Chen Ping was not making this up. The main reason Soul Tools had largely abandoned their grading system by the era of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King was the flourishing of the blacksmithing profession.
As spiritual metals created through the Spiritual Forging Method came into widespread use as materials for Soul Tools, the boundaries between different grades of Soul Tools became extremely blurred.
Aside from Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, almost no Soul Tools were graded anymore.
The Thousand Refinement metals in Chen Ping's hands could not yet achieve effects as outrageous as spiritual metals that gained life through ten thousand refinements, but they could still raise a Soul Tool by half a grade or even a full grade out of nowhere.
"Huh?"
Huo Yuhao nearly jumped at that. That couldn't be right, could it?
Ever since Qian Duoduo had picked him up outside the academy and brought him back, and he had become Xian Lin'er's disciple, he had spent most of his time training in the Soul Tool Department. Yet he had never heard of those two researching anything this heaven-defying!
Why did this technological breakthrough, pulled out without a whisper beforehand, seem so much like the new Flying Soul Tool that had previously appeared without warning?
Huo Yuhao gave Chen Ping a suspicious look.
If he remembered correctly, Xian Lin'er had once let slip in front of him that the Flying Soul Tool had not been Dean Qian's invention at all, but Chen Ping's masterpiece.
Now the academy had inexplicably gained another technological breakthrough with absurdly powerful effects, yet Older Brother Chen had not even named its creator. Could this be something he had tinkered up himself again?
Huo Yuhao's stare made Chen Ping's skin prickle, and he immediately gave a dry laugh.
"What are