Huo Yuhao looked at Qian Feng with a smile of approval and affirmation.
Over the past year, he had been observing Qian Feng, monitoring not only the state of his martial soul but also his mental condition.
Despite experiencing several battles at the academy, Qian Feng's martial soul had never gone out of control. Apart from being somewhat withdrawn, he had shown no psychological problems either.
After a year of getting along with his classmates, Qian Feng seemed to be merely a rather aloof child. No one would have associated him with the terrifying image of an Evil Soul Master.
This also confirmed that Evil Soul Masters who were innately evil were actually very rare. Many Evil Soul Masters gradually developed destructive and vengeful tendencies because they had grown up surrounded by discrimination, ultimately degenerating into demons who treated human lives like weeds.
For now, Huo Yuhao was fairly reassured about Qian Feng. He had also decided to guide Qian Feng and others who had originally been Evil Soul Masters into a profession that would no longer suffer the world's prejudice, so he placed tremendous importance on Qian Feng.
"I'm ready," Qian Feng said, then asked, "What kind of first soul ring are you planning to have me choose?"
Huo Yuhao was in no hurry. Instead, he continued to emphasize, "The soul ring isn't the main point. You should already know that my research has made the boundaries between Soul Masters and soul rings less rigid than before. It's completely different from the theory you've learned in class."
Qian Feng nodded. Compared with its earliest stages, research into shared soul rings had taken another great stride forward, but the material taught in class had not been updated.
Only a few major powers in the Three Great Empires secretly knew a