dmims Chapter 43: You made up all those words.
Chapter 43: You made up all those words.
This small action angered Meng Hongchen, who was already sulking because she hadn't managed to get a seat.
She suddenly raised her hand and exclaimed, "Teacher! I don't think he's entirely right!"
Lin Jiayi's eyes lit up: "Meng Hongchen, what's your opinion?"
Meng Hongchen stood up, her voice clear and melodious, and began to explain: "Soul tools are far more than just weapons for killing. They are closely related to everything in our lives. While developing weapons is certainly for the purpose of protecting our homes and country, the ultimate goal of advancing soul tools is to better safeguard our lives. They can be tools to assist soul masters in their cultivation, or they can be everyday items to improve a soul master's clothing, food, housing, and transportation. To limit soul tools to the word 'weapon' is to have a very narrow perspective."
Lin Jiayi nodded approvingly, thinking to himself that as expected of the granddaughter of the Mingde Hall Master, her vision and perspective were indeed extraordinary: "Meng Hongchen's insights are very advanced, and this is also the core idea of a major mainstream school of thought in the current Imperial Soul Guidance world, emphasizing both civilian and military applications."
When Meng Hongchen sat down, she glared at Wang Jiahao without any politeness. Wang Jiahao just scoffed and curled his lip, clearly not taking such a statement seriously.
"Well then..." Lin Jiayi's gaze swept past the front row and landed precisely on the window seat in the back row, "I wonder if Ye Chenxing has any unique insights on this?"
This was a special task that Jing Hongchen had privately assigned to him. Although Jing Hongchen didn't expect Ye Chenxing, whose martial soul talent had already reached its peak, to have the same talent in soul tools, he hoped that he could at least cultivate the boy's interest in soul tools, help him understand some basic knowledge about soul tools, and enable him to use them proficiently.
At the very least, we cannot allow him to become like those rigid, traditional soul masters from the original Douluo Three Kingdoms, blindly confident in his martial soul and thus resisting and rejecting soul guidance technology.
Under the watchful eyes of the entire class, Ye Chenxing slowly stood up from her seat.
His expression was calm, and his tone was even, but the moment he opened his mouth, he dropped a bombshell: "Teacher, I think the two students before me were speaking from the perspective of a Soul Master. But in my opinion, although a Soul Tool has the word 'Soul' in it, it doesn't necessarily require a Soul Master, or rather... it doesn't necessarily require a Soul Specialist to use."
The classroom fell silent for a second after he said that.
"Pfft—" Wang Jiahao couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Are you starting to spout nonsense just to be different? Ordinary people don't even have soul power, how can they activate the core formation? You're just pretending to know what you don't."
Xiao Hongchen, who had been sitting to the side with little interest and no interest in these fundamental theoretical debates, turned around and stared at Ye Chenxing with great interest.
Lin Jiayi was also startled, her face full of surprise: "Ye Chenxing, why would you have such a thought?"
Ye Chenxing ignored Wang Jiahao's sarcasm and looked out the window: "I think what soul tools truly represent is the future, is infinite possibilities. Think back to the earliest times, soul tools could only be activated by soul masters injecting soul power in real time; but later, our ancestors invented soul tools like baby bottles, which can store soul power."
"Then, let's make another bold assumption—what if one day, the technology for baby bottles breaks through the technological bottleneck of soul power loss, and can perfectly and permanently retain soul power? Even more, what if we find a stable energy source that exists naturally and can replace soul power as the driving core...?"
"This means that the barriers to using soul tools will be completely broken, and they will truly reach the hands of millions of ordinary people without soul power."
Lin Jiayi was truly shocked. This was no nonsense! Sealing technology for baby bottles and finding alternative energy sources were precisely some of the core challenges that Mingdetang was currently tackling!
Although no Soul Master has yet been able to provide a definitive answer, this does not diminish the fact that what Ye Chenxing said is indeed a major development prospect for Soul Tools. Ye Chenxing is clearly a pure Soul Master who grew up in the Heavenly Soul Empire and knows nothing about Soul Tools, yet he was able to coincide with the most cutting-edge researchers at Mingde Hall and, with just a few words, pointed out the future direction of Soul Tool technology!
However, before Lin Jiayi could recover from her shock, Ye Chenxing continued his response. His views went beyond that, and his words now possessed a persuasive charm, like a skilled politician skillfully unfolding a grand vision of the future:
"But this is far from the end. The future represented by soul tools surpasses the imagination of all of us here! One day, they will evolve into sophisticated, fully automated machines that require no human intervention. They may even possess self-awareness and autonomously research more advanced soul tools! Humanity may achieve immortality in another sense through mechanical ascension and memory upload! Soul masters will no longer need to hunt soul beasts in the wilderness, because soul tools can conjure the most perfect artificial soul rings for you out of thin air! We can even build massive interstellar warships, break free from the gravity of this continent, and cross the vast starry sea to conquer other worlds! Even... mastering space and laws, transcending the river of time! Overcoming the barriers of planes!"
The entire class fell into complete silence.
All the students in the class were stunned. Even these geniuses from the Sun Moon Empire, living at the forefront of civilization, couldn't digest Ye Chenxing's views and could only stare at him as if he were a monster. Lin Jiayi also froze on the podium, his mind blank.
Autonomous consciousness, mechanical immortality, artificial soul rings, interstellar warships... these wildly imaginative, even insane, ideas are a devastating blow to the existing soul guidance system!
But...why? Why, at the same time as feeling the absurdity, did an uncontrollable voice inside him scream wildly: He's right! This really is the other side that a soul tool might reach!
Wang Jiahao's face turned pale and then flushed, and after struggling for a long time, he finally managed to stammer out a sentence, his bravado masking his inner weakness:
"You...you made all of these words up!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Chenxing chuckled softly. He didn't refute, his gaze calmly sweeping over Wang Jiahao, then over the shocked Lin Jiayi, and over the entire class, before slowly speaking:
"You can disagree with me, but please don't disagree with the future of soul tools."
The entire class held their breath, and all eyes were fixed on the white-haired boy.