After the exhausting journey, Ye Luochen returned and fell into a deep sleep, unusually not getting up until late morning.
After washing up and eating something simple, Ye Luochen headed straight for Mingde Hall.
When he arrived at the laboratory and opened the door, Xuan Ziwen was busy at the workbench.
Upon seeing Ye Luochen, Xuan Ziwen immediately looked up, waved him over, and urged him forward.
"Quick, I'm almost finished. I've been waiting for you."
Hearing this, Ye Luochen smiled and turned his gaze to the massive machine standing prominently on the table. "Is this what Teacher Xuan mentioned yesterday, the thing you needed me to verify?"
"Correct."
Xuan Ziwen nodded, then asked with more than a hint of pride, "Well? What do you think it looks like?"
"This..."
Ye Luochen circled it again and again, inspecting it over and over, but in the end, he still stammered without managing to say much.
From Xuan Ziwen's behavior, it was obvious that he considered this thing extremely precious.
As his disciple, Ye Luochen naturally ought to play along and offer a few compliments.
But he genuinely could not find anything to praise!
Though the machine was enormous and composed of countless components, the more Ye Luochen looked at it, the stranger it seemed. The connections between its parts were utterly unscientific, completely lacking the conditions for energy circulation.
He could not even find an inlet for infusing Soul Power.
From the perspective of a Soul Tool, this thing simply could not be used at all. How was he supposed to praise it?
"Um... it's quite big. It looks impressive."
After a long while, that was all Ye Luochen could force out.
"What do you mean, big? Look at what's inside! The inside!"
Hearing Ye Luochen's assessment, Xuan Ziwen could not