore base on the New World. There, with his basic understanding of the Water and Wood Laws and the help of Liu Jun, Long You used the extreme ice energy contained within the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to create a special soul tool cocoon. This soul tool cocoon would help Long You hatch a crucial aid for his future advancement.
However, Long You only gained the qualification to truly apply the power of spatial laws—a superior law—to create soul tools after stepping into the threshold of spatial laws. As for the invisible soul tool that could render Huo Yuhao's mental detection ineffective to some extent, it was essentially just a clumsy substitute.
After using the soul tool, Long You appeared to have entered a deeper layer of space, thus isolating himself from detection from all sides. However, in reality, Long You merely forcibly copied a spatial law inscription onto the core array of the soul tool without destroying its operation. As the soul tool was activated, this inscription released a small amount of power belonging to the spatial law, causing fluctuations in the spatial dimension around Long You.
Just like how light distorts when looking at underwater objects, this fluctuation in spatial dimensions will deflect all "energy" attempting to detect Long You, thus achieving invisibility. Is it useful? It is indeed quite useful, but if the opponent changes their mindset and tries to detect Long You based on spatial fluctuations (perceiving spatial fluctuations requires the power of laws), then Long You, who has used this invisibility soul tool, will be as conspicuous as a searchlight in the dark.
This level of invisibility soul tool not only fails to block the vision of the divine realm, but it also cannot guarantee that Long You can successfully escape unscathed from the encirclement of the Sun Moon Empire.
Creating a true spatial law-invisible soul tool, or even a subspace, is definitely beyond Long You's current comprehension. However, if it's just about "enchanting" the building materials with laws, that's within Long You's capabilities, having already stepped into the threshold of spatial laws.
In a world where extraordinary energy exists, mortal objects are generally unable to effectively influence it. For the gods of the divine realm, who have at least mastered a complete law, soul power that has not undergone qualitative change is unlikely to affect them. Long You's law enchantment plan is actually about achieving remote invisibility by wearing a disguise suit, given that the essence of soul power cannot be qualitatively changed.
To illustrate the relationship between a conventional physical barrier, a soul-guided barrier enchanted with spatial laws, and a divine observer, let's take a simple example:
A stone placed in a flowing stream (a three-dimensional space that is stable but not static) (the space is supported by a physically isolated barrier). Even if the stone has pores on its surface or is irregularly shaped (covered with a law-invisible soul tool made by Long You), causing the stream to generate eddies far exceeding the normal situation when it flows over the stone, so that people observing from the shore cannot actually see the stone.
However, if a person observing from the bank (a god or someone with a spatial perspective) shifts their perspective to the stream itself, then as long as that person has common sense, they should know that there must be something obstructing the normal flow of the stream in the place where there are abnormal eddies or turbulence (there must be something in that area that shouldn't exist in the first place).
Those who merely possess a spatial observation perspective may not be able to know that it is a stone like the observers of the divine realm, through their control of the laws (directly shifting their perspective to the flowing water). But that's not important. What matters is knowing that something that shouldn't exist there exists. Let's bombard that location once. If the problem persists, let's bombard it again.
This was absolutely not a scene Long You wanted to see, and he believed he couldn't afford the consequences if such a scene were to occur. Therefore, Long You needed to use the enchantment of spatial laws to further disguise and protect the stone in the flowing stream. Even after being disguised (completely encased in a physical barrier of spatial law inscriptions), the stone remained, but the stream flowing over it (a stable but not static three-dimensional space) couldn't sense its presence. From the perspective of the bank, the entire stream appeared to flow as if over a flat riverbed, making a splashing sound but everything seemed normal.
At this point, Long You no longer needed to worry about reconnaissance methods from "mortals." As for the divine realm's perception, even if they possessed a "stream perspective (spatial law sensing ability)" when faced with a stream that appeared visually normal, they would absolutely not be neurotic enough to investigate it meticulously.
In short, as long as Long You can create a physically isolated energy barrier that completely envelops a small section of the complete spatial law inscription, then Long You will have the means to safely cross the encirclement of the Sun and Moon Empire, and the guarantee to reveal part of a certain God King's plan at non-specific times without attracting attention.
Xiao Yan has already completed the design blueprints for the spatial law barrier generator in the past few days. This is the main reason why Long You initially said that Xiao Yan had evolved and improved his ability to deduce law-based soul tools. Now, Long You will use the rare metals provided by the Ordinary Alliance to complete part of the manufacturing of the spatial law barrier generator.
The reason it's not complete is twofold. First, the soul tool, still just a blueprint, is of an excessively high level. Given Long You's current mental and soul power reserves, even if he overdraws them again, he couldn't complete it in one go. Second, Long You's understanding of spatial laws is far from deep enough; achieving the desired effect requires significant investment. Only through precious, high-value law-matching materials can Long You achieve the envisioned effect with his limited knowledge of laws at this stage. And these precious materials are clearly high-level, rare materials that the Ordinary Alliance cannot currently provide.
After standing in front of the materials cabinet for a while and thinking it over, Long You selected six rare metals that contained water-based energy and wood-based energy respectively. As for rare metals containing spatial energy, there were no such high-quality items in this materials cabinet.
After tossing all the remaining scattered rare metals in the materials cabinet into the furnace for calcination and refining, Long You focused his attention on the six materials he had selected. According to the plan, these six materials would be forged by Long You into the inner and outer shell connecting parts of the final soul tool, primarily for the sorting and fusion of energy attributes.
Considering that true spirit forging techniques shouldn't be used in this situation, all Long You can do now is to shape these six materials and then inscribe unique auxiliary runes on them to reduce the time required for spirit forging.