More than half a month later.
In a seldom-trodden canyon stood a cluster of buildings steeped in a dark style.
At this moment, within the canyon, a bear, an ape, and a tiger were overwhelming the field. The three domains of sharpness, gravity, and evil burst forth, as they slaughtered a group of panic-stricken blood-robed soul masters.
High above the canyon circled two majestic holy dragons, one white and one silver. Golden radiance flared from the white holy dragon, while a silvery-gray halo spread from the silver one. The two holy dragons sealed off any escape by air.
Any blood-robed soul master with the ability to fly who tried to flee into the sky was crushed to death by a single dragon claw.
At length, as a resplendent earth-yellow pillar of light pierced the heavens, a blood-colored figure bearing nine spirit rings of yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black was blasted apart in midair. The battle within the canyon finally drew to a close.
"Master Jieke, the deputy cult leader of the Moon Worship Cult has been slain. Now that the cult leader 'Blood Moon' has fallen, there are no Titled Douluo with nine rings left in the Moon Worship Cult, and their core members have been wiped out. Is this as you wished?"
On a nearby mountaintop, watching the blood-colored figure turned into pulp by the Titan Giant Ape Xiao Ming's innate soul skill, Titan Firmament Break, Chu Chengzhou turned to the thin, bespectacled middle-aged man beside him, who looked unusually agitated, and spoke.
Strangely, Chu Chengzhou was not speaking the common tongue of the Douluo Continent.
"Subordinate Ma Jieke pays respects to my lord!"
At these words, the thin, bespectacled middle-aged Ma Jieke dropped to his knees without another word.
"Ha ha, Master Jieke, please rise. From now on, if you and I join hands, we will surely usher in a flourishing age of soul tools."
Seeing this, Chu Chengzhou smiled and warmly helped Ma Jieke up.
Half a month earlier, after concluding matters at the Clear Sky Sect and returning to Heaven Dou City, Chu Chengzhou headed west, crossed the boundless sea, and began his journey to seek the Sun Moon Continent.
His efforts were rewarded. In just three days, riding the spatial holy dragon Xiao Yin he had summoned, Chu Chengzhou located the Sun Moon Continent.
In truth, the Sun Moon Continent was easy to find. It is an entire continent, not a small island lost in the vast sea. With such a massive landmass, as long as your general heading is right, it is impossible to miss.
For countless years, neither the Douluo Continent nor the Sun Moon Continent discovered the other. This was due to limited horizons, plus the dangers of the sea, where ferocious sea spirit beasts abound, which curtailed exploration.
Take Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi as examples. As half-god powerhouses, both absolutely had the strength to cross the vast sea and search for the Sun Moon Continent. Even encountering a ferocious beast as old as nine hundred thousand years, they might not necessarily defeat it, but withdrawing intact would certainly be no problem.
Unfortunately, limited by their outlook, neither of them ever conceived the idea of exploring the ocean.
Those who did desire to explore lacked the strength. Faced with the many sea spirit beasts, they were directly dissuaded.
Of course, Chu Chengzhou also understood he probably was not the first person from the greater Douluo world to know of the Sun Moon Continent's existence.
For example, Poseidon, who ascended to the Sea God position ten thousand years ago. Even if he had not gone to the Sun Moon Continent before becoming a god, after becoming a god he would definitely have known of it.
As expected, even though this was several thousand years earlier than when the two continents collided in later eras, the Sun Moon Continent had already lit up the soul tool technology tree.
Moreover, the level of soul tool technology on the Sun Moon Continent was not bad. According to the intelligence he gathered, although even the most top-tier soul tools could not pose a fatal threat to a Titled Douluo, many Soul Sages and Soul Douluo had fallen to soul tools.
However, unlike the modern industrial technology of Chu Chengzhou's previous life, although the Sun Moon Continent had soul tool technology, it had not been popularized among ordinary people. Like soul masters on the Douluo Continent, only a few could handle it.
After all, to use soul tools, the first prerequisite is to become a soul master. To become a soul engineer, you still must first be a soul master.
It was like thousands of troops squeezing across a single-log bridge. In the Sun Moon Continent's soul master world, only a very small number of soul masters were soul engineers. Most were ordinary soul masters.
For others, arriving in a strange land with a language barrier would be a top-tier problem.
For Chu Chengzhou, it was not. With the Void Illusion Realm, through communication via spiritual power, he took little time to master the Sun Moon common tongue. It was not perfect, but at least people of the Sun Moon Continent could understand him.
At first, Chu Chengzhou planned to come quietly and leave quietly, learn some entry-level soul tool technology, and later rely on his cheat to become a soul tool master.
Only reality was not so simple.
After removing the language barrier, Chu Chengzhou immediately nabbed a soul engineer of decent level.
Using the Void Illusion Realm's effect of altering consciousness, Chu Chengzhou once again became the great Lord God.
The "devout believer" taught without reservation, the "Lord God" learned earnestly, and Chu Chengzhou quickly mastered an entry-level soul guidance array.
But a problem arose. The skill list on his status panel showed only that single soul guidance array Chu Chengzhou himself had learned.
Its initial grade was not low. It reached yellow grade, and Chu Chengzhou even spent one day of an idle slot to AFK-upgrade it to purple grade.
Good news, the soul guidance array became more profound, and he fully grasped it.
Bad news, he still knew only that one soul guidance array.
There are eleven basic elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, darkness, time, and space. Variant elements are too numerous to count. Would this not mean at least idling to level up eleven disciplines to master the soul guidance arrays for all basic elements?
What is more, that is only one soul guidance array for each element. It is still far from truly forging the four-word battle armor of later generations.
Thus Chu Chengzhou changed his plan. He decided to find a soul engineer with solid talent and potential, join hands with him, and together derive the lowest tier of later-era battle armor, the one-word battle armor made of thousand-forged metal.
After all, you can inscribe soul guidance arrays, and I can forge thousand-forged metal. What remains is the design approach. Since it is only the lowest one-word battle armor, it should not take long to succeed, right?
When I learn it then, a skill like "Battle Armor Crafting" will likely appear on the status panel. With the power of the cheat thereafter, forging heavenly-forged four-word battle armor will naturally be within reach.
Chu Chengzhou: Plan succeeded, perfect!
To find a partner, he naturally had to look for the best in the field.
After locating several experts in the Sun Moon Continent's soul master world and conducting some "friendly" questioning, Chu Chengzhou sought out the one living closest to him at the time, who was also a well-known top-tier soul engineer in the Sun Moon soul master world, Ma Jieke.
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