Currently, there are no soul-guided cars in Douluo Continent; ground transportation is still mainly by horse-drawn carriages.
The soul-guided car in front of him, resembling a jeep, was handcrafted by Huo Yuhao.
Having been a planetary engine repair engineer in his previous life, building a car with the help of mental and telekinetic power was a piece of cake.
As for the precision components needed for the car, those could be easily replaced with a few rare metals. For
the transmission components of these two soul-guided cars, Huo Yuhao directly used room-temperature, room-pressure superconductors. These things are really worthless in the Heavenly Soul Empire; one silver soul coin can buy a ton.
To save trouble, the engine was directly replaced with alchemy; a few simple wind and water element inscriptions were enough.
Later, after researching and installing a normal soul-guided engine, it could be sold as a product.
Considering the road conditions and safety of Douluo Continent, some adjustments would definitely be necessary.
The tires certainly couldn't be made of rubber; later, they would look for rare metals here that could directly replace them.
Huo Yuhao patted the jeep's door, mentally testing the coupling of its various parts to confirm its proper functioning.
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, somewhat bewildered in the sea of consciousness, asked Huo Yuhao,
"Yuhao, what's this?"
"Weren't you here to find training tools for Bai E and the others?"
Huo Yuhao's lips curled slightly as he knocked on the jeep's door, saying,
"This is their training tool!"
"I guarantee they'll never forget it!"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm couldn't see this jeep as a training tool, but since Huo Yuhao had said so, he didn't care.
"Alright, Yuhao, take it easy."
"I'm going to study alchemy and check on the Golden Tortoiseshell's exam results."
Huo Yuhao loaded the soul-guided car into his storage soul tool and returned to his house in Xilu City, awaiting the next day.
A clear, melodious birdsong awakened the slumbering earth; the sun was already high in the sky.
Huo Yuhao had already arrived at the Passion Headquarters to await the arrival of the four little ones.
Huo Yuhao tossed the pile of work documents on his desk to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm to handle; he was already a master at it.
Yesterday's Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony had also ended. The highest Martial Soul Power belonged to an eight-year-old commoner child whose Martial Soul was the Azure Jade Phoenix, a subspecies of Phoenix with a powerful bloodline and an innate Martial Soul Power of level nine.
This child wanted to join Passion, but was too young and was not allowed; he was marked as a prospective member.
Huo Yuhao idly studied alchemy and deduced magic network technology to pass the time. Soon, his mental power sensed that Bai E and the other three had arrived at Passion's headquarters.
The receptionist had already been informed of the situation, so she directly led Bai E and the others to the door of Huo Yuhao's office.
Bai E gently knocked on the door and stood waiting for a response.
Huo Yuhao opened the door with his telekinesis and said to the four of them,
"Come in and sit down."
Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, the four sat down in the chairs that had been prepared beforehand.
Bai E excitedly asked Huo Yuhao,
"Brother Huo, where are you taking us for special training?"
Looking at his innocent expression, Huo Yuhao almost laughed, but managed to suppress it.
He said to Bai E,
"To the forest south of Xilu City. It's an uninhabited area, where we can practice our martial arts."
Ti Bao shook her head, a small tuft of red hair tied up on her head, her blue eyes flashing with doubt.
"I remember it's quite far, isn't it?"
Huo Yuhao stood up, using his telekinesis to push the chair under the table, and said to Ti Bao,
"It's not very far, just a second will do."
"Time is tight, the mission is important, let's set off now."
After saying that, a spatial vortex began to surround Huo Yuhao's body, then expanded, enveloping Bai E and the other three.
Ti Bao possessed the Hundred Realms Gate Martial Soul, making her extremely sensitive to space. Because she read frequently, she knew this must be some kind of spatial teleportation soul skill.
Bai E, Maidemus, and Feng Jin only felt their vision go black and then suddenly brighten, then they found themselves in a forest.
Feng Jin took a few steps back, her emerald eyes scanning the surroundings. She recognized this as the forest south of Xilu City.
She had come here before with Doctor Roman to collect medicinal herbs.
"This is the southern forest!"
Bai E and Maidemus also looked around, somewhat surprised. Their gazes towards Huo Yuhao became even more eager.
Huo Yuhao smiled at the four children's surprised expressions; he had also found it very novel the first time he used Divine Might Teleportation.
He stretched and said to them,
"Alright, this is our training ground, but there are quite a few trees here, and the ground isn't very flat."
"I'll take a break now."
Huo Yuhao activated his Spirit Eye Martial Soul, his nine spirit rings—two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red—circling his body in disguise.
It was better to conceal his true strength and spirit rings to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Then he activated his Spirit Eye's first spirit skill, "Spiritual Imbuement."
He imbued the ground beneath his feet with spirit, sensing a sudden connection between himself and the earth.
He commanded the earth to create a sufficiently large, flat area.
Soon, to the astonishment of Bai E and the other three, the earth began to tremble and creak, and they barely managed to maintain their balance.
In their eyes, the earth seemed alive, actively pushing aside the dense trees covering it to create a clearing, and all the uneven ground became flat as it writhed.
They felt as if they were on the back of a prehistoric beast, which was now stretching its body.
Once the training ground Huo Yuhao desired appeared, he withdrew the spirit imbued into the earth, rendering it inanimate again.
Under the bewildered gazes of the four, Huo Yuhao took out a jeep from his storage spirit tool and placed it on the ground.
Bai E scratched his head and asked Huo Yuhao,
"Uh, what's this?"
Huo Yuhao confidently patted the jeep and said,
"My amazing gadget."
"I guarantee it'll give you a pleasant surprise."
Before the others could react, Huo Yuhao jumped into the jeep, started the engine, and the whole car roared to life.
Bai E was drenched in sweat; his instincts told him that something terrible was about to happen.
And indeed, Huo Yuhao stepped on the gas, and the jeep rushed straight towards Bai E.
"Wait, wait!"
Bai E frantically started running, his words completely drowned out by the roar of the car, but how could he possibly outrun a jeep?
Just as he was about to be hit, Bai E leaped to the side, narrowly avoiding the collision.
Huo Yuhao drifted and charged at Bai E again. What a joke; the older generation of wandering Earthlings had driving skills at the level of the Akina Mountain racing gods.
Bai E scrambled forward, straining his body to keep going, shouting,
"Is this...is this training to get stronger?!"
Huo Yuhao, kind-hearted, had deliberately blocked his ears with his mental power, so he couldn't hear him. He yelled back at Bai E,
"What are you doing?!"
"Charge towards the jeep!"
Bai E's face darkened instantly, and he couldn't hold back anymore. He ran while saying to Huo Yuhao,
"This is too dangerous, I don't understand!"
Huo Yuhao ignored him and slammed on the gas, increasing the car's speed.
Bai E's unknown instinct kicked in again, allowing him to leap to the side and avoid another impact.
Tears were already streaming down his face.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao yelled at Bai E,
"What's with those tears?!"
"Can your tears protect your friends?"
"Charge towards the jeep!"
Bai E struggled to his feet. His physical abilities were only at the level of a tenth-level Soul Master, but he managed to get up from the ground through sheer willpower.
"I understand!"
Huo Yuhao's actions weren't simply to replicate the M78 Nebula training method; his spiritual eyes had been observing the Destruction Seed within Bai E's body.
This seed required proper pressure to activate.
The Destruction Seed now burned fiercely, Bai E's eyes turned golden, his hair subtly turned golden, and golden lines spread across his body like flowing golden blood.
The purple lightning runes on his forehead also shone. Bai E gritted his teeth and charged headlong towards the jeep.
Huo Yuhao laughed and shouted,
"Yes, that's it!"
"Remember this feeling!"
(End of Chapter)
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