Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 190 The Unexpected Path of Soul-Guided Powered Mecha Fusion

Within half a minute, Shen Ce, who had been putting up a stubborn resistance, could no longer hold on and completely abandoned his defense to launch an attack. At first, it was indeed a bit troublesome, but once you got used to it, this kind of crazy attack would always reveal a lot of flaws.

So after half a minute of adjustment, Xu Sanshi, relying on his defensive capabilities, seized an opening and unleashed his soul skill, Xuanming Zhen, along with a shield bash, causing Shen Ce to lose his composure and reveal a major weakness. Bei Bei then seized this weakness, using her dragon claws to pin Shen Ce down and subdue him.

The second round of the Shrek Academy tournament has now concluded. It must be said that Shrek Academy won quite decisively, a format favored by the audience but a headache for the other academies. After all, if you really want to be honest, Thousand Spirits Academy was basically overwhelmed by a single burst of power from Long You and He Caitou.

The referee announced the end of the match, and Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi quickly rejoined the Shrek team, bowed, and left the arena together. After entering the waiting area, the Shrek team, led by Wang Yan, arrived at the location of Qianling Academy.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament has been held for many years, and the various academies, especially those with deep-rooted traditions, have long since developed a tacit understanding. As long as the fighting doesn't escalate into a real conflict or involve personal attacks, if one side inflicts a serious injury on the other during the match, they will immediately go to check on the injured party after the match ends.

No responsibility is needed, no apology is required; it's just an attitude, showing that it was an unintentional mistake. Well-prepared academies can also provide some healing assistance at this stage. For example, Long You has just gathered a considerable amount of life-giving water, and He Caitou has also taken out a portable healing soul tool.

During the visit, with Xiao Yan's help, Long You carefully recorded and observed the injuries of the four members of the Spirit Rhinoceros Shield. Now that he knew he possessed a powerful killing technique, figuring out its maximum destructive potential became crucial.

The team leader of Qianling Academy was certainly dissatisfied and distressed that his students had suffered such severe injuries in a round-robin tournament. However, firstly, Qianling Academy lacked the confidence to go head-to-head with Shrek Academy. Secondly, the team leader of Qianling Academy wasn't senile; even though Shrek Academy had inflicted such serious damage on the Qianling Academy team, they had only actually attacked once (the Soul Guidance Cannon attack, not counting the process of Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi subduing Shen Ce later). It was clear that Shrek wasn't aiming to cripple anyone, so there was absolutely no need to hold a grudge.

With both reasons combined, Qianling Academy, following its default rules, allowed Shrek Academy to come and visit, thus indicating that it was all a misunderstanding.

The healing-type Soul Masters prepared by the Star Luo Empire for the competition were quite skilled. When they were on the competition stage, Long You saw that the four Spirit Rhinoceros Shield Soul Masters were covered in blood. However, after they came down from the competition stage and arrived at the waiting area of ​​Thousand Spirit Academy, the wounds on the surface of the four Spirit Rhinoceros Shield Soul Masters were no longer noticeable.

After Long You fed one of them the Life-Giving Water, and He Caitou also used the Healing Soul Guidance Device at the same time, the lucky chosen one actually woke up.

Although weakness was inevitable, her condition was indeed much better than the three who were still unconscious. Long You could feel that the moment the lucky person next to him woke up, the smile on the face of the Qianling Academy team leader, which had been quite forced, suddenly became more genuine.

Under the influence of that sincere smile, Wang Yan, the leader of Shrek Academy, uncontrollably took a few steps closer to the other person (he was pulled over), and then the two of them started whispering to each other.

About three minutes later, seeing that the tournament organizers were about to come up and kick people out, Wang Yan regained control of his body, waved to the Shrek Academy students, and left the waiting area first.

Because everyone was preoccupied with something and wanted to quickly find out what had happened on the competition stage that made the combined fire of the two soul-guided cannons so powerful, Shrek Academy didn't return to the rest area this time. Instead, they headed directly towards the hotel outside Star Luo Square.

On the other side, after briefly settling his students, the leader of the Thousand Spirits Academy looked in the direction Shrek Academy had left, narrowed his eyes slightly, gave his deputy a few instructions, and then followed after them.

Shrek Academy didn't leave in a hurry, so the leader of the Thousand Spirits Academy team quickly caught up and kept whispering with Wang Yan until Shrek Academy had reached the entrance of the Star Emperor Hotel. Only then did the leader of the Thousand Spirits Academy team return to Star Luo Square with a smile.

Back in the private conference room belonging to Shrek Academy, after activating the shielding soul tool, Wang Yan first explained why the leader of Thousand Spirits Academy had been bothering him the whole way. Actually, it was nothing much; Thousand Spirits Academy had their eyes on Shrek's portable healing soul tool.

Initially, Wang Yan didn't want to waste his precious time on business, but later he found that the price offered by Qianling Academy was too high. If he didn't agree, he would be throwing money away, so Wang Yan readily agreed. Anyway, Long You had said before that portable healing soul tools were all small devices, and he had a more effective soul tool healing pod.

"Alright, enough chit-chat. Now let's review the video of the match we just watched."

The projection equipment was already prepared, just waiting for Wang Yan to connect the camera soul guide in his hand.

The multi-angle camera-guided device ensured the accuracy of the video, and the meticulously crafted soul-guided display screen also boasted extremely high resolution. Thus, through controlled playback of the match recording frame by frame, every student present could clearly see what happened on the competition stage.

From the start of the match to the moment when Long You and He Caitou broke away from the assault team and landed to construct the Soul Guidance Cannon, there was nothing unusual. It was all part of the content that Shrek Academy had practiced countless times in both the real world and the virtual world.

The change occurred during the construction of the Soul Guidance Cannon turrets by Long You and He Caitou. Originally, the two War Fortress-style Soul Guidance Cannon turrets were not connected, but the match video clearly showed that the two War Fortress-style Soul Guidance Cannon turrets were now connected, and the bridge connecting the two turrets was a Soul Guidance Cannon barrel with a muzzle diameter of over 20 centimeters.

As mentioned before, Long You and his companion had some guesses about why that situation had occurred, but they couldn't believe it. The reason they couldn't believe their own situation actually stemmed from the night they stayed up all night together.

With Xiao Yan present, the theoretical aspects of the soul-guided power mecha fusion that Long You wanted had already been prepared. However, turning theory into reality required practice. Having the soul tool blueprints didn't mean Long You could manufacture them. The reason Long You and He Caitou stayed up all night that night was to practice the techniques mentioned in the blueprints and the related inscription arrays.

Neither of them were novices, and after a whole night, they had made some progress. Completely fusing the soul-guided power mech in one step was obviously impossible, but a phased attempt was still achievable.

That evening, Long You and He Caitou discussed several feasible options for fusing soul tools. From a difficulty perspective, fusing the two anti-gravity soul-guided skateboards together was the simplest. However, considering that Long You wanted to achieve greater destructive power by fusing the soul-guided powered mecha, simply fusing the anti-gravity soul-guided skateboards was not enough.

Even if the anti-gravity soul-guided skateboards are fused together, what difference will it make? Perhaps the speed will be faster, but on a competition stage with limited space, facing a martial soul fusion skill with a huge coverage area, the speed is actually not very useful.

In order to have a sufficient understanding of the degree of damage increase of the fused soul guide device before the fusion of the soul guide powered mecha is truly completed (to have a reference value for the power of the fused soul guide powered mecha, it must at least be a soul guide device of the same type, not a simple single-attack soul guide device like a soul guide ray), that night Long You and the other two focused their attention on the soul guide powered exoskeleton and the soul guide cannon platform.

Of the two options, the best choice is obviously the soul-guided powered exoskeleton. Long You and his companion made the same choice, but it was clear that they both underestimated the difficulty of this soul-guided device fusion technology. They did manage to inscribe two seemingly plausible inscription arrays onto the two soul-guided powered exoskeletons, but in retrospect, Long You preferred to call those two inscription arrays welding arrays rather than fusion arrays.

Because after the two inscription arrays were activated at the same time, the two soul-guided power exoskeleton armors did not directly merge into one taller and larger complete entity as expected. Instead, they were transformed from two separate iron frames into one iron frame that appeared to be twice as wide, as if they had undergone a welding operation.

To put it simply, according to Long You's plan, the inscription array they engraved should function as follows: two iron frames, with the help of the magical inscription array, need to complete three processes: softening, merging into each other, and reshaping. But in reality, the effect of this inscription was: the two iron frames were pushed together and then welded.

Without a doubt, the attempt at a soul-guided powered exoskeleton marked a failure for both Long You and He Caitou. To put it bluntly, He Caitou could even doubt the authenticity of the soul-guided device design blueprints that Long You presented. There was no way around it; the actual results were far too disappointing.

In fact, when Long You first saw the result, he also doubted the blueprint provided by Xiao Yan. However, after careful verification, especially after using the Imagination Pearl to conduct an imaginary simulation, Long You confirmed that the blueprint was correct, the inscription array was correct, and the reason why the desired effect could not be achieved was purely a technical issue.

In other words, the inscription arrays carved by Long You and He Caitou only look similar; in reality, there are many subtle differences between them.

What else is there to say? Let's keep practicing. Since the soul-guided powered exoskeleton armor is out of stock for the time being, we'll have to use the soul-guided turret for practice. However, considering skill level and the potential loss of combat effectiveness, Long You and He Caitou didn't dare to directly use the completed soul-guided turret as the fusion target. Instead, they chose the main cannon on the war fortress version of the soul-guided turret as the fusion target.

This time, the two succeeded. Perhaps because the main cannons of the soul-guided turret were actually two separate soul-guided devices, requiring little coordination, the newly inscribed rune array achieved the effect Long You had envisioned, and the two main cannon barrels merged into a single cannon barrel with an even more exaggerated caliber.

The only drawback is that, due to the fusion of the two main cannon barrels, Long You and He Caitou's soul-guided turrets have temporarily become conjoined twins, requiring them to be closely attached and released and constructed synchronously. Otherwise, Long You and He Caitou would not be able to use the complete version of the soul-guided turrets (lacking the main cannons, the inscription array's effect is incomplete, and they can only be fused, not separated again).

The image currently frozen on the soul guidance display screen is the result of Long You and He Caitou's hard work that night. It's fair to say that after Long You and He Caitou explained the cause and effect in detail, the content displayed on the match recording was entirely within everyone's comprehension.

However, what was shown on the video recording next left both Long You and He Caitou, the two instigators, in a state of confusion.

Why is this happening?

Watching the two soul-guided turrets in the scene, with the assistance of combat support intelligence, fire at the same time, the soul-guided energy beams that should have been divided into three parts (He Caitou's conventional warhead, Long You's conventional warhead, and the fused main cannon) actually automatically approached the soul-guided energy beam fired by the fused main cannon in the middle as they flew forward, and eventually seamlessly merged into it.

Long You had to admit that his mind was full of questions at this moment, and his blank eyes revealed his bewilderment.

"The inscription array you gave me has this effect?"

There's no need to read the rest; that fused soul-guided energy beam is definitely the reason for the dramatically increased destructive power of the soul-guided artillery tactics launched by Long You and He Caitou. What everyone needs to figure out next is why this happened, and under what conditions it can be replicated.

Considering the construction of the entire Soul Guidance Turret, and that the Soul Guidance Device that makes up the Soul Guidance Turret is actually just an additional inscription array, He Caitou immediately focused his suspicious gaze on that inscription array.

However, in response to He Caitou's doubts, Long You could only look confused and say, "I don't know. As you can see, that inscription array is a super complex composite inscription array. I haven't actually figured out how each part of that inscription array works."