After Ji Juechen's laborious explanation, Chen Ping understood.
So the root of Ji Juechen's recent woes lay with him after all.
According to Ji Juechen, ever since Chen Ping had upgraded his Meteoric Iron Sword to +3, he had practically lived at the Academy's Soul Tool Trial Ground.
Over the next ten days, Ji Juechen had basically slashed at everyone he saw. Not only had he smashed two Level 7 Soul Engineers, but he had even sent a Soul Saint teacher scurrying away with his hands over his head.
For this, Ji Juechen had even given his Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron Sword a new name-Falling Star-with a look of utter intoxication.
Then, on the morning ten days later, just as Ji Juechen had recovered from his injuries and planned to find another Soul Saint teacher to slash at, Jing Hongchen appeared before him and, without a word, tied him up and hauled him into Mingdetang.
For a while, this sudden turn of events made Ji Juechen think Jing Hongchen intended to arrange some sufficiently powerful opponents for him.
Until he saw the pale faces of Jing Hongchen and the Academy's three other Level 9 Soul Engineers.
According to Jing Hongchen, they had already shed at least a dozen jin of blood over the various rare metal ingots that had been stamped thousands of times by machine tools in the laboratory.
That included blood from the four Level 9 Soul Engineers, as well as blood from the other staff responsible for operating the machine tools.
But no matter what they tried, they could not produce the strange effect Chen Ping had created during Spirit Forging.
After shedding blood in the laboratory for ten days, Jing Hongchen was feeling somewhat dizzy and bleary-eyed, and he truly was getting desperate. Upon asking around and