His fellow brothers in misfortune had all gone up and finished introducing themselves. Chen Ping glanced at the slip in his hand and stepped forward.
At last, it was his turn.
Chen Ping walked out openly and said with a smile, "I just turned seventeen this year. My soul power is at rank forty-eight, and I'm a Level 7 Soul Engineer."
Chen Ping had barely begun when the female students opposite him were already wearing looks of astonishment. The most impatient among them, the Golden Crow Saintess, could no longer hold back. She raised her hand and said, "Wait, wait. Eldest Senior Sister, there's something I don't understand. Can I ask him a question?"
"One," Zhang Lexuan said. "Just this once."
"Sure." Wu Ming readily agreed, then asked Chen Ping, "You aren't deliberately pulling our legs just to attract girls, are you?"
"A rank forty-eight Level 7 Soul Engineer? How is that even possible? That big, dark fellow at rank sixty-two just now was only a prospective Level 7 Soul Engineer."
Chen Ping said little in response. He merely pinned his aqua-blue, eight-pointed star badge to his chest. With the sun and moon beneath a star hanging high above them, the badge bearing a full seven diamond-shaped gems was now on display.
It was different from an ordinary soul engineer badge, too. This was a soul engineer badge exclusive to the soul engineers of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
As early as his visit to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect the previous year, Chen Ping had already been a genuine Level 6 Soul Engineer.
With his increasingly substantial soul power and solid grounding in soul tools, passing Mo Fang's assessment over a year later and receiving a certified Level 7 Soul Engineer badge from him had only