After Cloudtop Academy won the championship, the Emerald Merchant Guild's efforts saw it hailed as the continent's number one academy. News of its student admissions and teacher recruitment quickly spread across the entire continent.
Inside Nuoding City's Junior Soul Master Academy.
Several students gathered around the noticeboard by the school gates, pointing at the newly posted announcement and discussing it.
Yu Xiaogang was passing through the corridor when he caught the prominent words "Cloudtop Academy" on the notice out of the corner of his eye. His steps faltered involuntarily.
He walked over, pushed through the crowd, and leaned closer to read.
The notice read: Cloudtop Academy is accepting students from across the entire continent. Applicants must be under thirteen. No restrictions on martial soul or talent. Teachers are also wanted. Applicants with unique research achievements are welcome. No rank requirement.
Yu Xiaogang's pupils widened slightly.
No rank requirement.
He read those words three times, making sure he had not misread them.
Then he straightened, a knowing smile rising at the corners of his mouth, as though everything had fallen into place just as he expected.
"Hmph," he murmured to himself. "Aren't they talking about me?"
He turned and headed back, his pace noticeably quicker than before.
Several teachers passing through the corridor saw him like this and exchanged bewildered looks.
Yu Xiaogang ignored them, went straight back to his room, and closed the door.
The more he thought about it, the more sense it made.
Who was he, Yu Xiaogang? A son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the foremost authority on martial soul theory, the man who proposed the "Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul," and the acknowledged "invincible theorist" of the entire Soul Master world.
*Although his martial soul, Luo Sanpao, had suffered a detrimental mutation that