thefictionvixens Chapter 164 has no resources.
Chapter 164 has no resources.
At 2:30 p.m., Long You began to challenge his limits in his private soul guidance laboratory. At 4:26 p.m., Fan Yu walked out of his office with shining eyes and ran towards the laboratory.
At 6:50 p.m., the lights in Fan Yu's soul guidance laboratory were still on, but the lights in Long You's laboratory were turned off at that time.
Pale-faced Long You drank the life-giving water he had accumulated earlier while replenishing his soul power through a baby bottle. However, even this could not change the fact that Long You's legs were weak.
A level 6 soul power generating soul tool has been created. With Xiao Yan's all-out assistance, Long You actually managed to perfectly create a level 6 soul tool with level 49 soul power.
Despite feeling so exhausted that he could fall asleep at any moment, after confirming with his Insight Glasses that the pile of soul tool components he had created were all qualified, or even perfect, he still felt that his body was full of energy again (of course, it was just an illusion).
However, as Long You, deceived by his illusion, tried to stand up, reason returned to his mind. Assembling the soul tool could wait until tomorrow; what Long You needed now was a hot bath, good food, and a bed.
Delicious food was out of the question now; the Shrek Academy cafeteria was closed, and Long You didn't have the energy to go to Shrek City. At that moment, Long You felt an unprecedented longing for the takeout days of his previous life.
Soaking in the bathtub, listening to the "beep beep" sound of the heating device heating the boxed lunch, Long You forced himself to stay awake.
After waking up countless times from choking on water, Long You finally finished his meal and collapsed onto his bed, falling into a deep sleep.
Long You slept very soundly this time, and didn't even hear Zhong Zhong and Cai Tou coming into the dormitory to look for him.
Long You slept until nine o'clock the next morning, when he was awakened by the hunger in his stomach. He puffed out his cheeks and rushed to Shrek City as fast as he could.
The fast food meals previously stored in the soul tool could no longer satisfy Long You's craving for delicious food. Long You needed all kinds of fresh and tasty food to comfort his stomach.
At 10 a.m., Long You, who finally remembered that he still had a mission on the Panlong Realm line, hurriedly returned to the academy. After spending 20 minutes assembling the soul power generator and scanning and uploading the data, he...
Long You himself quickly logged into the Panlong Realm. Taking advantage of the early hour, he checked out of his rented courtyard and headed rapidly towards Beishuang City.
Although Long You essentially wanted to slack off, the other Soul Guidance Department students were all working hard, so Long You couldn't really not work hard. He had already disappeared for a day yesterday, so he had to show his face today and demonstrate yesterday's achievements.
Traveling alone is undoubtedly much faster than traveling in a group. In addition, Long You equipped his soul-guided power mech with a large number of stealth, anti-detection, and anti-spy soul-guided devices, making his flight experience quite comfortable.
Using his soul-guided probe, Long You spotted a large construction site set up by soul-guided students on the outskirts of the sandworm-controlled area, five kilometers away. To avoid being attacked by the defensive soul-guided probe, Long You immediately landed and took out his radio to contact He Caitou.
After obtaining the friendly signal band, Longyou took off and continued flying towards the large construction site ahead.
"Xiao You, you've finally arrived. When I went to find you yesterday, I couldn't wake you up no matter what I did. If it weren't for the soul tool showing that you were just asleep, I would have gone to find the teacher."
"Don't even mention it, our attempts to slack off and find loopholes are hopeless. After we parted ways yesterday, I went to find the teacher, but after receiving the blueprints, the teacher went straight to play online simulations in the Panlong Realm."
Although Panlong Intelligence's inspection of non-combat soul tools is not rigorous, no matter how lax it is, it will not violate the underlying logic and rules set by the academy's higher-ups.
This is something that was clearly made by someone else; we can't just get our hands on it without paying a price.
"If we choose to pay the price to buy it from the teacher, firstly, we might not be able to afford an eighth-level soul tool; secondly, we might have to tell the teacher why we urgently need this soul power generation soul tool, which would jeopardize the floating city's plan..."
Yeah, you know that.
"That's it, that's why I said our plan to slack off has completely failed."
The reason I didn't log on yesterday was to test the difficulty of creating this soul power generation soul tool. Luckily, a level six soul power generation soul tool is still within my capabilities.
"Did you successfully create it in the real world?"
"Yes, if I hadn't overdrawn my energy so badly, how could I have failed to wake you when you came to me last night?"
"Let's go, let's hurry over there. I've already brought the scanned version of the soul power generation soul tool I successfully made. Let's find a place to install it and see how it goes."
Upon entering the "construction site," Long You discovered that there were significantly fewer people than he had imagined, and the things everyone was currently busy with were not the various offensive soul tools that had been discussed at the beginning, but rather various buildings.
"What's going on? How come they've started building houses halfway through the construction of an offensive soul tool?"
"The reason I was in such a hurry to find you yesterday is because our soul-guided detection device detected a large amount of finished rare metals at the location of that lost monster mountain range."
"So, my outrageous guess was true?"
"It's true, it couldn't be more true. Everyone has given up on the idea of eliminating these sandworms. Your floating city plan is officially established."
Based on the information we previously gathered about sandworms, the floating city must be at least 200 meters high.
At this altitude, we can basically ignore the sandworm attacks, but we need to pay close attention to the aerial monsters. Even though we've built these greenhouse-like structures here over the past few days, we've still been attacked from the air from time to time.
Therefore, if we truly want our floating city to remain afloat in the air for a long time, the first hurdle is dealing with flying monsters. We must carve out a territory for ourselves from their attacks.
"Let's test it out first. After this soul power generating soul tool has been running for a while, we'll send a temporary, assembled hut up there to float for a bit. First, to see if our idea can be realized, and second, to test how much tolerance flying magical beasts have for this kind of intrusion into their 'territory'."
"Understood, I'll arrange it right away. Senior Brother Lin Zhengze and the others have already gone to Tie Meng City. According to them, in this place where almost everyone has soul power (as long as you practice martial arts, you can have soul power, but those who don't have the talent for martial arts will only have level one or two soul power and cannot break through level ten to become a rank-up martial artist), if they can't sell soul tools as items for everyone, then they've failed."
“You have ambition and ideals. Are there enough people over there? I'm here, I can transfer a few more students who have passed the CET-4 exam over there.”
"No need, that's enough. You're not the only one who can create a level six soul tool now; Senior Brother Lin Zhengze can do it too. Before the end of this semester, Senior Brother Lin Zhengze said he was confident he could break through to Soul King."
"If he could reach the Soul King level, then Senior Brother Lin might be able to make it into the Inner Academy upon graduation. It's a bit of a pity that Senior Brother Lin no longer meets the standards for selecting the reserve team for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament. Otherwise, Senior Brother Lin should have been able to show his face on the tournament stage."
"It's still early, no rush. Tell me how to install this thing?"
After simply greeting the Soul Guidance Department students who were still at the construction site, Long You began to get to work. There were many prefabricated temporary houses here, but none of them were equipped with anti-gravity levitation Soul Guidance Devices. Long You needed to take advantage of the time while his Soul Power was being generated to accumulate Soul Power for the Soul Guidance Devices and quickly complete the modification of the temporary houses.
In one hour, in addition to installing anti-gravity floating soul tools on the temporary prefabricated houses, Long You also greatly enhanced the effect of the defensive soul guidance array engraved on the assembled metal plates.
It's a test! If it gets shot down by flying monsters too quickly, how can it be a test?
At that very moment, all the Soul Guidance Department students on the entire North Frost City construction site gathered together.
The soul power generating soul tool, with its rotating fan wheel, was placed in a special room by Long You (who had made louver-like openings in the walls of the room to ensure air circulation). The soul power gathered and stored by this soul tool would be directly transmitted to the anti-gravity soul guidance array through a specially created soul power circulation line.
A buzzing sound came from the assembled prefabricated house, which had not been secured with nails, and it began to gradually detach from the ground.
Five minutes later, all the students of the Soul Guidance Department cheered as the prefabricated modular house, which had undergone temporary modifications, successfully reached its designated hovering position.
"It seems our plan is feasible. The modified anti-gravity soul tool can send a house up to a height of 200 meters."
"As long as we install more anti-gravity soul tools, our plan will not have any power issues."
"No, it still exists. The anti-gravity soul guide performs well in surface levitation operations, but its effectiveness decreases sharply after it leaves the surface by thirty meters."
It consumed more soul power, but the altitude increase was minimal. To maximize efficiency, the engine propelling the house into the air needs improvement; at the very least, the anti-gravity soul tool and the propulsion system of the flight soul tool should be combined.
However, the propulsion system of the flying soul tool consumes far too much soul power. I'll see if I can improve it into a model specifically for levitation.
"Alright, you take care of the engine soul tool issue, and we'll handle the house design and construction. We can't take the city into the air without a high-level soul power generating soul tool, but we still need a few reliable fortresses and building complexes."
The goal is to achieve the largest possible surface area while minimizing weight, thereby maximizing the defense.
"Good luck, I'm logging off now. You know, I can only use my Martial Soul's ability to witness the future when I'm offline."
"Get down. I'll let you know when this thing above your head falls down, and then send us another one so everyone can learn how to make it."
Thus, all the students of the Soul Guidance Department of Shrek Academy's Outer Court returned to school early with great excitement, but failed to achieve their goal.
Within a month, the design blueprints for the aerial fortress were completed, and the online construction process was more than halfway complete. On the Longyou side, the modification work on the engine soul guide device had completed the theoretical part, and now they were making every effort to turn the theory into reality.
During the same month, Lin Zhengze, He Caitou, Long You, and several other disciples of the Soul Guidance Department teachers, by overdrawing their soul power twice, created a level seven soul power generation soul tool.
Unfortunately, the optimized and integrated engine soul tool has reached the pinnacle of level six soul tools, resulting in a significant increase in soul power consumption. Even if the soul power generation soul tool and the engine soul tool are matched one-to-one, maintaining the North Frost City fortress in mid-air for an extended period requires a more advanced soul power generation soul tool as the core of the entire soul power supply chain.
(At most, it can only be a one-to-one replica. To minimize the risk of flying magical beasts destroying these soul tools and causing an emergency landing at the Northfrost City fortress, these soul tools must be placed indoors. Due to weight and space limitations, there wouldn't be enough room for people to live in if too many soul tools were placed inside.)
Logically speaking, having reached this point, the progress of the Soul Guidance Department should be considered quite good. However, none of the students in the Soul Guidance Department seem happy at all.
They've run out of resources. Although they're not building a city, even a castle would require a huge amount of resources. The Soul Guidance Department students have already plundered all the easily obtainable rare metal resources within the North Frost City area.
Despite a month-long, comprehensive exploration and scanning process, the Soul Guidance Department students have already obtained information on nearly a hundred locations where high-quality finished rare metals are buried.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of these locations are in the core areas of the sandworm swarm, that is, in areas where a large number of sandworms are active around them.
Are the Soul Guidance Department students afraid of sandworms? They certainly aren't afraid of a single one, but in the underground space, the sandworms' home turf, facing hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of sandworms, the Soul Guidance Department students, with their highest cultivation level of only Soul Master, are definitely no match.
So despite having a treasure trove right in front of them, the Soul Guidance Department students, having spent all their money, were still penniless.
"Xiao You, it seems we still have to fight! If we don't fight, we won't get resources. If we just buy them, it will take us a year or two to build this floating fortress."