Soul master type

Zhou Yi still had a smile on her face. "But I never said that you wouldn't need to run! School has only just started, yet you've already fought with your roommate. You two really have future prospects. Thus, since you two have so many future prospects, the difficulty of your test should be harder than that of the other's. Moreover, you two of you should share both delight and hardship with your fellow students. The amount of time you two have to finish those one hundred laps will be the same as the others. Look, a moment has already passed while you two weren't being careful!"

Wang Dong still wanted to say something, but he was pulled away by Huo Yuhao, who didn't hesitate to turn around and run outside.

Although Wang Dong felt somewhat depressed, he still followed Huo Yuhao out to run. "What'd you pull me away for? This 'Teacher Zhou' is truly a lunatic."

Huo Yuhao unhappily replied, "Can you beat her in a verbal battle? Can you beat her in a fight? If you can't do either of these things, and you still want to stay in Shrek Academy, then you'll have to follow her orders. Quickly run, I believe that her earlier words about expelling anyone who's unable to finish a hundred laps aren't false at all."

Shrek Plaza was right outside the freshman school building. It wasn't considered too big; a single lap was roughly three hundred metres or so. To normal people, running a hundred laps around the plaza was definitely not a simple task. However, to these young students who had the foundation of a soul master, it wasn't actually that hard. As long as they ran seriously, they'd manage to finish running their hundred laps within two hours.

After Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong had joined the 'great army' of running, many sounds of schadenfreude immediately echoed out. However, the two people didn't even bother to care about them. They were already behind by fifteen minutes, so they had to make the most of every minute that they had.

Whilst running, Wang Dong suddenly asked Huo Yuhao, "What skill did you use to beat me that day? I still haven't been able to figure it out. Could it be that your martial soul is a spiritual-type martial soul?"

Huo Yuhao nodded.

Wang Dong was stunned, "It's really a spiritual-type martial soul! No wonder I couldn't see what your martial soul was after you'd used your soul ring. At least my loss can't be considered too much of an injustice."

Huo Yuhao felt slightly helpless as he replied, "You're too arrogant. If you'd also used your martial soul, I would've definitely had no chance at all. I can sense that your soulforce is much stronger than mine."

Wang Dong was slightly pleased as he said, "That's obvious. Amongst this year's freshmen, the number of students who can compare with me in terms of strength are as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns. You merely have a single ten year soul ring, thus you're naturally not my opponent."

Huo Yuhao disliked Wang Dong's arrogant appearance. "Don't forget that you just lost to that 'ten year soul ring'."

"Ugh…" Wang Dong unhappily replied, "I get it, let's not talk about this anymore. Seeing that you protected me in front of that perverted teacher, I'll consider the previous matter settled. In the future, I'll take care of you. If anyone wants to bully you, I'll protect you."

Huo Yuhao was left speechless. "I don't need your protection." After saying this, he sped up his pace and ran forward.

Wang Dong followed Huo Yuhao as he sped up. The physical fitness of his body was much better than Huo Yuhao's, so keeping up with his increase in speed was effortless to him.

Wang Dong was slightly dissatisfied as he said, "You're too unreasonable!"

Huo Yuhao glared at him and replied, "If you'd treat me as a student on equal terms, you wouldn't have to have this kind of feeling."

Wang Dong curled his lip. "Since I was young, there's never been someone the same age as me who was able to make me treat them as an equal."

Huo Yuhao humphed, and stopped looking at him. "When words get sour, adding extra words is meaningless."

Wang Dong also stopped talking. He suddenly sped up, overtaking Huo Yuhao as he used an astonishing speed to run around Shrek Plaza.

It had to be said that even though Wang Dong was arrogant, his cultivation truly stood out from the masses. Furthermore, his physical fitness was extremely strong. Once he'd sped up, there was only one from Class 1 who could actually catch up to him or even surpassed him at ease .

At that moment, Zhou Yi had already arrived beside Shrek Plaza. She simply stood there as she calmly watched the students run. Her gaze was quickly attracted to that Student after rembering something she knew that a spiritual type soul master With 32 rank cultivation, Bing Wulin, then Wang Dong, and then her gaze changed slightly before returning to normal.

Time quickly passed. As the number of completed laps increased, the breathing of the running students gradually became rougher. The physical fitness and cultivation level of the students was revealed at this moment. Zhou Yi had never said that they were prohibited from using the assistance of soulforce, so everyone had started using soulforce to recover their physical strength in order to continue their long-distance running.

There were more than ten people running at the very front of the group; their speed wasn't slow at all. Of the group, the leader was Bing Wulin with his back the second lead wasWang Dong . Although he'd come out late, he'd managed to catch up to the people who had the most laps completed within an hour. He'd even overtaken them. Just looking at his appearance, he didn't seem to have used up much energy; his speed hadn't decreased at all the entire time.

After the people at the front of the class, there was a large group of students. There were at least seventy students within this group, and they all ran at a relatively even speed. Running didn't seem to be too exhausting for them. Looking at their speed, it wouldn't be a problem for them to complete a hundred laps within their two allotted hours.

Behind them were still more than ten students who'd been left behind in the back. Huo Yuhao was amongst this group. For the sake of catching up to the students in front, Huo Yuhao had used a very quick speed to start running as soon as he'd started. However, the drain on his physical strength had started increasing as soon as he finished running twenty or so laps. Not only was he the last person in the class, the number of laps that he'd run was even fewer than the others, due to him having started fifteen minutes later.

More than half of the total time had already passed when Zhou Yi's voice suddenly echoed out in everyone's ears, "Speed up and use my location as the finishing point."

In the middle of her speaking, Bing Wulin and Wang Dong had swept past her with a "swoosh", becoming the first person and second personq to complete the hundred laps.

After using an extremely fast speed to finish the hundred laps, Wang Dong's handsome face had also turned rosy. He panted slightly as he slowed his pace, and he finally stopped after he'd walked another lap around the plaza.

Gradually, more and more students began to complete their hundred laps after Wang Dong. At this moment, there were still fifteen minutes left until the two hours were up.

After Wang Dong stopped, his gaze quickly landed on Huo Yuhao, who was running at the back. He couldn't help but furrow his brow as he muttered to himself, "How did I lose to him...?"

Huo Yuhao's speed had already become much slower than his starting speed. His school uniform was soaked with sweat, and since his martial soul was a spiritual-type martial soul, the help that his soulforce provided to his body was smaller than normal. If it weren't for him cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Technique, he would've been in an even worse state.

If Huo Yuhao had had the full two hours to complete the hundred laps, he could've still persevered and completed them, albeit with much difficulty. However, after Zhou Yi delaying him earlier, it was just too difficult for him. Deliberately increasing his speed had substantially drained his physical strength. At this moment, he was three laps behind the students next to him, and was still twenty laps away from the hundred laps. Running twenty laps within fifteen minutes was something that was nearly impossible for him.

"No, I must persevere. I can't get disqualified." Huo Yuhao clenched his teeth tightly and sped up his footsteps again. For the sake of clearing up his tired mind, he even activated his soulforce and released a Spirit Shock that was aimed towards himself. The intense pain in his mind also stimulated his bodily functions, and sure enough, his speed increased by a bit once again, allowing him to overtake the few people at the very back of the group.

Zhou Yi quietly stood there. She didn't pay attention to the students who'd already finished their laps. Instead, her gaze fell upon the students who hadn't completed their laps.

Out of these students, the one who had the most tired expression was Huo Yuhao. His uniform, which had already been soaked with sweat, wasn't something that could be faked! However, he clenched his teeth tightly as he strenuously persevered.

Time rapidly passed, and Huo Yuhao persevered for another eight laps. At this moment, there was only five minutes left until the end of the two hours. Along with Huo Yuhao, there were seven other people who hadn't finished running. However, they seemed to only have three to five laps left. Furthermore, they'd already started to use all of their strength to increase their speed. There was still a chance that they'd finish on time. However, Huo Yuhao still needed to twelve more laps!

At that moment, a figure suddenly rushed out from the middle of Shrek Plaza. It landed behind Huo Yuhao, and caught up to him in just a few steps. Following that, a scene which stunned everyone present appeared.

A pair of blue butterfly wings suddenly spread out from the back of the person that was chasing after Huo Yuhao. The tips of each wing unceasingly changed between deep blue, azure, and light blue, while the surface of each wing was similar to a bright, V-shaped halo that had been embedded within the blue sky that in turn brought light to the human realm. Its shape and colour were incomparably and flawlessly beautiful.

"Ah—" When such a gorgeous pair of wings suddenly appeared, the shock that it brought to everyone was simply too great. Practically all of the students, regardless of whether they were boys or girls, let out a cry.

That pair of wings was simply too beautiful. Its surface resembled white spouts surging from the azure ocean. The patterns on it, as well as its colour, were extremely magnificent. When it was azure, the entire surface of the wing resembled a bright halo embedded within the blue sky. It occasionally turned deep blue, azure, and then light blue. The white patterns of light on both wings were like pearls that had been embedded within them; they had a bright luster that was extremely enchanting.

Although the wings were only an illusory shadow, it caused everyone present to have a stunned and dazzled feeling under their illumination. Even Zhou Yi, who was a teacher, felt the same.

After the figure had released its butterfly wings, it stuck to Huo Yuhao from behind. It hugged Huo Yuhao underneath his armpits, and the wings on its back suddenly began to flap. Just like that, it actually brought them both into the sky.

Huo Yuhao was also shocked. He unconsciously turned around to see who it was, allowing him to see Wang Dong's handsome face.

"You…"

"You what? Why haven't you circulated your soulforce to make your body lighter?" Wang Dong flapped his pair of beautiful wings as he spoke, causing them to suddenly speed up. He then took Huo Yuhao with him as he flew around Shrek Plaza at high speed.

Huo Yuhao was also stunned by the pair of wings on Wang Dong's back. Too beautiful, they were really too beautiful! Was this his martial soul? Huo Yuhao could even sense the V-shaped patterns on Wang Dong's wings absorbing the warmth of the sunlight. Without mentioning this, just a martial soul that had the ability to fly was already a considerably strong existence. Furthermore, there was a saying in the natural world: beautiful martial souls were always stronger!

A trace of satisfaction was apparent inside of Zhou Yi's astonishment as she spoke to herself, "Radiant Butterfly Goddess? The continent's most beautiful butterfly martial soul? Good, very good. At least not all of them have disappointed me."

Wang Dong's flying speed was very fast. With his speed, completing twelve laps within five minutes wasn't an impossible task anymore. When the two simultaneously landed after finishing Huo Yuhao's last lap, they couldn't help but stumble. Huo Yuhao hurriedly turned around and supported Wang Dong. However, he also fell backwards, causing Wang Dong to fall on top of him.

Although Wang Dong's cultivation couldn't be considered weak amongst his peers, he was still a child! After over three thousand metres whilst carrying Huo Yuhao, his soulforce had been slightly overdrafted. Once he landed, the pair of dazzling wings on his back were withdrawn into his body. His expression had also become pale.

Huo Yuhao was crushed under Wang Dong's body, but the trace of a smile still appeared on his face. "Thanks. I crushed you last time, and you crushed me back this time."

Wang Dong crawled back up with a look of revulsion on his face. "You stinking brat, do you think I want to be on top of you?"

Huo Yuhao wasn't angered by what Wang Dong said as he crawled up along with him. Whilst panting heavily, he gave Wang Dong a thumbs-up.

Wang Dong was stunned for a moment. Then, he nodded his head and gave him a thumbs-up in reply. Following that, the two people couldn't help but smile. Their previous grudges had also completely disappeared at this moment.

All of the students had completed a hundred laps within the stipulated time. They were now standing in the middle of Shrek Plaza, resting.

Zhou Yi expressionlessly turned towards the students as she indifferently said, "The people whose names I call, step forward. Cheng Cheng, Qiu Jianrao, Tang Dao, Shangguan Chentian, Lin Zeyu, Zhuge Yun, Tai Long, Tang Ling, and Yun Xiaopiao."

A total of nine students were called out by her. The students had clearly never expected Zhou Yi to be able to actually call out the names of nine students, even though they hadn't given any self-introductions.

The students who were called out slowly stepped forward.

Zhou Yi indifferently said, "You nine can go pack your luggage and leave the academy. From this moment forth, you're no longer students of Shrek Academy."

"Ah?" The nine students who were still tired from running were immediately astonished, while the other students erupted into an uproar.

"Teacher, why?" The tall youth named Tai Long stepped forward with an angry look on his face. Out of the students who'd completed their hundred laps, he'd been in the first group of people; he was one of the first people that had finished.

Zhou Yi coldly replied, "Shrek Academy doesn't need students who're full of tricks. If we cultivate a person like you, who has strength but not a good and upright attitude, the only thing you'll bring to any country is catastrophe, not help. Tai Long, say it yourself, did you run the full hundred laps just now?"

"I naturally ran enough." Tai Long protested.

Zhou Yi laughed. "You ran enough? If my memory serves me right, when everyone started running, you unhurriedly walked two laps due to the fact that I hadn't arrived at Shrek Plaza yet. You only started to catch up when the leading group were on their fifth laps. Because of this, you didn't run a full one hundred laps, but ninety-seven. I believe that I'm not the only person who saw your laziness in the beginning."

"I…" Tai Long's face immediately turned bright red. He never thought that Zhou Yi, who hadn't come out to the field at the beginning, would be able to reveal his crafty tricks as if she'd seen them personally. "But, just because I ran a few laps less... you can't expel me because of this!"

Zhou Yi snorted disdainfully. "I've already explained the reason why I'm expelling you. You're not suitable to be called a student of Shrek Academy. Pack your bags and screw off."

"You…" Tai Lang was completely flabbergasted. In reality, running a hundred laps or so wasn't a problem at all for him, with his strength. His cultivation was even ranked amongst the best of all the students in Class 1. However, he'd never expected that he'd be eliminated like this.

Zhou Yi looked towards the other students and spoke indifferently, "Although I have a bad temper, I definitely keep my promises. The nine people who I called out all cheated whilst running, and did not complete their hundred laps. If you're unhappy with it, you can go and report me to the education administration. But for now, you can leave."

"Teacher Zhou, I refuse to accept this. He didn't run a hundred laps just now; he only managed to finish with someone else's help. Why isn't he being eliminated?" Another eliminated student named Lin Zeyu spoke furiously whilst pointing towards Huo Yuhao.

Zhou Yi laughed, "You refuse to accept it? 'He' is named Huo Yuhao. And if 'he' hadn't finished running a hundred laps, he'd be amongst you right now. I will not change what I've said. He finished a hundred laps. I never said that helping others was forbidden. Wang Dong helped him, something that he did voluntarily. If someone willingly helped you whilst you were running, that would've been fine too. But did anyone help you? I don't look at the process, only at the results. And the results were: Huo Yuhao completed a hundred laps, while you did not. Quickly screw off. If you make me any angrier, I'll waste your martial souls."

Under Zhou Yi's powerful might, the nine students who'd been called out could do nothing but dejectedly walk away. They obviously weren't going to pack their luggage, but were instead going straight towards the educational administration to lodge a complaint. This was only the first day of school! How could they accept this?

The sweat on Huo Yuhao's body increased as he personally watched Zhou Yi impartially expel the nine students. It would've been weird if he didn't feel nervous. If it weren't for Wang Dong's help, he would've been with those people! When he thought about this, he couldn't help but shoot a grateful glance towards Wang Dong.

The remaining students' expressions had completely changed; they didn't even dare to breathe heavily whilst looking at Zhou Yi. It had only been two hours, yet Zhou Yi had already established her absolute authority over Class 1.

"Go back to the dorms and change your clothes. After that, come back to the classroom for class. I'll give you fifteen minutes." As soon as she'd finished speaking, Zhou Yi turned around and headed back towards the classroom.

No one dared to waste any time this time around. They loudly dispersed, as practically all of them sprinted back to their dorm rooms.

"That old woman is too fierce." Wang Dong spoke as as hurriedly ran back towards the dorms with Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao turned and said, "Thanks. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid that…"

Wang Dong snorted and said, "Don't thank me. If it weren't for our fight, you could've done it on your own. You can go in and change first, I'm not really that sweaty."

Huo Yuhao was stunned. "You don't want to change together to save time?"

Wang Dong replied, "Did you forget about the five rules I told you the other day? I don't like seeing the bodies of other people, it gives me goosebumps. Hurry up."

Huo Yuhao didn't bother responding. He hurriedly returned to their room and took off his sweat-soaked shirt. He then used a clean cloth to wipe his body down, before changing into another set of the school uniform. He'd have to wait until after class before he could clean his dirty body.

When he left the room, it was Wang Dong's turn to change his clothes. At that moment, Huo Yuhao was still somewhat out of breath. The pair of wings that had appeared on Wang Dong's back subconsciously appeared in his mind again.

Too beautiful, they had truly been too beautiful! Just what was that martial soul? Perhaps the others might not have noticed anything, but Huo Yuhao had. When Wang Dong had released his martial soul, his soul rings had also appeared. He'd unexpectedly had two of them. The thing that astonished him even more than that however, was that Wang Dong actually had both a yellow and a purple soul ring. In other words, his second soul ring was a thousand year one. This had already surpassed the common sense of normal soul masters.

No wonder he was so arrogant, he truly had the means to do so! When he compared his strength to Wang Dong's, he truly was far too weak.

As he pondered about this, Wang Dong came out of their room after changing into a new set of clothes. The two of them didn't dare to waste any time; they returned to the classroom as fast as they could.

Zhou Yi had given them fifteen minutes to change, but in reality, even the slowest person didn't take ten minutes. All of the students had already seated themselves in an orderly fashion inside of the classroom. Their eyes were still filled with fear when they looked at the nine empty seats.

Everyone present had heard the phrase 'Shrek Academy is hard to enter, but easy to leave.' However, they only felt a strong sense of danger after it happened right in front of them. No one dared to even think of cheating anymore.

When the fifteenth minute arrived, Zhou Yi walked into the classroom just on time. When she saw that the ninety-one students were all present, she nodded her head. She then said, "We'll start class now. On the whole, your test earlier has made me satisfied. A majority of you were able to complete the simple running test. Huo Yuhao, stand up."

"Teacher Zhou." Huo Yuhao rapidly stood up; his back was ramrod straight.

Zhou Yi coldly said, "Announce your soul rank."

"Yes. My soulforce is at the eleventh rank." Huo Yuhao spoke respectfully. Ever since Zhou Yi had called out their names earlier, he knew that in reality, this Teacher Zhou completely understood them, even though she seemed unreasonable. Perhaps he wouldn't even be able to conceal his cultivation from her.

After hearing the words 'eleventh rank', a suspicious expression appeared on all of the students in the class. Wang Dong even directly covered his eyes with his hands.

Embarrassing, this was too embarrassing to him. With his level of cultivation, he'd actually lost to a person at the eleventh rank. Wait, how could he only be at the eleventh rank of soulforce? Didn't enrolling at Shrek Academy have a basic requirement that students had to be at the fifteenth rank? When he thought about this, Wang Dong couldn't help but raise his head to look at Huo Yuhao with a flabbergasted expression.

"Correct, his soul power is only at the eleventh rank. I know, you all are very curious as to why he could pass the school's assessment and was able to become a freshman. I'll only answer this question once, no one can ask him about it in the future unless he's eliminated. He's a student who was specially invited by the academy. When he entered the academy, he didn't need to pass any tests. However, this is the only exception we make for specially invited students. If he's unable to complete the studying assignments that the academy sets, he'll also be eliminated. Okay Huo Yuhao, sit down."

"Thank you, teacher." As Huo Yuhao sat back down, he couldn't help but feel astonished. Teacher Zhou's words were clearly meant to protect him! By clearly explaining the situation of his enrollment, even with his insufficient soul rank, no one would ask about it in the future.

Zhou Yi didn't seem to care about the students' reactions to this. She turned around and wrote two big words on the blackboard: 'ATTACK' and 'DEFENSE'.

After writing the two words out on the blackboard, she turned back to face the students once again. "I know that a majority of you are very unhappy because of the punishment I gave to you earlier, as well as the expulsion of those nine people. Only, you don't dare to show it because of my pressure. I have no need to give you any explanations. People who are perceptive will naturally understand my reasoning in the future. As for the idiots who can't understand, it's fine for them to not understand. We will now start class."

"You should all recognise the two words that I've just written on the blackboard. 'Attack', and 'Defense'. For our first class today, I'll talk to you about the attacking and defending techniques that soul masters use. Since ancient times, we soul masters have been split into many different systems based off of our innate martial souls, such as the Power Attack System, the Agility Attack System, the Auxiliary System, the Food System, the Control System, the Defense System, and so on. Some soul masters develop their abilities towards an extreme of one system, while others develop their abilities equally in multiple. The various number of methods to cultivate is by no means an isolated path. Wang Dong, answer this question: Of the various systems that soul masters fall into, which is the best at attacking, and which should lean towards defense and auxiliary, or support?"