Chen Ming put away the metal soul tool fragments. Then he used the refined metals to make some small soul tools.
He added some encryption to these small soul tools and weakened part of their power, making sure they could not kill a Spirit Saint with one shot. At most, they could only kill a Spirit King with one shot.
Friends who have sold arms before all know this. Compared to guns, bullets are where the real money is.
In a war, the value of the bullets used by one gun is often enough to buy several more guns.
In the original design, Chen Ming's weapon could directly fire metal projectiles. For arms dealing, that was simply far too heartless.
So Chen Ming specially modified the bullets. He made the cost of each bullet higher and built a soul tool inscription and a very small amount of gunpowder into each one.
Only when combined with the gun-shaped soul tool could they be fired.
The inscription inside was formed directly by Chen Ming while controlling the metal. Any attempt to break it open from the outside would directly destroy the inscription.
That way, even if outsiders took apart the bullet, they would be completely unable to copy the principle behind Chen Ming's bullets. The soul tool gun also could not be copied by the blacksmiths of Douluo Continent.
Chen Ming positioned this kind of thing as a high-end luxury product. It was meant for people who had no real strength but came from noble backgrounds, so they could use it as a self-defense weapon.
He would not simply sell it. Instead, he would maximize its value through interest exchanges, auctions, and other methods, using it to obtain more resources and push his territory as a whole toward industrialization.
Thinking of this, Chen Ming touched his soul tool.
Ever since he had used the excuse of putting Ah Yin into the soul tool last time, Ah Yin had already stayed inside it for more than half a year.
Although she truly would not die inside the soul tool, she was probably very uncomfortable.
Before, keeping her inside had been a precaution against Tang San and Tang Hao, and against Ah Yin doing something unfortunate. By now, there was no reason she couldn't be let out.
Making his way to his cave, Chen Ming retrieved Ah Yin from the storage soul tool.
The moment she made contact with the open air, the Ah Yin who had been curled into a tight ball immediately unfurled her branches and leaves. She greedily drank in the energy and life force of heaven and earth, exhaling and inhaling the air of the outside world for the first time in far too long, answering the deepest instincts of her nature as a plant.
"Where exactly are you taking me? Have I been in that soul tool for a very long time? I fell into a dormant state in there. Can you please let me out more often?"
Ah Yin rolled a pen with her branch and quickly wrote in the small notebook. Clearly, her mood was not very good.
After all, as a plant, being locked in a dark room was almost the worst kind of punishment for her.
And because she had once spent some time growing inside a cave in that difficult environment, Ah Yin had a bit of claustrophobia.
It was not especially severe, but Ah Yin instinctively disliked cramped, dark places without air, energy, or sunlight.
"My sincerest apologies. My earlier assessment of how events would unfold was incorrect. I will now inform you in the most direct, unvarnished, and straightforward manner possible: my estimation contained certain errors, which resulted in bringing you along on a trip that turned out to be for nothing."
Chen Ming spoke in an AI-like tone.
"As compensation, may I offer you a small amount of additional nourishment?"
Before Ah Yin could continue writing in her little notebook, Chen Ming raised his left hand, controlled his Spirit Power, and lightly cut a small wound on his fingertip.
He squeezed out a single drop of blood and let it fall onto Ah Yin's roots.
The wound on Chen Ming's hand healed instantly.
As for Ah Yin, the moment she sensed that drop of blood, she began trembling fiercely. Her branches waved nonstop in the air, as if something extremely stimulating had been injected into her all at once.
"Oh, ahhhhh!"
Ah Yin's soul let out an uncontrollable trembling cry. She felt as if her whole body had started burning.
Right now, Chen Ming was still human. But because of his Martial Soul, along with repeated tempering and refinement, the power of his Martial Soul was already purer than that of a true dragon.
Just like Di Tian had guessed before, if any sub-dragon Spirit Beast tasted Chen Ming's blood, it would immediately fall into extreme excitement and madness from the great nourishment.
Although Ah Yin was not a dragon-type Spirit Beast, as a plant-type Spirit Beast, she was extremely sensitive to life force.
This drop of Chen Ming's blood was pure, powerful, and rich with high-quality life force.
Even after living for a hundred thousand years, Ah Yin had never eaten such fine food before.
For a moment, Ah Yin's spiritual waves actually spread into the Blue Silver Network. That joyful spiritual power even guided the nearby Blue Silver Grass to start trembling unconsciously.
Even the Blue Silver King, far away in the Blue Silver Forest, unconsciously raised his head and looked in the direction of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy in surprise.
"The Empress hasn't had any news for a while, and the moment there is news, it's like this…"
"What exactly made the Empress so happy?"
The Blue Silver King twitched his branches and spoke with some envy.
Even just from sensing Ah Yin's spiritual waves, he could tell that Ah Yin seemed to have obtained something extremely excellent. That was why she had become so excited.
After most of the day passed, the constantly trembling Ah Yin finally slowly calmed down. Her branches lay limp on the ground as if all strength had been drained from them.
The whole Blue Silver Grass looked soft and weak, almost as if it had lost its intelligence.
After another while, Ah Yin finally recovered a little. She wrapped her branch around the paper and pen she had thrown away, then slowly wrote a line of small words.
"Can you give me another drop of blood? I don't think I tasted it clearly just now."
In truth, Ah Yin did not really like lying. After all, as a plant-type Spirit Beast, her nature was rather pure and peaceful.
But Chen Ming's drop of blood was simply too delicious.
The things contained inside were not only a great tonic for her current self. Even before she transformed, when she had been at her peak in the Blue Silver Forest, it would still have been an unquestionable treasure.
If she had been watered with blood like this before transforming back then, Ah Yin was confident that as long as she absorbed one or two drops, she could have crossed the hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and continued cultivating upward.
In her current weak state, after tasting only one drop of Chen Ming's blood, Ah Yin had already become deeply attached to that feeling.
To her, even her soul had truly trembled.
"Ah, no — not right now. We can revisit that later. This is something very precious to me as well."
Chen Ming stroked Ah Yin's grass roots like he was petting a cat.
Then he placed Ah Yin, who had unconsciously started wrapping herself around his arm, back in her original growing spot.
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