"Soul tool science... no longer existed."
Qian Duoduo sat in his office, his gaze vacant, silent for a long time.
It had all begun yesterday. After his failure, none of the Pavilion Elders had voiced any reproach, but their disappointed looks had wounded him. Driven into a frenzy of determination, he had gone back to study the design blueprints again.
Yet after that first experiment, the more he examined them, the more wrong they seemed.
With his half-baked Level 8 Soul Engineer skills, he could barely identify twenty or thirty percent of the various linking matrices. And when he returned to his experiments, the more he tested, the more discrepancies he found.
Even some basic core formations no longer performed their original functions when he engraved them as he always had. It felt as though someone had remapped the keys. For example, he would clearly be engraving inscriptions related to range, yet the final test showed that they affected firing speed instead.
These were the core of the entire Soul Tool Department, the most fundamental inscriptions. The so-called core formations were constructed from individual basic inscriptions.
Most academies in the Sun Moon Empire taught these in the first semester. They were basic but vital, because the entire towering edifice of soul tools was built from them.
In truth, this really was not Xu Cheng's doing.
Similar incidents had occurred throughout the Sun Moon Empire's history of soul tools, specifically during the development of concealment soul tools. Their core principle was to interfere with soul power and spiritual power, making their most fundamental essence fluctuate. During that interference, the core formations would undergo basic changes...
But unlike Qian Duoduo, who had plunged straight into a dead end,
the Sun Moon Empire knew what it was doing when developing interference soul tools,