Douluo: In an extraordinary world, with unparallel understanding!

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The task this time was highly challenging, and Kong Deming felt conflicted about bringing Su Yu along.

However, if approached carefully, there was still a chance of success.

Kong Deming hadn't brought his disciple here to face certain death.

At Level 96, he already possessed the combat strength of an Ultimate Douluo, so holding his ground against the Evil Emperor wouldn't be an issue.

Moreover, he had brought three ninth-level fixed soul-guided cannon shells.

If the Evil Emperor truly decided to fight to the death, Kong Deming would have no choice but to fire all three shells simultaneously.

The Evil Eye Clan was incredibly powerful.

On the Sun Moon Continent, powerful soul masters were exceedingly rare. It was a once-in-a-century event for someone to absorb even a single 100,000-year soul ring, let alone multiple ones.

Kong Deming's ability to attach his second martial soul's sixth soul ring already made him the first person in Sun Moon Continent history to achieve such a feat.

With fewer soul masters requiring 100,000-year soul rings, the number of 100,000-year soul beasts had naturally grown considerably.

This was especially true for the Evil Eye Clan, which thrived under the Evil Emperor's protection.

Only major forces like the Sun Moon Empire's royal family dared to provoke a 100,000-year monarch-level Evil Eye Tyrant.

Even hunting a mere 10,000-year Evil Eye Tyrant required extreme caution, typically involving at least a Soul Douluo as part of the team.

The Evil Eye Clan wasn't limited to just spiritual attributes.

The term "Evil Eye Clan" referred to a large group with significant individual variation.

While all Evil Eyes possessed spiritual attributes, many also had additional attributes, such as ice, fire, or corrosion.

Within the Evil Eye Clan, the more pure and focused an attribute, the greater the talent and strength of the individual.

The Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler, known as the Evil Emperor, ranked second among the Ten Great Savage Beasts of Douluo Continent. As the most refined in spiritual power, this branch of the Evil Eye Clan was the noblest within the Evil Demon Forest.

After pure spiritual attributes, the next most esteemed were the Ice Evil Tyrants and Fire Evil Tyrants, which had spiritual attributes as their primary focus, complemented by ice or fire attributes.

Any addition of corrosion or other mixed attributes naturally diminished their potential.

Kong Deming's ninth soul ring for his Silver Moon Martial Soul came from a 100,000-year Ice Evil Tyrant, whose primary attribute was spiritual with ice as a secondary attribute.

Now, the target for his Sun Martial Soul's sixth soul ring was also a 100,000-year Fire Evil Tyrant, with spiritual attributes as its core and fire as a secondary attribute—completely free of any mixed attributes.

Kong Deming had long since gathered intelligence on 100,000-year soul beasts that could benefit him.

After all, at 150 years old and having served as the Hall Master of the Worship Hall for at least a century, he hadn't lived this long without gaining extensive knowledge.

There truly were 100,000-year Fire Evil Tyrants—three of them, in fact!

This fact alone illustrated the strength of the Evil Eye Clan.

Without the deterrence of the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools, a group as vast as the Evil Eye Clan would likely have gone unchecked on the original Douluo Continent.

Dozens of 100,000-year soul beasts weren't the scariest part—the true danger was their existence as a cohesive race.

As a unified group with a leader, they could achieve unprecedented solidarity.

Not to mention, the Evil Eye Tyrants were already among the elites of top-tier soul beasts.

Of the three 100,000-year Fire Evil Tyrants that Kong Deming was aware of, one possessed only spiritual and fire attributes, making it his target.

"I'll go first. After I deal with the Evil Eye Tyrant, you can come in to help me absorb the ring."

Although this would mean the additional effort of bringing Su Yu back and forth, Kong Deming believed the reduced risk made the trade-off worthwhile.

Taking Su Yu deeper into the Evil Demon Forest would undoubtedly increase the danger.

All Evil Eye Tyrants possessed spiritual attributes. Even those with additional fire attributes and lesser spiritual talents were, upon reaching 100,000 years, far stronger in spiritual power than the average Super Douluo!

Even a casual mental interference or spiritual deterrence could potentially send Su Yu to his death on the spot.

Such attacks were nearly impossible to defend against.

Even Jing Hongchen's improved version of "Red Dust Protection" could only provide temporary defense, not permanent safety.

Spiritual deterrence was an innate ability for the Evil Eye Tyrants, one that could activate at any time without warning.

Bringing Su Yu into the depths of the Evil Demon Forest would be far too risky, as even Kong Deming couldn't guarantee he could kill an Evil Eye Tyrant in under nine seconds.

Thus, it was far safer for Su Yu to remain outside.

On the outskirts of the Evil Demon Forest, Kong Deming left Su Yu at a secluded seaside location.

He activated a ninth-level soul-guided shield to protect Su Yu and mask his soul power fluctuations, preventing soul beasts from detecting him.

By the sea, with the breeze blowing gently, Su Yu took the opportunity to delve into studying the intermediate battle armor.

The technology behind Advanced battle armor was notably complex.

Jing Hongchen's compression techniques could address the portability issues of intermediate battle armor but fell short when applied to advanced armor.

It wasn't that Su Yu was deliberately trying to adhere to the traditional four-word battle armor system. Rather, the natural evolution of battle armor development only allowed for a few viable paths.

Advanced battle armor would inevitably require complete integration with soul masters—becoming one with their bodies.

Thus, while compression technology worked as a temporary solution for intermediate battle armor, it was not the ultimate answer.

Spiritual forging was the next challenge Su Yu had to tackle.

"Elder Yi, do you know any methods to integrate rare metals into a soul master's body?"

Before beginning his exploration, Su Yu sought advice from Elder Yi.

"Integrating forged metals into a soul master's body?" Elder Yi pondered over the techniques he knew.

Although Elder Yi couldn't confirm whether such methods existed in the Douluo Plane, he was certain he didn't possess any similar techniques in his own repertoire.

In Elder Yi's world, equipment could be summoned directly through magic. The idea of permanently integrating such equipment into the user's body wasn't part of their system.

While Elder Yi himself could forge divine weapons capable of merging with a soul master—even storing them in their spiritual sea—that was far beyond what Su Yu needed for creating intermediate battle armor.

"There's no such method in my arsenal," Elder Yi admitted, "but I do know Contract Magic and the Blood Pact technique. By studying the soul ring system of soul masters, you could adapt these methods to develop the technology you're envisioning."

Su Yu's eyes lit up with excitement.

This was exactly the kind of insight he needed.

Spiritual forging had exceedingly high requirements.

For a soul engineer to master an additional forging discipline—one that might yield little progress without years of specialized focus—was practically impossible.

It would be more feasible to place hope on further refining core formations.

Of course, this didn't mean rare metals could bypass the forging process entirely. Instead, the spiritual forging step would be substituted with methods like Blood Pact arrays or similar techniques.

Under Elder Yi's guidance, Su Yu began transforming the principles of Contract Magic and the Blood Pact technique into core formation designs.

Meanwhile, Elder Yi also collaborated with Su Yu to research methods of spiritual transformation.

"Awakening the spirit within metal? An intriguing concept."

Elder Yi found Su Yu's idea fascinating. More importantly, he was able to validate its feasibility through research.

"Metal has a soul."

This principle was the foundation of all forging advancements.

Unknowingly, half a month had passed.

In Su Yu's spiritual sea, Elder Yi sighed in admiration.

"The rules of the Douluo Plane are truly extraordinary."

(End of Chapter)