Aside from the bad news that would have required Qian Duoduo to take blood pressure medication just to barely keep himself from jumping out of his seat, the Soul Tool Department did have a few pieces of good news that could turn a funeral into a celebration.
For instance, the fifth-level and sixth-level defensive soul tools that the Soul Tool Department had insisted Ma Xiaotao and the others equip had rendered a great service.
Had the Soul Tool Department not specifically required Ma Xiaotao and the others to equip those defensive soul tools, find an opportunity to use them, and then write an evaluation report, the Inner Court students would probably have been beyond saving this time.
It was precisely because of this that someone had seen Elder Mu holding those shattered defensive soul tool fragments all day yesterday, though no one knew what he was thinking.
When Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er learned of this, they were utterly bewildered.
When had they equipped Ma Xiaotao and the others with defensive soul tools?
A single fifth-level defensive soul tool started at around ten thousand gold soul coins!
Their Soul Tool Department received only that little bit of funding from the academy each year. Even normal spending was fucking tight, yet they had shelled out over a hundred thousand gold soul coins in one go just to collect a few questionnaires?
Only afterward did Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er learn that Chen Ping had obtained a batch of defensive soul tools from the Soul Tool Department's warehouse in Qian Duoduo's name and equipped the Inner Court students with them.
Although Chen Ping had not notified anyone before doing this, judging by Elder Mu's reaction yesterday, the entire Soul Tool Department probably owed Chen Ping an enormous favor.
Elder Mu's voice rang