Level Five Soul Engineer Badge! A Bet with Xian Lin'er!

Soul Tool Department Academy.

Beside the enormous metal table, Xian Lin'er stood behind Jiang Yi, watching quietly, hardly daring to breathe.

Jiang Yi sat at the table, an icy-blue mark flickering between his brows as he held a palm-sized metal block.

His carving knife danced, metal shavings continuously scattering as elegant lines were inscribed into the metal core.

At last, Jiang Yi made the final cut. The entire Soul Tool pattern connected into a circuit, and a faint glow lit up from within the core.

"Whew—"

Jiang Yi let out a long breath. His body swayed, and he nearly collapsed. Xian Lin'er hurried forward from behind to support him.

"Thank you, Senior Sister."

Lying in Xian Lin'er's arms, he forced out a pale smile as he reclaimed control of his body from Tian Meng.

"I succeeded..."

Jiang Yi held the completed Class 5 Soul Tool core before Xian Lin'er, his voice carrying a trace of exhaustion.

After morning training with Tian Meng, he had brought the few Soul Tools she had made to Xian Lin'er.

This was the Class 5 Soul Engineer assessment.

"Junior Brother, you... you really succeeded?"

Xian Lin'er looked at the Soul Tool core in Jiang Yi's hand, its radiance restrained, and swallowed hard in disbelief.

Her junior brother had been in contact with Soul Tools for less than two months, yet he had already become a Class 5 Soul Engineer?

This was simply unbelievable!

Even back then, when she had studied Soul Tools with a cultivation level of Rank 95, it had taken her nearly two years.

"Senior Sister, look."

Jiang Yi smiled faintly and injected Soul Power into the core in his hand.

The patterns lit up, and a beam of light over three meters long shot skyward, sending ripples across the laboratory ceiling.

"Good!