Compared to a year and a half ago, these seven students had matured further. Their respective basic unique skills had almost reached proficiency, some even nearing perfection.
Su Ran was quite pleased and looked at them with some pride:
"First, I want to commend you all. Since the Soul Master Competition, you haven't become arrogant because of it, and you quickly entered a state of learning and cultivation."
"Over this past year, you have all made progress. Although your Grandmaster unique skills are basically only at the initial mastery level, don't be discouraged. Grandmaster unique skills are Grandmaster unique skills after all. There are many who practice for decades and still achieve nothing. You are already very excellent."
Su Ran's words were not just to comfort his students, but the truth.
For example, Wang Sheng's Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms: in The Return of the Condor Heroes, Guo Jing took thirty years to achieve complete mastery, barely entering the ranks of Grandmasters.
If Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons from his previous life were considered first-rate skills, then the Grandmaster unique skills Su Ran taught these disciples were top-tier skills.
"Next, you can continue cultivating according to what I've taught you."
"Only Lingling is different. Lingling, your Nine Revolutions Black Lotus has largely completed its condensation, but merely completing the condensation is not enough to improve your Spirit's innate heredity. You need to devour life."
Su Ran now turned his gaze to Ye Lingling. Having completed the transformation of her life-death Spirit, Ye Lingling's hair color had changed.
The hair on her left side was dark gray, while the hair on her right side was gradually turning silver-white, symbolizing the dawn of life and the devour of death, respectively.
"The Nine Heart Begonia devours the lives of the Spirit user's clan members to gain healing power. This is a beautiful but also cruel Spirit. Do you see those delicate stamens on the Nine Heart Begonia? They are the connections that touch the lives of your descendants.
Therefore, you are no longer suitable to remain in the Academy for cultivation. You need to rely on the power of the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus to devour others' life force to nourish your Nine Heart Begonia. When the life force is sufficient to compensate for the healing you bring, then the negative effect of your Nine Heart Begonia on your clan members will also be lifted."
After Su Ran finished speaking, Ye Lingling froze, not reacting, and tears immediately welled up in her eyes:
"Teacher, are you going to send me away?"
She only heard the words from her teacher's mouth: 'You are no longer suitable to remain in the Academy.'
That was very hurtful.
"No, I'm not sending you away. Rather, I want to take you to a new training ground."
Su Ran explained.
"A new training ground?"
Ye Lingling's expression improved slightly. "But Teacher, although the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus can devour others' life force, one of our Academy's mottos is: 'Do not indiscriminately kill the innocent or bully the weak.' I cannot just absorb others' lives casually, otherwise, what's the difference between me and those villains?"
Su Ran was very satisfied with Ye Lingling's answer, and a faint smile appeared on his face:
"You are right. But don't forget, although the Academy has requirements for your moral character, the outside World is not like that."
"You must not forget that the Academy is a safe haven. We can control what happens within the Academy, but we can never control everything outside. Outside, it is still an environment where the strong prey on the weak, and only the fittest survive."
"Good people, we treat them in a good way. But what about evil people?"
"If, for the sake of your descendants and clan members, you use the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus to devour the lives of good people and ordinary citizens, then you would be an evil person, and that is what I do not wish to see."
"But if you use the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus to punish evil people and devour their lives, then will there still be a problem?"
Su Ran finished speaking.
Xiao Wu raised her small hand and eagerly answered: "Punishing evil and promoting good, that's the righteous path!"
"Then where should I go to find these evil people?"
Her teacher's words enlightened Ye Lingling. In fact, this was also her current dilemma: although the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus possessed the ability to devour life force, whose life should she absorb? How was that different from murder?
Su Ran's eyes narrowed, and he said: "A paradise of sin, and also the best and fastest place for your cultivation right now—Slaughter City."
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