Yi Hongchen's name alone told you which family he came from.
Besides, this was ten thousand years earlier. Like Soul Masters, Level 5 Soul Engineers of his age still commanded respect. He was nothing like trash such as Yu Xiaogang.
After all, Soul Engineers needed skill not in fighting and brawling, but in delicate handiwork. Could you imagine a Great Strength Vajra Bear like Zhao Wuji carving formations with a little knife?
So if you couldn't do it, you couldn't do it. No amount of Soul Power would help.
And the man before him clearly had quite a background.
The Hongchen Family was an aristocratic lineage in the Sun Moon Empire, assisting successive emperors and producing one talented individual after another. The empire was still in its infancy; ten thousand years later, this family would shine brilliantly.
After hearing Xu Yu's introduction, Lin Gan called out brightly, "Hello, Teacher Hongchen! My dream is also to become a great Soul Engineer like you!"
Yi Hongchen thoroughly enjoyed this round of flattery and put away the sour face he had worn after Xu Yu's scorn.
What was wrong with being a Level 5 Soul Engineer? Plenty of people wanted to become one but lacked the ability!
When they turned to serious business, his entire demeanor changed, leaving no trace of his earlier frivolity. "I understand that you're very strong, but properly used Soul Tools can fully compensate for these shortcomings. Even against Soul Masters, they can let you challenge opponents above your level."
Indeed, after the tectonic plates collided later on, advanced Soul Tool technology had allowed industrial civilization to pummel the stone-age nations of Douluo, directly accelerating Douluo's historical development and propelling it from a slave society into modern society. Its contribution was undeniable.
If not for that cheating bastard Tang