Spirit Hall Academy

Since it was the day they were enrolling at Spirit Hall Academy, after breakfast, neither of them had the mood to cultivate. They chatted at their residence as they waited.

They did not have to wait long before Resak appeared at their residence and called the two of them to Spirit Hall Academy.

Spirit Hall Academy was not located within Spirit City, but on the mountain behind it. It covered a vast area and possessed comprehensive cultivation facilities, including top-tier Mimicry Training Rooms. It was the continent's foremost academy for training Soul Masters.

Resak took Yan and Xie Yue by carriage to Spirit Hall Academy. Hu Liena did not travel with them; Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan had sent her there early that morning.

Upon entering the academy, the first thing they saw was not its various buildings, but a beautiful natural landscape. Green mountains rose and fell in the distance, clear waters wound around them, and all kinds of exotic flowers and grasses complemented one another.

Anyone would have believed this was a scenic mountain forest fit for an outing, rather than Spirit Hall Academy.

Walking through it, Yan could even sense the Soul Power within him becoming more active.

Resak was clearly very familiar with Spirit Hall Academy. He took Xie Yue and Yan to the Dean Office to complete their enrollment procedures.

The dean of Spirit Hall Academy had always been concurrently served by the Pope, though the Pope rarely handled the academy's affairs.

The academy's specific matters were decided by the vice dean together with the faculty council.

The person Resak sought out was the vice dean.

The vice dean was named Jiang Gengnian. He was already over eighty years old, tall and thin, with a head of white hair. Yet he remained sharp and vigorous, a Control Type Soul Douluo.

It was said that in his youth, he had served as a Platinum Bishop at the Spirit Temple. In his old age, coupled with the serious injuries he had once suffered and his declining energy, he had resigned as Platinum Bishop and come to Spirit Hall Academy as vice dean.

After completing the enrollment procedures, Vice Dean Jiang Gengnian found a young instructor to take Xie Yue and Yan to their class.

When they entered the teaching area, class had not yet begun, but few people remained in the open space outside. Most had already gone to their classrooms.

Spirit Hall Academy was divided into the Junior Academy and the Advanced Academy according to the Soul Masters' ages and realms.

The Junior Academy generally taught young Soul Masters from six to twelve years old, most of whose cultivation lay between Soul Scholar and Soul Grandmaster.

The Advanced Academy campus was located deeper in the mountain behind Spirit City.

The Soul Masters cultivating there had no fixed graduation age. In principle, they could graduate once they broke through to Soul Ancestor, but they could not be older than twenty-five upon graduation.

However, because of the Continental Soul Master Tournament, truly talented Advanced Academy Soul Masters usually delayed graduation until around the maximum age for participating in the Soul Master Tournament.

If they could join the Spirit Hall Academy Team and win the championship in the tournament finals, they would not only receive all sorts of generous rewards from the finals.

Their future development within Spirit Hall would also be smooth sailing.

As for what they would do if they failed to win the championship in the Soul Master Tournament finals, that was not something the members of the Spirit Hall Academy Team considered at all.

Spirit Hall's position now was equivalent to that of Shrek Academy ten thousand years later.

Both were the continent's number-one Soul Master force. Calling Spirit Hall a place that gathered every talent under heaven would have been somewhat exaggerated.

Yet in this era, when Soul Master factions flourished everywhere, Spirit Hall stood second to none in both the quantity and quality of its geniuses.

Moreover, with an endless supply of resources, the current Spirit Hall Academy Team was in the Continental Soul Master Tournament what the Shrek Seven Devils would be ten thousand years later.

Spirit Hall had stood on the continent for so many years, and there had truly been few occasions when anyone had managed to snatch the Soul Master Tournament championship away from it.

Spirit Hall also possessed a major advantage: by helping commoners awaken their Martial Souls for free every year, it could bring as many talented commoner Soul Masters as possible under its wing.

Commoner Soul Masters had no powerful backgrounds and clean histories. With a little training, they became Spirit Hall's most loyal followers. Even among the successive Title Douluo elders of Spirit Hall's Elder Hall, many had come from commoner Soul Master backgrounds.

This method of gathering talent ensured that every generation of Spirit Hall produced geniuses in abundance, laying the foundation for its long-standing dominance over the Soul Master world.

The children sent to study at Spirit Hall Academy were all exceptionally gifted. Furthermore, because most came from ordinary backgrounds and understood the importance of cultivation, the academy's cultivation atmosphere was also among the best of all the continent's top Advanced Soul Master Academies.

Yan and Xie Yue were assigned to the Core Class of the Junior Academy's first year.

The Junior Academy had six grades, each with ten classes, and only one of them was a Core Class.

The Soul Masters able to enter the Core Class each year were undoubtedly the geniuses of their respective grades.

There was no need to mention Yan and Xie Yue. One possessed Innate Full Soul Power, while the other had Innate Rank Nine Soul Power. Both had also absorbed Soul Rings beyond their proper limits, so they naturally qualified to enter the Core Class.

As soon as they entered the classroom, Xie Yue swept his gaze around and, sure enough, found Hu Liena by the window on the left side of the room.

His face brightened, but he immediately noticed a somewhat skinny boy with a freckle-covered face constantly smiling and talking to Hu Liena. He annoyed her beyond endurance, and her face was filled with impatience.

At this sight, the joy vanished from Xie Yue's face. He coldly fixed his eyes on the boy who had been bothering Hu Liena, already considering how to teach this clueless brat a lesson.

Yan noticed the scene as well, though his reaction was not as intense as Xie Yue's.

At the teacher's arrangement, the two briefly introduced themselves. Then Xie Yue stepped down from the podium and walked straight to Hu Liena's seat.

Hu Liena sat by the window, while the seat on the outside was occupied by the skinny, freckled boy.

Seeing Xie Yue approach, the skinny boy sprawled carelessly in his seat, leaning against the desk behind him as he looked at Xie Yue without concern. "Someone's sitting here, kid. Go somewhere else."

"Trash like you can get into the Core Class?"

Seeing the boy's street-thug manner, Xie Yue could not help laughing in anger.

Hu Liena looked at Xie Yue as well, delight appearing on her face. She had long since had enough of the boy beside her, but had refrained from lashing out in class out of respect for the teacher.

"Kid, watch your mouth..."

At Xie Yue's words, the skinny boy's expression darkened for a moment as he spoke viciously.

Before he could finish, Xie Yue suddenly reached out, seized the boy by the collar, yanked him out of his seat, and shoved him toward the back rows.

"You!"

The boy had not expected Xie Yue to dare attack in class. He staggered from the throw before finally steadying himself.

Before he could erupt, however, Yan appeared in front of him.

Yan was already powerfully built. Now that both his Martial Artist and Soul Master strength had broken through, he appeared even more imposing, standing half a head taller than the boy.

Feeling the tremendous pressure Yan gave off, the boy swallowed and glanced toward the teacher, only to see that the teacher had made no move at all.

The boy clenched his fists resentfully, but did not even dare utter a threat. He went straight to the last row and found an empty seat.