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The two chatted for a while. Xu Nianshuang was going to Feng Tianxiang in the afternoon to practice swordsmanship with him. Xu Tianyang did not intend to immerse himself in swordsmanship. He just needed an early means of attack to use the long sword.
Besides, he really had no talent for swordsmanship, and using a long sword was like throwing bricks with great force.
The Soul Guidance Department of the Sun-Moon Royal Academy, the Dean's Office.
The current director of studies, Lin Fan, was bending over the table, correcting various files. After the unification of the empire, he had gained a great deal of knowledge about the soul guides of the Moonlight Empire, which made the empire's top soul guides very happy.
Moreover, during this period, Xu Yunxiao took on one project after another, and the top soul engineers in the empire who were free were put into the research of these projects.
As the place with the most powerful soul guidance technology in the empire, the files that Lin Fan has to deal with every day are simply piled up like a mountain.
After reviewing a file and placing it on the small pile to his left, Lin Fan stretched. Turning his head, he saw the large pile to his right. His face suddenly fell and he rubbed his brows.
"A raise, a raise is a must. The workload has increased more than fivefold recently. I don't even have time to inspect the research progress of the humanoid soul guide mecha."
As a top soul engineer, Lin Fan was very interested in the research topics established by His Majesty, such as "The Possibility of Metal Attachment to Spirits", "Research on Humanoid Soul Guidance Devices", "Spiritual Strength Detector", "Soul Guidance Devices Driven by Non-Soul Power", etc. However, he was delayed by these trivial matters and could not participate in them. He felt as uncomfortable as if he had been scratched by a cat.
"Ah!"
He sighed softly. The memorial to the empire requesting additional manpower had been submitted. His Majesty would reply that there would be a result soon. He had to be patient for the time being. Thinking of this, Lin Fan picked up another file and began to review it.
"Bang bang bang..." There was a knock on the door, causing Lin Fan, who was looking at the file, to frown subconsciously.
"Come in!"
"Uncle Lin, how are you these days? Tianyang hasn't seen Uncle Lin for a long time." As the door opened, Xu Tianyang's voice slowly reached Lin Fan's ears, making him look up in surprise.
"It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Lin Fan naturally recognized Xu Tianyang. As an 87th-level Soul Douluo and 8th-level Soul Instructor, he was also one of Xu Yunxiao's confidants. They had met each other a long time ago.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is back, why didn't you tell me?" Lin Fan stood up and happily took Xu Tianyang to sit on the sofa beside him.
As Lin Fan stood up, Xu Tianyang felt a darkness around him. In front of him stood a burly man who was two meters tall and full of explosive muscles. His short hair stood up on his head like steel needles, giving people a sense of awe without even being angry.
However, he looked at Xu Tianyang with a gentle smile on his face, although the picture was a little weird.
"Haha, the academy affairs are busy, so I dare not disturb Uncle Lin easily. You are the elder, so just call me Tianyang." Xu Tianyang smiled and glanced at the large number of files on the table. The meaning was self-evident.
"Tianyang, could you please explain to His Majesty that the academy is too busy right now, and I'm afraid it's difficult for me to handle it all by myself. If His Majesty's important affairs are delayed because of me, I, Uncle Lin, will be guilty of a great sin." Lin Fan said with a bitter face without being pretentious.
"Father has already made arrangements, but the changes this time are a bit big, so it has been delayed for so long. I guess there will be results in a day or two." Xu Tianyang actually knew about this matter. He heard about it before he set out for training.
As the empire's top university and scientific research institution, the Sun and Moon Royal Academy was too bloated internally, so Xu Yunxiao began to prepare for reform after the unification.
However, Xu Yunxiao has been working non-stop during this period, and this matter has only recently come to a conclusion. It is estimated that Lin Fan will get the news in a few days.
"That's good!" Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and at the same time, he was excited. He finally had time to participate in those studies.
"Uncle Lin, how is the progress of those projects?"
Xu Tianyang was certainly not here to chat, he was here to inspect the progress of the projects. They might have encountered the Douluo Continent. Compared to the opposite side, the Sun and Moon Empire only had the strength of soul guides to form a crushing momentum. It was estimated that they could not match the opponent's high-level combat power.
To achieve overtaking in top-level combat power, we must focus on the development of soul guides.
"I was just about to go check it out, and Tianyang arrived at the right time." Lin Fan rolled his eyes and stood up and said.
After glancing at the pile of files, Xu Tianyang didn't point it out. He stood up and walked towards an inconspicuous corner of the academy with Lin Fan.
After a series of inspections, he passed through several metal doors.
A huge underground factory appeared in Xu Tianyang's eyes.
The equipment transport soul guide vehicles are neatly arranged in rows, and flying scanning soul guides fly over the sky from time to time, checking and scanning for special situations in the factory.
As the two arrived, two of them came in front of them, and a red light swept across their bodies.
The next second, a mechanical electronic sound came from it: "Ding, permission level red, welcome..."
After the inspection was completed, it flew away again.
"Let's go!"
The two men walked inside, and all the scientific researchers who saw Xu Tianyang along the way hurriedly stood up and spoke respectfully.
"Your Highness!"
"Your Highness!"
"…"
Xu Tianyang also had respect for these scientific researchers. He followed Lin Fan for a while, and soon, a huge room appeared in front of them, filled with busy figures. The two of them fixed their eyes on an old figure, who was looking at the report in his hand seriously and was completely unaware of their arrival.
"Mr. Chen!"
"Xiao Fan and Tian Yang are here." Old Chen looked up, put down the report in his hand, looked at Lin Fan and Xu Tian Yang, and smiled.
Old Chen is also a top-level eighth-level soul engineer. When he was young, his family was poor and he could not ask a soul master for help to obtain his first soul ring, so he had to go into the forest and fight for his life.
Although he relied on his own strength to hunt down a hundred-year-old soul beast, the soul beast's dying counterattack still caused him heavy damage. Because the treatment was not thorough enough, it left hidden injuries in his body.
Although Old Chen entered the academy to study and showed amazing soul guidance talent, he was admitted to the Sun and Moon Royal Academy at the age of twelve and has come all the way to where he is today. If it were not for the injury he suffered in his youth, which prevented him from breaking through to the ninetieth level, he would most likely have broken through to the ninth level soul guide before Xu Yunxiao.
However, this did not affect Old Chen's status in the Sun-Moon Empire. Almost one-third of the soul mentors present had received his guidance, including Xu Yunxiao, who could be said to be the pillar of the country.
He is now mainly responsible for conquering the research of metal spirits and humanoid soul-guided mechas.
"Mr. Chen, Tianyang and I are here to see how the project is progressing." Xu Tianyang looked at him respectfully. No matter which country it is, a pillar of the country like Mr. Chen deserves respect.
"Tianyang, you came at the right time. We have already broken through the bottleneck of Thousand Forging and are now expanding the scope. We have tested one third of the known metals. Some metals are suitable for Thousand Forging, while some are not. "
"This requires a lot of research effort. However, in another year, I estimate that we will be able to issue a detailed report on the feasibility of Thousand Forging of Metals." Old Chen excitedly pulled Xu Tianyang into a huge room.
There were all kinds of metals placed densely in the room.
Xu Tianyang's eyes swept over these metals. These metals were all metals that had been explored by the Sun and Moon Empire. Their various characteristics had been studied almost completely, but the ones displayed here were different from those outside.
Xu Tianyang looked at a piece of sunken silver. He had seen this kind of metal before, but this piece was smaller than any he had seen before at the same weight. Its bright silver color had turned into a matte gray, which looked deep, restrained, and simple.
On the gray metal surface, layers of wavy dark patterns seem to be nurturing endless vitality.
"This strange feeling..."
"Did Tianyang feel it too?"
Seeing the surprise in Xu Tianyang's eyes, Old Chen pressed himself against the metal glass, his eyes gazing wildly at the metals inside, and said excitedly, "We've discovered that these metals generally become increasingly purer during the Hundred Forging Stage, removing impurities..."
"Once they cross the threshold of the Thousand Forgings, they seem to be sublimated, with a strange rhythm, as if they are breathing. It's incredible."
"This is definitely a major breakthrough in the history of soul guides, enough to drive a historic revolution in soul guides."
"A hundred forgings will purify it, a thousand forgings will make it a essence?" Xu Tianyang said subconsciously after hearing this. Lin Fan and Chen Lao beside him had excitement and enthusiasm on their faces.
"A hundred forgings lead to purification, a thousand forgings lead to refinement. Tianyang, you summarized it well. This is indeed the process." Hearing Xu Tianyang's murmur, Old Chen smiled and nodded with a look of approval.
Xu Tianyang chuckled when he heard this. Facts have proved that when a country focuses its energy on one thing, the energy it unleashes is absolutely beyond people's imagination.
Xu Tianyang had only a superficial understanding of forging, but he never expected that with just some of his descriptions, the researchers of the Sun-Moon Empire could break through to the Thousand Forgings realm in just over a year.
It was far beyond his expectations.
The most difficult part of scientific research is often the process from zero to one. When Xu Tianyang broke this zero, reaching one was a natural thing.
"After thousands of forgings, the properties of these metals are now very different from before. They are equivalent to a brand new metal. Xuan Hongchen's team is currently testing the changes after these metals support soul guides." Old Chen smiled as he looked at a closed test room in the distance.
"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Xu." Xu Tianyang retracted his gaze and looked at the busy scientific researchers, saying sincerely.
"Hahaha, it's not hard, it's not hard. Tianyang, you should know that for us, promoting the development of soul guides is the greatest happiness." Old Chen touched his beard and laughed out loud. He was obviously in a good mood.
"Besides, I thought I had no hope of ever being promoted to the ninth level soul master. These experiments have given me hope again!"
"Mr. Chen, you..." Lin Fan looked at Mr. Chen in shock. There had been soul masters who crossed levels in history, but these did not exist in the realm of ninth-level soul masters. If Mr. Chen could succeed, it would be unprecedented.
"Not yet, I just have a clue." Old Chen smiled and waved his hand, obviously not wanting to delve into this topic.
The three of them walked together, inspecting the research progress of many groups, and finally took the elevator to the lower level. As air waves gushed out from outside the elevator, the metal door slowly opened.
Xu Tianyang's eyes lit up, and he saw a nearly ten-meter-tall mecha in front of him.
The whole body is in fiery red color, with a roaring soul power engine in the heart, in which blue energy liquid is surging, and a protruding wing suit trigger on the back. The streamlined metal texture is strong and elegant.
The first humanoid mecha.
This combination of mechanical beauty, elegance and violence, even made Xu Tianyang a little excited. After all, which boy could resist the temptation of such a large mecha...
This is a romance unique to men. What you dreamed of in your previous life has been realized in this life.
"Mr. Chen..."
"Tianyang, you're getting too excited too early. Compared to traditional soul guides, humanoid mechas are far more complex. What you see now is just a pieced-together product that is completely uncontrollable. I don't know if I'll be able to see this giant in action in my lifetime."
Old Chen stood with his hands behind his back, looking up slightly at the huge mecha in front of him, excitement and regret flashing in his eyes.
He had spent his entire life studying soul guides, and thought his soul guide technology had reached its peak. Even compared to a ninth-level soul guide, he was only inferior in soul power level. That was until Xu Yunxiao established these special research projects.
He realized how insignificant his soul guidance skills were. Now he only wished to live a few more years so that he could see the seeds here blossom and bear fruit.
"Since it is difficult to realize a complete set of soul-guided mecha, why don't we take it apart, such as the arms and thighs, and strengthen one aspect separately?" Xu Tianyang suggested softly after seeing this scene, and put forward the technical features of "Mechanical Exoskeleton Attachment".
As soon as these words were spoken, Old Chen and Lin Fan lowered their heads in silence and began to think, their eyes becoming brighter and brighter.
"Tianyang, you join us too, let's make it happen together!"
Finally, Old Chen suddenly looked up, looked at Xu Tianyang with burning eyes, and said with rapid breathing.
Xu Tianyang smiled bitterly and shook his head, refusing: "Mr. Chen, my father will not agree!"
Hearing Xu Tianyang's refusal, Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief. He almost got His Highness involved. If Xu Tianyang had agreed in a fit of rage, he didn't know how His Majesty would blame him.
Xu Tianyang's focus now is not on soul guides, but on cultivation. He carries the expectations and future of His Majesty and the Sun-Moon Empire.
The Sun-Moon Empire may not need the ninth-level soul mentor Xu Tianyang, but the Sun-Moon Empire needs the peerless Douluo Xu Tianyang.
With the entire empire's soul guides available for mobilization, there is no shortage of researchers like Old Chen. He only needs to come up with ideas about the development of soul guides ten thousand years later, and naturally there will be people to research and realize them.
"Alas!"
Old Chen also calmed down, figured out the key, and sighed regretfully: "What a pity!"