Compensation

After receiving Jing Hongchen's promise, Ye Luochen nodded.

Although he had failed to obtain a soul ring during this trip, it would not affect his cultivation.

His soul power would not stop increasing just because he lacked a soul ring; he would simply be missing a soul skill for the time being.

Without lingering any longer, Ye Luochen left Mingde Hall and returned to his dormitory.

Not long after, an instructor came knocking and handed a ring to Ye Luochen.

Ye Luochen naturally recognized this item: a storage soul tool produced by Mingde Hall.

The compensation arrived so quickly?

Ye Luochen was somewhat surprised.

He had assumed that the compensation Jing Hongchen mentioned would take at least three to five days to be finalized.

He had not expected it to be delivered in less than an hour.

With a flicker of Ye Luochen's spiritual power, the storage soul tool was activated.

Two small, exquisite items, shaped very much like mirrors, appeared on the table.

That's it?

Ye Luochen was slightly stunned.

Although he hadn't suffered any substantial injuries on this trip, nor did he need to be bedridden like the Hongchen siblings due to excessive exhaustion, he had truly experienced a life-or-death crisis.

Furthermore, he had faced this crisis even with a Title Douluo-level soul master leading the team.

If it weren't for the powerful level-nine soul tools the Hongchen siblings possessed, he would likely have already become a cold corpse.

Yet, the compensation was only these two small trinkets?

Filled with doubt, Ye Luochen picked up the manual placed beside the two items.

He didn't realize it until he looked, but once he did, Ye Luochen understood just how precious these two items were.

"Level-nine soul tool: Mirror of Protection."

"Can be activated actively, releasing a soul tool barrier of corresponding strength based on the intensity of the soul power injected by the user."

"After being charged, it can function as a triggered soul tool. A full charge allows for three uses, each generating a soul tool barrier that lasts for thirty seconds, with a strength sufficient to withstand the full-force attack of a power-attack system Title Douluo."

Good heavens, a level-nine soul tool—and two of them!

Having stayed in Mingde Hall for so long, Ye Luochen was well aware of the rarity of level-nine soul tools.

Each one could be considered a strategic-level asset, absolutely priceless and impossible to find on the market. Some level-nine soul masters didn't even possess a single one.

Yet, Jing Hongchen had given him two at once!

Not only that, but the functions of these soul tools were incredibly monstrous.

When activated actively, they adapted to the user's strength.

It sounded somewhat lackluster at first, as a weak user would naturally produce a weak barrier.

But as a soul master himself, Ye Luochen realized the terrifying nature of this trait in an instant.

It had almost no usage restrictions!

Conventionally, the higher the rank of a soul tool, the higher the requirements for the user's strength.

A level-two soul master could not use a level-six soul tool even if it were given to them.

However, this soul tool had no such limitation.

No wonder Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were able to activate those two level-nine soul tools to fight the Evil Eye Tyrant despite only having the cultivation of Soul Kings.

Ye Luochen finally understood.

As Xuan Ziwen's disciple, he naturally knew that his teacher's greatest dream was to promote the universality of soul tools.

He wanted everyone to be able to use soul tools without burden.

Originally, he had felt that this dream was somewhat unrealistic.

But judging by this soul tool and the two used by the Hongchen siblings earlier, Mingde Hall had likely already traveled quite a distance down that path.

Compared to this trait, the other feature was actually what Ye Luochen valued even more.

Passive triggered activation.

It generated a thirty-second barrier capable of withstanding the full-force strike of a power-attack system Title Douluo.

Once fully charged, it could be activated three times.

Any one of these three points, taken individually, was not particularly rare.

Triggered soul tools were common enough.

Soul tools that could be activated multiple times from a single charge were also common.

As for a barrier that could withstand the attack of a Title Douluo, while it sounded outrageous and would certainly cause a sensation in the outside world...

As a holder of level-six clearance in Mingde Hall, Ye Luochen knew clearly that Mingde Hall actually possessed quite a few soul tools of this caliber.

However, when these three points were all fused together, it became an entirely different matter.

Because this meant that with this soul tool, anyone could withstand the full-force attack of a Power Attack System Titled Douluo head-on for a full ninety seconds!

And right now, Ye Luochen had two of these items in front of him!

In other words, he could hold out for one hundred and eighty seconds—a full three minutes!

Furthermore, this thing was not a one-time use item; it could be recharged and used repeatedly.

Theoretically speaking, as long as Ye Luochen could fully recharge one Mirror of Protection during the ninety seconds the other was activated, and then continue to rotate them in this manner.

He could achieve the feat of stepping on his own left foot to lift his right, extending those ninety seconds indefinitely.

Brother, I'm invincible!

Upon realizing this, the thought immediately surged in Ye Luochen's heart.

By stepping on his own left foot to lift his right, he would remain in an invincible position even against a Power Attack System Titled Douluo; as long as he didn't court death, he basically wouldn't have to worry about his life anymore.

But after only a moment, Ye Luochen shook his head.

This was simply unrealistic.

The energy required to generate a barrier of this intensity would inevitably be immense.

Not to mention that he was currently only level forty; even if his soul power were much higher, he feared he would be unable to fully recharge the other one within ninety seconds.

This fantasy of stepping on his own left foot to lift his right was just that—a fantasy.

Yet, this did not affect Ye Luochen's sense of surprise and delight in the slightest.

Because even if he couldn't step on his own left foot to lift his right, these two Mirrors of Protection were still incredibly precious treasures.

Their basic functions were already powerful to the point of being absurd.

"Is this Mingde Hall..."

Ye Luochen couldn't help but marvel repeatedly.

He truly hadn't expected that Jing Hongchen's simple word of "compensation" would turn out to be something so valuable.

One had to know that when he was previously at Shrek, according to his understanding, those few students who had survived a tragedy similar to his own hadn't seemed to receive any truly valuable compensation.

It was nothing more than so-called titles and becoming legendary figures in the mouths of other students.

And that Sea God Pavilion Elder who led the team had not been punished by Jing Hongchen like the level-nine soul engineer who led the team today.

There were even more absurd things; those few students who had luckily survived had to "voluntarily" go and comfort or forgive that derelict Sea God Pavilion Elder.

They had to "thoughtfully" express that it wasn't his fault and that he shouldn't blame himself.

And now, after he had experienced a very similar situation, what was Mingde Hall's approach?

To say nothing of which was superior, at the very least, it did not make Ye Luochen feel disheartened.