The sound of wind and rain accompanied rolling thunder, as if to tear the entire world asunder.
Xie Xie of Class Two had originally been in his room recovering from his injuries, taking the opportunity to consolidate the cultivation he had broken through to in the heat of the moment.
But just then, it was as if he had sensed something.
He collapsed onto the floor, curling into a ball while clutching his chest with one hand: My heart hurts so much.
Tears streamed down uncontrollably. He reached one hand forward, trying to grasp at something.
He did not know what had happened, only that he felt as if he had lost something.
At that moment, a massive surge of memories flooded into his mind.
With his Spirit Origin Realm spiritual power, he could not withstand so many memories; his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
"Yuan'en Yehui." This was the last conscious thought Xie Xie had before losing consciousness.
The typhoon lasted for an entire week, uprooting even large trees and damaging quite a few buildings.
The air after the typhoon, however, seemed exceptionally fresh, carrying a faint mist.
Looking at Mu Han before him, the already icy face of Wu Zhangkong grew even gloomier: "Where is your school uniform?"
He wore simple, plain cloth clothes, yet possessed a face as delicate as a porcelain doll.
Although he still had the appearance of a child, he already gave off a somewhat slender impression.
Yet, he had ultimately failed to wear his school uniform; while Wu Zhangkong did not care much for such school rules, they could not be completely ignored.
But what surprised Wu Zhangkong most was that his originally azure eyes had now turned a peculiar pale gold.
It was not unheard of for people to have pale gold eyes, but Mu Han's pupils had actually turned into two thin lines.
Vertical pupils!
The eyes of a dragon were vertical pupils.
Wu Zhangkong's teacher, Zhuo Shi, had already achieved a formidable mastery over his martial soul, but he was, after all, a human soul master.
Therefore, even with Zhuo Shi's cultivation, he could not reach the level where his eyes were identical to his martial soul.
But had Mu Han actually managed it? Yet Mu Han's martial soul was not a dragon-type martial soul. It was not even a beast martial soul.
Was his martial soul not a Brick?
"I had a small breakthrough during the typhoon. I forgot to change my uniform, and it got torn apart," Mu Han said truthfully.
He had indeed made some breakthroughs.
Back then, the two drops of essence blood from Di Tian had been absorbed separately by himself and his soul spirit.
However, at that time, he could only seal the essence blood away.
It was not until the typhoon that he refined the martial soul origin of Yuan'en Yehui.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to break through the level twenty bottleneck, he was finally able to withstand the power of those two drops of Di Tian essence blood.
Breaking through the level twenty bottleneck and condensing a second soul ring was nothing special.
At the very least, it shouldn't have been enough to tear his school uniform; after all, Mu Han was not that kind of beast soul master.
But the power of Di Tian's essence blood was simply too immense.
Mu Han had also occupied the right time, the right place, and the right people.
The right time was the moment he broke through the level twenty bottleneck.
The right place was the origin of the two martial souls within Yuan'en Yehui's body.
The Titan Giant Ape martial soul originated from the lineage of the god-level soul beast Titan Giant Ape.
The Fallen Angel martial soul originated from a seed from the Demon Star, belonging to the power of a planar level.
Mu Han had integrated these two forces into his second soul ring.
He then used the power of the Di Tian essence blood to suppress them, allowing the three forces to check and balance one another.
As for the final element, the right people, it was his soul spirit, the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad.
His compatibility with the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad exceeded one hundred percent.
When he and his soul spirit absorbed the same type of power simultaneously, they naturally complemented each other.
The power he could not absorb was transferred to the soul spirit.
The power the soul spirit could not absorb was transferred to him.
He and his soul spirit were like a vortex.
No matter how much or how high-quality the energy was, it would be gradually worn away by this vortex.
Since Mu Han's school uniform was gone, Wu Zhangkong helped him get a new one.
In reality, those beast soul masters would always prepare several extra sets.
But Mu Han was a tool soul master, so he had only had those two sets from the start.
One of them had been hanging outside, and it was unknown where it had been blown by the typhoon a few days prior.
He put on another set, only for it to be burst apart as well.
The afternoon classes passed by in a flash. Next up was the final Class Promotion Tournament for the first years.
Although compared to the original, Class 1 of the first year was missing a two-ring Soul Grand Master.
They were still the strongest Class 1 in the history of Eastsea Academy.
Don't let the fact that Class 2 also had two two-ring Soul Grand Masters fool you.
That two-ring Soul Grand Master Wei Xiaofeng was actually quite lacking in substance.
His hundred-year Green Shadow Snake soul spirit had a one-hundred-percent compatibility with him because his martial soul was the Green Shadow Snake itself.
After fusing with this soul spirit, he had crossed the threshold from one ring to two in a very short amount of time.
Therefore, compared to other nine-year-old two-ring Soul Grand Masters, the quality of his martial soul was inferior.
Even among two-ring Soul Grand Masters, there was a qualitative difference between ordinary martial souls and top-tier ones.
The martial souls of Wei Xiaofeng and Wang Jinxi were clearly of the top-tier variety.
At the very least, compared to Wei Xiaofeng's Green Shadow Snake martial soul, they were stronger by more than just a little bit.
"It's useless." Two purple soul rings lit up beneath Mu Han's feet.
The moment the two soul rings appeared, his entire aura surged instantly.
Class 5 of the first year actually had a two-ring student?
Long Hengxu, the dean acting as the referee, was stunned.
He knew Mu Han possessed a thousand-year soul ring, but Mu Han was supposed to have the trash martial soul "Brick."
Two-ring Soul Grand Masters in the first year were rare.
Generally speaking, they would all appear in Class 1.
He had made an exception this time by stuffing a two-ring Soul Grand Master into Class 2.
Later, another person in Class 2 had a breakthrough right before the match, becoming a two-ring Soul Grand Master.
But that was as far as it went.
For a two-ring student to appear in Class 5 of the first year was truly an unprecedented situation in the history of Eastsea Academy!
However, Wu Zhangkong frowned.
If one looked closely, they would notice that the purple soul ring behind Mu Han was much deeper in color.
This was a distinct characteristic of a soul ring approaching ten thousand years.
Could it be that Mu Han's two thousand-year soul rings came from different soul spirits?
To achieve greater heights, one needed to fuse with enough soul spirits.
But having more soul spirits undoubtedly required more spiritual power.
Spiritual power at the Spirit Sea Realm was almost the limit a soul master could reach, capable of supporting at most three soul spirits.
Therefore, not many people dared to raise the level of their earlier soul spirits too high.
And ten-thousand-year soul spirits were too difficult to obtain because they could not be manufactured.
At the very least, for most intermediate soul masters, it was hard to get their hands on a ten-thousand-year soul spirit.
Only high-level soul masters at the seven-ring Soul Saint level would have the confidence to do so, right?
If the first soul spirit was a thousand-year one, the first three soul rings would be covered.
If the second soul spirit in the future was also a thousand-year one, it could support up to the six-ring Soul Emperor level.
Even if one truly couldn't obtain a ten-thousand-year soul spirit for the third one, a thousand-year soul spirit could still provide three soul rings.
That would provide the possibility of becoming a nine-ring Titled Douluo.
But if Mu Han obtained his second soul ring from a second soul spirit, that advantage would turn into a disadvantage.
However, once he thought of Mu Han's terrifying spiritual power, Wu Zhangkong felt at ease.
This kid was already close to the Spirit Sea Realm at such a young age; reaching the Spirit Abyss Realm was only a matter of time.
He would just give him a small reminder later.