Chapter 90: Training Qin Ming as a Future Titled Douluo?
On the podium, the handsome and capable Teacher Qin Ming was passionately explaining the importance of the Mimicry Training Ground for a soul master's cultivation.
His theoretical foundation was solid, and his explanation vivid—truly worthy of being called the academy's gold-medal instructor and future hope.
Meanwhile, Lin Yuan continued writing in his diary.
[Come to think of it, I think I mentioned before that after coming to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, there were two people I most wanted to meet.]
[One is the Crown Prince with the melodramatic background who disguises herself as a man, Qian Renxue. The other is Teacher Qin Ming, standing right in front of me.]
[Unfortunately, last time I was too busy complaining about Qian Renxue's tangled family-ethics drama and forgot to mention Qin Ming.]
[There's no helping it—compared to the mysterious situation of "the Angel God falling in love with her mortal enemy," Qin Ming's story really doesn't seem that dramatic. Hahaha!]
Heaven Dou City, Crown Prince's Study
Qian Renxue, who had been reviewing official documents, immediately had several black lines appear across her forehead when she read this.
"Lin Yuan!!"
"How many days has it been already? Are you still going to keep bringing this up over and over again?!"
"Do I not have any dignity left?!"
She clenched her silver teeth, her face filled with embarrassment and anger.
"I even went out of my way to support you on the day you enrolled. I even gave you my personal token!"
"And this is how you repay me?"
"You're still writing about me in your diary?"
"Hmph! Ungrateful fellow!"
[To be fair, Qin Ming really is a talented individual.]
[In the original story, he was known as the second-youngest genius on the continent to reach the Soul Emperor level.]
[Because of this terrifying talent, Heaven Dou Royal Academy treats him with exceptional courtesy and spares no effort in allocating resources to him.]
[This allows a civilian soul master with no background to gain a foothold in a place filled with nobles, and even serve as the future leader of the Royal Fighting Team (Heaven Dou Team One).]
[You have to remember this is Heaven Dou Royal Academy!]
[If you threw a brick at random here, you might hit the son of an earl or the daughter of a marquis.]
[With Qin Ming's civilian background, even if he met the strength requirements and received an honorary viscount or baron title from the empire, he would still be seen as nothing more than a "worker" by the old aristocratic families.]
[So why do the academy leadership, including the three education committee members, value him so highly?]
[After all, leading the Royal Fighting Team could easily be assigned to a more senior instructor. It's an honor if the team achieves good results; the instructor would definitely share in the glory.]
[And the Royal Fighting Team's lineup at the time was quite strong: Captain Yu Tianheng, Vice-Captain Dugu Yan, and members Ye Lingling, Shi Mo brothers, Yufeng, and Oslo.]
[This lineup is only weaker than the Spirit Hall Team, Star Luo Team, and Sky Water Team. Against Blue Sunshine Academy and Godwind Academy, they still have a real chance of winning a solid semifinal seed.]
At these words, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were both stunned.
The people Lin Yuan mentioned were all famous figures in the academy, and they were also in Heaven Dou Class One.
However, Dugu Yan felt unconvinced.
Being inferior to Spirit Hall was understandable, and she could tolerate being weaker than the Star Luo Team, but how were they also inferior to the Element Academies?
And even Blue Sunshine Academy supposedly had a chance to defeat them?
Impossible.
Dugu Yan simply could not imagine losing to Blue Sunshine Academy.
Lin Yuan, of course, would not explain.
After all, Dugu Yan did not yet know that the Spirit Hall Team, Star Luo Team, and Sky Water Team all possessed martial soul fusion skills.
The Royal Fighting Team did not mean they could not unleash combat power beyond their own limits.
As for Blue Sunshine Academy's Seven-in-One fusion technique, although weaker than a martial soul fusion skill, the Seven Shura Illusion Realm targeted spiritual power.
Not a single member of the Royal Fighting Team could withstand it.
The reason Lin Yuan said they still had a chance of victory was that, if the two teams actually met, the Royal Fighting Team would likely guard against the Seven Shura Illusion Realm and not allow Blue Sunshine Academy to use it easily.
Fortunately, the Royal Fighting Team did not need to participate in the preliminaries. Otherwise, if they encountered Blue Sunshine Academy there and lost, the embarrassment would be enormous.
[So the reason they value Qin Ming is actually very simple and very realistic.]
[The Heaven Dou imperial family is severely short of manpower—or, more precisely, high-level combat power.]
[Looking at the Heaven Dou imperial family now, there isn't even a single Titled Douluo who truly belongs to them!]
[That old poisoner Dugu Bo may hold the title of guest elder, but he only supports the imperial family temporarily because of Prince Xue Xing's life-saving favor back then.]
[In other words, he's just repaying a debt of gratitude.]
[And gratitude is consumed each time it's used. Dugu Bo's solitary personality means he cannot truly be considered one of the imperial family's own people.]
[As for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that has always supported the imperial family?]
[That's purely a relationship of shared interests.]
[If the imperial family fell, Ning Fengzhi would flee with his sect faster than anyone else.]
[Within the imperial family itself, the strongest person is most likely Meng Shenji, the chief of the three education committee members.]
[But Meng Shenji is already Rank 86, advanced in age and declining in vitality. Whether he can reach Rank 90 and become a Titled Douluo is uncertain.]
[So Emperor Xue Ye is anxious.]
[He urgently needs to cultivate a Titled Douluo who is loyal to the imperial family and raised by them personally.]
[And the young, extraordinarily talented, and background-clean civilian Qin Ming is their ideal "growth-type candidate."]
[In the future Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament preliminaries, he even publicly promised that anyone who advanced would be granted a noble title directly.]
[This caused a huge uproar at the time, even Spirit Hall's Platinum Bishop Salas showed clear dissatisfaction.]
[Because this was essentially "poaching talent."]
[After all, advanced academies like the Five Element Academies, though located within the empire, are fundamentally independent.]
[After graduation, students can stay at the academy, join the military, or enter Spirit Hall.]
[Emperor Xue Ye's method of "exchanging noble titles for talent" felt like digging up talent in advance.]
[To be fair, Emperor Xue Ye's attitude toward talent is still respectable, unlike that idiot Xue Beng, who's just irritating.]
[Maybe it's because he's old and more open-minded, or maybe he's being forced by circumstances, but I don't see the same nauseating arrogance in him that many old aristocrats have.]
Seeing this, Qian Renxue's eyes showed a trace of agreement.
Even though she was undercover, she had to admit that her nominal "father" truly possessed the bearing of a ruler when it came to recruiting talent.
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