To be honest, given the choice, Chen Ping actually felt that Xuan Ziwen seemed a little more appealing.
After all, Xuan Ziwen's Soul Tool All-Terrain Detector Vehicle and sealed Milk Bottle technology were both seriously badass, and he could even be poached.
But after thinking it over more carefully, Chen Ping realized that Huo Yuhao could reliably handle that job anyway. He seemingly had no need to worry about that side of things.
Although he still felt as though there was something he had overlooked, Chen Ping nodded and stepped straight forward.
A Level 9 Soul Engineer as his mentor-that was a towering expert neither Shrek Academy nor the Douluo Three Kingdoms had.
Chen Ping could hardly decide Level 9 Soul Engineers were unimportant just because the Sun Moon Empire had more of them than he could count on both hands.
Every Level 9 Soul Engineer represented an attainment at the very pinnacle of at least one field.
Even if an expert like that taught no real techniques and merely discussed the broad trends in the field he studied, it would still be immensely valuable.
Put plainly, the study of soul tools was an applied science. However good your theories were, if you could not put them into practice, they had only theoretical significance. Try to make a living off that, and you would only starve.
If you followed an expert who had reached Level 9 in a particular field, he would at least know which research directions were already dead ends, and which were likely to yield results provided you poured your heart and soul into them.
For a young soul engineer, that was undoubtedly a generous gift.
Talent in soul tools could only let someone travel faster than others.
But having a Level 9 Soul Engineer as a