"Tian Chen! What are you doing here, you rascal?" The moment Xuan Ziwen saw who had arrived, he hurried over.
"Teacher Xuan, long time no see!" Tian Chen also approached him, as though they were old friends of many years.
"Thank goodness you came, or I really would have had to go to the Star Luo Empire to find you!" Xuan Ziwen stepped forward and draped an arm over Tian Chen's shoulders.
To explain why Xuan Ziwen reacted this way, one had to go back to the day Jing Hongchen and Tian Chen had made their agreement.
At the time, Jing Hongchen had sent quite a few high-ranking soul engineers to obtain the Soul Hall's technology, including Xuan Ziwen, the genius soul engineer from the original story.
In the original story, Xuan Ziwen had been an absolute soul tool fanatic. Back then, Huo Yuhao had merely shown him the Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannon, which combined hidden weapons with soul tools, and he had immediately left Mingde Hall to join the Tang Sect.
That went double for the soul tools Tian Chen had now created using modern technology. Xuan Ziwen had fallen into a frenzy at his very first glimpse, neglecting food and sleep as he pursued their underlying principles. He had spent dozens of consecutive hours running calculations and dismantling modern machinery, forgetting even to eat or sleep, with nothing in his eyes but the logic of the technology.
He had even declared that he would smash his pots and sell the iron if that was what it took to obtain this technology.
For that purpose, he had even abandoned all concern for appearances and climbed a tall building with his bare hands, constantly using a Soul Tool Detector to scan the various high-tech devices below.
Soul tool research had,