"But if his spiritual power is this strong, doesn't that mean Qian Ran might have even more talent for Soul Tools than for his Martial Soul? With such powerful spiritual power as his foundation, studying Soul Tools would be like having divine assistance!" Fan Yu grabbed Qian Ran's shoulders excitedly.
"Fan Yu, why are you looking at my student like that?" Zhou Yi warily shielded Qian Ran behind her.
"Qian Ran's spiritual power is at least at the Soul Douluo level. He might even already possess spiritual power comparable to a Titled Douluo's. Do you know what that means? This kind of spiritual power would let Qian Ran easily understand the principles behind Soul Tools and reproduce all kinds of Magic Arrays. He was practically born for Soul Tools. He's a born Soul Engineer!"
"As long as Qian Ran comes to our Soul Tool Institute, I guarantee that Shrek Academy will have a Level 9 Soul Engineer in the future! That means we'll have a chance to break the Sun Moon Empire's monopoly on Soul Tools!"
Fan Yu had already gone mad, explaining it to Zhou Yi in his excitement.
At present, every Level 9 Soul Engineer on the continent belonged to the Sun Moon Empire. Although Shrek Academy held the distinction of being the continent's foremost advanced Soul Master Academy, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had been steadily chasing after it.
Shrek Academy had the strongest Soul Masters, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had the strongest Soul Engineers!
If it continued to make no achievements in Soul Tool research for too long, Shrek Academy might very well be caught up with.
That was why Fan Yu was so excited. He felt that, with Qian Ran's talent, it was practically a sure thing. With spiritual power like this, Heaven was practically spoon-feeding Qian Ran.
"No! Qian Ran must belong to our Martial Soul Institute." Zhou Yi's face instantly darkened. Even if Fan Yu was her husband, he could not snatch Qian Ran away to the Soul Tool Institute.
The Six-Winged Angel! The ability to create Self-Created Soul Skills! Not a single weakness anywhere!
Qian Ran was certain to be the most dazzling Soul Master genius!
Study Soul Tools? Wouldn't that waste Qian Ran's Martial Soul talent?
"Zhou Yi is right. Don't even think about taking him." A calm voice came from the doorway, and an old man dressed in white walked in.
Yan Shaozhe was the eldest disciple of the Level 99 Limit Douluo, Dragon God Douluo Mu En, and Shrek Academy's 261st dean.
His disciple was Ma Xiaotao, the Evil Fire Phoenix. He had raised Ma Xiaotao from childhood, serving as both her teacher and adoptive father.
Zhou Yi and Fan Yu both froze for a moment when they saw Yan Shaozhe.
"Dean." Zhou Yi and Fan Yu both bowed respectfully to Yan Shaozhe. Seeing him, Fan Yu also knew it was impossible to recruit Qian Ran into the Soul Tool Department before the Martial Soul Department noticed.
He had not expected even this fellow to come.
The corner of Qian Ran's mouth twitched. Only now did he understand just how much importance Shrek Academy placed on him. Even a big shot like Yan Shaozhe had come.
He had only just arrived at Shrek Academy, and he had already stirred things up enough to make people from the Soul Tool Department and Martial Soul Department come to blows over him? Few people would believe it if word got out.
Upon seeing Yan Shaozhe, Qian Ran's first thought was of Ma Xiaotao. That older girl with the smoking-hot figure-slurp, slurp... He had absolutely no resistance to that older girl with her smoking-hot figure and fiery personality.
I really want to bury my head in there. Even suffocating to death would be worth it.
"Dean? You're here to snatch him away too?" Fan Yu was speechless. He had finally discovered a promising seedling, only for even the dean to show up. Wasn't this just bullying him?
"No matter how talented he is with Soul Tools, he can only belong to the Martial Soul Department. I absolutely cannot let you bury his talent." Yan Shaozhe knew very well that, once nurtured, someone like Qian Ran would certainly be no worse than he was in the future.
Qian Ran would definitely enter the ranks of Super Douluos in the future.
In a sense, the greater Qian Ran's talent, the happier he was. As long as Qian Ran had the potential to cultivate to the Super Douluo level, they would spare no effort in nurturing him. In recent years, Evil Soul Masters had grown increasingly rampant, and they had already found traces proving the existence of that Evil Soul Master Sect.
That sect was very strange, and its overall strength was certainly not weak.
But...
As long as Qian Ran grew into his strength, that Evil Soul Master Sect would no longer pose much of a threat.
"You... fine. But I think we should still wait until he passes the freshman assessment and let him choose for himself. It's a little too early to discuss this now." Fan Yu was helpless. But Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department truly could not compare with its Martial Soul Department. Yan Shaozhe, the dean of the Martial Soul Department, was also the dean of Shrek Academy, and Qian Ran had been brought here by Zhou Yi and her people in the first place.
"All right." Yan Shaozhe had not expected Qian Ran to have talent for Soul Tool research as well, and he felt utterly helpless. Had he known, he would not have let Zhou Yi bring Qian Ran here. Now these fellows from the Soul Tool Department had set their sights on him.
"Actually, I can pursue Dual Cultivation." Qian Ran spoke up then.
Majoring in Soul Tools was out of the question. Soul Tools on the Douluo Continent had not yet become powerful enough to make even gods wary. Thus, studying them would only allow him to reign supreme on the Douluo Continent; they would not be all that helpful after he became a god.
Still, many Soul Tools were indeed very practical. Qian Ran wanted to research things from his previous life, such as simple gadgets like cameras. When he did strange things with the girls, he could record them to savor slowly later, and they could watch together to learn some positions.
Besides, perhaps Qian Ran could develop some god-level Soul Tools. After all, with the system, it was entirely possible.
If Qian Ran could research and manufacture some Level 10 Soul Tools, especially the kind that could simply be detonated... then he probably would not be afraid to fight a dozen or more gods alone. As for nuclear weapons, no messing around-they were far too far beyond the limits...
"Majoring in your Martial Soul and taking Soul Tools as an elective-that would work." Fan Yu expressed his approval, and Yan Shaozhe also strongly agreed with Qian Ran's choice. Qian Ran's talent was more than sufficient for him to study both simultaneously. With Soul Engineers developing so rapidly now, outstanding Soul Masters truly could not reject Soul Tools entirely.
"Of course, I actually came to see you this time because there's something I'd like to ask of you. My disciple Xiaotao has always suffered deeply from the effects of her Martial Soul. Her Martial Soul, the Evil Fire Phoenix, causes her to be affected by Evil Qi during cultivation. In severe cases, she can even suffer Qi deviation."
"All these years, we've relied on water-attribute and ice-attribute Soul Masters to help suppress her Evil Fire, but that only treats the symptoms, not the root. As Xiaotao's cultivation rises, if it isn't kept in check, she may very well mutate into an Evil Soul Master in the future. And your Six-Winged Angel happens to be able to help her," Yan Shaozhe said gravely.
Many times, he had even wanted to stop Ma Xiaotao from continuing to cultivate like that. A twenty-year-old Soul Emperor, a genius ranked among the inner court's top ten in strength-Ma Xiaotao would certainly be able to cultivate to become a Titled Douluo in the future. Yet her instability left Shrek Academy's senior leadership utterly helpless.
If Ma Xiaotao cultivated to become a Titled Douluo and then turned into an Evil Soul Master, how would they suppress a Titled Douluo Evil Soul Master then?
Even if Ma Xiaotao suppressed it herself, when she went out to gain experience in the future, there was no guarantee that someone with ulterior motives would not draw out her Evil Qi. Those Evil Soul Masters loved doing that sort of thing most. Many Evil Soul Masters on the continent had been led onto the evil path by powerful Evil Soul Masters.
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