Su Family Acquires Soul Tools

On the path of Apertures, Du Busi saw the road ahead.

And not just him. Elder Qilin and the others also felt their bottlenecks loosening.

Compared to other Soul Masters, Body Sect Soul Masters possessed powerful physiques and could naturally withstand greater Aperture rejection.

At the same time, their more precise control over their own bodies allowed them to better harmonize their Apertures and eliminate the repulsive force within them.

Du Busi condensed Apertures within his body one after another.

Su Fan did not hide much from him.

Because Su Fan knew that one could not be stingy with one's backer.

Having joined the Body Sect, he had already chosen his backer, so he needed to help strengthen it as much as possible.

Before he could personally contend with people like Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, Xuan Zi, and Kong Deming, Du Busi would be his greatest support.

Thus, the stronger Du Busi became, the safer Su Fan would be.

He therefore held nothing back regarding the path of Apertures.

It was precisely because of this that Du Busi knew Su Fan's Apertures each contained their own space.

The most basic understanding of an Aperture was that it served as a hub for Soul Power circulation.

It was enough to condense a structure that propelled the circulation of Soul Power.

Going a step further meant strengthening the Aperture, making it physically real and turning it into a part of the meridians—in other words, a part of the human body.

The next step was to make the Aperture transform and contain space within it.

At present, Su Fan had no method to help others cultivate their Apertures to that stage.

Nor had he put much effort into deducing that step.

Because he had no use for it himself.

Su Fan could refrain from keeping secrets, share the path of Apertures with the Soul Master world, and advance its development.

But he absolutely would not delay his own time to deduce something useless to him merely so ordinary Soul Masters could cultivate Apertures.

However, while Su Fan had not deduced it, Du Busi could attempt it.

At his level of cultivation, his understanding of space was already extremely profound.

He was simply still far behind a Limit Douluo.

"First condense more Apertures. Making an Aperture contain space takes far too much effort."

Du Busi had tried using spatial power to temporarily reinforce his Apertures.

It increased the rejection between Apertures.

So he was in no rush to develop it.

He would first condense the Heavenly Circuit Apertures.

The Su Family.

Under the name Su Yu, Su Fan successfully blended in.

"Since you have entered my Su Family, you will receive the standard provisions of a Su Family disciple."

Su Qian personally led Su Fan and assigned him a room.

"There is a separate room inside for crafting Soul Tools. Also, if you wish to learn the techniques, you may attend the school. Elders of the Su Family will be responsible for teaching you."

Hearing this, Su Fan frowned.

"Are the Su Family's Soul Engineers all trained within the family?"

"No. The school only teaches the foundational material to family disciples. Do not look at me like that, and do not think I am looking down on you. I simply look down on the Soul Tool technology of your Douluo Three Empires."

"Even if your Heaven Dou Empire has a seventh-rank Soul Engineer, while the highest-ranked Soul Engineer my Su Family has ever produced was only sixth-rank, let me tell you this: the Soul Engineer training you can receive in my Su Family will definitely be better than the finest training in your Heaven Dou Empire!"

Su Qian spoke with immense pride.

Su Fan did not refute him.

There was nothing to refute.

He would study for a while first.

In any case, he had come to the Su Family without having his personal freedom restricted.

If the school's lessons proved useless to him, he could simply skip them and seek opportunities outside.

As part of his cooperation with the Su Family, Su Fan could not join the Sun Moon Royal Academy or Mingde Hall.

This was also the Su Family's bottom line.

Because those two places were extremely important.

Once Su Fan, a man from the Three Empires, was discovered there, the Su Family would truly be exterminated.

It was still manageable if someone from the Three Empires merely appeared within the family.

But if a family disciple entered the Sun Moon Royal Academy or Mingde Hall and turned out to be a spy, that would be a true calamity of annihilation.

This showed just how much importance the Sun Moon Royal Family placed on Mingde Hall.

Not being able to enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy did not greatly affect Su Fan.

After all, he was not truly there to study.

For one thing, he did not have the energy to genuinely learn.

For another, he did not possess Huo Yuhao's copying ability.

He only had Electrolux.

Thus, his use of the Su Family to enter Ming Capital's Soul Engineer world was merely to make it easier to obtain more Soul Tools.

If he could get blueprints, he needed to get his hands on those as well.

The school.

The Su Family was not small, with more than a hundred members. There were currently nine disciples under the age of ten.

When a grown-up like Su Fan suddenly appeared in the school, the nine Su Family disciples were all extremely curious.

Su Fan easily brushed aside the questions from those Su Family disciples.

The one teaching at the school was a fourth-rank Soul Engineer from the family.

Su Fan listened for a while.

This fourth-rank Soul Engineer truly understood Core Arrays better than Su Fan did.

Or rather, his understanding was more detailed and thorough than the material Su Fan had obtained from his sister-in-law's aunt.

That was the gap.

The difference in their overall environments made the two Soul Engineer worlds feel almost disconnected.

In the Sun Moon Empire, a fourth-rank Soul Engineer's understanding of Soul Tools might surpass that of a sixth-rank Soul Engineer in the Dou Ling Empire.

Su Fan attended one lesson and never returned afterward.

It was useful.

But unnecessary.

Su Qian listened to the account from the school's fourth-rank Soul Engineer and fell into thought.

He had not gone to the school again.

His fingers tapped against the armrest, a trace of confusion flashing through his eyes.

If his foundations were poor, then he should honestly make up for them.

What was he doing?

Moreover, as far as Su Qian knew, the separate workshop in Su Fan's room that had been specially prepared for crafting Soul Tools had not been used either.

Su Fan did not seem to craft Soul Tools at all.

Was he really a Soul Engineer?

Su Qian even entertained such an absurd thought.

Then he shook his head.

Impossible.

The person the Heavenly Soul Royal Family had paid a price to send into the Su Family could not possibly fail to be a Soul Engineer.

After all, the terms they had discussed all concerned learning Soul Tool technology.

If they sent someone outside the Soul Tool field, would that not be wasting so many concessions for nothing?

"I do not know what his goal is. Keep a close watch on him. Whatever he does, we will pretend not to see it, but there is one thing he absolutely must not touch: the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Mingde Hall. He is not permitted to make contact with either through any means."

Su Qian gave the order.

Early in the morning, after completing his daily cultivation, Su Fan stretched lazily.

He left the Su Family.

Walking along Mingde Avenue, Su Fan felt refreshed.

Ming Capital had an intensely modern atmosphere, with towering buildings and signs made from Soul Tools.

"Soul Tool Pavilion."

Su Fan arrived at the most prosperous district of Ming Capital and found the target of his trip.

This Soul Tool Pavilion was an enterprise of the Sun Moon Royal Family. It was spread throughout the Sun Moon Empire and handled the buying and selling of Soul Tools.

Su Fan's purpose in coming here was self-evident.

He wanted to acquire Soul Tools.

Of course, a large-scale acquisition would certainly draw attention.

So he only intended to buy one or two Soul Tools at a time.

There was plenty of time ahead.

He would not be staying in Ming Capital for a short while.

Each time he came, he would buy one or two Soul Tools. Little by little, they would add up.