Ruyi Plate

On the list for cultivation directions.

Yuwen Tuo naturally wrote down the assault type. Both of his Martial Souls leaned toward offense, leaving no doubt about it.

Xiao Xiao, on the other hand, was control and support. Since Zhou Yi already knew about her Twin Martial Souls, she did not say anything further to her.

Only Wang Dong, clearly an assault type, had stubbornly written down control just so she would not be separated from Huo Yuhao. Zhou Yi gave her a harsh scolding for it.

After class, many people gathered around them.

Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao made two people, while the New Student Assessment required teams of three. Naturally, they needed a third teammate.

Yuwen Tuo was currently tied with Wang Dong for first place in the class, and that was only in terms of cultivation. In actual combat, he had once defeated a Three Rings opponent while only having one ring. Many believed that if they truly fought, he would definitely be stronger than Wang Dong.

After those two, Xiao Xiao ranked third in the class.

If they wanted good results in the New Student Competition, of course they had to cling to the first- and third-ranked students.

Although Zhou Yi had assigned them groups, both Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao had just stated that the group could be changed. They did not have Xiao Xiao's courage to openly defy Zhou Yi, but exchanging teammates privately after class was still possible.

"Thank you all for thinking so highly of us, but Xiao Xiao and I have already taken the assault and control positions respectively. We do not need anyone in the same position, so please understand. If there are support-type Soul Masters skilled at enhancement, or defense-type Soul Masters with formidable defensive power, we would welcome them wholeheartedly," Yuwen Tuo said without putting on airs.

He disliked some of Shrek Academy's upper management, but he did not hold much prejudice against these Shrek students who had only just enrolled.

He was not someone who took his anger out on the innocent.

Hearing Yuwen Tuo's words, quite a few people could only turn away in disappointment. They knew he was right as well. In a three-person team, there was no need for overlapping roles.

"Um, can I join Yuwen's group? I'm a support type, and enhancement is what I specialize in. It's just that my enhancement strength isn't very high. Please don't mind it." A female student timidly stepped before the two of them.

Her appearance was ordinary, and she did not seem particularly confident. She was most likely the sort of minor character who would be eliminated later on.

The girl knew her own situation as well, so she wanted to see whether she could find someone strong to rely on. The reason she dared to try was naturally because she had some confidence—and that confidence lay with Xiao Xiao.

"Lian Yue!" Xiao Xiao called out the girl's name.

Yuwen Tuo asked, "Xiao Xiao, do you know her?"

Xiao Xiao nodded. "Yes, she's my roommate."

Xiao Xiao did not have the same treatment as Yuwen Tuo, with a room all to herself. She was just an ordinary new student, so naturally she lived in a double room.

"Since she's your roommate, I should give her some consideration." Yuwen Tuo smiled. "Classmate, please tell us your rank and Martial Soul."

"Mm, my name is Lian Yue. My Weapon Soul is the Ruyi Plate. I'm an eighteenth-rank support-type Tool Soul Master with one yellow soul ring. I have one skill, Attack Aura, which can increase attack power by ten percent. The boost isn't very high, but it has a very good effect—it can coexist with other enhancement soul skills, and it provides a stacked boost on top of existing enhancements."

Lian Yue did her best to sell herself. With only one ring, she naturally had to describe the advantages of her soul skill as much as possible.

Ten percent was indeed somewhat low.

At the same rank, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda was twice as strong as hers.

But that last sentence was enough to make Yuwen Tuo's eyes light up.

Simply being able to coexist with other enhancement soul skills was already a decent effect. More importantly, her enhancement stacked on top of other enhancements.

For example, if several other stackable enhancement soul skills were boosting one person, they would generally be based on that person's original base attributes. If one boosted by twenty percent and another by thirty percent, the total would be fifty percent. That was addition.

But in her case, she enhanced the attributes after they had already been enhanced. For example, Yuwen Tuo's first soul skill could increase his attack power by fifty percent. If Lian Yue's Ruyi Plate added another ten percent boost, it would not become sixty percent, but sixty-five percent, because it multiplied rather than added.

It could be said that Lian Yue possessed an enhancement called support amplification. The stronger the existing enhancements on the person she supported, the more powerful her soul skill became.

If her rank rose in the future and she gained the most important attribute enhancements, then even if she could not compare to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, she would still be a support Soul Master with unique strengths. She might even become the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda's best partner.

"Alright, not bad. You're in!" Yuwen Tuo decided.

It just so happened that he was a Soul Master with his own attack enhancement.

In battles between low-rank Soul Masters like these, a sixty-five percent increase in attack power was already very good.

"Thank you, Yuwen, and Xiao Xiao!" Lian Yue said gratefully and happily.

She knew her own strength was not much to speak of, and she assumed Yuwen Tuo had agreed only for Xiao Xiao's sake. Her heart filled with gratitude toward Xiao Xiao. With these two helping her, she was confident she could achieve good results in the New Student Assessment and remain at Shrek Academy.

Seeing that Yuwen Tuo had already chosen the final teammate, everyone else could only disperse helplessly.

Xiao Xiao called out, "Great! From now on, we're teammates. In the New Student Assessment, we'll definitely take the championship!"

As expected of an enthusiastic and cheerful girl, she said something so arrogant in front of everyone.

Several days later, the day of the New Student Assessment finally arrived.

Shrek Academy's assessment area was located in the north-central part of the academy, adjacent to the Battle Soul Zone.

Compared to the Battle Soul Zone, this place was much larger. The outer court students of Shrek Academy had extremely polarized feelings toward it. Outstanding students loved coming here, because this was where they displayed their strength. But students with relatively low cultivation regarded it as a dreadful place. Every year, a large number of students were eliminated because they failed the assessments here.

The assessment area was oval-shaped, divided by low walls into separate sections so that many students could begin their soul battles in different areas at the same time.

During the New Student Assessment, the assessment area would be divided into many sections, and each section did not need to be very large. The new students' Soul Power was not strong, and their soul skills had limited destructive force and attack range. They did not need much space to display their abilities.

After the tense team assignments in the morning, the assessments would officially begin in the afternoon.

Today was the first day of the assessment. To give the new students time to adjust, each group would only take part in one match today.

The academy had sent out fifty teachers to oversee assessment registration in the various areas.

The assessment draw had also been arranged into groups. The goal was to ensure as much as possible that teams from the same class would not encounter each other during the ten Round Robin Tournament matches.

Therefore, if Yuwen Tuo and Huo Yuhao were to face each other, they would have to wait until at least the elimination rounds.