Qin Ming: I Don't Need Geniuses, I Need Monsters!

Amid an awkward silence and painfully forced praise, the carriage arrived at the foot of Heaven Dou Royal Academy's mountain.

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, on a small plaza.

Three education committee members stood before the plaza. Beside them stood a young man who looked twenty-eight or twenty-nine, his hands clasped behind his back, his bearing calm and steady.

In front of them was a group of young students.

Zhi Lin stepped out from among the three committee members, but he did not introduce the young man beside them to the students. Instead, he said, "Today, the academy has gathered you here to select a special team. There are only seven spots!"

"Among you, some may be called geniuses, and some may possess special abilities."

"But no matter what, what you must do today is display your strength and value here!"

"Now, those whose names I call, step forward first."

As he spoke, Zhi Lin glanced over the students standing there.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy actually had quite a large number of students.

But most of them were noble students merely making up the numbers, here only to take up a place.

The students who could stand here had already been carefully selected in advance.

"Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Shi Mo, Shi Mo."

Zhi Lin called out five names first.

The five whose names had been called immediately stepped out from the line.

"The five of you will skip the selection for now and enter the team first."

Seeing that Yu Tianheng and the other four had actually skipped the selection outright, the remaining students immediately began whispering among themselves.

Zhi Lin continued, "The rest of you will be divided into pairs and compete for the final spot."

"If your performance is outstanding, even if you fail to obtain the final spot, you may still be entered into the reserve replacement list or the second team."

After hearing Zhi Lin's words, someone immediately noticed the loophole and hurriedly asked, "Committee Member Zhi, fine, those five took five spots, but why are we competing for the final spot?"

"Didn't you say there were seven spots?"

Zhi Lin was not surprised and explained, "The academy already has a candidate for the sixth spot. It's just that they are still cultivating at the moment and have yet to return."

However, even after Zhi Lin explained, some students still shouted, "We refuse to accept this!"

"Exactly! What gives them the right to occupy six spots?"

"Especially that sixth spot. The person isn't even here, so why should we back down and compete only for the last spot?"

Zhi Lin's expression darkened.

Just then, the young man beside the three committee members stepped forward.

"Quiet!"

As the young man circulated his soul power and shouted, his voice spread out, and the scene instantly calmed.

Zhi Lin, whose speech had been interrupted, frowned slightly, but he said nothing.

The young man looked at the students and said in a clear voice, "My name is Qin Ming. I am a Heaven-Tier teacher."

"Some of you may know me, and some of you may have received my guidance before."

"But from now on, I will become the leading teacher of the Imperial Fighting Team after the selection is complete."

Zhi Lin's frown deepened, and he could not help looking toward Meng Shenji beside him.

Seeing Meng Shenji shake his head ever so slightly, Zhi Lin could only let Qin Ming continue.

The Imperial Fighting Team!

Although some people had already guessed what this selection was for, when they truly heard Qin Ming say it aloud, some still found their breathing growing heavy.

As the most prestigious top-level tournament on Douluo Continent, the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was known to almost everyone.

Taking the stage at the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was also the goal nearly every student in every Spirit Master Academy strove toward.

It could be said that this top-level tournament, which included almost all advanced Spirit Master Academies across the continent, was both a platform for academies to display the results of their teaching and a stage for students to show off their brilliance and strength.

What was more, the organizers of such a grand event were none other than the two great empires, the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

To hold the tournament, the organizers usually also put forward rewards that were extremely generous to the vast majority of spirit masters.

The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was held once every five years.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Star Luo Royal Academy, and Spirit Hall's Spirit Hall Academy each had one seeded team, allowing them to skip the tedious preliminary process and directly participate in the final round.

The Imperial Fighting Team was the name of the seeded team Heaven Dou Royal Academy had established over the years.

In the end, they basically always competed with Star Luo Royal Academy and Spirit Hall Academy for the top three rankings.

Before every Spirit Master tournament, Heaven Dou Royal Academy would form in advance a seeded team to prepare for the next Spirit Master tournament.

The rules of the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament stipulated that participating members had to be under twenty-five years old.

So when Heaven Dou Royal Academy first formed the team, it had already screened its students in advance to make sure none would exceed the age limit.

At the same time, the teacher responsible for instructing the Imperial Fighting Team would also be chosen from among the Heaven-Dou Tier teachers.

Heaven-Dou Tier students made up only one-tenth of Heaven Dou Royal Academy's total student body, while the Heaven-Dou Tier teachers, including the three education committee members, numbered only seven in all.

The reason Qin Ming could oversee the formation of the Imperial Fighting Team with the status and position of a Heaven-Tier teacher was because of his talent.

Qin Ming's martial soul, Blazing Wolf, was a mutated martial soul, so his talent was extremely high.

He had been around the same age as Yu Tianheng when he broke through to Soul Elder, perhaps even a little younger.

And when he broke through to Soul Ancestor and Soul King, his age had likewise reached the standard of a genius.

The three education committee members determined that Qin Ming would definitely break the youngest Soul Emperor record publicly recorded by Spirit Hall.

Of course, Spirit Hall could not record those disciples from major sects, so this information was only "young" in a relative sense.

But that was already impressive enough.

To the three education committee members, Qin Ming had a very great chance of becoming a Title Douluo-level powerhouse in the future!

The appearance of a Title Douluo was not only of great significance to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but also extremely important to the entire Heaven Dou Empire.

It was precisely because of this that they had entrusted the formation and teaching of the next Soul Master Tournament's Imperial Fighting Team to Qin Ming.

Of course, when it came to selecting the team members, the three education committee members naturally had a say as well.

The sixth slot was the position the three education committee members had left for Xia Yuan.

After the students calmed down, Qin Ming spoke again. "I know some of you consider yourselves geniuses."

"But what I'm saying is, what I need isn't geniuses, but monsters!"

"And right now, not a single one of you meets the requirements of a monster!"

Then Qin Ming pointed at Yu Tianheng.

"His martial soul is the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and he already has three rings. Which of you is willing to challenge him and take his place?"

Not a single person stepped forward.

Qin Ming immediately gave a cold laugh. "See? You don't even have the courage to step forward!"