MTLNOVEL Chapter 37: Little Spar
The promotion competition is a tradition at Eastsea Academy, where students from weaker classes challenge those in stronger classes, and winning allows them to take the opponent's position.
As soon as the academy term began, other classes were busy preparing for the promotion competition, but the students in the first class were not worried at all.
Jokes aside, even if some geniuses had transferred to other classes for various reasons, could they defeat the Great Soul Master, Wei Xiaofeng?
Even if they succeeded, Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao would surely teach them a lesson!
They can't be the only class to feel the pressure from them!
With this mindset, while other classes were nervously engaged in actual combat training, the students of the first class remained relaxed.
However, as a teacher, Luoyang Lu was still responsible.
On the training ground, Luoyang Lu took out a box and retrieved a bracelet from it.
"This bracelet is a portable soul tool that can test physical fitness. When worn, it provides real-time feedback on your condition and quantifies your physical fitness numerically. If your physical fitness improves, the value will increase accordingly."
Luoyang Lu explained with a smile, "Physical fitness is crucial at your stage. Improving it will give you more options for soul selection in the future. Moreover, professions like mecha engineers also have high physical fitness requirements."
"However, training and cultivation are ultimately your own responsibility. As your teacher, I can only guide you, and classroom time is limited. It all depends on your self-discipline."
"I believe you won't slack off if you can clearly see yourself growing stronger step by step, right?"
The students were pleasantly surprised as they put on the bracelets.
Xie Mi glanced at the numerical value representing his physical fitness and sighed inwardly.
Is this what a top-tier class is like?
Such a soul tool isn't available on the market.
He used to think coming here to the academy might not be worth it, but now he no longer felt that way.
"Be careful, though. Your bodies are still developing, so don't push yourselves too hard. This soul tool has an alarm function. If it triggers, it means you're nearing your limit. Stop immediately to avoid injuring yourselves."
"Yes!" the students replied in unison.
After explaining the precautions, Luoyang Lu began distributing the soul tools.
Gu Yuena took the soul tool and felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
She instinctively glanced at Huo Yuhao's wrist and, sure enough, noticed he was already wearing one.
Could he be the one who developed this?
As she pondered, Gu Yuena put on the bracelet and watched as the value soared, quickly reaching four digits.
"..."
After all, she was the Dragon King.
Even with her current low cultivation level, her physical fitness and stamina were far from ordinary.
At that moment, Gu Yuena sensed the familiar mental fluctuations.
When she skillfully connected, she heard a reminder from Huo Yuhao.
"Press the button in the lower left corner, enter the password 3946, and you can adjust the value yourself. The normal physical energy for a Great Soul Master is around two hundred."
So, it was indeed him who invented it.
Gu Yuena breathed a sigh of relief, followed Huo Yuhao's instructions, and adjusted the value to a normal range.
On Huo Yuhao's side, after receiving the brand-new physical fitness test soul tool, he glanced at the value, which also soared to four digits, and then put it away without a second thought.
This soul tool was only useful during the early stages.
Once physical fitness reached a certain level, ordinary exercises wouldn't be enough to improve it further.
He had created this soul tool on a whim while researching the artificial soul bloodline extraction technique, and it was more of a situational tool than a necessity.
After discussing the soul tool, Luoyang Lu introduced everyone to a new meditation method, the Soul Symbiosis Meditation Method.
"This is a meditation method developed by the Spirit Pagoda. It involves summoning your soul during cultivation and establishing a special circuit between you and your soul through the soul contract. This creates a two-way energy cycle, allowing your soul to assist you in circulating energy. The closer the bond between you and your soul, the faster your cultivation speed will be."
Seeing the students' eyes light up, especially Wei Xiaofeng, whose martial soul and soul were the same, Luoyang Lu's lips curved into a slight smile.
"Of course, what I'm teaching you is a simplified version, so the effects won't be as pronounced."
The excitement on everyone's faces instantly faded.
Xie Mi pondered for a moment and asked, "Teacher, are you by any chance from the Spirit Pagoda?"
First, it was the soul tool, and now a meditation method with the distinct characteristics of the Spirit Pagoda. It didn't seem like something an ordinary teacher would have access to.
Luoyang Lu smiled but didn't answer directly, which was as good as a tacit acknowledgement.
He then instructed everyone to try the meditation method and called Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena to his side.
"Your meditation methods are both from Limit Douluo and are top-tier techniques. You don't need to consider this new method."
Huo Yuhao: "..."
Hua Yichen's meditation method was useless to him.
He used his own meditation method, which combined the insights and magic from 10,000 years ago.
It enhanced both his spiritual power and the speed of his Ultimate Ice cultivation.
Additionally, thanks to the influence of Gu Yuena's bloodline, the debuff of the Ultimate Ice between levels 30 and 70 had been completely neutralized.
Gu Yuena: "..."
She used her own Elemental Meditation Method.
The meditation method provided by Teacher Leng was of no use to her.
Unaware that the two individuals before him were exceptional outliers, Luoyang Lu thought for a moment and asked:
"Gu Yuena, which aspect does Her Majesty Heavenly Phoenix's guidance favor for you? Cultivation or combat?"
"Cultivation."
"Have you ever been to a virtual battlefield?"
"?"
Gu Yuena looked at Luoyang Lu with a puzzled expression.
Seeing this, Luoyang Lu felt he had his answer.
"Yuhao, you and Gu Yuena will spar. Just go easy and stop when necessary. I need to confirm something."
Her Majesty Heavenly Phoenix had entrusted her disciples to their branch for guidance, and they couldn't afford to let her down.
Although things had been a bit rocky at first, according to Yichen, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena now got along quite well.
If they took good care of Gu Yuena, she might be willing to lend a hand or two after Huo Yuhao moved to the headquarters.
Huo Yuhao glanced at Gu Yuena when he heard this, and she returned the look, her eyes flickering slightly.
The same thought crossed both their minds:
How much strength should I use in this fight?
Going all out was out of the question, so they'd have to hold back and make it look convincing.
...
The training ground for the class was spacious, large enough to accommodate all the students for combat practice without feeling cramped.
But when Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena stood in the center, the other students stopped what they were doing and gathered around to watch.
They were all curious about how strong these two extraordinary geniuses really were.
Seeing this, Luoyang Lu didn't stop them. Instead, he watched Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, who were standing ten meters apart, pulled out a notebook and pen, and shouted, "Begin!"
Gu Yuena took the initiative. Two yellow soul rings lit up around her, and in an instant, ripples formed in the air. Wind blades materialized, sealing off Huo Yuhao's escape routes from all directions.
Seven or eight sharp air blades shot toward him from tricky angles.
Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered slightly, and three purple soul rings appeared beside him, eliciting gasps from some of the students.
"A millennium soul ring?" Xie Xie muttered, feeling the pressure from the soul rings.
He clicked his tongue, feeling a mix of awe and resignation.
At this age, it would be strange if a Soul Elder didn't have a millennium soul ring.
Just as the wind blades were about to hit him, Huo Yuhao's eyes glowed faintly.
With his spiritual detection activated, combined with the elemental perception granted by the Silver Dragon King's bloodline and his own experience, he instantly identified the core of each wind blade. With a thought—
Crack!
In an instant, all the wind blades shattered, dissipating into harmless air currents.
Gu Yuena frowned slightly.
A blue light suddenly enveloped her body, and her speed increased dramatically.
At the same time, her hands moved rapidly, sending clusters of blazing fireballs and sharp ice spikes hurtling toward Huo Yuhao like a storm.
Yet, all of them disintegrated before reaching him.
"How many attributes is she using?" Xie Xie's eyebrows shot up.
"How can her martial soul control so many elements?"
"But it didn't work," Zhang Yangzi, Wei Xiaofeng's roommate, remarked beside Xie Xie, shaking his head in amazement.
"Yuhao handled it effortlessly."
Effortlessly?
Luoyang Lu shook his head inwardly.
It was anything but effortless.
Elemental attacks are controlled by spiritual power.
Any elemental attack that entered within three meters of Huo Yuhao was disrupted by his invisible spiritual power, targeting the weakest point of its core and breaking Gu Yuena's control, causing it to collapse.
This level of precision required an extraordinary degree of mental control.
Among the known spiritual-type soul masters on Luoyang Lu's radar, only Hua Yichen could achieve something like this!