Chapter 123 Arriving at the Far North
Huo Yuhao quickly sorted out the design drawings of the six soul guides that were most suitable for mass production with the current national strength of the Tianhun Empire.

Although these six types of soul guides are not the strongest among soul guides of the same level, they are indeed the most suitable for large-scale deployment to soldiers.

Today, the Tianhun Empire has pried out a lot of information about the manufacturing process and information of soul guides from the mouths of the captured Mingde Hall soul masters.

However, only the most basic first to third level soul guides can be promoted on a large scale throughout the country.

Because training a soul guide from scratch is too slow, Huo Yuhao replaced the core array structures of most of these soul guides with mechanical expansion structures.

At the same time, the necessary soul guide core formations are managed by specially trained soul masters. The overall system of soul guide engineers is too complicated, and Huo Yuhao only needs these soul masters with soul power to carve fixed soul guide cores.

Therefore, these soul masters cannot be called formal soul guides, but as long as they are trained more, although the soul guide core arrays of the second-level and third-level soul guides are quite complicated, the corresponding makers should be able to be trained within a year.

On this basis, Huo Yuhao only needs to ensure that the soul guide core array he designed is simple and effective. As for encryption and other techniques, these have nothing to do with low-level soul guides.

In this way, even a blacksmith can produce the mechanical expansion parts of these soul guides, while also allowing the blacksmith in charge of production to concentrate on making fixed single parts.

These individual components and the soul guide core array can then be assembled by specialized soul guides.

In this way, the time required to train soul guides and make soul guides can be greatly shortened, and the resources such as metals used can also be compressed as much as possible.

As weapons for the soldiers, the second- and third-level soul guides are enough to allow the mortal army of the Tianhun Empire to achieve a leap in level.

Unlike the soul guide corps in the original novel of Sun Moon Empire, which was formed with the strategy of elite soldiers, what Huo Yuhao envisioned was a plan to win by numbers.

The Soul Guide Corps of the Sun-Moon Empire is usually equipped with one hundred fourth-level soul guide cannons and ten fifth-level soul guide cannons, but their effective attack range is roughly within five hundred meters, and the maximum attack distance will not exceed eight hundred meters.

It's just that all this information was pried out from the mouths of Mingde Hall's soul guides, and now the details are Mingde Hall's secrets.

Even these seventh-level soul masters from Mingde Hall were not exposed to many specific details, because some top-secret technological advances had not been made public when they were abducted.

However, from the humanoid soul guide brought back by the Body Sect, as well as Mingde Hall’s latest progress in sealing technology, Huo Yuhao was able to infer that the Sun-Moon Empire’s current development in this area is definitely no longer what it used to be.

However, even so, the main application of the Sun-Moon Empire in this regard must be concentrated on the latest high-end soul guides.

Because preparations for war are not something that can be done overnight, the soul guide manufacturing method adopted by the Sun-Moon Empire requires a soul engineer to carve every soul guide component and soul guide core array.

Rather than being produced in the manner of an assembly line processing factory, before a technological breakthrough, the soul guide equipment prepared by the Sun-Moon Empire for each soul guide group could never be re-produced, otherwise the cost and fuss would be too great.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao could basically judge that the soul guides used by the low- and middle-level soul guide groups of the Sun-Moon Empire were still around the fourth level, mixed with fifth-level soul guides.

Although the soul guide equipment designed by Huo Yuhao is of level two or three, the materials used are cheaper than those used by the Sun Moon Empire for its soul guide corps.

With the same number, a hundred soldiers of the Sky Soul Empire, after being equipped with these soul guide equipment, naturally could not be a match for a standard soul guide group of the Sun and Moon Empire.

But if a hundred people are not enough, then a thousand people can be used. Winning by numbers. In the battle between low-level soul masters and soul engineers, even if the level of their cultivation is greatly different, it will not lead to an absolute crushing advantage.

Moreover, the combat style of the Sun-Moon Empire is that the Soul Guide Corps is the main attacker, and those ordinary soldiers exist as logistics and auxiliary forces. They will not appear directly on the front battlefield. Most of the time, they are responsible for sweeping and clearing the battlefield after the war.

Therefore, the focus of the Sun-Moon Empire has always been on the Soul Guide Corps. However, in the original work, even during the most prosperous period of the Sun-Moon Empire Soul Guide Corps, its total number would not exceed 20,000 soul guides.

Although nowadays due to the development of packaging technology, the Sun-Moon Empire may equip low-level soldiers with a certain amount of soul guides and soul power packaging devices.

However, in terms of the overall quality of the grassroots soldiers, the quality of the soldiers originally from the three kingdoms of Douluo Continent, especially the Tianhun Empire, is definitely better than that of the Sun and Moon Empire.

After being equipped with a large number of low-level soul guides, Huo Yuhao was able to narrow the power gap between the Sky Soul Empire and the Sun Moon Empire from 1:0 to 2:1.

Even though it is still at a disadvantage, it will never suffer a crushing defeat like in the original novel, making the Tianhun Empire the first empire to be destroyed.

And if the Tianhun Empire, a big country bordering the Sun-Moon Empire, is a tough nut to crack, then the pressure will naturally fall on another empire adjacent to the Sun-Moon Empire, the Xingluo Empire.

After finishing the design drawings, Huo Yuhao handed them to Du Bu Si. Looking at the six stacks of papers as tall as a person that Huo Yuhao released from the storage soul guide in front of him, Du Bu Si's eyes twitched involuntarily.

"Master, I remember the normal soul guide design drawings. Even for a seventh-level soul guide, the drawings are not so complicated. Besides, the current Sky Soul Empire does not have the ability to produce seventh-level soul guides."

Du Bu Si's impression of soul guides still remains from the time when he robbed Mingde Hall. At that time, he also obtained many design drawings of level seven and level eight soul guides, but the thickest one was just a small booklet.

How could it be as exaggerated as what Huo Yuhao took out? Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao took down a page from the top and showed it to Du Bu Si.

"This is the general outline of this soul guide. It is also the only part that requires a fully trained soul guide to do it."

"As for the others, they are all detailed drawings I got by breaking down the soul guide layer by layer based on style, specifications, and details."

"According to my estimate, only one Level 2 Soul Master, one Level 30 Soul Master, and ten blacksmiths are needed. After special training, one day is enough to make three Level 3 Soul Guides like this."

"If we speed up the work, we should be able to produce five third-level soul guides that meet the standards without leaving any sequelae to their bodies."

"It will only take a year to complete the specialized training required for the manufacturing of each component. My plan is to have 300 production lines for each soul guide."

"The most troublesome thing is that it will require more than three thousand soul masters with a strength of more than level 20. As for blacksmiths, it will probably take more than people." Upon hearing this, Du Bu Si nodded. It is indeed not easy to find more than three thousand soul masters with a strength of more than level who can act secretly for a long time.

However, with the capabilities of the Tianhun Empire, as long as they raise funds for a period of time, it should not be a problem. As for the blacksmiths, it would not be a problem for the whole country to gather 20,000 people.

"In this way, each soul guide can produce nearly a thousand pieces per day after one year, and the materials used are all cheap common metals."

"It should only take one year to complete the basic equipment for the 300,000-strong army of the Tianhun Empire."

"On this basis, in order to prevent these soul guides from being captured by the enemy and causing excessive damage on the battlefield, we also need 3,000 matching seventh-level special soul guides."

"This is also the biggest difficulty. Even if there are soul guides from Mingde Hall to manufacture them, 3,000 level 7 soul guides is not a small project, and the resources consumed are astronomical."

Upon hearing this, Du Bu Si nodded with a serious expression, although these seventh-level soul guides were not absolutely necessary in the plan that Huo Yuhao had just shown him.

However, its existence will undoubtedly enable the Tianhun Empire's legions to have the highest possible sustained combat capability during wartime, greatly reducing equipment losses during wartime.

"To be specific, Master, please arrange the selection of personnel for the production lines of these six soul guides first. Let's put the matter of the seventh-level soul guide on hold for now. If I have a better solution, it won't be too late to restart it."

"Okay." After a while, Du Bu Si's frown relaxed.

Although he did not finish reading the design drawings presented to him by Huo Yuhao and only glanced over the overview, he now had a rough idea of ​​what they were.

At this time, Huo Yuhao coughed lightly and said, "Master, I plan to leave Tiandou City for a while and go to the Far North."

"Okay, go ahead." Du Bu Si didn't seem to have any other opinions on this, and just said so lightly.

“?” But this made Huo Yuhao a little confused. Looking at Du Bu Si in front of him, he asked awkwardly, “Master, do you have anything else to say?”

Upon hearing this, Du Bu Si rolled his eyes at Huo Yuhao and said, “Get lost! I saw it the last time we went to Sunset Forest. Will you discuss what you want to do with me?”

Du Bu Si casually slapped his hands, and a gust of wind from his palm knocked Huo Yuhao out of the study, and then he landed lightly in the yard.

However, Huo Yuhao could also feel that in addition to knocking him away, Du Bu Si's palm also left a hidden soul power on his body.

"I also heard about the fox from Jin Peng. Anyway, just do whatever you want to do. With my life-threatening poison, what does the Far North have to do with it? I can still kill them all!"

Du Bu Si’s voice came from the study, and his words were full of strong self-confidence. Perhaps it could be said that Du Bu Si was originally such a proud person, but he rarely showed it in front of Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao did not stay any longer after seeing this. He bowed towards the study room before leaving.

But after Huo Yuhao left, Du Bu Si’s dark green eyes watched Huo Yuhao’s back as he left. He also put down the drawings in his hand, sighed slightly, and muttered to himself.

"According to what you said about luck before, Yuhao, and with the little girl transformed from the emperor's auspicious beast, even if the Far North is quite dangerous, we should be able to turn danger into safety."

After leaving Du Bu Si’s study, Huo Yuhao returned to his own courtyard. It was now exactly noon. Upon seeing Huo Yuhao coming back, Di Ruier, who was basking in the sun in the courtyard, also stood up.

"Can we go to the Far North now?" Di Ruier's voice was full of anticipation at this time.

Because heading to the Far North was the first step for her to save the soul beast clan as the Emperor's auspicious beast, which she concluded after communicating with Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao nodded. After spending these days together, he and Di Ruier became much closer.

Huo Yuhao took out two seventh-level flying soul guides that the Body Sect brought out from Mingde Hall from his own storage soul guides, and gave one of them to Di Ruier.

Although the soul powers of both of them are around level 60 now, both the quality and quantity are far superior to those of soul masters of the same level, so using a level 7 flying soul guide is naturally a piece of cake for them.

From then on, the two of them formed a group and after leaving Tiandou City, they controlled their flying soul guides and headed towards the bitter and cold land in the extreme north.

'Brother Tianmeng, Brother Tianmeng, we are home.'

"Damn it, Yuhao, why didn't you tell me you were coming to the Far North? I didn't prepare anything!"

After a long while, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm came back to its senses, but it also reacted immediately. However, before it could move, it was stopped by Huo Yuhao.

"Brother Tianmeng doesn't need you to take action yet, but you should stay awake. Let Xiaobai go first this time. When we meet Ice Emperor and Snow Emperor later, it won't be too late for you to take action if something unexpected happens."

Under the control of Huo Yuhao's soul power, the little white fox appeared from Huo Yuhao's sea of ​​consciousness in the icy and snowy land of the far north.

Looking at the familiar scenes around him, although the body formed by soul power could not feel the temperature changes, it was enough to make the little white fox jump for joy.

However, the little white fox did not notice the specialness of Di Ruier beside Huo Yuhao. After all, she had Di Tian’s reverse scale as a cover. Even as a lucky sign of the Far North, the little white fox was unable to detect Di Ruier’s true form.

“Okay, Xiaobai, let’s go.” In order to possess the Ice Dragon King’s martial spirit, Huo Yuhao’s ability to resist extreme cold has been greatly improved in the previous Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire. Di Ruier, whose original form is the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, naturally will not be afraid of ordinary cold.

The two men and the fox gradually began to move deeper into the far north.

(End of this chapter)