Freshman Assessment, Team Up!

The Soul Tool Department, inside a certain laboratory.

Jiang Ming found Teacher Fan Yu. Just in case, before beginning today's Soul Engineer training, he relayed Teacher Zhou's words to Teacher Fan Yu.

Researching soul tools was a process that required intense focus. Sometimes, if one was careless for even a moment, time would slip away without anyone noticing. It was better to say what needed to be said before they began.

"Ah, that's true. Spending all these days in the Soul Tool Department without going home really isn't good."

Fan Yu scratched his head, and the resentful expression of his beautiful girlfriend could not help but appear in his mind.

"All right! In any case, when it comes to your training as a Rank 4 Soul Engineer, I don't really have anything left to teach you.

"Next, you just need to familiarize yourself with making soul tools. I believe you should be able to handle that yourself.

"I'll head home first, lest your Teacher Zhou come to the Soul Tool Department with a blade to look for me."

Fan Yu yawned, stretched, and prepared to make a trip home.

Otherwise, with Zhou Yi's forceful personality, the chances of her actually coming to the Soul Tool Department with a blade to look for him were really not small!

However, before he had taken more than a few steps, Fan Yu walked back again.

He looked at Jiang Ming with a grave expression and said seriously and solemnly, "When I'm not here, don't try doing any of those dangerous experiments!"

After spending these past few months together, Fan Yu had come to understand Jiang Ming quite well.

Especially when it came to making soul tools. This kid always had some wild ideas.

But of all things, the soul tools this kid was most interested in were Soul Cannonballs and Milk Bottles, the sort of soul tools that would be terrifyingly powerful if something went wrong.

If he was careless and detonated a Rank 4 Soul Cannonball, losing the laboratory would be a minor matter. If Jiang Ming was gone, Fan Yu would have nowhere to cry!

"I know, I know. You'd better hurry up and go comfort Teacher Zhou. When she came over just now, her resentment was huge!"

Jiang Ming waved a hand, then took all sorts of parts out of his Storage Soul Tool and began carving and assembling them.

Hearing Jiang Ming say this, Fan Yu pictured Zhou Yi's sky-high resentment in his mind and could not help shuddering. He hurriedly went home.

Time passed little by little. Over the next week, Fan Yu no longer stayed up late with Jiang Ming in the Soul Tool Department. During the day, however, he would still come over to watch Jiang Ming and the other students.

Only, during these days when Fan Yu was in the Soul Tool Department, Jiang Ming saw him rubbing his waist several times, and his spirits also seemed somewhat poor.

It was another new day. In the Martial Soul Department's New Student Teaching Building, inside Class One's classroom, Zhou Yi was explaining some things to pay attention to regarding the Freshman Assessment.

That was right. The Freshman Assessment was about to begin!

The freshmen's Freshman Assessment would be held for the entire year at once. It would take the form of team battles, with teams of three. Each team could have at most one Attack-type Soul Master, while the other two members were unrestricted.

It was worth mentioning that this Freshman Assessment had a full four hundred teams, meaning one thousand two hundred freshmen!

And among these four hundred teams, half would be eliminated!

A full half of them would be eliminated! Even Jiang Ming, who did not care much about this, felt it was a little harsh. After all, the students who could come to Shrek Academy were all geniuses among their peers!

Of course, he could also understand why the academy would do this.

As the number one Soul Master Academy on the continent, even with a city like Shrek City supplying resources, if there were too many people, the resources would be spread too thin. In that case, trying to nurture true experts would become even more difficult!

Moreover, Shrek's tradition of preferring quality over quantity had already been established ten thousand years ago.

One had to know that Shrek Academy ten thousand years ago required Soul Power above Level 20 at twelve years old to be admitted!

For the time that followed, Zhou Yi did not dismiss class early as usual. Instead, she began reading out the team lists.

It had to be said that although Zhou Yi was extremely strict with the students of Class One, and had even expelled more than a dozen people from the class in these short three months, she understood every student in the class very well!

Therefore, her groupings were often able to take every small circle into consideration and could do their best to ensure that every group passed this Freshman Assessment.

As time went on, one team after another in the class was confirmed.

When she reached the end, only the final two people were left.

"Jiang Ming, Ling Luochen!"

Zhou Yi looked at the two of them, her gaze somewhat complicated.

How should one put it? These two were both a little special in the class.

There was no need to say much about Jiang Ming. With his strength, as long as he was in a team, that team would basically pass the assessment without any suspense. Even if he were the only person in that team, it would be the same!

Level 38 Soul Power, in the first year where the average Soul Power had yet to reach Level 20, was an existence that crushed everyone else!

As for Ling Luochen, she was a Level 29 Soul Grandmaster, and her strength was also extremely formidable.

But this girl's personality had some issues. In class, she was also cool and aloof, so she might not get along well if she teamed up with others.

Moreover, Zhou Yi also knew that Ling Luochen's attitude toward Jiang Ming seemed very different from her attitude toward the others in class.

Zhou Yi thought for a moment, her sharp gaze fixed on the two of them, and said directly, "You two will form a team. Although you're missing one person, my requirement for you is to take the championship in the Freshman Assessment. Any objections?!"

Jiang Ming blinked and looked toward the ice-blue-haired girl seated at the front right. At this moment, Ling Luochen was also looking at him.

Right now, Ling Luochen was a little flustered. The goal Zhou Yi had set for them was simply too high!

Their team was already one person short. It would be good enough if they could ensure they were not eliminated, but the championship?

What a joke!

She wanted to refuse the task Teacher Zhou had given them, but before she could get the words out, she heard Jiang Ming's voice.

"No problem!"

His voice was very confident—not the kind of blind confidence, but a steady confidence that came from deep within.

The moment he said it, it made people believe him, made them believe he could really do it!

Hey, hey, hey?!

What did he mean, no problem? This was a huge problem! Two against three was already hard enough, and they still had to win the championship? How was that possible?!

Hearing Jiang Ming say there was no problem, even someone as cool and aloof as Ling Luochen lost control of her expression a little.

As for the other students in the class, they had already been stunned when they heard Teacher Zhou assign Jiang Ming and Ling Luochen the task of winning the Freshman Assessment championship.

After hearing Jiang Ming agree outright, the whole class burst into an uproar!

A two-person team fighting three-person teams, and they still had to take the championship? Wasn't that difficulty a bit too high?!

Even the students who were already used to Zhou Yi's strict teaching felt she had gone a little too far at that moment.

This was practically impossible to accomplish!

Although Ling Luochen was a Level 29 Soul Grandmaster, there were Soul Elders among the other teams in the entire grade!

Even if Jiang Ming was also a Soul Elder, winning the championship would be an almost impossible task!

A rare smile appeared at the corner of Zhou Yi's mouth, but it vanished just as quickly.

"Very good. Next, you two should prepare properly and build up your teamwork. I hope every student in my class can pass this Freshman Assessment!"