The old man in yellow was also a soul engineer, but he was only Level 3. After all, for the vast majority of soul masters, breaking through to three rings meant a qualitative transformation, and many could never achieve it in their entire lives.
Though the old man was only a Level 3 Soul Engineer himself, his eye for craftsmanship was certainly sharp. As a member of the Xishui Alliance, he had watched high-level soul engineers craft soul tools more than once. He had even witnessed a mysterious expert perform Spirit Forging.
Yet Huo Yuhao's movements now were even more astonishing than those of the expert capable of Spirit Forging he had seen. They were not merely fluid, but swift-so swift it defied belief.
To soul engineers, refined steel was an ordinary material that was easy to engrave. But for forging, refined steel's ability to transmit soul power was so poor that it was no different from any random piece of scrap iron lying on the ground!
The people around him were all extremely experienced soul engineers. How could they fail to recognize just how astonishing the skill Huo Yuhao had displayed was? Some people in the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Hall could already accomplish Thousand Refinement with ease.
But what Huo Yuhao had done was no ordinary Thousand Refinement. It was Thousand Refinement imbued with spirit! Laying the foundation for granting metal spirituality was something only craftsmen approaching the level of Spirit Forging, or even capable of performing it, could accomplish.
Yet even craftsmen like that needed time to raise precious metals to such a level.
Huo Yuhao, however, had achieved Thousand Refinement with a single hammer strike, even granting spirituality to a mere piece of ordinary material. It was truly turning decay into a miracle.
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