Gu Yuena Still Picked Up the Hammer

As soon as class ended, Wei Xiaofeng and his roommate went to find Huo Yuhao. "Student Yuhao, I'd like to keep asking about that earlier question, about the key points of the Soul Spirit Symbiosis Meditation Method..."

During this time, they had gradually become familiar with Huo Yuhao and had even received his guidance.

Some cultivation tricks concerning the new meditation method had benefited them greatly.

They really had no idea how he had managed to become so learned and knowledgeable at this age.

Watching Huo Yuhao leave the classroom after finishing his guidance, Gu Yuena also left a moment later. Wei Xiaofeng looked at the person beside him and asked:

"Speaking of which, I've never seen Student Huo Yuhao around the dorms. Does he live somewhere else?"

"Huh? You only just noticed?" Xie Xie, who was passing by, heard this and said speechlessly, "He and Student Gu Yuena were probably accepted into the Advanced Division long ago. They're only coming to the academy as a formality. Don't tell me you thought that with their talent, there'd be any academy that wouldn't want them?"

Wei Xiaofeng frowned. "Of course I know that. I'm just a little curious about his relationship with Student Gu Yuena."

After learning that Gu Yuena herself was not an arrogant person, some girls had worked up the courage to make a move, and in the end, they really did manage to talk to her. But her personality was somewhat cold, so they could only be considered to have made friends with her.

However, Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao seemed to have a pretty good relationship. He often saw the two of them going out together, leaving the academy, so he was a little curious, and his desire to gossip suddenly sprang up.

Was this mutual appreciation between geniuses, or was there some other reason?

"They should be living together, so their relationship is good."

At this moment, Wang Jinxi, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke.

Wei Xiaofeng and Xie Xie widened their eyes and looked at him in disbelief.

Who would've thought? This guy usually didn't like to talk much, but the moment he opened his mouth, it was such an explosive topic.

Wang Jinxi knew they had misunderstood and added, "You've misunderstood. I mean their dorms are all in the same building. When I was doing morning training before, I ran to the campus Green Belt and saw a building nearby. They've gone inside before."

"So that's how it is."

Xie Xie nodded and pondered, "But I think their backgrounds aren't simple. Do you still remember when I said before that Teacher Luo might be someone from the Spirit Pagoda, and he basically admitted it?"

"You're saying Student Yuhao and the others are all from the Spirit Pagoda, so their relationship is good?"

Wei Xiaofeng frowned and said in surprise, "Seriously?"

"I believe that guess, anyway." Xie Xie rubbed his chin. "In Eastsea City, only people from there could beat me by several notches."

The corner of Wei Xiaofeng's eye twitched, and he curled his lip. "Tch, you're not even as good as me."

"If your soul spirit doesn't undergo spirit ascension and rise to the Thousand Year Level, your cultivation speed will gradually slow down. You know that better than I do."

Xie Xie shrugged and smiled. "As for me, once I reach Level 30, that's where my advantage lies."

His family's Inherited Soul Spirit was a thousand-year one. At that point, that would be his advantage range!

Hearing this, Wei Xiaofeng opened his mouth but could not refute it.

No matter how compatible they were, his Little Green could only accompany him until the second ring. After he added a new soul spirit after the third ring, he would no longer be able to be as fast as he was now.

Wang Jinxi looked at Wei Xiaofeng for a while, then rarely took the initiative to break the silence. "If they come from the Spirit Pagoda, then what is their purpose in entering Eastsea Academy? They could go to a better Intermediate Division, or even study at Shrek Academy, right?"

Xie Xie thought for a moment, then said, "Their lodging was arranged by the academy. With their strength, it wouldn't be strange for them to receive special treatment. But they seemed to have been like this from the moment school started. In other words, the academy knew about them from the start... It's even possible the academy specially pulled them in."

"Could it be because of the Heaven Sea Alliance Grand Competition a year from now? Our academy's principal is pretty capable, huh? He actually managed to pull people over from the Spirit Pagoda to help out..."

Listening as Xie Xie gradually began talking to himself, Wei Xiaofeng and Wang Jinxi looked at each other.

At the Mecha Master Association, Huo Yuhao walked toward a reception room and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Huo Yuhao heard a somewhat familiar female voice from inside, and his expression turned strange, but he still opened the door and walked in.

In the center of the room, a girl with a golden ponytail turned around and said, "Hello, you're the Manufacturer the Mecha Master Association arranged to work with me, right? I'm Level Two Blacksmith Mu Xi..."

Halfway through her words, she stopped. Looking at the boy before her, who seemed somewhat familiar, in that instant, Mu Xi once again recalled the awkwardness from three years ago...

She really wanted to find a hole in the ground and crawl into it!

"Miss Mu Xi, there's no need to be so nervous."

Huo Yuhao looked at Mu Xi, who was lowering her head in front of him as if studying whether there was a crack in the floor, and said somewhat amusedly:

"We didn't have any real conflict back then."

"...You sure have a good mindset."

Mu Xi took a light breath, raised her head to look at Huo Yuhao, and barely managed to show a natural expression, while in her heart, she kept beating up a little effigy of Tang Wulin.

It's all your fault, Tang Wulin!

After the Blacksmith Association and the Mecha Master Association officially reached a partnership, they tilted some resources toward nurturing the younger generation. The Mecha Master Association would provide rare metals to blacksmiths, and after forging, they would hand them over to members of the Mecha Master Association for design and manufacture, drawing the younger generations of both sides closer and allowing them to progress together.

The reason they adopted this method of cooperation was naturally because the Mecha Master Association was richer than the Blacksmith Association. After all, one only provided materials, while the other manufactured Soul Tool products.

Blacksmiths were certainly important, but aside from anomalies like Divine Craftsmen and Saint Craftsmen, merely providing raw materials really did not make much money. For those low-level blacksmiths, this was an extremely good opportunity.

With such good conditions, Mu Xi, as the East Sea Forging Association's number one—now second most outstanding genius, had also been arranged by Mu Chen to come over as a representative.

It was just that over the past few days, she had been busy looking for Tang Wulin to compete in forging and had never gotten around to it. In the end, she had not expected that when she came today, she would directly run into Huo Yuhao.

What had happened three years ago was still vivid in her mind. She really did not want to work with him!

Ignoring Mu Xi's stiff expression, Huo Yuhao took out three pieces of rare metal.

"Let's not talk about that. These are the metals I need your help processing. I need all of them to undergo Hundred Refinements Purification. Can you do it?"

Mu Xi frowned as she took them, glanced them over, then nodded. "Of course, no problem."

"Then I'll leave it to you." Huo Yuhao thanked her, then asked, "Speaking of which, hasn't your association recently produced a nine-year-old Level Two Blacksmith? He didn't come here?"

"No. He's been working hard to earn money lately." Mu Xi narrowed her eyes at Huo Yuhao. "By the way, how do you know about our association's affairs?"

"I'm from the Spirit Pagoda."

"..."

She had almost forgotten. That Tang Wulin had deep ties with the Spirit Pagoda.

Mu Xi looked at Huo Yuhao thoughtfully. "You actually don't want to partner with me either, do you? You want to work with Tang Wulin?"

Huo Yuhao smiled and shook his head. "Miss Mu Xi, you're overthinking it."

Since Tang San's Divine Sense had awakened, and Tang Wulin was working hard to earn money... that meant Tang Wulin was already not far from breaking the first seal.

After chatting with Mu Xi for a while longer, Huo Yuhao saw her gaze wandering and let her off, taking the initiative to rise and leave the reception room.

Just as he was about to go to his Manufacturing Room and fiddle with that piece of Sentient Metal, Huo Yuhao saw Gu Yuena holding a small hammer, standing at the door of his Manufacturing Room.

"..."

Miss Gu Yuena, you're not planning to knock me out from behind, are you?