It's Just Good Talent.

After enjoying lunch and strolling with the girl through the beautiful campus for a while.

It was already around five or six in the afternoon.

Out of gentlemanly courtesy, Li Chang'an escorted Dugu Yan back to her dorm. As the only granddaughter of a Titled Douluo, the place she lived was naturally an independent little courtyard. Everyone else lived in the dormitory building, one room per person.

Wanting to have an independent little courtyard dorm in Heaven Dou Academy, where nobles gathered, was simply impossible without a certain status.

After telling her where his own dorm was, Li Chang'an turned and walked toward it under the girl's reluctant gaze.

After spending the whole day together.

The relationship between Li Chang'an and Dugu Yan had rapidly advanced from strangers who had only recently met to friends.

Even the way they addressed each other had changed from junior sister and senior brother to Yanzi and Chang'an Gege~

To be honest.

When he heard what Dugu Yan called him, Li Chang'an felt rather subtle inside. After all, in this life, despite his mature appearance, he was actually still only a seven-year-old child. He was a full seven years younger than Dugu Yan, who was fourteen this year.

He really wondered how wonderful Dugu Yan's expression would be when she learned the real age gap between them.

However, as long as Li Chang'an did not take the initiative to expose it, then under normal circumstances, Dugu Yan would never know his real age in her entire life.

Because the academy had always deliberately helped him conceal information about his age, aside from some high-level personnel, classmates and ordinary teachers did not know that he was only seven this year.

Likewise, few people knew his identity as the Imperial Son-in-Law. On the other hand, quite a few people knew about his noble status as a Marquis.

The identity of Imperial Son-in-Law has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that I can obtain the royal family's protection and cultivation resources.

The disadvantage is that I'm practically tied to the royal family, and in certain aspects, I'll also be subject to some restrictions...

Tch, in the end, it's still because my strength is too weak.

If I were a Titled Douluo now, why would I need to worry about all that nonsense? Even picking up a girl has to be done so furtively... strength is the foundation!

Li Chang'an clenched his fist, and the longing for strength in his heart grew even deeper.

Another period of time passed.

Li Chang'an was eight years old.

His Soul Power Level had also reached rank thirty. He only needed to obtain one more soul ring, and he would be able to become a true three-ring Soul Elder!

With the vast soul power shared from the Soul Beast Clone, if he truly let loose and raised his soul power, Li Chang'an's rank definitely would not be only thirty. It was to avoid being too shocking, as well as to consolidate the quality of his soul power, that he had controlled his soul power at rank thirty.

However, even though he had intentionally slowed the speed of his soul power increase, an eight-year-old Soul Elder was still far too astonishing in the eyes of certain people in the know.

If not for the fact that his soul power had increased step by step, almost bit by bit right under their noses, those people would probably really have suspected that he had some treasure capable of increasing soul power, or some earth-shattering secret.

But even so, because the speed at which his soul power increased was truly too abnormal, the Three Education Commissioners and certain others still became somewhat suspicious of him, suspecting that he possessed a precious treasure! So they specifically summoned him for questioning, probing him from the side as they asked why his soul power was increasing so quickly, and whether there was some reason or secret behind it.

At that time, many people were also watching him in secret, intending to find anything wrong in his expression, to see whether there was any sign that he was lying.

As for this, Li Chang'an's response was to play dumb. With a blank expression, he stated that the Soul Power Level he had today was all thanks to his own hard work! There were no shortcuts to increasing soul power, only diligence and effort!

He had no unique secret method, nor had he obtained any treasure. He was just meditating and cultivating in an utterly ordinary way.

Even he himself could not figure out why his soul power increased so quickly.

Perhaps this was talent.

--Talent!

Those two words successfully broke the defenses of the Three Education Commissioners, as well as the people behind them who were also paying attention.

If Li Chang'an had obtained some treasure, such as a Soul Bone, or acquired some unique secret technique that could increase soul power, then they might still have had the possibility of snatching it. But if it was merely the purest and most direct reason of talent, then there was nothing they could do.

How could one seize something like talent?

His talent was simply good, and he simply cultivated quickly. What could you do about it?

Of course, those people naturally would not believe Li Chang'an's words so easily. Thus, they began using all kinds of open and hidden methods to examine his body, and even quietly hid in the dark to observe his daily cultivation, wanting to find the secret behind why his soul power increased so quickly.

In the end, after observing for a period of time.

These people helplessly reached a conclusion: Li Chang'an was probably truly just blessed with good talent.

Because they discovered that Li Chang'an's daily routine was no different from that of an ordinary student. His meditation cultivation was also purely meditation cultivation, with no special method at all. The problem was that his cultivation efficiency just happened to be dozens, even hundreds of times that of others his age.

The speed at which his soul power increased was simply fast!

In the end, after observing for a period of time and still failing to find any special reason, everyone could only helplessly accept the result that Li Chang'an simply had good talent.

The world was inherently unfair.

Sometimes, even with the same Innate Soul Power and the same Martial Soul, cultivation could still be fast for some and slow for others. It was not exactly identical.

Some people were simply favored by the heavens, simply cultivated quickly, and simply had good talent. What could you do about it?

Soul Beast Forest.

This was Li Chang'an's third time coming here.

This time, he needed to obtain a soul ring of around one thousand eight hundred years.

Actually, with the partial physical enhancement he currently shared from the Soul Beast Clone, his third soul ring did not need to be confined to the ordinary person's standard of one thousand eight hundred years at all. Even if he got a five- or six-thousand-year soul ring, he felt he could withstand it.

The key was that there was simply no way to explain the Soul Ring Age aspect, and he also could not expose the secret that he could absorb higher-age soul rings. After all, his cultivation speed itself was already abnormally fast. If there was also the fact that he could surpass the rank limit and absorb an ultra-high-age soul ring... then he would be properly inhuman.

As the saying went, being half a step ahead made one a genius; being one step ahead made one a madman.

Being a genius was fine. But he also could not be a genius to an overly exaggerated degree.

Especially since he had probably already entered Qian Renxue's sight by now. If it was just fast cultivation, that would be one thing, but if he also exposed that he could surpass the age limit to absorb soul rings... then he would truly be forcing her to kill him.

Li Chang'an could appropriately display his genius side, but he had to make Qian Renxue believe that this genius was inferior to herself, posed no threat to her, and was an existence she could control. Otherwise, he would truly be forcing her to kill.

At present, the strength Li Chang'an displayed was fast cultivation, but in terms of Martial Soul... he had not displayed that kind of overly exaggerated destructive power.

To put it simply, his Martial Soul gave people the feeling that it was inferior to a God-level Martial Soul like the Six-Winged Angel. In the Original Work, Qian Renxue was only at the Soul Saint rank, yet she could rely on the might of her God-level Martial Soul to contend with a Titled Douluo. Even that Little Scoundrel Tang San had once been suppressed. How monstrous was that?

So if your cultivation was a little higher, in Qian Renxue's eyes, perhaps it would be somewhat threatening, but not too much. After all, a high rank did not represent everything. Some people, even if their rank was high, might have a poor Martial Soul and poor combat strength as a Soul Master. Even a Titled Douluo might possibly be counter-killed by a Soul Douluo.

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