"This one is a reward from the tournament, a skull bone produced by an eight-thousand-year-old Fear Demon Dragon. It's very rare. The Fear Demon Dragon is a soul beast that is guaranteed to produce a skull bone once it passes ten thousand years.
Shrek Academy spent eight hundred years hunting and killing all the high-level Fear Demon Dragons. I don't know where the Star Luo Empire got such a high-level soul bone from, but it's very suitable for you."
Xiao Hongchen pointed to the transparent soul bone and introduced it.
The Fear Demon Dragon belonged to the Terrestrial Dragon subclass of sub-dragons. Its raw combat strength was not strong, but it was a rare mental-attribute dragon race, possessing a powerful innate soul skill—Fear—which could use mental power to evoke the opponent's deepest fears, causing them to lose combat power.
"As for this one, I'll let Little Meng tell you about it. Grandfather was very angry about this one. I hope you don't disappoint Little Meng's intentions, Wang Lin."
Xiao Hongchen's words made Meng Hongchen's face blush. The girl glared at Xiao Hongchen and then introduced the soul bone seriously.
"This soul bone is called the Secret Arts Soul Skull. This kind of soul bone is obtained through a cruel method. Any soul beast, if a hundred of them are killed within half an hour, has a ten percent chance of producing a Secret Arts Soul Bone of an arbitrary body part by using a secret method to stimulate their soul rings.
Since it is a skull bone, it will bring a ten percent increase in spiritual power. Most importantly, this kind of soul bone has a fusion characteristic, allowing two soul bones with similar attributes to be fused using it as a medium. My left arm bone was fused using a Secret Arts Soul Left Arm Bone."
Saying this, Meng Hongchen shook her left hand. As if afraid Wang Lin wouldn't accept it, she quickly added: "If you feel indebted, just help me hunt for a soul ring!"
"Then I won't be formal with Little Meng. Thank you, Little Meng."
Wang Lin said with a smile, putting both soul bones back into the leather pouches, and then putting them into his storage soul tool.
Only then did Meng Hongchen breathe a sigh of relief, smiling: "You're welcome, hehe. But I want a very strong soul beast, okay!"
"Of course! I guarantee it will be strong enough!"
Wang Lin patted his chest. He suddenly thought of the Snow Toad Carving Knife that had been with him all along. However, before he could figure out how to give it to Meng Hongchen.
They happened to walk to the ground floor of the Fourth-Year Teaching Building. Meng Hongchen didn't give Wang Lin a chance to mention the Snow Toad Carving Knife.
After saying goodbye, the girl went straight upstairs.
Looking at Meng Hongchen's retreating figure, Wang Lin thought for a moment and decided to find an opportunity to exchange the Snow Toad Carving Knife with Little Meng using a barter system.
There was no helping it. Neither the Hongchen siblings nor Meng Hongchen had the personality to accept gifts from others for no reason, especially since the gifts Wang Lin intended to give were quite precious.
There was no rush with the Snow Toad Carving Knife. Meng Hongchen had absorbed two Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bones, so the problem with her Martial Soul wouldn't be an issue for a long time.
However, the immortal herb needed to be sent out soon. The earlier one absorbed an immortal herb, the better the effect.
Thinking this, Wang Lin looked at Xiao Hongchen beside him, contemplating how to make Xiao Hongchen accept the immortal herb.
"What are you looking at?"
Xiao Hongchen felt unnerved by Wang Lin's stare and couldn't help but ask.
"Nothing." Wang Lin turned his head away. Having no good ideas, he simply chose to change the subject.
"By the way, Little Xiao, are there any people who practice swordsmanship in our academy?"
"Are you talking about Ji Juechen?" Xiao Hongchen naturally knew Ji Juechen. "Why are you asking about him?"
"I saw a man who always carried a sword in his arms once. I felt he was quite unique, so I'm asking."
Wang Lin casually lied.
"Ji Juechen is indeed unique." Xiao Hongchen nodded: "That Sword Lunatic likes to challenge Soul Engineers in the academy for no reason, and many Soul Engineers are plagued by him.
But he is truly strong. It is said that his innate soul power was only Rank 3, yet he is already a Six-Ring Soul Emperor at just twenty years old."
"Soul Emperor? Why didn't he participate in the tournament?" Wang Lin was puzzled. It was strange that someone with this cultivation level was not arranged to participate in the tournament.
"Because of coordination. Unlike Soul Masters, Soul Engineers' combat requires more coordination. That Sword Lunatic only has eyes for his own sword and doesn't cooperate with others at all. Since joining the reserve team at his age holds no meaning, he naturally wasn't allowed to participate in the tournament."
Xiao Hongchen shook his head. He clearly knew quite a bit about Ji Juechen.
"I heard that ever since he awakened his Martial Soul, he fell in love with his sword. Although his Martial Soul is just an ordinary sword, he spends every day practicing swordsmanship. No one knows how he improves his soul power.
Moreover, all six of the soul rings on this Sword Lunatic, whose innate soul power is only Rank 3, were acquired by hunting soul beasts himself. He acquired his first soul ring when he was only six years old."
"You said he fell in love with his sword?" Wang Lin caught the key phrase. Based solely on Xiao Hongchen's description.
This Ji Juechen was undoubtedly a natural born Sword Dao Saint Body. If such a genius were not in the Douluo world, but in some xianxia or Xuanhuan world, he would be a Sword God or Sword Venerate.
"Yes, he fell in love with his sword. He only has eyes for his sword." Xiao Hongchen nodded. What he didn't mention was that Ji Juechen was constantly followed by a female Soul Engineer who loved him unrequitedly.
"That's great." Wang Lin said with a smile. Since he was here, it was impossible for Ji Juechen to walk down the path of a natural Sword Dao Saint Body turning into a love-brained idiot as in the original work.
"Little Xiao, find a chance to introduce me to him. I want to meet such a Sword Dao genius."
"Meeting him is fine, as long as you're not afraid of him clinging to you and challenging you to practice swordsmanship every day," Xiao Hongchen didn't refuse.
"Clinging is good!"
Wang Lin's eyes lit up upon hearing this. Xiao Hongchen shook his head, puzzled.
The two returned to the Third Laboratory and got busy with their respective tasks. Wang Lin continued to write his thesis, while Xiao Hongchen worked on his research tasks.
Although Wang Lin's arrival initially caused a small ripple, the days in the Third Laboratory quickly returned to normal.
Of course, everyone in the lab, except for the background-less Ke Ke, knew how much undercurrent Wang Lin's thesis on the wired Soul Guide Telegraph had stirred beneath the calm surface of the Mingde Hall.
Because the structure of the wired Soul Guide Telegraph was simple enough, and Wang Lin's thesis on electricity and magnetism explained the principle.
The senior Soul Engineers in the Mingde Hall managed to build the first telegraph line, over five hundred meters long, within the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in less than three days.
Thanks to the Sun Moon Empire's developed Soul Tool industry, the metal smelting technology related to Soul Tools had naturally also advanced.
They even had related industries using electrolytic copper refining methods. The discharge Soul Tool array was developed for this purpose, although the related knowledge and specific principles were always vague.
But producing copper of sufficient purity to be used as conducting wire was not a problem for the Sun Moon Empire.
In Jing Hongchen's exclusive office in the Mingde Hall, the Hall Master was currently sitting in his chair. A strange machine was placed on his desk.
Several Soul Engineers stood in front of the machine, staring intently at the iron plate on the machine. Soon, the iron plate started moving up and down.
The Soul Engineers quickly counted the number of times the iron plate moved, recording the numbers on paper, and cross-referencing them with a Soul Tool textbook.
Before long, the iron plate stopped shaking, and the Soul Engineers wrote a complete sentence on the paper.
"Was the experiment successful or not?"