After repeatedly questioning and confirming Flender's true situation, Xu Shouyi's attitude became fervent.
"Flender, are you willing to come and study with me?"
"If you are willing, I can provide you with the best environment, the most abundant resources, and the highest-quality guidance."
"Everything that a Genius can obtain, you can also obtain."
"I will make you an unparalleled Genius who is not inferior to the Heavenly Dragon Princess!"
Xu Shouyi's gaze was filled with sincerity.
"Heavenly Dragon Princess?"
Flender caught the key point in Xu Shouyi's words.
"The Heavenly Dragon Princess can be considered the peerless Prodigy of this generation in the Sun Moon Empire. She awakened the imperial family's Legacy Spirit of our Sun Moon Empire, and it underwent a beneficial mutation."
"With Full Innate Soul Power, she displayed extraordinary talent during her growth process. Under the Empire's meticulous cultivation, at only twenty-five years old, she is already a Level 6, Six-Star Spirit Master."
Xu Shouyi spoke of the information regarding that Heavenly Dragon Princess.
When he spoke, his heart was filled with emotion.
Although the existence of the Heavenly Dragon Princess was not known to the common people, she was renowned within the imperial capital.
Because of her talent, that princess was surrounded by a group of Level 9 powerhouses all day long. Every growth plan was the result of discussions among those people.
Xu Shouyi once thought that since he was, after all, the world-renowned Sage Dulan, perhaps he could also participate in the ranks of cultivating such a proud child of heaven.
However, reality was exceptionally cruel.
Those Level 9 powerhouses surrounding the Heavenly Dragon Princess completely ignored him.
Even once, Xu Shouyi accidentally overheard one of those Level 9 powerhouses mocking him.
"What Sage Dulan? He merely taught some worthless Spirit Masters."
"He is still only Level 8 himself, yet he dares to vainly attempt to teach a Genius valued by us?"
"It seems that guy really has been praised so much by those dirt-legs that he has lost his bearings."
After listening to these words, Xu Shouyi's complexion turned pale.
Only then did he realize that his past tireless behavior of teaching people whose talents might be slightly inferior but had outstanding traits was viewed this way in their eyes.
After that, Xu Shouyi no longer indulged in research as he once did, nor did he teach new young people, but instead carefully examined the Empire he was in.
The Empire's Level 9 powerhouses looked down upon Spirit Masters from humble backgrounds so much; how did they view ordinary people?
If he didn't look, he wouldn't know, but looking gave him a huge shock.
The Empire that was once beautiful and harmonious in Xu Shouyi's heart actually had so much darkness hidden in secret.
This darkness pressed on Xu Shouyi so heavily that he could not breathe, so he fled the imperial capital.
Perhaps in other places, beauty still existed.
Harboring such thoughts, Xu Shouyi traveled around the outskirts of the imperial capital.
Yet what met his eyes was entirely filled with sin and deception.
Even because the Empire's surface work was done extremely well, even when those ordinary people suffered hardships, they still deeply worshiped the Empire's high-level figures.
The more Xu Shouyi looked, the more exhausted his body and mind became. He wrote what he saw and heard into a memorial and sent it to the desk of the emperor in the imperial capital, hoping that the most powerful person in the Sun Moon Empire could do something.
However, in the end, Xu Shouyi received a reply whose tone could be called mild, but whose content plunged him into an ice cellar.
Xu Shouyi did not want to recall the specific content of that letter.
Because between the lines of that letter, it never failed to explain one thing to Xu Shouyi.
The Your Majesty he deeply believed in, the Your Majesty loved by the people of the entire Sun Moon Continent, was actually the root of all darkness in the Sun Moon Empire.
Because he condoned all of this!
"I really am frighteningly naive."
Xu Shouyi sighed afterwards.
As a person with some talent, Xu Shouyi's life trajectory could be called simple. When he was young, he studied and grew up under the protection of his elders.
After gaining experience and life background, he began to take an interest in teaching others, and thus divided a portion of the life originally used to Cultivate and forge to teach those students valued by him.
Among these students, some had an Innate Soul Power of only two or three levels, and some were not even Spirit Masters.
Yet Xu Shouyi was simply willing to teach them. After all, no one said he could only teach Spirit Masters, right?
Slowly, Xu Shouyi gained the title of Sage Dulan.
At first, Xu Shouyi was quite proud of this title, because it was considered people's recognition of him.
Thinking back on it now, when he was called this way by people, he often encountered people on the Empire's side who sneered at him or showed sarcastic expressions.
Previously Xu Shouyi couldn't figure it out, but now he understood.
Those people were mocking him for doing meaningless things.
Teaching people whose Innate Soul Power was less than five levels, or who weren't even Spirit Masters?
To them, weren't these matters just a waste of time?
Presumably, after learning of his actions, those people were all mocking him for being lucky. If he weren't a member of the imperial family, someone like him probably would have been eaten clean by others long ago.
After learning about the Empire's darkness, Xu Shouyi also thought about changing it.
But after trying for a while, he ultimately chose to give up.
Because he couldn't do it.
He was only a Level 8 Spirit Master and a Level 8 Spirit Tool Master. With a status like his, he simply couldn't fight for the right to speak.
In the Empire, only those Level 9 powerhouses had the power to speak, and only the words they spoke would be taken seriously by anyone.
Although later on, Xu Shouyi also found some people who shared the same thoughts as him, and even among them was a Level 9 powerhouse squeezed out by the Empire's high-level officials.
Yet they still couldn't change anything.
In the end, a physically and mentally exhausted Xu Shouyi accepted a mission to inspect the Empire and began traveling and inspecting various places.
Along the way, he was still involuntarily thinking about how to change things.
Ultimately, he came to a helpless conclusion.
Only if their side possessed sufficient strength could they fight for the right to speak and make changes.
However, how could strength be raised so easily?
For this reason, Xu Shouyi even discarded his original teaching ideas and began searching for some quite talented Spirit Masters.
However, the Empire's tentacles spread across the entire Sun Moon Continent, and almost every Spirit Master with an Innate Soul Power above level five was registered.
Those above level seven were taken under the wing of many powerful Spirit Masters even earlier.
Under this circumstance, Xu Shouyi completely saw no hope.
Yet unexpectedly, fate loved to play jokes like this.
In this small town and dilapidated Spirit hall, Xu Shouyi saw a Genius comparable to that Heavenly Dragon Princess.
"I must win him over!"
Xu Shouyi thought with incomparable firmness in his heart.
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