When It's Time to Act, I'll Act!

After learning which class he had been assigned to, Qiangu Qitian did not head to his allotted dormitory first. Instead, he turned and went straight to the Outer Academy Library.

Before long, he found his uncle, who was immersed in tireless study in the library.

"Uncle!"

Six years had passed, and Wang Yan had finally become a Spirit King. Yet, with his current strength as a Spirit King, he had completely failed to sense Qiangu Qitian approaching.

It was only when Qiangu Qitian reached out and patted his shoulder that Wang Yan suddenly jolted awake.

But when he turned and saw Qiangu Qitian, his face immediately broke into a smile.

"Xiaotian!"

"Why are you here? Did you come specifically to see me?"

"Didn't I tell you? I'm doing fine. You don't need to come back so often."

Wang Yan had raised this nephew since childhood and truly regarded him as his own son. Naturally, he could not help but worry and nag.

"Uncle, have you forgotten something? I'm twelve now."

"Twelve is the enrollment age for Shrek Academy, isn't it?"

Qiangu Qitian merely smiled and shook his head, then pointed at himself.

Wang Yan froze at those words. Only then did he belatedly shake his head and hurriedly smack his own forehead.

"Right, right, right! You brat, you're already twelve!"

"It's all my fault. I was supposed to take you to enroll, but I got absorbed in reading and forgot again."

"I heard from Dean Yan that you absorbed your fourth soul ring half a month ago. You're already a Soul Ancestor now?"

Wang Yan regretted missing his nephew's entrance examination, but he quickly pushed that regret aside and slipped into a scholar's mindset. He looked Qiangu Qitian up and down before speaking in astonishment.

The nephew he had watched grow up had not only awakened the Coiling Dragon Staff attached to the Break Evil Dragon, but had also become a Soul Ancestor at the mere age of twelve.

Even the Sea God ancestor from ten thousand years ago could never have compared to such strength.

"A Soul Ancestor is nothing. I just got lucky." Qiangu Qitian was rather modest before Wang Yan.

"If reaching Soul Ancestor at twelve is just luck, then your uncle here is truly worthless."

"You're acting modest in front of me? I even changed your diapers when you were little."

"Uncle, didn't we agree not to bring that up?" Qiangu Qitian's mouth twitched, and helplessness appeared on his face.

"Alright, alright. Let's talk business. How is your training in the Indomitable Staff Technique going?"

Seeing Qiangu Qitian's expression, Wang Yan shook his head and said no more.

"With the Indomitable Staff Technique, I can now use eight consecutive forms. But I can tell that the current technique still has many areas worth revising. I'm trying to modify it now, trying to make it better suited to our Coiling Dragon Staff!"

Once the matter turned to cultivation, Qiangu Qitian's expression became solemn. He looked at Wang Yan with utter seriousness as he spoke.

"Improving and innovating? With your talent, you might actually be able to do it!"

Across twenty generations of the Qiangu Clan, Qiangu Qitian's talent was unquestionably the greatest. With his gifts, modifying the Indomitable Staff Technique left behind by his ancestors was not an overly difficult task.

Blindly clinging to what one's ancestors had left behind would only render their legacy utterly worthless.

Only by discarding the old and creating the new could one achieve true inheritance.

Wang Yan greatly approved of Qiangu Qitian's idea.

"You've already trained the Indomitable Staff Technique to the eighth form. It's time you tried those two ultimate techniques!"

"If you can master those two skills, no one will ever be able to see through you in battle again. Every strike you make will become unpredictable as ghosts and gods!"

"Weight of Ease and Weight of Heaviness are exceptionally important techniques in battle."

"Every attack made by a true expert has a rhythm, but these two techniques can make Qiangu Qitian's rhythm incredibly bizarre in battle, making him impossible to read. To an opponent, that would be an absolute nightmare."

Weight of Ease and Weight of Heaviness... Qiangu Qitian had learned about these two techniques over the years, but he had never studied them diligently.

After all, both techniques required one's control over the body to reach the extreme. Although Qiangu Qitian had been quite strong before, it had been far too early for him to cultivate them. Now that he had barely reached Soul Ancestor, he finally possessed the qualifications to practice them.

"I will master them. If possible, I even want to integrate both techniques into the Indomitable Staff Technique!"

"I want to turn the Indomitable Staff Technique completely into something of my own. I want to forge the true Indomitable Staff Technique!"

At that moment, Qiangu Qitian's resolve was incomparably strong. Even Wang Yan, standing to the side, could not help nodding to himself.

"Then let me see it. I believe you definitely won't disappoint me!"

In Wang Yan's eyes, there was nothing Qiangu Qitian could not accomplish with his talent. As long as he wanted to do it, he would certainly succeed.

As long as his resolve did not change, the outcome would not change. Qiangu Qitian firmly believed that he would succeed.

When it came to resolve, Qiangu Qitian was confident that he would lose to no one.

After staying with Wang Yan for only a short while, Qiangu Qitian prepared to leave. After all, he had not yet seen his assigned dormitory.

But it would most likely be that brat Beibei.

After all, with Mu En and Senior Brother Yan secretly arranging things, Qiangu Qitian and Beibei had quite a few cultivation secrets. It would not be good for others to see them.

"Oh, right, Xiaotian, who is your class teacher?"

"Do you need me to put in a word?"

Wang Yan was, after all, a teacher of the Outer Academy. He was especially renowned for theory, and after breaking through to Spirit King, he had gained some recognition within the Outer Academy.

"Uncle, there's no need. I was assigned to Class One!"

"The teacher is still that Zhou Yi. I strongly suspect Senior Brother Yan intends for me to straighten Zhou Yi out."

Qiangu Qitian was no fool. How could he still fail to understand at this point?

Zhou Yi's reputation in the Outer Academy was not good. Since Fan Yu, the vice dean of the Soul Guidance Department, stood behind her, Yan Shaozhe found it difficult to act against her.

That was likely why he had placed his junior brother, Qiangu Qitian, into Class One—to see whether he could straighten Zhou Yi out.

If that was truly the case, then his senior brother was indeed no simple man.

With his temperament, once he clashed with Zhou Yi, he would not fear the Fan Yu behind her. If he offended him, then so be it.

Would those elders of Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion develop ill will toward him just because he offended Fan Yu?

No, they would not. Those old fellows valued benefits above all else. They knew very well that only Qiangu Qitian could support the entirety of Shrek Academy in the future.

"Zhou Yi... that person isn't easy to deal with."

Hearing Qiangu Qitian's words, Wang Yan could not help frowning.

"Uncle, don't worry. Your nephew isn't useless either."

"When it's time to act, I'll act!"