The Learned Are Teachers! Tang Sect Invests in the Soul Tool Department!

"Of course, bigger and stronger!"

Xian Lin'er answered without hesitation.

The highest-ranked Soul Tool in Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department was only Grade 8. To catch up to the Sun Moon Empire, they naturally had to develop Grade 9 Soul Tools.

Jiang Yi nodded first, then shook his head.

"Right, but also wrong!"

"Hm? Why?"

Xian Lin'er looked puzzled. She was not good at such roundabout matters.

"Senior Sister, if war broke out, would Shrek fear those Grade 9 Soul Engineers?"

"Of course not! After reaching Soul Sage, Shrek Academy's Soul Masters are stronger than the vast majority of Soul Engineers at the same rank!"

"Then that's it!"

Jiang Yi smiled faintly, took the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella from Xian Lin'er's hand, opened it, and spun it in his palm.

"We don't lack high-end combat power. What we lack are mid- and low-level Soul Masters. The Sun Moon Empire only needs medicine to raise up huge groups of Soul Engineers."

"But Soul Masters can't be raised that way. Soul Masters forcibly cultivated in such a manner would only be trash—unless we also form Soul Engineer corps."

In this era, Soul Masters were still the mainstream. In fact, even ten thousand years later, the top experts would still be Soul Masters.

Even so-called godslaying missiles could not kill a Limit Douluo who wanted to flee, but making Soul Tools accessible to commoners was the most cost-effective direction for development.

The prerequisite for using a Soul Tool was being a Soul Master of the corresponding rank, while the prerequisite for using most Hidden Weapons was simply being human.

The difference in their user bases was more than a hundredfold.

Of course, as the era progressed, Soul Masters as a whole had grown stronger, and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were far less threatening than