"Have you heard? Huo Yuhao went to the Assessment Center again. He's probably taking the Level 4 Soul Engineer assessment this time, right?"
"Didn't he go just a month ago?"
"You said it yourself—that was a month ago! A whole month has passed since then!"
"He couldn't even finish learning the theory in a month..."
"Heh, I've been here for two years, and I'm only a Level 2 Soul Engineer. He became one in just two weeks..."
"People die comparing themselves to others, and goods get tossed aside when compared with better ones. It's been less than three months since the semester started, and he's already gone from a clueless rookie to a Level 4 Soul Engineer. Have all these years I've spent at the academy been for nothing?!"
"Has anyone here actually seen him? I heard a senior girl say Huo Yuhao was incredibly handsome. Is that true?"
The cafeteria buzzed with chatter. Nearly every table was talking about the same young man.
For the past two months, Huo Yuhao's name had become the one students at the entire Imperial Academy talked about most.
There was only one reason: his progress was absurd.
Was it absurd?
Huo Yuhao himself didn't think so.
He was a Spirit Master with a spiritual-type Martial Soul, so he learned things quickly.
The soul of a Soul Tool was its core array. Spiritual-type Spirit Masters had an innate advantage in engraving arrays; they could use their spiritual power for microscopic control, and as long as their hands were steady, they wouldn't make mistakes.
Huo Yuhao's physical abilities let him control his body perfectly. He hardly ever made a mistake while engraving arrays.
Becoming a Level 4 Soul Engineer in around three months was already the result of him holding back.
If he wanted to