Extreme Attributes Were Powerful, but Extreme Stats Were Even More Powerful

As he watched the Coiling Dragon Staff transform into a towering pillar, like a small mountain, Mu En's expression finally grew somewhat solemn.

No matter how heaven-defying Qiangu Qitian's talent was, at merely three Soul Rings, it was naturally impossible for him to pose any threat to a Limit Douluo like Mu En.

Yet at this moment, as he watched the Coiling Dragon Staff descend toward him, Mu En could not help but be moved.

This explosive force, this power—perhaps it could already severely injure a Spirit King, with strength approaching a Spirit Emperor's full-force strike!

At merely three Soul Rings, he could reach such a level through the explosive power of his Martial Soul. It was truly unbelievable!

Sea God above, was what this old man seeing real?!

Shrek was destined to prosper. Shrek was destined for great revival! If the Coiling Dragon Staff Martial Soul could be passed down through Shrek for generations in the future, just how powerful would the entire academy become?

If the academy could truly pass down the Coiling Dragon Staff attached to Dragon Souls from generation to generation, then even if none of those people were as heaven-defying as Qiangu Qitian, they would still form an astonishing force.

The academy might even be able to withstand the Sun Moon Empire's attacks on its own. Four thousand years ago, when the Sun Moon Empire launched its war, even the three nations of the Douluo Continent could not resist after joining forces. It was only when a Shrek Academy expert with an extreme attribute raised his arm in a call to action and gathered more than sixty Title Douluo to resist with all their strength that the Sun Moon Empire's invasion was finally driven back.

But if the academy had possessed ten Title Douluo with explosive power like Qiangu Qitian's at that time, it likely could have easily driven back the Sun Moon Empire with the academy's strength alone.

"Disperse!"

Qiangu Qitian's explosive power was indeed formidable, but before Mu En, a Limit Douluo, it did not change a thing. The attack he had unleashed with all his strength was casually crushed apart.

"That strike of yours is enough to severely injure a Spirit King. Even an ordinary Spirit Emperor would not have an easy time taking that move head-on."

"Coiling Dragon Staff—what a fine Coiling Dragon Staff. With this Martial Soul in your hands, your explosive power is the strongest this old man has ever seen!"

"If you become a Title Douluo in the future, this Coiling Dragon Staff alone will be enough to sweep across the entire Douluo Continent. Even the experts of the Sun Moon Continent will have to submit beneath your feet."

Mu En was already looking forward to it. As long as Qiangu Qitian grew up, he would definitely become an existence even more domineering than Mu En himself.

These days, both the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Empire revered Martial Souls with extreme attributes. That was true—Mu En himself had pursued extreme light, and had even pursued it his entire life. Yet now, on the verge of death, he had merely brushed against the edge of an extreme attribute.

Extreme Martial Souls represented power, but Qiangu Qitian's continual growth over the years and his ever-increasing explosive force had also given Mu En a profound understanding of the power of stats.

In Mu En's eyes, Qiangu Qitian's Coiling Dragon Staff was simply the embodiment of stats. Though it lacked any so-called extreme attribute, its terrifying explosive power was something even an extreme Martial Soul could not contend with.

"A single Coiling Dragon Staff sweeping across Douluo and Sun Moon?"

Qiangu Qitian felt as though he had heard those words somewhere before.

"To sweep across Douluo and Sun Moon... that truly is a future worth looking forward to!"

As Qiangu Qitian imagined himself roaming freely across the Douluo Continent in the future, a smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

He had always yearned to grow stronger, to travel the continent and challenge one powerful enemy after another. In this era, becoming a god was not easy. It could even be said that the path to godhood had nearly been severed.

If Huo Yuhao had not been a Child of Luck, he would have needed at least a thousand years to become a god, gathering vast amounts of faith through the Message Relay Tower before creating his own Godhood.

It could be said that the Douluo Continent was now almost entirely controlled by Tang San. For someone like Qiangu Qitian, who was neither a Child of Luck nor anything more than a remnant of Spirit Hall, becoming a god by inheriting a Godhood under Tang the Great God King's watch was practically an impossible task.

Therefore, he could only continue growing stronger and strive to carve out his own path to godhood in this era!

Since he could not inherit a Godhood, then he would create one himself.

Yun Ming, that so-called strongest expert of his era ten thousand years later, could do it. Then so could he.

His Coiling Dragon Staff was no less formidable!

With this determination to keep growing stronger driving him, Qiangu Qitian did not slack off in his training of the Indomitable Staff Technique over the following years.

While training in the Indomitable Staff Technique, he also continually honed his Soul Power.

In the blink of an eye, Qiangu Qitian and Beibei had reached the age of twelve!

At that age, the two of them had finally reached the time to enroll in Shrek Academy's Outer Academy.

Over the past few years, Qiangu Qitian had raised his Soul Power to level forty-two. A twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor—even though the elders of the Sea God Pavilion had long expected it, seeing it with their own eyes still made them widen their eyes in shock.

In truth, reaching Soul Ancestor at twelve was not impossible with certain special methods. But when that Soul Ancestor's Soul Ring configuration was two purple and two black, and the fourth black Soul Ring was even nearly forty thousand years old, the people of the Sea God Pavilion could not help but be astonished.

Over the years, stimulated by Qiangu Qitian, Beibei had also successfully broken through to Soul Elder at the age of twelve. Although his cultivation speed could not compare to Qiangu Qitian's—

Mu En was still extremely satisfied, because Mu En's cultivation speed back then had been almost no different from Beibei's.

The Martial Soul Department and the Soul Guidance Department had long had their eyes on Qiangu Qitian and Beibei, these two top geniuses.

Not long after the two were permitted by Mu En to leave Sea God Island, two figures arrived there one after another and found them.

Naturally, these two were the current leaders of the Martial Soul Department and the Soul Guidance Department, Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er...

Qiangu Qitian's talent was simply too terrifying. Xian Lin'er even felt that if Qiangu Qitian became part of the Ultimate Soldier Project, he would definitely succeed. Once the Ultimate Soldier Project nurtured him, his immense strength combined with Soul Tools would surely lead Shrek to a new level.

But unfortunately, Qiangu Qitian had little interest in the Soul Guidance Department, nor did he care about the so-called Ultimate Soldier Project.

In his view, even if Shrek truly devoted all its resources to researching Soul Tools, it would not catch up to the Sun Moon Empire within a few decades.

Yet Qiangu Qitian was confident that he could become a Title Douluo, or even a Limit Douluo, within a few decades.

By then, with his explosive power, his combat strength would firmly establish his position as the number one on the continent.

If he became the continent's strongest in the future, why would he need any Soul Tool cooperation? Would it not be better to simply crush everything in his path?

"Hahaha, Lin'er, did you hear that?"

"I'll be taking my junior brother and Beibei. Your Soul Guidance Department can't teach geniuses like them. Go back and play with your Soul Tools!"

Yan Shaozhe burst into laughter. With Mu En's nod, he instantly took Qiangu Qitian and Beibei away from Sea God Island, heading toward the Outer Academy.

"Tch, damn Yan Shaozhe!"

"What an upstart villain..."

There's one more chapter. I'm a little stuck on the plot; I'll post it around two or three o'clock.