Upon hearing this, Juzi raised an eyebrow, seemingly surprised that Lin Xiao would say such words.
"You… are you serious?"
A strange feeling rose in her heart, and her tone unconsciously changed slightly.
"Mm." Lin Xiao nodded, walking to the window and looking outside.
He needed the Sun Moon Empire's actions to unify the continent and collect enough faith for him to confront the gods.
Perhaps unifying the continent would bring many benefits, such as reducing wars in the future so the people could live more peacefully, or using the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools to make ordinary people's lives much more convenient.
Another example: when the abyss descended in the future, a unified Douluo Continent would be better equipped to resist it and reduce casualties.
For a moment, Lin Xiao couldn't judge which of these reasons was more important, but in his heart, he was far from reaching the level of someone who cared for the world. All he could do was try his best to protect himself.
A smile had already appeared on Juzi's face.
She had thought before about asking Lin Xiao to help her unify the continent, but later dismissed the idea. In her heart, Lin Xiao did not have much ambition toward unifying the continent.
Now, someone who could defeat the tenth-level soul mentor Kong Deming was standing on her side. Stepping on the three great empires would naturally be much easier.
While thinking, she took two steps forward and came to Lin Xiao's side. "What do you want?"
Lin Xiao turned his head and glanced at her. "If possible, try to minimize casualties."
After saying that, his figure quietly disappeared from Juzi's sleeping chambers.
Juzi frowned slightly, then suddenly raised her voice, "Someone, come. Tell the several lords in the front hall that if the frontline army cannot hold, they may temporarily retreat. One month later, I will personally go to the frontline."
Inside the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy, Lin Xiao was quietly walking along the path. Many students passed by beside him, but none seemed to notice him at all.
Ever since breaking through to rank 95, his spiritual sea resonated with the Plane of the Dead. Similarly, his understanding of the power of heaven and earth and of heaven and earth itself had become much deeper.
Walking among the group of students, his figure was not hidden, yet no one could detect anything unusual.
He seemed to have merged with the world and with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy itself. He originally should have existed there; even if his figure was seen by other students, it was like seeing the most ordinary grass or tree, and they would not pay it any mind.
Following the position in his memory, he arrived outside Lin Jiayi's soul tool research room. To Lin Xiao's surprise, the door to the research room was actually open. From outside, he could see Lin Jiayi inside searching for something.
"Teacher."
Lin Jiayi was startled upon hearing the voice. He subconsciously turned his head, and his gaze instantly fell on Lin Xiao standing at the doorway.
"Lin Xiao!" Lin Jiayi paused slightly, opened his mouth as if he had many things to say, but for a moment couldn't speak them. In the end, he only let out a long sigh of relief.
"I knew you were still alive."
"It was the Hall Master who told Teacher?" Lin Xiao smiled as he walked into Lin Jiayi's soul tool research room. Inside, it seemed no different from before; the table was still piled with various blueprints.
"The Hall Master also mentioned it to me, but before that, I had already made some guesses from seeing the consumption of materials in the Hall." Lin Jiayi put down the things in his hands as he spoke and walked in front of Lin Xiao, constantly looking him up and down.
"At that time, I happened to notice a very large material consumption in the Hall, and some of the items were the same as the materials you used to make the arrayed floating cannon."
"A soul mentor who could take unlimited resources from the Hall and needed large amounts of materials to produce arrayed floating cannons—at that time, I guessed you were still alive."
"I made the teacher worry." Seeing Lin Jiayi's somewhat excited expression, Lin Xiao didn't know where to begin. He only felt a long-lost feeling rise in his heart.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Xiao's gaze fell on the item in Lin Jiayi's hand. "What was the teacher looking for just now?"
"Haha, it's fine to show you. This is a new material I developed after breaking through to a ninth-level soul mentor."
Lin Xiao took from Lin Jiayi's hand a piece of something soft like canvas. It was extremely light to the touch, and light could pass through it to clearly see the scene behind.
Gently pulling it, the "canvas" in his hand immediately deformed, but showed no sign of tearing at all; it was very elastic.
This…
Lin Xiao was slightly stunned. This material had quite a few similarities with a certain material from his previous life's memories. He hadn't expected to see something like this in this world.
"You noticed it too." Lin Jiayi smiled and lowered his head, also looking at the material in Lin Xiao's hand. "This is a composite material. The principle is the same as your alloy smelting technique."
"However, it is not smelting between metals, but combining other substances. After continuous exploration, I finally found this material that had never existed before."
"It is extremely tough and much lighter than ordinary materials. Although it is not resistant to high temperatures, it has quite high resistance to other attributes."
Speaking to this point, Lin Jiayi sighed lightly again. "Being able to create this material was still influenced by your alloy smelting back then. There are many soul mentors like me searching for new materials; I was just slightly luckier."
"Oh, right, speaking of which, come with me."
As he spoke, Lin Jiayi had already walked out of the research room. Lin Xiao did not hesitate much and followed. Before long, they arrived at the teaching building of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy.
"In the years you've been away from the academy, many changes have happened here as well. What we are cultivating is not only soul mentors who can manufacture and develop soul tools, but also soul mentors who lay the foundation for soul tools."
"Like these classes, the students inside specialize in researching materials. And these classes are for soul mentors focused on improving mechanism techniques that the Hall Master established. Over the years, they have gained quite a few achievements."
"How is it? Do you have any discoveries?"
"The academy's direction for training students has been refined?" Lin Xiao looked at Lin Jiayi uncertainly.
"Correct." Lin Jiayi nodded. "The Hall Master felt that the development of soul tools cannot be limited only to soul tool arrays; there are many other aspects worth deep study."
"The Hall Master said these things were all ideas he casually mentioned back when he was still in the Mingde Hall."
"I have always regretted that you didn't personally see the changes that happened to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy because of you. Now, I can finally bring you to see them."
Lin Xiao stood outside the teaching building, yet he could clearly hear the voices of teachers lecturing inside.
Materials, techniques, development… one after another, familiar yet unfamiliar words swept past his ears. Vaguely, he actually had the illusion of returning to his previous life.
Perhaps from now on, the development of soul tools on the Douluo Continent would enter a new stage.
Thinking about it now, in the memorial text on the monument in the square, he was called the Father of Soul Tool Materials; perhaps there was also this reason.
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