Throwing the Match

The Promotion Match was an Eastsea Academy tradition, where weaker classes challenged stronger classes, and if they won, they could take the other side's place.

The semester had only just started, and the other classes were already preparing for the Promotion Match, but the students of Class One were not worried at all.

What a joke. Even if some geniuses had gone to other classes for various reasons, could you beat Soul Grandmaster—student Wei Xiaofeng?

Even if you somehow managed it, Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao could still teach you a lesson!

Our class can't be the only one to feel the shock they bring!

With that mindset, while the other classes nervously carried out combat training, the students of Class One were very relaxed.

However, as the teacher, Luo Yanglu still had to be responsible.

On the training field, Luo Yanglu took out a box and removed a wristband from inside.

"This wristband is a portable Soul Tool that can test physical strength. Wear it, and it can give real-time feedback on your condition and quantify your physical strength in numbers. If your physical strength rises, the number will rise too."

Luo Yanglu smiled and said, "At your stage, physical fitness is still very important. Any improvement is still improvement, and in the future, you'll have more room when choosing Soul Spirits. Besides, professions such as Mecha Pilots have no low requirements for physical fitness."

"It's just that training and cultivation are ultimately your own business. I'm your guide, and class time is limited too. You'll have to rely on your own self-discipline."

"I imagine that if you can clearly watch yourselves grow stronger step by step, you won't slack off too much, right?"

The students put on the wristbands in delighted surprise. Xie Xie looked at the quantified physical-strength value on his, feeling a quiet sigh in his heart.

So this was the treatment Class One received?

There were no Soul Tools like this on the market. He had previously felt that coming here for school was a bad thing, but now, he no longer thought so.

"But you need to pay attention. Your bodies are still developing, so don't force your training. That Soul Tool has an alarm function. Once it triggers, it means you're about to reach a critical point. Stop as soon as possible. Don't injure your bodies."

"Yes!" *n

After explaining the points they had to watch out for, Luo Yanglu began distributing the Soul Tools.

Gu Yuena took the Soul Tool and inexplicably found it somewhat familiar. She subconsciously looked at Huo Yuhao's wrist, and sure enough, saw that he already had one.

Could this have been researched and developed by him?

Thinking this, Gu Yuena put it on and saw the number soar all the way up, soon reaching four digits.

"..."

She was a Dragon King, after all. Even if her current cultivation was low, her physical strength and physical fitness could not possibly be poor.

At that moment, Gu Yuena sensed a Spiritual Power fluctuation that had gradually become familiar. She connected to it skillfully and heard Huo Yuhao's reminder.

"Press the button in the lower left corner and enter the password 3946. You can adjust the value yourself. A normal Soul Grandmaster's physical strength is around two hundred."

It really had been invented by him.

Gu Yuena breathed a sigh of relief and did as he said, setting it to a normal value.

On Huo Yuhao's side, after receiving the brand-new Physical Strength Testing Soul Tool, he glanced at the value that had likewise shot up to four digits, then put it away directly.

This Soul Tool was only meant for an early-stage transition. After reaching a certain value, physical fitness was not something ordinary exercise could improve.

He had created this Soul Tool only because some inspiration had arisen while researching Artificial Soul Spirit Bloodline Extraction Technology, so he had made it in passing.

After finishing with the Soul Tool matter, Luo Yanglu taught everyone a brand-new meditation method—the Soul Spirit Symbiosis Meditation Method.

"This is a meditation method researched by the Spirit Pagoda. When cultivating, you summon your Soul Spirit and use the Soul Spirit Contract to establish a special circuit between both sides, achieving a two-way energy cycle that lets the Soul Spirit help you circulate energy through the full cycle. The more compatible your Soul Spirit is with you, the faster your cultivation speed will be."

Looking at the bright-eyed students below, especially student Wei Xiaofeng, whose Martial Soul and Soul Spirit were both the same, the corners of Luo Yanglu's mouth rose slightly. "Of course, what I'm teaching you is the simplified version, so the effect isn't that good."

Everyone's expressions instantly fell.

Xie Xie, on the other hand, said thoughtfully, "Teacher, you wouldn't happen to be someone from the Spirit Pagoda, would you?"

First a Soul Tool, then a meditation method with Spirit Pagoda characteristics. No matter how one looked at it, he did not seem like an ordinary person.

Luo Yanglu smiled and did not answer, but that counted as tacit admission.

After that, he had everyone try this meditation method, while calling Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena over to his side.

"Your meditation methods both come from Limit Douluo, and they're both top-tier meditation methods, so there's no need for you to consider this one."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

He had not used the meditation method Hua Yichen had applied for.

What he used was a self-created meditation method, combining his experience from ten thousand years ago with meditation methods from magic. It could increase the speed of his Spiritual Power and Ultimate Ice cultivation, and with the influence of Gu Yuena's bloodline, the debuff Ultimate Ice had from ranks 30 to 70 had already been completely resolved.

Gu Yuena: "..."

She used her self-created Elemental Meditation Method.

She had not used the meditation method Teacher Leng had given her either.

Unaware that the two people before him were cheats, Luo Yanglu thought for a moment, then asked:

"Student Gu Yuena, which side does Heavenly Phoenix Crown's guidance for you lean toward? Cultivation, or combat?"

"Cultivation."

"Then have you been to the Virtual Battlefield?"

"?"

Gu Yuena looked at Luo Yanglu in confusion.

Seeing that, Luo Yanglu had a rough idea.

"Yuhao, spar with Gu Yuena. Just stop when the point is made. I want to confirm something."

The Heavenly Phoenix Crown had entrusted her disciple to their branch to look after, so they absolutely could not hold her back.

And according to what Yichen had said, although things had been a little unpleasant at first, Yuhao and Gu Yuena were getting along quite well now. If they took better care of Gu Yuena, then once Yuhao went to headquarters in the future, she should be willing to lend him a hand.

Huo Yuhao looked toward Gu Yuena when he heard that, and she also looked over, her gaze flickering slightly.

The same thought flashed through both their minds: when fighting this person, how much strength would be appropriate?

Getting serious was impossible. They could only throw a little match to get by.

As the training ground provided for Class One, the venue was huge. Even if all the students carried out combat training together, it would not feel cramped.

But when Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena stood in the center, the other students all put down what they were doing and came over to watch.

They were extremely interested in just how strong these two extraordinary geniuses were.

Luo Yanglu did not stop them when he saw this. He only looked at Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, who were ten meters apart, took out a notebook and pen, and shouted, "Begin!"

Gu Yuena made the first move, two yellow soul rings lighting up around her. In an instant, ripples spread through the air, and Wind Blades condensed into form at once, sealing off every direction around Huo Yuhao. Seven or eight blades of air howled toward him from tricky angles.

Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered slightly, and three Purple Soul Rings appeared around him, drawing startled cries from some of the students.

"Thousand-Year Soul Rings?" Xie Xie felt the pressure coming from the soul rings and clicked his tongue, yet also felt as if it were only natural.

For a Soul Elder at this age, it would be stranger if they were not Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

The instant the Wind Blades approached him, a faint light lit in Huo Yuhao's eyes. Spiritual Detection activated, working together with the Silver Dragon King Bloodline's elemental perception and his own experience. In an instant, he saw through the core of every Wind Blade, and with a thought—

Crack!

In an instant, all the Wind Blades shattered, all turning into currents of air and vanishing.

Gu Yuena frowned slightly, and a green light suddenly spread over her body, raising her speed to a new level in an instant. At the same time, her hands moved rapidly, and clusters of scorching fireballs and sharp Ice Cones swept toward Huo Yuhao like a storm, yet all returned without success.

"How many attributes has she used?" Xie Xie's brows jumped wildly as he watched. "How can her Martial Soul control this many elements?"

"But none of them worked."

Beside Xie Xie, Wei Xiaofeng's roommate—Zhang Yangzi—shook his head, his face filled with amazement. "Student Yuhao dissolved them effortlessly."

Effortlessly?

Luo Yanglu shook his head inwardly.

It was not effortless at all.

Elemental attacks were also controlled with Spiritual Power. Any elemental attack that entered the three-meter radius around Huo Yuhao would have its weakest point at the core interfered with by his invisible Spiritual Power, using that to disrupt Gu Yuena's control and cause it to collapse.

This required a realm of spiritual control refined to the smallest detail. Among the Spiritual Attribute soul masters Luo Yanglu knew, only Hua Yichen could do it!