I Will Crush Your Dream

The next morning, at the Star City Academy cafeteria.

Feng Qi, Lin Ran, and Mu Qing, as usual, got their food and sat down at a table to eat.

After what happened last night, Mu Qing's attitude towards Feng Qi had clearly changed, and she no longer had the same resistance as before.

Halfway through the meal, Lin Ran suddenly turned to look at Feng Qi:

"Brother Qi, are you free today?"

"What's up?" Feng Qi, his mouth full of food, looked up curiously.

"I'm going to Combat Class One later. If you're free, come listen. You can point out my shortcomings then."

Looking at the expectant Lin Ran, Feng Qi subconsciously asked:

"What are you planning to teach? Cultivation Method Studies? Art Method Studies?"

"After preparing the lesson last night, I decided to teach Art Method Studies. My understanding of Cultivation Method Studies is shallow, and I can't teach as well as the academy's teachers, so I won't make a fool of myself."

"Since you know your knowledge in cultivation method research is limited, but you have more achievements in art method research, why do you still insist on studying Cultivation Method Studies?" Feng Qi couldn't help but complain.

"It's a dream, and I think I can do it." Lin Ran grinned, his face beaming with confidence.

"It's better to specialize than to learn too much. I don't think highly of your idea." Feng Qi said earnestly, trying to change Lin Ran's world-destroying idea.

"Brother Qi, do you mean for me to focus on pursuing my dream, give up Art Method Studies, and only then can I succeed?"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Hearing these words caught Feng Qi off guard and he almost choked.

Good heavens, this understanding is amazing.

If Lin Ran really did that, then he would definitely bear some responsibility for the foolish things Lin Ran would do in the future.

"No, I mean for you to focus on Art Method Studies. Since you don't have talent in Cultivation Method Studies, you might as well give up early. Besides, Art Method Studies is also very important. Although cultivation methods are the core driving force of art methods, powerful art methods can also compensate for the shortcomings in cultivation methods."

"No, a real man should be brave enough to pursue his dream. I'm still young, and I won't turn back until I hit a wall." Lin Ran immediately shook his head and refused.

Feng Qi: ...

He wouldn't stop Lin Ran from hitting a wall, but the problem was that when Lin Ran hit a wall, he also dragged millions of people with him, which was unsolvable.

"Brother Qi, are you free or not?"

"Yes, I'll go with you after we finish eating." Feng Qi nodded.

Since he couldn't change Lin Ran's mind for the time being, he planned to proceed gradually, for example, by first praising Lin Ran's talent in art method research, and then belittling his talent in cultivation method research, using the sense of disparity to make him give up Cultivation Method Studies.

"Senior, do you have class? You should come too." Lin Ran then turned to look at Mu Qing, who was still eating with her head down.

Hearing these words, Mu Qing's eating motion suddenly stopped, and then she slowly raised her head, her mouth still full of food, her expression looking foolishly cute.

She glanced at the smiling Lin Ran, then turned her gaze to Feng Qi.

"Senior, do you have class today?" Feng Qi also asked curiously.

"No class."

"Then let's go listen to the class together."

"No, I never attend class!" As she spoke, a hint of loneliness appeared in Mu Qing's eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

Feng Qi keenly noticed this.

He suddenly realized why Mu Qing said that.

As an anomaly in the eyes of the students, she was always the focus wherever she went. No one was willing to be with her, and she would inevitably receive various strange looks during class. This might be the reason why she was unwilling to attend class.

Thinking of this, Feng Qi didn't insist anymore.

He couldn't change the students' attitude towards Mu Qing now, and asking Mu Qing to go with them would also be a torment for her.

"Then let's have lunch together."

Saying that, Feng Qi picked up his tray and stood up. Lin Ran, seeing this, immediately followed.

Leaving the academy cafeteria, the two arrived at Combat Class One.

At this time, the students were already waiting. Hearing that this class was taught by Junior Lin Ran again, the students were full of anticipation.

The previous class had benefited them greatly, so when they came to class this time, they all brought notebooks, ready to record the knowledge points Lin Ran would talk about during the lecture in real time.

Entering the door, Lin Ran walked towards the podium, while Feng Qi walked towards the student seats.

The moment they saw Feng Qi enter the door, smiles appeared on the students' faces.

The world was like this; talented people were always particularly respected because they were the pioneers who blazed a trail on the difficult road of humanity's resistance against Domain Creatures.

But then the students realized that "Junior Lin Ran" had actually sat down, while the other extremely handsome boy who had arrived with him walked to the podium.

After putting down the lesson plan he carried with him, he looked at the students below with a bright smile, and then said:

"Hello everyone, I am Lin Ran. Next, I will be teaching all the seniors."

"Whoa!"

The students subconsciously turned their gaze to Feng Qi, their eyes filled with confusion.

At this time, Lin Ran continued:

"I know you all have many questions. I won't go into the specific reasons, but in short, the one who taught you last time was Senior Feng Qi, who is currently sitting in the back right corner of the classroom. I am the real Lin Ran."

"Although my abilities cannot compare to Senior Feng Qi's, I have achieved some minor results in Art Method Studies. Next, I will explain some of my research findings in Art Method Studies."

With that, Lin Ran opened the first page of his lesson plan.

At this moment, the students in the classroom were still in a state of shock. Although they now understood they had mistaken the person, their gazes towards Feng Qi were still filled with curiosity.

They wanted to know who this person was if he wasn't Lin Ran, and why they had never heard of him.

But soon, they were drawn in by the content Lin Ran was explaining.

"As we all know, releasing an art method requires activating the spiritual energy within the body, outlining the art method's trajectory outside the body, and then causing the spiritual energy to undergo a qualitative change to unleash its power. However, I have always felt that the steps for releasing an art method are too cumbersome. Activating it, outlining it... it's just troublesome. Because of this, I've considered a question: can the steps for releasing an art method be simplified to the extreme? To this end, I have researched a rudimentary form of simplified art method release, which I call the Seal Incantation Stream..."

Starting with complaints, Lin Ran's explanation gradually became more professional, and he even proposed a very novel concept for releasing art methods.

Seal Incantation Stream!

Hearing this, all the students' expressions were stunned, and they even inwardly cursed Lin Ran, thinking he was completely bragging and being unrealistic.

But Feng Qi was different. Hearing Lin Ran say "Seal Incantation Stream," he immediately thought of the information he had seen in the database at that time.

The evaluation specifically highlighted Lin Ran's creation of the "Seal Incantation Stream."

He just hadn't expected that Lin Ran had already structured the rudimentary form of the Seal Incantation Stream now.

Next, the detailed content of the "Seal Incantation Stream" that Lin Ran explained caused an uproar among the students in the class.

Even Feng Qi was surprised by the content Lin Ran explained.

Lin Ran proposed a new concept for simplifying the steps of releasing art methods, which was essentially using hand seals to quickly form the art method trajectory.

During the lecture, Lin Ran presented the twelve types of hand seals he had researched at this stage. Each hand seal could be combined with other hand seals, and each gesture represented a trajectory of spiritual energy movement. For example:

Zi: Thumbs overlapping, left thumb on top (Spiritual energy travels from the Youmen acupoint to the Qixue acupoint)

Chou: Right hand horizontal, left hand vertical (Tiantu acupoint to Shuifen acupoint)

Yin: Both thumbs straightened (Yunmen acupoint to Zhongfu acupoint)

Mao: Right hand, except for the little finger which is straightened, the other four fingers are lightly clenched into a fist (Tianchi acupoint to Riyue acupoint)

Chen: Thumbs overlapping, left and right index fingers below (Guanyuan acupoint to Yougu acupoint)

Si: Fingers interlocked (Baihui acupoint to Tianzhu acupoint)

Wu: Both elbows extended, index fingers of both hands forming a triangle relative to each other (Shenting acupoint to Qingming acupoint)

Wei: Thumbs straightened upwards and overlapping, left thumb on top (Fengchi acupoint to Danzhong acupoint)

Shen: Little finger and thumb parallel (Jiuwei acupoint to Shenque acupoint)

You: Index and middle fingers of both hands brought together, forming a triangle in front of the chest (Qihai acupoint to Guanyuan acupoint)

Xu: Right fist placed in the palm of the left hand (Qugu acupoint through Qimen acupoint and back to Qugu acupoint)

Hai: After the front ends of both palms are clasped together, extend them downwards horizontally (Mingmen acupoint to Weilü acupoint)

These twelve hand seal techniques are actually twelve trajectories of spiritual energy movement. With just one gesture, the spiritual energy within the body will quickly circulate according to a fixed trajectory.

Different hand seals can also be combined with each other, and the process does not require conscious activation, which can significantly improve the efficiency of releasing art methods.

The concepts and content presented by Lin Ran left the students present dumbfounded, and their initial contempt completely turned into admiration.

"He really pulled it off," Feng Qi said with a smile, looking at Lin Ran who was still speaking eloquently.

Lin Ran's achievements in art method research were inscribed in history and could not be concealed.

If Lin Ran hadn't changed his focus to cultivation method research for his dream several years after joining the Tiger Soul Research Institute, his achievements in Art Method Studies would have been even more brilliant.

He might even have become a historical figure comparable to Wang Jinsheng.

And what he needed to do now was to make Lin Ran focus on the path of art method research and abandon his unrealistic ideas.

"Your dream, I will crush it."