At this time, many students in the seats of First Year Class 3 had already started whispering.
“He’s so handsome.
Especially his eyes, it’s like there’s a galaxy in them.” “I know, right?
And he has such a great aura.
Was that the Director who brought him here just now?
Even passing the enrollment period, he managed to make an exception to become a transfer student.
He’s not only handsome, but he must have a huge background.” “What if I fall in love with him?” “Imperial law warning, sister!” “…”
Compared to the starry-eyed girls, many boys were dismissive.
“Tch, what’s the use of being handsome?
Just a pretty boy.” “This guy’s face value is not below mine.
I absolutely cannot let him stay.” “To think he’d even do something like becoming a transfer student just to be in the same class as me…
Hajihao, you bastard…”
Listening to the noisy chatter below, Huo Yuhao’s mouth twitched.
He diagnosed them as a group of edge-lord teenagers and a few bratty girls.
It seemed his future study life would be much simpler.
“Hello everyone.
My name is Huo Yuhao.
I’m eleven years old.
My martial soul is a spiritual-attribute body martial soul, Spirit Eyes.
Soul power level 15.
I haven’t been in contact with soul tools before.
I hope we can get along well and make progress together in our future studies.”
He hadn’t expected that after so many years, he’d get to do another self-introduction.
Amidst the welcoming voices of many students, Huo Yuhao went to his seat.
Originally, Teacher Shi Xuan wanted to seat him near the front, but Huo Yuhao declined, choosing a window seat in the back.
It was quiet there, and he wouldn’t be stared at every single moment.
Shi Xuan quickly began his lecture.
Huo Yuhao initially thought he wouldn’t be able to keep up, but looking at the simple, easily understandable knowledge on the soul-guided screen at the front, he realized he was overthinking it.
After all, school had only started a little over a month ago, and this was just the first year for new students; how fast could the teaching pace be?
This also made him realize that not all Sun Moon Empire citizens received systematic and comprehensive soul tool education from birth.
To unify the progress and take care of the majority of the students, the academy started from the very basics of soul tool knowledge, regardless of what level a student might have reached prior to enrollment.
If some students were highly talented, entering as Class 2 or Class 3 Soul Engineers with a solid foundation, they would be granted an exception to move to higher grades.
For example, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, the sibling pair from the Hongchen family he had heard the students talking about in the cafeteria.
Those two were Class 3 Soul Engineers upon enrollment.
Now, at barely 13 or 14, they were already Class 4 Soul Engineers, just a step away from Class 5.
Praised as soul engineer geniuses seen once in a millennium in the Sun Moon Empire, they would easily enter the Mingde Hall to study once they hit Class 5.
Not only that, the siblings were currently the most dazzling twin stars of the Teaching Department and absolute soul master geniuses.
One was a level 47 Assault System Battle Soul Ancestor with the Three-Legged Golden Toad martial soul; the other was a level 46 Control System Battle Soul Ancestor with the Vermilion Ice Toad, possessing both ice and poison attributes.
Such aptitude would make them top-tier even if placed in Shrek.
As for popping pills?
Oh, so when Shrek students eat Profound Water Pills and Spirit Ascension Pills, it’s “stabilizing their foundation and improving aptitude,” but when the Sun Moon Empire eats pills, it’s “pulling up seedlings to help them grow and having an unstable foundation”?
The original Huo ate three pills in a row, and his foundation wasn’t unstable anywhere; his combat power was incredibly fierce!
Double-standard dogs!
He~tui!
“Huo Yuhao, please answer the next question.”
Hearing Teacher Shi Xuan call him, Huo Yuhao slowly stood up, waiting for the question.
“Yuhao, Teacher knows you have never been in contact with soul tools before.
Because of that, Teacher wants to know: do you think the future world will belong to soul masters, or soul engineers?”
The entire class turned to look at Huo Yuhao.
They could tell he wasn’t a local of the Sun Moon Empire.
After all, the teacher said he had never touched soul tools before, which was unthinkable in the Sun Moon Empire where soul engineering technology was mainstream.
Huo Yuhao didn’t answer immediately.
After thinking for a moment, he gave his answer.
“Teacher, I don’t know what the future world will look like.
But I think that as soul engineering technology continues to develop, the technology will continuously benefit the common people at the bottom.
If one day, soul tools can break free from the restriction of needing soul power as an energy source, then I think it can truly be called the world of soul tools.”
He also didn’t forget to express his view on soul masters.
“In my opinion, whether it’s soul masters becoming stronger or soul engineers wanting to produce more powerful soul tools, neither can escape the restriction of soul power levels.
And both share a commonality: spirit rings.
To obtain a spirit ring, one must hunt a spirit beast.
The more soul masters and soul engineers there are, the fewer spirit beasts there will be.
The contradiction between the two is almost irreconcilable.
But as one waxes, the other wanes.
Once spirit beasts decrease, it will inevitably restrict the development of soul masters and even soul engineers.
Eventually, spirit beasts will gradually have no space to survive.
When that day comes, whether you are a soul master or a soul engineer, what difference does it make?”
His words made the crowd look at each other in dismay.
They had never considered that the difference between soul masters and soul engineers could be linked to spirit beasts.
But wasn’t this a bit too pessimistic?
After all, there were so many spirit beasts on the continent.
How long would it take to hunt them near extinction?
If Huo Yuhao knew what they were thinking, he would absolutely state an exact time: ten thousand years.
However, seeing the expressions of everyone in the classroom, he added: “Of course, this is only the most pessimistic conclusion.
With the development of the times, there will eventually be a day when an alternative energy source for soul power is found.
At that time, soul engineers will absolutely have a far brighter future than soul masters.”
If soul masters were compared to the privileged class of the world, then frankly, the soul tools researched by soul engineers genuinely had the ability and condition to benefit the common people.
The former produced absolutely nothing, while the latter held the hope of continuously pushing the world forward through revolutions.
Having replaced the original Huo, Huo Yuhao had actually thought about whether he emerged as a product of this era, or perhaps the will of the Douluo Planet fighting back to advance soul tools.
After all, it was all too coincidental.
The mutated spiritual-attribute body martial soul Spirit Eyes, which was perfect for researching soul tools; encountering the unique million-year spiritual-attribute Skydream Iceworm right out the gate; Electrolux’s soul fragment breaking through the space-time barrier…
It was practically spoon-feeding him opportunities.
It wasn’t impossible.
Looking at Huo Yuhao—who spoke with assurance and then fell into deep thought—Shi Xuan quietly wrote several large words on a note on his lectern: “Wisdom far exceeds his peers, clear self-awareness, impressive big-picture view…”
A long while later, when everyone in the classroom recovered their wits, Shi Xuan finally waved his hand, signaling Huo Yuhao to sit down.
“A very novel explanation.
Yuhao, even if you don’t choose to become a soul master or a soul engineer, you could still become an excellent strategist in the future.”
“Thank you for the compliment, Teacher.” Huo Yuhao nodded indifferently.
In the end, this was still a world of the strong.
Although the Sun Moon Empire had advanced soul engineering technology, it ultimately couldn’t escape the constraints of its era.
At its core, it was still a feudal aristocratic system.
In such a world, if you didn’t attribute mighty power to yourself, what was the point of playing military strategies?
He wasn’t the Empress God of War Ju Zi.
Besides, if he had the thought of unifying the continent later on, On War, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, and The Command of the Air would be enough to flatten the mid-to-lower tier forces.
Given the warfare level of the original Three Empires, he wouldn’t even need to bring out The Art of War, because for their IQs, that would be playing way too dirty.