Huo Yuhao had just finished his assessment as a rank-five Soul Engineer and quickly began studying to become a rank-six Soul Engineer.
For Huo Yuhao, time was extremely precious; after all, the timeframe he set for himself was to complete the rank-six Soul Engineer assessment within three weeks.
Three weeks to leap from rank five to rank six was an almost impossible task for an average Soul Engineer.
Yet Huo Yuhao had decided precisely that, and there was not the slightest hesitation in his eyes.
Ling Zichen, standing to the side, couldn't help but smile upon seeing Huo Yuhao be so diligent.
She leaned against the crafting table, a hint of amused light in her red eyes, and then asked a question.
"Huo Yuhao, what types of Spirit Tools do you usually mainly make?"
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao was slightly stunned, then raised his head to look at Ling Zichen.
He did not rush to answer, pondering for a moment before slowly speaking.
"I plan to make Spirit Tools of all types."
"I don't wish to have too many weaknesses in the aspect of Spirit Tools. A Spirit Tool is a Spirit Tool, and I basically have to learn all categories."
Huo Yuhao's tone was very calm. In his view, since he had chosen this path, he couldn't set limits for himself.
Offensive, defensive, supportive, control-type... every kind of Spirit Tool had its own existence value, and each had its unique principles and structures.
Only by fully mastering them could one truly understand what the essence of a Spirit Tool was.
Hearing this, Ling Zichen's red eyes flickered slightly, and then she asked with a smile.
"Then have you ever thought about... human Spirit Tools?"
Hearing these words, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but look at Ling Zichen in great alarm.
Human Spirit Tools?
How could his senior sister say such things? That was something involving human modification!
Once many things became entangled with the human body, it truly became impossible to explain clearly. After all, modifying human beings sounded very evil.
Senior Sister Ling Zichen shouldn't... be a member of the Holy Spirit Execution Department, right?
Of course, Huo Yuhao naturally wouldn't doubt the academy's senior sister, but if it involved the human body, it was still too sensitive for Huo Yuhao. At the very least, Huo Yuhao had never thought of such a thing.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's expression, Ling Zichen merely smiled, then explained unhurriedly.
"Some people are innately unable to Cultivate; you should be clear about this matter, right?"
Huo Yuhao nodded. This was a very normal matter; a person could undergo Awakening for their Spirit at the age of six, along with having Innate Spirit Power.
If one didn't have Innate Spirit Power, then there was no way to Cultivate.
Of course, the academy had a way to resolve this, but that resolution was limited only to the inside of the academy. Looking across the entire Douluo Continent, failing to awaken Innate Spirit Power meant that there was no way to Cultivate.
The problem Ling Zichen mentioned truly existed.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's reaction, Ling Zichen smiled again, a sort of eager light surging within her red eyes, and then slowly spoke a sentence.
"So next is when technology can change destiny."
Hearing these words, Huo Yuhao also instantly understood what Ling Zichen wanted to say: using Spirit Tools to modify the human body, and thereby changing a person's combat power.
Allowing those who originally could not Cultivate to also possess the ability to fight, and allowing those with Innate deficiencies to also possess the capital to change their own destiny.
This line of thought... could indeed hold up.
Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment, then slowly nodded and said to Ling Zichen.
"This plan is indeed viable."
"However..."
Huo Yuhao paused, then continued speaking.
"I himself still lean more towards creating things like battle armors and mechas."
Hearing this, Ling Zichen no longer forced Huo Yuhao, only smiling and waving her hand.
"It's fine. On the path of technology, any way you walk it is still a path anyway."
As she spoke, she took out a stack of blueprints from the side and handed them directly into Huo Yuhao's hands.
"These are rank-six Spirit Tool blueprints. Take them and look over them first."
"If there's anything you don't understand, you can come and ask me anytime."
"I still hope to have one more partner on this path."
Huo Yuhao took the blueprints, then nodded and expressed his thanks.
His gaze swept across those Spirit Tool blueprints; the patterns and structures on the blueprints were quite exquisite, and every single line contained the designer's ingenuity.
Huo Yuhao only glanced at them a few times before he had already roughly grasped the principles within.
He didn't say much else, instead directly placing the blueprints aside, then picking up the Materials to directly begin crafting the Spirit Tool.
During the hands-on process, there were almost rarely any mistakes.
Clearly it was only his first time crafting a rank-six Spirit Tool, yet Huo Yuhao's movements didn't have the slightest bit of awkwardness.
Standing aside and watching, Ling Zichen couldn't help but sigh with emotion once again.
"Your talent for Spirit Tools... is truly too strong, though it should also be related to your Mental Force. Although those of us who study Spirit Tools do not have poor Mental Force, to be able to reach a Mental Force like yours is truly nonexistent."
Looking at Huo Yuhao's focused appearance, a thought couldn't help but surface in Ling Zichen's heart.
She was wondering if she should also hand the blueprints of the Eternal Heaven to Huo Yuhao to try out.
The blueprints for this Eternal Heaven had already been handed to her by the dean, but for Ling Zichen at the current stage, wanting to fully comprehend this would still take quite a bit of time.
However... the more difficult something was, the stronger the excitement it brought people after conquering it. For some reason, looking at the Huo Yuhao before her, Ling Zichen felt that if Huo Yuhao wanted to surpass her in the aspect of Spirit Tools, it would hardly take him much time.
Of course, now was not the time; after all, Huo Yuhao had only just begun contacting rank-six Spirit Tools, and being too rash would easily lead to counterproductive results.
Ling Zichen pulled back her thoughts, standing quietly to the side as she watched Huo Yuhao bit by bit complete the work in his hands.
Time flew by quickly amidst focus.
By the time Huo Yuhao finished his Spirit Tool crafting training, the sky had already turned dark.
He tidied up his tools, carefully put away those few rank-six Spirit Tool blueprints, and then bade farewell to Ling Zichen, returning to his own room.
Yet after returning to his room, Huo Yuhao did not rest.
He sat before the desk and unfolded another stack of Materials, which were books and drafts regarding mecha design.
Huo Yuhao did not plan to advance in only the single direction of Spirit Tools.
Mecha design, mecha maintenance, mecha manufacturing—he similarly did not plan to let go of these aspects.
What he wanted to do was perform Fusion with battle armors and mechas, creating a brand new combat system.
In terms of Spirit Tools, he was stepping up his studies, striving for a Breakthrough to rank six as soon as possible.
As for battle armors, he also needed to catch up on progress, not letting either side fall behind too much.
Huo Yuhao picked up his pen and quickly outlined lines on the blueprints, his azure-blue eyes filled with earnest light.
To him, every single minute and second of time was extremely precious.
"Yuhao, hustle, hustle hard! Brother is proud of you, so proud of you!"
Within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, the Skydream Ice Worm was cheering desperately for Huo Yuhao. As an intelligent-type Spirit Ring, all the Skydream Ice Worm could do right now was cheer him on.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's hard-hustling appearance, the Skydream Ice Worm also felt at this moment that it couldn't just sit around idly, and simply used its Mental Force to scan the Materials as well, just in case Huo Yuhao had things to ask it later.
However... for a big fat silkworm to understand these things, the difficulty was still quite significant.
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