Douluo: When Tang Wulin Met Little Huo Niang

Chapter 535: Tang Sect Chief Researcher

Li Lie closed his eyes for a moment because of the strong silver light. When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had come to a completely unfamiliar place.

This is a wide underground space. Various large machines are making buzzing sounds. People in white clothes are walking around hurriedly, communicating with each other. There are also many people sitting at the table, concentrating on fiddling with soul guide parts.

Li Lie couldn't help but stare in amazement.

"This, this is..."

As a high-ranking official of the Xing Luo Empire, he could naturally see that this was a soul guidance research institute.

However, the size of the soul guide research institute and the level of sophistication of its facilities completely exceeded his imagination. For a moment, he was like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden. He could not help but look around and examine these soul guide facilities with curiosity.

Seeing him like this, Tang Wulin reluctantly reminded him:

"Hey, I suggest you stop looking around so casually. Otherwise, when something happens to you later, don't blame me for not warning you in advance."

Li Lie was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted.

"Tangmen?"

"Ah."

Tang Wulin nodded slightly.

This is where Huo Yutong works now.

After three years of study, she has already learned most of the core soul guidance concepts of this era. Now she is the chief researcher of the Tang Sect, leading several very important research projects.

Although Tang Wulin didn't know much about soul guides, he once saw the research draft that Huo Yutong placed on the table. The design drawings on it were so terrifying that he could feel a murderous aura emanating from it, which made Tang Wulin feel a little frightened.

If Tang Wulin guessed correctly, she was probably doing some very important research.

He didn't ask her what she was researching. He knew her. If she could talk about it casually, she would definitely tell him. The fact that she didn't tell him meant that this was confidential research and couldn't be discussed casually.

If he really asked her, she would definitely tell him, but doing so might lead to a bad evaluation of Huo Yutong, so he finally chose not to ask.

He grabbed a passing researcher and asked:
"Where is Yutong now?"

"Ah, Your Excellency the Dragon King."

The researcher was startled, but he was relieved when he saw that it was Tang Wulin who caught him. He said:
"The director is in the third room from the left in that corridor."

As he spoke, he pointed to a corner not far ahead.

"Okay, thank you."

Tang Wulin let him go, gestured to Li Lie, and said:

"Okay, let's go."

As he spoke, he took a step forward.

Just then, the researcher who had just given him directions suddenly called him again.

"Ah, wait a minute, Your Excellency the Dragon King."

He scratched the corner of his mouth and said with a evasive look:

"The deputy director is also in that room, conducting research with the director. From what I understand, she has been in a bad mood due to the research being hampered in the past two days... Be prepared."

"...Okay, thanks for the reminder."

Tang Wulin's mood suddenly became much heavier.

He really didn't have a good impression of the "deputy director" mentioned by the researcher.

Taking Li Lie to the door of the room the researcher mentioned, Tang Wulin raised his hand and knocked on the door.

Huo Yutong's voice came from inside the door.

"Who?"

Tang Wulin smiled and replied:
"it's me."

"Ah! Wu Lin!"

Huo Yutong's voice suddenly became joyful. The door opened suddenly, and a petite figure threw herself into his arms, rubbed his chest, raised her head and asked:

"Wulin, why did you come to see me? Although I'm very happy, it's working hours now."

"Because he had something important to talk to us about, I brought him here directly."

Tang Wulin helplessly pointed at Li Lie beside him. Seeing him, Huo Yutong's body stiffened for a moment, then she let go of Tang Wulin's hands, coughed twice, and showed Li Lie a gentle smile.

"Hello, is there anything wrong with the Xingluo Empire?"

They are indeed a couple, even their first reactions are exactly the same.

Li Lie secretly complained in his heart, and at the same time decided to completely drive the scene from his mind and forget it completely.

He nodded and said:

"Yes, it's about the Green Skull Organization. We found their headquarters..."

Then, he explained the situation to Huo Yutong.

While the two of them were talking, Tang Wulin looked inside the room.

A woman in a suit with neat burgundy short hair was looking at him coldly. When she found that her eyes met his, she raised her eyes slightly provocatively, with an expression full of dissatisfaction.

"What are you here for?"

Tang Wulin pointed speechlessly at Li Lie who was explaining the situation to Huo Yutong.

"Isn't he talking? Can't you just listen?"

The woman's face suddenly turned ferocious. She stood up from her seat, walked in front of Tang Wulin, and said unhappily:

"What I just said was not a question, but a question. Why are you interrupting our research again?"

Tang Wulin said helplessly:

"Ling Zichen, Yutong is not only the chief researcher of the Tang Sect, she also has other things to do. You can't let her stay in the Tang Sect forever."

"Oh, that's because you don't know how amazing her talent is in the field of soul guides. With her around, we can research more powerful soul guides faster and change the entire landscape of human society!"

She became more and more excited and her speech speed became faster and faster.

"Really? If she had spent all the time she had spent with you in the field of soul guides, she would have become the strongest soul guide and mecha master in history. Such a good genius was ruined by you. I wish you didn't exist!"

By the end of her words, her tone was filled with deep disgust.

"Ling Zichen!"

The one who interrupted her rapid-fire speech was not Tang Wulin, who was being attacked by her, but Huo Yutong, who was originally listening to Li Lie's explanation of the situation. She said to Ling Zichen in dissatisfaction:

"Apologize to Wulin!"

"But I..."

"If you don't apologize, I will quit this experimental project now!"

"sorry!"

When Ling Zichen heard Huo Yutong say that she wanted to withdraw from the experiment, his expression suddenly changed 180 degrees and he bowed deeply to Tang Wulin.

"I've been in a bad mood these past two days because of the frustrations I've been facing in my research. Please forgive me."

"It's okay, I don't take it to heart."

Tang Wulin smiled bitterly.

After three years, he has already figured out the temperament of Deputy Director Ling.

She is a real research fanatic. According to a researcher's whisper that Tang Wulin heard once, if she finds a boyfriend in the future, his biggest rival will definitely be the soul guide shell.

At the beginning, Tang Wulin actually regarded her as the female version of Xuan Ziwen, but as they spent more time together, he found that he was wrong. The gap between the two was really huge.

First of all, in terms of research direction, Xuan Ziwen is actually a pure soul guide technology enthusiast. He is interested in new and novel things and is not particularly obsessed with a specific direction.

Tang Wulin heard from Huo Yutong that Xuan Ziwen was responsible for the high-altitude detection soul guide device that had troubled the Three Kingdoms of Douluo in the past. He also had a hand in the technology used in the humanoid soul guide device.

After coming to the Tang Sect, Xuan Ziwen developed many types of soul guide shells for the Tang Sect, helped Tang Wulin design a ninth-level alchemy furnace, and even developed a linked soul guide device. It can be said that he is a nearly all-rounder.

But unlike him, Ling Zichen is a bomb special attack, and her greatest hobby is to make bigger bombs. Therefore, rather than saying that she is a soul guide technology researcher like Xuan Ziwen, Tang Wulin sometimes thinks that it is more appropriate to describe her as a terrorist.

Not only that, their personalities are also very different.

Although Xuan Ziwen is a research maniac who is oblivious to what is happening outside, he actually understands the most basic social common sense. He knows exactly what attitude to use towards different people, and he will bow his head when he should. His personality is just that of a normal person with a fanatical hobby. At least when Tang Wulin was communicating with him, he did not put on airs at all and was very easy-going.

But this Ling Zichen was completely different. To be honest, Tang Wulin admired her for daring to talk to him like that.

Didn't she know that if he wanted to, he could kill her with just a thought?

Tang Wulin also understood the answer in his heart; she knew it.

But even if she knew, she would still do it.

So in Tang Wulin's heart, she is different from a fanatical fan like Xuan Ziwen. If she goes a step further, she is a lunatic.

It was because Tang Wulin had a good temper that he could tolerate her personality. If a top expert with a more irritable temper was here, he might have started a fight with her.

And the worse thing is that even if you fight with her, ordinary people can't beat her.

Ling Zichen herself is actually just an ordinary person without soul power, let alone a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse. If we really compare the combat power of the original body, any Soul King can kill her ten thousand times.

But the problem is that while she is an ordinary person, she also has another identity:
She is a god-level mecha master.

An average god-level mecha master, even without relying on the abilities of a soul master, can at least reach the level of a Titled Douluo in terms of combat power, and her god-level mecha is much more advanced than that of an average person, at least comparable to a Super Douluo.

Tang Wulin once tested her combat capability. She could even launch an attack with a power equivalent to that of a ninth-level fixed-type soul-guided cannonball.

This is truly astonishing. You have to know that the power of a ninth-grade fixed-type soul guide shell is equivalent to the full-strength attack of an Extreme Douluo, and not just an ordinary Extreme Douluo, but a quasi-god-level Extreme Douluo.

Although her ability to launch attacks of this level does not mean that she possesses quasi-god-level combat power, it also means that she is one of the most difficult ones even among the Super Douluo.

At least in Tang Wulin's opinion, there are not many people below the Ultimate Douluo who can definitely beat her.

This also shows how advanced the Tang Sect’s current technology is.

Being able to enable ordinary people to possess this level of combat power is already of epoch-making significance, even if it costs a lot of money.

Li Lie on the side was stunned.

Who is this girl? She is so tough! How dare she talk to Dragon King Douluo like this?

Three years later, Tang Wulin's position as the new number one man on the continent has gradually stabilized.

The main reason is that he did not deliberately conceal his whereabouts, so many people knew that he was always fighting against evil soul masters in Douluo Continent and against the terrorist organization Green Skull in Xingluo Continent.

During these operations, his fighting images were occasionally recorded, and those who watched those videos gained a new understanding of his fighting ability.

For the vast majority of ordinary people who would never reach the level of a Soul Sage in their entire lives, even if Tang Wulin didn't use his full strength, his combat performance was too amazing.

They had never imagined that a soul master who had cultivated to the extreme could possess such terrifying power. Tang Wulin, who defeated the enemy with ease, looked as powerful as a god.

As a diplomat of the Xing Luo Empire, Li Lie had come into contact with many powerful spirit masters. He himself was actually a Titled Douluo-level warrior. Therefore, he understood even more clearly how unfathomable Tang Wulin's strength was.

Facing Tang Wulin, even if he had ten times the courage, he would never dare to speak like Ling Zichen.

Could this person be some hidden and powerful person from the Tang Clan?
Li Lie found it difficult to make a judgment, so he chose to keep silent.

When these big guys are in conflict, it's better for a small person like him not to interfere.

Tang Wulin said to Huo Yutong:
"Anyway, as you just heard, the Green Skeleton's lair has been found. How about we go to Xingluo Continent?"

"no problem."

When facing Tang Wulin, Huo Yutong was not as stern as when facing Ling Zichen. She had a smile on her face and looked overjoyed.

She is the person who knows best what eradicating the Green Skeleton means to Tang Wulin. The reward for the first of the Nine Tests of the Dragon God was Tang Wulin's second soul core, which allowed him to awaken the power of the Dragon God and even reach the true god level when using his martial soul avatar. By analogy, the reward for the second test of the Dragon God is very exciting.

Besides, even if there is no reward at all, Tang Wulin can make a great leap in strength by absorbing the dragon bones of the seven dragon kings again. At least from Huo Yutong's perception, Tang Wulin is much stronger than he was three years ago. If he were to face Yun Ming again now, he might not even need to use the Dragon God's true body to easily defeat Yun Ming. If he can really gather all the dragon bones again, even without any reward, he will probably be able to maintain his normal god-level combat effectiveness.

Such a good thing should naturally be achieved as soon as possible, and the Tang Sect’s research can be put aside for the time being.

"Woooooooo..."

Seeing Huo Yutong agree so readily, Ling Zichen groaned in reluctance.

Without Huo Yutong, the progress of the experimental project would be much slower.

Seeing Tang Wulin preparing to take Huo Yutong away, Ling Zichen suddenly had an idea and shouted:

"Wait a moment!"

"Ok?"

Tang Wulin turned around and looked at her in confusion.

"what happened?"

Ling Zichen was a little embarrassed, but still said firmly:

"I'll go as well."

(End of this chapter)