Chapter 21: The Master Arrives
Sun Qi and the little stone monkey meditated for a whole day. They had dinner outside the Academy. On the way, they passed by the blacksmith shop and took back the two iron rods.
He was about to go back to the dormitory to continue meditating.
Standing in the dormitory corridor, looking at the figure outside his room, Sun Qi slowed down his pace.
He frowned, puzzled: "Why did Yu Xiaogang come to see me?"
Yu Xiaogang was in front of Sun Qi's dormitory door. Seeing Sun Qi coming back, a stiff smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He said to Sun Qi: "Sun Qi, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
"Something?"
Sun Qi did not show any respect and just asked coldly.
He had just changed dormitories, and this old guy knew about it and came over. It was very disgusting.
"I want to come and talk to you about how you should practice in the future."
Sun Qi frowned even more tightly after hearing Yu Xiaogang's words.
"I don't need it."
Yu Xiaogang's face darkened.
He said, "Although my Soul Power level is not outstanding, it is still level 29. Among the teachers in the Academy, I am considered to be in the upper middle level, and I have the most abundant theoretical knowledge. How can you talk to me like this?"
Sun Qi curled his lips and said, "You are not a teacher in the Academy. How should I talk to you?"
Yu Xiaogang's face froze.
He really had not conducted any substantial teaching in the Academy.
"My Spirit is also an Out Of Body Spirit. It is also the only Out Of Body Spirit on the continent besides you that has been put into practice. With my guidance, your future cultivation will be more stable."
Sun Qi shook his head.
"Sorry, I really don't need it. Can you please move aside? I need to go back to the dormitory."
Yu Xiaogang said with a gloomy face, "Then don't regret it."
With that, he simply waved his hand and walked away.
Sun Qi sneered, returned to his dorm, closed the door, and began to practice.
He didn't even want to waste time trying to guess Yu Xiaogang's intentions.
Even after only two and a half years of practice, Sun Qi already had a deeper understanding of the concept of Out Of Body Spirits than Yu Xiaogang did, requiring no instruction at all.
What guidance could Yu Xiaogang offer him?
Nothing more than learning his data, then reading and memorizing the material, and then suddenly saying, "Your Spirit has no offensive power. To become a powerful Soul Master, you need to add poison attributes?"
Sun Qi peacefully entered into meditation, but Yu Xiaogang was unhappy.
Before Sun Qi left, he had considered stopping him, but seeing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's troops, he gave up the idea.
Now, upon Sun Qi's return, he immediately sought him out to understand his situation.
To be able to cultivate his innate Soul Power from level one to level ten in just two and a half years must have a secret; whatever it was, it could be a breakthrough for him.
Perhaps the key to his breakthrough lies in Sun Qi's cultivation method!
"This Sun Qi, he has only been practicing for two years, and he is already so arrogant."
Yu Xiaogang snorted coldly.
"The upper limit of this life is also determined."
At an age when you don't know anything, you don't even have the heart to humbly learn. It will be too late to learn when you go the wrong way in the future.
...
The subsequent life quickly returned to normal.
Heaven Dou City.
A remote courtyard.
Seal Sun Qi looked down at his hands.
"Seal Spirit, how should I practice it?"
The stone monkey's body broke through the tenth level early, and now he has absorbed the first Soul Ring. Among the seven bodies, he is the only one who has not yet become a true Soul Master.
"The stone monkey's exploration is very smooth, but I haven't even figured out the essence of the Spirit."
Of the seven main bodies, six of them possessed Spirits that could serve as templates for the Monkey King. But what was the Seal Spirit?
Sun Qi had been pondering this for two and a half years.
Sun Qi's muddled meditation had reached level nine, but that was already his limit.
Indeed, he was stuck at level nine.
Without the advantage of an Out Of Body Spirit, he still managed to raise his Soul Power to level nine through forced meditation.
His cultivation speed was much slower than that of the stone monkey's main body. The stone monkey's main body reached level ten in just two years and two months, averaging a level advancement of less than three months, including the bottleneck period between level nine and ten.
However, his Seal Spirit was much slower, reaching level nine in just two months.
This meant he reached level nine two years and nine months after his awakening, averaging over four months to reach a level!
The difference was stark.
While Sun Qi's progress was significantly faster than that of other first-level innate Soul Masters, this was the result of Sun Qi's mastery of the Stone Monkey's techniques and the simultaneous practice of multiple main bodies, not his own exploration of the Seal Spirit.
"What exactly does the Seal correspond to?"
After being stuck at level nine for two months, Sun Qi knew that if he couldn't figure this out, he might not even be able to break through to level ten.
Level one Soul Power logically corresponds to a level ten Soul Master. Only by leveraging the strengths of one's Spirit to its fullest potential and having excellent training conditions could one possibly break through to level twenty. Without a chance to change one's fate, breaking through to level thirty and becoming a Soul Elder was simply impossible.
But reaching level ten wasn't something that could be achieved easily.
Without even understanding what a Spirit was, it was very likely that one wouldn't be able to break through.
"Seal..."
Seal Sun Qi looked down at the mark that had appeared on his palm.
He had sensed it when this Spirit awakened and had given it the name "Seal."
This was a unique mark, drawn with Soul Power, constantly changing and lacking any certainty. Sun Qi never understood its function.
"Ever-changing?"
Sun Qi had thought so, and he had also tried to control the Seal's form to see if it would have any miraculous effect.
The result was that he couldn't even fix the Seal's form.
"One form for each Soul skill?" Sun Qi speculated.
He put the Seal back and stopped studying.
Today's training was about to begin.
But before starting to train his body, he had to test his Soul skills.
Of the seven bodies, only his had not yet broken through and had no Soul skills.
However, with the Stone Monkey's translation, he also mastered a "self-created" Soul skill.
Seal Sun Qi activated his Soul Power, and at the same time, he also activated the Stone Monkey's skills.
Outside his body, Soul Power began to gather.
Without the Phantom Clone of the Void Spirit, the first thing to change was his Soul Power, which penetrated his body and condensed into a Seal pattern, appearing above his head.
Looking up at the Seal, a hint of surprise flashed in Sun Qi's eyes.
It was fixed!
The Seal was fixed, and the effect appeared at the same time.
Phantom Clones began to condense around him, and there were two of them!
Yes, he actually condensed two Phantom Clones directly.
This surprised not only Seal Sun Qi, but also the consciousness of the other six entities.
"Two!"
There were seven entities in total. Aside from the Stone Monkey entity, Sun Qi's other five entities had also tried the Phantom Spirit, and the effect was the same as the original Phantom Spirit.
Only Seal Sun Qi's entity had a different effect, and two Phantom Clones actually condensed out.
Sun Qi sensed the changes in himself, and to his surprise, his Soul Power consumption did not increase.
[end of the chapter]