The path leading from the training ground at the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain is a bluestone staircase carved directly into the hard rock mass. There is only an arm-thick cold iron chain on the outside as a guardrail.
The mountain is densely covered with all kinds of green vegetation, the water mist birds rise from Poseidon Lake, and although the bluestone steps are slippery, Xu Zihuang and Zhang Lexuan are both soul masters with strong cultivation, and they are not affected at all by this.
The cool soul-guided light at the edge of the bluestone stairs scattered on Zhang Lexuan's blue hair, giving it a strange hazy beauty.
Xu Zihuang followed Zhang Lexuan silently, his eyes clear, out of admiration.
Zhang Lexuan's figure is not as hot as Ma Xiaotao's, but her round and gentle temperament makes it easier for people to fall in love with her.
If Xu Zihuang is pretending to be a public lover whose appearance and temperament perfectly match female aesthetics, then senior sister Zhang Lexuan is like that unattainable dream goddess.
It seems to be right in front of you, but when you really want to get close and touch it, it will make you look dirty unconsciously.
Of course Xu Zihuang is an exception. Because of his background and childhood experiences, he has never had such an inferiority complex.
Zhang Lexuan, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and turned around. She met Xu Zihuang's clear eyes and smiled softly.
"Tianhuang, what's wrong?"
"It's just that I was attracted to Senior Sister unknowingly." Xu Zihuang smiled gently. The words were obviously a little greasy, but they were so frank and natural when they came out of his mouth.
Zhang Lexuan smiled slightly and did not respond.
Xu Zihuang was the first person to say such straightforward words to him since he became the senior sister of the inner court. Although she felt a little novel in her heart, it was not enough to stir her self-enclosed heart.
And from the beginning, she regarded Xu Zihuang as a relatively close junior.
Zhang Lexuan waved to Xu Zihuang, and waited until Xu Zihuang came to his side before continuing to walk towards the foot of the mountain.
"Tianhuang, what do you think of our Shrek Academy?"
Xu Zihuang's heart moved. Although he guessed the meaning of Zhang Lexuan's words, he still gave an ambiguous answer.
"The number one college in mainland China is well-deserved."
The smile on Zhang Lexuan's pretty face did not fade and she continued to ask.
"With your talent, you will definitely be able to enter the inner academy within one or two years. If the academy is willing to train you with all its strength, will you be willing to stay in the academy in the future?"
Xu Zihuang glanced sideways at Zhang Lexuan, and after pondering for a moment, he deliberately pretended to have a bitter expression.
"Senior Sister, in fact, I have nowhere to go. This year of studying at Shrek College has been the happiest and most relaxing time in my twelve years of life. Through my interactions with you, Senior Sister Wu, and Senior Senior Chu,
From my contact with Senior Ye and the others, I can tell that the atmosphere in the inner courtyard is very good. If I get admitted to the inner courtyard one day, I should also like it here."
What he said was extremely sincere, and his face was firm, which made people moved. But only he knew exactly what he was thinking in his heart.
Zhang Lexuan's gaze towards Xu Zihuang became more and more intimate and approving, and then she nodded heavily.
"I believe you will really like it here."
"..."
The two of them talked all the way until they arrived at the shore of Poseidon Lake.
"Sister, please send me here. I can leave on my own later."
"Yeah." Zhang Lexuan responded with a smile and watched Xu Zihuang gradually rise into the sky.
After standing there for a long time, until Xu Zihuang's figure disappeared into the night sky in the distance, he moved lightly towards the Poseidon Pavilion.
"Weng——", as a crisp trembling sound sounded, a thin dark red crystal mirror quickly condensed in mid-air. Xu Zihuang, who was above Poseidon Lake, stepped on it with his right foot, and his figure took off again.
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Looking at it from a distance, it looks as if it is flying in the air, elegant and unrestrained.
The cold wind blowing in his face caused a few strands of purple hair to fly up on his forehead and between his temples. There was still a gentle smile on his face. But the depths of his deep purple eyes were unusually calm.
The coldness deep in his eyes was completely opposite to the hot-blooded young man who was deeply touched before. He stepped heavily on the condensed crystal mirror again, and his figure was obscured by a layer of dense water mist.
Poseidon Lake covers a very vast area, and at his speed, it would take at least nearly a quarter of an hour to cross the vast lake and enter the martial soul area.
Taking advantage of this rare free time, he recalled in his mind his battle with the ten-thousand-year-old man-faced demon spider this afternoon.
Although his soul power is only level 40 now, due to the excellent quality of his soul power, the total amount of soul power has reached the soul king level. Coupled with his four powerful soul skills, his comprehensive combat power is at the soul king level.
It can be considered a leader.
If the soul skills stored in the fourth soul skill rubbing are powerful enough, they can even threaten soul masters at the soul emperor level.
That's how the ten-thousand-year-old man-faced demon spider suffered a huge loss on him and ended up dying.
However, if he normally encountered the Ten Thousand-Year-Old Man-Faced Demon Spider in the Soul Beast Forest, he would definitely not explode with all his strength like he did this afternoon.
He is not the only one who is restricted by the venue, but the Ten Thousand-Year Man-Faced Demon Spider is also the same. It can only be said that in a certain range of venues, the advantage of his third soul skill Time Disruption is really too great.
If it were in a vast soul beast forest, and the human-faced demon spider had been entangled from a distance, relying on its suppression, it would be hard to predict who would have the last laugh.
A quarter of an hour later, Xu Zihuang landed firmly on the flat floor of the lakeside path and returned directly to the dormitory. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Tuoba Yu, Cao Jinxuan, and Zhou Sichen crowded on the seats in the living room of the dormitory.
Talking and laughing with each other.
Seeing Xu Zihuang pushing open the door, the conversation in the living room suddenly stopped.
The three of them looked at Xu Zihuang, each looking weirder than the other.
Under the gaze of everyone, Xu Zihuang calmly found an empty seat and sat down, put his hands on the back of his neck and said with a smile.
"You guys keep talking, why did I become mute as soon as I came in?"
Although the previous Yu Tianhuang was very powerful, it was still not beyond the scope of their cognition. In the afternoon, Yu Tianhuang killed a human-faced demon spider with ten thousand years of cultivation alone, and there were many people behind them.
The background is small, and what it means is very clear to them.
This means that Yu Tianhuang and them are not from the same world at all.
Seeing that Yu Tianhuang's attitude towards them was still the same as before, Tuoba Yu, Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan finally felt relieved.
The young man's heart is very simple, but he is also very sensitive.
"You can't blame us. If you weren't squad leader, the way you killed the Ten Thousand-year-Faced Demon Spider in the afternoon was so shocking. I was almost scared to death by you before." Zhou Sichen shouted from the side.
As soon as Zhou Sixen said this, Cao Jinxuan, a good brother and bad friend, immediately patted his chest and laughed.
"It's true, squad leader. I testify that Sichen really peed."
Tuoba Yu said cooperatively: "Really? I don't believe it. Why don't you, Sichen, perform it again in person?"
"Go, go, go -" Zhou Sichen cursed, pretending to fight with the two of them.
After Zhou Sichen's interruption, the atmosphere among everyone instantly relaxed a lot. But if you want to get along as naturally as before, it still takes some time to adapt.
Through subsequent conversations with the three of them, Xu Zihuang learned that nearly half of the students in Class 1 and Class 2 of the second grade had passed the promotion assessment. Tuoba Yu, Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan were also among them.
It is worth mentioning that these three guys have successfully passed the academy's core disciple assessment and officially became the core disciples of the Wuhun Department.
Tomorrow morning, the remaining students will be assessed for promotion. After all, there are more than 100 students in the two classes, and they all need to be assessed one by one. It will definitely not be completed in one afternoon. As for the students who have passed the assessment, they will be assessed tomorrow.
In the morning, you can allocate your time freely.
The next morning, Xu Zihuang and Tuoba Yu had a good time and practiced together in the dormitory all morning.
After moving to the more spacious second-year dormitory, everyone has their own private room, and Xu Zihuang doesn't have the same scruples as before when practicing.
However, with his current level of cultivation, a whole morning of training is just a drop in the bucket. This also makes him more eager to break through his mental power to a tangible and intangible realm, and use mental power to wrap his soul power for training so as to isolate himself from the extreme.
The impact of thunder.
Together with Tuoba Yu, they ate a top-notch dish specially provided by the core disciples of the martial arts department in the cafeteria. Before the bell rang in the afternoon, the two of them arrived at the classroom of Class 1, Grade 2.
Because everyone came to class almost at the right time, now all the students in Class 1 of the second grade have arrived.
After the upgrade assessment, there were less than fifty students left out of the original sixty or so.
But when Xu Zihuang walked into the classroom, everyone focused their attention on him without exception. Especially Dai Huabin and Wang Dong. However, Dai Huabin looked at Xu Zihuang with very complicated eyes, while Wang Dong was not hostile to Xu Zihuang.
reduce.
Having twin martial souls, he has a sense of superiority deep in his heart. Even though Yu Tianhuang showed amazing strength yesterday, he still stubbornly believes that his future achievements must be higher than Yu Tianhuang's.
This afternoon's class is a theoretical class on identifying the types and age of soul beasts, and it is still taught by Wang Yan.
Wang Yan stood behind the podium and looked at everyone with a serious face.
"I personally hope that everyone in Class 1 of the second grade can stay, but unfortunately this is the college's regulations. The requirements for each subsequent upgrade assessment will be more stringent each time. Don't slack off and encourage each other.
I dare say that as long as you can successfully survive these few years, when you graduate from our school at Shrek Academy, you will definitely be considered outstanding among your peers."
"Don't lose confidence because some students are too good. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, try your best to catch up."
After saying this, he looked around at everyone in the class and showed a gentle smile again.
"Okay, let's start class."
In this class, many students were thoughtful and absent-minded, and Wang Yan would deliberately not wake them up.
Just like that, it was time for get out of class to end soon.
Before class this afternoon, Ning Tian asked a student from Grade 1 Class 2 to tell him that Teacher Fan Yu wanted him to go to the Soul Guidance Department this afternoon.
Xu Zihuang simply walked out of the classroom alone and silently came to Poseidon Lake.
Class 1 of the second grade get out of class ended early, so most of the students had already left the classroom.
Xiao Xiao, who had not gotten up from her seat for a long time, kept looking at Xu Zihuang's back, and stood up and walked out of the classroom as if she had gathered enough courage. Before she could take a few steps, a tall blond girl happened to pass by her.
He walked towards Xu Zihuang one step at a time.
Xiao Xiao stopped as if she was discouraged. In order not to let others notice her strangeness, she immediately changed direction and left Shrek Square in front of the teaching building pretending to be natural.
The blond girl was Ning Tian, Class 3, Grade 2, with an elegant smile on her pretty face, but she glanced at Xiao Xiao from the corner of her eye.
She must have paid attention to Xiao Xiao, a genius with twin martial souls.
Outstanding young geniuses will never lack admirers, and she has long been mentally prepared for this.
But she still couldn't help but feel a sense of urgency in her heart. Yu Tianhuang was really too good, so good that she, the next heir to the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect, no longer had absolute self-confidence.
After calming down her emotions, she came face to face with Xu Zihuang, smiling like a flower.
"Tianhuang."
"Let's go." Xu Zihuang nodded, without saying anything else, and walked side by side with Ning Tian toward the area where the Soul Guidance Department was located.
In the last semester, they often went to the Soul Guidance Department to study together like this, it was as natural as if they had practiced it countless times.
While walking on the lakeside path, Ning Tian suddenly looked sideways at Xu Zihuang and asked, "By the way, that twin martial arts genius named Xiao Xiao is from your class, right?"
As he spoke, he carefully looked at Xu Zihuang's facial expression.
"There is such a person." Xu Zihuang responded without changing his expression and met Ning Tian's gaze.
"What's wrong?"
He didn't know whether it was because of shyness or a guilty conscience. Although Ning Tian hid it very well, Xu Zihuang still noticed her evasive gaze at that moment.
However, Ning Tian quickly returned to his graceful look and shook his head casually.
"Yeah. I just happened to see her when I came here."
The two people, who had their own thoughts, chatted all the way. After about half a quarter of an hour, they arrived at the soul guidance system experimental area.
Today the laboratory is not as clean as usual. There are more than twenty students in it, and most of them seem to be over fourteen years old, and a few are even eighteen or nineteen years old.
In the battle area of the test area, two students were fighting at this time. There were also several teachers nearby who were recording something. They should also be completing the upgrade assessment of the soul guidance system.
Completely different from the upgrade assessment of the martial arts system, the combat method of the soul guidance system's upgrade assessment is mainly achieved by relying on soul guidance devices. The two students each had a layer of light shield flickering on their bodies, which seemed to be emitted by a defensive soul guidance device.
At the same time, they were attacking each other. There were several groups of light and shadow floating in the sky, as if they were watching them.
The groups of lights and shadows suspended in the air are also a kind of soul guidance device, called the mobile soul guidance shield. It is a defensive soul guidance device that can be controlled remotely. A soul guidance device of this level requires at least a level 4 soul engineer or above.
It can be controlled. Its function is also obvious. Once the defense of the students who are fighting is broken, these mobile soul shields will immediately block the attacks of both sides to protect the students.
At this time, the competition between the two students had reached the final moment, and beams of light intertwined in the air, creating a dazzling brilliance.
Xu Zihuang subconsciously used his golden boy's martial soul instinct to capture the trajectories of these soul-guiding beams. His mind moved slightly and he looked at the student on the left.
As if in response to his gaze, the battle was decided.
"Bang——" The soul shield on the student on the left exploded and turned into spots of light all over the sky. Immediately afterwards, the mobile soul shield came in front of him, blocking the remaining attacks of the opponent.
"Zifeng beats Moko. The points are plus one." A teacher standing next to the test area said, then lowered his head and recorded it.
Standing next to the testing area were Fan Yu, a special teacher of the Soul Guidance Department, and He Caitou, a tall, dark-skinned man.
Fan Yu and He Caitou also noticed Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian walking into the experimental area. Of course, it was Xu Zihuang who mainly concerned them.
Ning Tian had long been accustomed to this. He bowed slightly to Fan Yu politely and went to other areas by himself to try to use some soul tools.
Every area here is guided by teachers from the soul guidance department, so safety is guaranteed.
Xu Zihuang stepped forward quickly.
"Teacher Fanyu."
Then he smiled at He Caitou again.
"With senior brother."
He Caitou smiled honestly.
"Senior Brother Yu, I heard that you really shined in the upgrade assessment of the martial arts department this time. Awesome, really awesome." As he said that, He Caitou gave Xu Zihuang a thumbs up.
Fan Yu also looked at Xu Zihuang.
"Tianhuang, I called you here today because I wanted to ask if you have time during the public holiday this week. I have recently developed a batch of special custom-made soul cannons, and I need you and Caitou to leave the academy to test the effects in the field."
"Teacher Fan Yu, are it just me and senior brother He?" Xu Zihuang was startled at first and looked directly into Fan Yu's eyes.
Fan Yu nodded.
"Yes, just the two of you. You are responsible for using it, while Caitou is responsible for recording the data."
Xu Zihuang pretended to think for a moment and then said seriously: "It should be fine this week.
"Okay, I'll let Caitou inform you when the time comes." Fan Yu settled the matter quickly, looking at Xu Zihuang with something strange in his eyes.
To kill a ten-thousand-year-old man-faced demon spider head-on with his Soul Sect cultivation, such a strong combat power must have excellent talent in martial soul cultivation. But such a genius is also the most suitable candidate for his plan.
In fact, Poseidon Pavilion had long discussed the decision regarding Yu Tianhuang's future cultivation direction. The final decision was that everything was decided by Yu Tianhuang himself.
That's why he found this opportunity to let Yu Tianhuang and He Caitou go out to test the power of soul guidance devices in the field, hoping that Yu Tianhuang would remain interested in soul guidance devices in the future.
Testing the power of the custom-installed soul cannon is the next best thing.
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There is another chapter, I will post it if I correct the typos