It has to be said that although Ye Yulin seemed to have an unkind attitude, he was genuinely putting in effort to teach the students in the Mingde Hall.
This trip not only allowed Lin Xiao to learn where he could purchase rare metals, but the few simple pointers also benefited him greatly.
Coupled with the manuscripts he had organized earlier...
Lin Xiao was not Ye Yulin's disciple. As an ordinary student and teacher, Ye Yulin had already done more than enough.
Perhaps it was precisely this teaching method of the Mingde Hall that allowed the soul guidance devices here to develop so rapidly.
Soul guidance devices differ from soul masters. In theory, any soul engineer has the opportunity to research soul guidance devices in various directions without being restricted by their martial soul.
If, like soul masters, some secrets were only passed down orally between teachers and students, they would sooner or later face the risk of being lost. Only by sharing these things with others could they continue to be passed down and constantly improved.
After returning to the Mingde Hall, Lin Xiao did not immediately start making soul guidance devices. Instead, he earnestly studied the manuscripts that Ye Yulin had given him. These things might help him better understand the directions he needs to improve in the future.
It was not until dusk that Lin Xiao encountered an unexpected person outside his dormitory.
"Ju Zi? What are you doing here?"
Over these years in the academy, he would occasionally run into Ju Zi, but the number of times she actively sought him out like this was truly rare.
Ju Zi did not speak. She just looked at Lin Xiao with a somewhat complicated expression. After so many years, she had long grown accustomed to appearing before others with different faces. She was no longer the little girl from many years ago who had confided her fears to Lin Xiao that night.
After a moment of silence, she suddenly raised her hand to show Lin Xiao a token.
Lin Xiao looked at the skull on the token and slightly frowned. "Where did you find this?"
"It was given to me by His Highness the Crown Prince." As Ju Zi spoke, she put the token away again.
So it was Xu Tianran's.
Lin Xiao quickly accepted this explanation. After all, Xu Tianran had even acknowledged Ye Xishui as his godmother, so what was strange about having a Holy Spirit Cult token? However, Ju Zi coming here with Xu Tianran's token surely meant there was something else.
"What does His Highness command?"
When Xu Tianran was mentioned, Ju Zi's eyes flickered slightly, but she quickly hid it well.
"His Highness asked me to select some people to handle a matter."
"So you came to me?"
Ju Zi did not avoid Lin Xiao's gaze and nodded. "I know your strength."
Lin Xiao helplessly sighed in his heart. Although Xu Tianran was not a member of the Holy Spirit Cult, his relationship with them was extraordinary. It would be all too easy for him to borrow some manpower from Zhongli Wu. Ju Zi coming with the token already said a lot.
"Alright, what exactly is it?" Lin Xiao glanced around, his expression becoming somewhat serious.
However, Ju Zi merely shook her head. "I can't tell you the specifics. Just prepare yourself and set out with me in a few days."
Lin Xiao frowned, looking at the Ju Zi before him without moving for a long time.
"Trust me, there won't be any danger." After leaving those words, Ju Zi did not wait for Lin Xiao's response and turned to disappear into the night.
Watching Ju Zi's retreating figure, Lin Xiao finally withdrew his gaze. Although she had concealed it well, Lin Xiao could still vaguely sense that her emotions were off.
Lin Xiao had never underestimated Ju Zi. Although her cultivation talent was lacking, she would later become the Empress Dowager of the Sun Moon Empire and nearly unify the Douluo Continent. Even she could not fully hide her emotions, so this matter was probably not as simple as she claimed.
If this matter truly posed no danger, that would be fine. But if something unexpected happened...
At this thought, a sharp glint flashed in Lin Xiao's eyes before he turned and returned to his dormitory.
Turning on the lighting soul guidance device on the table, he did not enter meditation. Instead, for the first time in a long while, he took out a carving knife in his dormitory.
No matter what Xu Tianran had asked Ju Zi to do, improving his strength was always the right choice. His soul power cultivation might not see significant changes in just a few days, but he already has ideas on how to improve his soul guidance devices.
Raising his palm, an emerald green light shone from his palm, and an exquisite carving knife lay quietly in Lin Xiao's hand.
Ever since obtaining this Life Spirit Carving Knife, he had never used it to make soul guidance devices. After all, after meeting Electrolux, it had been inside his body the whole time. During this period in the Mingde Hall, he had not taken it out in front of so many students and teachers.
Now holding it in his hand, there was a faint sense of fusion with himself. It did not feel like a carving knife but rather an extension of his fingers.
With a thought, Lin Xiao flipped out a piece of metal and fixed it on the table. Then, with a flick of his fingers, the emerald green blade gently probed into the metal, giving Lin Xiao a wondrous sensation as if he were touching it with his fingers.
The friction between the carving knife and the metal, the internal texture of the metal—all of it was finely perceived by him. With a light movement of his wrist, the carving knife cut through as if encountering no resistance at all, leaving behind a faint trace.
A gentle brush of soul power caused the metal shavings to slowly rise, leaving a uniform soul guidance array pattern on the metal block.
Lin Xiao looked down at the Life Spirit Carving Knife in his hand, then raised his hand to press on the metal block.
He had been making soul guidance devices for so long, yet this was the first time he felt this "vitality" from ordinary metal.
With a slight movement of his mind, a shadowy figure slowly emerged beside Lin Xiao. The figure looked at the carving knife in Lin Xiao's hand and let out a soft sigh.
"When it was in my hands back then, it wasn't this beautiful."
Lin Xiao turned to glance at the Spirit Devourer beside him. "So you placed that kind of curse on it?"
Upon hearing this, the Spirit Devourer immediately lost its sentimental mood.
Lin Xiao did not pay it much further attention and asked about something else. "Do you know what's going on here?"
"I do. This carving knife has two attributes. One is 'sharpness'—it can easily cut through any metal. The other is 'vitality'—soul guidance devices made with it are as if they have life."
Seeing that the Spirit Devourer was about to immerse itself in the Life Spirit Carving Knife again, Lin Xiao put it away.
Looking down slightly at the carving knife in his hand, he understood in his heart that the two attributes of this carving knife should be related to the properties of the Life Gold.
The auctioneer from back then had not been wrong. If this carving knife did not have the curse left by the Spirit Devourer Douluo, its ranking would far exceed ninety-ninth place. Unfortunately, over these thousands of years, no soul engineer had fully utilized its potential as a carving knife.
Having truly experienced the effects of a ranked carving knife, Lin Xiao felt a sense of certainty in his heart. With it, perhaps within these few days, he could complete the improvements to his soul guidance devices and officially become a level seven soul engineer.
The remaining two chapters will be quite late, so you can save them for tomorrow. Good children, don't stay up late like me.
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