Chapter 7: School Life

It is said that the primary martial soul has a great flaw: all soul skills are tied to one's own body and are triggered through it, and repeated use easily lets the enemy find a loophole.

To compensate for this flaw, one must use battle techniques, i. e., self‑created soul skills and combat techniques.

Across the Douluo Continent, the use of combat techniques is relatively shallow; many people gradually master them through continual spirit battles, while some families possess quite impressive self‑created soul skills.

For example, the Clear Sky Sect's Haotian Nine Absolutes and Chaotic Splitting Hammer Technique, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Dragon Transformation; by comparison, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect has even more resources of this type.

Besides the direct transmission of Divided Mind Control from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, there is also the Seven Kill Sword Technique, etc., and the root cause of all this is that the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect has a huge variety of soul masters, and each generation has a corresponding Title Douluo, who can essentially provide the sect with many self‑created soul skills.

However, these self‑created soul skills vary in quality; the most formidable is naturally the Sword Douluo's Seven Kill Sword Technique, but unfortunately it is not a sword martial soul and core disciples within the sect cannot learn it.

For Yang Xiong now, all this is still too early; he needs to make his physique stronger so he won't fall too far behind in the early stages.

Yang Xiong performs simple, repetitive routines at school, training his body each morning; the morning sessions don't exhaust him, but mainly develop his athletic ability.

After breakfast he goes to school to read, mostly various books, including knowledge from the Soul Master World and occasionally observing some soul power usage techniques; in the afternoon he simply returns home for hard training, pushing his stamina to the limit, and after each day's exercise he ends up collapsed on the floor.

Then he takes a Medicine Bath, which is expected to relieve fatigue and also provide some therapeutic effect on the body, at least preventing any injury.

After dinner he meditates with full effort; Yang Xiong still cannot spirit battle with others, so he has no practical combat considerations, after all he is only a six‑year‑old child.

It must be said that Ning Rongrong's talent is indeed impressive; less than four months after awakening her martial soul, she is already the sect's first first‑year student to obtain a Soul Ring, drawing envy from those around her.

However, this little girl Ning Rongrong has a bit of a Little Princess syndrome, preferring to be praised by everyone, and in the whole class she is like the stars revolving around the moon.

Moreover, Ning Rongrong is especially generous, occasionally bringing tasty or fun things for classmates, and sometimes producing rare treasures, which draws sideways glances from the crowd.

Of course, Ning Rongrong herself also likes to play small tricks on people, with endless mischievous antics; after all, they are six‑year‑old children, lacking concentration, and under Ning Rongrong's antics they sometimes wail and cry.

Ning Rongrong also likes to bring a crowd to cause trouble throughout the sect, turning it into chaos, even teasing the teachers; the homeroom teacher is at her wits' end, yet has no way to stop her, which is why she earned the nickname Little Demon Girl.

It can be said that within the whole school, Ning Rongrong and Yang Xiong are two extremes; Ning Rongrong is the most dazzling presence in the academy, while Yang Xiong is the most low‑key figure in the school.

Although the two are in the same class, their personalities are vastly different, and they basically have no interaction.

Yang Xiong has even been pranked by Ning Rongrong a few times, but he completely brushed it off; unlike other kids he didn't cry or whine, but instead treated Ning Rongrong with unusual respect, and simply continued studying alone.

Yang Xiong knows very well that Ning Fengzhi is grooming Ning Rongrong as the next sect leader of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and the Qibao Liuli Pagoda Weapon Soul itself, due to its flaw, can only be cultivated up to Level 79, even as a Support Spirit Master; to control a sect one must control many more things.

For example, an elite class is deliberately arranged to let Ning Rongrong interact more with classmates, thereby granting her high prestige among them, even allowing her to manipulate people's hearts.

This is also one reason why Ning Fengzhi indulges Ning Rongrong's mischief; otherwise a girl could never inherit the sect.

It should be known that, compared with other top sects, becoming the sect leader of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect is even harder, because the Qibao Liuli Pagoda can only be cultivated up to Level 79; besides Ning Fengzhi, the sect certainly has many Qibao Liuli Pagoda soul masters who have reached Soul Saint Level, but Ning Fengzhi can make the sect as solid as an iron barrel, even being absolute in internal decisions; this resolve is far beyond what two Title Douluos could match.

Especially Yang Xiong knows even better that every move Ning Rongrong makes within the sect is likely monitored, and anyone who tries to scheme against her will be dealt with immediately.

The difficulty of cultivating the primary martial soul is even greater than Yang Xiong imagined; Innate Soul Power Level 6 is already a minor prodigy, but the gap to true Innate Soul Power Level 9 or Innate Full Soul Power remains enormous.

It took a full two years before Yang Xiong raised his soul power to Level 10, making him the slowest in the entire class, even slightly behind those with Innate Soul Power Level 5.

It should be noted that a genius like Ning Rongrong can improve by 2.5 to 3 levels each year, and even faster in the early stages.

However, Yang Xiong only trains diligently without excessive anxiety; for a Full Body Soul, the early stage may be relatively slower, but later he can definitely keep pace with their cultivation speed, especially since he has mastered many secrets of the Soul Master World, which will greatly benefit his future cultivation.

And now a small problem lies before Yang Xiong: how to deal with the item in his hand.

During vacation, Yang Xiong wandered alone in Seven Treasures City for a while and happened upon a very nice item—a piece of Whale Glue.

The Whale Glue was about the size of an egg; judging by its quality it should be Hundred‑Year Whale Glue, costing only one hundred Gold Soul Coins, and Yang Xiong bought it without hesitation.

Unfortunately, while buying the Whale Glue he ran into Ning Rongrong, who was also shopping.

Ning Rongrong seemed well‑read and even knew that Whale Glue has an aphrodisiac effect; she looked at Yang Xiong with a strange expression, her eyes full of contempt.

It should be noted that Yang Xiong is only eight years old now, and it's absurd that someone so young would start buying Whale Glue; it's completely unlike his low‑key personality.

Ning Rongrong sneered, "Xiao Xiongzi, I didn't expect someone your age to start using Whale Glue; it seems your usual expression is all an act, aren't you afraid your parents will find out?"

Yang Xiong was speechless, "Rong Rong, I just thought it was interesting and bought it for collection, don't read too much into it."

Ning Rongrong seemed to understand, "Got it, got it, Xiao Xiongzi, you don't have to keep pretending from now on?"

Yang Xiong: …

(End of Chapter)