Before long, an old man in yellow walked over and stood behind Huo Yuhao, just as officials did behind the other competition tables.
Three staff members carried over trays containing more than a dozen cheap Rare Metal blocks, the materials used to make Soul Tools.
Huo Yuhao casually picked up a block of Rare Metal, and his right hand immediately began to move.
Pale blue Soul Power slowly gathered in his palm.
His fingers trembled lightly, and at each fingertip condensed a crystalline frost fingernail, sharp as pointed Ice Crystals and gleaming with a chilling cold light.
The nails gathered in his hand quivered slightly like incomparably sharp Engraving Knives. It looked as though ripples were dancing across the metal table. Metal shavings immediately poured down, yet they did not scatter. Instead, they spread neatly outward.
Huo Yuhao's movements were light and elegant, as though he were performing a silent dance. His fingertips traced paths across the Rare Metal, those paths interweaving to form a complex Soul Guidance Core Array.
Under the rhythm of Huo Yuhao's hands, the irregular Fine Steel quickly became rectangular. Strange patterns then began to emerge across its surface, separated and engraved. The entire process flowed as smoothly as flowing clouds and water.
Though it seemed like nothing more than simple tremors of his fingers, every movement was so precise that the Yellow-Clothed Old Man's gaze turned somewhat vacant.
Huo Yuhao's method of engraving a Soul Guidance Core Array was simply unheard of to him, yet for Huo Yuhao, this was only the beginning.
Soon, after the outer Core Array of the Rare Metal had been engraved, Huo Yuhao's movements abruptly stopped.
His hands, suffused with pale blue light, held the half-outlined Soul Guidance Core Array in his palms. Under Huo Yuhao's exquisite control, waves of