Douluo Dalu: Start with a Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgement

Chapter 498 Energy Issues
As the saying goes, while the authorities are obsessed, the bystanders see clearly. Having been observing silently in secret for a long time, I basically know a lot about the people in the Zizai Gate and can roughly guess what they are thinking.

Among them is Gu Yuena, who seems very domineering and looks down on other humans including Wang Dong'er, but has a different attitude towards Wang Qiu'er, Bai Xiuxue and Ji Lin. Of course, there is also Chi Yuan, but Chi Yuan gained Gu Yuena's recognition through his strength and novels, which is different.

If Wang Qiuer was favored by Gu Yuena because of her identity as the emperor's auspicious beast, and Bai Xiu Xiu was favored by Gu Yuena because of her identity as a soul beast and that inexplicable affection, then Ji Lin was very strange. He was neither a soul beast nor did he have much contact with Gu Yuena. But Gu Yuena went from being disdainful in the beginning to occasionally secretly staring at Ji Lin, showing her extraordinary attention to Ji Lin.

Although Xu Jiujiu couldn't figure out what Gu Yuena was thinking, it didn't stop her from thinking, so she didn't worry about the resources of soul beasts, but the resources of rare metals were a big problem. The original Douluo Continent didn't have many rare metal resources, let alone rare metals with life. If she could take over the legacy of the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Douluo Empire, she could at least form a Molten Knights of 300 people!
Three hundred Molten Knights with the strength of Titled Douluo are enough to sweep the world. Even if a powerful hidden sect jumps out in the end, they can suppress it with force.

Xu Jiujiu looked at Xuan Ziwen and asked, "Master Xuan, when can we produce a complete Molten Knight armor and rare life metal? I will find a way, and you just need to produce results as soon as possible."

Xuan Ziwen pushed up his black-framed glasses and shook his head, saying, "The Molten Knight Armor has now entered its final stage, which is also the most difficult stage. We have been able to give life to the armor and carve stigmata into it, but there is still one last problem."

Ji Lin frowned and looked at the silver-white humanoid mecha in front of him. The whole mecha was forged from Ice Pole Divine Crystal and other super soul guide alloys. Because it was an experimental product, it did not use the Ice Pole Divine Crystal with ice spirit. It looked like a pure dead object. Ji Lin had good eyesight and found several holy marks on the chest and waist of the silver-white mecha. Obviously, this experimental product had been successfully implanted with holy marks, and there were more than one holy marks. The mecha had its own soul skills. In addition, he also observed that the mecha's arms were equipped with small soul guide cannons, the head was equipped with a detection soul guide, and the back could be equipped with a flight soul guide and a propulsion soul guide.

No matter how you look at it, this Molten Knight Armor is a finished product, but Xuan Ziwen said that the research was stuck in the final stage and was not successful. Seeing Ji Lin studying the Molten Knight Armor in front of them, Xu Jiujiu and Xuan Ziwen remained silent.

Ji Lin stared at the silver-white mecha in front of him and pondered for a long time. Suddenly he looked up at Xuan Ziwen and said with sudden realization: "It's energy! Master Xuan, you don't have the energy to drive this Molten Knight now!"

Xuan Ziwen nodded and said, "That's right. The original Molten Knight Armor needs to burn the driver's vitality and something called imaginary energy, but we don't know what imaginary energy is. When reproducing the Molten Knight Armor, we did not remove the effect of burning life to drive the armor. Although this effect is not friendly to the driver, this ability can become the driver's desperate trump card. We changed the original passive burning of vitality to active burning. Whether to burn vitality is determined by the driver. But due to the lack of the so-called imaginary energy, driving the Molten Knight mecha requires burning more vitality. Even Titled Douluo can't withstand this consumption. Although soul power can also replace vitality and imaginary energy, the efficiency of soul power is too low. A Soul Saint can only ensure that the Molten Knight mecha can fight at full strength for ten minutes with his full output of soul power. For the battle between Titled Douluo, ten minutes is too little. Even if equipped with a sealed milk bottle, this time can only be extended to thirty minutes at most."

Although allowing a Soul Sage or Soul Emperor to possess the combat power of a Titled Douluo for thirty minutes or ten minutes is already an amazing result, it still does not meet Ji Lin's expectations. In his opinion, the Molten Knight must be able to fight for at least several hours and replenish its energy independently. It would be best if the sealed milk bottle could be replaced to sustain long-term combat. However, the sealed milk bottle nowadays has only been around for a short time and has not yet reached the level that can sustain the consumption of the Molten Knight mecha.

Xu Jiujiu looked bitter. If it was a problem with resources, she could still find a way, but the issue of energy was too difficult for her. She had no idea what to do and could only look at Ji Lin and Xuan Ziwen helplessly.

Xuan Ziwen shook his head and said, "Unless we can make a level nine sealed milk bottle, we can keep the Molten Knight mecha in combat for a long time. But now the highest sealed milk bottle is only level seven. Making a level nine sealed milk bottle is a long way off, and the materials consumed are also sky-high."

Xu Jiujiu's face darkened a bit, and she said unwillingly: "Then pack more sealed milk bottles, for example, a mecha can be equipped with dozens of sealed milk bottles."

Xuan Ziwen looked at Xu Jiujiu expressionlessly without saying anything, but her meaning was very clear. Xu Jiujiu blushed, and she knew that she was daydreaming. Not to mention the cost of sealed milk bottles, it was impossible for a two-meter-tall humanoid mecha to be equipped with so many milk bottles!

Xuan Ziwen sighed and said, "I've thought of this method before, but equipping the Molten Knight Armor with a large number of sealed milk bottles will affect the combat effectiveness of the mecha, and the soul power output of the sealed milk bottles cannot keep up with the output of the Molten Knight Armor. When the Molten Knight Armor is fighting at full strength, it needs to draw a large amount of soul power output in an instant to exert the combat effectiveness comparable to that of a Titled Douluo, and the sealed milk bottles cannot keep up at all."

Seeing Xuan Ziwen helpless, Xu Jiujiu looked at Ji Lin with hope in her eyes. In her heart, Ji Lin was omnipotent. No matter what the difficulty was, it was not difficult for Ji Lin. It was your turn, Doraemon. Ji Lin's mouth twitched. His understanding of soul guides was only half-baked. Even Xuan Ziwen, a genius ninth-level soul guide, couldn't think of a solution, so how could he have a solution?

Seeing Ji Lin shaking his head, Xu Jiujiu lowered his head in disappointment. Could it be that he could only form a Molten Knights with a combat capability of only half an hour?
Seeing Xu Jiujiu's lost look, Ji Lin was also a little helpless. Seeing that the hard work during this period was about to bear fruit, he told them that the results were out, but they were a group of energy consuming intensive people. They could only fight for half an hour. What could they do in half an hour? Flying from Xingluo City to the battlefield, even for a Titled Douluo, would take more than half an hour.

Although the Molten Knight's half an hour refers to half an hour of full-scale fighting, rather than half an hour of flying, if it is just a simple flight and low-intensity combat, it can be maintained for a longer time, but once it enters a high-intensity battle, the energy will burn rapidly. Unless the pilot turns on the effect of burning life himself, he will not be able to last long relying solely on the sealed bottle.

Xuan Ziwen suggested: "However, if we reduce the combat effectiveness of the Molten Knight mecha and maintain the combat effectiveness of the Soul Saint, even a Soul Venerable can drive it, and the sealed milk bottle can fully support the armor for a long time."

Although from Xuan Ziwen's perspective, he did not want to make defective products that were inferior to replicas, but Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu had paid a lot to support his research, and he liked it here very much. Here, there were no annoying intrigues, and no other so-called nobles came to win him over and disturb his research. Here, he had the Molten Knight mecha that he was obsessed with, and a lot of unknown knowledge. Moreover, Xu Jiujiu strongly supported his research, and no matter what resources he asked for, they would be delivered to him as quickly as possible. It was like heaven to him here.

This period of time was his happiest time. He learned new knowledge every day, and he couldn't help himself when looking at the perfect curves, smooth body, and hard shell of the Molten Knight mecha.

So in order to repay Xu Jiujiu and Ji Lin, he was willing to lower his standards and produce defective products.

Xu Jiujiu pursed his lips and said helplessly: "This is the only way. If there are enough Molten Knights with Soul Saint strength, they can also play a big role."

Compared to the Titled Douluo-level Molten Knight, the Soul Sage-level Molten Knight was completely unable to satisfy Xu Jiujiu. If she could only create a Soul Sage-level Molten Knight from the beginning, she would not be so disappointed and feel empty in her heart. But who made her know that the upper limit of the Molten Knight at this stage is the Titled Douluo!
It would be strange for her not to feel disappointed after watching a Titled Douluo-level Molten Knights slip away from her.

Ji Lin touched his chin. He was a little disappointed. He had prepared so much and spent so much effort, but in the end he could only gain this much. Although forming an army of tens of thousands of Soul Saints could also help him fight against the Sun Moon Empire, it could not sweep across the entire Douluo Continent. Moreover, compared to an army of tens of thousands of Soul Saints, he still preferred to lead the Molten Knights of the three hundred Titled Douluo level.

Regardless of whether it is for pretense or shocking effect, the army of tens of thousands of Soul Saints, although shocking, is far inferior to the three hundred Titled Douluo. After all, in the entire Douluo Continent, there are less than three hundred Titled Douluo in total!

On the contrary, it is not impossible for Douluo Continent to produce tens of thousands of Soul Saints.

Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu were thinking hard, neither of them were willing to give up the Molten Knights so easily. The soul masters around them secretly looked at Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu with a bit of troubled expressions. They knew very well how much resources Xu Jiujiu had invested in them during this period of time. To put it bluntly, if their research failed, even if they sold all their resources, they couldn't get back the lost resources.

(End of this chapter)