As Huo Yuhao sequentially took out the Class 9 trigger-type soul tool “Hongchen’s Protection” and the Class 9 storage soul tool “Starlight Ring,” Skydream’s eyes stayed glued to them, unable to look away for even a second.
After a long while of sensing the functions of the two soul tools, she sighed with emotion.
“Yuhao, this Class 9 soul tool called Hongchen’s Protection—Sis feels that even at my peak, I couldn’t break it.
The key is that this thing has no soul power restrictions for the user.
We can consider this an extra life-saving trump card from now on.”
“Skydream, don’t belittle yourself.
What you excel at is spiritual power.
Why are you always thinking about using your little short legs for physical attacks?
Besides, you’re in spirit form right now; you couldn’t even trigger the passive effect of Hongchen’s Protection.”
Skydream Iceworm felt a sting to her pride, but she was already used to it.
“And that Starlight Ring…
the space inside is truly massive!
It can actually store living creatures.
If Sis wasn’t your intelligent spirit ring right now, I’d want to go in and experience it myself.”
“Originally, after Sis’s slough became your external spirit bone, I was still thinking about how to hide you once we reach the Far North.
But now it seems the problem is already solved.
The concealment effect of this Class 9 storage soul tool is more than enough to completely mask your aura, Yuhao.”
Huo Yuhao knew the reason Skydream was saying this now, and assured her, “Don’t worry, Skydream.
I promised I’d go to the Far North with you.
We share honor and disgrace; our fates are a completely bound community.”
Skydream wriggled her body in the spiritual sea, quietly turned her back, and muttered softly, “You guy, Yuhao…
you’re really making Sis want to shed tears of emotion.”
“Alright Skydream, stop being sentimental.
Let’s begin our super-accelerated soul power cultivation.”
“Yuhao, you’re such an atmosphere-ruining guy.
No girl will ever like you if you act like this.”
“Oh, then Skydream, you must really be liked by the Ice Empress, right?”
“Yuhao!
[○｀Д○]!!”
After joking around for a bit, Huo Yuhao first attached Hongchen’s Protection to his body.
Then, he took out the previously rewarded Profound Water Pill from the Starlight Ring.
There was only one month left in this semester.
He didn’t plan to continue researching Class 3 soul tools; his subsequent cultivation plan was already set: raising his soul power level.
Not only that, but his goal of attracting attention through soul tools to display his talent and thereby gaining resources and a backer had also been achieved.
From now on, soul master cultivation would be primary, and soul tool research auxiliary.
This would allow him to gain powerful strength while ensuring his foundation in soul tools remained solid enough.
After all, giving up soul tools was impossible.
Right now, it seemed soul tools lacked immense power, but that was only because the right path hadn’t been found.
However, these were non-issues for Huo Yuhao.
Once he obtained the Gold of Life later on and awakened his cheat code, Electrolux, combining the Undead Demiplane and Undead Magic with soul tools…
he didn’t even know how incredibly interesting it would become.
So, in the short term it wasn’t necessary, but in the long term, this step was crucial.
As for the cultivation plan: first, take the Profound Water Pill to further improve his aptitude.
Then, take the Spirit Ascension Pill.
Finally, obtain Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gel to enhance his physical fitness.
Huo Yuhao guessed that after finishing this Profound Water Pill, combined with the earlier remodeling from Skydream’s origin soul power under the effect of [Strong Luck], his innate soul power and cultivation speed would absolutely not be inferior to those guys with innate full soul power.
These steps were interlocked.
After all, the soul power a Spirit Ascension Pill could forcibly raise was equivalent to a Soul Elder going from level 30 to 31.
Added to the Profound Water Pill, it would be enough to push his soul power from level 16 to 19.
Then, taking the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gel would massively boost his physical fitness and solidify his foundation.
Oh right, it seemed his teacher also had medicinal baths.
Even if the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gel couldn’t solidify his foundation or raise his soul power, he didn’t have to worry about his soul power being unstable at all.
It was enough.
One month of time, plus these resources that ordinary people could hardly obtain, was enough to raise his soul power to level 20 before heading to the Far North during the holiday.
It was just that he’d need to find a suitable excuse when the time came.
After all, this involved the Ice Empress’s sacrifice, and he couldn’t let his teacher worry.
Adjusting his condition, he was just about to pop the Profound Water Pill into his mouth when he suddenly thought of something and quickly ran to the independent bathroom.
Almost forgot!
This thing cleanses the marrow and makes your pores excrete waste.
If I get the bed all dirty later, I’ll have to clean it myself!
While Huo Yuhao was hiding in his dorm popping pills, news swept through the entire Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy like a Category 12 typhoon.
Teaching Department, First Year Class 3.
“What did you say?!
That handsome guy Huo Yuhao actually became a Class 2 Soul Engineer in just three months?!
And he passed the dual assessment with perfect scores?!
Are you kidding?!”
“That’s what Teacher Shi Xuan said.
And supposedly the Director of Teaching was there too; it definitely can’t be faked.”
“Rumor has it that the soul-guided lathes in the Teaching Department recently, which massively improve metal shaping, are Huo Yuhao’s masterpiece.”
“Doesn’t that mean he broke the record for the fastest person to become a Class 2 Soul Engineer?”
“Holy crap!
He’s even more amazing than that upper-year student, Xiao Hongchen!
No wonder we never see him after class!”
“You could say that.
After all, he had never touched soul tools before.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.
The Sun Moon Empire’s most talented soul engineering genius in a millennium has actually changed hands.”
“…”
Sixth Year.
A playful white-haired girl looked at her depressed brother and couldn’t help but joke deliberately.
“Hehe, how long did it take a certain someone to become a Class 2 Soul Engineer back then?
If I remember correctly, it was nine months, right?”
“Now your record has been broken by an eleven-year-old junior.
Don’t you have anything you want to say, big bro?”
Xiao Hongchen looked at his sister gloating over his misfortune, his eyelids twitching.
“Hmph.
When that kid became a Class 1 Soul Engineer in just a month and created that soul-guided lathe, Grandfather already said it: that kid’s talent is fundamentally not inferior to ours.
In the future, he will be the best partner on our path of growth.”
“I secretly went to see that kid once before, and even placed the research notes I painstakingly wrote right in front of him.
But he didn’t care at all.”
Envious?
A little bit.
Jealous?
Not even close!
What a joke.
He, Xiao Hongchen, admitted that kid’s talent wasn’t weaker than his own, but his title as the Sun Moon Empire’s most talented soul engineer in a millennium wasn’t an empty boast.
Having a peer of the same age to progress together with—he wished for nothing more!
On the path to becoming a powerhouse, looking at the scenery along the way all alone was simply too boring.
Having a partner or rival like this appear meant the future absolutely wouldn’t be lonely.
This was the magnanimity of the Hongchen family’s descendants.
Saying this, he shot a teasing look back at his sister.
“Meng, I heard Grandfather say that kid is only eleven.
Before, in the library, your big bro saw him from afar once.
Setting talent aside and just talking about looks…
in the entire Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, no, even compared to your own big brother, I am a notch inferior.”
“Aren’t you a face-con, Meng?
How about it?
Should we go meet that kid tomorrow?”
(END CHAPTER)
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