Sea God Pavilion Meeting II

After Yan Shaozhe returned to his seat.

An elderly woman seated at the head of the right side, her hair white as snow and her gaze exceedingly gentle, looking kind and benevolent, spoke up. "Mu En, tell us about the situation with the Martial Soul Devours Soul Power."

Everyone immediately perked up at those words. As long as the amount of Soul Power Xu Jie's martial soul devoured was not too great, the academy would still spare no effort in nurturing a genius with Ultimate Fire.

"Alas!" Mu En sighed again. "Boundless and limitless. There's no end in sight."

"What?!" Xian Lin'er, seated at the far end of the right side, could not help crying out. The other elders also showed faint disappointment on their faces.

When a martial soul devoured Soul Power, what mattered was not merely the quantity of Soul Power, but also its quality. The higher its quality, the less Soul Power was needed, and vice versa.

Among those present, Mu En's amount of Soul Power might not have been the greatest, but the quality of his Soul Power was unquestionably the best.

Yet Mu En had just transferred Soul Power into Xu Jie for a full half hour, only to find it boundless and limitless. This meant that the total amount of Soul Power Xu Jie's martial soul required was absolutely unimaginable.

No one present doubted the result Mu En had determined.

"In other words..." Yan Shaozhe paused. "In other words, we can only give up on this student!"

He spoke slowly, his expression grave. If there had been even the slightest possibility, no one—not him, nor any elder present—would ever abandon a genius with exceptional combat talent and Ultimate Fire.

After their investigation, they had learned that this genius was also an orphan.

With Shrek Academy's cultivation, such a genius would certainly become a pillar of the academy in the future. He might even have a chance to become the Master of Sea God Pavilion.

Seeing no objections, Yan Shaozhe continued, "Although no one disagrees, let's still vote by a show of hands. Those who agree to nurture Xu Jie, raise your hands!"

After his words fell, not a single person raised a hand. Yan Shaozhe was not surprised in the slightest. A genius who could break through was a good genius; if one could not break through, then even the strongest martial soul was useless, just like Yu Xiaogang ten thousand years ago.

But Xu Jie was not that so-called Grandmaster from ten thousand years ago, who had sought validation by plagiarizing theories.

Yan Shaozhe walked out of the pavilion and called in Zhou Yi, who was still transferring Soul Power to Xu Jie. He told her everything that had been discussed at the meeting.

The academy's way of dealing with Xu Jie was to let the matter cool. They would neither give him any special treatment nor rashly expel him, since every grade had advancement assessments each year.

Xu Jie, who could only cultivate to Rank 30, would eventually fall during an assessment one year. The result of failing the assessment would be his expulsion from Shrek Academy.

Zhou Yi clenched her fists but said nothing. She had been continuously transferring Soul Power to Xu Jie just now, and she had indeed felt that his martial soul required boundless Soul Power.

Yan Shaozhe was right. Xu Jie had indeed gone from a genius to trash. Even if this trash possessed an Ultimate Martial Soul, it could not change the fact that he was trash.

A small boat glided across Sea God Lake. An old woman with crane-white hair and wrinkled skin stood aboard it. Judging from her expression, Zhou Yi was in a very bad mood.

Behind her sat a boy of around twelve or thirteen. Xu Jie's expression clearly showed his panic and disappointment.

Xu Jie looked at Zhou Yi's clenched fist ahead of him and sensed the frustration she was holding inside.

Of course.

Anyone would be in a terrible mood if the genius student in their hands, one who possessed Ultimate Fire, suddenly became trash.

Xu Jie still wore the expression a genius ought to have after abruptly becoming trash, but his thoughts had long since drifted far away.

What happened today had become inevitable from the moment Xu Jie enrolled and displayed the Ultimate Fire attribute of his martial soul.

As an orphaned genius with Ultimate Fire, Shrek Academy would certainly do everything possible to keep him at the academy.

Just as in the original story, when they discovered that Huo Yuhao possessed Ultimate Ice as his second martial soul, they gave him all kinds of preferential treatment.

The Shrek Academy of today was not the Shrek of ten thousand years ago that only fooled students with empty boasts. As the number one academy on the continent, modern Shrek could easily produce all kinds of precious resources.

Of course, that only referred to resources. As for what Shrek was really made of, it was still the same as ten thousand years ago.

Before Huo Yuhao revealed his Ultimate Ice martial soul in the original story, he was one of the three members of the freshman assessment championship team, yet Shrek Academy's higher-ups had been too stingy to even grant him the status of a Core Disciple of the Martial Soul Department.

The moment Huo Yuhao revealed Ultimate Ice, they immediately began showering him with resources.

As a transmigrator who had received compulsory education, Xu Jie's ideas were clearly at odds with Shrek Academy's philosophy of "only nurturing monsters, not ordinary people."

So he could only resort to this measure and remove himself from the sight of Shrek Academy's higher-ups.

He could only blame himself for being too naive back then, thinking Shrek Academy was still a commoner academy as it had been ten thousand years ago. But he had never imagined that dragon slayers would eventually become dragons.

The entrance examination actually required a recommendation letter from a main city. Was that something commoners could obtain!?

If this damned academy had not required a recommendation letter for enrollment, Xu Jie would not have revealed his Ultimate Fire attribute.

According to his original plan, the two of them would join Shrek Academy and cultivate diligently. Once their strength had improved somewhat, they would find a way to connect Huo Yuhao with the Body Sect.

Xu Jie, meanwhile, would remain in the outer academy until graduation, then find some random place to raise his strength to the level of a Titled Douluo.

Afterward, he would go to the Body Sect and teach them martial arts. In his estimation, his martial arts techniques were extremely suitable for the Body Sect.

By then, Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes Martial Soul should have completed its second awakening as well. According to the theory that Twin Martial Souls were of equal quality, the quality of Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Eye should be the same as that of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

Wouldn't Du Busi take Huo Yuhao as his disciple in no time? Once Huo Yuhao became the Young Sect Master of the Body Sect, Xu Jie could conquer the Body Sect with absolute strength. Then they would have their own foundation.

Whatever the two of them wanted to do afterward would become much easier.

However, because of the recommendation letter, Xu Jie had no choice but to reveal his Ultimate Fire talent. But once he did, Shrek Academy would absolutely not allow an exceptionally talented student to leave so easily.

Xu Jie experimented for a long time before coming up with a method that only he could use—Soul Power fixation.

When he first began cultivating, he discovered that the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and acupoints throughout the bodies of people in this world were almost identical to those from his previous life. That was why he could use the cultivation methods from his past life.

Furthermore, based on his superficial understanding of the original story, he knew that later on, Huo Yuhao condensed three Soul Cores. They were located in the Upper Dantian at the center of his brow, the Middle Dantian at the pit of his stomach, and the Lower Dantian below his navel.

His Martial Soul Mark happened to be located at the center of his brow. In other words, his martial soul was in the Upper Dantian, within the Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

After gaining the ability to look inward, Xu Jie examined his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness. It was vast and boundless, golden beneath the illumination of the Sun Martial Soul suspended above it.

At the time, Xu Jie, who was in a phantom state, had actually felt a trace of warmth from sunlight shining upon his body.

He could sense then that this boundless Spiritual Sea would only feel warm when he entered it. Once anything else entered, it would instantly be burned to ashes by the sun suspended above the sea of consciousness.