Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

William wanted to tell him how terribly bad his techniques were, and he had to restart learning all of them from the rock bottom.

"Ahem… What I can say is that your luck is great…" William paused before adding, "In fact, all of your techniques aren't that good. You committed many mistakes and, in my opinion… You'll need to restart learning all of them from the start."

"..."

William knew he was going hard over this good lad. But there was no other way to say it but in such a way. William knew trying to amend these techniques wasn't going to work.

These techniques were taught on the wrong basis. If William tried to advise him right now without breaking all these techniques apart, teach John the right techniques, then this lad wasn't going to be taught anything at all.

"Can you please explain in more detail?" John kept his silence for a few minutes while opening and closing his mouth repeatedly, as he didn't know what he should say.

William just said his luck was great and then he said that all he learnt was just useless and wrong. He learnt all this from the masters of the academy, and he was sure these techniques were also taught to other kids from big clans and names as well.

John wanted to question William, yet when he recalled how William impressed even the master who taught him two of these techniques in this year, he swallowed what he wanted to say and changed it to ask for an explanation.

And when William explained things in plain words to him, John finally got the general picture.

William didn't elaborate from where he learnt all this. He knew if he was ever asked about anything from now on, he'd lean for the perfect answer of his mysterious master to solve things out.

"Then teach me," unlike what William expected, John didn't even hesitate for the slightest, "teach me everything and I'll start learning them from scratch."

William was surprised by his fast response and resolve. If it was someone else, if it was even him, he'd be hesitating about doing this.

After all, once John started learning the new techniques, his old ones would be rendered powerless and useless. John couldn't think about using the three techniques he had right now or else his progress at the new ones would be halted and even a backlash would happen.

"Are you sure?" William slowly asked, just to make sure this lad knew what he asked for.

"Teach me," John said without hesitation and with firm eyes, "I want to learn the right techniques."

"Even at the cost of losing all the effort you put in learning your current three techniques?"

"Yes."

"Reason?" William felt curious though. He decided to teach this lad whatever he wanted. He seemed like a good seedling that needed just enough care to bloom into a mighty and formidable tree.

John looked firm as he explained by saying: "I don't like the life I'm currently living. If there is a chance to be stronger, then why won't I embrace it?"

William looked directly into the youth's eyes. He saw nothing but the willingness to move forward, relentlessly seeking power. He didn't feel any ill intentions coming from this youngster, and that made him admire that youth even more.

"Cool… I'll teach you the three basic techniques first and then you'll go back and train on them."

"Will we do it here?" John was still worried about breaking anything in this place. It seemed something was bothering him about this, like an old memory or a warning or something like that.

But for William none of this mattered. William started to perform the right way to execute these techniques. And while he acted, he kept explaining.

"The muddy steps you performed lacked the right movement of spirit power. You only circulated it on your lower half starting from the torso. That isn't all. You need to connect your mind with your lower half. After all, the movements produced by the technique must be unpredictable and not follow a single pattern…"

While speaking, William's legs started to move. He didn't train yet on any common technique in this life. However, his past experience helped a lot.

His body started stiff first before it flowed smoothly later on. It seemed like someone who lost his memories in an accident was starting to regain them all at once.

In front of John, William started to move in a path that he could never read. The movements of William showed him exactly how weak and useless his earlier learnt Muddy Steps technique was.

William didn't linger a lot on performing and instead focused more on explaining the theory behind the techniques. The more he spoke, the more shocked John became.

He thought at first that William was exaggerating about how his techniques were useless. However, when he saw what William was capable of, he couldn't help but agree with such crazy comments.

William's techniques were far more powerful and far-fetched than the ones he learnt at the academy. Gradually John started to get absorbed in listening and learning, even after William stopped his lecture and demonstration.

"Good lad," William saw the trance status John entered after accepting his teaching. William didn't linger there anymore and left the area while John stood in his place motionless with closed eyes.

A state of trance was something fortuitous to any spirit master. For William to see John entering it after listening to his teachings made the former glad and proud of John.

William moved back towards his residence, not knowing that what he did here was already monitored by someone.

After he left for a few minutes, a shadow appeared coming out from one building. He was an old man, one that William met before.

He was the academy headmaster!

"This kid is really full of surprises…" The look over the old man wasn't telling what he was really thinking about. His eyes kept looking at the spot where William demonstrated the three techniques at.