Nuoding Academy (Please Bookmark, Follow, and Vote Monthly)

Over the past three months, Gu Yi had not spent all his time cultivating.

Sometimes, he would wander around Qingshan Town, taking in the customs of the Nine Heavens Continent and sampling the various delicacies of the Snow Moon Kingdom.

He also gathered useful information along the way.

Among it was information about the Lin Family.

Through members of the Lin Family branch in Qingshan Town, Gu Yi learned that the current head of the Lin Family in Yangzhou City was Lin Hai.

Lin Hai's son, Lin Feng, was eight and a half years old this year, over two years older than Gu Yi.

Lin Feng was a well-known good-for-nothing in the Lin Family. Not only was his Martial Soul a black little snake, limp and utterly lacking in offensive power,

but after cultivating for four months, Lin Feng had only just managed to draw qi into his body, over twenty days longer than the usual hundred-day foundation building.

From this information, Gu Yi instantly deduced that there were still seven years before the plot of Peerless Martial God began.

When this Lin Feng reached the age of fifteen and was beaten to death, Lin Feng's soul from Earth would be reborn in his body and begin his legendary life.

As for the Lin Family members' contemptuous remarks toward Lin Feng—

A little snake Martial Soul? A trash Martial Soul?

They simply failed to recognize a great treasure!

That snake Martial Soul was the Bloodline Martial Soul, Nine Dragon Sky Devourer. It was a top-tier Martial Soul capable of obtaining Martial Souls by devouring those of others.

In other words, that little snake alone could allow Lin Feng to obtain nine Martial Souls! How heaven-defying was that?

Gu Yi's Twin Martial Souls were not even worth mentioning before Nine Dragon Sky Devourer.

Not to mention that after Lin Feng transmigrated, he would also come with a Heavenly Book Martial Soul.

That was Lin Feng's golden finger, and it determined whether he would become a god in the future.

Upon learning that the plot would not begin for so long, Gu Yi felt more at ease.

This meant he still had plenty of time to grow, allowing him to participate in the plot later and obtain many known opportunities.

It seems I need to join the Cloud Sea Sect... Gu Yi silently thought.

The Cloud Sea Sect's status on the Nine Heavens Continent was like Nuoding Academy's status on the Douluo Continent—it was the protagonist's starting point.

If he wanted to alter the plot and obtain source power, Gu Yi had to join it.

Moreover, the Cloud Sea Sect was one of the Snow Moon Kingdom's top forces on the surface. It possessed abundant cultivation resources that could allow Gu Yi to grow quickly.

Thus, Gu Yi also looked into information regarding the Cloud Sea Sect's recruitment of disciples in Yangzhou City.

To join the Cloud Sea Sect, one had to be at least at the fourth level of the Qi Martial Realm and no older than twelve.

Gu Yi was still far from meeting those requirements.

It would take at least one or two years for Gu Yi to reach the fourth level of the Qi Martial Realm.

Over the past three months, Gu Yi's strength had reached over twelve hundred jin, and he had officially stepped into the first level of the Qi Martial Realm!

The reason he had progressed so quickly was because Gu Yi had used his own level-ten Innate Soul Power to temper his body and soul.

It would become more difficult to rapidly improve his cultivation and strength afterward.

Owner: Gu Yi

Age: Six

Cultivation: Level 12 Soul Master (Soul Ring: None; displayed as level 10 Soul Power), first level of the Qi Martial Realm

Source Power: 1430 points

Talents: Blood Martial Soul, Bone Martial Soul

Abilities: Iron Blood Malice Art (Yellow-tier High-grade), Basic Spear Arts (Yellow-tier Low-grade), Charge Spear Technique (Yellow-tier High-grade), Basic Archery (Yellow-tier Low-grade), Consecutive Meteor Arrows (Yellow-tier Mid-grade), Wind-Following Steps (Yellow-tier Mid-grade)

Items: Myriad Worlds Gate, Fine Iron Spear, Ironwood Bow

Looking at the panel, Gu Yi muttered, "It's about time I returned to the Douluo Continent."

It just so happened that Mu Hu would soon be heading out to hunt, traveling to the Monster Beast Forest hundreds of li away to kill mid-level and high-level demon beasts and obtain their beast cores.

The lowest-ranked demon beasts on the Nine Heavens Continent were divided into nine levels, corresponding to the nine levels of the Qi Martial Realm.

Above them were Spirit Demon Beasts, Profound Demonic Beasts, Heavenly Demonic Beasts, and so on, corresponding to human martial realms such as the Spirit Martial Realm, Profound Martial Realm, and Heavenly Martial Realm.

Near the human cities, villages, and towns of the Snow Moon Kingdom, demon beast traces were scarce. Even when they appeared, they were mostly low-level demon beasts below level four.

For example, the giant wild boar Gu Yi had encountered when he first transmigrated to the Nine Heavens Continent had been a level-two demon beast.

If Mu Hu had been living alone, occasionally hunting fierce beasts or low-level demon beasts nearby would have been enough to cover his daily expenses.

But now that there was Gu Yi, a martial arts prodigy, Mu Hu's money was no longer quite enough.

As the saying went, the poor studied literature, while the rich practiced martial arts. Martial arts training required a great deal of money.

Medicinal incense that eased fatigue and rapidly restored stamina, medicinal baths that removed hidden injuries caused by martial arts training, and meat to replenish nutrition were all necessities for martial arts practice.

Buying them required large amounts of silver.

Therefore, in order to earn enough silver,

Mu Hu had visited the Monster Beast Forest several times over the past three months and obtained more than ten beast cores.

Gu Yi silently kept all of this in mind and felt somewhat guilty.

Man was not made of wood or stone; how could one be without feelings?

At first, Gu Yi had stayed by Mu Hu's side through acting and fabricating a background because he wanted to obtain the cultivation techniques and martial skills in Mu Hu's possession. He had an ulterior motive.

But after spending three months together and witnessing Mu Hu's wholehearted generosity, Gu Yi had gradually come to regard him as true family.

Just like the old village chief and villagers of Maple Leaf Village.

He would never forget this kindness for as long as he lived.

Douluo Continent.

Less than two days after Mu Hu left, Gu Yi returned to Maple Leaf Village.

Today happened to be the day Nuoding Academy began classes.

Gu Yi did not ask old village chief Tom to accompany him to Nuoding City. Instead, he chose to go alone, taking his Work-Study Student placement and Spirit Hall awakening certificate with him.

The village chief was already old and unsuited for long journeys.

For that reason, Gu Yi told him that his Soul Master teacher would take him to Nuoding City to enroll.

Tom did not doubt him. He merely said with relief that Gu Yi had grown up, told him to cultivate diligently, and urged him to become a noble Soul Master as soon as possible.

After bidding farewell to the village chief and several villagers who had come to see him off, Gu Yi strode toward Nuoding City.

Nuoding City was not far from Maple Leaf Village. At Gu Yi's pace, he reached Nuoding City in less than two hours.

After asking around, Gu Yi soon arrived outside Nuoding Academy.

As the only place in Nuoding City that trained Soul Masters, Nuoding Academy could be considered one of the city's most luxurious buildings.

What Gu Yi saw when he looked up was a grand arched gate twenty meters wide and ten meters tall, built entirely from sturdy stone. Beneath it stood two dark iron lattice gates forged from high-quality refined iron.

The four words "Nuoding Academy" hung at the center of the archway.

Gu Yi looked up at the sky. The sun hung high overhead, and it was still before noon.

Gu Yi realized that he had arrived early. There was still some time before the first infamous scene of the Douluo story took place.

This was an important plot point in the original novel.

Gu Yi wanted to see whether he could intervene and alter the course of events, testing how much source power the Myriad Worlds Gate could obtain through this method.

Gu Yi had previously learned that the Myriad Worlds Gate had three ways of obtaining source power.

The first was increasing strength and fame, the second was changing predetermined fate, and the third was defeating or killing other living beings.

The first method had already been verified when Gu Yi awakened his Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power.

During the three months on the Nine Heavens Continent, Gu Yi had also verified the feasibility of the third method—he had personally killed several chickens and ducks. Unfortunately, the source power gained had been so little that it could basically be ignored.

Gu Yi understood that if he wanted to obtain a large amount of source power through the third method, he had to defeat or kill powerful living beings.

Now was the time to verify the second method!

It did not matter that he was early. Gu Yi looked around and spotted a teahouse with a broad view, from which he could take in the gates of Nuoding Academy and the surrounding area at a glance.

This will do. According to the plot I remember, Tang San won't arrive until the afternoon.

Just as Gu Yi was about to head over, he suddenly saw a disheveled middle-aged man in the teahouse, around forty or fifty years old, with ordinary features and short black hair.

The moment he saw the man, a name immediately surfaced in Gu Yi's mind:

Grandmaster, Yu Xiaogang!