Back in Jing Hongchen's office, Jing Hongchen took out Soul Tools from Levels One through Nine from his storage space. Aside from only one Ninth-Level Soul Tool, there were two of each other level, making seventeen in total, along with one low-grade metal and one high-grade metal.
After all, Levels One through Eight were manageable, but taking out a Ninth-Level Soul Tool... honestly, even Jing Hongchen found it rather painful.
Though he was indeed a Ninth-Level Soul Engineer, Ninth-Level Soul Tools were limited by more than just technology. Materials and cost were the main constraints.
A single Ninth-Level Soul Tool consumed enough manpower and materials to equip an entire Soul Engineer legion. Even someone as wealthy as Jing Hongchen could not afford to manufacture them in bulk.
However, for Soul Tool technology to achieve new development, these were necessary expenditures.
"Come on, Shi'er. Go all out. You will lay the foundation for the field of Artificial Intelligence in Soul Tool technology!"
"Leave it to me, Teacher."
Yao Shi walked over to the seventeen arranged Soul Tools and first looked at the two pieces of metal.
The reason Jing Hongchen had brought out Soul Tools of every level was because Yao Shi had previously said that other metals, even if enlightened, might not possess high intelligence like Little Spirit.
Therefore, he needed to find out whether the reason metal spirits could not develop high intelligence lay in the quality of the metal itself or something else.
A point of green light condensed in Yao Shi's hand. He lightly tapped it between the two pieces of metal, and the green light transformed into strands of thread that wound around them.
Before long, the low-grade and high-grade metals began transforming into roughly humanoid shapes. However, unlike Little Spirit, whose appearance leaned toward that