Three Years Later, Current Strength

Time flew by, and three years passed.

Outside Eastsea Junior 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 bit cumbersome today, so they took some extra time."

Xu Yue smiled and reached for Mu Xi's hand, but she shot him a glare and nimbly dodged aside.

"Hmph!" Mu Xi lifted her chin slightly and reached out to link arms with Xu Xiaoyan.

Xu Yue was not displeased by this in the slightest. On the contrary, he was happy to see it happen.

At that moment, Xu Xiaoyan looked at Xu Yue and sweetly suggested, "Brother Yue, we finally graduated. Let's go shopping."

"No!" Xu Yue saw the anticipation in her eyes, but still shook his head in refusal.

"I still have training to finish today."

"Oh, it's your weekly firearms practice today." Mu Xi recalled it and nodded.

"Alright then." Xu Xiaoyan looked somewhat disappointed.

"Studying is already so tiring. Why do you still have to attend so many extra classes, Brother Yue?"

Looking at Xu Xiaoyan's unambitious appearance, Xu Yue felt a little exasperated.

He reached out and rubbed her soft blue hair, saying fondly, "Xiaoyan, your talent is clearly quite good. Jin Xi and the others have all broken through to become Great Soul Masters, but you're still only 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 spoke pitifully. "And besides, don't I have you, Brother Yue?"

However, seeing Xu Yue's gaze gradually turn stern, she hurriedly shook his arm and added, "Don't look at me like that, Brother Yue. I promise I'll break through to Great Soul Master before school starts."

Seeing Xu Xiaoyan's earnest promise, the sternness on Xu Yue's face finally faded.

It was not that he wanted to force Xu Xiaoyan. Her temperament 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.

Following the trajectory of the original timeline, even when she joined Zero Class several months later, she would still have been some distance away from becoming a Great Soul Master.

Her current level was already the result of his diligent supervision over the past three years.

"As long as you break through to Great Soul Master during the holiday, I'll set aside a day to go shopping with you..."

Noticing someone's gaze fixed on him, 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 with you too!"

Upon hearing that, Xu Xiaoyan immediately sucked in a breath.

Eastsea City was by the sea, and seafood was undoubtedly one of its local specialties. Yet Xu Yue, who had grown up in Eastsea City, disliked it immensely—one could even call it hatred.

Even when they went to the snack street, the smell of grilled squid would make him unconsciously furrow his brow.

"Xiaoyan, you're far too easy to satisfy!"

Mu Xi warned from the side.

"One shopping trip is enough to dismiss you. One day, he might sell you off, and you'd still help him count the money."

"Let's go shopping by ourselves, sisters. Ignore him."

Hearing this, Xu Xiaoyan puffed out her cheeks and pursed her pink lips, thinking to herself.

What do you mean I'm too easy to satisfy? You make it sound like Big Sister Mu Xi could refuse Brother Yue either.

As the time for his extra class drew near, Mu Xi and Xu Xiaoyan reluctantly waved goodbye to Xu Yue.

After taking a taxi to the base of a high-rise 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, ancient in style yet brimming with sharp, fierce momentum, stood out prominently.

Break!

Even someone who knew nothing about spear techniques would feel an overwhelming aura rushing at them from that single word.

If an ordinary person stared at it for too long, their eyes might even be injured.

This was additional training Xu Yue had requested from his teacher, Leng Yaozhu, after breaking through to the two-ring Great Soul Master level.

At first, Leng Yaozhu had been rather puzzled, 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 subordinate clans of the Clear Sky Sect twenty thousand years ago.

From then on, in addition to mecha, battle armor, and blacksmithing, Xu Yue gained another area of training—weapon techniques.

And Xu Yue's soul power cultivation at this time was...

Level thirty-four, at the peak! A Soul Elder!

Having just graduated from a junior academy yet already reaching the Soul Elder level normally required for graduation from an intermediate academy was simply astonishing.

If not for the effect of his twin ultimate attributes on his cultivation speed, which offset the boost from his perfect mimicry cultivation environment...

His current cultivation speed would have only been that of someone with innate full soul power.

Otherwise, he was confident that he could have reached the four-ring Soul Ancestor level before Eastsea Academy began.

And that was only his soul power level. Xu Yue's achievements in other areas were equally astounding.

In blacksmithing, he had long since mastered all manner of techniques.

He had also completed the fusion forging required at the Spirit Forging level as early as a year ago.

He could now be assessed within the Blacksmith Association as a peak sixth-rank top-tier Grandmaster.

If not for the excessively demanding requirements of Soul Forging—

His current spiritual power, soul power, and so on were still far from sufficient.

He might even have been able to forcibly challenge the Saint Craftsman level.

Of course, Mu Chen understood the principle that the tallest tree in the forest would be the first to be struck by the wind.

Thus, publicly, he had only given Xu Yue a third-rank master rating.

But even with only third rank, it still caused a stir within the Association, directly breaking the record of the Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua.

Many Grandmasters had hailed him as the next Divine Craftsman.

As for mecha and battle armor, he had made progress there as well, though there was no need to go into every detail.

Xu Yue stepped deeper into the training grounds, where a middle-aged man sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Teacher Yang, I'm here!" Xu Yue called, bowing slightly.

Though both were called teachers, teachers were not all the same.

People like Mu Chen and Leng Yaozhu were more akin to masters, bound to him in a far deeper relationship.

Yang Xiong before him, meanwhile, was more like an ordinary teacher from a junior or intermediate academy.

Even so, Xu Yue still respected him.

Yang Xiong opened his eyes and looked at Xu Yue, unable to suppress a sigh inwardly.

A year and a half ago, Leng Yaozhu had invited him to spare half a day each week to teach Xu Yue spear techniques.

Altogether, the time they had actually spent together amounted to little more than a month.

Yet in that short time, Xu Yue had cultivated the Soul-Breaking Spear Technique he taught to perfection.

Even in terms of depth of understanding, Xu Yue was already no inferior to him.

"Xu Yue, today should be the day you graduate from junior academy, right?" Yang Xiong asked.

"Yes, Teacher Yang!"

"It seems our time as teacher and student is coming to an end as well."

Yang Xiong rose from the ground, his gaze gradually sharpening.

"Come. Today, we'll have one final graduation assessment. Let me see just what realm you've reached in your cultivation of the Soul-Breaking Spear."