Plant Academy—This Was Heaven!

More than twenty days later, Lin Xia arrived outside Silvis Plant Academy. The admissions office was already packed, and Lin Xia's appearance immediately drew many eyes.

Among applicants generally thirteen or fourteen years old, or even older, Lin Xia's childish face, having only just turned six, stood out sharply.

Some even said outright:

"Little brother, did you come to the wrong place? The junior Soul Master Academy isn't here. This is an advanced Soul Master Academy—only Soul Masters at the Soul Grandmaster level can enroll!"

Hearing this, Lin Xia could only smile helplessly.

Although the chances of this trip succeeding were slim, Lin Xia still wanted to try.

"I know, but this is the advanced Soul Master Academy I want to join!"

As soon as he said this, even the teacher responsible for testing Soul Power looked toward Lin Xia in the crowd, a flicker of surprise and anticipation passing through his eyes.

For this child to speak so boldly, he must have some ability.

With that thought, the teacher testing Soul Power unconsciously sped up his movements, wanting Lin Xia's turn to come sooner.

Yet when the testing teacher finally had Lin Xia before him and tested his Soul Power, his eyes filled with astonishment.

The way he looked at Lin Xia seemed to say, Are you kidding me?

The teacher's reaction made the waiting crowd curious, and they began asking:

"Teacher, why aren't you announcing his age and Soul Power?"

The testing teacher sighed, then patted Lin Xia on the shoulder and slowly said:

"Child, perhaps you should leave. You still don't meet our Plant Academy's enrollment requirements."

Seeing this gesture, Lin Xia knew the man was trying to spare his pride.

He was helpless as well. His Soul Power was indeed a little low, but he still wanted to fight for it.

"Teacher, just follow the procedure. I came all the way from Fasnuo Province. Don't worry—I'm not afraid of being laughed at!"

The testing teacher was equally helpless. You may not be afraid of ridicule, but your Soul Power is a fatal weakness!

But since the boy had put it that way, the teacher could not keep delaying. He immediately called out:

"Six years old, third-level Soul Power!"

The moment those words fell, barely restrained snickering erupted all around them.

"Pfft! Third level? Did this kid come to the wrong place?"

"With such pathetic Soul Power, he still has the nerve to apply to Plant Academy? He must be from some backwater village."

"Go home and farm. Stop wasting everyone's time!"

Mockery rose one after another, while the surrounding students and some parents looked at him with contempt or pity.

Third-level Soul Power truly seemed pitiful before the admission threshold of an advanced Soul Master Academy.

Yet in the face of their laughter, Lin Xia remained calm and silently released his martial soul.

Blue-green skin, dark green spots, little claws—and especially the Bulbasaur with its seed brimming with vigorous life on its back. The instant it appeared, its unusual form drew everyone's attention.

"Bulba...?"

Bulbasaur let out an adorably blank cry.

The unfamiliar and novel martial soul abruptly silenced the laughter in the area, replaced by astonished murmurs and discussion:

"What kind of martial soul is that? It doesn't look like a toad, and it doesn't look like a turtle either."

"What's that seed on its back? Its life aura feels so dense!"

"Is that a soul beast?"

"..."

The instant the testing teacher saw this, he seemed to think of something and instinctively asked:

"Is your martial soul an independent living entity?"

Lin Xia nodded.

"This is my martial soul, Bulbasaur—an external beast martial soul!"

Just as the testing teacher was about to say something, an academy council member passing by was drawn over by the commotion.

After hearing Lin Xia's words, he instinctively examined the unusually shaped Bulbasaur, his gaze lingering for a long time on the seed on its back, which seemed naturally designed to absorb light energy.

"Child, hold out your hand," the old man suddenly said to Lin Xia. He then carefully examined Lin Xia's Soul Power fluctuations and thoroughly asked about his age and starting level of Innate Soul Power.

When he learned that Lin Xia's Innate Soul Power had been only level one, yet he had forcefully broken through to level three in merely half a month without obtaining a soul ring, relying on the feedback from his own martial soul, disbelief burst from the old man's eyes as he muttered in amazement:

"Photosynthesis as fuel, nature forging the foundation... Weak Innate Soul Power, yet it broke through its cocoon so swiftly?! Such a method of growth has never been heard of!"

This shattered the conventional understanding that Soul Masters could only improve through meditation and breakthroughs using soul rings!

How was this a useless martial soul?

It was clearly a treasure of extraordinary potential, with a growth pattern entirely different from the norm!

The old man looked at Bulbasaur, lively beneath the sunlight and naturally emanating a faint life aura, then at Lin Xia, whose Soul Power was weak but whose foundation was exceptionally solid. He immediately made his decision:

"Such martial soul characteristics are perfectly aligned with the essence of the path of plants! Its growth speed also accords with the great principles of nature's creation. Rules are dead. This case must be an exception!"

The old man made the decision on the spot, bypassing the usual Soul Power threshold and exceptionally admitting Lin Xia into Silvis Plant Academy!

"Child, what is your name? Are you willing to join our Plant Academy?"

"Senior, my name is Lin Xia. I'm willing to join Plant Academy!"

Seeing Lin Xia nod in agreement, the old man laughed heartily.

"Xia, this old man is Yue Hongsheng, an academy council member of Plant Academy, a rank seventy-three Soul Sage!"

"Come, come. I'll show you around the academy!"

As he spoke, he directly took Lin Xia's hand and led him and Bulbasaur into the academy.

The moment he stepped inside Plant Academy, Lin Xia was deeply shocked. Everything here seemed tailor-made for Bulbasaur.

Under Yue Hongsheng's introduction, Lin Xia gained a general understanding of Plant Academy.

The academy stood at the edge of the Emerald Forest, where the essence of grass and trees in the air was so dense that it almost formed a tangible bluish-green mist.

Ancient trees towered overhead, and rare flowers and plants covered every corner. With every breath, Lin Xia felt Bulbasaur beside him cheering with delight.

Beyond the vast forest vegetation, several enormous buildings containing simulated environments stood in the academy's core area.

"That is Sunlight Hall!"

Lin Xia followed Yue Hongsheng's pointing finger and saw a massive hall ahead. After entering, he looked up to see a transparent soul-tool dome gathering and amplifying sunlight, forming beams of light that poured down.

Countless plant-type Soul Masters had summoned their martial souls and sat meditating there.

The moment Bulbasaur entered, the tender leaves around the seed on its back unfurled of their own accord, greedily absorbing light energy far more intense than that outside! Its Soul Power growth efficiency surged.

After leaving Sunlight Hall, Yue Hongsheng brought Lin Xia to an area of black earth.

The soil in this area was rich with the essence of the earth and life energy.

Lin Xia merely had Bulbasaur experimentally root itself in the black soil, and he immediately sensed how extraordinary this place was.

An endless stream of nutrients was drawn from the soil and transformed into waves of pure Soul Power.

Lin Xia did not even dare imagine what Bulbasaur would become if it cultivated in places like these for several years.

How much would his own Soul Power increase?

At that moment, Lin Xia realized just how shallow his previous thinking had been.

Plant Academy was an advanced academy, after all. How could its foundations possibly be shallow?

This was simply heaven!