You Want to Guide Me? You're 20,000 Years Too Early!

"Lin Chen, you're utterly unreasonable! Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're the nephew of Nuoding City's lord!"

At the Lin family residence in Nuoding City, Yu Xiaogang's face was flushed, his chest heaving as he glared at the handsome youth in white before him.

Seeing this, the servants around them immediately began chattering among themselves, and the smell of gunpowder in the air grew stronger.

"Lin Chen, do you realize you're recklessly squandering a precious gift? Your Martial Soul is armor, born with defenses that surpass those of other Martial Souls."

"Across the entire Soul Master World, I've never seen anyone with an armor Martial Soul follow the Power Attack System."

"For an armor-type Tool Martial Soul, there has only ever been one correct path: the Defense System!"

"The facts are right in front of you. Why would you abandon your armor's powerful defenses, play to your weaknesses instead of your strengths, and follow the Power Attack System?!"

The more Yu Xiaogang spoke, the angrier he became. He had only lowered himself to come to the Lin family and personally teach Lin Chen out of respect for Nuoding City's lord, and because he had heard that Lin Chen had awakened an armor Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power.

That was precisely why Yu Xiaogang had gone out of his way to show mercy and prepare a plan for Lin Chen's future cultivation, while also proving his own Martial Soul Theory!

In his view, as long as Lin Chen cultivated according to the path he had planned, even if he couldn't become a Titled Douluo one day, he would still become a top-tier Defense System Soul Master.

And Yu Xiaogang could use the reputation he gained from having taught Lin Chen to eat a few more years of free meals in Nuoding City.

But Lin Chen didn't know what was good for him. He insisted on opposing Yu Xiaogang, abandoning the path he had planned and following the Power Attack System instead. What was that if not a slap in the face?

At that thought, Yu Xiaogang forcibly suppressed his anger and fixed his dead-fish eyes on Lin Chen again. "Lin Chen, I spoke up to warn you because your talent far surpasses that of ordinary people, and I couldn't bear to see you go down the wrong path."

Lin Chen shook his head. "I don't need a warning from a teacher who's over fifty but still stuck at level 29 Soul Power."

Yu Xiaogang's sore spot had been hit, and his face instantly turned crimson. He pointed at Lin Chen and shouted angrily, "You're a complete fool! You've only just awakened your Martial Soul, you don't even have a single Soul Ring, and you know absolutely nothing about a Soul Master's cultivation!"

"Your parents pulled strings to invite me here, making me turn down other matters and make a special trip. And this is how you treat me?!"

As Yu Xiaogang's words fell, the Lin residence fell silent, and the servants standing nearby immediately began whispering among themselves.

"What's wrong with the young master? Why is he arguing with the teacher Madam invited here?"

"The young master doesn't want to follow the path this Grandmaster planned for him, so they started arguing..."

"But I think the Grandmaster has a point. Has the young master reached his rebellious phase?"

Faced with Yu Xiaogang's rebuke and the doubts of those around him, Lin Chen shook his head without showing any emotion.

He simply looked at Yu Xiaogang in silence, then asked calmly, "Grandmaster, you think I should follow the Defense System because other armor Martial Souls should follow it, right?"

Yu Xiaogang snorted, his face full of confidence. "What else? This is a truth universally acknowledged in the Martial Soul World. What would a little brat like you know?"

Lin Chen shook his head and said coldly, "But I think my Martial Soul's greatest advantage isn't defense."

Yu Xiaogang's face darkened, and he opened his mouth to interrupt Lin Chen.

But Lin Chen gave him no chance to interrupt and continued, "My armor is called the Ultimate Armor. It's not something other armor can compare to."

"When a Soul Master chooses a cultivation path, the choice should be based on the Martial Soul's own characteristics, not on what paths other people have taken, making everyone follow the same road."

"You're a Grandmaster of the Martial Soul World, after all. Surely you understand that?"

Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang froze for a moment, at a loss for an answer.

"My Martial Soul does possess extremely powerful defenses, but that doesn't mean the Ultimate Armor can only be used to withstand attacks."

Lin Chen shook his head. As a transmigrator, he naturally knew just how much of this Grandmaster's reputation was inflated, and he also knew just how great his own Martial Soul's potential was.

The Ultimate Armor, also known as the Palagi Shield, was a divine artifact formed from the light of hope gathered by Noa. In terms of its standing, it could kick Tang San and the other god kings around like balls.

Even with only one ten-thousandth of its power, it was absolutely beyond comparison with the gods and Super Divine Artifacts of the Douluo Continent. They weren't in the same weight class.

Though he didn't know why, the Palagi Shield had not become a god-level Martial Soul in its current state.

But in any case, using such a powerful Martial Soul only to withstand attacks would be no different from feeding ginseng to pigs—a reckless waste of a precious gift!

At that thought, Lin Chen looked at Yu Xiaogang and said firmly, "Defense is only the most basic use of armor. If I single-mindedly use all my Soul Rings to strengthen my defenses, what will I be able to do besides stand there and take a beating?"

"Besides, my Martial Soul is only half armor. If an enemy attacks my lower body, wouldn't I be unable to stop them?"

Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang seemed to have found a loophole, and his expression grew confident again. "You're absolutely right, boy. Precisely because your Martial Soul is half armor, you should increase your defenses even more. Only then can you make up for your Martial Soul's flaw!"

Lin Chen sneered and spoke helplessly. "Grandmaster, your mind really is inflexible. Isn't half armor's greatest advantage that it offers agility on top of powerful defenses?"

"The reason full armor makes movement difficult is precisely because it covers the whole body and is made of metal, making it very heavy and difficult to move in."

"But half armor is different. Although its defenses are weaker, it can make use of the advantage of speed."

"If I follow your path and give up my advantage in speed to specialize in defense, I'll end up caught in a dilemma."

"Against an enemy much faster than me, I won't be able to catch them. Against an enemy who attacks from a distance, I'll have no choice but to defend passively."

"Can a path like that really be called the most suitable path for an armor Martial Soul?"

Yu Xiaogang's lips moved slightly, but no sound came out.

Every one of Lin Chen's words seemed to strike precisely at a flaw in his theory.

The last part in particular, about the difference between half armor and full armor, had completely shattered his previous theory.

Lin Chen looked at the speechless Yu Xiaogang, his voice still calm. "I've never denied that armor can defend, but that isn't the most suitable path for me."

"Just like the difference between half armor and full armor, my Martial Soul can't be lumped together with ordinary armor,"

"and taking damage shouldn't be the only path my Martial Soul can follow."

With that, Lin Chen raised his left arm. Amid a flash of silver light, a silvery-white metal bracelet appeared on his wrist. The blue diamond-shaped gem set in its center gleamed coldly, like an incomparably sharp longsword.

"The path I intend to take isn't one an ordinary Soul Master can compare to. You want to guide me? You're 20,000 years too early!"

"Ridiculous!"

After a brief silence, Yu Xiaogang seemed to finally come to his senses. Though his face was flushed crimson, he still flung his sleeve and shouted angrily:

"You're just a six-year-old child. You only awakened your Martial Soul a few days ago and haven't even absorbed a Soul Ring. What do you know about Martial Souls? What do you know about cultivation?"

"Everything you just said was nothing but wild speculation based on your own imagination!"

Yu Xiaogang stood before Lin Chen, his face flushed and his chest heaving.

It had been a long time since anyone had talked back to him like this, much less a six-year-old child.

"Your parents had someone find me two months ago. They said your Martial Soul Awakening caused quite a stir, and they were afraid you'd take the wrong path.

"I wasn't planning to take this on. I only made the trip because you had Innate Full Soul Power." He pointed at Lin Chen and roared, "Is this how you repay their painstaking concern?"

Yu Xiaogang stared hard at Lin Chen, as if he could recover the face he had just lost as long as his voice was loud enough.