Chapter 63: Tests; Spiritual Power

News of class zero's establishment quickly spread throughout the academy, turning its five students into celebrities in an instant. Naturally, they couldn't reveal what they were doing in class, so the curiosity of others died down after a few days and the academy returned to its usual tranquility.

As their only teacher, Wu Zhangkong provided them with plenty of guidance. Their curriculum required that they study different theories from those of regular classes and become more inclined toward combat training. And just as President Yu Zhen promised, the academy poured a tremendous amount of resources into the class. Regardless of whether it were the teaching methods, nourishing food, teachers, or facilities, all were provided and of the highest quality.

The only difference in this is that Mu Xi was only allowed to enter combat training, being that she is still in the advance grade and all that.

Ten days later, Xiu Ye wasn't the only one 'fighting' Wu Zhangkong, as the day after their first lesson, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, Gu Yue and Mu Xi had all been under the fists and kicks–uh, teachings of the cold and strict teacher.

Wang Jinxi fared a bit better than the others as his Bone Dragon King martial soul made his body much stronger. But for Zhang Yangzi and Xie Xie… they were definitely suffering. Zhang Yangzi was an Agility-Control System Soul Master and Xie Xie was a pure Agility System Soul Master so both of their bodies were suited for nimbleness and couldn't compare in toughness with Tang Wulin or Wang Jinxi.

From the very beginning, Wu Zhangkong didn't even know the concept of 'starting off leniently'. Instead, each strike of his pointing stick and fingers would create a pain that penetrated all the way to their bone marrow! Yet, despite this unfathomable pain they were subjected to, they didn't suffer any real injuries.

In Wu Zhangkong's words: 'Only pain can deepen your learning!'

The only other people who was fortunate enough to be spared were Gu Yue and Mu Xi. Perhaps it was because they were girls, but Wu Zhangkong reined in a bit of his harshness when he taught them. Even when the occasional pointer struck, it only made them feel a bit numb.

All the while, Xiu Ye feel slightly displeased the entire time. He doesn't really have any problem of helping his fellow classmates grow stronger, by gruelling them with intense exercises and sparring against them, but his problem lies with Wu Zhangkong

Sure, he is still able to fight against his teacher during their demonstrations, but it all didn't end up with them using their some of their full power. An example is them still not releasing their martial souls.

Xiu Ye let out a frustrated sigh while he nonchalantly dodges the brutal and precise strikes of both Gu Yue and Mu Xi, surprisingly, the two worked with great synergy. Was it because they were the only females in the class?

Xiu Ye swayed his head to the left, dodging the straight punch of Mu Xi, he grabbed her arm and the leg of Gu Yue, who was about to land a sharp front snap kick to his face, with an iron grip.

'Its only been ten days and they've already progressed this much, especially having this much teamwork, heh, not bad.'

"Haa, haa... why can't we hit you?"

"Do you have ultra instinct or something?"

The girls complained simultaneously, panting hard as sweat dripped down their faces and bodies.

Xiu Ye smirked as he let their respective limbs down. "Or something."

Gu Yue growled while Mu Xi giggled, causing her blossoming cleavage to shake in its restrictive clothing.

Xiu Ye tried to not stare and looked away, his face slowly started to redden.

The girls didn't notice his odd behavior and stated talking to each other.

Currently, they were in their training room prepared by the academy. The room was 30 cubic meters and had a dome ceiling, giving it a sophisticated feeling. The room was mostly filled with training equipment and matts.

Due to not wrinkle their school uniforms, the seven students were given training uniforms. The boys were given skin tight different colored sports shirts and short pants, while the girls were given almost the same as well.

"Today we will be running a few tests on your bodies so combat training will be suspended." Wu Zhangkong announced this piece of good news the moment he entered the training room. Almost all of the students let out a relief sigh.

They all harbored a fear of combat training with him. That bone-piercing pain was simply too much.

Except for Xiu Ye and Tang Wulin. Xiu Ye and Tang Wulin were the only two students who are able to stand up to Wu Zhangkong's training and fought back. In the case of the former, he has powerful fire sun attribute to counter his teacher's ice, rich combat experience and combat techniques already. While in the case of Tang Wulin, his hacks called Golden Dragon King bloodline that makes his physical body both strong and durable to handle the cold and pain.

Wu Zhangkong brought them to a room that was filled with a scientific feeling. The interior of the room was covered in a layer of a silver metal which made them feel as if they had entered a silver world the moment they stepped inside.

Table after table of strange apparatuses were arranged within this room.

"We'll start with the spiritual power test. Xie Xie, you're first."

Wu Zhangkong was holding onto a form, ready to record Xie Xie's results.

"31."

Xie Xie's spiritual power growth was quite normal. Compared to last time, his spiritual power had increased by two.

After Xie Xie was Wang Jinxi. His spiritual power was quite low, a mere 18 points.

"Wang Jinxi, you must spare no effort in improving your spiritual power otherwise you won't be able to fuse with any more spirit souls in the future," Wu Zhangkong dully advised him.

Wang Jinxi was normally very quiet. Just like usual, he merely nodded after hearing Wu Zhangkong's words.

Zhang Yangzi's turn was next.

"Spiritual power of 41. Not bad. If you do your best you might be able to break through to the intermediate stage of the Spirit Origin realm within a year."

Tang Wulin was the next to go.

"106." Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi were speechless.

More than 100 spiritual power? That signifies him at the Spirit Connection Realm! Every human being starts at the Spirit Origin Realm when they are born. Everything started from the origin and would grow from there. The moment one was born, they would be in the Spirit Origin realm with the most basic of spiritual powers. Spiritual power in the Spirit Origin realm was enough to bear a yellow spirit soul.

The Spirit Connection realm was when the heart could connect with the spirit, conveying simple thoughts. Once one attained Spirit Connection, one would be able to truly control one's spiritual power and have it move to one's needs as well as being able to support two yellow spirit souls or one purple spirit soul.

There didn't seem to be much of a difference between Spirit Origin and Spirit Connection, but it was truly a qualitative leap! It was only natural for the trio to be shocked. After all, reaching the Spirit Connection realm meant that Tang Wulin could already fuse with a purple spirit soul.

They can beat everything that there isn't a single first grader, no, in the entire intermediate division that has an equal or more spiritual power than Tang Wulin.

So forgive their comically dumbfounded faces when they saw Gu Yue's results that came up next.

"183." Even Wu Zhangkong's eyes showed a glint of amazement. Clearly, Gu Yue's spiritual power was something that even he was surprised about. He knew that the girl's martial soul made it so she had to have a more than average spiritual power than other soul masters, so she can carefully control and manipulate the numerous elements. But he didn't think that it would improve that fast.

What Wu Zhangkong doesn't know however, Gu Yue's sudden spiritual power improvement was due to the pressure caused by a certain someone's show of trust towards her.

Next to second last was Mu Xi, showing everyone her spiritual power to be 150. Which was above average and is expected for her to have that level of spiritual power, due to both her age and martial soul usage.

A human's spiritual power would grow as their body matured, increasing all the way until they reached forty years of age. After the age of forty, however, an ordinary person's body would begin to deteriorate, but Soul Masters could continue increasing their spiritual power until they were sixty years old.

Mu Xi is currently thirteen years old and is about to reach fourteen, so it was certain that her spiritual power would progress at a certain level. Then her martial soul help boost her improvement.

Her martial soul is called the Shining Sun, it is a top fire-type martial soul. While it isn't an Ultimate martial soul, it's not too far off. Furthermore, it can tap into the power of the sun to strengthen the owner. Due to constantly using her martial soul to heat up the metals she uses to forged, taught by Xiu Ye recently, it had made her spiritual power gradually increase as she uses spiritual power to control the heat and flames of her martial soul.

The other and most important information about this martial soul, is that only the direct descendants of the Sun Moon Empire royal family could only have. This means Mu Xi is of a royal bloodline and is the rightful heir of the entire continent if the Federation, the government, ceases to exist or hierarchy is brought back.

In other words, she's the freaking princess of the Douluo Continent. Though not many realizes this.

"What do you think Xiu Ye's result is?" Xie Xie whispered to Tang Wulin as they see Xiu Ye starting to get tested. "Could it reach 100?"

Tang Wulin laughed. "100? Do you seriously think that his spiritual power is at a measly 100? I'm thinking that it's 1000."

Xie Xie was stunned. "You're so confident?"

Gu Yue added. "Just shut up and watch." Subconsciously, she clenched her hands.

'Let's see just how strong are you.'

The test was beginning!

This spiritual power testing machine was the most advanced one the academy had. It displayed the spiritual power on a graduated scale with different colors. Thus, one could differentiate the spiritual power level based on the color shown.

Spirit Origin was white. The number representing Xiu Ye's spiritual power kept on rising, and soon, it surpassed Tang Wulin's 106 points. Making the scale turn yellow from white.

It steadily increased. 110 points. 150 points. 200 points…

300 points...

400 points...

500 points...

The scale had turned into purple from yellow!

Almost everyone, except Gu Yue, was stunned from Xiu Ye's results.

500 points of spiritual power! That signifies him to have reached the Spirit Sea Realm! In the Spirit Sea realm, the spirit was as vast as the sea and one's spiritual power could be considered to have finally attained a high enough level to be considered the foundation for an expert. The ones who want to be God Rank Mecha Masters would need to have at least reached the Spirit Sea realm.

At this level, one would be able to support 5 yellow spirit souls or 3 purple spirit souls. In fact, one could even support a single black spirit soul! Xiu Ye can support a black, ten thousand years old, spirit soul!

'I knew he was talented, but I didn't think he would be this talented...' Wu Zhangkong watched the still increasing numbers of the machine with bated breath. He wanted to know the limits of this prodigy named Xiu Ye!

The numbers had already breached the 1,000 numbers and continued on increasing. 2,000. 3,000. 4,000. 5,000...

The scale on the machine turned into a deep black color.

Even Wu Zhangkong couldn't help but gawked with a clear expression of being speechless.

5,000 points of spiritual power, Spirit Abyss Realm! Wu Zhangkong can bet confidently that in the entire continent, no, world that there is no one has reached Spirit Abyss Realm at Xiu Ye's age.

The Spirit Abyss realm was like an abyssal prison, both heaven and hell. The upper boundary was heaven while the lower boundary was hell. Everything the mind could grasp was gathered into one. Peak spiritual power was fundamental to possessing a legendary spirit soul. At this rank, one could fuse with any level of spirit soul, even orange or red spirit souls!

Normally speaking, the Spirit Abyss realm was the limit for humans...

'Its still increasing!' Wu Zhangkong's eyes threatened to bulged out.

6,000. 7,000. 8,000. 9,000.... Then, it stopped. The numbers disappeared and revealed a word: error.

It was to be expected that the machine would malfunction, after all, the academy had bought this machine, which have a limited scanning ability, to analyze students only. How could they have predicted that there was a monster that have a abnormal level of spiritual power?

Xiu Ye whistled at the showed results but was inwardly disappointed, he wanted to finally have a good grasp of what level of spiritual power he is in.

Wu Zhangkong, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi and Mu Xi stared at the malfunction machine with stunned expressions. They quickly snapped out of their state when they heard Xiu Ye making noise, and turned towards him.

They stared at him with blank expressions, as a single thought registered in their minds.

'His power, is over 9,000!!'

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