A Transmigrator Compared to Huo Yuhao, Kong Deming's Shock

"Teacher, I can give it a try. If it really doesn't work, then forget it."

(I've lived in modern society and learned modern knowledge. The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool technology is indeed impressive, but with modern knowledge, I could definitely make things like remote-controlled cars, pistols, or some small Soul Tools. That should be enough to pass. But compared to Huo Yuhao, it'll still be difficult. After all, Huo Yuhao's cheats are troublesome.)

If a transmigrator were compared with Huo Yuhao, who would become a peak Soul Engineer faster...

Here's the conclusion first: for an ordinary transmigrator on a "pure Soul Engineer path" without Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul cheats, Huo Yuhao would be faster. If the transmigrator had major cheats like "modern engineering knowledge + a system + stockpiled resources in advance," and aimed for Level-Nine Soul Engineer rather than Level-Ten, they could compete at roughly the same level. But in overall capability—Soul Power, dual cultivation of Soul Power and Soul Tools, and combat systems—they would still struggle to surpass him. Let's break it down.

Huo Yuhao's advancement as a Soul Engineer was itself an atypical cheat.

He got started incredibly quickly: he encountered Soul Tools at eleven or twelve, became a second-class Soul Engineer in eight months, reached fifth class at around fourteen, then went on to break Fan Yu's record as the youngest third-class Soul Engineer and continuously reset the youngest records for sixth, seventh, and eighth class.

At his peak, he became a Titled Douluo and Level-Nine Soul Engineer at twenty-two or twenty-three. Later, he was publicly recognized as the person closest to becoming a Level-Ten Soul Engineer, on the same level as Kong Deming.

As for luck and cheats, he was not only Douluo Star's child of destiny, but also had Tang San watching over him from above. Tang San had always wanted to claim this child of destiny for himself, so he would certainly choose to help him.

He was fast not because his theories came from the future, but because Spirit Eyes + Purple Demon Eyes + terrifying spiritual power made him a human lithography machine. He could inscribe core formations with almost zero error. Then there was the chain of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Ice Empress, Electrolux, and Snow Empress; the Soul Beast and Necromantic Demiplane chain; Douluo Star's luck cheat; and Tang San's secret assistance. His supplies of Soul Power, materials, and everything else had never been interrupted.

Could an ordinary transmigrator who understood some modern physics, chemistry, or circuitry catch up?

Theory could be learned, but three hard barriers would stop them cold:

Soul Power Level: a Level-Nine Soul Engineer needed Titled Douluo-level Soul Power as a foundation. Without Sky Dream Ice Silkworm pouring power into them, without Ice Empress and Snow Empress sacrificing themselves, a transmigrator who relied purely on hard work would most likely fall one or two ranks behind Huo Yuhao in Soul Power before age twenty. And a Soul Tool's rank limit was rigidly restricted by Soul Power.

Core formation inscription: knowing the principles of chips was useless when your hands weren't microscopes.

Huo Yuhao could carve microscopic lines with his naked eyes through Spirit Eyes. A transmigrator would need tools, inherently losing out in both yield and speed.

Resources and teachers: Fan Yu, Xuan Ziwen, Sun Moon Imperial Academy, the Tang Sect industrial chain—Huo Yuhao advanced while standing atop the resources of Shrek, the Tang Sect, and the Sun Moon Empire. A transmigrator starting alone wouldn't even be able to get their hands on rare metals or high-level guiding formations in the early stages.

So, comparing them at the same age:

At twelve, Huo Yuhao was second class, while the transmigrator would most likely still be learning to identify components.

At fifteen, Huo Yuhao was fifth class. Reaching third class would already make the transmigrator a genius.

At twenty, Huo Yuhao was seventh class and a Soul Emperor. If Soul Power held the transmigrator back, they would be stuck at the fifth- or sixth-class "theoretical master" stage.

At twenty-three, Huo Yuhao had reached ninth class and gained the title of Titled Douluo. In the transmigrator's most ideal scenario, they would be eighth class—an Xuan Ziwen-type genius, but without enough Soul Power to become a Titled Douluo.

Under what circumstances could a transmigrator win?

Yes, there was one: their cheat had to be at least as powerful as Huo Yuhao's.

Or they had to be born far earlier than Huo Yuhao and seize all of Huo Yuhao's opportunities ahead of time.

Or they brought a "Soul Tool blueprint database + system rewards for Soul Power + automatic inscription platform" → then they could produce ninth-class works earlier than Huo Yuhao, though their integration with actual combat would be poorer.

If "peak" was defined as "the most cutting-edge craftsman among Level-Nine Soul Engineers" rather than "a ninth-class Soul Engineer capable of fighting a Limit Douluo," then a transmigrator could surpass him in industrial contribution through engineering thinking—standardized Soul Tools, assembly lines, Soul Tool artillery units. But Huo Yuhao would still win in terms of personal advancement speed.

To put it simply:

During the era of The Unrivaled Tang Clan, Huo Yuhao's Soul Engineer advancement was an exceptional case built from Martial Soul talent + a chain of luck + Tang San as a cheat + a dual-cultivation system. Even a normal transmigrator with an engineering mind could only become an enhanced Xuan Ziwen, not someone who reached the peak before Huo Yuhao.

Defeating Huo Yuhao would be far too difficult. Unless one had a system cheat, sufficient resources, and the support of a major power, an ordinary transmigrator really couldn't win.

Huo Yuhao had too many cheats.

Winning would be very difficult.

But Xiao Changge was different. He had a system, cheats, and even knew the plot. He would definitely seize everything Huo Yuhao had and turn it into his own power.

"Elder Kong!"

"What is it? What happened? I already said I was going into seclusion. Why are you looking for me again?"

When Kong Deming saw Jing Hongchen arrive at this time, he couldn't understand what Jing Hongchen wanted.

"Take a look at this first!"

"???!!! His Innate Full Soul Power was crippled by Shrek, yet he still absorbed two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings in a very short time—one over ten thousand years old and the other around forty thousand years old!

"And his Martial Soul is a top-tier Phoenix Martial Soul!

"And most importantly, this face! He was abandoned by his mother, and there's the description of that mother!"

"Elder Kong! I suspect that this Xiao Changge may very well be that woman's child!

"And according to him, the person who helped awaken his Martial Soul was one of our Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers. But after that Soul Engineer helped him awaken his Martial Soul, he was killed by Shrek's people. Xiao Changge was also taken by Shrek and used to help Shrek's Ma Xiaotao resolve her Martial Soul problem. That's why he was crippled."

"If that's the case, and he's this outstanding, then there shouldn't be any problem with letting him join the Imperial Academy. It would benefit us as well. But we still need to investigate, just in case he lied. Go investigate it. If this really happened, Shrek will definitely have concealed it in secret. Once we investigate, we'll surely uncover something."

"Understood. But even if he did lie, I think there's no problem letting him join. As long as we can obtain the method for absorbing Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings as the first and second Soul Rings, then our Sun Moon Empire may also be able to cultivate Limit Douluo in the future."

"And if this boy truly carries that woman's bloodline, then even if he lied, we can't act rashly. After all, that woman..."

"Although we can't confirm it with one hundred percent certainty, the portraits provided are so similar that it should be that woman. Give Xiao Changge the best treatment, and while we're at it, let me see just how talented he is with Soul Tools."