Just as Jing Hongchen thought, Kong Deming had the same idea.
Before Huo Yuhao became a Class 5 Soul Engineer and possessed a rich foundation of basic knowledge, he didn’t plan to let Huo Yuhao go to the Research Department to study.
Pulling up seedlings to help them grow was a bad idea.
This had nothing to do with how many resources one could obtain.
The more of a genius someone was, the more solid their foundation needed to be.
However, even so, the benefits Huo Yuhao could reap from taking a master were unimaginable.
Kong Deming took out another exclusive soul-guided token, as well as a Class 9 storage soul tool, and handed them directly to Huo Yuhao.
“Yuhao, these are the exclusive identity soul-guided tokens for the Worship Hall and the Mingde Hall.
From now on, every rest day of the week, you can come to the Worship Hall to find me and resolve any issues you have with martial soul cultivation or soul tool research.”
“This Class 9 storage soul tool is my proudest work.
The main body is forged from Starlight Sapphire, and it is called the Starlight Ring.
The space inside is massive.
Not only can it store living creatures, but it also has concealment and sealing effects.
Moreover, inside is a top-tier meditation technique, ten million gold spirit coins, and a complete system of theoretical knowledge up to Class 7 Soul Engineer.
Consider this your master’s apprenticeship gift.”
Choose between a soul master and a soul engineer?
What a joke!
In Kong Deming’s eyes, Huo Yuhao was fully capable of taking both paths to their ultimate extremes.
Back in the day, he had neglected the importance of martial soul cultivation and indulged in the path of a soul engineer.
This led to his current lack of stamina.
Despite having twin martial souls, his physical constitution had delayed him from adding spirit rings to his second martial soul, keeping him stuck at level 94, unable to progress further.
If he hadn’t been restricted by soul power, if he could have reached Super Douluo, he was entirely confident he would have become a true Class 10 Soul Engineer.
Therefore, for this disciple Huo Yuhao, he had to pour in all his efforts to cultivate him.
Whether as a soul master or a soul engineer, he wanted to help this closed-door disciple reach the finish line.
What happened to him would absolutely not be allowed to repeat on this disciple.
And as for Huo Yuhao right now?
He was already dizzy from this continuous barrage of pleasant surprises.
What is a surprise?
Shrek, come see what a fucking surprise looks like!
Two Class 9 soul tools!
A Class 9 trigger-type defensive soul tool, Hongchen’s Protection, with no soul power restrictions!
A Class 9 storage soul tool, the Starlight Ring, capable of storing living creatures while possessing concealment and sealing effects!
Ten million gold spirit coins!
A top-tier meditation technique!
Systematic knowledge sufficient for research up to Class 7 Soul Engineer!
He couldn’t take it.
Suddenly becoming so rich, Huo Yuhao felt his little heart needed a moment to calm down.
Old Huo has truly never fought such a rich battle!
“Thank you, Teacher.”
To say he wasn’t moved would be a lie.
Only now did Huo Yuhao’s nerves, which had been tense for two months, truly relax.
From today onwards, he would never have to worry about his personal safety again.
As the biggest background in the Sun Moon Empire, bar none, as long as Huo Yuhao maintained his status as Kong Deming’s closed-door disciple, neither the royal family nor the Holy Spirit Cult hiding in the shadows would dare provoke him openly.
You know, he had previously been worried that breaking the Sun Moon Empire’s record for fastest Class 2 Soul Engineer might attract the attention of people with ulterior motives.
Now, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Lin Jiayi and Shi Xuan stepped forward, congratulating Huo Yuhao with faces full of envy.
Good heavens.
Huo Yuhao was already genius enough, his future practically limitless.
Now he had become Elder Kong’s closed-door disciple.
They couldn’t even begin to imagine how far he would go in the future.
At this moment, Lin Jiayi asked somewhat cautiously, “Dean, Elder Kong, should we keep it a secret that Yuhao broke the empire’s fastest Class 2 Soul Engineer record?”
Kong Deming frowned and waved his hand directly.
“Secret?
What secret?!
Release the news immediately.
Not only that, release the news that I have taken Yuhao as my closed-door disciple.
Let some people clearly see the situation, lest annoying flies bother my disciple.”
Of course, this was only regarding Huo Yuhao’s talent as a soul engineer.
As for the matter of twin martial souls, hiding that was a default, unspoken rule.
That was a trump card.
No one would be so stupid as to proactively expose their trump cards to gain attention.
Jing Hongchen also chimed in.
“Exactly.
Releasing the news is precisely to let outsiders see that our Sun Moon Empire is at its peak, producing an endless stream of geniuses.
What does hiding and concealing it look like?”
If Huo Yuhao had taken him as his master, Jing Hongchen might have played it safer.
But now that Kong Deming had personally stepped in, there was truly no need to hide it anymore.
Bottom-tier soul masters or soul engineers couldn’t threaten Huo Yuhao, and for those who stood at the absolute peak, you couldn’t hide it even if you tried.
Rather than that, it was better to be open and magnanimous about the news.
Just like Xiao and Meng.
They were also the Sun Moon Empire’s once-in-a-millennium geniuses, and weren’t they doing just fine now?
With Kong Deming around, who could harm Huo Yuhao?
Right, with child Yuhao rising now and jumping to become the empire’s most talented soul engineer, that kid Xiao finally had an opponent worth chasing after in the future.
He would go back and find that kid, making him restrain his arrogant personality a bit.
“Yes!”
Lin Jiayi could already imagine what kind of waves would be set off outside once the news about Huo Yuhao spread.
Breaking the Class 2 Soul Engineer historical record in three months, with two works that pioneered precedents in soul tools…
A storm was coming.
Huo Yuhao didn’t stay in the experimental area.
After talking for a long while with Jing Hongchen and the others, he followed Kong Deming and Xuan Ziwen to the Research Department.
Don’t misunderstand—Kong Deming purely wanted to shake off Xuan Ziwen, a disciple who kept asking questions non-stop along the way, making his head pound.
Compared to the quiet little Yuhao, he found this disciple incredibly noisy right now.
“Ziwen, go do your experiments.
Your teacher has some things to explain to Yuhao.”
Xuan Ziwen wanted to fight for it a bit more, but seeing his teacher’s warning gaze, he didn’t have the guts to speak.
He just left a sentence by Yuhao’s ear: “Yuhao, don’t forget to come visit your senior brother.
Let’s exchange ideas on soul tool research together!”
After Xuan Ziwen left, Kong Deming brought Huo Yuhao to the Worship Hall.
Unlike the outside world, which unanimously believed Mingde Hall represented the continent’s most advanced soul tool research, the Worship Hall was actually the true core soul tool research institution of the Sun Moon Empire.
Its status was far higher than Mingde Hall, and it was directly commanded by the Class 10 Soul Engineer, Kong Deming.
Not only was it a top-secret organization, but the Worship Hall was the ultimate trump card of the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineering technology, exclusively serving the royal family and imperial strategies.
Independent of Mingde Hall, it also mastered the most cutting-edge “Soul Tool and Human Body Integration” technology.
Its members were entirely composed of Class 9 Soul Engineers, serving as the equivalent to Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion.
Following his teacher, Huo Yuhao looked at the numerous Class 9 soul tools inside the Worship Hall along the way, his eyes almost crossing from trying to take it all in.