Over the past several thousand years, human evolution had actually been very slow.
Even with the introduction of the concept of Soul Cores, Soul Masters had developed extremely slowly. Soul Engineers were different, however. Almost every few years, Soul Tool concepts and technology would be updated.
Even Shrek Academy could no longer pull too far ahead of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's Soul Masters were very poor in quality, and their Martial Souls could not compare with those of Shrek Academy at all. The fact that they could keep the gap so narrow under those circumstances showed how serious the problem was.
As time passed, Martial Souls would continue to evolve slowly, while Soul Tool research would continue to advance. It was all but certain that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would surpass Shrek Academy.
Even if the Soul Masters below might not see through all this, Shrek Academy's senior leadership had vast amounts of information at their disposal.
They knew very well that over the past several thousand years, the Sun Moon Empire's overall strength had increased rapidly. The three countries originally belonging to the Douluo Continent, meanwhile, had barely changed.
Shrek Academy had appointed Xian Lin'er as dean of the Soul Tool Department in the hope of placing greater importance on the department and finding a way to break the deadlock.
Yet even with Shrek Academy's abundant resources supporting it, the Soul Tool Department had previously remained barely alive. Shrek Academy's best Soul Engineer was only a Level 8 Soul Engineer. This left Shrek Academy, which proclaimed itself the continent's foremost Soul Master academy, with little to be proud of.
If Qian Ran could become a Level 9 Soul Engineer, Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department would enter