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Bai Chen twitched the corner of his mouth and changed the way he addressed her.
"Sister."
"Hm? What is it?"
Hearing this, Bai Yueqiu immediately stopped pretending to be busy. She halted the movements in her hands and looked down at him from above.
Bai Chen found her childish behavior amusing. He patted the chair beside him and said:
"Come here. I'm about to start making a soul tool. Haven't you always been curious about how they're made?"
"Huh?"
As expected, Bai Yueqiu's curiosity was instantly stirred. She immediately threw away the forging hammer in her hand and bounced over to sit beside Bai Chen, urging him excitedly:
"Hurry up! Hurry up! I've wanted to learn about this for a long time!"
"Heh, alright, listen carefully…"
Bai Chen picked up the tools used to craft soul tools and began explaining the principles behind their creation.
However, it didn't take long before he noticed something was wrong.
Bai Yueqiu's eyes had clearly started to drift off. With one glance, it was obvious that although she was sitting there physically, her soul had already flown away.
"..."
Bai Chen twitched his lips and lightly knocked her on the head.
Bai Yueqiu suddenly snapped back to reality and asked nervously:
"W-what happened?"
"What happened? Do you know what I just said?"
"Uh… the usage methods of the various tools used to make soul tools?"
"That was just the beginning. I barely talked for two minutes before I moved on to the next topic."
Bai Chen rolled his eyes.
It seemed this girl wasn't suited to studying soul tools.
Seeing his disappointment, Bai Yueqiu pouted slightly, feeling a bit unhappy.
"It's not like I can understand your class anyway. What's the point of learning this stuff? According to your memories, even ten thousand years later the upper limit of soul tools still hasn't reached the level of gods. To someone like us, soul tools are basically useless."
"In terms of increasing individual strength, that's indeed correct."
Bai Chen nodded calmly, then his tone suddenly shifted.
"But who told you I'm learning this just to improve my own strength?"
Bai Yueqiu asked in return:
"Then what do you want to do?"
"Of course—advance human civilization."
Bai Chen said lightly.
"I will use knowledge from the future to make the human society of this world rapidly evolve toward the future."
To Bai Chen, simple personal strength wasn't that appealing.
The achievements created by wisdom and technology were what he liked most.
"For example, in the Douluo era, the overall strength of humanity is far inferior to soul beasts. Once top-tier beasts appear, humans have almost no way to resist them. The combat power of soul beasts absolutely surpasses humans."
"But if Bai Chen had to choose a society to live in, he would definitely choose human civilization, not the world of soul beasts. That is the difference."
"So I chose to study soul tools, the greatest catalyst for human social change."
"Oh…"
Bai Yueqiu asked curiously:
"But how exactly do you plan to use soul tools to guide social progress? That can't be something you can do alone, right?"
"Of course not."
Bai Chen laughed.
"That's exactly why I need to earn money quickly right now—to establish my own organization later."
What one person could accomplish was always limited.
For Bai Chen, building an organization was a necessary step.
Many people wondered why soul beasts didn't learn to use soul tools.
The most important reason was that soul beast society simply wasn't suited for developing them.
Soul tools were essentially industrial products, and industry required systems and organization.
Soul beasts, however, were creatures far removed from systematic society.
For example, who would mine the metals needed to create soul tools?
To soul beasts, that would be extremely difficult.
It was easier for them to fight directly than to control other soul beasts to mine resources—something harder than teaching a six-year-old human child.
Division of labor and cooperation were essential parts of human society.
Humanity reached its current stage largely because of collaboration and inheritance of knowledge.
"I understand now."
Bai Yueqiu nodded, puffing out her chest proudly.
"Then when the time comes, I'll be the second-in-command of the organization you establish!"
"You…"
"What? I'll be someone who helped you create the organization from the beginning. Won't you even give me this little privilege?"
"Alright, alright. I promise."
Bai Chen couldn't help laughing and nodded in agreement.
Although Bai Yueqiu was technically his older sister, anyone observing them would probably think Bai Chen was the more mature one.
After chatting briefly, Bai Chen officially began crafting soul tools.
Just as he had predicted earlier, in this era his talent in soul tool creation was the highest.
His extremely strong spiritual power and the spiritual detection ability brought by the Skydream Ice Silkworm provided tremendous assistance.
If it weren't for his insufficient soul power, he might have almost been able to create a Level-5 soul tool.
"But this is enough."
Bai Chen smiled and set down the carving knife in his hand.
On the table in front of him lay a bright red bomb.
A Type-4 explosive shell.
This was the first soul tool he had created in this era.
Even ten thousand years later, such bombs would still pose enormous threats to Title Douluo-level powerhouses.
In this era, it was undoubtedly a terrifying weapon.
At the very least, making money with it would be more than enough.
After admiring his work for a moment, Bai Chen placed the bomb aside and began carving a storage bracelet.
He planned to sell these items, so storage soul tools were necessary.
In this era, storage soul tools weren't the common items they would later become.
Without capital, he had to craft everything himself.
Not only him—Bai Yueqiu and Chi Wang would also need storage tools.
For the next several days, Bai Chen stayed locked inside his room, repeatedly forging and carving soul tools.
During this period, Chi Wang and Bai Yueqiu handled buying food and supplies.
If not for the constant sounds of forging inside the room, the shop owner might have suspected something was wrong with this young genius.
Finally, after a full week, Bai Chen walked out of the room.
He tidied himself up and left the blacksmith shop for the first time in a week.
"Hm? Why does the atmosphere feel a little strange?"
Bai Chen frowned.
With his far-superior spiritual perception, he immediately sensed a strange atmosphere lingering in the air.
He casually stopped a passerby and asked:
"Brother, I haven't gone out much recently. Why does the street feel different compared to a week ago?"
"Hah, little brother, your information must be really outdated."
The passerby said enthusiastically:
"Don't you know? Heaven Dou City has become the cultivation holy land of the entire Douluo Continent!"
"???"