Douluo: In an extraordinary world, with unparallel understanding!

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At Sun-Moon Hall, soul masters typically acquire spirit rings after gathering enough intelligence, followed by targeted searches. Occasionally, some soul masters who wish to relax or are unsure which type of spirit beast to choose for their spirit ring will delineate a general area and search slowly.

Su Yu had evidently adapted to this approach.

Between Starluo Village and Sun-Moon, there were no spirit beast forests, making it even harder to find spirit beasts with stellar attributes.

Moreover, nurturing soul masters isn't something that can be done carelessly.

At the very least, Su Yu hadn't been misled by the Sun-Moon Empire's soul tool-centric ideology; he was meticulous in this regard. While some aspiring soul engineers might believe soul skills are unimportant and focus solely on studying soul tools, Su Yu wasn't one of them.

The ultimate goal of the battle armor system—super battle armor and ultimate battle armor—wasn't yet perfected. However, the techniques for primary, intermediate, and advanced battle armor were already mature, with the potential for widespread implementation at any time.

When battle armor truly emerged, it would bring about dramatic changes, whether in the original Three Douluo Nations or within the Sun-Moon Empire.

The Three Douluo Nations lamented their backward soul tool technology, while the Sun-Moon Empire's soul engineers would regret neglecting their soul power cultivation.

Without a doubt, the next generation would converge on a unified direction—becoming battle armor masters.

Equipping soul masters with battle armor would unleash power far beyond their current level.

Fate seemed to connect them.

Su Yu directly accepted Bai Feng as his disciple.

Along the way, he taught Bai Feng cultivation techniques. Bai Feng, with his exceptional martial soul talent and aptitude for cultivation, quickly grasped the basics of Su Yu's methods.

Three days later, they arrived in Sun-Moon.

"You just randomly picked up a genius with innate full soul power on your journey?" Jing Hongchen, listening to Su Yu's report, was astounded.

Looking at Bai Feng standing beside Su Yu, Jing Hongchen could only accept the fact. Su Yu's luck was simply extraordinary.

"A stellar-attribute spirit beast? Sun-Moon Hall has records of them. You can check there, and if none fit, you can seek out Xuan Ziwen. Back when he was researching that Star Staff, he not only sought many soul masters with stellar-attribute soul skills but also studied a variety of stellar-attribute spirit beasts."

Although the Star Staff was an auxiliary soul tool, the spirit beasts Xuan Ziwen studied weren't limited to auxiliary types. He simply solidified several auxiliary soul skills related to stellar power into the staff.

"Hall Master, although Xiao Feng is only six years old, his soul power is already at level ten. It won't be long before he becomes a soul master. Could you help arrange his enrollment procedures?"

Following the standard process wouldn't grant the same privileges as what Jing Hongchen could provide.

Given Bai Feng's talent, he was deserving of such privileges, so naturally, he would enroll through the highest-level process.

"We're the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy," Jing Hongchen said with a wry smile.

The highest privileges were, of course, reserved for soul engineers.

Jing Hongchen acknowledged Bai Feng's extraordinary talent and potential for great achievements as a soul master. However, he had only just awakened his martial soul and knew nothing about soul tools.

Even though there were two months until enrollment and one month until the new student assessment...

Could he become a second-rank soul engineer in just three months? 

Talents like Su Yu, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen were rare exceptions.

Jing Hongchen acknowledged this point.

"Hall Master, your perspective seems a bit outdated. Don't forget about our battle armor system," Su Yu pointed out, addressing Jing Hongchen's misconception.

"The Sun-Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy needs reform. Starting with this cohort, I believe we should pay greater attention to the Martial Soul Department.

The core driving force behind the promotion of the battle armor system is still soul masters. While it's great for soul engineers who also cultivate as soul masters to craft their own battle armor, most talented individuals should primarily train as soul masters, with specialized soul engineers designing custom battle armor for them."

When Su Yu mentioned the battle armor system, Jing Hongchen suddenly realized that his viewpoint might indeed be outdated.

"In my plan, the ideal approach would be to introduce a battle armor master curriculum within the Martial Soul Department. Students would learn the basics of crafting soul tools, focusing only on the core formations needed for the main framework of battle armor. For any custom effects, they could learn to create the necessary formations themselves.

For those aiming to specialize in the integration of battle armor and soul mastery, learning just this portion of soul tool knowledge would suffice, essentially making them semi-soul engineers.

The true Soul Tool Department, on the other hand, should focus on research and development—a group of scientists wouldn't need to wield weapons or fight."

Su Yu didn't even suggest that Bai Feng had to join Sun-Moon Hall.

Whether or not Bai Feng joined would depend on his future performance and personal choice. If he simply wanted to become a battle armor master and had no interest in studying soul tools, he could skip it entirely.

As for the rune system, once fully developed, it wouldn't rely solely on the core formations of soul tools.

Runes were derived from the core formations of soul tools but weren't mere copies of them.

This was something Su Yu deeply understood.

Due to his natural insight, many of the runes he crafted were drawn instinctively. His improvements to these runes were also based on intuition.

Originally extracted from the core formations of soul tools, these rune patterns were further refined. Su Yu had even tried integrating them back into soul tools.

In some cases, the improvements worked well. In others, the effects were greatly diminished or even completely lost.

It only proved that while the core formations of soul tools encompassed vast knowledge, different development paths would yield entirely distinct results, diverging from traditional soul tools.

"So, what you're saying is that in the future, soul engineers will split into various schools of thought, each becoming an independent faction, while the pure soul engineers will evolve into a research-focused department?" Jing Hongchen asked, finally understanding Su Yu's proposal.

"Hall Master, everything needs to evolve with the times," Su Yu replied.

Jing Hongchen pondered this deeply and found Su Yu's ideas to be reasonable.

"However, the establishment of Sun-Moon Hall wasn't just for soul tool research. It's also meant to cultivate combat strength."

"That's perfectly compatible. If Sun-Moon Hall can currently accommodate both research-oriented and practical soul engineers, why can't future soul engineers coexist with battle armor masters and others?" Su Yu countered.

Jing Hongchen was still stuck on certain details but gradually began to accept many of Su Yu's ideas after further discussion.

"In that case, I'll start drafting plans for future reforms," Jing Hongchen said.

Su Yu merely provided the concepts and direction, leaving the specifics of implementation entirely to Jing Hongchen, the head of Sun-Moon Hall. He had no interest in meddling with such a complicated process.

"Oh, by the way, Hall Master, I think the upcoming Soul Battle Tournament is the perfect opportunity to promote battle armor. Let's select battle armor masters as the primary participants this time," Su Yu suggested.

Jing Hongchen waved his hand dismissively.

"I'm already aware of that. The academy has arranged for it. The selected participants for this tournament all possess their own battle armor."

Hearing this, Su Yu had no further suggestions.