Tang Ya's cultivation speed was far from ideal.
As mentioned before, cultivation was a crucial part of the advancement requirements in Shrek Academy's Outer Court. Tang Ya's talent was actually pretty lousy to begin with, and in this world, she had enrolled a year early on top of that.
Though she had likewise advanced to the fourth grade, she had to face the Third Ring threshold for advancing from third to fourth grade a year earlier than in the original story.
It was only because that loser Bei Bei had given Tang Ya a large share of his cultivation resources that she had made it. Otherwise, she would have been done for when school started last year. Strictly speaking, Tang Ya was a few months younger than Ye Qing, only just over thirteen now. Bei Bei deserved much of the credit for her reaching Soul Elder at that age.
Bei Big Loser's slow cultivation speed might well have had something to do with his giving all his cultivation resources to Tang Ya.
Advancing from fourth to fifth grade did not require obtaining a fourth soul ring, but there was still a soul power level requirement: level thirty-five at minimum.
With the usual enrollment age of twelve, students would already be sixteen by fifth grade. There was nothing strange about Shrek requiring Outer Court disciples to reach at least level thirty-five by sixteen. Why else would they claim to cultivate only monsters?
But that was precisely the problem.
Tang Ya's cultivation had hit a bottleneck. There was less than a month before fifth grade began, yet she had only just broken through to level thirty-four. Reaching level thirty-five in such a short time was simply impossible.
Of course, since she had obtained her third soul ring early, there was no way