Mu En's Scheme, All for Shrek!

After sending Qiangu Qitian and Beibei back to Sea God Island, Zhang Lexuan left after meeting Mu En and returned to the Inner Academy.

As the senior sister, Zhang Lexuan had an enormous number of matters to handle.

After bidding Zhang Lexuan farewell, Qiangu Qitian immediately returned to his room.

He took out the notes on the Indomitable Staff Technique from his Soul Tool and promptly began studying them at high speed.

The current Indomitable Staff Technique had been perfected through eight forms in total. The notes made no mention of a ninth form, so it was obvious that the ninth form had not yet been developed at all.

In the original work, after another ten thousand years of research into the Indomitable Staff Technique, a theoretical ninth form was finally devised, but no one had managed to master it.

"Break to Become a God"—that was the ninth form Qiangu Qitian had envisioned. Though the concept now existed, he was still far too weak. Even if he had ideas, they were destined to remain impossible to realize.

Since that was the case, he might as well focus on tempering these eight forms!

Battle Heaven Fight Earth, Shake Heaven Quake Earth, Stand Tall Between Heaven and Earth, Covering Heaven and Earth, Obscuring Heaven and Earth, Overturning Heaven and Earth, Destroying Heaven and Earth, Creating Heaven and Earth.

These were the first eight forms of the Indomitable Staff Technique. They followed the same path as the Clear Sky Hammer, emphasizing sheer ferocity. The very first strike established overwhelming momentum, after which the power and explosive force of every subsequent staff blow continued to stack.

In another world, landing every single strike might have been difficult!

But on Douluo Continent, Soul Masters were all hardheaded.

Dodge?

Heh, they had to face it head-on!

Feng Xiaotian took the Clear Sky Hammer head-on, while Huyan Zhen used his head to take the Sea God Trident!

Every one of them was more ruthless than the last, as though Soul Skills could not be dodged and had to be met head-on.

The Indomitable Staff Technique placed momentum above all else. If one's momentum weakened from the start, its power would be greatly diminished as well.

As he carefully studied every move and form of the Indomitable Staff Technique, Qiangu Qitian felt a will to Battle Heaven Move Earth slowly arise within his heart.

Then inspiration suddenly struck him. Ignoring the fact that it was the middle of the night, he rushed straight out of his room.

In an open clearing, Qiangu Qitian gathered all his momentum into one point. With a single swing of his staff, he stirred up gust after gust of howling wind.

His movements were incomparably fluid as he continuously performed the eight forms of the Indomitable Staff Technique.

Learning the eight forms was not actually difficult, but truly mastering them required one to concentrate power into a single point and unleash it in an uninterrupted sequence.

This was no small challenge. Even through repeated bitter practice, it was fundamentally impossible to achieve.

Late at night, beneath the moonlight, in a clearing on Sea God Island.

Qiangu Qitian, dressed in long white-and-gold robes, continuously shed sweat as he practiced the forms of the Indomitable Staff Technique. Although he still could not gather his momentum into one, the increasingly shrill wind proved that his training had not been in vain.

And Qiangu Qitian's repeated practice and tireless cultivation were all observed by an old man.

Mu En looked at Qiangu Qitian cultivating alone in the clearing and felt incomparably fortunate.

Geniuses were often arrogant. Because they could easily accomplish what others could not, their self-discipline tended to be somewhat weaker.

Back then, his other disciple, Yan Shaozhe, had never cultivated so diligently. As a result, even in his eighties, he remained stuck at Super Douluo and found it difficult to advance any further.

Fortunately, in his twilight years, he had encountered another disciple like this.

Qiangu Qitian's martial soul was not the least bit inferior to Shao Zhe and Xuanzi, in whom he had once placed great hopes. Its attack and explosive power were even greater.

Moreover, his martial soul had no side effects. As long as he maintained his current passion for cultivation, reaching rank ninety-seven would be within easy grasp, and rank ninety-eight would not be a problem either.

If he remained this diligent, then once his future insights were sufficient, Shrek Academy would gain another Limit Douluo.

Fortunate indeed, truly fortunate. May the Sea God bless Shrek and allow it to pass safely from my hands.

Mu En withdrew his gaze, but could not help falling into thought once more.

Although Qiangu Qitian could be said to be a direct descendant of Shrek, already bearing Shrek's mark upon him, there was still one matter that greatly worried him.

That was emotion!

More precisely, love!

Mu En had lived for nearly three hundred years and could be said to have witnessed almost everything on Douluo Continent, yet love was the one thing he had never understood.

When he was young, he had once had two close friends named Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui!

However, Ye Xishui belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult and had specifically come to seduce him and Long Xiaoyao.

He, too, had been drawn in by the extraordinarily talented Ye Xishui and fallen into this so-called love. Had he not discovered the truth in time and pulled himself away, he might have fallen into love's vortex just like his best friend, Long Xiaoyao.

In the end, Long Xiaoyao could no longer distinguish right from wrong and even joined the Holy Spirit Cult for this so-called love, aiding evil in its cruelty.

Love could make people blind. Mu En felt that he needed to make arrangements for his young disciple.

Though doing so made it seem as if he, the teacher, was plotting against his own disciple, for the academy's future stability, he would not hesitate even if his disciple blamed him in the future.

Yet there seemed to be no suitable female disciple in the entire academy who was both a match for Qiangu Qitian and part of Shrek's direct line.

Xiaotao?

No. Before her evil fire was completely resolved, she absolutely would not do!

If her evil fire truly went out of control in the future, Ma Xiaotao might very well become an Evil Soul Master and even join the Holy Spirit Cult!

If he arranged for her, then given how blindly love worked on Douluo Continent, she might even lead Qiangu Qitian into joining the Holy Spirit Cult with her, just like his old friend.

That absolutely would not do. Qiangu Qitian was the stabilizing pillar he had chosen for Shrek's future. He could not be lost to such an unstable factor.

But aside from Ma Xiaotao, there seemed to be no other Shrek direct-line women of suitable age.

Could he have Lexuan do it?

Mu En could not help falling silent, even feeling ashamed of his own thoughts.

Back then, he had made Zhang Lexuan promise that she would become Beibei's child bride.

He had done so then because he had been utterly disheartened. Beibei's parents had lost their lives in an accident, and his emotions had been completely out of control.

Zhang Lexuan had come to him at that time and declared that she possessed Innate Full Soul Power. For Beibei's sake, he had lowered himself and schemed against a young girl.

But now that several years had passed, he had seen through it. It was obvious that Beibei felt only familial affection for Zhang Lexuan, without even a trace of so-called love. His scheme had come to nothing, and he had even intended to let the matter go.

Yet Qiangu Qitian's sudden emergence caused Mu En's thoughts to rise once again.

Emotion was the strongest foundation. Only emotion could allow Shrek to endure.

But he would once again have to scheme against a disciple and a young girl to whom he owed something. Mu En could not help hesitating.

After a long silence, he finally made up his mind!

Everything was for the academy!