Zhou Huan's Thesis

On the way back to Shrek, Zhou Huan took a total of ten days, five days longer than his journey to Snow Forest Sea.

Mainly because there was no need to rush on the return trip, Zhou Huan slowed down considerably. More importantly, he had to finish writing a thesis before returning to Shrek.

The reason he had given Wang Yan for his leave was that he was going out to practice and verify theories.

Since it was practice, there had to be a practical report, right?

Zhou Huan had indeed not conducted any particularly important practical work, but he knew that what he wrote in his thesis was correct.

If others did not believe it, they could go test it themselves.

Just thinking about it made Zhou Huan feel clever as hell.

His topic this time was actually quite simple. It was also something many people in his previous life had criticized: <A Dialectical Analysis of "There Are No Useless Martial Souls, Only Useless Soul Masters">.

Mm, Zhou Huan had put it quite tactfully.

Because he knew that Yu Xiaogang, the master who had uttered those words, held an extremely lofty spiritual position in Shrek.

Among Shrek people, who would not praise the master's theories as powerful and his insight as exceptional?

Otherwise, those words would not have misled Shrek for ten thousand years.

So Zhou Huan first strongly affirmed how inspiring the spirit of those words was. After all, they sounded incredibly passionate!

Then Zhou Huan began presenting facts and evidence, tactfully yet with flair criticizing this mistaken statement that had persisted for ten thousand years from beginning to end.

What did it mean, there were no useless Martial Souls?

There were plenty of useless Martial Souls on Douluo Continent.

Useless Martial Souls that could never allow their owners to reach level ten as Soul Masters were everywhere.

In the end, this world had far more ordinary people than Soul Masters.

If Soul Masters had not been so overwhelmingly powerful, it was uncertain who would rule the empires!

Even so, the Martial Souls of the imperial families were not the strongest Martial Souls. Compared to some people, they even seemed somewhat... ordinary.

Here, Zhou Huan expressed the "practical significance" of his trip.

For example, it documented many people with useless Martial Souls and their cultivation conditions. Zhou Huan had not fabricated this point, because he had indeed casually conducted investigations and made records on his way back to Shrek.

On Douluo Continent, finding useless Martial Souls was easier than drinking water.

People with such useless Martial Souls could be found everywhere. Yet everyone had simply turned a blind eye to such an obvious fact, or perhaps no one wanted to challenge Shrek's authority, so no one refuted Yu Xiaogang's words.

What was worse, many people had long since been conquered by so-called authority.

They had never considered that authority could also be wrong.

If you told them so, they might even ask disdainfully, "The master's theory has been passed down for over ten thousand years. Everyone thinks it is right, so what makes you say it is wrong?"

"You're just seeking attention!"

Of course, Zhou Huan knew perfectly well whether he was seeking attention, and he did not care what others thought.

In fact, the more people underestimated him, the happier he became.

Thus, when discussing useless Martial Souls, Zhou Huan once again specifically highlighted Blue Silver Grass, that useless Martial Soul.

Especially the practice of randomly adding Soul Rings to Blue Silver Grass.

Trying to imitate Tang San by adding Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Rings or Cave Demon Spider Soul Rings—how was that any different from courting death?

Was Tang San's Blue Silver Grass a useless Martial Soul?

His was the super Martial Soul, the Blue Silver Emperor!

With the Blue Silver Emperor's adaptability and strength, of course it could absorb any Soul Ring.

And yet a mere Blue Silver Grass dared to do the same?

It was already a useless Martial Soul to begin with. After finally getting the chance to cultivate to Three-Ring or Four-Ring, did they run off and attach some demon spider Soul Ring?

Were they not afraid of making their Blue Silver Grass even more useless?

In Zhou Huan's view, the Soul Rings most suitable for Blue Silver Grass were naturally plant-type Soul Rings. Only the plant type could continuously strengthen and improve Blue Silver Grass's traits.

And so, the Tang Sect's decline became Zhou Huan's best piece of evidence.

The Tang Sect's collapse had, of course, been caused primarily by the development of Soul Tools, but there was another crucial reason: in the ten thousand years after Tang San, every Tang Sect leader had been pathetically weak.

Why?

Because they only chose people with Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls as Tang Sect leaders.

A weak leader was fine while the Tang Sect was developing smoothly, but once it encountered storms—especially a massive storm like Soul Tools—the result was obvious. The Tang Sect was finished.

If the Tang Sect leader had not possessed the useless Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, but had instead been a powerful Super Douluo, then even with the impact of Soul Tools and the Tang Sect's hidden weapons becoming unsustainable, would the Tang Sect have fallen apart?

The answer was no.

The Tang Sect was not in the business of making hidden weapons alone.

But everyone could clearly see the Tang Sect's current state.

Therefore, this point in Zhou Huan's thesis could be said to have directly flogged the Tang Sect's corpse.

While writing it, Zhou Huan even had a wild thought. If he flogged the Tang Sect's corpse like this, would that Tang God King personally come stab him with a trident?

After thinking it over, Zhou Huan decided he was worrying too much.

The Tang Sect's direct line had been slaughtered until only Tang Ya remained, yet the Tang God King had made no move. He was still secretly plotting to seize the fortune of the Star Dou Great Forest and Huo Gua, that Son of Destiny.

Surely he would not notice Zhou Huan, such an insignificant figure, because of a single thesis.

Nor could he possibly attack him. Did he take the God Realm's rules for decoration? Did he think the God of Destruction was harmless?

At this point in time, the Tang God King was still no match for Destruction, and the Douluo God Realm had not yet become the Tang Family God Realm.

Furthermore, the most important and most ironic point about "there are no useless Martial Souls" was that, aside from certain special exceptions, Shrek, which claimed to accept only monsters, had never accepted students with useless Martial Souls.

There were, of course, a few exceptions, such as Tang Ya of the Tang Sect. On the surface, her Martial Soul was the useless Blue Silver Grass, but in truth, it was Blue Silver Grass with a darkness attribute.

Just look at Tang Ya, who later became the Blue Silver Saintess of the Holy Spirit Cult, to understand how terrifying Dark Blue Silver Grass was.

Simply put, Yu Xiaogang, one of Shrek Academy's founders, had his words enshrined as classics. Yet in practical action, neither Shrek nor Yu Xiaogang himself had ever accepted students with useless Martial Souls.

Even today, many Shrek teachers still firmly believed in and shouted, "There are no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters."

But in reality, Zhou Huan could only say, heh heh.

Of course, unlike directly flogging the Tang Sect's corpse—after all, the Tang Sect now only had Tang Ya leading a few students who had not even reached Soul King—Zhou Huan would not write something that slapped Shrek in the face so directly. He merely took dozens of detours and carefully skirted around the issue.

But those who understood would naturally understand. Wang Yan, for instance, would definitely understand.

He should be able to appreciate Zhou Huan's sincere intentions, right?

He was braving "great taboo" to wake Shrek up. He was doing it for Shrek's own good!

As for the other point in the thesis, "only useless Soul Masters," there was not much to discuss.

The path of a Soul Master had always depended on the Soul Master themself. For example, before Huo Gua became Huo Gua, his efforts far surpassed those of ordinary people. One had to know that his Innate Soul Power had only been level one and a half.

Yet despite such a bleak start, Huo Yuhao had cultivated to level ten before the age of twelve. He could be called the most hardworking Protagonist.

On this point, Zhou Huan did not hold back in expressing his approval.

That way, his thesis did not seem quite so hostile. At least there was still a tiny bit worthy of praise, was there not?

However, anyone with even a little sense could see that the latter point was purely Zhou Huan giving Shrek some face.

Because Zhou Huan had written more than ten thousand words on the earlier point, "there are no useless Martial Souls," including extensive data to support it. As for the latter point, "only useless Soul Masters," it was merely a few hundred words.

Especially since, when placed together, these two statements were inherently wrong.

Still, Zhou Huan was Zhou Huan. He was not some angry radical, so he felt the wording of his thesis was still quite kind and harmonious.

And so, carrying the thesis he was satisfied with, Zhou Huan returned to Shrek Academy.

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