Taking a Disciple!

"Yes! Our Soul Hall is exactly that kind of great organization!" Jiang Shengyu said with a smile, nodding at Huo Yuhao.

"Once you graduate from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, you can work for Soul Hall! Of course, you can come up with a codename now."

"A codename?" Huo Yuhao looked at Jiang Shengyu in confusion. "Why?"

Jiang Shengyu explained, "Soul Hall's methods are bound to draw the vigilance of those self-proclaimed noble Soul Master clans from the Original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms. Therefore, everyone in Soul Hall uses only codenames rather than their real names during operations, ensuring their safety as much as possible."

"I understand." Huo Yuhao suddenly realized. Looking at Jiang Shengyu, he asked curiously, "Then what is your codename, Cousin?"

"Mine?"

Jiang Shengyu cleared his throat. He suddenly became serious and said to Huo Yuhao, "I am Xiao Yan of Soul Hall!"

Huo Yuhao's eyes widened. "That name has an overwhelming sense of grandeur the moment you hear it! As expected of Cousin's codename!"

Covering his mouth as he laughed, Jiang Shengyu waved his hand. "Keep it low-key, keep it low-key! Come on, I'll take you to where you'll be staying. After such a long journey, you need to rest properly for a few days!"

Jiang Shengyu took Huo Yuhao to the residence that had been arranged for him.

Looking at the luxuriously furnished room before him, complete with every kind of household amenity, Huo Yuhao felt somewhat uneasy. "Cousin, this is too..."

"Too luxurious?"

Huo Yuhao nodded. "I've never stayed in such a nice room before!"

Seeing how uneasy Huo Yuhao was, Jiang Shengyu placed a hand on his shoulder and reassured him, "Don't overthink it. Just stay here in peace! Our Sun Moon Empire may not have much else, but we definitely have enough money."

Over the past few years alone, the Sun Moon Empire had made a fortune dumping civilian Soul Tools onto the Original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms. The officials of the three kingdoms wanted to stop it, but did they have the ability to stand against their own people?

Since Jiang Shengyu had put it that way, Huo Yuhao could not refuse his kindness and accepted it.

After Jiang Shengyu left, Huo Yuhao leaned back on the sofa and let out a long breath. "Brother Sky Dream, this feels like a dream!"

"More than you, I felt like I was dreaming just now."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm muttered, "That kid is a freak! He and his sister are both freaks. I've never heard of a cultivation method that lets someone add Soul Rings to themselves without hunting Soul Beasts!"

"The world is vast, and all sorts of strange things exist. Perhaps we're simply ignorant. Brother Sky Dream, aren't you also an unprecedented million-year Soul Beast?" Huo Yuhao continued.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement. "True. In that case, I'm still the bigger freak."

Huo Yuhao settled down in Mingde Hall. Thanks to Jiang Shengyu's connections, he was admitted directly into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy without taking an entrance exam. Before long, he displayed his talent for Soul Tools.

The Spirit Eyes Martial Soul combined with Spirit Detection was practically made for crafting Soul Tools! Faced with such talent, Xuan Ziwen, who had devoted himself wholeheartedly to Soul Tools, could no longer sit still. He immediately went to find Jiang Shengyu.

Jiang Shengyu had been dozing in the laboratory when Xuan Ziwen dragged him up.

Rubbing his bleary eyes, he looked blankly at Xuan Ziwen, who was pulling him outside by the hand, and asked, "Senior Brother, what's wrong? Did Teacher decide to split up the family and send you to find me?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Xuan Ziwen turned back and knocked Jiang Shengyu on the head, which woke him up considerably.

Holding his head, Jiang Shengyu asked, "What on earth is it? Even you're this anxious?"

"It's about your cousin!" Xuan Ziwen told him about Huo Yuhao and explained that he wanted to take him as a disciple, hoping Jiang Shengyu could mediate.

Jiang Shengyu was not surprised. With Huo Gua's talent, it would have been strange if Xuan Ziwen had not taken a liking to him!

When Xuan Ziwen brought Jiang Shengyu over to Huo Yuhao, Huo Yuhao had just finished engraving the core formation of a Rank One Soul Tool.

"Yuhao!"

Jiang Shengyu called out to Huo Yuhao from the doorway and waved for him to come over.

Huo Yuhao put down what he was holding and hurried over. "Cousin, Teacher Xuan, is something wrong?"

Jiang Shengyu cleared his throat, dragged Xuan Ziwen out from behind him, and said, "My Senior Brother wants to take you as his disciple, but he's too embarrassed, so he asked me to be the middleman!"

"Junior Brother!" Xuan Ziwen cried out. Even someone as poor at social interaction as him could not keep a straight face at that moment. Who would have thought he would be so cautious even about accepting a disciple? He was terrified the other party might refuse.

"What are you embarrassed about?" Jiang Shengyu gave Xuan Ziwen a push forward.

"Who's embarrassed?!"

Xuan Ziwen frowned. Looking at Huo Yuhao, who was staring at him, he sighed. After composing himself, he said, "Your cousin is right. I do intend to take you as my personal disciple, but whether you are willing depends on your own decision."

During this period of study, Huo Yuhao had long heard of Xuan Ziwen's reputation. Now that Xuan Ziwen wanted to take him as a disciple, with Jiang Shengyu encouraging it from the side, he naturally would not refuse.

"Teacher, please accept this disciple's bow!" Huo Yuhao stepped back and bowed to Xuan Ziwen.

"Good, good, good!" Xuan Ziwen beamed, delighted to have gained such an excellent disciple! He was confident that he could train Huo Yuhao into a Rank Nine Soul Tool Master, perhaps even send him toward the ranks of Rank Ten Soul Engineers!

Jiang Shengyu put an arm around Huo Yuhao's shoulders and quietly said, "Hey, when no one else is around, call me Cousin. When there are people around, call me Martial Uncle. No problem?"

"No problem, Cousin Martial Uncle," Huo Yuhao nodded and replied.

Jiang Shengyu's smile vanished as he waved his hand. "That sounds too weird. Forget it."

With Xuan Ziwen taking Huo Yuhao as his disciple, the Silver Moon Douluo lineage had gained a third generation. The busy Jing Hongchen even took some time to return and gave Huo Yuhao several Rank Eight Soul Tools.

Kong Deming also generously gave Huo Yuhao two defensive Rank Nine Soul Tools.

"Teacher, are we producing this many Rank Nine Soul Tools now?" Jiang Shengyu blinked in surprise as he watched Kong Deming take out Rank Nine Soul Tools to give Huo Yuhao.

He remembered that there should not have been so many Rank Nine Soul Tools in the original work, right?

"Of course not! If this old man hadn't asked the other consecrators for them, they wouldn't have given them to me!"

Kong Deming waved a hand and said with a smile.

He had long since stopped forging new Rank Nine Soul Tools. In recent years, he had focused entirely on completing the Rank Ten Soul Tool in which he had placed such high hopes. The Rank Nine Soul Tools he still possessed had basically all been given to Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong.

Huo Yuhao looked at the two Rank Nine Soul Tools in his hands, his expression filled with shock.

These were Rank Nine Soul Tools capable of blocking attacks from Titled Douluo!

"Thank you, Grandmaster!" Huo Yuhao solemnly bowed to Kong Deming.