(Today I learned that Qiyue Xin Fan, a senior figure in the webnovel community, passed away from illness. I had read many of his books and learned a great deal from them. May he rest in peace. I believe he will forever be remembered through his works.)
Shrek City, inside a hotel.
Huo Yuhao was packing in his room, though in truth, there was little he needed to pack. He simply put the medicines scattered around the room, his medicine cauldron, and assorted clothes and other odds and ends into his storage soul tool.
Today was the day he would leave Shrek City and head for the Sun Moon Empire. After all, several days had passed since Mu En's death. As the disciple Mu En had taken on without much effort, he had stayed in Shrek City for over three days, which counted as seeing his teacher peacefully off.
After this, he would travel light and head straight for the Sun Moon Empire. Unlike in the original story, he had never systematically studied any soul tool knowledge at all.
Or rather, he had already read through most of Xiao Hongchen's notebook and tried making some simple soul tools at a few private soul engineer workshops in Shrek City. However, he had yet to undergo a soul engineer assessment, so he could not even be considered a Level 1 Soul Engineer. He was merely a self-taught amateur.
But Huo Yuhao thought little of the soul tool research in the Former Douluo Three Kingdoms, including that of Shrek Academy. They had sufficiently powerful soul masters, yet had never managed to produce a genuine Level 9 Soul Engineer. That meant something was fundamentally wrong with their research.
Huo Yuhao's standards were high because he had seen the true might of soul guidance technology