"Teacher Xuan, do I have to make one too?" Wang Dong'er asked.
"Do as you like. I won't be teaching you anyway."
"All right, then."
Wang Dong'er followed Huo Yuhao to pick out a piece of metal.
Huo Yuhao already had a plan in mind. He picked up his metal and immediately began engraving it.
Wang Dong'er thought it over carefully. Replicating a formation was already somewhat difficult for her; coming up with an innovation and ideas of her own would be even harder.
"Oh, I've got it."
A good idea suddenly occurred to Wang Dong'er, and she, too, began engraving in earnest.
Xuan Ziwen's attention was entirely on Huo Yuhao, so he paid no attention to what Wang Dong'er was doing.
Watching Huo Yuhao's movements flow like drifting clouds and running water, Xuan Ziwen was slightly surprised.
Generally speaking, even a Level 5 Soul Master might not achieve such fluidity when engraving a Level 3 formation. He began to take a little interest in Huo Yuhao.
"Teacher Xuan, I'm finished."
In just five minutes, Huo Yuhao handed Xuan Ziwen a small sphere engraved with a core formation.
Xuan Ziwen glanced at it and said coldly, "Your engraving skills are decent, but are you sure this counts as creative?"
"Teacher Xuan, I'd like to finish making the entire soul tool. Then you'll be able to see what's different about it."
Xuan Ziwen nodded slightly. In truth, he was looking forward to it.
Huo Yuhao began making the other components, then assembled the entire soul tool.
Xuan Ziwen stayed where he was, watching every step Huo Yuhao took with perfect clarity.
Before long, a complete soul tool appeared in Huo Yuhao's hands. From the outside, it was merely an ordinary, elongated iron box, with nothing particularly special about it.
"Then let