Sorry, I'm Going to Understand Better Than You

The Academic Affairs Office was not hard to find. Su Wen brought Little Fatty there very quickly.

"Hello, teachers. I'm here to handle the enrollment procedures for Work-Study Students. May I ask what I need to do?"

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After going through the procedures, Su Wen and Little Fatty were considered official Work-Study Students.

"Do you need bedding and other daily necessities?" Seeing that Su Wen and Little Fatty were empty-handed, the director asked.

Su Wen and Little Fatty did not refuse. Each paid one Copper Soul Coin and received bedding.

"Your dormitory is Dorm Seven," the director briefly explained.

Dorm Seven.

Holding his bedding, Su Wen followed the director's directions and found Dorm Seven.

He opened the dormitory door.

A figure lunged at him.

Su Wen nimbly stepped aside and dodged the other party's pounce.

"Hmm?"

Wang Sheng let out a surprised sound. After seeing the bedding in Su Wen's and Little Fatty's hands, he did not continue attacking.

"You two, put your bedding down first and fight me. Whoever wins is the boss of Dorm Seven."

"Huh? Why do we have to fight?" Little Fatty asked in confusion.

"We Work-Study Students are easy to bully at school, so we have to unite. Whoever has the strongest fists is the boss, and the boss protects us from being bullied."

Su Wen shook his head and said, "I'm not in the mood to play with you. If you want to be boss, go be boss. Just don't affect me."

Holding his bedding, he found an empty bed, quickly made it, then sat cross-legged on the bed and began meditating.

Wang Sheng and the many other Work-Study Students looked at one another.

"Boss, did he enter meditation that quickly?"

"How are we supposed to fight him now? He's already meditating."

"Forget it. Ignore him. In any case, he doesn't want to be boss."

"Hmph, he sure knows how to take advantage. He says he won't get involved and doesn't do anything, yet he still enjoys the status of a Work-Study Student with Boss Wang Sheng backing him up."

On the day he arrived at the academy, after dinner, Su Wen asked several teachers and found Grandmaster's office, then knocked on the door.

"Come in."

A middle-aged man's voice came from inside. Su Wen pushed the door open and entered.

Seeing that it was a child, Grandmaster frowned slightly, his tone somewhat impatient. "What do you need me for?"

"Hello, Grandmaster. I'm a Work-Study Student this year. My martial soul..."

"Innate Soul Power level five? Heavenly Book Martial Soul?" A trace of interest appeared in Grandmaster's eyes as he said, "Release your martial soul."

"An ordinary Book Martial Soul."

His interest vanished in an instant, and a bit more irritation appeared in his eyes.

A very ordinary Book Martial Soul, without the slightest distinguishing feature, actually had level-five Innate Soul Power.

"I don't take disciples."

"Grandmaster, my martial soul is a book. I also want to become a scholar—"

Grandmaster interrupted Su Wen and said, "Stop. You don't understand the meaning of scholar at all."

Su Wen was speechless.

He did not keep forcing himself on someone who clearly did not welcome him, and left Grandmaster's office.

Sigh.

"A scholar isn't something I can afford to play at, is it?" Su Wen understood Grandmaster's unspoken meaning.

Without a background, he could not become a great scholar. What use was it to pass down a whole body of knowledge?

Especially since Grandmaster had proposed many theories, and even promoted his own reputation, fundamentally for no more than proving himself, using the name of Grandmaster to cover up his weakness in martial soul cultivation.

Since Su Wen was destined to be unable to become famous across the continent, Grandmaster naturally had no interest in paying him any attention.

After withdrawing from Grandmaster's office and turning around, Su Wen's gaze turned cold.

Since he would not take him in, then Su Wen would not acknowledge him as master either.

The reason Su Wen had come to give it a try was naturally not because he valued Grandmaster's theories, much less any supposed intelligence or training methods of his.

The most important things Grandmaster held for Su Wen were those materials.

Apart from that, there were also his status and connections.

Since Grandmaster's path would not work, Su Wen also began thinking about other paths.

"Should I join Spirit Hall?"

Joining Spirit Hall would definitely give him access to some materials, and if he worked hard, there would also be paths to obtain more and deeper information.

But—

"Spirit Hall isn't right for me."

If he had no talent, he would not get what he wanted. If he displayed talent, he would end up under those people, and Su Wen was not comfortable with that.

There was nothing more stifling in the world than having your enemy as your superior.

"In the end, I still have to rely on myself."

When ordinary soul masters cultivated a Meditation Method, they only circulated soul power unconsciously, with no regular pattern to speak of. Perhaps as their years of personal cultivation increased, they would gradually form their own style and develop a pattern, but that was only a habitual pattern.

There were also techniques to soul power circulation. At the very least, in three months of meditation cultivation, Su Wen had figured out quite a few techniques, and he was also preparing to summarize them into a fixed Soul Power Circulation Route in order to develop a Cultivation Method.

Unfortunately, there were too many Meridians in the human body. If Su Wen wanted to explore and establish a complete circulation route, it would take a great deal of time.

So he set his sights on Grandmaster's circulation method.

Unfortunately, the man had not taken a liking to him.

"I have my own talent. I can sense the distribution of Meridians in my body, sense the state of my martial soul, and my Control over myself is completely beyond what other soul masters can compare to."

Whether in efficiency or safety when exploring a Cultivation Method, he far surpassed ordinary people.

Su Wen did not believe he could not develop a Cultivation Method on his own.

As for other materials...

"At the end of the day, I've more or less mastered the knowledge of the Soul Master World. It's nothing more than settings."

Thinking about it from another angle, Su Wen realized that aside from information on soul beasts and the common martial souls on the continent, he did not seem to lack any important knowledge. Even for the things he did lack, with his talent, he could absolutely figure them out on his own.

The academy's courses were far too simple for Su Wen and basically would not delay his cultivation.

Aside from his daily cultivation, Su Wen also used his own talent, combined with the settings he knew, to ponder the path of his own martial soul.

Every ten levels and every Soul Ring were an opportunity for Martial Soul Metamorphosis.

"My martial soul is very ordinary, but if I make good use of every ten-level opportunity and push my martial soul's metamorphosis and evolution to the greatest extent, it will definitely evolve into a true Heavenly Book!"

It was incredibly difficult for a top-tier martial soul to advance even further, but the metamorphosis of a trash martial soul was much easier.

"As long as I have a sufficiently powerful Soul Ring, make good use of the process of absorbing the Soul Ring, and use the Soul Ring's power to the greatest extent during the metamorphosis, the quality of my martial soul should be able to make a huge leap within three rings."

Obtaining a good Soul Ring was a problem, and Su Wen had prepared many backup plans. Aside from acquiring Soul Rings, he was currently also thinking about the details he could make use of during the process of absorbing one.

"I have an extraordinary talent for Control. Absorbing a Soul Ring may be something others can't do much with or discover much from, but that may not be true for me!"

There was no need to even think about it. The process of absorbing a Soul Ring was definitely the process by which the Soul Ring's power strengthened the Martial Soul Origin. It was the martial soul's metamorphosis. If there was human intervention, even if it was only absorbing and refining the Soul Ring's power to the greatest extent, it would already greatly increase the effect of the metamorphosis.

Everything proceeded in an orderly manner.

Su Wen's cultivation speed was not slow.

He improved the External Training Method, cultivated the Meditation Method, and while exploring soul power circulation techniques to develop Internal Energy, he was also probing into External Energy.

With the two combined, in his first year at the academy, he advanced by four levels!

Another five months later, he completed the breakthrough from level nine to level ten.

And at this moment, Su Wen also launched another research project of his—martial soul foundation.

"A true Scholar has to understand, and even more, has to know how to use that understanding."

"Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul? Grandmaster, sorry, but I'm going to understand them better than you."