Huo Yuhao from The Peerless Tang Sect is incredibly talented.

Huo Yuhao carried the tray through the busy workshop, his gaze sweeping over each worktable without making a sound.

Copper coolant from station number three was spilled all over the floor and no one was cleaning it up. He scraped off half a spoonful of the spilled coolant.

The apprentice at station number seven had just finished cutting a batch of sunken silver ingots, and there were still many fragments stuck in the waste basket. As he passed by, he casually wiped them off along the edge of the basket.

He even pried off the solidified metal residue from the old soul-guiding furnace in the corner of the corridor, which had been abandoned for half a year, and put it into his personal space.

These are all good things.

Waste is the greatest crime. Huo Yuhao muttered to himself as he pried a metal screw stuck in the brickwork under stage number nine.

"Huo Buxiao!"

A powerful voice rang out, so loud that the parts in the tray all jumped.

"Huo Buxiao! Huo Buxiao, where have you been?! Hurry up, the prototype is assembled! You're the chief designer, you have to be there for the prototype's ignition today!"

Money and people hadn't even arrived yet, but their voices had already gotten loud.

Huo Yuhao rubbed his ears, inwardly complaining that Qian Duoduo's voice was really loud.

"They're here, they're here."

Huo Yuhao shouted back at the top of his lungs and ran toward the construction site of the prototype.

The construction site of the prototype.

"Here it comes. Stop laughing and appreciate the masterpiece of all of us Soul Tools. I dare say, once this is finished, we Soul Tools will no longer have to put up with the wrath of the Martial Soul system!"

Qian Duoduo appeared extremely excited. Despite having heavy dark circles under her eyes and looking haggard, she continued to chatter on and on.

"Hey, don't laugh. Let me tell you, if this really works out, you'll not only be a sure thing for the Shrek Seven Devils and a spot on the Soul Master Tournament stage, but I'm telling you, my position will be yours too, and the position of Elder of the Sea God Pavilion will be guaranteed in the future."

Huo Yuhao didn't reply, only responding with "uh-huh" or "yes," before walking over to the prototype and inspecting it.

He also greeted the other Soul Masters along the way.

"Hello, Teacher Li."

"it is good."

"Hello, Teacher Liu."

"Yes, I'm fine!"

……

Along the way, all the Soul Masters were just like Qian Duoduo, looking haggard but excited despite having stayed up all night.

Seeing this, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "You guys are really good at currying favor."

Little did they know that the Soul Guidance Department had suffered a lot at the hands of the Martial Soul Department, and now that they finally had a chance to climb above the Martial Soul Department, they had to seize it firmly.

The prototype is a huge ring structure that stretches across the center of the test area, like a lurking steel python coiled into a circle.

The ring is over thirty meters in diameter and its surface is covered with a rare, dark copper-colored metal. Every seam of the armor plate is inlaid with densely packed rune lines, which gleam with a cold, eerie blue light under the illumination of the soul-guiding lamp.

The most eye-catching feature is the ring of small compartments distributed around the main circular structure.

Huo Yuhao roughly counted them; there were a total of forty-nine. Each cabin was an independent, semi-enclosed compartment, just the right size to accommodate an adult Soul Master.

The small cabin is for Soul Masters to sit in and generate fire element.

Huo Yuhao walked to the central cabin and used his mental detection to check for any problems, such as errors in the core array carving or loose welding.

Clearly, the Soul Guidance Masters were very attentive and made no mistakes.

And along the way, no one tried to put on airs or belittle Huo Yuhao.

After all, everyone knows Huo Yuhao's contributions to the Soul Guidance Department. Apart from his low soul power and young age, his expertise in soul guidance arrays and mathematics is far superior to theirs.

Huo Yuhao turned to look at the two closely connected control panels in the core module. "Those two positions are for you and Dean Xian Lin'er?"

"Nonsense." Qian Duoduo grinned, his face contorted with fat. "The Ultimate Flame is no joke. The core's gravitational field requires the soul power output of a Title Douluo to maintain stability, and right now, the Soul Guidance Department only has me and Xian Lin'er as Title Douluos. We'll be personally involved in today's test run."

Then Huo Yuhao gave Qian Duoduo a smile that was hard to decipher.

"Teacher Qian, I see you put a lot of thought into arranging these seats."

Qian Duoduo smiled sheepishly.

After all, everyone in the Soul Guidance Department knows about Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er's affair.

This is about clever little details.

Half an hour later, all preparations were complete.

Forty-eight Soul Masters entered the outer chambers one by one, while Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er entered the core chamber last.

Huo Yuhao stood in place, watching the prototype slowly start up.

"All compartments report their status." Xian Lin'er's cool voice resounded throughout the entire test area through the soul transmission device.

"Captain One is ready." "Captain Two is ready." "Captain Three is ready."

Forty-eight reports sounded in succession, like a series of war drums, gradually pushing the atmosphere in the test area to a tense peak.

Qian Duoduo took a deep breath, then ordered in a deep voice: "Everyone, listen up—Elemental Conversion Array, activate!"

The rune arrays in all forty-eight cabins lit up simultaneously.

With everyone's efforts, three hours later...

Inside the core module, the fire element that had been compressed into a three-cubic-meter space finally underwent a qualitative change.

The ultimate fire.

It was born.

The pointer on the soul tool that monitors the temperature is swinging wildly, and the temperature is breaking the highest record since the soul tool was manufactured.

An uncontrollable cheer erupted from the forty-eight outer cabins. A young Soul Master jumped up from his seat in excitement, bumping his head on the crystal plate on the cabin ceiling. He grimaced in pain but still laughed.

But the two people in the core module did not laugh.

Qian Duoduo's face had turned pale. Not just ordinary pale, but the deathly pallor of someone whose soul power had been depleted to the brink. His arms were trembling slightly, the veins on his hands pressed against the energy input ports were bulging, and his aura was visibly weakening.

Xianlin'er's condition was slightly better, but not by much. Her lips were pressed into a thin line, and the stray hairs on her forehead were damp with sweat and stuck to her cheeks.

The two, exhausted, huddled together tightly.

"Old Qian, the soul power consumption of the gravitational binding field is at least 30% higher than we estimated." Xian Lin'er's voice was low and full of exhaustion. "With our soul power reserves, we can only last for another 15 minutes at most. How do we stop after that?"

According to the original plan, after the Ultimate Flame was ignited, it should have been introduced into the corresponding training room to test its actual beneficial effects on Soul Masters' training. But the problem is—the training room was never built.

After all, before the project started, they were unsure whether they could produce Ultimate Fire, and the prototype was only for testing whether they could produce Ultimate Fire.

As for its use in cultivation, let's take the first step first.

Upon hearing this, Qian Duoduo's gaze fell on the top of the core module.

The core module has an emergency depressurization vent on top, originally designed to direct runaway energy into the sky in extreme circumstances to prevent the test area from being blown up, or to release energy and stop the experiment.

"Hehe, leave Lin'er to me. The plan is going smoothly; we had it prepared in advance. Now, let's enjoy the victory of our Soul Guidance Department!"

Qian Duoduo's tone was full of excitement.

Xian Lin'er doesn't usually take charge of the daily work of the Soul Guidance Department; she's a complete hands-off manager. The reason she was pulled in at this time was simply to calculate that the Gravity Binding Field needed a lot of Soul Power to act as a battery.

"What are you planning to do?"

"I'm going to open the pressure relief valve and direct the extreme fire into the sky to explode."

"???"

"Qian Duoduo, are you out of your mind? That huge ball of extreme fire is going to explode as soon as it's released! What do you want?!"

"Oh, Lin'er, don't worry. We've calculated this. After releasing the Ultimate Flame, as long as we continue to input soul power, the gravitational binding field will still bind the Ultimate Flame. The binding will only disappear after it reaches a certain distance."

"Tsk tsk, what a clever design! Who designed this part?"

"Huo Buxiao".

"Looks like this kid is a natural at crafting soul tools."

After a brief conversation, Qian Duoduo activated the export device.

Moments later, dawn broke at Shrek Academy. A blinding white light, billions of times brighter than sunlight, suddenly exploded, erupting from the sky and instantly covering the entire firmament.

Then, an invisible barrier of air surged outwards with overwhelming force, and the sonic boom was no longer a simple loud noise, but a low-frequency roar that pierced the soul, causing the entire space to tremble, distort, and buzz violently.

The air is compressed to an extreme degree, forming a transparent layer of air currents that is visible to the naked eye.

Crash! Countless windows shattered at Shrek Academy and the surrounding area as a strong wind swept through.

The Sea God Pavilion was alarmed, and all the elders in Shrek City took to the air and looked towards the Soul Guidance Department.

Damn, Soul Guidance Department, what are you doing? And this aura, where did this aura of extreme fire come from? Has an expert with ultimate attributes appeared?

Huo Yuhao remained standing in the same spot, his hands in his pockets, wearing sunglasses, looking up at the firelight chasing the sky.

His expression remained calm, but the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Great, the next plan can begin.

Qian Duoduo took to the air, clearly beginning negotiations with the group of elders.

Sea God Pavilion Master Mu En, gazing at the distant aura, picked up the Soul Guidance System's strategic plan once more.

A smile involuntarily crept onto my lips. Good news! Fantastic good news!

Beep beep beep. A knock sounded on the door.

Although Moon knew who was looking for him, he was still curious about why Beibei was looking for him in the middle of the night.

"Enter."

Beibei came into the house, carrying a thick stack of confessions.

……

After Qian Duoduo dismissed the elder of the Sea God Pavilion, he reviewed the results of the experiment.

The meeting was held in a studio next to the experimental zone. There were no tables or chairs, so everyone sat down on the spot.

No fancy stuff, it's a waste of time.

"Let's get to the problem first. The first problem is—maintaining the gravitational field of the Ultimate Flame requires too much soul power. Today, it's just the two of us, Title Douluos, holding it up, and even that won't last much longer. If we're going to use the Ultimate Flame as a regular cultivation resource in the future, we can't have Title Douluos standing guard every time, can we? What about us cultivating ourselves?"

Xianlin'er spoke first.

After he finished speaking, everyone present became more serious.

Title Douluo are Shrek Academy's most valuable strategic resource. Having them take turns guarding the Ultimate Flame like laborers is worthwhile in exchange for the birth of Ultimate Flame Soul Masters, but the Soul Guidance Department lacks personnel.

"The second question," Xian Lin'er continued, her voice still cold, "is also a significant drain on soul power from the forty-eight energy conversion chambers on the perimeter. Today's test run only lasted fifteen minutes, and the average soul power consumption of the forty-eight soul masters exceeded seventy percent. And this was just a short test run. If we want to maintain the burning of the Ultimate Flame for a long time in the future, it means that forty-eight soul masters will need to be on standby the entire time, continuously outputting soul power. Will these people still need to cultivate? Will they still need to conduct research?"

The problem was clearly stated, but no one could immediately come up with a solution. The studio remained silent for a long time.

The silence was broken by a young Soul Master, who cautiously raised his hand, his voice somewhat hesitant: "How about... we reduce the number of outer chambers? Change forty-eight to twenty-four or sixteen, wouldn't that reduce soul power consumption?"

"no."

Huo Yuhao immediately rejected the idea, saying, "The fire element output of the forty-nine cabins was precisely calculated. Reducing the number of cabins can indeed reduce soul power consumption, but the soul masters in the other cabins simply cannot provide enough soul power output."

Another Soul Master spoke up: "Could we optimize the gravity array? Increase the efficiency of soul power conversion, so that the same output of soul power can generate greater compression force?"

"There's limited room for optimization in magic arrays." Huo Yuhao shook his head. "My version of the gravity magic array is already the limit that the Soul Guidance Department can achieve at present. Further optimization would require better rare metals and more precise engraving techniques, which are either in the hands of the Sun Moon Empire or beyond the capabilities of our Soul Guidance Department."

The discussion reached a stalemate. Everyone knew where the problem lay—Extreme Fire was a money-devouring beast.

It devoured not only gold soul coins, but also the most precious training time and research energy of the soul masters. If these two problems cannot be solved, today's spectacular test run will be nothing more than an expensive fireworks display.

Or it could be converted into a weapon, but that wouldn't be very useful.

Qian Duoduo leaned against the wall with her eyes closed, as if she were resting or deep in thought.

He suddenly spoke.

"A martial spirit system."

Everyone was stunned. Xian Lin'er frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"

Qian Duoduo's face displayed a complex expression, a mixture of calculation, smugness, joy, and confidence: "My first question is—maintaining the gravitational field requires Title Douluos. The Soul Guidance Department only has two Title Douluos, Lin'er and me, but how many are there in the Martial Soul Department? There are several in the Sea God Pavilion alone, not to mention those old guys who are in seclusion year-round. Our Soul Guidance Department can't afford to support Title Douluos as laborers, but the Martial Soul Department can."

"But why should they help us?" someone muttered under their breath.

Qian Duoduo chuckled: "Why should we? Because the Ultimate Flame is also beneficial to their cultivation. Don't forget we created this for the Martial Soul System, and now it's our turn to look down on them."

"I don't believe they won't be tempted by evolving a fire-attribute martial soul into an ultimate attribute martial soul. They're just pretending to be high-minded."

As soon as he finished speaking, the members of the Soul Guidance Department began to laugh strangely.

From now on, it's their turn to step on the heads of the Martial Soul System!

How dare you disrespect us? Your training time for today is gone! From now on, Shrek Academy is a vast and boundless place, where the Soul Guidance Department can command the heavens.

Thinking of this, the members of the Soul Guidance Department laughed even more happily.