Diary

"Eh? Why didn't he keep talking? Wasn't he supposed to teach Miss?" Chrysanthemum Douluo stared blankly at the backs of the two as they departed.

"Talk about what? So you can listen in? Are you his disciple too?" Ghost Douluo shot his old friend a speechless look and mocked him.

"Uh..." Yue Guan came to his senses as well. The paid content that followed was clearly not meant to be shared.

He gave an awkward laugh. "Learning so much from him... I wouldn't mind becoming his disciple, actually."

"..."

He had been joking, of course, but his complicated feelings were genuine.

"He truly is a peerless genius. It seems there's nothing he doesn't understand."

This time, Gui Mei did not argue. He simply nodded in silence.

The people in Worship Hall were equally astonished.

Everyone present stood at the pinnacle of the world. Even the weakest possessed the cultivation and strength of a Peak Douluo, yet they could not help being amazed by everything Su Cheng had done today.

"Heaven-bestowed talent, true heaven-bestowed talent." Qian Jun Douluo, who also wielded a Tool Martial Soul, felt this most deeply and was the most emotional.

"It's a pity his innate talent falls short. Otherwise, I truly can't imagine what he might achieve in the future."

At those words, the others also sighed over the pity of it.

"That's hard to say." Qian Daoliu suddenly spoke, apparently disagreeing with his old brothers' assessment of it as a pity.

Golden Crocodile Douluo looked at him in confusion.

His elder brother had never been someone who envied the worthy or resented the capable.

"I heard Xiao Xue mention before that this child's innate defect has already been greatly remedied."

He then roughly described the changes in Su Cheng's Martial Soul.

After hearing his account, the several priests all fell into thoughtful silence.

Azure Luan Douluo suddenly said, "Congratulations, Brother. With this child's help, Xiao Xue's return to the Pope's position is just around the corner."

"Let's wait and see."

Qian Daoliu shook his head.

He knew that Bibi Dong had already begun accepting the Rakshasa God's inheritance. Even he could not see where Spirit Hall's future was headed.

Unlike the elders of Spirit Hall, who were either shocked or impressed, the atmosphere in Pope's Palace was somewhat grave.

Bibi Dong's face was dark, and wisps of an ominous aura even seeped uncontrollably from her body.

"He can actually do this much..."

A flash of hatred passed through her beautiful eyes as she waved a hand and dispersed the image formed from Soul Power.

Hu Liena stood silently at the side, too frightened to speak. She did not understand why her teacher was so furious.

What she did not know was that the Rakshasa God Test required absorbing vast amounts of deathly aura, resentment, and evil aura. This step was excruciating and severely tested one's will.

Bibi Dong had been stuck at this stage for a long time, suffering torment every day.

Though she did not want to admit it, jealousy was indeed consuming her now.

More than once, Bibi Dong had imagined that if Su Cheng had been on her side, he would surely have helped her overcome this obstacle with ease.

Meanwhile, Su Cheng, the focus of everyone's discussion, had already returned to his room with Qian Renxue and begun explaining every detail of the Severing Meridians and Continuing Qi Method to her.

"Finding the corresponding Meridians involved when a Soul Skill is unleashed is only the first step. After that, you need to compress Soul Power at the Acupoints along its path, forming tiny nodes. In battle, you can use those nodes to interrupt and suppress Soul Power's natural flow."

As transfer stations for Soul Power circulation, Acupoints naturally possessed the function of retaining Soul Power.

In fact, this method could be taken a step further to help Soul Masters open their Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

However, compressing Soul Power into nodes within Acupoints was painstaking work. Forming only a few was manageable, but for someone with Qian Renxue's talent, spending so much time opening Meridians this way would be more trouble than it was worth. There was no need for it.

"Still, this is only the basic application of the Severing Meridians and Continuing Qi Method—the 'Severing Meridians Method.'"

As he spoke, Su Cheng walked to the desk, took a sheet of paper, and began writing. What he wrote was the corresponding Meridian routes for several of Qian Renxue's Soul Skills and her commonly used moves.

After all these years, he naturally knew every one of Qian Renxue's abilities like the back of his hand.

"As for the 'Continuing Qi Method,' you can try applying it to link your offensive skills together and form Combos. Make the Acupoint nodes interrupted during each attack become the starting points for the next, further accelerating your offensive rhythm in battle."

His pen never stopped moving as he spoke, and before long, he had filled an entire page.

Su Cheng lightly flicked the sheet in his hand to help the ink dry faster.

"With the two combined, no one will be able to predict how you'll attack next. Conversely, you can also use this to suppress your opponent.

"As for your Fourth Soul Skill, it enhances your overall condition across the board. It's an exceptionally powerful Soul Skill, so there's no need to use this method to compress its activation time.

"Your tactical approach today was not wrong. Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit. In future battles, directly activating your Fourth Soul Skill and Angel Domain from the start is absolutely the wise choice. Don't try to catch your opponent off guard by holding them back."

Qian Renxue took the page he handed her and nodded seriously. "I understand."

Just as Su Cheng was about to continue, there came a knock at the door.

"Come in."

The one who pushed open the door was a Spirit Hall guard.

"Mr. Su, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo has come to see you. He says he has found a location that perfectly meets the requirements you gave him before."

Su Cheng immediately understood. It seemed Dugu Bo had found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He nodded. "Understood. Have him wait in Spirit City for now. Once I'm done here, I'll go find him, and we'll set out together."

"Teacher, where are you going?" After the guard left, Qian Renxue immediately asked him.

"I'm going down the mountain. I previously had Dugu Bo search for a treasured place. If the situation is as expected, your cultivation speed can increase even further afterward."

"I'll go with you."

"No need. Stay in Spirit City and cultivate properly. While I'm away, if you have any questions, you can consult the High Priest more often."

Su Cheng waved off Qian Renxue's suggestion and continued, "You need to take the development of your External Soul Bone seriously. Logically speaking, if you had fully utilized its speed and defensive abilities today, I would not have won so easily."

Qian Renxue nodded reluctantly at those words.

Over the years, the two had seen each other nearly every day and spent all their time together. They had barely ever been apart.

After Qian Renxue left the room, Su Cheng hesitated for a moment before taking out a stack of notebooks from his Soul Tool.

He casually picked one up and flipped through it. Every page was covered in his handwriting.

2626.9.22

I arrived in Spirit City and met the Current Pope, Bibi Dong.

We agreed on the conditions for me joining Spirit Hall: the right to freely borrow books from the Library Pavilion, and for her to introduce a disciple of exceptional talent to inherit my teachings.

She agreed readily enough to the first condition, but the latter seemed to put her in a difficult position. Heh, that was only natural. What sane person would be willing to hand a talented child over to a piece of trash with horrible talent like me?

But strangely enough, she later agreed to introduce a child with top-tier talent to me.

Judging from the Pope's attitude, that child's identity seemed unusual, and the relationship between the two did not appear to be very good.

Reader Lords, please forgive me. I'm a new author and really need recommendation slots, so during the new-book period I can only update at this pace. I'll add more chapters later. Actually, quite a few earlier plot points should not have been written so compactly, which made the scene transitions in the middle feel rather unnatural. But to keep everyone from thinking I was padding the word count with pointless chapters, I could only revise them repeatedly and compress the transitional plot as much as possible.