At the entrance of Dongyang Advanced Soul Guidance Academy, sunlight filtered through the tall iron gate, casting a dappled shadow.
The guard’s face held a slightly apologetic smile as he said sincerely:
“I say, you two… perhaps you shouldn’t wait here for now! The person in charge within our academy is truly not here at the moment. If this little brother’s talent is truly as good as you say, then please, both of you, make another trip in a few days! You saw it just now; I already went to report, but the person who can make decisions is truly not in the academy today.”
Dongyang Advanced Soul Guidance Academy indeed had a rule that individuals with sufficiently high talent could be admitted without an entrance exam.
Many met the requirements each year, but for an old man bringing a child like this—a child who seemed to have awakened his Spirit a long time ago— and claiming innate full spirit power from the start, the guard was quite skeptical.
The reason was simple: Lin Mo’s development was earlier than his peers.
Although only six years old, he looked more like an eight or nine-year-old child, which made it understandable why the guard didn’t believe his age.
Such a situation had occurred before: Spirit Masters who appeared to be slow in development, with low innate spirit power, would cultivate for a period to fake a higher level of spirit power to gain admission.
Just a while ago, there was one such case.
He excitedly brought the person over, but during the bone age test, everything was exposed.
He was also severely criticized for it.
In his opinion, Lin Mo was also this type of person, just more audacious, directly faking innate full spirit power.
Innate full spirit power and reaching Rank 10 spirit power at eight or nine years old are two different concepts; the gap in talent between them is immense.
However, he didn’t dare to put on airs in front of Lin Mo, after all, if Lin Mo’s talent was truly as he claimed, he would be too busy currying favor with Lin Mo later on.
Hearing the guard’s words, Lin Mo felt a wave of helplessness.
Bad luck, no other way; it seemed he could only go through the normal admission process.
However, the next moment, a sudden voice rang out, changing things slightly.
“Tell me, what’s happening that you’re all crowding at the entrance talking?”
The speaker was an old man, seemingly even older than the village chief beside Lin Mo.
His appearance caused a 180-degree shift in the guard’s attitude.
“Dean!” The guard bowed, speaking respectfully.
Lin Mo and the other person now knew who the newcomer was.
In Dongyang Advanced Soul Guidance Academy, only one person could be called the Dean.
Rank 8 Soul Engineer Zhang Kai, the Dean of Dongyang Advanced Soul Guidance Academy.
“Dean, this little brother has come to our academy to register for admission, but he intends to take the special enrollment route. However, the teacher responsible for special enrollment is not in the academy today,” Wang Bin respectfully informed Zhang Kai of the situation in detail.
Upon hearing this, the wrinkles on Zhang Kai’s old face seemed to smooth out, revealing an incredibly surprised expression.
Immediately, Zhang Kai took quick strides and walked rapidly to Lin Mo, and before Lin Mo could react, he had already stepped forward and grasped Lin Mo’s hand, examining him on his own.
Lin Mo instinctively tried to resist, but to no avail.
However, he quickly realized what Zhang Kai was doing: he was checking his bone age.
To see if his age was truly as he claimed—six years old.
Under the stimulation of Zhang Kai’s spirit power, Lin Mo instinctively released his spirit power, resisting Zhang Kai’s actions.
Soon after, Zhang Kai completed his examination, confirming Lin Mo’s age and innate spirit power.
He asked incredulously, “Are you truly innately born with full spirit power?”
“Yes,” Lin Mo nodded.
“Good!
Good!
Good!” Zhang Kai said “good” several times in a row, showing his excitement.
Innate full spirit power represents the most supreme talent among Spirit Masters, a talent capable of supporting one to reach the Titled Douluo level.
In terms of Spirit Master talent, the Sun Moon Empire did not have an advantage; it could be said to be far behind the Original Douluo Three Kingdoms.
Especially in terms of top-tier Spirit Master powerhouses, the Sun Moon Empire lagged even further behind.
The Sun Moon Empire had quite a few Titled Douluo-level powerhouses, but none of the Rank 9 Soul Engineers had reached a cultivation level above Rank 95.
The Sun Moon Empire had never had a Soul Engineer with a cultivation level above Rank 95, which was not only due to talent.
It also had something to do with the abuse of medicine to a certain extent.
The Sun Moon Empire’s use of medicine in this regard was much more exaggerated than that of the Original Douluo Three Kingdoms.
Take the Sun Moon Empire’s top academy, Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, for example: at least 95% of its students, due to using medicine to aid their cultivation, were unable to break through to Rank 70 in their entire lives.
Even so, many people in the Sun Moon Empire still used medicine to aid their cultivation.
A strength of Rank 50 or 60 was already very powerful compared to ordinary people.
Soul Engineers were not very resistant to using elixirs and other means to aid cultivation; the Sun Moon Empire even officially distributed elixirs to help Soul Engineers cultivate.
The Sun Moon Empire greatly valued Spirit Masters with good talent.
Xiao Hongchen, hailed as the Sun Moon Empire’s top genius, was able to receive such strong cultivation.
Not only because he was the Hall Master of Mingde Hall’s grandson, but also because of his own extremely outstanding talent… Zhang Kai looked at Lin Mo with fervent eyes, as if he had seen some rare treasure.
“Little friend, you came here because you want to join our academy, right?” Zhang Kai asked.
His behavior not only surprised Lin Mo, but also the village chief who came with Lin Mo, and Wang Bin, were somewhat stunned.
This was the first time he had seen the Dean in such a state.
“Yes,” Lin Mo replied.
It seemed that his innate full spirit power talent was even more attractive to Zhang Kai than he had imagined.