Douluo Dalu: Start with a Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgement

Chapter 497 Underground Base
In the palace, Xu Jiujiu, who was handling affairs, received the news of Ji Lin's return and was delighted. It would be best if Ji Lin returned safely. No matter whether the matter was accomplished or not, as long as he returned safely, that would be the best news.

Xu Jiawei, who was also in the palace at this time, heard the news brought by the guards and said with a smile: "The little guy is back. Jiumei, you can go back first. Leave the things here to me. Compared with these trivial matters, there is more important."

Xu Jiujiu nodded and said, "I understand, brother. I will go back now."

Ji Lin didn't have to wait long before Xu Jiujiu returned to Zizai Gate. Without waiting for Xu Jiujiu to say "hello", Ji Lin threw a snowflake token and a storage ring to Xu Jiujiu.

"Sister Jiujiu, I have accomplished my mission. The storage soul guide contains rare metals that have been tempered, and the token is the Snow Emperor Token. I will ask Granny Manyi to take it to the Far North in a while. I have already entrusted the soul beasts in the Far North to help mine the ore. As long as you show the Snow Emperor Token, they will hand over the mined ore to the person holding it."

Xu Jiujiu took the Snow Emperor Order and the storage soul guide ring and said happily: "I knew that you, Xiaolin, are the best. Now we don't have to worry about the progress being slowed down by the rare metals. I will go to find Master Xuan and give these rare metals to him."

"That's great. Let's go together and take a look at the achievements of Master Xuan and his team."

Ji Lin was not in a hurry to collect the reward. It was still daytime and he had to wait until night.

According to what Wang Qiuer and the others said, Xuan Ziwen was not in his exclusive laboratory, but in the underground base. So Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu went straight to the underground base.

Zizaimen, underground base.

Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu were walking in an empty and wide passage. The soul guide lights on both sides of the passage emitted bright light, providing enough light for the base deep underground.

Not long after walking forward, the two entered a passage on the left. A pitch-black metal door appeared at the end of the passage. Xu Jiujiu took out an identification card and swiped it on the soul guide identifier. With a slight "beep" sound, the red light on the soul guide identifier turned green, and then the pitch-black metal door slowly opened silently.

The two entered and found that it was very spacious and turned out to be a huge laboratory. At this moment, in the laboratory, dozens of soul engineers in white coats were busy. When they saw Xu Jiujiu and Ji Lin coming in, they just glanced at them and ignored them, immersed in their own research.

Ji Lin didn't care. These soul engineers who loved research had this kind of character. When they were in Mingde Hall, they all stayed in their own laboratories to do research. If Ji Lin hadn't given them an irresistible temptation, they wouldn't have come all the way from the Sun and Moon Empire to the Xingluo Empire. Only soul engineers like them who were obsessed with research and regarded soul guide technology as more important than anything else would not care about their positions and would not refuse to help Ji Lin with research just because they belonged to different countries.

Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu walked slowly into the laboratory. The laboratory was very large. The circular laboratory had a diameter of over a hundred meters and a height of thirty meters. Ji Lin saw Xuan Ziwen standing in a workshop from a distance.

He held Xu Jiujiu's jade hand and walked quickly towards Xuan Ziwen. However, when he came behind Xuan Ziwen, their eyes were instantly attracted by the silver-white figure in front of Xuan Ziwen.

This is a tall mechanical armor with a silver-white body. It has a full-coverage mask on the head and two protruding shawls on the shoulders to protect the shoulders. There are two movable armors on the elbows, gloves and wrist armor on the hands, and a spray device at the elbow joints. The legs are integral armor, also equipped with a spray device.

"This is it! Molten Knight Armor! Did you make it successfully, Master Xuan?"

Xu Jiujiu was extremely surprised and looked at the handsome and gorgeous silver-white exoskeleton armor in front of him with fascination.

"No! It is impossible to make a complete Molten Knight Armor with the existing soul guide technology. Without the active metal that can coexist with the host as mentioned in the blueprint, the memory metal with self-repair function, the so-called genes and materials for 'breeding' the insect swarm, and those unknown technologies that we don't understand at all, it is impossible to completely reproduce the Fusion Knight Armor on the blueprint. Even the simplest Firefly-I type cannot be reproduced, let alone the Firefly-IV and Firefly-V types which are more powerful and complex than Type I." Xuan Ziwen sighed, his eyes full of regret and unwillingness. He had a hunch that he would never have the chance to see the Firefly-IV and Firefly-V types on the blueprint appear in the world in his lifetime!

Ji Lin looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar humanoid mecha in front of him and exclaimed: "Master Xuan, there is no need to do this. Even without those special materials, as long as the replica can have one tenth of the power of the original, it will be a feat that can shock the entire Douluo Continent."

Xuan Ziwen shook his head and said, "We were able to make a replica thanks to the drawings provided by the Sect Master. Without these drawings, we would not be able to research this kind of humanoid mecha. Even if we could research it, it would probably be many years later. Moreover, it might not be as strong as the Molten Knight Armor, and it would not have the growth potential of the Molten Knight Armor."

"Growth potential?"

Xu Jiujiu tilted her head, her face full of confusion. She didn't understand. It was just a soul guide armor. How could it have any growth potential?
Xuan Ziwen's usually cold face showed a stiff smile, and he introduced: "We used the Ice Pole Divine Crystal provided by the Sect Master as the main material. This Ice Pole Divine Crystal has an ice spirit, and to some extent, it has life. Unfortunately, the number of Ice Pole Divine Crystals with ice spirits is very small. Most of the Ice Pole Divine Crystals do not have ice spirits and are still dead. The Molten Knight Armor made with the Ice Pole Divine Crystals with ice spirits also has life. At the same time, we also copied the original Molten Knight Armor and used the materials from soul beasts. At the same time, we implanted soul beast genes in the Molten Knight Armor and engraved holy marks. In theory, the fusion knight armor made with the body materials of a hundred thousand year soul beast, plus the engraved hundred thousand year holy marks, can be given to a soul saint to use. He can fully exert the strength of a Titled Douluo."

Speaking of this, Xuan Ziwen's voice trembled a little. As the person in charge of the Molten Knight Armor project, he knew very well what this meant. You know, the Molten Knight Armor could theoretically be mass-produced.

Xu Jiujiu opened her mouth wide, her pretty face full of disbelief, and she looked very cute, which made Ji Lin's appetite grow. Although she knew that the Molten Knight Armor would be very strong, she didn't expect it to be so strong. She knew very well what it meant to have the combat power of a Titled Douluo. Although this was the combat power that only the top-of-the-line Molten Knight Armor had, Xu Jiujiu, who knew Ji Lin's background, knew very well that the materials on the 100,000-year soul beasts, would the beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest lack them? The 100,000-year holy marks, would the Zizai Gate, as the founder and developer of the holy marks, lack them? The soul beast princess and the soul beast co-lord are now both in the Zizai Gate!

Although rare metals with life are rare, they are not unavailable. As long as the Xingluo Empire is determined, they can still collect some. As for Ji Lin, he brought out a lot of Ice Extreme Divine Crystals with Ice Spirit from the Earth Dragon Gate, which are enough for temporary use.

However, by lowering the standards and not using top-level soul guide metals, and using materials from ten thousand year soul beasts and ten thousand year holy marks, even if one can only exert the strength of a soul saint, it is a force beyond imagination.

Although Soul Sage-level warriors are rare, if the Star Luo Empire wants to, it can still raise a force of thousands of Soul Sages. If there are a thousand Molten Knight armors, that means thousands of Titled Douluo. Even if they are all ordinary Titled Douluo combat power, they are still Titled Douluo, which is enough to sweep the continent.

Not to mention, the top-level Molten Knight Armor has life and can grow with the host and can also evolve. Among a thousand Molten Knights, as long as one hundred of them can evolve the Molten Knight Armor, that would be the combat power of hundreds of Super Douluo.

When he thought of this, Xu Jiujiu's heart beat faster, his face turned red, and his excitement was beyond words.

Seeing that Xu Jiujiu had fallen into daydreaming, Ji Lin could not help but say, "Wake up, Sister Jiujiu, we don't have that many rare materials. Even if we form a Molten Knights group of hundreds of people, I'm afraid it will bankrupt the Xingluo Empire!"

Xu Jiujiu felt as if a basin of cold water was poured over her head. She shuddered and instantly came to her senses. Yes, her idea was beautiful, but they did not have the ability and conditions at this stage. Even if the Xingluo Empire mobilized the entire country, they could probably only form a knight group of a hundred people, and they would also need their Xingguan Sect to use the heritage accumulated for thousands of years. This was not an easy task. Even if Xu Jiawei was the leader of the Xingguan Sect, if he wanted to do such a thing, it would probably alarm those old antiques who had already started to retire and wait for death.

Xu Jiujiu bit his thumb lightly and fell into deep thought. Hundreds of Titled Douluo-level Molten Knights sounded very powerful and invincible, but they could not help Ji Lin suppress the entire Douluo Continent. You must know that when the Sun-Moon Empire and the original Three Douluo Kingdoms fought the first holy war, Shrek Academy summoned hundreds of Titled Douluo, including Super Douluo. The newly established Molten Knights had not evolved and could not fight against Super Douluo alone.

Therefore, if you want to help Ji Lin, you need more Molten Knights, and to have more Molten Knights, you need a lot of resources, including soul beast resources and stigma resources. Ji Lin’s ally, the Silver Dragon King, will provide a backup. Xu Jiujiu, who has had contact with the Silver Dragon Princess Gu Yuena, can see clearly that the Silver Dragon King is very curious about her Xiao Lin. When a woman starts to be curious about a man, it means the beginning of her fall.

In fact, after observing for such a long time, she has determined that Gu Yuena's attitude towards Ji Lin is completely different from that towards other people.

(End of this chapter)