Before long, Flander brought several law enforcers from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to a dilapidated street.
Along one side of the street stood a row of rather old buildings.
After entering an alley in the street, there was a run-down one-story house.
The house was pitifully small; inside was the place where Yu Xiaogang used to live.
Flander opened the door. The house was completely empty.
The middle-aged law enforcer immediately squeezed past Flander. Looking at the room that could be seen at a glance, he frowned.
The house was only about five square meters. Beside the bed was the table.
The middle-aged law enforcer quickly noticed the draft papers on the table. Picking them up and examining them, he confirmed that this was indeed the place where Yu Xiaogang had lived.
"He lived in a place like this?"
"He had no money."
Facing the law enforcer's question, Flander answered matter-of-factly.
Although he was a teacher at Lanba Academy, with his personality it was impossible for him to help Yu Xiaogang rent a particularly good house.
It wasn't that he was stingy toward his friend Yu Xiaogang. Flander simply believed that if it was only for living, this kind of house was more than enough.
At least when it came to food, he had not deliberately been stingy with Yu Xiaogang.
The middle-aged law enforcer's eyes were sharp, and he quickly discovered a clue.
It seemed Yu Xiaogang had not returned here for quite some time.
The reason was simple. In such a small room, given Yu Xiaogang's sloppy habits, it was impossible for there to be no trace of him.
So where had Yu Xiaogang gone?
The middle-aged law enforcer began recalling the answers given earlier by the newspaper staff he had interrogated.
Yu Xiaogang had only published the paper and had not even collected the follow-up profits.
This did not match Yu Xiaogang's impoverished situation.
And considering how much Yu Xiaogang valued his own papers, how could he possibly not collect the profits from his "research results"?
"My lord, Yu Xiaogang has run away."
Suddenly, one of the law enforcers rushed into the room and reported loudly.
"The nearby neighbors all said that Yu Xiaogang fled in a hurry back then."
"It seems that although this Yu Xiaogang's theories aren't very impressive, he isn't stupid."
The middle-aged law enforcer narrowed his eyes and quickly reached his conclusion.
"He must have seen the rumors about himself spreading everywhere and got scared, so he ran away."
"But where could trash like Yu Xiaogang possibly run to?"
…
At this moment.
In Spirit Hall, inside the Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong was reading a letter sent by Yu Xiaogang.
The content of the letter stated that Yu Xiaogang would train the students of Spirit Academy to become the strongest students.
But Bibi Dong had already understood everything.
The rumors Yu Xiaogang had spread were actually beneficial to her.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was already a target she intended to eliminate. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan had a good relationship with Qian Renxue, which was also something she wanted to deal with.
Therefore she had never sent anyone to investigate where Yu Xiaogang had published his letter.
So Xiaogang wants to seek the protection of my Spirit Hall…
Bibi Dong thought to herself.
However, she dismissed Yu Xiaogang's request in the letter with disdain.
She believed in Yu Xiaogang's knowledge—but only regarding his understanding of soul beasts.
As for the Shrek Academy students trained by Yu Xiaogang, she had some understanding of them as well.
How should she put it?
Several of the students could indeed be called monsters.
At least that was what Bibi Dong thought before she learned about Xiao Lin and the others.
But after thinking carefully, wasn't it simply that those students themselves were talented?
Moreover, Yu Xiaogang's teaching method was simply making the students run. Bibi Dong had also investigated this.
With such a teaching standard, he still wanted to teach Spirit Academy's Golden Generation?
"Elder Wu Ning, what do you think about Yu Xiaogang's weighted running training?"
Sitting on the papal throne, Bibi Dong curiously asked Elder Wu Ning below.
"Reporting to Your Holiness, Yu Xiaogang's weighted running training has no merits whatsoever. All he did was calculate the limits of the three Shrek students and then let them break through using their own potential."
Wu Ning spoke with even greater disdain, directly calling Yu Xiaogang a useless waste.
"Reporting to Your Holiness, this kind of training could be taught by anyone. Haven't the Golden Generation of Spirit Academy always been breaking their own limits?"
"Do you have something better?" Bibi Dong asked.
"Of course."
Wu Ning replied confidently.
"We can use gravity-type soul skills to train the students' physical strength. Gravity can act on every cell in their bodies equally, making the training much more effective."
"Additionally, we can have them undergo alternating extreme-cold and extreme-heat environments so they can cultivate internal power."
"Internal power?"
Suddenly Bibi Dong asked curiously, "What is internal power?"
Wu Ning smiled confidently.
"Reporting to Your Holiness, this is my latest research achievement."
"I gathered the meditation paths of over a thousand soul masters and studied the talented students of Spirit Academy as samples. Only then did I develop this strongest meditation method suitable for all soul masters—what I call internal power."
"This internal power can help soul masters open meridians that are normally unused during meditation, allowing them to store more soul power and increase their potential."
Wu Ning had merely made a small effort, yet he had recreated the meditation technique that Yu Xiaogang had once researched.
"Because the subjects used were genius students, this internal power is even more effective for those with poorer talent."
"In a sense, it raises the innate soul power of those weaker students."
"Such a thing exists?"
Bibi Dong exclaimed with curiosity.
She herself was a genius born with full innate soul power. When she meditated, her soul power naturally flowed through most of her meridians.
She didn't need such a technique—but other soul masters certainly did.
"Very good. Elder Wu Ning, simplify this internal power method and publish it in the Spirit Hall newspaper. The real version will be reserved for Nana and the others."
Bibi Dong was extremely satisfied with Wu Ning's internal power.
With this, Spirit Hall could once again gain the support of the majority of soul masters.
Once the time came, Spirit Hall would only need to raise its banner to establish the Spirit Empire, declare war on the two great empires, and challenge the Upper Three Sects.
"Yes!"
Wu Ning replied respectfully.
In truth, his internal power was far more complex than what he had described.
If Yu Xiaogang could research it, there was no reason he couldn't.
He had already gone further—for example, beast-spirit soul masters had even more specialized cultivation methods.
However, that research required too much time, so he had not mentioned it.
"Report! Your Holiness, a letter from Yu Xiaogang!"
At that moment, a member of the Spirit Hall newspaper shouted from outside the Pope's Palace.
Hearing this, Wu Ning flashed outside the hall and handed the letter to Bibi Dong.
Bibi Dong opened the letter. Her pupils trembled slightly, and once again a look of disdain appeared on her face.
Yu Xiaogang actually claimed he had a cultivation technique suitable for everyone to learn.
Yu Xiaogang, you should just focus on memorizing soul beast information. You keep working on these useless things—that's why you've become the useless waste you are today.
Bibi Dong felt speechless and thought silently.
But soon, when she read the latter part of the letter, she was shocked.
Yu Xiaogang boldly declared that if he were given a year and a half, he was confident he could raise Spirit Academy's Golden Generation to Soul Emperor level.
(End of Chapter)