"I've already given you the detailed operating steps. Hurry up and learn them so you can take over Lin Pavilion sooner."
After carefully teaching Ning Tian the operating procedure for the machine-tool soul device, Chen Fu let go completely and let her experiment freely.
Hand-shaping machine parts was something even an ordinary person could do,let alone her, with her martial soul that specialized in micro-control. Plus, the precision required for machine tools capable of producing Grade Five and below soul devices was not very high, and the number of soul-circuit engravings needed was small. Shaping them by hand wasn't difficult at all.
As for increasing the precision of the soul-tool machine, that was something Ning Tian would have to discover herself. Once she realized she needed higher precision, it would mean her soul-tool craftsmanship had taken a qualitative leap.
When you understand exactly what you need, technology naturally advances further.
"You're obviously just grabbing me as child labor and milking me dry!"
Though she said that, Ning Tian's hands never stopped as she controlled the machine to shape materials. She was beginning to understand the joy of "using tools to make tools" and "building big things from small things."
A Rank Nine soul engineer who creates a Rank Nine soul-guided cannon deserves to be called impressive.
A low-rank soul master who creates a Rank Nine cannon with only an energy core and actually fires it deserves to be called crazy.
And what about an ordinary person with no soul power?
She quickly shook such terrifying thoughts out of her head. In any case, soul-tool development greatly benefited her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
"By the way, Teacher, I'm curious about something…"
Chen Fu, who had been staring at his blue data halo deep in thought, looked up at her.
"Can you create a Rank Nine soul device?"
After all, Rank Nine soul engineers had always been monopolized by the Sun and Moon Empire.
"First tell me your understanding of what a Rank Nine soul device is."
When answering questions, Chen Fu always asked about the other person's definitions and understanding first, then responded based on the real situation.
"Well…"
When Rank Nine soul devices were mentioned, Ning Tian immediately pictured long cannons and heavy artillery in her mind.
"Very powerful, extremely energy-consuming lethal weapons, right?"
Chen Fu summarized for her. Inspired by his student, Fan Yu had already reached Rank Eight and was pushing toward Rank Nine by incorporating Ark's energy-storage technology to increase cannon output,but cannons were still the only thing he was good at.
"Take away Ark,can you, as a one-ring soul master, build a Grade Three soul device?"
"You can't keep up with the energy consumption, right? If the energy system doesn't advance and you keep using yourself as the power core, that path was wrong from the very beginning."
Chen Fu opened a data model and explained while multitasking.
"Soul devices that only Title Douluo can control are labeled Rank Nine. Which genius came up with that classification?"
"Look at this dataset. What's the difference between a Grade One ceremonial cannon and the Rank Nine cannon that idiot in the academy is trying to design?"
'I'm totally reporting you for talking behind Teacher Ancestor's back!' Ning Tian grumbled silently.
Two soul-device models,one simple and one complicated,appeared before her. She knew her teacher was testing her again.
"That Rank Nine cannon, aside from the complicated materials and construction, really only increases maximum energy output within material limits. Its technical structure hasn't improved at all…"
Ning Tian reviewed her knowledge and gave her answer based on the models.
"Of course it hasn't improved. The Sun and Moon Empire is full of Rank Nine soul engineers, but soul-tool development has basically stagnated for nearly a hundred years. Do you know why?"
Chen Fu had obtained quite a lot of information about the Sun and Moon Empire from the academy and from Long Xiaoyao.
"Because they don't have any Limit Douluo. They don't even have any Super Douluo above Rank Ninety-five." Ning Tian had her own intel sources.
"So Teacher means the cultivation level of soul engineers limits the development of soul-tool technology?"
"Do you think my cultivation limits me?"
Thinking about her teacher's terrifyingly advanced theories, Ning Tian felt something open up in her mind.
"Wait… then doesn't that mean you're already Rank Nine,"
"I've never built a Rank Nine cannon. So I'm not."
Chen Fu vetoed it outright. A soul engineer without a Rank Nine cannon wasn't qualified to be called Rank Nine.
Watching Ning Tian being dismissed and enthusiastically attacking the machine tool again, Chen Fu opened a new data model and muttered inwardly:
"Forging a divine artifact with mortal strength? Sorry, I think I've gone ahead of schedule."
The new model was rapidly simplified and modularized in his hands, many complicated elements being removed even at the cost of performance.
"The main material-compatibility problems are basically solved. I'll modify a production line and start with covering Shrek City. Just in time to support the Ascension Project."
Looking at the increasingly simplified glasses-like model before him, Chen Fu pondered.
"The frame can be made by the academy and Nine Treasure City. I'll handle the core chip. I don't have time to waste on trivial components. Besides, let Mentor Fan Yu rest,he's narrowing his own path too much."
After finalizing the plan, Chen Fu instructed Uncle Fu to handle the arrangements. Business dealings and faction trade were things he generally preferred to avoid.
"What kind of soul device is this?"
At the academy, Uncle Fu asked Ma Xiaotao to speak with Fan Yu at the Soul-Tool Department.
"Chen Fu named it the Battle Soul Unit. It can record and analyze objects."
Ma Xiaotao demonstrated the operation and gestured for him to try.
Fan Yu, curious, put on the high-tech goggles.
[Target: Human female (editable)]
[Martial Soul: Fire-attribute beast soul (editable)]
[Soul Power Level: Tier Six (editable)]
[Soul Skills: None recorded (editable)]
"It can also act as a communication tool, sending information within a certain range. You can input your own data into the Battle Soul Unit's database and copy it to your friends,names, levels, soul skills, and knowledge on plants, minerals, and soul beasts. And the cost has been compressed to under one thousand gold coins."
"…This is…"
Fan Yu found it unbelievable. If a Title Douluo recorded their experience and passed it to their juniors, it could practically create a low-level soul master with vast knowledge overnight.
"Can it be reverse-engineered?"
He knew it was impossible, but curiosity forced him to ask.
"If Teacher wants the academy to go bankrupt, then she can authorize that project. That is exactly what Chen Fu said. The core component of the Battle Soul Unit is this card called the Soul Core."
Ma Xiaotao removed a small square metal chip, two centimeters wide, from the inner compartment.
"All the soul-tool programs within the Battle Soul Unit's frame exist only to serve this chip."
The large Lin-seal marking instantly killed Fan Yu's desire to decode it. In the past three to four years, the entire Soul-Tool Department had only managed to decode one soul device created by Chen Fu,and it didn't even have the Lin-seal.
Any device with the Lin-seal contained soul circuits stacked and interwoven together, sometimes even sharing a single circuit path with alternating intervals. They could barely understand such constructions even without protective seals, much less with self-destructing ones.
In terms of power, Fan Yu was certain he could slap the brat to death. But in terms of skill, ever since Chen Fu created Ark and removed his soul-power limitations, he had reached a level the academy couldn't comprehend.
"How are we cooperating on this?"
"Chen Fu provides the Soul Cores. The academy manufactures the Battle Soul Units."
Although part of this arrangement was clearly to reduce the processing burden on the Technology Throne's Blue system…
"She really is a clever one."
Fan Yu stroked the chip and sighed with a smile.
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