Su Yu left Mirror Hongchen's office.
The method had been mentioned, whether Mirror Hongchen could find an appropriate way was beyond Su Yu's concern.
Moreover, Huo Yuhao actually could accomplish all of this himself.
Being the child of destiny, the combination of his Soul Rings could not possibly be inadequate.
After all, his first ring was already a Million-Year achievement, supplemented by the Ice Emperor's torso bone transforming his physique, absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year spirit ring for the third ring was more than sufficient.
Not to mention that's precisely what Huo Yuhao did.
During the third ring, he indeed absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
His Soul Power thus directly broke through to Level 34.
Yet, after more than half a year since absorbing the Soul Ring, he has just raised one level.
In comparison to Su Yu, the speed differential was quite significant.
The Soul Rings brought considerable Soul Power amplification, yet in regular cultivation, Su Yu outpaced him immensely.
This was also why Mirror Hongchen asked Su Yu.
Su Yu could raise one level every three months when he was at Level 40. Huo Yuhao took half a year to raise one level, and that was during the Soul Venerable stage.
Mirror Hongchen was genuinely worried.
Even though at thirteen, Huo Yuhao being Level 35 Soul Venerable was already quite extraordinary.
But alas, Su Yu had elevated Mirror Hongchen's expectations.
In this generation of the Sun and Moon Empire, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen achieved breakthroughs to Soul King before the age of fifteen, and Su Yu reached Soul Emperor at fourteen.
Huo Yuhao, being a talent comparable to Su Yu, was highly anticipated by Mirror Hongchen.
However, it seemed now that rectifying the foundational gap was extremely difficult.
Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Eyes Martial Soul held massive potential, but ultimately, its current quality was too low.
His innate half-level Soul Power meant that at eleven years old, he barely had one Ring, making his basic foundation far inferior to Su Yu's.
Back when Su Yu first enrolled, he had already reached the level Huo Yuhao is at now.
"Body Martial Soul second awakening..."
After Su Yu left, Mirror Hongchen was pondering alone in the office.
There's an adversarial relationship between Mingde Hall and the Essence Sect, yet like Shrek, it's more conceptual than practical.
The Essence Sect's secluded nature made them little known.
Mingde Hall had quite a bit of research on Body Martial Souls, but certainly not as much as the Essence Sect.
Especially since many secret techniques of the Essence Sect were unknown to Mingde Hall.
Mirror Hongchen squinted his eyes until they were mere slits.
Essence Sect, Celestial Soul Empire Royal Family...
His mind was nimble, contemplating their strengths.
The best advantage of Mingde Hall is soul-guiding devices.
And soul-guiding devices are definitively what the Essence Sect lacks.
Even if there's general resistance among the populace, even if many Essence Sect disciples resist, the sect leaders would certainly try to embrace them.
At worst, the Celestial Soul Empire Royal Family would undoubtedly be eager to recruit in this field.
"Arranging an undercover agent?"
Mirror Hongchen temporarily set this plan aside.
"If I remember correctly, Mingde Hall has an important person detained."
Before the Soul Fighting Competition, Kong Deming had captured someone.
Xu Sanshi.
After the Soul Fighting Competition, Xu Sanshi was brought back and imprisoned in Mingde Hall's dungeon.
At this moment, Mirror Hongchen thought of the Young Sect Leader of Douling Empire's Profound Nether Sect.
"Profound Nether Sect seems to have a secret technique similar to secondary awakening. Perhaps it's worth investigating."
...
Leaving Mirror Hongchen's office, Su Yu headed to Xuan Ziweng's research lab.
"Senior Brother."
Busy making a Star Staff soul-guiding device, Xuan Ziweng heard Su Yu's voice, paused his design of the core array, and turned to look.
"Xiaoyu, you're here?"
Star Staff, an auxiliary type soul-guiding device, was previously one of Xuan Ziweng's failed projects.
However, after coming into contact with Rune Technique and Fusion Soul-guiding Technology, he picked up this discarded project again.
The results were quite favorable.
The auxiliary effects successfully crossed the threshold of Fifth-level, then he crafted a Sixth-level soul-guiding device Star Staff.
Now he was fabricating a Seventh-level soul-guiding device Star Staff.
In reality, Xuan Ziweng felt quite despondent.
His advancements in battle armor technology peaked at Advanced Battle Armor, which is his limit.
In fact, most of the existing advanced battle armor technology was spearheaded by Mirror Hongchen and Kong Deming, while he mainly expanded on the techniques within advanced battle armor.
The Level 8 Soul Guide level was far too insufficient in advanced battle armor.
Just like the Ninth-level Mirror Hongchen, who found himself struggling in Super Battle Armor crafting and decided not to indulge, choosing first to craft a personal set of advanced battle armor.
With battle armor in place, he'll elevate the soul-guiding device level, then research Super Battle Armor again.
Designing this Seventh-level Star Staff Martial Soul, Xuan Ziweng also hoped to utilize the Star Staff, combined with simultaneously crafted advanced battle armor, to assist in striving for Ninth-level Soul Guide.
But alas, crafting advanced battle armor was exceedingly difficult.
Spiritual Metal.
On one hand it's simple, yet exceedingly complex.
The requirements for Spiritual Power truly test a Soul Guide's level.
Especially upon Su Yu's exploration, the most fitting path for advancing battle armor would be to draw a core array from the spirituality within the metal.
Intermediate battle armor can use Spiritual Metal for crafting, which is exactly how Su Yu's battle armor is crafted, and you could say it was just suitable for use.
Yet advanced battle armor, though made from Spiritual Metal too, demands far higher levels of spirituality from the spiritual metal.
Because the complex core array heightens the need for spirituality.
The requirements for crafting spiritual metal, if it possesses spirituality, are significantly higher.