After Kong Deming understood Su Yu's thoughts, he began to explain the knowledge of Soul-guiding Devices to Su Yu.
Su Yu quickly grasped the knowledge with ease and clarity.
Kong Deming repeatedly felt in his heart that he had found a treasure.
"Your foundation is solid, but there are still shortcomings; the types of Soul-guiding Devices you have mastered are too limited."
Kong Deming handed Su Yu a Storage Soul-guiding Ring.
"Inside are the production principles and blueprints for Level 1 and Level 2 Soul-guiding Devices. You must master all of them within three months."
...
Su Yu returned to the Academy and carefully examined the blueprints of the Soul-guiding Devices in Kong Deming's ring.
"Worthy of the greatest Soul Guide, the collection of basic blueprints for Level 1 and Level 2 Soul-guiding Devices is truly extensive."
Three months, perhaps he alone had hope of completing them?
Any other Soul Guide wouldn't have this capability.
Successfully transitioning to the Soul Guide System, Su Yu did not change his dormitory, feeling it unnecessary. Moreover, even his dormmate, Not Much Money, passed the assessment, though it was a theoretical one.
Su Yu did not return to the dormitory. As a Core Disciple, he had his own Soul-guiding Device crafting room.
Even the tasks assigned by Kong Deming were not few for him, so to ensure he did not delay his normal Martial Soul training, he had to make every minute count.
For the first time, he entered his private crafting room and rearranged everything inside according to his own ideas.
In front of the crafting table, Su Yu took out an engraving knife.
The knife emitted a piercing chill, its sharp aura giving a sense of pain even without being powered by Soul Power.
This was a gift from Kong Deming at their first meeting.
Not a Ranking Carving Knife, but far from ordinary.
The blade was made from Thousand-Year Cold Iron Essence, and the handle was crafted from Purple Spirit Gold, possessing excellent Soul Power conductivity.
The entire knife was engraved with dense patterns.
Even the Array inscribed on the outer shell surpassed the standard of a Fifth-level Soul-guiding Device!
It was evident how precious this knife was.
This was the eighth-level Soul-guiding Device crafted by Kong Deming, the Spirit Pattern Carver. Due to material limitations and the many intricate Array engravings, there was only one in the world.
"This Spirit Pattern Carver is the culmination of my life's work and is the most suitable Soul-guiding Carving Knife for crafting Soul-guiding Devices.
It is inscribed with a Memory Array, capable of storing your frequently used Soul-guiding Arrays, allowing you to guide Soul Power when engraving the Core Array."
These were Kong Deming's words at the time.
The ability to store Core Arrays was the Spirit Pattern Carver's greatest feature.
Among the intricate Core Arrays, nearly half were designed to achieve this function.
The complexity of the Core Arrays it can store is up to the eighth level!
The core patterns in an Eighth-level Soul-guiding Device can be stored once mastered!
Even when used to craft a Ninth-level Soul-guiding Device, it can reduce the pressure of inscribing the Core Array by twenty percent!
This is also why Kong Deming said the Spirit Pattern Carver is the best carving knife for crafting Soul-guiding Devices.
Su Yu attempted to activate the Spirit Pattern Carver.
The knife in his hand illuminated with dense patterns, as Soul Power flowed, Su Yu could feel the complex routes of Soul Power within.
After an hour of exploration, Su Yu had a preliminary grasp of the knife.
He activated the knife's memory function and began recording the Core Array patterns he had mastered.
The knife had a memory function, but to utilize this feature well, the user must still master the Arrays stored within the knife.
Because when truly using the carving knife's ability to copy Array patterns, minor adjustments are still needed, albeit with a template to modify upon.
Another hour passed.
Su Yu finally began using the knife to craft Soul-guiding Devices.
His treatment was even better than what Yang Chengyu had promised, as due to Kong Deming's influence, Su Yu's treatment was doubled.
Every semester, he received a quota of two hundred kilograms of rare metals.
This was enough for him to practice crafting Soul-guiding Devices.
He quickly grasped the blueprint of a Level 1 Soul-guiding Device in just ten minutes and began crafting.
...
Su Yu absorbed the Purple Qi at the Horizon promptly every day.
Using it to nurture the Condensing Rune, he increased the Purple Qi circulating within the rune, and then used the divided Purple Qi for cultivating the Purple Qi Soul Gathering Technique.
This was the most cost-effective cultivation step he had found.
Crafting Soul-guiding Devices during the day, cultivating Soul Power at night.
During the recovery period after crafting Soul-guiding Devices, he would intersperse with the cultivation of the Purple Qi Soul Gathering Technique.
As for developing new Soul Cultivation Techniques and perfecting Soul Power cultivation methods, both occurred during his cultivation process.
Su Yu's daily life was extremely fulfilling.
On the other hand, seemingly spurred by Su Yu, Xiao Hongchen buried himself in improving his Soul Guide skills every day.
Meanwhile, Meng Hongchen would encounter Su Yu by chance daily, finding topics to chat with him for a while.
Time passed by.
Three months later.
"Bang!"
A shackle within his body was broken, Soul Power surged.
Since absorbing the Bursting Heaven Pepper and breaking through to Level 33, this was Su Yu's second breakthrough.
His Soul Power reached Level 35.
Without these past five months of experience, Su Yu would never have believed that cultivating Soul Power could be so simple.
Daily nutritional meals accelerated the cultivation of Soul Power.
Teacher Kong Deming occasionally gave him elixirs to boost the speed of Soul Power cultivation.
The entire process of Soul Power cultivation was akin to riding a rocket, elevating two levels in half a year!
Moreover, if closely examined, Su Yu actually entered the fastest pace of Soul Power cultivation only after apprenticing three months ago.
He broke through to Level 34 half a month after becoming an apprentice.
In other words, he took merely two and a half months to breakthrough another level afterward.
"The Body Tempering Technique finally found a method to accelerate the refinement of Primordial Energy."
Finding this operating method meant that Su Yu's Body Tempering Technique became more efficient, and could be considered a genuine cultivation technique.
However, the effect was simple, only speeding up the absorption and refinement of Primordial Energy.
But it already fulfilled the major function of a genuine cultivation technique.
"Continue to perfect the Body Tempering Technique."
"The Meditation Technique needs an upgrade too."
Su Yu apprenticed Kong Deming and received the highest level of Meditation Technique training.
Compared to the Intermediate Meditation Technique, the Advanced Meditation Technique was slightly more complex.
It involved the application of the Martial Soul, thus improving the efficiency of cultivation.
Overall, the efficiency of the Advanced Meditation Technique was one to two times higher than the Intermediate Meditation Technique.
The Advanced Meditation Technique Su Yu received had a cultivation efficiency two times greater than the general Intermediate Meditation Technique!
Of course, the amount of Soul Power a Soul Master could enhance daily was limited. Even with an upgraded Meditation Technique, it merely reduced the time required to reach this limit, leaving more time for other activities.
Such as condensing Soul Power, or researching Soul-guiding Devices, or cultivating Soul Skills.
Gradually accumulating over time, the gap would grow bigger.
...
Su Yu perfectly completed the tasks assigned by Kong Deming in three months.
And Kong Deming had already told him.
Upon completing the task, there would be a reward.
"What exactly will the reward be? A reward from the teacher should not disappoint," Su Yu thought with anticipation.