Jing Hongchen raised a hand and adjusted his monocle.
This technology was simply too important to him, and indeed to all of Mingde Hall. With it, even ordinary people could gain the ability to use soul tools. If that were translated into the terms of a war...
"Old Ma! Could you tell me more about this young man?"
"Yes, Dean!" Elder Ma then reported everything about Tian Chen's background and performance in this tournament.
"Oh! In that case, he shouldn't harbor much hostility toward the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. He even seems to appreciate our soul tool technology!"
Looking at it that way, perhaps he could try winning the young man over.
"However, there's something else I want to ask. What's going on with little Meng?" Jing Hongchen's brow furrowed slightly.
Ever since Meng Hongchen returned, she had spent her days lost in a daze, her eyes brimming with the glow of springtime romance.
As someone who had been through it himself, how could he fail to recognize his granddaughter's condition?
"Well..." Elder Ma lowered his head. He had originally intended to keep this matter to himself!
"You have ten seconds to tell me the truth!" One look at his reaction told Jing Hongchen that there was more to this.
"All right! Little Meng seems to have fallen for Tian Chen." Elder Ma dared not conceal anything and revealed the whole story.
"What?!" Jing Hongchen was shocked and furious. His granddaughter was one of the most important people in his life, yet she had gone off to a single tournament and some pig had already rooted up his precious cabbage.
Most importantly, it would have been one thing if the young man had an unproblematic background, but he happened to come from the original Douluo Three Kingdoms. Moreover,