Besides Gu Yuena, there were two other people on site watching Huo Yuhao's operations.
The Mecha Designer Association's president, Li Yucheng, and its vice president, Xia Haoxuan.
After experiencing Huo Yuhao's talent several times, Li Yucheng said he could now watch this scene calmly. But the person beside him clearly could not.
Xia Haoxuan watched as Huo Yuhao lightly tapped on the rare metal, his fingers moving as swiftly as flying, completing a three-arc cutting in an instant so precise it seemed as if it had been measured with a ruler. His heart was filled with amazement, and a desire to nurture this talent arose.
Such precise movements, such a state of physical and mental unity many Grade Eight Manufacturers he had seen could not achieve this. Only manufacturers accustomed to crafting Grade Nine soul tools could freely enter that state.
A prodigy — truly a prodigy!
Such a disciple was absolutely the dream of any manufacturer wanting to pass on their legacy.
After observing Huo Yuhao's smooth, practiced, almost like array engraving movements for a while longer, Xia Haoxuan could not help but say:
"President, you are already old. Your energy is insufficient now. How about letting me teach Huo Yuhao instead?"
"Although I am not as skilled as you, I have more time than you and more energy than you. I would have more time to teach him."
"Go on, go on — dreaming!" Li Yucheng waved his hand, looking impatient. "You want to steal him? Go teach your own disciple well."
Xia Haoxuan said discontentedly: "President, you can't be so selfish. I was the one who discovered him in the first place. You have to deal with association affairs every day when do you have time to teach a disciple? We should exchange exchange. You continue handling the affairs, and I'll teach him!"
"He is a member of the Spirit Transmission Tower. And I am already planning to introduce him to headquarters. Don't overthink it." Li Yucheng's words shut Xia Haoxuan's mouth. "Anything else you want to say?"
"...You win." Xia Haoxuan glanced at Huo Yuhao with some regret, then turned and left the room.
Seeing this, Li Yucheng refocused his attention on Huo Yuhao. When Huo Yuhao finished engraving the soul tool array on the metal, he walked over with a beaming smile and inspected the work.
"Not bad. You have already mastered the energy conversion soul tool array I taught you before. But here, and here they can be improved to make the connection of the soul tool array more perfect."
Li Yucheng pointed at two places on the rare metal and said to Huo Yuhao with a smile: "Of course, these are all minor issues..."
Gu Yuena watched Huo Yuhao humbly ask for guidance and listen quietly. She had a strange feeling that she didn't belong here.
Designers and manufacturers overlapped in many areas of knowledge, but what the two of them were saying now... she couldn't understand.
A young man in his teens was looking for someone in the association lobby. Seeing Xia Haoxuan emerge from a room, his eyes lit up. He quickly walked over to him and asked:
"Teacher, I'm going to take the Grade Three Manufacturer exam. Do you have time to be my examiner?"
Xia Haoxuan looked up at him, not very interested. "Grade Three? How old are you to still be at Grade Three? Look at other people's..."
The young man looked at Xia Haoxuan with a blank expression, not understanding what he had done wrong to deserve being nagging at by his own teacher.
Thinking back, he had been the "other people's child" once too...
After venting for a while, Xia Haoxuan still felt he had lost out.
Huo Yuhao had been discovered by him in the first place. When he had come to take the Grade Two Manufacturer exam, he had even been his examiner.
But Huo Yuhao was from the Spirit Transmission Tower. He had assumed the other would not join the Mecha Designer Association. So, following past customary practice, he had reported the other's information to the president. He had never expected such an outcome.
If he had taken him on as a disciple back then...
"No. The more I think about it, the more it feels like a loss. Why does the president get to do nothing just take a trip to the Spirit Transmission Tower and gain a genius like that?"
After thinking it over left and right, Xia Haoxuan decided to take a roundabout approach. He took out his soul tool communicator.
"Knowing you as I do, you're probably hoping to take Huo Yuhao to headquarters to show off later, right? You probably haven't reported Huo Yuhao's existence to headquarters yet... Then I won't stand on ceremony."
When the other side answered the call, Xia Haoxuan immediately broke into a smile. "Hello, Teacher? I've discovered a prodigy in Eastsea..."
Li Yucheng was guiding Huo Yuhao on engraving a soul tool array when he suddenly heard his soul tool communicator ring. He took it out, glanced at it, said "Excuse me" to Huo Yuhao, and turned to leave the room.
When he returned from the call and saw the situation in the room, his face instantly darkened.
He had guarded against a thousand things but not against thieves within his own house. He had ultimately been negligent.
You bastard Xia Haoxuan you want to be given a hard time, don't you? Just you wait!
"Yuhao, you are the person with the highest talent in soul tools I have ever seen in my life. My teacher is a Grade Nine Manufacturer at the Mecha Designer Association headquarters. He heard about you and is very interested. How about it — interested in becoming my junior apprentice brother?
And you, young lady becoming a Grade Three Designer at such a young age your future is equally limitless. I can recommend a suitable teacher for you."
Xia Haoxuan said this with a beaming smile.
Why try to win over just one person when he could win over both geniuses at once?
As for the fact that the two of them were from the Spirit Transmission Tower?
No problem their Mecha Designer Association even had people from the Body Sect!
"President Xia, you flatter me. Without the senior senior's guidance, I could not have reached my current level."
"Ah, being too modest comes off as insincere. How long has the president been teaching you? He's old. He doesn't have time to teach you even sparing a little time every day is not easy. How about this: study with me first, and in the future, I'll take you to headquarters to meet my teacher."
Huo Yuhao glanced at Li Yucheng, who was radiating black aura behind Xia Haoxuan, and his brows twitched.
This was not a question of modesty or not. If you continued talking, sir, he feared that after tonight, a corpse would float in the East Sea.
Xia Haoxuan actually sensed the approaching person as well, but he was someone who "did not fear the power of power." He directly took out a storage ring and handed it to Huo Yuhao. "Inside are some rare metals — a gift I prepared for you."
Li Yucheng took a deep breath, feeling he couldn't just watch anymore. He thought for a moment, then also took out a pass pass and a small soul tool from his storage ring and handed them to Huo Yuhao.
"With this pass pass, you can enter most rooms in the association, including the storage room on the third floor where design blueprints and ideas are kept."
He had prepared this pass a long time ago. Huo Yuhao's self-learning ability and self-discipline were very good. He himself indeed did not have much time. It would be better to open some access and let him learn on his own.
Thinking this, Li Yucheng and Xia Haoxuan glanced at each other, then looked away in tacit understanding.
Although they had not communicated, they both understood that Huo Yuhao was a member of the Spirit Transmission Tower. To make him develop a sense of belonging to the Mecha Designer Association, they needed to make full use of his young age and try their best to win him over.
However, that does not give you the right to call your teacher behind my back! Hard times are coming for you, Xia Haoxuan! Li Yucheng thought expressionlessly.
Huo Yuhao looked at the items in front of him and his expression was strange.
Was this the clam and the snipe fighting and the fisherman reaping the benefits?