Seeing that his colleagues were still dumbstruck, Wu Hongchen tapped the table, then reminded them, "Think about Spirit Ice Douluo's story."
In this day and age, Spirit Ice Douluo was more famous than Sea God Tang San.
For one thing, the Tang Sect, the organization directly under Sea God Tang San, was less well known than the Spirit Pagoda.
For another, eight or nine thousand years ago, when the Sun Moon Imperial Family still existed, it had vigorously promoted Spirit Ice Douluo's deeds. With the Star Luo Empire's help, Huo Yuhao's fame had far eclipsed Tang San's.
As for why the Sun Moon Empire back then had promoted Huo Yuhao...
One reason was that Huo Yuhao had been the soul engineer with the greatest mastery of soul tools at the time.
The other involved certain imperial secrets.
With that reminder from Dean Hongchen, the elderly men came to their senses.
"Could this kid have a mental-type martial soul?"
In the eyes of these old fellows who valued factual evidence and scientific data, Jiang Mingyuan's spiritual power at his age could not possibly have reached the point where he could absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul spirit.
With so little time, they had not uncovered much useful information, but they could confirm that Jiang Mingyuan was no older than fifteen.
Of Jiang Mingyuan's six soul rings, excluding the orange-gold fifth ring, the other five red rings clearly came from at least two soul spirits.
In this age, when spiritual power was gradually being placed on equal footing with soul power, some simple tricks for concealing soul ring colors had also been developed. If Jiang Mingyuan's martial soul truly possessed a mental attribute, then he could absolutely change his soul rings' colors at will.
As for why they had not questioned Jiang Mingyuan's soul