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"The Three Great Education Committees are also members of Spirit Hall, but they were likewise appointed by the Heaven Dou Emperor, and their sense of allegiance to Spirit Hall is not particularly strong."

Su Wen listened as Xiao Zhan explained.

He could sense that Xiao Zhan was straightforward by nature, but far from careless. On the contrary, he was meticulous and thoughtful.

"So, regarding your background, Spirit Hall will cooperate with you in creating an identity as one of my distant relatives."

A genius from Spirit Hall?

That would not do.

As he had said before, the Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring itself could not be concealed.

Therefore, if this genius entering Heaven Dou Royal Academy did not wish to stir up any uncontrollable trouble, it would be best to replace his Spirit Hall identity.

Su Wen understood this as well. "The Three Great Education Committees are semi-independent, so they most likely won't favor Spirit Hall. That's different from Uncle Zhan—his wife and children all hold official positions at Spirit Hall in Spirit City."

Xiao Zhan continued giving Su Wen his final instructions.

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Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Education Committee.

Su Wen followed Xiao Zhan inside.

"Three Education Committee elders, this is Su Wen, whom I mentioned to the three of you before."

"Su Wen greets the three elders."

"Mm. Xiao Zhan has already told us about your situation. It is not currently the academy's enrollment period. Although Xiao Zhan has vouched for you, we still need to verify your qualifications before admitting you."

"Xiao Wen, release your martial soul."

"Yes."

Su Wen summoned his martial soul, and at the same time, one yellow and one purple soul ring slowly rose from beneath his feet.

As they looked at Su Wen's Second Soul Ring, shimmering with purple light, the three Education Committee elders each revealed expressions of amazement.

"To absorb a Thousand Year Soul Ring as your second ring—your fortune is truly extraordinary."

In Xiao Zhan's account to the three Education Committee elders, Su Wen had happened upon some treasures by chance, causing both his martial soul and Physical Fitness to undergo a transformation. Then, due to an accident, they had been unable to determine the age of the Illusion Spirit Fox they hunted.

In the end, thanks to the earlier transformation of his Physical Fitness and his own willpower, he had fortunately completed the absorption.

In short, it had all been luck.

By a fortunate coincidence, he had successfully absorbed a soul ring beyond his level.

For ordinary soul masters, such a case was exceedingly rare, perhaps something they would only see once in their lives. Yet throughout the history of soul master development, such soul masters had genuinely appeared.

Even so, it could not be replicated, because no one knew the specific direction of enhancement. They could only blindly improve a soul master's Physical Fitness.

Moreover, to raise the seven-hundred-year limit by three hundred years and cross the thousand-year bottleneck required an enormous amount of resources.

Even if it could be Copy, it would not be worth the cost.

Rather than obtaining a Thousand Year Soul Ring as the second ring, it would be more practical to use those many opportunities to help someone reach the Soul King stage sooner and obtain a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

After all, anyone with such resources would certainly be cultivated toward becoming a Titled Douluo, and Thousand Year Soul Skills would not be particularly useful by the time they reached the Ninth Soul Ring.

However, Su Wen's theory on absorbing soul rings beyond one's level pointed out a direction.

Strengthening the Meridians.

Throughout the generations of the Soul Master World, people had attempted to strengthen these channels through which soul power circulated, thereby improving their resistance to the tremendous impact of soul power from higher-aged soul rings. They simply had never named them Meridians.

The reason Su Wen's theory was important was that it provided an effective direction for increasing the strength of one's Meridians. It was neither his External Energy nor his Internal Energy, much less the idea of cultivating both internally and externally.

Su Wen had not yet grown strong enough, and he had absolutely no intention of making the secrets behind his rise public. He could benefit the Soul Master World, but only on the premise that doing so would not affect him.

The direction presented in the theory was based on the several points where Su Wen, after experiencing two soul ring absorptions, had felt the soul rings' impact on the Meridians within his body most intensely.

He also painted an appealing picture, proposing a theory that different soul masters suffered soul power impacts at different points while absorbing soul rings. The theory initially speculated that this was related to their martial souls, the types of soul rings they absorbed, and other factors.

In other words, this was an interconnected theory. Su Wen could continue researching it in greater depth and "contribute" to Spirit Hall.

In the past, without guidance in this direction, the Soul Master World would have needed practical experiments to research absorbing soul rings beyond one's level.

But practical experiments were extremely expensive.

Even Spirit Hall could not sustain such research.

Yet Su Wen had theoretically provided a direction for tackling the project of absorbing soul rings beyond one's level.

Since it did not require burning through money and could still be researched, this project could naturally continue.

That was the significance of Su Wen's theory.

Returning to the matter at hand.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Education Committee.

After inspecting Su Wen's martial soul, soul rings, and Soul Power Level, the Three Great Education Committees gave Xiao Zhan due respect and approved Su Wen's enrollment application.

"Su Wen may study and cultivate under your supervision, Xiao Zhan, but the three of us have one condition."

"Please, go ahead, Three Great Education Committees," Xiao Zhan said respectfully.

"Su Wen is to join the Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team led by Qin Ming. Although the team is currently full, Su Wen may join as a substitute," said Meng Shenji, chairman of the Three Great Education Committees.

Hearing Meng Shenji's request, Xiao Zhan frowned.

Qin Ming's Royal Battle Team?

If Su Wen joined them, he would inevitably only be a substitute.

However, Xiao Zhan quickly understood. His furrowed brow relaxed, and he agreed to Meng Shenji's request without hesitation.

"How is that a request? I should be thanking the three education committees on Xiao Wen's behalf for nurturing him."

As the academy's public face, the team participating in the Soul Master Competition naturally received different treatment.

As a substitute on the team, Su Wen would certainly receive more training.

After leaving the education committee, Xiao Zhan took Su Wen to complete his enrollment procedures.

"With the approval of the three education committees, your paperwork will be easy to handle," Xiao Zhan said. "I just didn't expect Education Committee Member Meng Shenji to suggest that you join the Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team."

Su Wen silently thanked Meng Shenji once more for the assist.

He had actually been assigned directly to the Heaven Dou Royal Battle Team.

"The Three Great Education Committees have long wanted to reform the academy's atmosphere. They've put particular effort into training this year's Royal Battle Team, gathering talented students for every role a team needs—assault, control, defense, agility attack, and support. Their goal is to make a name for themselves at the next Soul Master Competition and change how outsiders view the academy."

Xiao Zhan was indeed thoughtful. Looking back on it now, he quickly understood the reason.

"They probably want you to join the team with the competition after next in mind. They intend to train you as the core of that future team."

By starting his training two competitions in advance, so long as nothing unexpected happened, Su Wen would definitely be able to secure the academy's ranking in the competition after next.

The results of two competitions, combined with the span of time between them, would be enough to change most people's view of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

"Xiao Wen, I'll give you three days to rest and settle in. After three days, you'll begin training with me."

"Uncle Zhan, there's no need to wait three days. I can start tomorrow."

"Good."

Su Wen was also looking forward to Xiao Zhan's guidance.

The Three Great Education Committees had directly placed Su Wen on the Royal Battle Team, intending to train him as the core for the competition after next.

And Su Wen only had a Book Martial Soul!

That was completely different from the view everyone Su Wen had met before held.

The only reason the Three Great Education Committees could overlook the "flaw" of Su Wen's Book Martial Soul and still intend to train him into an outstanding Battle Soul Master was Xiao Zhan.

For some reason, Su Wen began to look forward to Xiao Zhan's guidance.

Time to abandon the path of using books as weapons and walk the path of a mage.