Chapter 64

In the following eight months, time flew by, and soon it was the annual vacation of Shrek Academy.

Classmates, today is the last day of your first year; the academy has assigned no teaching tasks, I'll just say a few words, and then you can go back and pack your things.

As soon as Wang Yan said that, the whole class burst into excited cheers.

They are, after all, eleven- or twelve-year-old children who haven't gone home for a year, and now they are filled with longing for home.

Wang Yan smiled at the cheering classmates and said gently:

You are all excellent children; without exaggeration, you are the best batch of students I have ever taught, and you all make me feel very proud.

But. At this point, Wang Yan suddenly changed tone: You shouldn't think that once you're home you can relax; our academy has no final exams, because the exams are scheduled for the start of the next semester. At that time you will face considerable challenges, and a little carelessness could get you eliminated. I like you all, so I don't want to see any of you eliminated then. Don't slack off during the vacation.

Next, let me tell you the requirements for the second-year promotion exam.

Wang Yan picked up a piece of chalk, speaking while writing the content of the promotion exam on the blackboard.

In short, the promotion exam consists of three parts: level requirement, individual exam, and class exam.

The level requirement is that all students must reach rank twenty and obtain a second soul ring upon entering second year; if they fail to meet this, they will be eliminated.

The individual exam is each student's own promotion test; its content varies each year, and reportedly last year's exam had students duel a soul beast alone.

The class exam is different from the previous two; rather than testing how well students have learned, it tests Wang Yan's teaching results. It requires selecting three to seven students from each class to take a special test, which determines the class's rank, and then students are eliminated according to percentile ranking.

For example, if Freshman Class 1's class exam score is ninety, then the bottom ten percent of its members will be expelled.

After Wang Yan finished explaining the exam, the class's cheers instantly turned into wails.

With these three assessments, one could say they leave students no room to slack, eliminating any thought of laziness.

Especially those students who haven't even reached the rank of Great Soul Master look the worst; they don't meet even the basic level requirement and can only desperately raise their rank during this vacation.

Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong, however, need not worry about this; their soul power had already reached rank twenty when they fused their martial souls eight months ago, and they haven't been idle these eight months, continually cultivating together via martial soul fusion to increase their cultivation.

According to Mu En, Tang Wulin only needs to absorb any soul ring to instantly boost his soul power to around twenty-five or twenty-six, and Huo Yutong is similar.

Tang Wulin asked softly: "Yutong, you really won't get a soul ring with me? You could get one first and then go back, right?"

Two days ago, when he asked Huo Yutong if she wanted to hunt a second soul ring together with him, he was unexpectedly refused.

To be honest, Huo Yutong rarely refuses him, especially an invitation like this from a fellow cultivator, so he was genuinely surprised at the time.

However, once she explained her purpose, Tang Wulin instantly understood.

She said she had left home a year ago and wanted to return to sweep her mother's grave. This is a very private matter, and he really couldn't just tag along.

Huo Yutong shook her head and said softly:

No, I need to hurry back; obtaining a soul ring isn't urgent.

A few days ago, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm told her the destination of this trip, letting her prepare in advance.

So she specially fabricated a set of excuses to persuade Tang Wulin and the people of Shrek.

Over these months she has become completely different in every way, especially her soul engineer rank; she can already craft second-rank soul tools, and though she herself cannot yet use them perfectly, she could now serve as a second-rank soul engineer.

The stunning talent she displayed in this soul-tool field made the deans of the Soul Tool Department, Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er, fond of her and increasingly attentive, showing a tendency to groom her as a successor.

However, Huo Yutong is not arrogant; she knows she still has far to go, and as the saying goes, to forge iron one must be strong oneself, so she will go on this extreme northern journey no matter how dangerous it is.

All right.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade Huo Yutong, Tang Wulin had no choice but to reluctantly yield.

Entangling stubbornly only makes people annoyed; he had told Xu San Shi this at the start of the school year, and he certainly wouldn't do it himself.

Tang Wulin is now the class monitor of the assault system in Freshman Class 1; although he only has one soul ring, no one dares to object, for his battle record is overly formidable, making him hard to ignore.

He doesn't even need to mention the herbs for breaking the third seal; Mu En has already gathered the herbs for breaking the fourth seal for him. He plans to use this vacation to break through to the second ring while also absorbing and breaking through the third seal at the same time.

Once these two steps are done, not only a Soul Elder, but even an ordinary Soul Ancestor, he is confident he can defeat.

Speaking of Soul Ancestors, according to Tang Wulin's knowledge, his senior brothers Bei Bei and Xu San Shi have entered the Soul Ancestor rank in these months, and even senior sister Jiang Nannan has done so, putting great pressure on Tang Ya.

He can't do much about it, so he and Huo Yutong can only serve as Tang Ya's confidants, listening to her complaints and grievances to ease her inner pressure.

As for how terrible the Blue Silver Grass martial soul is, Tang Wulin can say he knows it best, since his own martial soul used to be Blue Silver Grass; without the influence of the Golden Dragon King power, it would be utterly useless, and cultivating it is truly extremely difficult.

Moreover, the method by which his martial soul evolves from Blue Silver Grass to Blue Silver Emperor cannot be imitated by just anyone; fortunately, with Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong as his confidants, Tang Ya's mood has stabilized considerably, and she should not encounter any major problems in the short term.

On stage, Wang Yan had finished stating the points to note and was now making a final summary.

In short, this is what I wanted to tell you. I can clearly say that in our academy, the most relaxed time of each school year is right after passing the promotion exam, while the hardest time is when vacation begins. So those who want to slack had better pull themselves together; if expelled, it would not be worth it.

That's all I have to say. You can pack up and prepare to go home; I hope you have a wonderful vacation.

(End of chapter)