Yet Jiang Hai's expression darkened as he walked out of the Laboratory.
The information Xuan Ziwen had sent him contained the research records of all twelve other divisions, aside from the security division under Li Qingfeng, which had produced no research results. From these records, Jiang Hai could roughly deduce the level each of the leading soul engineers had reached.
Shi Jingcheng and the others had all reached the peak of Level 9. Jing Hongchen was much as he had presented himself-a Quasi-Level 10 Soul Engineer, not far from Level 10. Ye Yulin, however, exceeded Jiang Hai's expectations. After launching the first Soul Tool Satellite and exploring the starry sky, his progress in soul tools had covered a thousand miles a day. He had surpassed Jing Hongchen and had probably already become a Level 10 Soul Engineer before leaving the Civilization Research Institute, making him the third Level 10 Soul Engineer on the Douluo Continent.
The first two, naturally, were Kong Deming and Ye Xishui.
To compensate the Holy Spirit Cult, the Sun Moon Empire had given it one of the thirteen division head positions at the Civilization Research Institute. As Ye Xishui conducted research there, she could not possibly have kept her abilities entirely hidden. Her soul tool, the Death God Tower, had also truly entered Level 10.
Ye Xishui herself was a Limit Douluo. After condensing her third soul core from vital blood, her strength should have approached Di Tian's. Even if a gap remained, it would only have been a difference in martial soul quality. With the help of the Level 10 Soul Tool, the Death God Tower, even Di Tian might not have been her match.
Moreover, Ye Xishui possessed twin martial souls. If she obtained Kong Deming's method for refining a martial soul into a