After half a year of seclusion, Su Yu naturally became an eighth-level Soul Guide.
Moreover, his retreat was not just about breaking through a single success.
During the half year, Su Yu crafted three eighth-level Soul-guiding Devices, and five sets of eighth-level Soul-guiding Devices assembled from seventh-level components.
This also means that Su Yu's production skills with eighth-level Soul-guiding Devices have reached a certain level of proficiency.
Of course, as a cost, his supply of rare metals has been completely depleted.
In the future, whenever Su Yu wants to make Soul-guiding Devices, he will have to spend his own money to purchase rare metals.
The half-year seclusion was not about isolation from the world, but rather a state of focused concentration.
"Is it true that there's still a bottleneck in the research of Super Battle Armor?"
As expected, Super Battle Armor is truly a complete set of ninth-level Soul-guiding Device grade armor for a Titled Douluo to wear.
If a newly promoted Titled Douluo has a set of Super Battle Armor, it can at least give them the fighting power equivalent to a Level 95 Super Douluo.
In fact, if it suits them well and the armor is well crafted, it might even possess the fighting power of Level 96 or even 97.
Because at the level of Super Battle Armor, Su Yu added special abilities to it.
Domain!
Solidifying a domain in the armor is the greatest test for a Soul Guide.
Although Kong Deming is highly skilled in Soul-guiding Theory, he also encountered a bottleneck here.
His own Martial Soul Domain was more about chance comprehension and had not yet been clearly understood, let alone adding the ability of a domain out of thin air to the armor, which is simply a challenge.
However, the concept of a domain does indeed have theoretical feasibility.
Kong Deming also values such domain capabilities highly.
Using the spirituality within Spiritual Metal as a guide, solidifying the domain, once the domain is unfolded, it is equivalent to a Spiritual Domain.
Spiritual Power or Soul Power domains can be directly superimposed.
This is the most terrifying aspect.
The challenges facing Kong Deming are not only technical but also the enhancement of spirituality within rare metals, which is a major difficulty as well.
Even with the nurturing of his powerful Soul Power Cultivation, the Spiritual Metal that Kong Deming used to craft his own armor has been nurtured enough to create Advanced Battle Armor, surpassing Su Yu and everyone else, but it is still tens of thousands of miles away from constructing a Super Battle Armor Domain.
The construction of a domain requires an enormous amount of spirituality.
...
"Teacher, I plan to go on a journey for some time."
Kong Deming was surprised by Su Yu's decision, but he didn't react much.
"Hmm, ever since you began your cultivation, you've mostly stayed in Mingdu; you need to go out and gain some experience."
He did not try to dissuade Su Yu, instead thinking that his decision was a good one.
"Where do you plan to travel this time?"
Su Yu had already made up his mind; he wanted to travel to the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
The main objective this time is the Immortal Grass within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, so naturally, he should not travel within the borders of the Sun and Moon Empire.
"The Xingluo, Celestial Soul, and Fighting Spirit Three Kingdoms, where there are more Soul Beast Forests, and more Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, will make it easier for me to gather information on Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts."
Of course, Su Yu could not say directly that he wanted to find Immortal Grass.
His reasons were quite sufficient.
Last time, Kong Deming faced a significant problem when searching for the Seventh Soul Ring.
There was no suitable Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
This was the most regrettable.
At the same time, it was also the most realistic problem.
In the future, Su Yu's Soul Spirit must be at least over two hundred thousand years old, otherwise, it would be better to let the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Spirit add new Soul Rings for him.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts of the Sun and Moon Empire are also numerous, but overall, they fall far short of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
In terms of both the quality and types of Soul Beasts, they are not as abundant as on the Douluo side.
Kong Deming was touched.
Since the search for the Seventh Soul Ring was unsuccessful, nearly a year had passed, and he had found little information until now. Su Yu said he would travel to the Douluo Three Kingdoms to collect information on Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for him, which touched him greatly.
"This is my Silver Moon Divine Light Shield; take it with you, it might save your life in case of an accident."
Su Yu took the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield from Kong Deming.
"Teacher, this is your life-bound Soul-guiding Device."
"Haha, it's alright, your teacher hasn't been stagnant lately.
I refined the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, and this is a more refined version after theory improvement and simplification, for one you can use.
Also, with the Sun Martial Soul's Soul Rings added up to the Sixth Ring, the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield is no longer the most suitable for me.
I'm currently researching the Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield and have a basic prototype now."
Kong Deming didn't mention that this Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield was his key to becoming a Tenth-level Soul Guide, and he planned to make it the first Tenth-level Soul-guiding Device in the history of the Douluo Continent.
Though he didn't say it, Su Yu still had some predictions.
Kong Deming had achieved the Tenth-level Soul Guide status relying on the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield. Although it was not a Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield, since he'd already begun upgrading his life-bound Soul-guiding Device and chose a direction more suited to himself, the chances of success would surely be higher.
Hearing that Kong Deming had already started preparing to research this Sun and Moon Divine Light Shield, Su Yu felt assured and accepted the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
"The greatest function of the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield is the Power of Space, but it needs to work in conjunction with my Silver Moon Martial Soul.
However, aside from the Power of Space, the other abilities of the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield are enough to help you handle the majority of situations."
Su Yu nodded and bid farewell to his teacher.
Leaving Mingdu, Su Yu headed in the direction of the Celestial Soul Empire.
"Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, here I come."