Although Jiang Xia vehemently denied it, Wu Zhangkong remained convinced that Jiang Xia's Broken Dream Martial Soul helped with cultivating secondary professions.
However, asking someone to sacrifice their own time to help others really was not something he ought to say.
Especially since Jiang Xia himself was pursuing greater heights.
He had already broken so many records.
Asking him to stop and help those running more slowly was simply too unreasonable.
Gu Yue sat beside Jiang Xia. Listening to him righteously refuse to help others cultivate and study, she thought of how she used his Broken Dream every day at the Spirit Pagoda, and the corners of her lips unconsciously curled upward.
Hmph, I use what you can't afford every single day.
Just last night, I was still using Broken Dream to research virtual space technology.
No, not last night.
To be precise, Broken Dream is still connected to me right now.
Within Broken Dream, Gu Yue was currently devoting most of her attention to digesting the virtual space technology she had yet to fully understand last night. He was still building models and verifying various algorithms.
Of course, at Jiang Xia's request, she also devoted a considerable amount of attention to developing Elemental Control techniques.
In Gu Yue's eyes, this was paying a usage fee: she used Broken Dream and offered Elemental Control techniques in exchange.
A fair trade!
Jiang Xia seemed to notice the change in Gu Yue's mood and glanced at her.
He kept feeling that Gu Yue was thinking about something strange.
However, he did not care about any of that.
As long as it did not overly affect his own cultivation, the returns Jiang Xia earned from renting out Broken Dream were quite substantial.
First was virtual space technology, which he was learning very quickly.
That was because Gu Yue was guiding him through all of it.
Jiang Xia essentially emptied his mind and directly received what Gu Yue learned.
Next were Elemental Control techniques, which Gu Yue also demonstrated for him, making Jiang Xia's cultivation in this area even more efficient than before.
The returns from both areas were entirely AFK gains.
That was also why Jiang Xia had done his best to answer all of Gu Yue's questions last night.
Because Gu Yue offered far too much!
Aside from Gu Yue, the only thing anyone present could offer Jiang Xia that would yield returns-and full returns at that-was Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
The problem was that Jiang Xia still could not see any hope of replicating that bloodline.
Therefore, Jiang Xia had no intention of launching this project that theoretically offered full returns.
After all, not only was this project uncontrollable, but Jiang Xia would also have to research it himself.
There was no way to earn AFK gains.
Wu Zhangkong continued asking about everyone else's secondary professions.
Among them, Gu Yue being a rank-three mecha designer surprised Wu Zhangkong somewhat.
Being a mecha designer took brains.
It was very difficult to learn.
Rank three was already a very high level.
When Gu Yue answered, Jiang Xia could not help glancing at her.
Are you really a rank-three mecha designer?
This time, Gu Yue noticed Jiang Xia's look and simply ignored it.
Tang Wulin was also a rank-four blacksmith.
Xie Xie had started learning mecha manufacturing last semester and was now a rank-one mecha manufacturer.
Xu Xiaoyan, rather unexpectedly, already had a foundation as a rank-one mecha designer.
There were five people in the class, with two rank-four secondary professionals and one rank-three secondary professional.
This made the two rank-one secondary professionals lower their heads, their faces filled with shame.
Wu Zhangkong glanced at the two of them, unsure how to console them.
Under normal circumstances, this was only when people started learning these things.
Very few Soul Masters began learning a secondary profession at the age of six.
However, he held back and did not console the pair.
It was also quite necessary to give them a little provocation so they would cultivate harder in the future.
Time passed quickly.
Xu Xiaoyan's arrival did not affect Jiang Xia's daily cultivation.
In the blink of an eye, the second semester was already nearing its end.
"I've already spent half a month accumulating Soul Power at rank 39. I wonder if I can try breaking through to rank 40."
Jiang Xia's cultivation speed had always been very fast.
He had already been at rank 34 when he first joined Class Zero, and had reached rank 37 before the second semester began.
Now, after a semester, he had reached rank 39.
Normally, there was no hope of crossing the rank-40 threshold without four or five months.
After all, some Soul Master theories stated that the threshold at every tenth rank actually required cultivating two ranks' worth of Soul Power. Even if it was not two full ranks, it was still a rank and a half.
However, Jiang Xia's talk of attempting rank 40 was not shooting without a target.
Of course, he did not possess the requisite cultivation and accumulation.
But certain heavenly materials and earthly treasures could increase a Soul Master's Soul Power.
Jiang Xia did not currently have any immortal herbs, but he could try absorbing spiritual power.
Over the past year, his spiritual power had long since broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm, and spiritual power at the Spirit Sea Realm was already enough to support a ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit!
Of course, this did not mean Jiang Xia intended to ascend his Soul Spirit to the ten-thousand-year level.
But greatly increasing his Soul Spirit's cultivation was still possible.
His Martial Soul was Broken Dream, which corresponded to the illusory, and advances in spiritual power provided enormous feedback to his Soul Power cultivation.
Jiang Xia had already verified all this. Every time he ascended his spirit within the Spirit Ascension Platform, absorbing spiritual power to increase his Soul Spirit's cultivation, it also fed back into his spiritual power, allowing it to advance by leaps and bounds. Those leaps and bounds in spiritual power would, in turn, drive a rapid increase in his Soul Power.
In the current era of Soul Spirits, Soul Masters with spiritual attributes were highly sought after.
The second semester's final assessment was similar to the previous semester's, except that there was no Tang Sect trial.
It was still the Spirit Ascension Platform during its riot period.
This time, Jiang Xia planned to hunt on a massive scale.
He intended to eat the Spirit Ascension Platform empty and see whether he could increase his Soul Spirit's cultivation by 3,000 years.
In his case, increasing his Soul Spirit's cultivation by 3,000 years meant each Soul Ring received 3,000 years, so his three Soul Rings would require a total of 9,000 years.
This required hunting Soul Beasts within the Spirit Ascension Platform whose ages totaled 90,000 years.
Even if he hunted only thousand-year Soul Beasts, he would still have to kill 90!
If they were hundred-year Soul Beasts, he would have to kill as many as 900.
Under normal circumstances, very few Soul Masters had such ideas.
The Spirit Ascension Platform was still only the Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform. Where would it find so much spiritual power for him to hunt down?
Yet Jiang Xia still set this goal.
After all, this was the Spirit Ascension Platform during its riot period. There was still a chance for anything.
The Eastsea Spirit Pagoda.
Watching Jiang Xia enter the spirit ascension pod, the Spirit Pagoda deacon responsible for observing him kept feeling a chill down his back.
He did not know why, either.
He kept feeling that something would go wrong with the Spirit Ascension Platform this time.
Meanwhile, in the other areas, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and the others had also entered their spirit ascension pods.
Inside the Spirit Ascension Platform.
Five figures appeared.
Looking at the familiar Spirit Ascension Platform, Xu Xiaoyan's heart brimmed with emotion.
"The Spirit Ascension Platform during its riot period again."
"But this time is different. This time, I didn't come in with my brother, but with Brother Jiang."
Xu Xiaoyan secretly felt rather pleased with herself.
Her family had obtained another slot for the Spirit Ascension Platform's riot period this time and given it to Xu Xiaoyu.
However, Xu Xiaoyan felt that, even with one less burden this time, Xu Xiaoyu would not necessarily gain more than she would.