Huo Yuhao nodded: “Alright, Director Lin.”
Under the gaze of Lin Jiayi and Chen Feng, he once again walked toward the soul tool machine he had built.
Looking at the enormous spirit tool before him, Huo Yuhao felt a little emotional.
Although he was once a Physics PhD and knew how to build and operate these machines.
But as a top-tier talent, this was also his first time building a tool machine.
If Lin Jiayi knew what Huo Yuhao was thinking, he would definitely scold him for being recklessly audacious.
He dared to make a spirit tool he had never built before during an assessment.
Huo Yuhao took out a piece of metal and secured it using the soul tool machine.
He turned around and said with a smile, “Director Lin, guess what it does!”
Lin Jiayi laughed and scolded: “Less nonsense, get to work!”
In fact, Lin Jiayi and Chen Feng already had a guess, but since it hadn’t been realized, they couldn’t be 100% certain.
However, they eagerly anticipated that guess coming true, as it would definitely be epoch-making.
Huo Yuhao went to the side, found a model, and entered the corresponding parameters into the spirit tool screen.
After Lin Jiayi and Chen Feng nervously rubbed their hands.
“Buzz!”
The cutter of the soul tool machine began to spin, and in an instant, a spirit tool casing identical to the model in Huo Yuhao’s hand appeared before the two men.
“Director Lin, how is my spirit tool?”
With tired eyes, Huo Yuhao smiled and asked Lin Jiayi and Chen Feng with a knowing attitude.
Lin Jiayi did not notice what Huo Yuhao said; all his attention was focused on the soul tool machine.
After a long while.
Lin Jiayi told Huo Yuhao: “Full marks.
Full marks for both theoretical knowledge and spirit tool crafting.
According to the Academy’s standards, you will receive double—no, triple the reward.”
“Yuhao, you…”
Before Lin Jiayi could finish, Huo Yuhao genuinely fainted this time.
The moment he started to fall, Lin Jiayi quickly picked up Huo Yuhao to check his condition.
Finding that he had only succumbed to exhaustion and fallen asleep, Lin Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief.
“Stop looking!
Quickly take Yuhao back to the dorms to rest.
I’m taking the spirit tool to see the Dean.”
Lin Jiayi saw Chen Feng still staring at the soul tool machine like an obsessed fan, and said irritably.
“Oh, oh, alright!”
Chen Feng nodded, reluctantly taking a few more glances at the soul tool machine.
Lin Jiayi quickly put the spirit tool Huo Yuhao had made into a storage spirit tool and, without daring to delay, rushed straight to Mingde Hall.
“Boom!”
The door to the Mingde Hall office shattered in response, and Jing Hongchen, who had been leisurely sipping tea, instantly spat out the tea he had in his mouth. This story is hosted at novelping . com.
“If you don’t give me a reasonable explanation, I guarantee you’ll be happily working in the mine for a month.”
Jing Hongchen said with a dark expression.
Lin Jiayi didn’t care at all and immediately took out Huo Yuhao’s spirit tool.
“Dean, look at this!”
“It’s a spirit tool, what else could it be?
What does this have to do with you kicking down my door?”
Jing Hongchen’s attention was completely off the spirit tool; he looked at Lin Jiayi with great displeasure, wondering how to punish him.
Lin Jiayi chuckled, and then explained the effect of the spirit tool.
“Clang~” The sound of a teacup shattering rang out.
“Let me see.”
After Jing Hongchen inspected it, the spirit tool was indeed as Lin Jiayi had described.
“Who, who made this!”
“Genius!
A Genius idea!
This thing can increase the efficiency of spirit tool crafting by at least 20%.”
Ordinary people might think it’s nothing, just 20%, but who is Jing Hongchen?
He is one of the Peak Ninth-Rank Soul Engineers of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
He knows how many Soul Engineers the Sun Moon Empire has.
Assuming they collectively make 10,000 spirit tools a day, a 20% increase in efficiency means an increase to at least 12,000 items.
Any small increase, when multiplied by a large base number, results in a terrifying boost.
Lin Jiayi chuckled: “You absolutely won’t guess who made it!”
Jing Hongchen raised an eyebrow: “Less nonsense, don’t make me hit you when I’m happiest.”
Lin Jiayi stopped building suspense and directly named the creator.
“What!”
“Are you talking about Huo Yuhao?”
“Is that the Huo Yuhao with the twin spirits?”
Jing Hongchen couldn’t believe it was made by an 11-year-old boy who had never studied spirit tools before.
It would be understandable if Huo Yuhao, being a Mental Attribute Spirit Master, had a bonus in crafting spirit tools and could become a First-Rank Soul Engineer in half a year.
But only one week has passed now.
Good heavens!
Going from 0 to First-Rank Soul Engineer in just one week—this is a Genius among Geniuses.
But he never expected that not only could he independently craft a First-Rank spirit tool, but his very first creation was an innovative, reformative spirit tool.
“It seems I still underestimated him.”
Jing Hongchen muttered to himself.
He had previously thought his Spirit Master talent was high, being a twin spirits wielder with a mental attribute, and he could guess his Soul Engineer talent was innate.
But he never imagined such a wild, imaginative idea. Enjoying the story? Read on at novelping.com.
“Dean, why do you think we never thought of this before?”
“There are many spirit tools for daily life, and even flying spirit tools have been created.”
“But we never thought of creating a spirit tool to aid in crafting other spirit tools.”
Jing Hongchen didn’t know how to answer.
Perhaps the gods didn’t allow them to think of it.
If Huo Yuhao heard his thought, he might confirm that he was right.
In the original work, Dou Yi, it was mentioned that Soul Engineers existed in the past but disappeared for unknown reasons, and the profession only resurfaced now, 10,000 years later.
“Alright, stop thinking so much.
Since that child has already become a First-Rank Soul Engineer, give him the Soul Engineer medal.
As for the reward, triple it—um, 100,000 gold coins, and unlimited monthly metal quota for Soul Engineers.”
“Unlimited supply?”
Lin Jiayi was shocked.
As far as he knew, not even Jing Hongchen’s grandsons and granddaughters had this benefit.
“Yes.
Since he had such an imaginative idea before even becoming a Soul Engineer, we should increase resource support.
Perhaps he will have more novel ideas.”
“After the Mingde Hall experts assess the value, we will give the child a new compensatory reward, considering it payment.”
Lin Jiayi nodded, suddenly remembered something, and immediately asked Jing Hongchen curiously.
“Dean, I remember you said before that if he had Soul Engineer talent, you would take him as a Disciple.”
“When are you planning to take him as a Disciple!”
Jing Hongchen frowned and pondered for a moment.
“When he becomes a Third-Rank Soul Engineer.
After all, he is still young, and becoming the Dean’s Disciple too quickly makes it easy for him to become arrogant.”
“It would easily lead to wasting his talent and becoming overconfident.”
Lin Jiayi nodded.
He knew that Jing Hongchen’s grandson was exactly like that—quite arrogant and overconfident.
Lin Jiayi’s eyes darted around, seemingly having thought of something.
“What if someone else beats us to it?”
“When Huo Yuhao was making this spirit tool, Chen Feng was also present.”
“He is good friends with Teacher Xuan Ziwen.
If Teacher Xuan Ziwen finds out, shouldn’t we preemptively…”
“Aiya~”
“Teacher Xuan Ziwen is just a research fanatic; he wouldn’t care about this.”
“I wanted him to mentor my grandson before, but he refused.”
Jing Hongchen didn’t take it seriously.
As long as those old geezers from the Hall of Worship didn’t come to snatch him up, he wasn’t afraid of anyone.
Unfortunately, he regretted it the very next day.