Competition Rewards: Spirit Bone Soul Tool

After class.

Xuan Xingyue hurried to her brother's laboratory, charging in so recklessly that she nearly collided with a student conducting an experiment.

Only when she saw that familiar face

did she reveal an excited expression. "Brother!"

"What is it?" Xuan Ziwen raised an eyebrow.

He looked helplessly at his younger sister. If anyone else dared interrupt him like this, they would never appear before him again.

"I just met a new student..."

Before she could finish, Xuan Ziwen interrupted her. "What about a new student? I know being a teacher isn't easy, but you don't have any talent for cultivation either."

Xuan Xingyue sighed.

"Let me finish."

The woman immediately recounted everything that had happened, including the concept of Human-Tool Unity.

"I don't understand aerial fleets, and I don't understand Human-Tool Unity either. I just feel that it sounds impressive."

"But Soul Tool Armor has always been one of your research projects, hasn't it?"

"He wasn't wrong about that."

Xuan Ziwen sat in a metal chair, muttering softly to himself.

He suddenly raised his head. "You're saying he mentioned Human-Tool Unity? Treating a Soul Tool like a Soul Bone and fusing it into the body?"

"Yes, but I don't think that's possible." The woman shrugged.

Xuan Ziwen's face hardened, his gaze sharp as a blade. A single look from him was enough to make people fall silent.

"There is no such thing as impossible in a Soul Engineer's world! Remember this: what binds a person is not matter, but thought."

"Keep an eye on that new student for me. If his talent is good enough, bring him to see me."

The woman obediently remained where she was.

"Alright."

After his sister left the Experimental Zone.

Xuan Ziwen rose to his feet and paced back and forth. He lifted his head, excitement appearing on his face.

That new student's idea was actually exactly the same as his teacher's!

The man had a feeling that the new student would very likely become a rising star in the world of Soul Engineers.

Immersed in study, the days passed as calmly as flowing water.

During this period, Xu Tinglan attended classes during the day, focusing on learning about Soul Tools. In the afternoons, he went to the Experimental Zone at Xiao Hongchen's villa to forge rare metals.

The process of forging rare metals also tempered his body and his control over Soul Power.

At night,

he sat on his bed and meditated, cultivating his family's inherited technique, the Mysterious Underworld Tidal Art.

It was a supreme technique most suited to the Mysterious Underworld Turtle, containing the principles of rising and falling tides and the transformations of yin and yang. It could not only increase Soul Power, but also strengthen spiritual power.

Xu Tinglan remembered how excited he had been when his parents first introduced him to this technique.

After all, techniques that could improve spiritual power were rare!

But it made sense.

If the Mysterious Underworld Turtle's weakness was spiritual defense, how could it be called a top-tier defensive martial soul?

During this period, his life had been very fulfilling.

He did not feel tired at all.

In his previous life, Xu Tinglan had experienced Hengshui Mode in high school.

He got up at five-thirty in the morning, ran drills at six, and classes did not end until eleven-forty at night.

The other excessive aspects were enough to leave him unsettled whenever he recalled them even now.

In terms of strictness, even Zhou Yi of Shrek could not compare.

With comparison came happiness.

Now, studying at Sun Moon Academy did not feel difficult to Xu Tinglan in the slightest. It could only be described as easy and pleasant.

Inside the laboratory,

the young man carefully carved the Soul Tool Core Array in his hand.

The metal gleamed with a moonlit hue. Under the carving knife, intricate patterns gradually took shape within it.

A happy smile appeared on Xu Tinglan's face.

Perhaps because he had lived two lives, along with the Mysterious Underworld Tidal Art's enhancement of his spiritual power, he learned carving exceptionally quickly.

He spent only thirty-two days completing the crucial step of Soul Tool production.

"Amazing. You actually became a first-level Soul Engineer in just thirty-two days." Xiao Hongchen blinked.

That learning speed was no worse than his own.

However, he had become a first-level Soul Engineer when he was only a little over six years old.

Xu Tinglan raised his head slightly.

"I had previously come into contact with forging and a whole series of other crafts, so naturally, it took me less time now."

He was very happy.

If he remembered correctly, Huo Gua had also taken a month to learn the first-level Core Array.

But that fellow possessed the Spirit Eye and had an advantage in carving.

In the future, Huo Gua might pull further and further ahead in carving.

However, Xu Tinglan was not discouraged. His advantage lay in metal forging.

The Mysterious Underworld Turtle possessed earth and water attributes.

Earth was the physical foundation of all matter, while water was the medium of life. The combination of earth and water was the prerequisite for creating metal.

Looking at the future development of Soul Tools,

forging living metals was the true priority, while carving Soul Tool Cores was slightly less important.

"You signed up for the Soul Engineer competition, right?" Xiao Hongchen lay on the sofa with a metal rod between his teeth.

"I did. Nannan and I are a team."

Xu Tinglan stretched lazily.

He still remembered the Soul Engineer competition Meng Hongchen had mentioned a month ago. The reward was rare metal of a chosen attribute.

According to information from within,

the champion's reward in the Core Competition was even more astonishing.

It was a fourth-level Soul Tool made with a hundred-year Soul Bone as its core.

Although the Soul Bone was incomplete and could not be absorbed by anyone, it was still extremely valuable. More importantly, it was something one could only encounter by chance.

The assessment was a practical test of controlling Soul Tools and did not require participants to make them themselves.

The silver-haired youth burst into laughter, his face full of confidence.

"Meng and I will defeat you. After all, I'm invincible among my peers."

Xu Tinglan did not take it too seriously and said with interest,

"You still have that kind of confidence after meeting me? Interesting."

The two looked at each other, battle intent surfacing in their eyes.

Both could sense the Divine Beast Bloodline within the other.

Although one side possessed the nobler Black Tortoise Bloodline, it had an attribute issue and was not yet in its complete form.

His Three-Legged Golden Toad, on the other hand, was far inferior to the Black Tortoise in standing, but it had no flaws.

Over the past month, both Xu Tinglan and Jiang Nannan had been practicing how to use Soul Tools.

He focused on close-quarters combat.

Jiang Nannan, meanwhile, focused on long-range combat.

To his surprise, the girl was not only skilled in close combat, but also possessed an extraordinary talent for controlling long-range Soul Tools.

The Soul Engineer competition soon arrived.

Sun Moon Academy's assessment area was located in a sealed metal building known as the Soul Guidance Testing Hall.

Under the sunlight, the entire sealed metal building radiated a silvery-white glow.

The entire assessment area was divided into one hundred sections, with a total area of approximately fifty thousand square meters. Its footprint was astonishingly large.

The teams had already been assigned yesterday, and their first appearance in the competition would soon begin.

The Level One Competition was an event for one-ring Soul Masters.

Xu Tinglan, Xiao Hongchen, and the others had all entered the Core Competition.

After lunch,

the four of them headed together to the Soul Guidance Testing Hall and found their assigned area according to their groupings.

The opponents in the Core Competition were at least second-level Soul Engineers, all with cultivation at the Soul Grandmaster level.

Jiang Nannan clenched her fists, looking somewhat nervous.

Xu Tinglan reached out and took hold of the girl's wrist, comforting her.

"Just fight the way we usually practice. Their control over Soul Power isn't as stable as ours."