Chapter 247 · 600mm Soul Tool Cannon

A long time ago, Chen Ming had already asked Ah Yin to create highly efficient Blue Silver Grass pasture. It was meant to lay a solid and reliable foundation for future animal husbandry.

Over the past two years, these pastures had also gone through many rounds of testing and planting. After confirming their traits, they had already reached a certain scale.

Chen Ming converted part of the land into grassland, preparing to raise a large number of livestock there in order to obtain enough by-products.

Whether it was food like meat, eggs, and milk, or industrial materials like wool, all of them were very needed by Chen Ming's territory.

Normally, raising this many animals would require professionals and several decades of time. The herd would have to be expanded bit by bit before finally reaching a large scale.

Things like chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep always tended to have all kinds of problems during the raising process. If a plague broke out, or if something went wrong at some stage, the already formed scale might collapse all at once. It would be very easy to be knocked back to the starting point overnight.

Because of this, there was a common saying:

"When your wealth reaches a million, don't count anything with fur."

Faced with this issue, Chen Ming simply posted a recruitment notice, offering high pay to hire Spirit Masters and skilled workers who had the ability to influence livestock.

Since Chen Ming was now quite famous in both great empires, and his every move would spread to every corner of the two empires along with merchant caravans, his recruitment notice spread among Spirit Masters almost without much effort.

In the eyes of Spirit Masters, raising livestock was a lowly profession, something that commoners or even slaves should do. Chen Ming hiring Spirit Masters to do this kind of work was unbelievable to most people.

And most people did not believe that there could be Martial Souls capable of taking care of livestock.

However, this world really did have such Martial Souls.

A Spirit Elder whose Martial Soul was the Flute of Suggestion traveled thousands of miles from the Star Luo Empire and joined Chen Ming's side.

Although this Martial Soul sounded very powerful, its actual effect had major flaws. It could even be called a very awkward Martial Soul.

The Flute of Suggestion was a mutated spiritual-attribute Martial Soul, but its quality was only at a high-grade level. It was good at large-area spiritual influence, but its influence on an individual's mind was not strong, and its precision was rather low.

For people with complete consciousness, the Flute of Suggestion could only affect their emotions a little. It could not directly control them. On top of that, the sound of this Martial Soul could be disturbed by other noise, causing its control ability to drop even further.

With all these factors stacked together, this Spirit Elder clearly had a high-quality Martial Soul, yet in reality, forget influencing Spirit Masters or spirit beasts of the same level, even affecting ordinary people was somewhat difficult.

At most, he could bully livestock with less clever brains and control their behavior a little.

Because of this series of flaws, this Spirit Master's combat power was not even as good as a normal Spirit Grandmaster. He had always lived off Spirit Hall's basic allowance. Usually, he ran a small shop and sold some things.

In a sense, he was like an alternate version of Yu Xiaogang.

Compared with Yu Xiaogang, he was not that useless, but he also did not have such a good background or opportunities.

For example, it could use special tones to make animals enter estrus early, suggest to egg-laying hens that they should lay more eggs, and even deceive cows that had never been pregnant into false pregnancy so they would produce milk. It could also suggest hunger to animals, making them eat and grow faster, or calm down animals that had become violent from stress.

This talent was simply born for managing livestock.

The only thing Chen Ming found rather unfortunate was that Douluo Continent did not have a Martial Soul that could make spirit beasts mutate in a chosen direction. Otherwise, he could directly modify spirit beast sheep to grow more wool, or make meat animals produce more meat. That would greatly increase ordinary productivity.

Taking advantage of the chance while infrastructure was being built everywhere, Chen Ming also quietly gathered some materials and hid inside his workshop to try refining a little nitroglycerin.

Because the material composition of the two worlds was somewhat different, Chen Ming truly spent a lot of effort on it. During the refining process, it exploded several times. If Chen Ming had not been so tough, an ordinary person probably would have died.

But since he succeeded, it meant the path had been opened. Next, he only needed to continue expanding production.

He planned to keep walking the path where science fiction and fantasy bloomed together, using soul tool technology from a fantasy world to launch explosive shells made with physical science, gaining destructive power strong enough to bombard and kill Title Douluo-level beings.

By analyzing the alien mechanical technology, Chen Ming also worked backward and figured out how a fantasy-world technology tree that used energy should develop. Then, based on his understanding of the Spirit Power system and his knowledge of Douluo world metals, he created his own weapons and equipment.

Because Spirit Masters and spirit beasts on Douluo Continent both had Spirit Power protecting their bodies, they had extremely high resistance against attacks like energy rays.

Pure energy weapons were instead less lethal than pure kinetic weapons. So Chen Ming preferred to use Spirit Power as support for physical projection, destroying enemies through the purest physical laws.

The Mountain Giant Dragon was an old expert when it came to eating metals. As a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast, he basically had his own understanding of all kinds of metals and knew very clearly what effects different materials could have. In this field, he could almost be considered better than any human blacksmith alive today.

With the help of this old metal-eater, Chen Ming locked onto several very special materials. He used his own ability to devour these materials, gradually combined them into alloys inside his body, and finally reverse-engineered equipment according to the effects and ratios of those alloys.

The materials science of the Douluo world was simply insane. Metals lighter than water, metals with extremely strong conductivity, and all kinds of strange materials existed in endless numbers. Because of this, Chen Ming could skip many preparation and research stages and directly create large killing weapons.

In the end, he forged a giant cannon with a caliber of 600 millimeters, powered by both soul tool energy and gunpowder.

Even if this thing were placed on a warship, it would still count as an oversized monster with a super-large caliber. After all, even the legendary "strongest battleship," the Yamato, only had main guns with a caliber of 460 millimeters.

In an ordinary technological world, this would already be considered a crazy design, with a completely poor cost-performance ratio. Probably only those green-skinned guys would think something with such a huge caliber had to be good.

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