Hearing Lu Yi's words, Xiao Hongchen's eyes widened in disbelief.
"What did you say? There's a realm beyond Thousand Refinement?"
"Of course! You're a Soul Engineer, aren't you? You shouldn't be asking such a childish question."
Lu Yi answered without hesitation, then gave Xiao Hongchen an odd look. "The Sun Moon Empire divides Soul Engineers into nine levels, so why would forging have only Hundred Refinement and Thousand Refinement?"
Lu Yi took the opportunity to guide him.
He had no time to spare these days, so after he became fairly consistent at forging first-grade Thousand Refinement metal, he had stopped trying to reach Spirit Forging.
That did not mean he had no desire to see Spirit Forging for himself.
And Xiao Hongchen undoubtedly had talent in this area. That was why Lu Yi had told him all this.
As for the possibility that Xiao Hongchen mastering Spirit Forging would greatly strengthen the Sun Moon Empire—
What a joke!
With Spirit Forging's pitiful output, it could never become a force to be reckoned with.
Using it in this era's Soul Tools would merely improve the efficiency of Soul Power transmission.
To fully realize Spirit Forging's advantages, they would ultimately have to wait for Battle Armor to appear, and it would need to be at least Two-Word Battle Armor.
Lu Yi did not need to see the humanoid Soul Tool secretly under development at Virtue Hall to know that it was, in essence, just a Mecha whose technologies were immature in every respect. At most, it was a prototype of Battle Armor.
The gap between that thing and Battle Armor was even greater than the gap between the lump of iron Iron Man cobbled together in a cave and the Nanotech Suit that appeared later.
Without countless intermediate models to explore and