20demayo Chapter 42 The Journey, Part 5
Chapter 42 The Journey, Part 5
At this moment, not to mention that the last war with the original Douluo Three Kingdoms resulted in the defeat of the Sun Moon Empire, which has led it to continuously develop soul tools.
The soul tools that have appeared on the entire Douluo Continent are basically all imported from the Sun Moon Empire.
In Huo Yuhao's view, the Sun Moon Empire's development of soul tools was motivated by its previous defeat, whether it was to wash away the shame or to gain victory in future wars.
It's not just about developing soul tool technology, making it widespread, benefiting people's lives, or improving the overall production and development of society.
Up to now, Huo Yuhao has never been to the Sun Moon Empire in person. What he knows is only based on some historical materials he has found and what he has heard from merchants. He has also made this conclusion based on what he has seen before him.
Among the types of soul tools that the boy encountered and heard about, most were soul tools used in battle. Of course, there were also some civilian soul tools, such as storage soul tools. However, the difference between the two types was enormous.
He understood in the wasteland that war is a catalyst for technological progress, and the results of all this progress are primarily used to serve the needs of war, which is not something to be blamed for.
However, judging from what Huo Yuhao learned through inquiries, the Sun Moon Empire only realized that soul tools enhanced the combat power of soul masters and made their troops more powerful in battle.
At the same time, it is also because the strength of the Soul Masters in the Sun Moon Empire is generally lower than that of the Soul Masters who originally belonged to the Douluo Three Kingdoms. They can only make up for their combat strength by developing the Soul Guidance Device technology that they already have a basic understanding of.
However, the Sun Moon Empire failed to realize that, as an empire as a whole, the role of soul tools could not be limited to combat weapons; they also needed to enhance and develop social production in order to fully unleash the overall strength.
This is indeed a problem, but compared to the original Douluo Three Kingdoms, it doesn't seem so serious, since the Sun Moon Empire has indeed developed soul tools.
It is precisely for this reason that the stable quality of martial spirits and innate soul power, as well as the cultivation techniques of sects, which are held by nobles and sects, have become less important than before.
If only a small number of soul tools had entered the market, it might not have been so serious. However, judging from what Huo Yuhao saw, the number of soul tools appearing on the market was far beyond what those nobles and sects could stop.
Moreover, they themselves use them, and even the original Douluo Three Kingdoms needed soul tools to increase the combat power of their troops in order to maintain their rule.
After all, no matter what people say, the actual situation won't easily change.
However, they do not want ordinary soul masters to have widespread access to soul tools in combat, as this would diminish their power and prestige, and affect their monopoly on high-end soul master combat power.
Therefore, they can only make do with the so-called tradition of Soul Masters, describing it as a certain standard for Soul Masters, and then verbally despise and look down on Soul Guidance Devices, making the use of Soul Guidance Devices in battle a disgrace for Soul Masters.
This would maintain the original way Soul Masters fought, keeping them in an environment that was advantageous to them.
Even if the empire itself were willing to develop soul tools, given the current state of grassroots governance controlled by nobles and sects, the empire lacks the capacity and energy to directly oppose these nobles and sects.
It is impossible to openly support the development of soul tools unless something else emerges that can threaten their existence and status.
However, the extent of the powerful soul tools possessed by various empires, nobles, and sects remains unknown.
After all, soul tools have never been the main point. The basic soul tool technology that the original Douluo Three Kingdoms failed to complete, and the lack of abundant and diverse rare metal mineral deposits like those of the Sun Moon Empire, are just like the lie mentioned above. They have never been any truly important issues.
The fundamental reason for the current attitude of the Douluo Three Kingdoms towards soul tools is the true purpose behind that lie and rhetoric.
The key is to decide which group of Soul Masters accepts or rejects the use of Soul Tools; everything is about maintaining the current state.
However, as time has passed and the overall situation of the Douluo Continent has not changed much for a long time, it seems that the descendants of the empire and those nobles and sects have all believed this lie.
Perhaps this lie itself cannot last long, but judging from the history of Douluo Continent that Huo Yuhao knows now.
More than four thousand years ago, after the collision of two continents, the first great war broke out between the Sun Moon Empire and the original Douluo Three Kingdoms. The result, in which Shrek Academy gathered more than sixty titled Douluo and defeated the Sun Moon Empire in one fell swoop, added a solid veneer to this lie.
This historical outcome strengthens the credibility of that lie whenever the traditions of Soul Masters and the use of Soul Tools in combat are brought up.
Meanwhile, over the past four thousand years, apart from the fact that the power structure of the various empires has not changed significantly, the information the boy knew also included the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament, which was held every five years, and Shrek Academy had always won the championship.
The academies within the Sun Moon Empire, which primarily used soul tools, never won a championship, thus further solidifying the attitude of soul masters from the original Douluo Three Kingdoms towards soul tools.
As the saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day; the current situation is no longer the result of a combination of factors.
Just like the pre-war books the boy saw in the wasteland, the problems that led to the collapse of the empire were not only superficial ones such as a single crisis, the failure of each battle, or the mistake of a certain policy, but also the culmination of problems that had been hidden and ignored for a long time.
In Huo Yuhao's view, the solution to this problem is also very simple. After all, the one who tied the knot must untie it. It's just a matter of using violence to reverse the historical outcome.
In other words, we want to make them fall hard, so hard that they are badly injured.
This sounds cruel, but Huo Yuhao believes that only this method can bring about real change, and only by making those who are immersed in the existing imperial rule truly recognize the current problems.
Faced with this situation, Tianmeng in the sea of consciousness did not understand Huo Yuhao's opinion. He just wondered if things were really that complicated.
However, Elder Yi could understand and agree with the boy's viewpoint, but given the current situation, this was the only way they could think about it.
Huo Yuhao also understood that no matter what he saw on Douluo Continent, how many problems he discovered, or how many thoughts he had in his mind, he was in a state of mind.
At this moment, I can only think about these things in my mind. There's nothing I can do right now, but I don't feel that knowing these things is useless. At least I don't have to be confused about those things.
However, the boy never gave up, even though he couldn't change anything at the moment, and he didn't take these things for granted.
He bought that defective level-two fixed-position soul-guided cannon shell, just as he was heading towards the far north, both in preparation for the plan in his heart.