Xuan Ziwen, Kong Deming’s disciple and a Class 8 genius soul engineer, sneered disdainfully upon hearing Jing Hongchen’s words.
“Stop pretending, Hall Master Hongchen.
Shi Xuan already told me everything about the child inside.”
“Never having been exposed to soul tool education, yet passing the exam with a perfect score in just one month to become a Class 1 Soul Engineer.
His completed work is the soul-guided lathe that has recently caused huge waves over in the Research Department.
And now, in barely two months, he’s taking the Class 2 Soul Engineer exam.
Hall Master Hongchen, how long did you plan to hide such a genius?”
If Huo Yuhao passed the Class 2 Soul Engineer assessment today, it could be said that he was truly breaking the Sun Moon Empire’s record for the fastest Class 2 Soul Engineer under a completely different paradigm.
You must understand, it wasn’t rare for first-year students to become soul engineers, but those were students who had received soul engineering education before enrolling.
For such students, under the academy’s assessment, reaching Class 1 or Class 2 in a few months held no reference value.
But Huo Yuhao’s achievement was the real deal.
With the emergence of the lathe over this period, Huo Yuhao’s file had practically been placed on the desks of most people.
Clearly, Jing Hongchen had still underestimated those interested in Huo Yuhao.
Otherwise, Xuan Ziwen wouldn’t have been drawn over today.
Of course, Xuan Ziwen didn’t care about the record.
Breaking soul engineer records only proved good talent.
What he truly valued, or rather, what his teacher had asked him to pay attention to today, was Huo Yuhao’s creativity.
In his eyes, and in the eyes of the teacher behind him, this innovative mindset was unmatched by any talent.
FUCK!
Jing Hongchen only wanted to curse in his heart right now.
He couldn’t help but blame himself.
Why did he have to act all mysterious?
He should have just taken Yuhao as his closed-door disciple early on!
Now look, he tried to be clever and ended up making a blunder.
The boy had actually caught the attention of that old man in the Worship Hall!
No way!
Jing Hongchen was truly reluctant to just hand Huo Yuhao over on a silver platter.
He had been monitoring child Yuhao’s situation all along, and figured breaking through to Class 2 Soul Engineer today wouldn’t take much effort.
Looking at it this way, he would definitely have to use some special methods later.
Xuan Ziwen had clearly come prepared today.
Soon, they’d have to see whose offer could move the child more.
And what Jing Hongchen didn’t see was Xuan Ziwen secretly sending a message using a soul tool: ‘Teacher, discovered a super genius.
Come quickly!’
Inside the experimental area, because the room was separated from the observation area by a one-way mirror, Huo Yuhao had no idea that outside, two people were already clashing over him.
After passing the Class 2 theoretical knowledge test with a perfect score again, his Spirit Detection Sharing focused on the metal before him.
Still using the Iceworm True Body’s triple spiritual power boost, he had even used Iceworm Metamorphosis before coming to maintain his body in peak condition.
Remember, minor cheating isn’t cheating.
“Do I really want to make that thing for my second soul tool?”
Huo Yuhao hesitated a bit, struggling to make a decision, but finally gritted his teeth and decided to give it a try.
This time, unlike when he made the soul-guided lathe, he didn’t choose massive amounts of metal to engrave numerous core formations simultaneously.
This time, he only needed to make three core formations, and he only needed two types of metal.
He first engraved the simplest, pre-designed timed-explosion core formation.
Then he began engraving the flight control system core formation and the soul power supply core formation.
That’s right, he was going to make a high-explosive miniature drone.
If you only looked at the damage, it really seemed somewhat unnecessary right now, as stationary soul-guided artillery shells could achieve that, and other soul tools could also do timed explosions.
Therefore, the selling point of this Class 2 soul tool wasn’t the damage, but highlighting the flight control system and the soul power supply system.
If it weren’t for the constraints of basic knowledge, Huo Yuhao even wanted to engrave a navigation core formation.
Of course, that was just a thought; it was fundamentally unrealistic right now.
As for why he wanted to make this piece, it was naturally inspired by the ubiquitous soul-guided airships hovering above the academy every day.
What era was this?
Class 9 soul tools and bionic wings had already been invented, and they were still playing with blimps?
Fly airplanes, big shots!
Do you really expect me to hand-rub a starship for you?
I can’t even make a soul-guided engine yet!
Go play in the mud!
Just like when he made the soul-guided lathe, Huo Yuhao was only producing a semi-finished product in a certain sense.
As for the follow-up stuff, leaving it to the workhorses at Mingde Hall was the right call.
He didn’t collapse from exhaustion this time.
Soon, a remarkably novel-shaped soul-guided drone was hand-rubbed out by Huo Yuhao.
It was vastly different from the bloated soul-guided airships outside.
It looked incredibly cool.
Just its aerodynamic layout was enough to make one’s eyes light up—if they knew anything about aerodynamics.
“Yuhao, what type of soul tool is this piece?
Why can’t I tell?” Lin Jiayi asked sincerely.
After all, most flying soul tools nowadays used bionic designs, namely wing shapes.
They achieved suspension and high-speed movement by using soul power to activate the core formations in the metal wings or bionic wings.
Looking at Huo Yuhao’s piece, Lin Jiayi simply couldn’t figure out how it was supposed to fly.
It had to be said, Huo Yuhao really wanted to shout out a complaint: You guys built bionic wings!
Even though you used soul-guided propulsion core formations, how can you not recognize an airplane?!
Miniature thrusters…
if he were in his original world, Huo Yuhao didn’t know how many crazy things people would do with them.
Could it be because I haven’t installed the thruster core formation?
In this wave, Huo Yuhao could only conclude that the entire world’s technology tree had been built completely crooked.
He got the MVP, and the Sun Moon Empire was just the carried dog.
Thus, he could only explain: “Director Lin, I call this piece a miniature soul-guided drone, or an unmanned airplane.
Because I haven’t resolved the thruster issue, this item can only be considered a semi-finished product in a certain sense.”
Just as Huo Yuhao wanted to explain further, the experimental area door was suddenly pushed open.
Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen shoved each other as they arrived in front of Huo Yuhao.
Xuan Ziwen, his face full of thirst for knowledge, spoke first.
“Yuhao, can you let me examine this piece?”
“Uh…” Huo Yuhao asked, knowingly playing dumb, “And you are?”
Xuan Ziwen hastily introduced himself.
“My name is Xuan Ziwen, a Class 8 Soul Engineer.
Let me see your work, Yuhao.
I have a premonition that this piece will once again leave a mark on this era.”
His gaze was simply too passionate.
Huo Yuhao chose to oblige.
“Alright then, Teacher Xuan Ziwen.
I believe you definitely won’t be disappointed.”
On the side, Jing Hongchen only felt heartache.
It was like his precious daughter, whom he raised himself, had just been seduced away by some blond delinquent.