Physical Strength, Class Selection

"Wait, damn it, my Silkworm Cocoon is gone!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly cried out in embarrassed anger, his startled shouting leaving Huo Yuhao a little bewildered. "Brother Sky Dream, is that Silkworm Cocoon really important?"

"Of course!" Tian Meng snapped in frustration. "Without the Silkworm Cocoon, we won't have anything that can control the Ice Empress—cough, cough, I mean the thing for your Second Martial Soul. If that one really goes all out, forget about my true body. I'm afraid barely anyone could withstand her."

Seeing that Huo Yuhao's eyes were still full of confusion, Tian Meng said helplessly, "Put it this way. With the Silkworm Cocoon, going to the Land of Extreme North would be like picking up an opportunity. I'd have at least a fifty percent chance of talking the other side around. Without the Silkworm Cocoon... the success rate is probably less than ten percent."

"Then what happens if we fail?" Huo Yuhao widened his eyes.

"We die, obviously." Tian Meng spread his hands.

"I still have to avenge my mother..." Huo Gua said weakly.

"Enough, enough. I'll go rest first. We'll come up with something somehow." Tian Meng sighed helplessly.

If Su Wen knew, he would probably only grin.

With Huo Gua's status as the Child of Destiny, he would definitely bet on it. Though the will of the world could not preserve Huo Gua's opportunities, this was the Child of Destiny. No matter what, it would never endanger his life.

"Bzz..."

Along with a pitch-black ripple surging out from Ning Tian's body and spreading in all directions, the girl was the first to open her eyes. Her pale golden eyes were rather dazzling, and her gaze immediately fell on Su Wen. She revealed a sweet smile and ran over.

"Strength?" Su Wen asked.

"Mm!"

"Seven Treasures turn to reveal the Glazed Pagoda, third: Strength!"

A purple Soul Ring rose from beneath her feet.

Light from the third floor of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda fell upon Su Wen.

He instantly felt an amplification spread throughout his entire body, increasing his strength by roughly forty percent. Su Wen, who had already obtained nearly fifty percent of the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's attributes, rolled his shoulders and could not resist throwing a punch at an ancient tree nearby that was several hundred meters tall and pierced straight into the clouds.

"Boom~!!!"

A tremendous roar resounded through the sky.

The front of his fist almost produced a sonic boom, raising a faint, invisible ripple through the air.

The others: "..."

Wu Feng in particular swallowed, suppressing her original thought of challenging Su Wen. Back then, Su Wen's kick had only made her retch for a while. If they fought now... she would probably be smashed into bloody mist by one sweeping kick.

"Not bad." Su Wen nodded.

The corner of Bei Bei's mouth twitched.

Not bad?!!

With this level of physical strength, no one would question it if someone said he was a Soul Beast wearing human skin, right?

He had always thought that as a Summoner, Su Wen's own defense had to be very poor, similar to a fragile Support-Control System type. But unexpectedly... he seemed even more Attack System than Bei Bei, an actual Attack System.

A Hexagonal All-Rounder Warrior with no blind spots.

"Crack..."

The ancient tree snapped from Su Wen's punch, and its upper half crashed down to the other side, startling a flurry of birds into fluttering flight.

At this moment, Tang Ya also slowly woke up. She looked blankly at the scene before her and asked in surprise, "While I was absorbing my Soul Ring, did another Soul Beast come over?"

"No, it was Su Wen," Bei Bei said softly.

Tang Ya: "..."

They had taken their time on the way here, but the return trip was rather quick.

Perhaps they were also rushing to meet the registration deadline. Although it would last for half a month, more than half the time had already passed by now. If something unexpected happened on the road and they failed to make it back, that would be amusing.

Along the way, Huo Gua cultivated diligently, but in Su Wen's eyes, he was moving at a turtle's pace, chugging along like an old clunker with missing teeth, not even reaching one-fifth of Su Wen's speed.

However, early-stage Huo Gua was indeed very weak.

Without the Ice Jade Scorpion as his Second Martial Soul and second power bank—the Ice Jade Scorpion's spiritual origin was also taken into Huo Yuhao's body—his speed had yet to undergo a qualitative change. He was a growth-type protagonist. In fact, before he went to the Sun Moon Empire for exchange, his Soul Power increased at an absurdly slow pace.

However...

Su Wen smiled. With him around, it was impossible for the Ice Empress to be tricked by that fellow Tian Meng. He had even instructed Hurricane to steal the Silkworm Cocoon. In the Original Work, it was by relying on the Silkworm Cocoon that they controlled the Ice Empress. Without the Silkworm Cocoon, was Tian Meng planning to talk her down?

Pretty unlikely...

But that said, Tian Meng was a million-year Soul Beast after all. Without the Silkworm Cocoon, it was not necessarily true that he would be completely out of options.

In any case, he just had to follow them when the time came.

"Ah Wen, aren't you going to obtain a Soul Beast?" Ning Tian leaned her little head over and asked with great interest.

"I'm still a few months away from level forty." Su Wen smiled and rubbed the girl's head. This golden hair was quite comfortable.

His Martial Soul was special. He did not advance by obtaining Soul Rings. Instead, only after breaking through to level forty would he obtain his fourth Pokeball, then capture a Soul Beast, so breaking through to level forty was a hard requirement.

But it was soon.

Maybe by the time school started, before the first assessment, it would be about done.

"Mm."

Ning Tian's catlike beautiful eyes narrowed into slits. She had only been looking for a topic to talk about.

"Then which class are you planning to enter?"

After cuddling up to Su Wen for a while, she suddenly widened her beautiful eyes and asked without blinking. This question was quite crucial. Even if she was the princess of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, transferring classes at Shrek Academy would still be rather difficult. It would be best... to get it right in one step.

"Class Two, I guess," Su Wen said softly.

"Teacher Mu Jin is pretty good."

"Mm." Ning Tian did not waste any more words. She nodded lightly, then snuggled up with Su Wen again.

In just a few short days, Huo Yuhao had more or less learned the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track. It was not because he was especially gifted or anything; it was purely "diligence." He could be considered a classic example of the slow bird starting early.

This left Bei Bei and Tang Ya quite pleasantly surprised.

After all, they had originally thought they had picked up a weakling and had not expected him to work particularly hard. As long as he could carry on the Tang Sect and develop it, that would be enough. But unexpectedly, he was this hardworking, cultivating day and night after learning meditation.

"Brother Sky Dream, my cultivation speed is more than three or four times faster than before!"

In the Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao said happily.

In just a few short days, he had already broken through to rank eleven. (Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, this oversized power bank, was starting to show its strength.)

"Mm, not bad..." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said weakly. He was still pondering how to trick the Ice Empress.

"Isn't that fast?" Huo Yuhao scratched his head, his joy fading somewhat.

"So-so," Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said with a yawn.

"Look at that kid called Su Wen."

"Mm." Huo Yuhao nodded blankly.

"The speed at which the Soul Power inside him is increasing is seven times yours," Tian Meng said lazily.

"What?!!" Huo Yuhao's eyes widened.

"So do your best, young man. In the era you live in, monsters are everywhere."

P.S. Regarding which class Mu Jin taught, it made my head spin. The original work clearly mentioned that because she was targeting Zhou Yi, the former taught Class One, so Mu Jin was Class Two (in the early stage, Mu Jin was Ning Tian's teacher). But Ning Tian's class is even more of a Schrödinger's class. At the beginning, during the first assessment, she introduced herself as being from Freshman Class Nine...