Soul tools had been an inescapable topic in the Soul Master World ever since the continental plates shifted four thousand years ago, bringing the Sun Moon Empire into the fold. Even the Martial Soul Department's classes included lessons on fighting with soul tools or battling soul engineers, and that was all the more true for the freshmen of Class Three, who were primarily support system soul masters.
Generally speaking, support system soul masters also studied soul tools, though they still devoted most of their energy to cultivating their martial souls. Alongside that cultivation, they learned how to use soul tools and fight with them.
Over more than a thousand years of development, soul tools had branched into all sorts of different schools, with vastly different methods of use. Combining the abilities of martial souls with those of soul tools was likewise a matter of paramount importance.
After watching He Caitou's demonstration, Jiang Hai had initially felt somewhat dismissive of this world's soul tools. But after listening to Mu Jin's lessons, he reined in that attitude. The only reason today's soul tools fell short of the technological weapons of his previous life was that they were still in their infancy. Once they developed to their fullest potential, soul engineers, who possessed tremendous innate power, would actually have an even higher ceiling. Besides, technological weapons were impressive, but the impressive one was the world of his previous life, not Jiang Hai himself.
Even against some random person wielding a Class Six or Seven soul tool, Jiang Hai would still be unable to withstand it.
With greater humility in his heart, Jiang Hai listened more attentively. The sea embraced a hundred rivers; its capacity made it vast. It was precisely humility that allowed him to learn more. Mu Jin also seemed to be