"You are... Grand Inquisitor Mo Hui?"
Su Yuntao stared blankly at the person in front of him, somewhat disbelieving that he would ever, in his lifetime, encounter this prominent figure.
Su Yuntao sighed and said, "Yes, it's been about six years since we last parted.
Among the children whose Spirits I awakened, your achievements are the highest, far exceeding my expectations."
At this point, Su Yuntao felt a pang of nostalgia. The child whose Spirit he had awakened had now grown into someone he had to look up to. He had not only founded the Storm Pavilion but also recently became a Grand Inquisitor of Spirit Hall. Time truly was a wondrous thing.
"It's been over ten years, and you're still awakening Spirits for these children. Have you considered a different job?" Mo Hui asked Su Yuntao.
Mo Hui was actually very grateful to Su Yuntao. It was Su Yuntao who awakened his Spirit, thus setting him on the path of a Spirit Master.
Upon hearing Mo Hui's words, Su Yuntao was slightly stunned. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "I once considered changing jobs. After all, awakening Spirits for children is truly exhausting."
The areas Su Yuntao was responsible for mostly consisted of scattered small villages. These villages were far apart, and sometimes after awakening Spirits in one village, he would need to travel for several hours, crossing mountains and valleys, to reach the next village.
And for all this hard work, what was the probability of an ordinary person having innate spirit power after their Spirit awakening?
Less than one percent!
Furthermore, among those with innate spirit power, the vast majority had very low innate spirit power, such as Level 1, Level 2, or even Level 0.5. Those with innate Level 3 spirit power were exceedingly rare.
This could also be seen from the number of work-study students at Notting Academy. Each village had one work-study student quota reserved for it by Notting Academy every year, but they often still couldn't recruit any work-study students.
This kind of work, with its severe imbalance between input and output, might give the two great Empires, Heaven Dou and Star Luo, some ideas after seeing Spirit Hall's success, but the small feudal lords would absolutely not undertake it.
One must know that Spirit awakening requires guidance from a Spirit Master, and at least a Spirit Grandmaster, because a Spirit Master's spirit power is too little; they would run out of spirit power after guiding one or two, making it impossible to support large-scale awakenings.
And what kind of concept was a Spirit Grandmaster on the Douluo Continent?
Not one in ten thousand, but at least one in a thousand.
They could be teachers in junior Spirit Master academies, or easily become centurions or chiliarchs in the army. They could live comfortably wherever they went.
While not as exaggerated as a Spirit Elder or Spirit Ancestor, who directly become the ruling class, they were still considered above ordinary people.
To ask such people to work hard every year, traversing mountains and valleys, to help awaken Spirits for children in the countryside, is like asking those corporate executives and bosses who earn millions in reality to personally go to remote villages for poverty alleviation every year, and do so for decades without fail.
Just thinking about such a thing makes it seem impossible. Only a power like Spirit Hall would have sufficient capability and prestige to implement it.
"But I don't know why, whenever I see a child's happy expression after awakening innate spirit power, the resistance in my heart lessens."
Then, Su Yuntao scratched his head and said, "Anyway, my talent is limited. I probably won't be able to break through to Spirit Elder in this lifetime, and promotion to Yellow-clothed Deacon is hopeless. I might as well continue to awaken Spirits for the children in these villages, which can be considered accumulating good karma."
The positions in Spirit Hall, from lowest to highest, are divided into White-clothed Deacon, Yellow-clothed Deacon, Purple-robed Bishop, Cardinal, Platinum Bishop, Elder/Enshrined, and Supreme Pontiff, seven ranks.
Su Yuntao's position was the lowest, White-clothed Deacon, typically ranging from Spirit Grandmasters in their twenties to Spirit Elders in their thirties.
The next higher rank, Yellow-clothed Deacon, was mainly composed of Spirit Ancestors. Unless one made great contributions, promotion was impossible without sufficient rank.
This was one of the main reasons why Su Yuntao, now over forty years old, could still only serve as a grassroots White-clothed Deacon.
However, after hearing Su Yuntao's reply, Mo Hui was silent for a moment, then spoke, "If I promote you and have you specifically recruit talents from across the Continent, would you be willing?"
At these words, Su Yuntao's eyes first lit up, but then dimmed again. He said with some self-deprecation, "Let's forget it. My judgment seems to be poor; I always misjudge people."
First Mo Hui, then Tang San, directly made Su Yuntao doubt his ability to discern people. Although he yearned for the job Mo Hui mentioned, Su Yuntao was even more afraid that his own mistakes would lead to a pearl being obscured.
"This matter is actually very easy to solve."
Upon hearing this, Mo Hui smiled faintly.
Mo Hui raised his right hand and lightly touched Su Yuntao's glabella with his finger. Immediately, a trace of Wind God's divine force was transmitted into his body.
In an instant, Su Yuntao only felt a world-shaking change in his body. A deep cyan energy continuously flowed within him, but in the end, it all gathered in his eyes.
Suddenly, Su Yuntao's eyes emitted a rich cyan light, and two spirit rings, one white and one yellow, appeared around him. His long-suppressed bottleneck was also broken, and he reached Level 30!
Immediately afterward, the two spirit rings around him suddenly changed. The colors of the two spirit rings continuously deepened. Soon, the white ten-year spirit ring transformed into a yellow hundred-year spirit ring, and the second spirit ring also changed from its original light yellow to deep yellow.
After the light in his eyes dissipated, Su Yuntao looked at his body in disbelief. He found that he had become much younger, and he felt a vibrant sense of vitality throughout his being.
Most importantly, his spirit power had leaped to Level 30. He only needed to add a spirit ring to become the Spirit Elder he had always dreamed of.
"I have replaced your original Spirit, and your current Spirit might be called: Wind God's Eye!"
Mo Hui looked at Su Yuntao in front of him and smiled, "The Wind God's Eye has the ability to see through the essence of things, so no matter what kind of genius you encounter later, you won't miss them."
The Wind God's Eye was a God-Bestowed Spirit created by Mo Hui after he became the Wind God. Its essence was the Sharp Eyes of Pidgeot after multiple advancements, but it was simply extracted and became a Spirit.
Then, Mo Hui continued, "How about it? Do you still have any reason to refuse now?"
Upon hearing Mo Hui's words, Su Yuntao also recovered from his shock. Looking at Mo Hui, who had transformed him, he immediately knelt on one knee and said,
"Thank you for the Grand Inquisitor's high regard. Yuntao is willing to serve the Grand Inquisitor with all his might!"