Chapter 22: Silver Dragon King's Dignity Completely Lost

Li Yucheng left.

He failed to persuade Huo Yuhao, but he did show his face before the other party, and Huo Yuhao also agreed to frequently visit the Mecha Master Association to exchange ideas with him; this was temporarily enough.

As for the rest, we'll talk later.

Huo Yuhao watched Li Yucheng depart, bid farewell to Hua Yichen, and returned home.

Standing indoors, Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, his palm tracing through the void, opening the Half-Plane of the Undead, and taking out a storage ring from within.

His gaze quickly swept past those rank-9 and rank-10 soul tools, Life Gold, and other items, settling on a design blueprint.

12th-rank Life-Bound Soul Tool — Spirit Pagoda!

This blueprint was only a semi-finished product.

It was derived over a long period of time using the knowledge system from ten thousand years ago, but now ten thousand years have passed, soul guide arrays have continuously developed, innovating by discarding the old and bringing forth the new, with many parts Huo Yuhao had never imagined.

More importantly… Heavenly Forged metal!

Ten thousand years ago, Kong Lao's Life-Bound Soul Tool could amplify him from rank 95 to the Limit Level, even gathering the attacks of numerous soul masters to unleash an offensive comparable to a Quasi-God peak, not much inferior to a four-word Battle Armor; however, no matter how precious the metal the opponent used to craft their Life-Bound Soul Tool, it could not compare to Heavenly Forged metal!

What about now?

The Mecha Master Headquarters, the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, even Mingde Hall's accumulated soul tool design blueprints, concepts, experience, plus Heavenly Forged metal, and also… the Faith Power accumulated by the Spirit Pagoda over ten thousand years!

All of these gathered together, crafted by him — that would be the ultimate completed form!

"I haven't broken my promise, Kong Lao."

……

Soul guidance aircraft, military soul tools — the First Generation Tower Master proposed the theory ten thousand years ago, and the Federation completed the soul tool a hundred years ago.

(The original work says it's the latest soul tool from ten thousand years later, I won't mention that. This time I even gave you the principles, yet you insist everything must take nearly ten thousand years to research? Is Tang Shen Wang's curse that powerful? In a normal world, ten thousand years would have seen development all the way to the universe! — The above comes from Huo Yuhao's complaints upon seeing related news.)

Initially, the Federation government considered a certain First Generation Tower Master's design suggestions and improved the soul guidance aircraft for use as a civilian soul tool.

But before any conclusion was reached, soul masters went to the legions to "borrow" planes, especially the Northern Legion; every so often someone would "borrow" a plane to go out to sea, heading for the so-called Devil Island.

The Federation didn't know what was so attractive about that ghost place; they only knew keeping them in the army wasn't safe, and using them for civilian purposes was even less safe.

Some personnel worried about technology leaks immediately seized this opportunity to add fuel to the fire, causing the Federation to temporarily abandon civilian use.

As for who those "borrowing" people were, the Federation dared not ask and dared not speak, merely silently recording another debt in their hearts.

However, although civilian use was banned, the Spirit Pagoda was an exception.

Soul guidance aircraft manufactured using the First Generation Tower Master's design theory — could you still stop them from using it?

Therefore, after the Spirit Pagoda developed civilian-model aircraft, they established large airports near the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and the Eighteen Branch Towers to facilitate personnel travel.

At this moment, Gu Yue Na sat on a soul guidance aircraft, chin propped on her palm, amethyst-like eyes gazing through the window at the receding blue sky and white clouds, murmuring to herself.

"Even without soul power, this kind of soul tool can use other energy sources; humanity has already conquered the sea, and now conquered the sky — truly terrifying creativity."

"Little sister, what are you talking about?" Beside Gu Yue Na, a black-haired girl looked at her with some curiosity, "You bought a ticket to get on too, right? Are you alone?"

Such a pretty little girl — are her parents at ease letting her travel alone?

Gu Yue Na withdrew her gaze and gently shook her head, "I am Spirit Pagoda internal personnel."

Since they've developed it, using it only for internal personnel travel would be too wasteful, so before the soul guidance aircraft departs, the Spirit Pagoda sells tickets on the soul guidance network; those who snag a ticket can also hitch a ride, as a commemoration of the First Generation Tower Master.

But in Gu Yue Na's view, there seems no need to commemorate anymore — the other party is still alive.

"Eh?" The black-haired girl's eyes widened; she looked Gu Yue Na up and down for a while, then suddenly seemed to think of something, "You're the Elemental Controller ranked thirteenth on the Young Genius Ranking — Gu Yue Na?"

Gu Yue Na: "……"

Honestly, this title doesn't sound good at all, but who told her to fabricate and register an "Elemental Master" martial soul herself?

She could only endure it.

These three years, she's been a bit too eye-catching in the Spirit Pagoda, so busybodies gave her a title and put her on that ranking, and her rank isn't low.

Don't just look at thirteenth place — her apparent age is nine years old; reaching this rank at nine, in the eyes of many Spirit Transmitters, she will inevitably reach the summit sooner or later…

Oh, recently because Huo Yuhao made the list, another potential summit-climber appeared; naturally some are happy and some worried.

Because of her talent, the Qian Gu Clan has always wanted to recruit her, but Gu Yue Na ignored them; with the Spirit Pagoda's current form, she doesn't need their support — even gaining the Qian Gu Clan's support would instead be inauspicious.

Thinking this, Gu Yue Na nodded faintly, sparing words like gold.

"Yes."

The black-haired girl asked with great interest: "What is your martial soul? Is it an elemental-type martial soul?"

For those on the Young Genius Ranking, the Spirit Pagoda, after obtaining the person's consent, would release some basic information — age, soul power rank, sub-occupation rank, etc. — to convince the masses, but would not expose the listee's martial soul ability information.

However, this concealment isn't very useful; once on the ranking, sooner or later someone will dig up the information and spread it on the soul guidance network, completing the profile, so in the end, the well-informed all know.

It's just that Gu Yue Na is Spirit Pagoda personnel and doesn't appear in public often, so her martial soul information hasn't been exposed yet; everyone only knows the title given to her by Spirit Pagoda internal personnel.

Elemental Controller? Why would there be such a title?

The black-haired girl was quite curious.

Gu Yue Na's expression was cold; just as she was about to speak, her soul guide communication device rang, causing her movement to pause, and she stated directly:

"Martial soul ability is a soul master's foundation; I won't reveal it. Sorry, let's stop chatting here for now — I have to take a call."

"Uh, sorry." Seeing Gu Yue Na take out a soul guide communication device from her bosom, the girl awkwardly averted her gaze.

First meeting — indeed a bit rash.

And Gu Yue Na, after listening to the call from the other side, fell silent.

The call was from Zi Ji — not for any proper business, just purely… concern and greetings.

Zi Ji's gentle, light voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Please don't overwork yourself for the plan; we're still here. Since you're going to live at a soul master academy, just relax. The world today changes with each passing day; walking too fast means you'll miss a lot of scenery — no need to rush."

"Also, your appearance in the human world will probably be quite popular; if you only want an ordinary academy life, it's better to restrain it a bit, otherwise you'll attract some troublesome fellows…"

Gu Yue Na listened patiently to the end, pursed her lips, gave a light acknowledgment, and hung up.

Di Tian said similar things too.

"Master, the situation is excellent now; you need not force yourself."

Since she left the Star Dou Great Forest, she has seen Soul Beasts and Spirits integrating into human society in their own ways, letting Soul Beasts survive in this imperfect yet not bad era.

No one regards her as the last hope; instead, she has received the care of her own subjects. When she initially could not integrate into human society, she still needed Soul Beasts that had already integrated to help, letting quite a few Fierce Beasts see another side of her.

Is it because of this reason that she appears to lack majesty?

Miss Gu Yue Na fell into deep thought.

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