Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 248

"Correct."

"It's alright." Yan Shaozhe's voice, clearly tinged with anger, rang out. "I've looked at the data you collected. According to the data you detected when you boarded the ship, there are a total of 118 places on the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Guidance Warship where there is life energy reaction."

This can be basically understood as the Sun Moon Empire mobilizing a total of 118 people this time. Judging from the energy level reaction, there are 73 high-level soul masters or soul mentors, which matches the number of people who came out to search for you at the time.

On the surface, this number of high-level Soul Masters and Soul Instructors should be enough to keep us busy and hesitant to act, but in reality, what you just gave Mei'er is very useful. We only need a few survivors left on that ship. It's not difficult; it's not only evil Soul Masters who possess large-scale destructive capabilities.

Just as Yan Shaozhe said, evil soul masters are very powerful in combat, and their endless stream of bizarre methods leave normal soul masters bewildered and unable to form an effective defense. However, since normal soul masters still occupy the majority in this world, it is naturally because normal soul masters are capable of fighting against evil soul masters, and evil soul masters cannot gain an overwhelming advantage when facing normal soul masters.

When Zhang Lexuan was talking to Long You before, Long You told her that the invisibility soul tool could not be completely ineffective; at most, the effective invisibility distance would be shortened (originally, it could only be detected when the target was right in front of it, but now it can be detected from more than ten meters away). Since the effective invisibility distance has been shortened in reality, then a method to compensate for the shortened effective invisibility distance should be found, such as in foggy or stormy weather.

How could a veteran Soul Master not know how to utilize the natural environment? Almost the instant Zhang Lexuan mentioned the reduction in effective invisibility distance, Yan Shaozhe already had a countermeasure in mind.

Considering that a battle is unlikely to break out anytime soon, let's turn our attention back to the New World for now.

Under the influence of the ten-thousand-year-old whale glue and the ten-thousand-year-old willow heart, Long You's soul power level soared to level 59, just like a bamboo shoot growing taller.

Although we haven't reached the level 60 bottleneck yet, many things that Longyou could only simulate in the Pearl of Imagination can finally be brought into reality.

Furthermore, with Mr. Liu Bai's cooperation, Long You can conduct further experiments on soul transformation. Perhaps soul transformation without any physical objects can never be completed, but when the necessary materials for soul transformation become ordinary animals, the issues of cost and conflict between soul masters and soul beasts are essentially resolved.

It is unknown what Di Tian said to Liu Bai, who had just become a 100,000-year-old soul beast, but Long You could sense that Liu Bai was very cooperative. This king of soul beasts not only provided Long You with plenty of ordinary small animals, but also offered up many low-level soul beasts with relatively strong reproductive abilities and whose strength generally could not exceed 100 years.

Long's parents went sightseeing, Tiger Mom was busy reuniting with Xiao Muyang and his mother, and Long You "miserably" conducted various experiments, exhausting his energy every day before finally recovering by falling asleep thanks to the bugged properties of the Imagination Pearl.

The small-scale standoff between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire, thousands of miles away, might elicit a nod from Long You, but it wasn't enough to capture his attention. Considering the difference in information transmission speed, Shrek Academy had a greater chance of winning this battle. However, even if Shrek Academy won and obtained crucial information about the New World from the minds of the Sun Moon Empire's people, it would take at least a week to bring it over.

According to the original plan, there wasn't enough time to build a loose combination of illusion and trapping arrays across the entire new continent. However, Long You's plan has changed. After confirming that Mr. Liu Bai could be an ally, Long You immediately began constructing the offshore base, and then, taking advantage of the situation, sent mining robots to excavate rare metals in the high-level soul beast territories that he had previously dared not venture into.

This extensive use of resources certainly could not fully develop the benefits of the New World, but it didn't matter; all Longyou needed were enough resources to support his own progress.

Longyou has a relatively complete plan regarding what he needs to manufacture in the future and roughly what types of rare metals he will need. Currently, the most important aspect of Longyou's development of the New World is to collect as many rare metals as possible that are available on the New World and will be needed in the future.

In addition, in order for the Soul Spirit Experiment to take shape completely in the next few years, Long You also needs to collect some Soul Beasts, Half-Soul Beasts, and ordinary animals to build a zoo on the offshore base island that can barely achieve sustainable development.

According to Long You's plan, he will spend three to four years in the New World region. When his soul power level reaches 63 or higher, he will build himself a "Cherno Alpha" that he can pilot alone (essentially a large mecha, but Long You's strength during the competition wasn't sufficient for him to pilot such a large mecha). With stronger capabilities, Long You will then travel to the Sun Moon Empire to purchase, or, if that's not possible, obtain the rare metals he desires through special means.

After that, Long You will likely be able to return to Shrek Academy with Huo Yuhao to participate in the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament. Having arrived in a world that was originally just a fantasy, Long You has meticulously noted down the key plot points.

Alright, let's talk about the future later. It's time to check on Huo Yuhao's situation.

The emergence of the Soul Guidance Hut has made wilderness survival and rest more comfortable. However, no matter what, the Soul Guidance Hut is just a temporary hut built with prefabricated templates. It is not an impregnable fortress, and the necessary vigilance cannot be lacking.

Well, discussing the night watch was just the normal course of a camping trip. But once Orange started taking out all sorts of seasonings, vegetables, fruits, frozen fresh meat, cooking utensils, and tableware from her storage device, the whole camping trip took a turn.

During the previous camping process, Huo Yuhao was assigned the task of finding food. This made Huo Yuhao feel that the people present might have been in too much of a hurry to set off and had not prepared good food (there must be emergency food, but many emergency foods are not very tasty). He himself also needed to become the head chef of the whole team for the first time.

"belch···"

With a satisfied burp, Keke disregarded her girlish modesty and sprawled out on a comfortable armchair in the Soul Guidance Villa like a well-fed and contented long-haired cat.

Keke already knew that Ju Zi was a good cook, but the fact that Huo Yuhao, whom she disliked in every way, also had such culinary skills greatly changed her impression of him. Although she knew she needed to be vigilant in the wild, with those delicious-looking dishes in front of her, Keke felt that even missing a single bite would be disrespectful to her sense of taste.

Of course, Keke wasn't the only one among the four present to make a fool of herself. Including Ju Zi, who was the chef, the entire trio from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was wiped out.

Silently tidying up the food scraps on the table, Huo Yuhao herded the three people to rest like pigs. He, Huo Yuhao, would take the first shift of the night watch himself. It's easy to feel sleepy after eating and drinking your fill, and if you're too full, you just want to fall asleep on the spot. For the sake of his own life, Huo Yuhao had no choice but to stand the first shift.

Perhaps it was the obvious "Are you guys really professionals?" that Huo Yuhao's eyes conveyed, that made Ju Zi and Zi Mu, these two "normal" people who clearly still had a sense of shame, quite readily promise that this was the last time and there would absolutely be no next time.

Huo Yuhao felt a little relieved that out of three seemingly unreliable teammates, there were still two who were somewhat reliable.

Watching Huo Yuhao turn and leave to operate and control the soul-guided detection device beside him, Ju Zi cautiously exchanged a glance with Zi Mu. Huo Yuhao was unaware of the situation, but these two frequent team members knew. To maintain the freshness of the ingredients, Ju Zi only carried enough food for one meal when she went out; even if she wanted more, there wouldn't be any left over.

Actually, this was partly due to Huo Yuhao's preconceived notions. Long You, that foodie, had long ago invented a portable refrigerator to extend the freshness of food. Therefore, the Shrek Academy team, especially the team Huo Yuhao was with, had never lacked fresh ingredients. He simply hadn't noticed that the ingredients Ju Zi and the others carried were merely frozen, and he hadn't considered the possibility that their fresh ingredients had already been completely used up.

Although they had eaten their fill, Orange and the others were not complete novices with no wilderness survival experience. In addition, the four-person team was only in the outer area, so they had a very peaceful night.

At dawn, the small team hastily packed up their camp and headed towards the Jingyang Mountains. The miniature drone's soul-guided device projected the overhead view directly onto Huo Yuhao's tactical glasses. How to put it? From this perspective, the Jingyang Mountains looked like a giant spider or octopus.

Compared to the Star Dou Great Forest that Huo Yuhao was familiar with, the largest gathering place of soul beasts in the Sun Moon Empire before him gave him a completely different feeling. The Star Dou Great Forest was quiet, a quietness as unfathomable as the deep sea. But here, it was violent, a violence that seemed ready to tear apart any human who ventured into the mountains at any moment.

To put it in a more metaphysical way, the Jingyang Mountains knew that their foundation was not as strong as the Star Dou Great Forest, so they used an even more ferocious momentum to show off their power.

Okay, all of the above was just speculation. Huo Yuhao finally saw the decoy he had come out to use this time. It was a spider-shaped soul-guided machine produced through the efforts of several generations of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and with the stimulation of the large soul-guided mecha provided by Long You in the competition.

Overall, this object is a sphere with a diameter of approximately two meters. Inside the sphere are three seats, one in the front and two in the back. According to Huo Yuhao's observation, the entire spherical area is completely sealed, except for the front and back panels made of transparent crystal glass. Through these two glass panels, the outside world can be observed relatively easily.

With a slight pursed of his lips, Huo Yuhao admitted that he wasn't particularly impressed with the Sun Moon Empire's research. Shrek Academy already had a much more sophisticated design for this type of all-terrain soul-guided vehicle; it was just that the academy had done a good job of keeping it secret, and the Sun Moon Empire hadn't received any information.

Huo Yuhao, whose expression management skills weren't quite up to par, was easily spotted by Ju Zi and the others as lacking interest. This wouldn't do! Even if they knew Shrek Academy had developed more sophisticated humanoid full-coverage soul-guided armor, this was a soul-guided vehicle—its functions and attributes were different! Most importantly, this spider-shaped all-terrain detection soul-guided device integrated numerous research results from the Mingde Hall. While individual soul-guided devices themselves weren't particularly high-level, the interconnected systems were the result of generations of research by Mingde Hall researchers! How could Huo Yuhao ignore it? How could he remain unmoved?

This is a product of Mingde Hall! Do you even know what "Made by Mingde Hall" means?! Do you know just how valuable a soul tool from Mingde Hall is?! Why does Huo Yuhao treat Teacher Xuan's work so disregarded?!

In a fit of rage, Coco leaped directly in front of Huo Yuhao: "Huo Yuhao, what's with that expression! Do you even know what this thing is...?"

Completely bewildered, Huo Yuhao stared blankly at Ke Ke, whose emotional state had reached its limit and was about to bite him, and endured the consequences of his poor expression management with a blank expression.

Although he desperately wanted to immediately produce something to prove that the all-terrain vehicle soul tool researched by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was nothing to test—Shrek Academy already had a similar product and was mass-producing it—Huo Yuhao remained rational. He couldn't just casually hand over his academy's valuable equipment. Moreover, even just by looking at it, Huo Yuhao could tell that the Sun Moon Empire's all-terrain soul tool vehicle design was completely different from Shrek Academy's, which was something he could learn from.

"I was wrong."

After a deep reflection on his ability to manage his facial expressions, Huo Yuhao readily admitted his mistake.

Huo Yuhao admitted his mistake, Ju Zi stopped the berserk Ke Ke, and Zi Mu took on the task of explaining the spider-shaped soul tool to Huo Yuhao.

It took about half a minute to resolve the current chaotic situation. The four of them squeezed into the sphere, which only had three seats, with Orange taking the lead in controlling the movement of the large sphere.

After observing silently for a while, Huo Yuhao gained a comprehensive understanding of the operation and control of the all-terrain detection soul tool he was riding. Incidentally, Huo Yuhao also sensed the circulation of soul power within Ju Zi's body.