Sea God Pavilion Meeting

"I've marked the light elemental spirits' habitat on a map and given it to your grandfather. Let him take you to obtain your second soul ring!" Mu En looked at his disciple, feeling that he could not possibly be more satisfied.

He was gifted, had no flaws in his character, was neither arrogant nor impatient, and worked exceptionally hard at his cultivation.

A genius disciple like this was someone you could search for with a lantern and still never find!

"Yes, Teacher." Ye Qing nodded, then a smile appeared on his calm face. He leaned toward Mu En and held out both hands. "Teacher, I've run out of tea leaves. Could you give me some more?"

"You brat, sooner or later you'll clean out every last tea leaf your teacher has." Mu En pointed at Ye Qing, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, but still took out a box and handed it to him.

The Golden Tree's tea leaves truly benefited Ye Qing immensely. They might even allow him to reach the ultimate realm that Mu En himself had never attained.

Ultimate light!

It had been Mu En's lifelong pursuit.

Even though his cultivation had reached the Limit, that ultimate realm remained hopelessly far out of reach.

Compared with these tea leaves, what he truly wanted was to see whether this disciple of his could let him witness the splendor of ultimate light within his lifetime!

Beside ultimate light, these few tea leaves were utterly insignificant. Mu En had never cared about such things. With his far-reaching vision, why would he quibble over mere worldly possessions?

After watching Ye Qing leave, Mu En sat in his wheelchair and slowly began making plans.

Absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as his third soul ring certainly required more than sufficient physical strength.

A Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring was already different from a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. A Thousand-Year Soul Ring was nothing more than a mass of accumulated energy, and anyone with sufficient physical strength could endure it head-on. Ten-thousand-year soul beasts, however, already possessed intelligence approaching that of humans, and the soul rings they left behind after death retained a portion of their souls.

When a human soul master absorbed their soul rings, that remnant soul would assault the soul master's mind.

This was the well-known Soul Shock, with Grandmaster Yu the Not-So-Great being the exception.

Ordinary soul masters had to reach the Soul King level before they could withstand the soul assault of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. Only soul masters with exceptional mental talent could gain the ability to resist Soul Shock ahead of time.

Aside from talent, there was another way.

That was to pay to win and use cheats.

Shrek Academy naturally had ways to increase mental power, too. Otherwise, how could Mu En have absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as his fourth soul ring?

Ye Qing was merely doing it one soul ring earlier than he had. Those methods for increasing mental power could be used on him ahead of schedule.

The most direct and effective method was to absorb a Head Soul Bone. Every Head Soul Bone increased a soul master's mental power to some extent, and this was especially true of those produced by soul beasts with a mental attribute.

Shrek Academy also had a reserve of Head Soul Bones, and quite a few at that. Yet in Mu En's eyes, their quality fell somewhat short.

They were not a good fit for Ye Qing.

Furthermore, absorbing too many soul bones too early was not necessarily a good thing.

Before even obtaining his second soul ring, Ye Qing already possessed a Right Arm Soul Bone and an external soul bone. Even a meal needed time to digest, let alone something like fusing with soul bones.

As for a Head Soul Bone, it would be better to wait until he had grown stronger and let him decide for himself.

Since a Head Soul Bone was not a suitable option, they could only strengthen him through medicinal assistance and cultivation facilities. The good news was that Shrek Academy lacked neither.

Yet even though Mu En was the Sea God Pavilion Master, hardly anyone dared challenge anything he said, and the Sea God Pavilion was practically ruled by his word alone, the formalities still had to be observed. No organization could escape that.

Even if he was the Sea God Pavilion Master, and even if nurturing Ye Qing was part of his plans for Shrek Academy's future.

As long as he diverted Shrek Academy's resources, he had to raise the matter. Whether the elders objected was one thing; whether Mu En informed them was another.

Thus, when Ye Qing and Ye Feng left Shrek Academy to hunt for soul rings again, Mu En convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.

Ye Qing had never imagined that the treatment Huo Gua received in his second year in the outer court would fall to him ahead of time.

A seven-and-a-half-year-old prospective Soul Grandmaster like him had actually prompted a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.

That truly was unexpected.

To Mu En, however, this Sea God Pavilion Meeting was quite necessary.

Before this, very few people had known that Mu En had taken Ye Qing as his disciple. Only the handful who had watched Ye Qing awaken his martial soul knew, and Mu En had evidently had no intention of spreading the news.

Moreover, Ye Qing ordinarily did nothing but cultivate and fish, never stepping beyond his own doorstep.

As a result, he was not particularly well known at Shrek. At most, everyone knew Ye Feng had a grandson, but they had no idea his talent was so explosive.

Nor would Ye Feng tell everyone he met, "My grandson Ye Qing has the makings of a Limit powerhouse!"

A genius who had yet to mature was nothing but empty talk. Ye Feng understood this all too well. No matter how much he wanted to show off, he would not gamble with Ye Qing's life, which left Ye Qing even more obscure.

Mu En's purpose this time was also very simple.

He would step forward at the Sea God Pavilion Meeting and bring Ye Qing to the attention of Shrek's senior leadership as a member of his own faction.

Of course, he was also sending them a signal: Shrek Academy's future was secured. He, Mu En, had found a genius with enough potential to reach the Limit and hold up the sky over Shrek for centuries to come.

Before long, everyone had gathered around the Sea God Pavilion's long table, which represented Shrek's highest leadership, except for Ye Feng, who had taken his grandson out to hunt for soul rings.

"Teacher, have you called this Sea God Pavilion Meeting because of some urgent matter?" No one else had spoken, so as Mu En's disciple, Yan Shaozhe naturally had to get things started.

"It isn't urgent, but it is a major matter concerning the academy's future." Mu En smiled faintly.

At Mu En's words, every member of the Sea God Pavilion sat a little straighter, their expressions turning serious.

Xuan Zi was the first to voice his confusion. "Elder Mu, what could this matter be, to actually concern the academy's future?"

They were all members of Shrek as a collective and naturally cared deeply about Shrek Academy. They valued Shrek's glory and legacy more than their own lives; otherwise, they would not have earned a certain old geezer's description of "fanatical honorary Shrek citizens."

The subject Mu En had raised struck the bull's-eye, instantly pulling everyone's nerves taut.

"There is something that, I suspect, only Yan Shaozhe among you knows," Mu En said. "Not long ago, I took a disciple. That disciple is Little Ye's grandson, Ye Qing."

Mu En had taken a disciple!

Well, well, well. Another depth charge.