Three years passed in a flash.
At the entrance of Eastsea Elementary Academy.
Xu Yue held Xu Xiaoyan's hand as they walked toward the roadside.
A blonde girl was quietly waiting for them there.
It was Mu Xi.
"Big Sister Mu Xi!" Xu Xiaoyan waved excitedly.
"Big Sister Mu Xi, sorry to keep you waiting! The graduation procedures were a little complicated today, so they took some extra time."
Xu Yue smiled and reached for Mu Xi's hand, but she rolled her eyes at him and nimbly dodged away.
"Hmph!" Mu Xi lifted her chin slightly and took Xu Xiaoyan's arm.
Xu Yue was not displeased by this in the slightest. On the contrary, he was happy to see it.
At that moment, Xu Xiaoyan looked at Xu Yue and suggested with a sweet smile, "Brother A-Yue, we finally graduated. Let's go shopping."
"No." Xu Yue saw the anticipation in Xu Xiaoyan's eyes, but still shook his head in refusal.
"I still have training to finish today."
"Oh, today is your weekly spear technique practice." Mu Xi recalled it and nodded.
"All right." Xu Xiaoyan looked somewhat regretful.
"Studying is already exhausting. Why do you still attend so many extra classes, Brother A-Yue?"
Looking at Xu Xiaoyan's unambitious expression, Xu Yue felt a little exasperated.
He reached out and ruffled her soft blue hair, speaking indulgently.
"Xiao Yan, your talent is clearly quite good. Jin Xi and the others have already broken through to Soul Grandmaster, while you're still at Level Nineteen."
"If I hadn't kept pushing you, would you only be Level Sixteen or Seventeen by now?"
"But cultivation is really exhausting." Xu Xiaoyan looked pitiful. "Besides, don't I have you, Brother A-Yue?"
However, when she saw Xu Yue's increasingly serious gaze, she hurriedly shook his arm and added.
"Don't look at me like that, Brother A-Yue. I promise I'll break through to Soul Grandmaster before school starts."
Seeing Xu Xiaoyan's earnest promise, the seriousness on Xu Yue's face finally faded.
It was not that he wanted to force Xu Xiaoyan. Her personality was simply far too lazy.
Even though she had awakened the Star Staff Martial Soul with his help, she still could not muster much interest in cultivation.
According to the original timeline, even when she joined Zero Class several months later, she would still be some distance away from Soul Grandmaster.
Her current level was already the result of his diligent supervision over the past three years.
"As long as you break through to Soul Grandmaster during the holiday, I'll set aside a day to go shopping with you..."
Noticing someone's gaze, Xu Yue added, "...and of course, Big Sister Mu Xi too."
"Really?!" Xu Xiaoyan's beautiful eyes lit up, and she nodded rapidly.
"Of course it's true!" Xu Yue nodded sincerely. "When have I ever lied to you?!"
"If I go back on my word, then I'll... I'll treat you to a seafood feast, and I'll eat it with you too!"
Xu Xiaoyan immediately sucked in a sharp breath upon hearing that.
Eastsea City was by the sea, and seafood was undeniably one of its specialties. Yet Xu Yue, who had grown up in Eastsea City, disliked it intensely. It could even be said that he hated it.
Even when they visited Snack Street, the smell of grilled squid would make him frown unconsciously.
"Xiao Yan, you're far too easy to satisfy!"
Mu Xi spoke from the side in a warning tone.
"One shopping trip is enough to win you over. One day, he'll sell you, and you'll still help him count the money."
"We sisters can go shopping ourselves. Forget about him."
Hearing this,
Xu Xiaoyan puffed out her cheeks and pouted her pink lips, secretly thinking.
What do you mean, I'm too easy to satisfy? You make it sound as though Big Sister Mu Xi could refuse Brother A-Yue herself.
As the time for Xu Yue's extra class drew near, Mu Xi and Xu Xiaoyan reluctantly waved goodbye to him.
He took a taxi to the foot of a tall building.
Xu Yue swiped his card with practiced ease, entered the building, and walked into a training room.
The training room was extremely spacious, covering roughly a thousand square meters.
On the wall at its very center.
A single large character in an ancient style, yet brimming with fierce momentum, stood prominently before his eyes.
Break!
Even someone completely ignorant of spear techniques would feel an overwhelming force bearing down on them at the sight of that one character.
If an ordinary person stared at it for too long, even their eyes might be damaged.
This was an additional exercise Xu Yue had requested from Teacher Leng Yaozhu after breaking through to the two-ring Soul Grandmaster realm.
Leng Yaozhu had been rather puzzled at first, but she had not refused. Instead, through the Phoenix Family's connections, she found an eight-ring Soul Douluo to teach him.
This man's Martial Soul was the Soul-Breaking Spear, the inherited Martial Soul of the Breaking Clan, one of the four affiliated clans of the Clear Sky Sect twenty thousand years ago.
From then on, Xu Yue added weapons training to his studies in Mecha, Battle Armor, blacksmithing, and other fields.
And Xu Yue's Soul Power cultivation was now...
Level Thirty-Four, at the peak! A Soul Elder!
Having just graduated from a Primary Academy, yet already reaching the Soul Elder level normally required for graduation from an Intermediate Academy, was simply shocking.
If the effects of his twin Ultimate Attributes on his cultivation speed had not offset the boost from his perfect mimicry cultivation.
Leaving him with only the speed of someone with Innate Full Soul Power.
Otherwise, he was confident that he could reach the four-ring Soul Ancestor rank before Eastsea Academy began.
And that was only his Soul Power Level. Xu Yue's achievements in other areas were equally astonishing.
In blacksmithing, he had long since mastered every technique.
He had also completed Fusion Forging at the Spirit Forging level a year ago.
He could now be assessed by the Blacksmith Association as a top Grandmaster Blacksmith at the peak of Level Six.
If not for the excessively demanding requirements of Soul Forging,
His current spiritual power, Soul Power, and everything else were still far from sufficient.
He might even have been able to forcibly challenge the Saint Blacksmith rank.
Of course, Mu Chen understood the principle that the tallest tree in the forest was the first to be battered by the wind.
Thus, publicly, he had only given Xu Yue a Level Three Master rating.
Yet even with only Level Three, he had still caused a stir in the association, directly breaking the record held by Divine Blacksmith Zhen Hua.
Many Grandmaster Blacksmiths hailed him as the next Divine Blacksmith.
As for Mecha and Battle Armor, he had made progress there as well, but there was no need to go into every detail.
He walked deeper into the Training Ground, where a middle-aged man sat cross-legged.
"Teacher Yang, I'm here!" Xu Yue called, bowing slightly.
Though they were both called teachers, not all teachers were the same.
People like Mu Chen and Leng Yaozhu were more like masters, bound to him in a deeply connected relationship.
Yang Xiong before him, meanwhile, was more like an ordinary teacher at a Primary Academy or Intermediate Academy.
Even so, Xu Yue respected him just as much.
Yang Xiong opened his eyes and looked at Xu Yue, unable to stop himself from sighing inwardly.
A year and a half ago, Leng Yaozhu had invited him to set aside half a day each week to teach Xu Yue spear techniques.
Altogether, it had only been a little over a month.
Yet in that short time, Xu Yue had cultivated the Soul-Breaking Spear Technique he taught him to perfection.
His depth of study had even become no less than Yang Xiong's own.
"Xu Yue, today should be the day you graduate from Primary Academy, correct?" Yang Xiong asked.
"Yes, Teacher Yang!"
"Then it seems our time together as teacher and student is coming to an end as well."
Yang Xiong rose from the ground, his eyes gradually sharpening.
"Come. Today, we'll conduct one final graduation assessment. Let me see just what realm you've reached in practicing the Soul-Breaking Spear."
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