Huo Yuhao from The Peerless Tang Sect is incredibly talented.

He Caitou opened his friends list and saw Huo Yuhao's message.

Huo Yuhao: You should focus on your cultivation first. I have already sent someone to Mingdu. Five years from now, when the Soul Master Youth Tournament is held in Mingdu, you can officially regain your identity.

Huo Yuhao: If you don't understand anything about cultivation or soul tools, you can ask me directly.

After reading these two messages, Xu He suppressed his excitement and silently typed out a question about the core array of the soul tool.

The next moment, Huo Yuhao responded.

The symbols used in the response are concise, elegant, and easy to understand.

He Caitou stared at the few lines of concise reply on the communication soul tool screen, his pupils dilating slightly.

The problem that had troubled him for days was completely dissected by Huo Yuhao with three formulas and a metaphor. This wasn't just a solution; it was utter annihilation.

This ally is so strong it gives me peace of mind.

Stable.

After the battle between Shrek Academy and the Body Sect, He Caitou had looked up information about the Body Sect. They were few in number but powerful. Now, the Body Sect had taken it a step further and emerged into the world.

Five years! Just five more years and I can get my revenge! The overwhelming excitement almost overwhelmed He Caitou's reason.

He Caitou, who was eating, couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

Hehehe, hehehe.

"What's wrong, Senior Brother? What are you thinking about that's making you so cheerful?" Huo Buxiao asked curiously while chewing his rice.

"It's nothing, I just solved a problem that had been bothering me for days, I'm happy!"

Huo Yuhao quickly finished his meal, picked up the files and tools beside him, and left. He planned to call all the leaders of the Soul Guidance Department that afternoon for a major meeting.

The Soul Guidance Department's conference room.

Huo Buxiao stood at the end of the long table, his hands resting on the surface, his gaze sweeping over everyone present. At this moment, all the senior soul masters of the Soul Guidance Department were here.

Qian Duoduo sat in the main seat, tapping her fingers absently on the table. Fan Yu leaned back in her chair with her arms crossed, while Xian Lin'er frowned slightly. The other core soul masters also had solemn expressions, clearly stunned by what they had just heard.

"Don't laugh, say it again." Qian Duoduo's fingers stopped.

"I said, our Soul Guidance Department is going to launch the Ultimate Fire Martial Soul Project." Huo Buxiao said slowly and deliberately, his voice not loud but firm. "We want to artificially create a batch of Soul Masters with ultimate attributes as the core project for the future of the Soul Guidance Department."

The meeting room was silent for a full three seconds, then erupted into chaos.

"Huo Buxiao, are you crazy?" An elderly level six Soul Master suddenly stood up. "Do you know how rare an ultimate attribute Martial Soul is? How many have ever appeared in the entire history of Douluo Continent? You think you can just create one by man?"

"Exactly. Although our Soul Guidance Department has increased its resources considerably, it can't sustain this kind of approach. I agree with your plan to use Soul Guidance Devices to increase the cultivation speed of Soul Masters, but isn't pushing it to the limit right from the start too much?"

"Yes, why don't we continue to figure out how to purify the primordial energy of heaven and earth?"

"It's good for young people to have ideas, but they also need to be down-to-earth."

Despite the constant questioning, Huo Buxiao remained unfazed, even managing a slight smile at the corners of his mouth.

He waited until everyone finished speaking before taking out a thick stack of documents from his pocket and slamming them onto the table with a thud.

"You are all right." He spoke, his tone calmer than one would expect when facing a group of skeptics. "Extreme attribute martial souls are indeed rare, but we are far behind the Sun Moon Empire in terms of soul tools. But precisely because of this, we not only need to take a shortcut, but we also need to be more aggressive in order to deal with the Sun Moon Empire."

He turned to the first page, which was filled with all sorts of data.

"Since the start of the semester, I've been going to the library every day to read books, following the characteristics and advancement trajectories of the 132 fire-attribute soul masters in the books." Huo Buxiao's finger traced across the data table. "As a result, we discovered a fact that we had been overlooking—the evolution of a fire-attribute soul master's soul manifests outwardly as a leap in temperature."

Although Shrek Academy doesn't place much emphasis on theoretical research, it actually does so much more so than other academies in the original Three Kingdoms of Douluo Continent.

The library contains numerous records of the growth of Shrek Academy's Soul Masters.

Fan Yu frowned: "Be more specific, what are you planning to do?"

"It's very simple." Huo Buxiao raised his head, his eyes reflecting the light like two burning flames.

"Our Shrek Academy has produced a Soul Master with the Ultimate Fire attribute. We discovered that the ultimate attribute can be bestowed upon ordinary Fire attribute Soul Masters, allowing them to temporarily possess the ultimate fire attribute."

"My plan is to use a soul tool to create a closed, high-temperature soul tool environment, keeping the temperature constant at over three thousand degrees. Then, fire-attribute soul masters can cultivate in it for extended periods, allowing their martial souls and soul power to continuously adapt to and absorb this extreme heat."

"Nonsense!" The elder Soul Master slammed his hand on the table and stood up. "At three thousand degrees Celsius, an ordinary fire-attribute Soul Master would be committing suicide!"

"Therefore, we need to proceed gradually." Huo Buxiao remained unmoved. "Start with normal high temperatures, and increase the temperature periodically according to the Soul Master's condition. Ensure that the body's tolerance can keep up with the temperature increase."

The meeting room fell silent again. It seemed to make some sense.

Qian Duoduo stroked his chin, his eyes gleaming. He was a seasoned veteran; he immediately understood the brilliance of this approach.

Using soul tools to simulate extreme environments and reverse-engineer the evolution of martial souls—this idea is unprecedented, yet logically consistent.

"Even if your plan is theoretically feasible," Xian Lin'er spoke, her voice cold, "we lack the most crucial element—a rare metal sufficient to withstand extreme fire. Our Soul Guidance Department simply doesn't possess such a metal to maintain a soul tool at three thousand degrees Celsius. With the current strength of the Soul Guidance Department, once heated to extreme fire, the soul tool would instantly vaporize, making it utterly unusable for cultivating ultimate attribute soul masters."

Huo Yuhao said confidently, "Dean, I anticipated this. That is, to use a gravity field to remotely restrain the ultimate fire."

"Gravity field?" Xian Lin'er was a little confused. What could possibly bind the ultimate fire? Are you kidding me?

If it weren't for Huo Yuhao's enticing proposal of developing a soul guidance system and his astonishing talent in soul tools, anyone else would have been kicked out of the meeting room by Xian Lin'er long ago.

That's incredibly boastful.

Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, took out a ring, and placed a piece of toilet paper around the ring.

The ring is activated, and the fire element appears, but the paper around the ring does not burn.

Everyone's eyes widened.

At the same time, Huo Yuhao took out a candle, lit it, and surrounded it with paper, which then burst into flames.

Xianlin'er was utterly shocked. "You actually found a way to prevent fire elements from melting surrounding objects?"

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have proposed such a radical plan." Huo Yuhao said confidently.

"What about the issue of soul power? To generate the ultimate fire, you need a lot of soul power. Where does soul power come from?" Qian Duoduo asked.

Huo Buxiao seemed to have been waiting for this question. He pulled out the third page of the document, which was filled with a list of personnel.

Huo Buxiao was silent for two seconds, then slowly exhaled: "This is why I have gathered everyone here today. The Soul Guidance Department's current reserves are insufficient, but if we suspend a few non-core projects and concentrate our soul power resources, it will be enough to support the first round of experiments."

First, lure people over, then get Shrek Academy to provide additional funding.

Huo Yuhao currently has far too few rare metals and must learn a lot from Commissioner Smith.

Don't refrain from doing something just because it's a small amount of money. Even parking fines should be reimbursed, and you can also save up for food expenses.

"You want to stop my Soul Guidance Turret Improvement Project?" The older Soul Guidance Master's expression changed.

"And my research on fixed-position soul tools?" The other person also frowned.

With the increase in resources for the Soul Guidance System, apart from newly launched core projects, the system currently has sufficient resources to maintain existing projects without cutting them.

Huo Buxiao didn't avoid any gazes. He straightened up, his voice carrying a composure and decisiveness beyond his years: "Gentlemen, I don't need to explain what the Soul Guidance Department's status has been in the academy these past few years. If we don't produce some results, and a few geniuses emerge from the Martial Soul Department in a few years, the resources will be poured into them, and we'll always be picking up the leftovers. Why? Because we can't produce sufficiently impressive results."

He paused, then said, word by word, "If the Ultimate Attribute Project succeeds, the Soul Guidance Department will have the confidence to directly challenge the Martial Soul Department. At that time, it won't be us begging the academy for resources, but the Martial Soul Department begging us. Think about how the Martial Soul Department usually views us."

On either side of the long table, the expressions on people's faces varied. Some had ambition burning in their eyes, while others remained hesitant, but no one dared to voice any further objection.

Indeed, the Soul Guidance Department is constantly bullied by the Martial Soul Department, such as Mu Yun, a Soul Guidance Department student who was replaced by Ma Xiaotao in the original timeline.

Qian Duoduo remained silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed. The laughter grew louder and louder, eventually turning into a hearty laugh.

"Good lad, you're good at making empty promises." He stood up and waved his hand. "But I'll take this pie. The improvement of the soul-guided turret will be halted for now, and the miniaturization research will also be suspended. All resources will be concentrated on the 'Unsmiling' project."

He looked around at everyone and said, "I'll set a small goal first: three months. Within three months, we must first heat up the ultimate fire. We don't need to worry about anything else for now. I will personally take charge of this project. If we succeed, the Soul Guidance Department will be transformed. If we fail, I will take the blame."

Huo Buxiao looked at the seniors who were now ablaze with passion, and the smile on his lips finally spread to his eyes.

My status at Shrek Academy can be mentioned again.

I really want to improve.