Go, Let's Take a Look at the Soul Engineer Department

"I really don't know what the academy is thinking."

Inside the cafeteria, Wu Feng was eating while jabbing her upright chopsticks against her plate, banging it repeatedly. She swept her eyes over the empty area without a single table or chair, her expression faintly displeased.

"I still think they..."

When she reached this point, she seemed afraid of being discovered. After glancing at Ning Tian, who was standing beside Chen Junting, Wu Feng suddenly shoveled a large mouthful of food into her mouth with her chopsticks as cover, then mumbled with lips that could not possibly produce any sound. It seemed to be a word pronounced like "cheap."

Beside her, Ning Tian pretended not to see anything. After putting the last piece of Century Braised Earth Dragon Tendon into her mouth, she turned to look at Chen Junting, who had also finished eating.

"Brother Junting, we're going to the Soul Engineer Department next, right?"

"That's right."

Chen Junting wiped his mouth. "We'll take Yuhao there to have a look and let him formally come into contact with the Soul Engineer Department. If conditions allow, we'll see whether we can find him a Teacher or Senior Brother to guide him. We'll strive to have him become a Level One Soul Engineer within this academic year. What do you think? Do you have confidence?"

At the final sentence, he looked toward Huo Yuhao.

"Brother Junting, don't worry."

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao carefully slid the last grain of Dragon Tooth Rice into his mouth. A trace of determination flashed through his eyes.

"That's the spirit!"

Chen Junting replied with a smile, then waved at Wu Feng, who was scraping up her final mouthful of rice, signaling for her to hurry and catch up.

Afterward, Ning Tian and Chen Junting walked side by side toward the Soul Engineer Department, while Wu Feng and Huo Yuhao tactfully fell several steps behind them.

After roughly an Incense Stick Time, a huge gray rectangular building came into view. The sheer size of the gray building made the other Teaching Buildings in the Martial Soul Department look dwarfed by comparison.

"This is the Soul Engineer Department's Teaching Building?"

Seeing that they had arrived, Wu Feng walked forward curiously.

After looking it over from top to bottom, she placed her hand against the wall.

She tapped it lightly once and discovered that the gray material was not only extremely thick, but that, apart from some areas built from brick and stone, many other places also used metal. The low, continuous rumbling coming from inside the building even made Wu Feng's body tremble slightly.

Even so...

"This is so different from the Soul Guidance Research Institute of our Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect." Recalling her sect's Soul Guidance Research Institute and its building, which fully displayed the character of soul tools, Wu Feng, who had never entered the Soul Guidance Research Institute, instinctively compared the building before her with it. She immediately sensed the difference between the two. "Ning Tian, I think it would be better to let Yuhao return to the sect to study."

"Sister Feng, people can't be judged by appearances, and neither can things."

Ning Tian showed no particular emotion and replied with an unchanged expression.

"Besides, the Soul Engineers in the sect spend all their time researching, developing, and manufacturing. How would they have time to teach a Soul Master without even the basics? Moreover, in terms of teaching Soul Engineers, Shrek Academy is considered the most deeply involved in soul tool research among the Three Great Douluo Empires."

"And the most important thing right now is figuring out how to get inside."

"Sister Xiaotian, did we take a wrong turn?"

At this moment, Huo Yuhao suddenly spoke.

He pointed at an inconspicuous sign not far away.

It clearly read—

"Soul Guidance Device Testing Area"

"This probably isn't somewhere ordinary people can enter."

After thinking briefly, Chen Junting shifted his gaze toward a small path beside them. Then he said to the other three, "Let's go over there and take a look. We should be able to find the Soul Engineer Department's Teaching Area."

They followed the small path...

Soon, the view before the four of them suddenly opened up!

As a vast empty space entered their vision, several classrooms could be seen inside the building beside them. On a wall inside the building, three large words were clearly written: "Teaching Area."

"Let's find a Senior Brother and ask him."

The four of them were fairly lucky. A Soul Engineer Department student wearing a Gray Badge was walking toward them from not far away. He was over two meters tall, with broad shoulders and dark skin. Although he did not have a single hair on his head, he had an honest, amiable appearance.

"Senior Brother from the Soul Engineer Department, please wait."

Ning Tian hurried forward to greet him. Chen Junting, who was following beside her, felt a trace of surprise in his heart. With such a conspicuous appearance, could they have really been lucky enough to run into He Caitou?

If that were the case, it would be rather good. After all, an ordinary student might not necessarily be able to successfully connect them with a decisive Teacher and arrange for Huo Yuhao to attend classes here as an auditor and supplementary student later.

"Huh? Are you calling me?"

The bald Senior Brother's face revealed a trace of awkwardness. But when he saw the white freshman uniforms they were wearing, he suddenly understood. "You're freshmen from the Martial Soul Department, right?"

"Yes, Senior Brother."

Ning Tian revealed a graceful, polite smile.

Then Chen Junting pulled Huo Yuhao over. "Senior Brother, besides wanting to see the Soul Engineer Department, we also came here because one of our companions wants to become a Soul Engineer."

"So that's how it is."

The bald Senior Brother did not think much of it and actually agreed immediately. "Then follow me. I'll take you to meet my Teacher and see what he says." With that, he beckoned for the four of them to follow him into the Teaching Building.

Soon, the five of them arrived at the Dean of Instruction's office.

Seeing this, Ning Tian exchanged a glance with Chen Junting.

They had not expected that the Soul Engineer Department Senior Brother they had casually encountered would actually be the student of the Soul Engineer Department's Dean of Instruction.

At this moment, Chen Junting also confirmed the Senior Brother's identity, because the current Dean of Instruction of the Soul Engineer Department was Fan Yu.

The bald Senior Brother before them was naturally He Caitou.

He Caitou stepped forward and knocked on the office door.

"Teacher, I'm back."

Then he pushed open the office door.

Inside the office, which was plastered with numerous sheets of paper, a middle-aged man about 1.8 meters tall with broad shoulders was bent over his desk, seemingly drawing something.

Hearing He Caitou's voice, he did not even raise his head. "Caitou, since you're back, make some preparations. We'll be going to the testing area later to conduct another round of tests on the soul tools."

"All right, Teacher."

He Caitou scratched his head honestly. After nodding at Chen Junting and the others behind him, he spoke in a slightly awkward voice.

"Teacher, I brought a few people with me. Take a look..."

"Oh?" Fan Yu raised his head and looked at the white uniforms of the four people behind He Caitou, slightly furrowing his brows. "Aren't you freshmen from the Martial Soul Department? What business do you have in our Soul Engineer Department?"

Fan Yu's tone was not stiff. Instead, it held a hint of puzzlement. Although the higher-ups of the Soul Engineer Department and the Martial Soul Department were sharply opposed to each other, they had never allowed that conflict to involve students of the Outer Academy.

What puzzled him was that students who joined the Martial Soul Department of Shrek Outer Academy were basically either uninterested in soul tools or regarded them as unimportant. Yet now, four freshmen had come directly to the Soul Engineer Department. It was truly unusual.

Thus, Chen Junting stepped forward and repeated to Fan Yu what he had told He Caitou.

"So, you want him to study both disciplines."

Unlike He Caitou, Fan Yu immediately understood their purpose. However, he did not say much or refuse. Instead, he looked Huo Yuhao up and down.

It was obvious at a glance that these four students came from some force. Otherwise, they would not have made such a decisive choice on their own. Therefore, he did not say anything about advising Huo Yuhao against studying both disciplines.

Moreover, having a Martial Soul Department student choose to study as a Soul Engineer also brought hidden benefits to their Soul Engineer Department.

Perhaps it might even influence the other freshmen in the Martial Soul Department.

Even if the effect were only slight, it would still be better than the current situation.