Chapter 10: Only Wasteful Soul Masters
Sun Qi had no immediate thoughts about Xiao Wu.
Secretly, Tang Hao was watching from somewhere. Xiao Wu, aside from anything else, was a hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast whose essence remained unchanged.
Tang Hao would only let Xiao Wu go because of the bond she'd formed with Tang San.
If he'd intercepted her, would Tang Hao have just ignored it?
Soul Masters were bound to hunt Spirit Beasts.
Even Tang Hao only dared to do so under the pretext of revenge for Ah Yin, never once condemning the Spirit Hall's killing of Ah Yin.
Tang Hao himself, upon seeing a transformed hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast, would have been tempted to kill, even if he didn't need to, thinking of the future generation of the Clear Sky Sect or Tang San.
"Hey, it's time for dinner. Want to eat together? We have three more active members from our part-time job program today. My treat," Wang Sheng said.
Sun Qi opened his eyes and nodded.
The cafeteria.
Wang Sheng found a large table on the first floor of the cafeteria and led a group of part-time students to sit.
However, before they even sat down, they heard a discordant voice.
"Aren't these Wang Sheng's poor bastards?"
Following the sound, they saw a group of senior students on the staircase between the first and second floors, looking down from above.
The speaker was a handsome boy, about eleven or twelve years old, his eyes thick with disdain.
"Poor bastards are poor bastards. I'm afraid you'll never be able to eat upstairs."
Xiao Wu was furious at this. She directly confronted Wang Sheng, "Who the hell are you? What's so great about the second floor?"
Seeing Xiao Wu standing up, the boy's eyes lit up.
"Such a pretty little girl, but it's a shame you're a part-time student. Wang Sheng, I'm going to eat now. I'll let you go this time."
Xiao Wu raised her foot to go upstairs to beat up the boy, but was stopped by Tang San.
"Forget it, we're here to eat."
Xiao Wu looked at Tang San with disdain, "Are you so afraid of trouble?"
Tang San didn't explain and went to the line to buy food.
Sun Qi was watching the fun the whole time.
He was also ready to take action at any time.
Since he became a part-time student, he would definitely not enjoy the peaceful life that people created for part-time students in vain.
He would definitely contribute some effort, but he didn't like the culture of the boss, so he didn't get involved.
It was really childish.
Tang San met Yu Xiaogang while getting food. Yu Xiaogang invited him to go upstairs, but he refused Yu Xiaogang's kindness.
After Tang San came back, Wang Sheng came to Tang San and asked curiously: "Tang San, are you? You want to worship him as your master? His strength is not that good. He is just a guest in our Academy. He doesn't teach and doesn't work. To put it bluntly, he is a freeloader. If he didn't have a good relationship with the dean, he would have been kicked out of the Academy long ago."
Tang San looked at Wang Sheng seriously, warning him not to speak ill of his teacher anymore, and refused Wang Sheng's earlier offer to treat him to a meal.
Tang San quickly finished his meal and left the cafeteria without continuing to chat with the part-time students.
Sun Qi curled his lips.
Wang Sheng was also grumbling with a few veteran part-time students, not understanding Tang San's attitude.
Xiao Wu asked curiously, and only then did she learn the information about Yu Xiaogang from Wang Sheng.
"Theoretical master?"
Xiao Wu didn't quite understand the significance of this theoretical master.
Wang Sheng glanced at the direction Tang San left, and whispered to Xiao Wu and Sun Qi, "It is said that he published the ten core competencies of Spirits, and then he got the title of master."
"Wow, isn't that impressive?"
Wang Sheng smiled bitterly, and said to Xiao Wu, "Even in our junior Spirit Master Academy, the things we teach basically include those theories."
Xiao Wu didn't understand, and Sun Qi looked thoughtful.
Wang Sheng had no choice but to explain further: "In other words, his ten core competitive advantages of Spirits are actually a compilation of what is generally accepted in the Spirit Master world, and then a large amount of data verification is attached to draw conclusions that we all agree on."
Sun Qi couldn't help laughing.
He said it bluntly, he said it in vain.
This is of the same nature.
Yu Xiaogang is indeed like this. His ten core competitive advantages of Spirits are to complicate common theories and then draw the original conclusions, and then compile them into a book and finally publish them.
This method is simply incredible.
It shocked the Spirit Master world.
Xiao Wu was also stunned and shocked.
"The most inspiring one of his ten core competitive advantages of Spirits is that there are no useless Spirits, only useless Spirit Masters." Wang Sheng complained: "But he himself is fifty years old and still stuck at level twenty-nine."
Sun Qi knew all this, of course. Wang Sheng's criticism was spot-on, leaving him speechless.
Moreover, he understood Yu Xiaogang's perspective better than Wang Sheng.
Yu Xiaogang had said there were no useless Spirits, only useless Spirit Masters.
But in reality, he was still adhering to the theory of talent, prioritizing innate talent above all else. His various actions clearly indicated that the only useless Spirit Masters he was referring to weren't referring to Spirit Masters who couldn't cultivate a useless Spirit into something useful, but rather to Spirit Masters who were useless because of their own poor innate talent and low innate Spirit Power.
A Spirit could be useless, but as long as the Spirit Master's innate talent was strong, they could achieve something. If you had poor talent, you were useless.
He practically attacked himself.
This was Sun Qi's conclusion, based on all the subsequent actions he'd observed.
While Yu Xiaogang might have meant that Spirit Masters needed to work hard to cultivate useless Spirits, his own actions were quite different.
...
Back in Dormitory 7, everyone tacitly didn't tell Tang San what they had discussed in the cafeteria.
Sun Qi quietly closed his eyes and began to meditate.
Tianshui City.
"Why can't I enter Tianshui Academy?" Cloud Sun Qi stared at Shui Bing'er with a pair of big eyes, very dissatisfied.
Shui Bing'er showed helplessness.
"Tianshui Academy only accepts female students, Xiao Qi, you are a boy."
Cloud Sun Qi curled his lips.
It turns out that Tianshui Academy cannot make exceptions.
He thought that Tianshui Academy was open to any water-attributed Soul Master with good talent.
He didn't know who misled him.
"Okay, your Cloud Spirit has not only water attributes, but also wind attributes. If you can't enter Tianshui Academy, you can go to Divine Wind Academy. The teaching there is still good, not worse than Tianshui Academy."
Shui Bing'er comforted Cloud Sun Qi.
Hearing this, Cloud Sun Qi sighed as well.
"Alright."
"Why are you sighing, kid? We're not sending you away right now." Shui Bing'er silently nodded Cloud Sun Qi's brow and said, "When you reach the second ring, we'll enroll you in the Divine Wind Academy."
She muttered softly, "Although your innate Spirit Power is only level five, your cultivation speed is faster than many Soul Masters with innate level six. I feel like you'll have a chance of breaking through to level ten in two years."
Cloud Sun Qi chuckled.
His cultivation speed was indeed fast.
This was due to the Seven-in-One.
Of course, another key point was his own development of the Cloud Spirit. It wasn't just Sun Qi who could develop the characteristics of the Stone Monkey Spirit and accelerate his cultivation.
[end of the chapter]