Douluo, my martial soul is a mushroom

Chapter 68 Chi Ping's First Soul Guidance Device, Tiandou Auction House
Soul guides are man-made tools that are driven by soul power and have special effects. Their production requires the use of special rare metals and gemstones to carve the core array.

In this era, the production of rare metals and gemstones on the continent was extremely low, raw materials were insufficient, and the development of soul guides was greatly restricted.

The wear and tear of combat soul guides is too great to be developed at all, so that the existing soul guides are basically auxiliary tools, and the impression of their weakness has been deeply rooted in people's minds.

Soul masters take pride in fighting, and naturally look down on soul guides that cannot assist in combat.

The lack of ideological support makes the development of soul guides even more difficult.

Only major forces such as the royal family, the Spirit Hall and the seven major sects would collect books on soul guides and study soul guides in order to fully develop and enrich their foundation.

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Chi Ping is very optimistic about the future of soul guides.

Even for extraordinary civilizations, artifacts are one of the most effective means to improve their abilities. In the fantasy novels of the past, the importance of magic tools is self-evident. In a sense, soul guides are the "magic tools" of Douluo Continent.

In addition, Chi Ping has always wanted to use soul guides to replace the mycelium to simulate the gravity training environment in the academy.

People are changeable, tools are difficult to make.

It is really unstable to rely on cultivating soul masters of the same type to maintain the inheritance of something that can be regarded as the foundation of the school. Soul guides that can be mastered by more people are obviously more suitable for long-term development and survival.

He didn't have the conditions before, but now that he has the opportunity, Chi Ping will naturally not let it go.

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The Royal Soul Guidance Workshop, the exclusive workshop of the Tiandou Royal Family for researching and producing soul guidance devices, is not large, with an area of ​​nearly one thousand square meters. Most of the rooms are material storage rooms. There is a large studio that occupies less than one-tenth of the area. There are 25 workstations in the studio, 13 of which are occupied by people.

Xue Qinghe arranged a workstation of less than three square meters for Chi Ping, a nine-foot tall man, and his status was apprentice.

"Well done. As far as an apprentice is concerned, you learn very quickly." Liu Wenzhi commented, holding a round iron ball the size of a child's fist, which was carved with various patterns.

Liu Wenzhi, the workshop's chief master, is the person with the highest level of soul guide in the Tiandou Empire. He looks like an elegant scholar in his thirties, wearing a pair of crystal glasses, but he is actually almost fifty years old. He has the cultivation of a soul master and a martial soul carving knife. He is now Chi Ping's soul guide teacher.

The iron ball in his hand was the result of Chi Ping's three months of study in the workshop, a proportional model of the core of a defensive soul guide.

"It seems that you are not here to gild yourself or make fun of others." Liu Wenzhi adjusted his glasses and said bluntly.

These glasses are a soul guide device he made himself, and have functions similar to a magnifying glass.

The workshop has a complete set of assessment procedures, and only those who pass the assessment can join. Chi Ping was directly stuffed into the workshop by Xue Qinghe without going through the procedures, and Liu Wenzhi has always been unhappy with him. In addition, Chi Ping's appearance after disguise is too rough, and he doesn't look like someone who can do delicate work, which makes him even more unhappy.

Chi Ping understood this. After all, as someone who was researching soul guides in this era when soul guides were not valued, it was normal for him to be a little aloof.

He cupped his hands, "It's all because of your good teaching."

Liu Wenzhi waved his hand. "You work hard, you have good talent, and you are smart. What does your learning speed have to do with me? You have practiced the basic skills for three months, and you want to get started, right? Take this and go to the warehouse to get a standard size of blue jade."

Liu Wenzhi carefully placed the fine iron model made by Chi Ping on his workstation, then took out a piece of paper from the side, quickly wrote "A standard primary defense soul guide specification blue jade, approved" and threw it to Chi Ping.

"If you mess up, get out of here!"

After saying that, Liu Wenzhi turned around and immersed himself in his own research.

Chi Ping retreated carefully.

A standard size consists of two 5 cm square pieces of blue jade, with one tolerance.

Sapphire, as the name implies, is a kind of sky blue jade. Produced in the northernmost province of the Tiandou Empire, it is a special jade material with water properties and can be used to make defensive soul guide cores. After activation, it generates a protective soul barrier that can defend against the century-old strong attack soul skills used by soul masters below level 20. It is the main product of the Royal Soul Guide Workshop and is rated as a primary soul guide by the workshop.

The workshop's most popular product is a defensive soul guide that can defend against the Soul Master's thousand-year soul skills and is rated as an advanced soul guide.

There are three steps in making a soul guide: blank making, carving, and assembly.

Embryo making is to grind the core material into an embryo while preparing other components. Carving is to carve magic arrays on the core material, which is the core process of soul guide production. Assembly is to assemble the core and other components together.

Chi Ping used tools to polish the blue jade into a standard spherical shape, and then began to prepare for carving.

A mycelium arm sprouts from the left shoulder.

This is the martial soul of the nine-foot-tall man Chi Ping, called the Hand of Change. It is a tool hand that can be transformed at will. The essence is that Chi Ping controls the plasticity of mycelium. It is the same principle as the left arm shaped by Chi Ping and the broadcast in the martial soul city.

He used a special tool to fix the blue jade ball, then took the carving knife in his right hand, and spread the mycelium from his left arm to wrap the blue jade ball, leaving only the carving area. The changing hand held the small fan blades to act as a low-power fan, and was always ready to help Chi Ping change tools.

Ikehira began to carve in a state of intuition.

Time passed minute by minute, but his body remained motionless like a sculpture. A few fingers controlled the small carving knife, slowly engraving with the injection of soul power. The fine powder was blown away by the fan and fell onto the table.

The studio was quiet, everyone was busy with their own work. There was the rustling sound of pen tips scratching across paper and the clicking sound of carving knives picking up metal or jade.

It's a place where people can work quietly.

When the last cut was slowly made and the breeze blew away the tiny metal chips, Chi Ping stopped moving.

Carefully turn off the mycelium fan, retract the mycelium covering the blue jade ball, and remove the completed core from the fixture.

Input soul power, and the core will emit fluctuations of soul power.

Ikehira walked into the testing room with the core.

Fully activating the core, a sky-blue eggshell-shaped defense barrier unfolds outside the body like a gentle breeze.

Ikehira placed his hands on the barrier and exerted force until it shattered.

He let out a breath.

“It’s considered up to standard.”

The soul power barrier activated by Lan Yu's primary defensive soul guide is a two-way defense, but because of its shape, the external defense is a little stronger.

"Successful at once, I'm awesome!"

After praising himself, Chi Ping walked out of the test room and looked out the window.

—Hmm? Is it dark already?
Chi Ping quickened his hands, put the core into a metal shell, and added a handle, and a blue jade primary defense soul guide cane was completed.

He came to Master Liu Wenzhi's workstation with a cane.

"It's done in one go, not bad." Liu Wenzhi took the cane, took a quick look and nodded. (In fact, with Liu Wenzhi's level, he couldn't tell the quality at a glance, but he had been paying attention to Chi Ping's work for the whole afternoon, so he had a good idea and didn't need to open it for inspection.)
"In three days, the workshop and a batch of works will be auctioned at the Tiandou Auction House. Your piece will be included in the auction. Come with me then."

"I see."

"Well, go back and have a rest. The prince has a good eye. Remember to come on time tomorrow, and I will teach you how to make the next soul guide core."

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Three days later, Tiandou Auction House.

This is a semicircle on the ground, with a diameter of at least 500 meters and a maximum height of more than 80 meters. The gate of the auction house is also semicircular, with the same milky white color as the overall architectural style. Four tall girls are standing in front of the gate.

The Royal Soul Guidance Workshop has its own shop, but this does not prevent it from cooperating with the Tiandou Auction House. Every quarter, the Royal Soul Guidance Workshop will take out a batch of products and auction them at the auction house to prove that its products are excellent.

Liu Wenzhi was able to put Chi Ping's first work up for auction, which showed his appreciation for Chi Ping. Of course, this also required Chi Ping's craftsmanship to be good enough, otherwise it would ruin the reputation of the workshop!

The setting of soul guides in Dou Yi is very strange. It is said that the production method has been lost, but it feels like it is everywhere. The fighting spirit arena has amplifying soul guides, and the Spirit Hall can use a large number of soul guides to reinforce the arena.

This article assumes that there is a production method, but it has not been developed due to material reasons
The time in Wuhun City, they used mycelium to make many throat models, repeatedly executed the vibration information of the oath, and used the matching mycelium loudspeaker and mycelium airbag to control the activation. After being familiar with the mycelium arm for more than a month, Chi Ping's control over the mycelium was greatly enhanced, and he could perform more delicate operations.

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