Lin Xi sat in a South Star Flower cluster that hadn’t bloomed yet, drawing circles on the ground before him with a dry stick.

He was someone Vice Principal Xia and Xiao Mingxuan designated as someone with ‘Divine General’ aptitude, so the academy would naturally invest more into him than into any of the others.

However, Vice Principal Xia and Xiao Mingxuan definitely wouldn’t allow Lin Xi to wantonly enjoy the academy’s resources, directly let Lin Xi use the academy as a backing, treat the academy like his own weapon.

True experts definitely didn’t come from greenhouses.

Regardless of whether it was Wenren Cangyue who shocked an entire region, or the Great Mang cultivator Roadside Li Ku who could march into an army alone, purge a first rank general and his trusted aid, they all relied on their own strength to become powerful step by step.

The academy wanted Lin Xi to figure things out himself, to investigate on his own, to cultivate on his own.

It was because for Vice Principal Xia and Xiao Mingxuan… there was no way the academy could forever be a backing for a ‘Divine General’. When Lin Xi truly became a ‘Divine General’, the academy would instead rely on him.

If one didn’t often think for themselves, they would forget how to think. Their ability...