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Several days had passed since the lesson regarding soul tools and self-condensing soul rings.
During this time, Xiao Lin had been constantly reflecting on Xiao Wu's words.
If the formation-based soul skills created with my theory can only attack or defend, isn't that far too limited in functionality?
However, in reality, even among the soul tools Xiao Lin knew of, they were basically categorized into offense, defense, Milk Bottles (Soul Power Storage), and storage-type soul tools.
As for soul tools that provided auxiliary attribute buffs to a Soul Master, Xiao Lin truly couldn't recall many. Those were more like sets of armor, right? Could they even be counted as soul tools?
Take a standard soul tool: an offensive one simply released the soul power contained within its formations; a defensive one expanded the formation to create a protective barrier on the exterior.
As for an illumination soul tool, one could simply place something similar to a tungsten filament bulb inside a low-power soul tool and call it a day.
Then there were soul tools like air conditioners—they were either made directly using ice-attribute soul power or ice-attribute minerals and materials, or they functioned like the air conditioners from Xiao Lin's previous life, utilizing a set of condensers, compressors, fans, coolants, and so on.
Heating elements followed a similar principle.
Even during the era of The Unrivaled Tang Sect, there weren't many innovations beyond the "Milk Bottle," a device used to recover soul power. In fact, the mere invention of a Milk Bottle was enough to make someone famous.
In Xiao Lin's eyes, such a soul tool likely just involved adding mineral materials capable of storing soul power and components that compressed it. The only thing Xiao Lin found truly tricky was the spatial storage soul tool.
Was this spatial soul tool created by carving a formation into rare spatial minerals and then using soul power to strike the formation, forcing the space to expand?
Xiao Lin shook his head.
Maybe, possibly, it's something like that.
After all, the technology of his previous life was essentially just different ways of "boiling water." It was perfectly normal for soul tools to be nothing more than various permutations and combinations of simple offensive and defensive formations.
Right now, the primary difficulty for Xiao Lin wasn't the formations themselves, but rather how to carve those formations into the soul tool.
That was the real bottleneck.
Perhaps truly powerful soul tools were like the microchips of his previous life, containing countless tiny integrated circuits. In the case of soul tools, those would be microscopic soul power formation circuits.
Once Xiao Lin identified the difficulty of carving formations, a great method for training mental strength immediately came to mind.
Carving. Micro-carving.
Using his own soul power to carve on stone and metal blocks. Using steel wires as thin as hair, controlled by soul power as indestructible as diamond, to carve step by step.
Xiao Lin couldn't help but feel satisfied with his own brilliance.
Wasn't this method much better than "tree climbing" or "water walking"? It would also contribute to future soul tool manufacturing—killing two birds with one stone.
As for the "patterns" inside soul rings that Xiao Wu mentioned...
What are you talking about?
How would I know about that?
That silly rabbit couldn't even explain it clearly herself, yet she expected them to understand.
Are you "Uzumaki Xiao Wu"? Do you expect us to learn the Rasengan just by you saying "do this and that"?
Nevertheless, Xiao Lin was still somewhat interested in the patterns Xiao Wu described.
These soul power circuits couldn't be exactly like electrical wires, where a simple connection sufficed. The circuits of soul power likely required the assistance of geometric shapes and specific forms.
After all, soul power was quite volatile.
What? You say electricity is also volatile?
"Hahahaha!"
Xiao Lin laughed heartily.
As an "old master" technician, he only needed to give it a touch to know if there was juice or not (kappa). Xiao Lin suspected that the reason soul tools required specific graphics to form special patterns was because the materials were too expensive.
Using specific shapes helped reduce material consumption.
If it could be as simple as a wire, Xiao Lin believed it could be simplified.
However, even though Xiao Lin had gained a certain understanding of soul tool skills, it didn't mean he could suddenly condense a soul ring on his own—even if he knew how to create self-created soul skills.
Xiao Lin had a hypothesis regarding this: soul rings were extremely difficult to destroy with external force. For instance, no one in this world talked about "shattering an enemy's soul ring" to interrupt a soul skill.
Furthermore, when a Titled Douluo released a soul skill or spiritual pressure, as long as a lower-ranked Soul Master didn't faint or lose strength under the pressure, they could still summon their own soul rings.
Soul rings felt more like a part of the laws of heaven and earth.
Speaking of soul rings being destroyed, although Xiao Lin had never seen it, the Clear Sky Sect possessed the "Ring Exploding" technique.
Could this technique involve actively destroying a soul ring in an instant, releasing all the soul power within the formation circuits to gain a massive surge of soul power and boost attack power?
What about the "Ring Fusion" technique? Was the principle the same?
Did it involve using soul rings of the same type, finding the connecting points within the soul power formations, linking them, and then using the combined circuits to amplify the power?
For example, using the soul ring with the highest age to amplify the soul power of the other rings?
Was that why Ring Fusion would instantly deplete one's soul power?
Xiao Lin felt like he was grasping a key secret.
If that were the case, Xiao Lin might have found the trigger for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. It would be a technique similar to Ring Fusion—finding the connectable soul power points between two people's Martial Souls.
My Horned Dragon Staff and Little San's Blue Silver Grass...
Xiao Lin bit his lip.
He felt the key was right here.
Forget it. If a Martial Soul Fusion Skill is impossible for now, I'll try a Soul Ring Fusion Skill between the two of us.
Xiao Lin never wasted energy on internal friction. Since he had a hypothesis, he would test it.
"I did it! I really did it!"
Just as Xiao Lin was deep in thought, Tang San suddenly shouted in excitement.
"Hahahaha! Brother Lin, I succeeded!"
In another room of the secret base, behind a wooden table cluttered with five or six illumination soul tools, Tang San stood with glowing eyes, holding up one of the devices.
Tang San shouted with a joy he had never felt in this life. He had only been this excited once before, when he created the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus in his previous life.
He understood.
He understood the essence of soul tools. It was an essence just as fundamental as a steam engine needing to boil water. Soon, Tang San ran out of the room excitedly and pressed the illumination soul tool into Xiao Lin's hands.
After hearing Tang San's explanation of the modifications he made, Xiao Lin was stunned.
"You're saying... you stripped the structures from all those other illumination soul tools and reassembled them into an 'Enhanced Version'?"
Xiao Lin's eyebrows shot up, his face full of disbelief.
This kid actually pulled it off?
"It's not that amazing. I just discovered that a regular illumination soul tool could have its brightness increased, so I made some minor modifications."
Although Tang San spoke modestly, the slight curl of his lips betrayed his inner excitement.
"Not bad. But have you considered whether increasing the brightness will decrease the soul tool's lifespan?" Xiao Lin chuckled and shook his head.
This improvement was indeed good, but what Xiao Lin wanted most right now was to understand the purpose of the internal structures.
What were the effects of the materials?
What was the durability?
How much soul power could it withstand?
How were the formation circuits carved?
Could two different materials be fused?
What kind of alloy would yield the best results?
As Xiao Lin thought, he suddenly remembered someone from his previous life saying that the bottleneck of modern science was "materials."
Xiao Lin immediately voiced his concerns to Tang San.
However, Tang San didn't seem to mind. He believed that since their predecessors had successful examples, they should focus on "copying" and mastering those first. As for the rest, they could learn it slowly.
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