Shrek Academy, Sea God Island.
The dormitory accommodations in the Inner Court were far better than those in the Outer Court. Rooms still housed two people each, but they were considerably larger and came with a full range of facilities.
Ning Tian frowned in concentration at her workbench, moving the ranked engraving knife Azure Glaze across the surface of the metal block in her hand. The blade moved in fits and starts, not because it lacked sharpness, but because she did not know how to proceed.
After sitting at the desk and racking her brains for a full two hours, Ning Tian had still made little progress on the core array in her hands.
Her soul tool research had long since hit a bottleneck. Compared with Sun Moon Academy, Shrek's learning environment lagged far behind.
Even with Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu personally teaching her and answering her questions, Ning Tian felt that she was progressing even more slowly than she had during her exchange at Sun Moon Academy.
Sun Moon Academy's accomplishments in soul tools lay not only in its many senior soul engineers, but also in its thoroughly mature training system for low- and mid-level soul engineers.
Shrek's Soul Tool Department, meanwhile, was still slowly feeling its way forward. Even the workbench before her, which greatly reduced the cost of training a soul engineer, was something Ning Tian had spent quite a few gold soul coins to buy from Sun Moon Academy at the end of her exchange.
Seeing that her engraving had stalled for so long, Ning Tian set it aside for the time being, planning to ask Fan Yu for guidance the next day. As soon as she stood, she saw Wu Feng waiting by the door, a letter in her hand. Unwilling to disturb her,