Ultimate Attributes!

Soul power cultivated by Soul Masters with Ultimate Attributes was exceptionally solid.

This was also why Ultimate Martial Souls cultivated so slowly.

Ultimate Life was the same, though slightly different.

The Life Attribute itself also enhanced the amount of soul power, giving one a greater reserve than others at the same level.

The Ultimate Life Attribute gave Su Yu twice as much soul power as an ordinary Soul Master!

However, while it provided this enhancement, it also came with a corresponding reduction in Cultivation Speed, so its impact on advancement speed was actually not that great.

After cultivating for an entire night, Su Yu gained a deeper understanding of his own condition.

His Cultivation Speed really was somewhat slow.

"With resource assistance, I can rise at most two levels in a year."

However, Su Yu was not worried.

If cultivation was slow, then he would just solve the problem.

As a Soul Master with a brain, he would not complain about how difficult cultivation was. He preferred finding a solution to the problem instead.

Su Yu's consciousness entered his Sea of Consciousness and looked at the rune being outlined above it by Purple Qi mixed with Mental Power.

Sword!

A sword!

"I should take advantage of this while my perception is clearest and finish outlining the Sword Rune first."

Su Yu accelerated the formation of the Sword Rune while organizing his thoughts.

"Mental Power can produce special effects when outlined into runes. Since it can be used to cultivate Mental Power, it can also be used to cultivate soul power."

A Condensation Rune could condense Mental Power, so why could it not condense soul power?

If it could not, that only meant the rune was not yet complete enough.

Then he would continue adding patterns!

The effects of mental runes should not be limited.

Aside from granting Mental Power attack methods, the Sword Rune could also help Su Yu temper both his Mental Power and soul power.

The effects each rune could produce should never be singular.

"Old Yi, do you have a Cultivation Method for Mental Power?"

Although Su Yu had already developed the Rune Method, Old Yi was a mage. His methods for cultivating Mental Power were surely more advanced.

"Your Rune Method is excellent. I can sense that if this system is fully developed, its upper limit will be very high. I suggest that you continue refining the Rune Method.

"As for my method of cultivating Mental Power, I can teach it to you, though it is a meditation method."

A meditation method?

As Su Yu listened to Old Yi's explanation, he came to understand this meditation method.

Unlike the Meditation Methods of Douluo Continent, the meditation method Old Yi possessed was true meditation: emptying one's mind and sensing the energy particles in the surrounding environment.

During this process, one attempted to use one's perception of energy particles to merge with heaven and earth, adjust the structure of one's own Mental Power, and thereby enhance it.

"The meditation method is secondary. Magic is what will truly help you the most, and it will aid you in perfecting the Rune Method."

Old Yi's words excited Su Yu.

Magic?

"The magic structures I possess are somewhat incompatible with the laws of this plane, so they need to be modified slightly.

"Once I have finished modifying them, I will teach them to you."

"Thank you, Old Yi!"

"No need to thank me."

Old Yi's voice did not sound again. Su Yu called out several times, but received no response.

"Looks like he went to modify the magic."

Su Yu continued cultivating for another three hours.

In one go, he completed the Sword Rune.

"Boss, your treatment is way too good, isn't it?"

Just as Su Yu finished cultivating, Qian Buduo returned to the dormitory with food for him.

The moment he entered, Qian Buduo could not help asking Su Yu what had happened recently.

He estimated that this meal alone had cost at least a hundred Gold Soul Coins!

"Oh, it's nothing. It's just that after absorbing the soul ring this time, I gained an Ultimate Attribute."

"Boss, what did you just say?"

"Ultimate Attribute," Qian Buduo muttered.

An Ultimate Attribute that even Shrek Academy did not have now.

Qian Buduo was deeply conflicted.

This was too impulsive.

It would expose him.

But he had an Ultimate Attribute!

In the end, Qian Buduo decided to speak up.

"Boss, I heard that cultivating an Ultimate Attribute is incredibly slow. Other than Shrek, there has never been a precedent of one maturing successfully."

"So?"

Su Yu ate soul beast meat rich in Soul Power, glanced at Little Fatty, and asked in return.

"So... so, Boss, for the sake of your future, would you consider Shrek Academy?"

He was openly trying to recruit him?

If that was the case, then Su Yu would not hold back either.

He had tried to recruit Su Yu first.

So it was not too much for Su Yu to recruit him in return, right?

"Fatty, you're from Shrek, aren't you?" Su Yu asked calmly.

"Forget it. You don't need to deny it. I've suspected it for a long time already." Su Yu looked at Qian Buduo with a calm expression.

Qian Buduo's heart skipped half a beat.

From the sound of it, Su Yu seemed to have suspected him long ago.

Su Yu stood up, walked over to Qian Buduo, and slapped Little Fatty, who was about to rise, back into his seat.

Qian Buduo looked utterly despairing.

He could not beat him!

He was too strong—far stronger than Qian Buduo had imagined.

"Fatty, how much is Shrek Academy paying you?"

"Boss, that's impossible. My uncle is the Vice Dean of Shrek's Soul Tool Department." Qian Buduo shook his head, rejecting Su Yu's recruitment before he could even voice it.

Su Yu had suspected their relationship from their names, but there was more than one family with the surname Qian. Besides, no matter how he recalled the original work or checked the intelligence, the conclusion was always that Qian Duoduo had been a lifelong bachelor.

Where could a son have come from?

Su Yu placed both hands on Qian Buduo's shoulders and sighed in disappointment.

"Fatty, there's one thing I don't understand. Why do you think the Sun Moon Empire and Shrek Academy are inherently opposed?"

"???"

Qian Buduo had only just managed to calm down when Su Yu's question suddenly left him confused.

His first instinct was to say that it was common sense, but upon thinking carefully, he felt that something was wrong.

That was right. Since when had Shrek become enemies with the Sun Moon Empire?

"Shrek claims to be neutral, so why are its students all so hostile toward the Sun Moon Empire?"

Qian Buduo remained silent for a long time, recalling the relationship between the two sides.

"Because the Sun Moon Empire is an outsider? An invader?" Su Yu spoke again.

Qian Buduo was rendered speechless once more.

That was exactly what he had wanted to say just now.

But Su Yu had asked it in advance. How was he supposed to say it now?

"What exactly does Shrek Academy stand for? Or rather, what are your own beliefs?"

"Does so-called neutrality mean interfering in wars between empires?"

Qian Buduo fell silent at this point and did not answer.

"Are conflicts between empires really something an academy should meddle in?"

"Fatty, Shrek has long since changed. And these are only the tip of the iceberg."

"Think about it. Of the principles Shrek upholds and the lessons it teaches you, which ones are reasonable? And among those reasonable principles, how many has Shrek actually lived up to?"

Qian Buduo had no chance to speak at all.

Su Yu's questions came one after another, making him question everything.

Was Shrek really that bad?

"Fatty, do you know why I'm telling you all this?"