thefictionvixens Chapter 252 A Mishap
Chapter 252 A Mishap
With three days left, Bourne was busy sealing off the soul-guided devices that might need to be shelved for a while, while Longyou was packing up things that he could still use when he got back.
First, there's the War God Palace. During his return to the original continent, Long You will complete a round-the-world trip to establish a global satellite network (Long You also wants to launch all the satellites from one location, but he doesn't know the technology for controlling satellite movement, so he has to use a more rudimentary method). Once the global network is complete, Long You can log into the War God Palace anytime, anywhere. Time and space will no longer be obstacles preventing him from meeting and communicating with his friends on Douluo Star.
Secondly, there's the Soul Spirit Transformation Ritual Array. Long You has already completed the experiment of turning ordinary wild beasts into Soul Master Soul Spirits, allowing Soul Masters to break through their Soul Power bottlenecks. However, the energy within ordinary wild beasts is ultimately limited. Even though Long You has set up a special energy-gathering array to partially replenish this energy, the current ritual array for transforming ordinary wild beasts into Soul Spirits can only provide Soul Rings of up to five thousand years.
Long You remembered that the Spirit Pagoda in Douluo Continent III had a place that could upgrade the age of a soul spirit, but he had no idea about the specific principle behind it. He could only vaguely guess, based on the law of conservation of energy, that this kind of thing required the death of a real soul beast. This was not good. The existence of soul spirits was to protect soul beasts, and now, in order to make soul spirits stronger, they had to kill soul beasts. Where was the justice in that? Therefore, Long You could only explore other methods. He did have a direction, but doing so would require too many resources, which he couldn't afford.
Long You will hand over all this technical data and future research directions to Shrek Academy. If there is any force on this continent that can directly communicate with the Star Dou Great Forest, Shrek Academy is definitely one of them. Long You cannot do without Mr. Liu Bai's help in his research on Soul Spirits, and it would be obvious for Shrek Academy to seek help from the Star Dou Great Forest if it wants to make further progress in Soul Spirits.
Aside from these items, Long You didn't have much else to pack. He would take the remaining rare metal resources with him. His upgraded soul-guided mech was already over ten meters tall, and its explosive power was comparable to that of a Soul Douluo. Furthermore, Long You's battle armor had now been upgraded to a semi-six-word battle armor. Well, actually, it was a six-word battle armor. The reason he still called it semi-six-word was because Long You had some functions he wanted to add, but he didn't have the suitable rare metals on hand, so he hadn't settled for anything less.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Long You boarded the passenger cabin of the soul-guided aircraft with a box of storage soul tools. After taxiing and taking off, the soul-guided aircraft smoothly leaped into the clouds.
A week later, Long You leisurely returned to Shrek Academy under the cover of night. More than two years earlier, the Sun Moon Empire had already confirmed that the soul-guided warship they had sent out to search for the New World had completely lost contact and its personnel were missing.
Although there are many storms at sea and the sea spirit beasts are powerful and numerous, the Sun Moon Empire had already considered these factors and made various countermeasures. With such preparations, even if they encountered some uncontrollable danger, the Sun Moon Empire would not believe that one of their soul-guided warships would disappear silently without sending out any message.
With this in mind, coupled with the fact that the Sun Moon Empire had noticed Shrek Academy frequently setting sail in alliance with many traditional soul master sects from the original three kingdoms of the Douluo Continent, the Sun Moon Empire couldn't help but suspect that its maritime exploration teams had been intercepted by Shrek Academy, thus allowing Shrek Academy to find the location of the New World.
Guided by this suspicion, the Sun Moon Empire did consider tracking Shrek Academy in return. However, Shrek Academy and many traditional sects from the original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms were already prepared. If the Sun Moon Empire sent too few people, they would simply disappear at sea; if they sent too many, Shrek Academy would stop. If they sent experts, Shrek Academy had no shortage of them. After suffering two losses, the Sun Moon Empire, or rather the Holy Spirit Cult, was unwilling to send any more people.
The Sun Moon Empire couldn't swallow this insult. Since the empire couldn't quickly come up with a new team to explore the new continent, the Sun Moon Empire started to harass Shrek Academy.
When Shrek Academy students go out of the academy on business, they always encounter situations where their tasks become difficult. Shrek Academy has certainly tried to find solutions, but unfortunately, the perpetrators haven't committed murder or arson (and even if they had, there's no evidence). They're targeting the academy's students, so the academy can't really resort to drastic measures and ultimately has to rely on the students' own abilities.
Amidst the competition among various parties, the original Douluo Continent has been rife with undercurrents in recent years. The exchange program between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was also affected and forced to end prematurely. Even so, Huo Yuhao managed to recruit quite a few talents from Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, the most important of whom was, of course, Teacher Xuan Ziwen.
Okay, after all that, the main point is that Long You was afraid of trouble, so he used invisibility to enter the academy. However, after entering the academy, Long You realized that his actions seemed to be overkill, and he ended up shooting himself in the foot, finding himself in a difficult situation.
His infiltration was now considered an intruder at Shrek Academy, so Long You had barely ventured deeper when his spiritual warnings began to blare alarms. Long You knew he was being locked onto by the academy's protective soul tools. Helpless, Long You could only stand still for the time being, knowing that someone would come to verify his identity soon. But if he dared to make any further moves at this moment, the soul tools would definitely attack.
With a wry smile, Long You stroked the shrunken Little Twilight Sun perched on his shoulder, obediently waiting for the academy to send someone to confirm. Years had passed, and Long You's own strength had improved rapidly. He had forgotten that the academy had also invested heavily in soul tools, naturally leading to improvements. Now, in this "tense situation," Long You had entered with a mere, ordinary stealth soul tool, which naturally couldn't escape the academy's detection soul tools.
He adjusted the range of the invisibility soul tool, exposing his front, but his sides and back remained distorted. This place wasn't far from the academy's main gate; if someone with ulterior motives noticed him, completely disabling the invisibility soul tool would render all of Long You's previous preparations futile.
Three minutes later, although he couldn't see anything in front of him, a spiritual reminder told Long You that someone was observing him. Just as Long You was secretly pondering who could determine his identity, a subtle spiritual touch gave him a sudden realization.
After a few breaths, Long You felt the spiritual energy surrounding him dissipate, and the soul tool that had been locking onto him also released its alert and lock state.
"Hmm? It's confirmed to be me, but you're not showing yourself? That's a bit strange. Never mind, I won't go back to the academy tonight. I'll head to Shrek City first."
Regarding the current situation at Shrek Academy, Long You was truly clueless. Having "lived in seclusion" for several years, he was now genuinely hesitant to go through the trouble of explaining and communicating with people. He figured he might as well just go back to his own territory for now. Anyway, he had already shown his face, so if he needed to find him, he could always get in touch.
With a thought, Long You activated his battle armor, and his entire body disappeared from his original position on a spatial level.
Over the years, Long You made some progress in exploring spatial fluctuations. After successfully creating the first version of the War God Palace, Long You realized that for the War God Palace to evolve towards a virtual universe, the power of cosmic laws was necessary. Therefore, Long You spent a considerable amount of time analyzing the entrance to the underwater secret realm. Based on his exploration of the underwater secret realm's spatial entrance, Long You created a rather rudimentary soul tool that could indeed sense the fluctuations of spatial laws.
After creating this soul tool, Long You placed two at the entrance to the underwater secret realm and made six more, which he gave to the Long family to send to the mysterious ice lake valley in the far north. Over the course of two years, Long You gained a deeper understanding of the laws of space by using the data detected by these soul tools, and he also upgraded these soul tools several times.
Currently, through his continuous deduction and comprehension, coupled with the data feedback from his soul tool, Long You has grasped a trace of the laws of space. If he were placed in the Swallowed Star world, Long You's current strength would be enough to make him stand out in the Cosmic Peak Genius Battle and successfully enter the Virtual Universe Company.
It was precisely because he had grasped this sliver of spatial law that Long You began developing space-application soul tools (not storage soul tools). He wanted to use the abilities of soul tools to achieve teleportation, or at the very least, obtain an invisible soul tool that could outmaneuver all currently detected soul tools. Judging from the brief moment Long You disappeared, he has succeeded in acquiring the invisible soul tool.
However, it can't be said that Long You failed with this instantaneous teleportation soul tool. It's just that among the many rare metal resources Long You discovered in the New World, none could withstand the spatial law array patterns. No, it was the rare metals that could withstand the energy intensity of the full explosion of the spatial energy contained within the metal, triggered by that trace of spatial law array pattern and thus activated by the core array of the storage soul tool. In Long You's words from his previous life, this was a limitation of materials science.
Is there a solution? Of course. One is for Long You to continue his in-depth study of spatial laws. As long as Long You can effectively control the energy burst within the rare metal containing spatial energy, the high-strength core array supporting the rare metal will no longer be needed, and the soul tool can naturally be successfully created. Another solution is to find a breakthrough in materials. Fusion forging is a very magical forging method. As long as one is willing to try, a rare metal that meets the requirements will definitely appear.
The former option was out of the question for Long You, who considered himself intellectually dull and unlikely to achieve significant breakthroughs in understanding such higher-level cosmic laws without decades of dedicated effort. Therefore, Long You chose the latter. He now knew which rare metals to forge, given that the Pearl of Imagination was truly a bug. The only problem was that one of the rare metals he wanted to forge was a specialty of the Sun and Moon Continent and strictly prohibited from export. There was no other way; Long You could only hope to find this rare metal during his trip to the Sun and Moon Continent to participate in the competition.
Getting back to the main point, with the help of the spatial invisibility soul tool, Long You ignored Shrek City's no-fly order and landed directly at a milk tea shop in Shrek City.
Long You didn't interfere with the milk tea shops in other places, but in Tianhun City and Shrek City, he replaced all the operators with intelligent soul-guided robots. Although the clan had plenty of manpower, Long You defined these two shops as safe havens for those who had "run away from home," so naturally he would place the people he could trust most in them.
The milk tea shop in Shrek City didn't have a large storefront, but the courtyard inside was quite spacious, enough for a family of three to five to live comfortably. After instructing the soul-guided intelligent robot that had come to confirm the situation, Long You took a comfortable bath and, while trying to continue studying the laws of space, lay comfortably on the massage chair.
In five days, Long You didn't do much work, but he managed to complete a round-the-world trip. He was tired from all the travel and needed to rest so he could better achieve his next cultivation goals.
The perspective shifts back to Shrek Academy, where Huo Yuhao, who had prematurely ended his studies in the Sun Moon Empire, was tasked with confirming Long You's identity. Soul Masters and Soul Guidance Masters possess a wide variety of methods, making it relatively easy to disguise oneself. Although Long You immediately stopped in his tracks upon realizing he was being targeted by a Soul Guidance Device, showing no further hostility, Shrek Academy, having learned its lesson before, was unlikely to allow him entry unnecessarily.
It's said that you can know a person's face but not their heart, and Huo Yuhao's existence is precisely for that purpose. Relying on his two miraculous soul skills, mental detection and simulation, Huo Yuhao can silently approach his opponents and unknowingly uncover their true nature. It can be said that since Huo Yuhao returned and began undertaking this task, he has consistently performed exceptionally well, but this time with Long You was the first time Huo Yuhao had failed.
Logically, after confirming that the visitor was not an enemy, Huo Yuhao would reveal himself and lead them into the academy upon deactivating the soul tool lock. However, this time, during his probe of Long You, Huo Yuhao suffered a major setback.
The familiarity emanating from his spiritual energy convinced Huo Yuhao that the person was indeed Long You, but he was truly unable to probe Long You's sea of consciousness, even after Huo Yuhao risked getting close to investigate. This meant that Huo Yuhao couldn't determine whether the person was an imposter, given that he had witnessed the wonders of soul tools over the years.