Qian Duoduo was watching at the venue of the Soul Guide Competition held by the three major black markets.
He came to the venue where the Aodou Commerce Association was located and watched Su Yu's performance.
"The Soul Power fluctuation feels familiar, but I can't recall whose face this is."
Shaking his head, Qian Duoduo didn't dwell too much on Su Yu's identity.
It's likely he participated in the competition in disguise.
This is quite common in the competition.
After all, although it imitates the Soul Fighting Competition, there is a fundamental difference.
The Soul Fighting Competition is quite a formal contest; the identity investigation of the participants is relatively strict with rarely any disguise involved because disguises need to be exposed. This is to prevent Soul Masters who do not meet the conditions from sneaking into the competition through disguise, otherwise, a 25-year-old Soul Saint could use special means, disguise his appearance and bone age, claim to be 20 years old, and slip into the competition, which would be chaotic.
This ability to disguise is detectable, but what exactly is disguised is difficult to determine.
So, to prevent disguised bone age, they can only strip away all disguises for checks.
Hmm, that is to say, the disguise has no effect on the officials responsible for operating the competition.
And no matter how much the Soul Guide Competition imitates, it cannot change the essence that this is a black market.
With the characteristics of a black market, no one would take the risk of completely exposing their identity to participate in the competition.
Therefore, the competition itself will absolutely not conduct any investigation into disguises.
As for whether there is a disguise in bone age, the black market side cannot dwell too much; they can only ensure as much as possible that the bone age test of participants does not have issues.
Those who have the ability to even fake bone age, the black market is powerless.
Fortunately, this ability is extremely rare, especially those who can disguise under the detection capabilities of the black market, are even rarer.
The Soul Fighting Competition checks more for the existence of disguise abilities than for the bone age testing technology, which is actually not high.
Having stripped away all disguising ability, the measured bone age is naturally real.
This is mainly because the Soul-guiding Device level of the Douluo Three Kingdoms is low, the equipment made specifically for measuring bone age is not as advanced as the Sun and Moon Empire, and cannot avoid bone age being disguised to the maximum extent.
So they'd rather keep a certain agreement unchanged.
The Soul Guide Competition can't ensure the removal of disguises at the time of registration, but it can improve the precision of its bone age measuring Soul-guiding Devices.
Currently, it can detect as much as 95% of disguise techniques!
It's not that 95% of bone age calculations are correct, but that 95% of the disguise bone age ability can be uncovered.
This is already an extreme.
The entire continent can only acknowledge if some manage to bypass this bone age test to find loopholes and participate in the competition, even the three major black markets.
Moreover, even if there really exists such an exception, what of it?
The presence of outliers means that uncertainties have mixed into the competition, which would only increase the risk of the betting pool.
The entry of such individuals would, instead, allow the setters of the betting pool, namely the black market side, to earn greater profits.
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Qian Duoduo watched Su Yu's forging process with eyes bright.
"Such high forging skills."
When he made the Ninth-level Soul-guiding Device, the rare metals used were crafted personally by Tang Town.
This is something he has to admit: the forging process also has a certain enhancement on the production of Soul-guiding Devices.
And in Qian Duoduo's eyes, Su Yu's forging skills are not lesser than those of Tang Town.
And Tang Town is the direct heir of the Haotian Sect, with family-inherited iron-smithing skills.
Su Yu, however, is a Soul Guide, yet he can hone this auxiliary skill to such an extent?
Is he specialized?
As Qian Duoduo pondered, Su Yu had already begun engraving the Core Array.
His demeanor and the swift movements of the Blade of Living Beings in his hands, as rare metals were shaved off from the original iron sphere, the entire process was smooth and flowing.
Although the specific Core Array could not be seen, this performance alone was enough to show Su Yu's skills.
"Unexpectedly, one can still encounter such a promising talent."
Qian Duoduo's gaze on Su Yu began to twinkle.
An hour passed, uncertain whether the creation could be completed.
He continued watching the competition, not just Su Yu's production, but keeping an eye on the production processes of other major Soul Guides, focusing especially on those methods he had never witnessed before.
Even though he had already broken through to Ninth-level Soul-guiding Devices, Qian Duoduo could still learn a lot from these Level 6 Soul Guides.
And this is the lament of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
No, it should be said it's his lament while being at Shrek Academy.
While Qian Duoduo observed at Su Yu's arena, Fan Yu was watching at Huo Yuhao's arena.
Fan Yu also noticed Huo Yuhao, the contestant who arrived late.
The Ice Crystal Blade flew in his hand. As it was an Engraving Knife condensed with Soul Power of the Ultimate Ice, it was highly sharp and even more convenient, as simple as manipulating Soul Power.
Moreover, Huo Yuhao using Ice Crystal Blade for Soul-guiding Device creation was itself an exercise in Soul Power control.
The Soul Power branched out various paths of blades through the tip of the Ice Crystal Blade, slicing into the insides of rare metals, enabling more complex techniques.
And this was Huo Yuhao's unique soul-guiding engraving technology.
Unfortunately, it's not yet perfected.
But even so, Fan Yu watched obsessed.
"Such brilliant engraving technology."
...
In just one hour, Su Yu completed the creation of a Sixth-level Soul-guiding Device.