Soul Land IV (Douluo Dalu) : Ultimate Fighting

Chapter 222: Mother Planet, here I come

Mechas and warships still had their differences after all, and Yin Tianfan had a series of plans for him in this aspect; he just had to proceed according to his teacher’s plan.

But right now, Lan Xuanyu felt that the biggest question he had was regarding Battle Armors.

Ji Hongbin mentioned before that Battle Armor Masters could try creating their own Battle Armors—the most basic Battle Armor—after reaching their third ring.

But creating a Battle Armor for oneself required one to be proficient in Battle Armor forging, designing, manufacturing, and repairing. As for now, Lan Xuanyu wasn’t skilled in any of them!

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to learn, but he really didn’t have the time at all when he was in the Elite Junior Class. He had to cultivate with Ji Hongbin and get abused by Yin Tianfan at the same time; how could he have the energy to learn those four supplementary jobs for Battle Armor manufacturing? He must make sure to improve in this aspect after getting into Shrek Academy. As to what he was going to learn, he will decide later.

Lan Xuanyu hadn’t figured out what he should learn, either.

Battle Armor was a must-have; this was a representation of a person’s strength. The core of a Duo Mecha Master wasn’t a mecha but a Battle Armor. Battle Armor was the armor that Soul Masters had, and a high-grade Battle Armor could even be integrated into one’s body. Once danger was encountered, it would automatically develop defense and enhancement.

Soul Masters who had Battle Armors would have an increase in their battle power. If they were piloting a mecha, even if the mecha broke down, they could still have the power to continue battling with just the Battle Armor. Using both Battle Armor and mecha—this was the true Duo Mecha Master.

The Jin Long Yue Yu and Silver Dragon Wulin Battle Armor garage kits that Lan Xuanyu bought previously were once the most magnificent Battle Armors over 10,000 years ago. He was quite obsessed with Battle Armors.

However, three rings... when would he be able to reach the third ring, ah!

Compared to the smooth increase of his Spiritual Power, increasing his Soul Power was simply too difficult. He was only at level 21 now. Lan Xuanyu was very sure that his Soul Power was definitely the weakest among all the students who registered for the test at Shrek Academy.

He couldn’t help but sigh at the thought of that. His cultivation was already slow, and once he used the Martial Soul Fusion technique, it would lower his rank. Although this would improve the fusion of his gold-and-silver bloodline, if his Soul Power cannot increase, there wouldn’t be any support from the source.

He wanted to become a strong, offense-type Battle Soul Master too and charge forward like Bing Tianliang and save a crisis. However, he didn’t have that strength! Only the strong ones could charge forward; who would want to be at the back just giving support, huh?

The only slightly stronger method he knew was that rank-lowering Martial Soul Fusion technique.

The main way to increase Soul Power was still meditation, and he also felt that his meditation was already not bad. His strong Spiritual Power always allowed him to enter a deeper level of meditation, but the problem was that his Soul Power still increased very slowly. He could subtly feel a portion of his Soul Power being absorbed by the gold-and-silver vortex in his chest, but it was like a clay ox going into the sea—it was gone forever and didn’t have any feedback.

Right now, Bing Tianliang is already at his fourth ring; in a few years’ time, when everyone is at their sixth ring, would he be able to have his third ring, ah? The gap was getting wider and wider, and this had also become the biggest problem for him to get into Shrek Academy.

If he could get into Shrek Academy, he must find a way to quickly increase his Soul Power. Otherwise, everything would be of no use, and he could only remain and develop in the Space Command Faculty in the future.

When Lan Xuanyu had this plan in mind, he gradually calmed down. With his body relaxed, he recalled the various successes and failures he had gone through during the previous tests and summed up all of his mistakes in commanding and battling as well as areas which he excelled in.

He suddenly realized that this sort of self-reflection felt very good. Looking at the details of his memories could train his mind, and he could be more meticulous in his thinking and get to know himself better.

Just as he was thinking, he didn’t know when but he had naturally entered the state of meditation. Everything became peaceful and quiet. The spacecraft was flying stably in space, heading straight for the origin of the Federation, the Mother Planet.

For the remaining time, Lan Xuanyu had been meditating. He would wake up once in a while, ate some food, visit the toilet, then continue meditating.

Liu Feng and Qian Lei woke up after that as well; they didn’t need to be reminded and were also meditating every day. Everyone was seizing every minute and second to improve themselves and work hard in order to get into Shrek Academy.

Sometimes, Lan Xuanyu even thought that their hard work would never go to waste. Even if they didn’t get into Shrek Academy in the end, this experience would still be very valuable to them.

After some time, following the clear “didi” sound, passengers who were asleep or meditating began waking up. Everyone in the spacecraft knew that they were about to arrive at their destination.

Lan Xuanyu sat on the bedside and looked out of the window and immediately saw an azure blue planet appear not far ahead. Of course, “not far” in space was relative.

A big area of the Mother Planet was covered by the ocean. There were three main continents, namely the origin of the Federation which was the Douluo Continent, followed by Star Luo Continent and Douling Continent.

It was said that the current Douluo Continent was not like before. Twenty thousand years ago, the Earth’s crust moved and another piece of continent called the Sun Moon Continent was translated over and knocked against the Douluo Continent. There were only a small number of people on that piece of Sun Moon Continent, but they had the inventions of Soul Guidance devices and a huge amount of rare metals.

The collision of two continents brought about a war between two nations. It was also after that period that mankind was reunified, and Soul Guidance devices developed rapidly.

As mankind progressed, soul beasts became the most pitiful existence. Strong Soul Guidance devices led mankind to compress the living space of soul beasts which caused them to be endangered. The Federation was also established at that time.

After that, for some reason, the Federation and soul beasts reached an agreement on peaceful coexistence and began to devote all their efforts to interstellar migration which led to today’s Federation.

Almost every mankind had strong feelings toward Douluo Planet, and Lan Xuanyu was no exception because Nan Cheng told him before that he was born on Douluo Planet!

This was where he was born.

The spacecraft was getting closer and closer to Douluo Planet; the place that appeared like a planet from a distance at first was now enlarged, and one could roughly see all sorts of colors, mainly green and blue.

Lan Xuanyu had learned about Douluo Planet in school before. Following the interstellar migration, there was a large decrease in humans living on the Mother Planet which allowed the entire planet to rest and recuperate. The Federation had pushed for making the Mother Planet green again so much that over 50 percent of the surface of all three continents in the Mother Planet were green.

In fact, everyone in the Federation hoped that they would be able to return to live on the Mother Planet whether they were living on that colonized planet or not. But at the same time, the cost of living on the Mother Planet was also the highest among all the planets.

Mother Planet! This was where he was born.

He didn’t know why but upon seeing this gigantic planet that they were gradually nearing, a strange emotion surfaced deep in his heart.

He really liked this place.

The spacecraft shook gently and the alert signal went off. All of the safety belts pulled back and fastened tightly. They had entered the atmospheric layer of the Mother Planet.

Lan Xuanyu sat properly; the Soul Power in his body was circulating to counteract the shaking of the spacecraft. He thought to himself, ‘Mother Planet, here I come!’