Back at Mingde Hall, the spies hidden in the dark were sent to the interrogation room. After handing everything over to Mirror Hongchen, Su Yu returned to the dormitory and began to ponder the origin of these people.
Are the Evil Soul Masters planning to attack Mingde Hall?
Thinking of this, Su Yu did not deny this possibility.
After all, is there something essential for Evil Soul Masters within Mingde Hall?
According to the original work, there probably isn't, since the Snow Empress' Embryo was taken away by the Essence Sect and as for soul-guiding technology, Xu Tianran made it available to Ye Xishui, allowing her to grow into a Ninth-level Soul Guide, potentially on par with Mirror Hongchen.
But now, it's not so certain.
The battle armor technology within Mingde Hall, the Holy Spirit Sect does not possess it, not even Xu Tianran has mastered it.
The basic battle armor, demonstrated by Xiao Ping and others in the Soul Fighting Competition, already fully illustrates the value of battle armor, even more significant and better than the amplification of soul-guiding devices of the same level.
And above this, there are intermediate and advanced battle armors.
Su Yu couldn't confidently say that Xu Tianran kept such secrets completely from the Holy Spirit Sect.
Revealing the classification of basic, intermediate, and advanced battle armor to the Holy Spirit Sect may not be impossible.
Basic battle armor can only amplify a Soul King, perhaps also aids a Soul Emperor, but what about intermediate and advanced battle armor?
"But those people just now didn't seem like Evil Soul Masters."
"Or are they people from Douluo Three Kingdoms?"
"..."
Not dwelling on it for too long, Su Yu began pondering another question.
"Yuhao's detection is ultimately more detailed than mine."
Huo Yuhao's level of precision in spiritual detection might be something Su Yu could achieve, but not as effortlessly.
"He's recently been mastering his soul skills to the point of making them his own, maintaining a constant state of spiritual detection, which is why he can discover it immediately."
Keeping the soul skill of spiritual detection active at all times, while gradually reducing dependence on Soul Rings to explore all the techniques. This was the path of practicing soul skills that Su Yu suggested Huo Yuhao take.
"However, this doesn't overshadow my shortcomings in this area."
Huo Yuhao being able to maintain his soul skill at all times due to practice will no longer be a problem once he fully comprehends it and makes it his own.
"I should also develop some detection capabilities."
Su Yu thought he should develop some detection or sensing capabilities, to have a premonition-like reaction in times of crisis.
Although Su Yu occasionally had such premonitions, they were too emotionally driven and lacked rationality.
"Maybe I can use the Power of Destiny to achieve this perception."
Spiritual detection? Can't Su Yu develop it? And reaching the level where it's constantly active with little effort?
No.
It's just too low-level!
Su Yu plans to use the Power of Destiny to develop a sensing-type soul skill, not requiring active detection but relying on the Power of Destiny to sense any malicious intent towards him.
"Ideally, to develop it into a passive ability."
In the Sea of Spirit, a new rune slowly took shape.
...
Time passed quickly during cultivation.
A new rune took form, and the interrogation at Mingde Hall reached an initial conclusion.
"Although no valuable intelligence was gathered, it could be confirmed these people are from the Douluo Three Kingdoms," Mirror Hongchen said. "However, you don't have to worry. Mingde Hall was already prepared, and there won't be any issues with the defenses. Our soul-guiding devices had already detected their probing outside, just waiting for the right time to close the net."
What Mirror Hongchen didn't say was that he initially planned to use these spies to release some misleading information.
However, capturing them early wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
After all, there were indeed some strong individuals that Mingde Hall's soul-guiding devices hadn't detected.
"Strong soul power, Xuanzi."
Huo Yuhao had seen Xuanzi at Shrek Academy, and the Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm remembered Xuanzi's soul power fluctuations and aura clearly.
The initial confrontation last night led Huo Yuhao to preliminarily confirm his identity.
"The tournament this time is filled with dangers. The Douluo Three Kingdoms have brought almost all their geniuses, and they definitely won't miss this opportunity to make a move. Xuanzi's involvement indicates that Mingde Hall is a key target for them. They are likely eyeing our soul-guiding technologies."
"..."
Mirror Hongchen and Su Yu had a brief discussion on their perspectives. Su Yu's skill set was already very strong, reaching an equivalent level to Mirror Hongchen in all aspects, and given that Su Yu's seniority was parallel to Mirror Hongchen, such a conversation was expected.
Ultimately, the strategy they settled on was to remain unchanged and adapt as necessary.
Regarding the contestants from the Douluo Three Kingdoms, Xu Tianran had his own plans, and Mingde Hall didn't need to meddle, only to fill in the gaps as necessary and remain vigilant to handle any unexpected incidents promptly.
...
Sun and Moon Royal Hotel.
Room 401.
"Fan Yu, did you learn anything from observing the match tonight?"
Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu returned to the hotel and began exchanging insights from the evening.
Currently, they can only enrich and improve their fundamental understanding of soul-guiding devices by observing soul guide tournaments live and watching the Sun and Moon Empire's Soul Guides during the manufacturing process.
Not only Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu, but the Xingluo Empire, Celestial Soul Empire, and Douling Empire each dispatched at least one Seventh-level Soul Guide to learn and observe.