Since joining the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, Wang Lin's life, which was previously in a state of brief running around, has become stable.
Other than returning once every seven days to follow Long Xiaoyao for Soul Master combat practice, his daily life was extremely regular.
He woke up every morning to practice the Eight Vajra Body Technique as usual, went to the canteen with Xiao Hongchen, then attended classes, learning soul tool crafting and how to fight using soul tools under the guidance of the students in the class and the homeroom teacher Ma Yuyuan.
Then, at noon dismissal, he went to the canteen, secretly took bones, continued class in the afternoon, dismissal, canteen, and returned to the dormitory to wash up.
Sometimes he followed Elder Yi to learn necromancy magic, sometimes he used the Bone Refining Fire to refine the bones secretly brought out from the canteen, and then cultivated, repeating constantly.
Wang Lin, who entered the academy with the background of the Holy Spirit Cult, was like an inconspicuous drop of water subtly merging into the vast ocean of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy.
He did not cause a great stir, and even his becoming friends with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen did not attract any attention.
The high-level officials of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy seemed completely unconcerned about this. However, Xiao Hongchen did ask Wang Lin about the Holy Spirit Cult.
After Wang Lin stated that he was not an Evil Soul Master and would not become one, Xiao Hongchen declared that if Wang Lin became an Evil Soul Master in the future, he would show no mercy.
Neither Xiao Hongchen nor Meng Hongchen cared about Wang Lin's identity again. Instead, Wang Lin was very concerned about Xiao Hongchen's identity.
He often asked Xiao Hongchen to use his status as Jing Hongchen's grandson to help solve some problems that shouldn't be solved by someone of his Soul Engineer rank.
In the blink of an eye, summer turned to autumn, autumn turned to winter, and winter turned to spring; eleven months had already passed.
The first academic year at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy was approaching its end. Many students in the academy were busy with the first-year semester assessment, which was also the assessment for a Level 1 Soul Engineer.
Although the pass rate for the academy's first-year semester assessment was basically one hundred percent, students were still inevitably nervous when facing the assessment.
A nervous atmosphere spread among the first-year students, but it did not spread to Class 1 at all. Most members of Class 1 had a foundation in Soul Masters.
Students like Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were already Level 3 Soul Engineers before entering Class 1. They had absolutely no need to worry about the semester assessment.
Almost all members of Class 1 had uniformly taken the Level 1 Soul Engineer assessment during the middle of the semester. This was a privilege of the special training class.
This naturally included Wang Lin, who had no foundation in Soul Masters. Although he had no Soul Master foundation, as a mental-type Soul Engineer, he had a natural advantage in learning soul tools.
In the original work, after Huo Yuhao hammered iron for eight months, he only spent three months becoming a Level 2 Soul Engineer.
As a mental-type Soul Master himself, if Wang Lin hadn't wasted a lot of time on the Soul Motor, he would have already been a Level 3 Soul Engineer by now, instead of just a Level 2 Soul Engineer.
Currently, in Wang Lin's dormitory, at the small desk, the siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were sitting. Both held carving knives in their hands, carving the soul tool metal in front of them with extreme focus.
Wang Lin sat behind the siblings, waiting quietly. He held a strange model in his hand. In the middle of the model, there were four empty slots, but only two were inlaid with already carved soul tool metal; the remaining two were still empty.
The patterns on the soul tool metal were dense, clearly not something Wang Lin, a Level 2 Soul Engineer, could complete. The outer periphery of the soul tool metal was also wrapped with two curved magnets.
Time passed slowly.
A quarter of an hour flashed by. Xiao Hongchen suddenly stopped his movements, turned back, and gave Wang Lin a look indicating he was finished. His movements were very light, afraid of disturbing Meng Hongchen, who was still carving beside him.
Wang Lin nodded and took the completed carved soul tool metal from Xiao Hongchen. He input soul power into the soul tool metal.
A faint white light lit up along the patterns on the soul tool metal. Cutting off the soul power, the patterns instantly dimmed. After confirming there were no problems.
Wang Lin inserted this new piece of soul tool metal into the missing slot in the model. It was also at this time that Meng Hongchen beside him finally completed her carving, only slightly slower than Xiao Hongchen.
"Phew, done."
The light voice of the young girl rang out. Meng Hongchen breathed a sigh of relief and handed the soul tool metal to Wang Lin. After Wang Lin verified that there were no problems using the same method.
He inserted the soul tool metal into the remaining slot in the model. The magnets were fixed by Wang Lin. He held up the prototype of the Soul Motor in his hand and spoke.
"Who will verify it?"
"I will. I asked my grandfather to persuade a Level 8 Soul Engineer to help; naturally, I should be the one." Xiao Hongchen said.
"Come, come." Wang Lin did not refuse and handed the prototype to Xiao Hongchen.
Don't look at this model, which was not much bigger than two palms; Xiao Hongchen contributed a lot to it. When Wang Lin first encountered a bottleneck.
The next day, he found Xiao Hongchen to explain the situation and seek a solution. It had to be said that, as expected of Jing Hongchen's grandson, he immediately found a solution for Wang Lin.
Divided by effective duration, all soul guide arrays could be classified into two major categories: delayed soul guide arrays and instantaneous soul guide arrays.
Among the currently known soul guide arrays, most of them were delayed soul guide arrays. After inputting soul power to generate an effect, the effect generated by the delayed soul guide array would not disappear even if the input of soul power stopped.
This was because soul power still existed within the soul guide array at this moment. The effect would weaken as the soul power was consumed, and the effect would only stop when the soul power was completely exhausted.
The soul tool lamp was an application of a delayed soul guide array.
Instantaneous soul guide arrays, on the other hand, only generated an effect when soul power was inputted. Once the soul power input stopped, the effect generated by the soul guide array would disappear immediately.
The activator of a fixed soul tool was an application of an instantaneous soul guide array.
Wang Lin's idea that the magnetic soul guide array could only generate magnetic force when soul power was inputted, and the magnetic force would disappear once the soul power input stopped, was the concept of an instantaneous soul guide array.
But unfortunately, even the lowest rank of instantaneous soul guide array was a Level 4 soul guide array, and its complexity was comparable to a Level 5 soul guide array.
Most importantly, no one in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy had ever researched the instantaneous magnetic soul guide array.
Although the existence of the magnetic soul guide array meant that modifying it into an instantaneous magnetic soul guide array was much simpler than researching it from scratch.
It was still not something Wang Lin, a small Level 2 Soul Engineer, could accomplish. Even the two young geniuses, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, couldn't do it for the time being.