Chapter 234: Winds Rising and Clouds Surging (Part 5)

"Your Majesty, I have a small suggestion. I wonder if Your Majesty would be willing to hear it?"

The old Emperor's intention was actually very simple; his goal was to prevent any possibility of Shrek Academy profiting, but there was also a large portion of people who hoped to, conversely, bleed Shrek Academy dry.

Exchange and study is, in itself, a process of mutual bloodletting; it just depends on who can bleed the other more severely.

"Speak," the old Emperor yawned and said.

"As everyone knows, Shrek Academy's level of Soul Guidance technology has a massive gap compared to ours, and our traditional martial soul cultivation also has a massive gap compared to Shrek Academy. However, this gap has become almost negligible under the powerful disparity of Soul Guidance. In other words, we could terminate the exchange and study, but what I fear is that the Three Great Empires might unite under the instigation of Shrek Academy because of this."

"If the Three Great Empires were to unite under the instigation of Shrek Academy, our future casualties in attacking the Three Great Empires would increase exponentially. Because Shrek Academy knows that once we refuse the exchange and study, they will very likely think we are going to launch a war. Therefore, we can continue the exchange and study, but we can also make some changes to it."

As Luo Yu spoke, he took a plan document out from his Storage Soul Guidance Device.

After the old Emperor's personal bodyguard, a Title Douluo, inspected this plan document, he handed it to the old Emperor.

"Your Majesty, this is my personal opinion regarding our current exchange and study. If there is any overstepping, I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

This plan document was actually a typical new policy of obstruction. This appeared to be an exchange and study, but it was actually a political game between Shrek Academy, the Three Great Empires, and the Sun Moon Empire. Once the Sun Moon Empire flips the table, it would mean the Sun Moon Empire is about to launch a war.

Interests are mutual; once the interests of Shrek Academy and the Three Great Empires are harmed, they will inevitably be tightly linked together.

"Tell me about your plan. I heard that before the meeting, His Highness the Crown Prince had asked for your opinion on the Shrek exchange and study. Is this plan document the Crown Prince's idea?" the old Emperor asked tentatively.

Luo Yu's peripheral vision swept over Xu Tianran. When he saw the latter's smiling expression, he then nodded heavily, "Thanks to the appreciation of His Highness the Crown Prince, I did indeed discuss it with His Highness the Crown Prince before, and this plan document also received guidance from His Highness the Crown Prince."

The old Emperor nodded with satisfaction, then passed the plan document down and said, "You explain your plan."

"Yes, Your Majesty. For us, the Three Great Empires actually have no idea to what extent our Soul Guidance level has reached. However, it cannot be ruled out that the Heaven Soul Empire might know; after all, when Number One was stolen, the Body Sect might have secretly delivered it into the hands of the Heaven Soul Empire's royal family. However, the Body Sect and the Heaven Soul Empire would absolutely never admit to such a thing. In other words, apart from the Heaven Soul Empire, Shrek Academy, the Star Luo Empire, and the Dou Ling Empire have absolutely no bottom line on our Soul Guidance level."

"The reason why Shrek Academy wants to coerce us into an exchange and study indicates one problem: they have also realized the importance of Soul Guidance Technology, so they are urgently in need of absorbing our Soul Guidance Technology. Because they are very clear that the teaching of traditional Soul Masters requires a large amount of experience and understanding of martial souls, as well as a large amount of research, so even if we sent people over to study, they wouldn't be able to bring back the complete system."

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"And our Soul Guidance technology can be taken away once mastered, and can even bring them new improvements. So what we need to do is to curb their desire to learn from the root. As for how to curb it, we can implement a method of layering and diversion. For the students sent by Shrek Academy for exchange and study, we can independently designate a branch to receive them. Externally, we can say it is to prevent a repeat of the conflict between Shrek and Sun Moon Empire students that affected their studies."

"Second, increase the difficulty of their assessment to enter Mingde Hall. We require assessments for our own students to enter Mingde Hall, so it is even more necessary to increase the assessment for them to enter Mingde Hall. If Shrek Academy is dissatisfied, we can tell them the rules of Mingde Hall; this is our foundation, and we cannot break the rules we have set for ourselves just for Shrek's students."

"Third, after Shrek's students enter Mingde Hall, designate an area and let those students with extremely high talent study with them. In that area, change the monthly assessment to a weekly assessment, with elimination for the lowest-ranked. Those who fail the assessment are eliminated, and those who are eliminated are not allowed to enter Mingde Hall to study for one month."

"Fourth, we need to secretly encourage our students to challenge Shrek's students. As long as we win, there will be rewards; if the number of wins is high, we can even increase the rewards. Through this, we can greatly delay the learning progress of Shrek's students. To appease Shrek Academy's dissatisfaction caused by their students being challenged repeatedly, we can punish them openly while rewarding them in secret."

"Finally, regarding the time for the exchange and study, we can change the original two and a half years to a one-year system. Moreover, the same batch of students cannot study abroad a second time, and we have the right to give suspension penalties to students who fail the assessment multiple times. This way, we can ensure they will never be able to touch our core Soul Guidance technology. However, Shrek Academy probably won't agree to this, but we must insist on a one-year academic system. As for the rest, we can change 'cannot study abroad a second time' to 'a third time', or add a limit on the number of people."

Having said this, Luo Yu bowed respectfully to the old Emperor.

His bow also signaled the end of his speech. The moment his voice fell, the old Emperor laughed happily.

"Mirror Hall Master, you have taken in a good disciple. I will consider your plan. Since His Highness the Crown Prince appreciates you so much, why don't you also analyze how we should turn Shrek's advantages to our own use?" The old Emperor threw out another question; he really wanted to know what plans Luo Yu would make regarding Shrek Academy.

If Luo Yu could provide perfect answers to the problems on both sides, then all problems would be greatly alleviated. This was the biggest heart disease of the Sun Moon Empire at the moment.

"Luo Yu would first like to ask the ministers, where does the strength of traditional Soul Masters lie?" Luo Yu looked at the crowd and asked.

Regarding the strengths of traditional Soul Masters, it is actually the basic strength of the martial soul, their scarcity in number, and their innate talent.

There is also the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, as well as the combat power enhancement from Support System stacking, and the negative suppression effects that weaken opponents. Finally, there is the powerful suppression force formed by team coordination.

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However, the shortcomings of traditional Soul Masters are also very obvious: they rely too much on individual talent.

Top-tier martial souls test individual talent, and research into top-tier martial souls also tests an individual's research into martial souls. There are also the rare treasures needed for a Soul Master to become stronger. With all these things added together, relatively speaking, the resources required to cultivate a Soul Engineer are far less than those required to cultivate a Soul Master. However, a Soul Master with top-tier talent can reach a level like Mu Lao, which can be called the limit of humanity.

However, this limit is still below Da Ming and Er Ming.

The noisy discussions of the crowd all fell into the old Emperor's ears. Finally, the old Emperor said, "Having heard so much, you should also talk about your plans."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Luo Yu nodded and said, "Regarding how we can master Shrek's cultivation of traditional Soul Masters, the method is actually very simple. We only need to use methods similar to those of Soul Guidance Devices. For example, by sending different martial souls, those students need to record which category they are placed in at Shrek, and at the same time, they need to record how Shrek cultivates them, what analysis they have for that type of martial soul, and Shrek's cultivation methods."

"These things are actually the best data. The students we send don't need to spy on anything; they just need to study hard and keep good records. Students with strong strength will show obvious changes very quickly, so we need to send some students who are not very strong. As for those members with strong talent, I suggest they continue to major in Soul Guidance Devices. After all, very few people can dual-cultivate martial souls and Soul Guidance Devices. If they dual-cultivate, it will result in neither martial souls nor Soul Guidance achieving anything. Therefore, before we have fully researched the fusion of martial souls and Soul Guidance, I do not suggest that our powerful Soul Guidance Department students go to Shrek Academy to study."

"For us, what we need now is to wait for the reports submitted by our students after they return. This kind of report is best if it is as clear as the experimental data of the Soul Guidance Department. With these things, although we cannot reach the level of Shrek, at least we can have a profound understanding of Shrek's Martial Soul Department. Soul Guidance experiments are often verified through a large amount of data, and the same is true for martial souls."

After saying this, Luo Yu bowed to the people present, which also represented that Luo Yu's speech had come to an end.

However, these were only a general introduction; the truly detailed introduction was piled up in that thick plan document. However, the more the old Emperor read this plan document, the more he liked it. It provided explanations from many aspects. The old Emperor knew that Xu Tianran also participated in these plan documents, but he believed more that most of it came from Luo Yu.

Because many things in this plan document were difficult for him and the court officials to think of. Even if Xu Tianran participated, with Xu Tianran's tough methods, he would most likely not use such methods full of conspiracies and tricks.

"Crown Prince, do you have anything to say?" The old Emperor knew that he would eventually have to hand over the Sun Moon Empire to him in the future, so he also planned to use this to test Xu Tianran's bottom line.

"Father Emperor, this son does indeed have some countermeasures, but not in terms of exchange and study, but in another aspect."