"Teacher Leng?"
Having finished his conversation with Wang Jinxi, Tang Wulin curiously moved closer.
He could clearly see Leng Hanyuan and Gu Yue's lips moving.
Yet he could not hear a single word they were saying.
This must have been one of Teacher Leng's methods too!
Tang Wulin naturally attributed it to Leng Hanyuan.
After all, Leng Hanyuan was now practically omnipotent in Tang Wulin's eyes.
"Nothing."
Leng Hanyuan gave Tang Wulin a strange look and withdrew the layer of spiritual interference.
"I was just preparing to take you to the Spirit Pagoda's Spirit Ascension Platform for some fun."
Leng Hanyuan casually came up with an excuse.
Of course, he had not made it up on the spot.
It had been a decision made by Yu Zhen and the others at Eastsea Academy.
"The Spirit Ascension Platform?"
The voice was full of confusion.
It came from Tang Wulin, who knew absolutely nothing about the Spirit Ascension Platform.
"The Spirit Ascension Platform?!"
This voice was filled with surprise and excitement.
It came from Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi, who understood the significance of the Spirit Ascension Platform.
"That's right."
Wu Zhangkong, dressed in white, happened to walk in through the door just then.
"This is special treatment provided by the academy."
"From now on, you'll have one chance every week to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform for cultivation. Make sure you treasure it."
Tang Wulin was utterly baffled.
Especially when he saw the excited expressions on Xie Xie and the others' faces, he became even more confused.
He asked:
"What is this Spirit Ascension Platform?"
Before Xie Xie could explain.
Wang Jinxi, standing beside him, eagerly spoke up to clear up Tang Wulin's confusion:
"The Spirit Ascension Platform is a scientific achievement of the Spirit Pagoda."
"Soul Masters can improve their soul spirits inside it."
"And the Spirit Ascension Platform is divided into different levels."
"Entering it requires both money and a quota."
"Money is secondary. The quota is what matters most."
"After all, each low-level Spirit Ascension Platform under the Spirit Pagoda only has one thousand admission slots each month."
"So the academy has really gone all out this time!"
Wang Jinxi said excitedly.
He felt increasingly fortunate that he had joined Class Zero.
After hearing his explanation, Tang Wulin roughly understood what the Spirit Ascension Platform was.
A few more traces of excitement appeared on his young face.
After all, compared to the others, Tang Wulin, who only had a ten-year soul spirit, hoped even more to improve his soul spirit.
The age and rank of a soul spirit were not only tied to his strength, but also greatly affected his pride.
Although Tang Wulin usually seemed as though he did not care much.
How could he truly not care at all?
Whenever he released his soul ring, he could feel the strange looks others gave his ten-year soul ring.
Tang Wulin had always envied Xie Xie and the others' hundred-year soul rings.
So after hearing about the Spirit Ascension Platform's effects, Tang Wulin naturally became excited.
Only Gu Yue rolled her eyes, showing little interest.
It was just the Spirit Ascension Platform.
Those so-called quotas were only for show to outsiders.
As Leng Hanyuan, the Spirit Pagoda's Grand Elder, was nominally her master, Gu Yue could visit the Spirit Ascension Platform whenever she wanted.
Besides, the Spirit Ascension Platform was not particularly useful to Gu Yue.
After all, she did not have a soul spirit.
What Gu Yue wanted was to use her own techniques to merge the Dragon God Secret Technique into the Spirit Pagoda's soul spirits.
That would allow her to carry out her other plan.
But she currently had no opportunity to access such core secrets, so she could only slowly rise through the ranks within the Spirit Pagoda.
She would strive to enter the Spirit Pagoda's core echelon as soon as possible and accomplish her goal.
Gu Yue did not know that her supposedly secret plans had long since become completely transparent to Leng Hanyuan.
Even if Gu Yue rose high enough in the future to enter the Spirit Pagoda's core echelon, Leng Hanyuan would never watch her recklessly carry out her plan.
Using the Spirit Pagoda's soul spirits to conceal the Dragon God Secret Technique and control all humanity had been nothing more than an impossible dream in Leng Hanyuan's eyes from the very beginning.
Gu Yue's dismissive attitude fell into Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and the others' eyes.
Their first instinct was to retort.
But after recalling the identity of the person before them, they felt that such a reaction was only natural.
They could only complain helplessly.
Tch, damn connected insider!
The Spirit Pagoda in Eastsea City was one of the Spirit Pagoda's eighteen major towers.
It stood more than a hundred stories tall.
Soaring into the clouds, it looked immensely magnificent.
It was also the tallest building in Eastsea City.
It was Tang Wulin's first time visiting the Spirit Pagoda in Eastsea City.
Compared to the Spirit Pagoda in Aolai City, the one before him was clearly far more visually imposing.
Long Hengxu joined the group midway.
He had come as an official representative of Eastsea Academy.
After all, Eastsea Academy had secured Tang Wulin and the others' opportunity to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform, so Long Hengxu naturally had to show his face.
It was also a reminder.
A reminder to Tang Wulin and the others of the academy's help.
After all, no investment was ever made without seeking profit.
What Eastsea Academy expected in return for investing in Tang Wulin and the others was for them to repay the academy after they grew stronger in the future.
Therefore, making them feel the academy's kindness was of paramount importance.
They entered the Spirit Pagoda.
The lavish, resplendent decor of the Spirit Pagoda's first floor stunned Tang Wulin, a boy from a small city.
This place was far grander than anywhere he had ever seen before!
Tang Wulin was unfamiliar with the murals hanging on the walls, but he could still guess that they must be extremely valuable.
"What is recorded here is the Spirit Ice Douluo from ten thousand years ago, the founder of the Spirit Pagoda, Senior Huo Yuhao."
Long Hengxu quietly introduced the identity of the man depicted in the mural to Tang Wulin and the others.
Tang Wulin and the others all revealed looks of admiration.
Only Leng Hanyuan could not help feeling something strange.
To be honest, seeing an old acquaintance from the past appear in a mural was quite an unusual feeling.
Leng Hanyuan naturally did not feel the same admiration Tang Wulin and the others did.
Ten thousand years ago, he had fought Huo Yuhao, the child of destiny, on more than a few occasions.
Nearly every time, the battle had ended in his overwhelming victory.
During that Soul Master tournament, he had personally blocked Shrek Academy from reaching the finals.
Leng Hanyuan had once become a shadow in Huo Yuhao's heart.
The Ice Empress, who should originally have become Huo Yuhao's soul spirit, had been snatched away by him instead.
Huo Yuhao's martial soul had also changed from the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion it was originally supposed to be into an ordinary Ice Jade Scorpion.
Come to think of it, before Huo Yuhao became a god, Leng Hanyuan had deliberately planted a small seed within him.
After ten thousand years, he wondered whether that little seed had taken root and sprouted in Huo Yuhao's heart, or been completely erased.
The saying that victors became kings and losers became bandits was truly displayed to the fullest amid the changes of the world.
As a genius who had surpassed even Huo Yuhao in that era, he had ultimately vanished from the world after sealing himself away.
Ten thousand years later, there were almost no stories left about him.
Yet Huo Yuhao, the defeated opponent who had willingly submitted to the God King Tang and thus entered the God Realm, had been remembered instead.
Still, Leng Hanyuan was not particularly disappointed.
Victors became kings and losers became bandits. It had always been so since ancient times!
And he had never lost!
This era ten thousand years later was the chessboard upon which he would play once more!
Mystic Phoenix's fame had been buried beneath ten thousand years of worldly dust.
But soon...
The name Mystic Phoenix would return with the even greater glory of rebirth from nirvana!
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