Chapter 376 - Reunion With Ye Xinglan (1/2)
Gu Yue took the lead walking toward the door. Behind her followed Leng Yaozhu. “Yueyue, your cultivation is coming along nicely and your design skills are improving quickly. Shall I help you start a one-word battle armor? I can get it done for you within half a year. Considering your design skills, a three-metal alloy would work out well. You'll be able to upgrade it easily in the future.”
“No, I'm fine. But thank you, Teacher. Please allow me to handle my own battle armor.” Not batting an eye, Gu Yue refused an offer ordinary soul masters would only dream of, and with that matter settled, the master and disciple pair stepped through the door.
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Tang Wulin returned to his dormitory late in the evening, his muscles as heavy as lead. He flopped onto his bed. After struggling to sit and bend his legs into a pretzel, he let himself drift into meditation.
His efforts these past few days paid off. He helped two of his friends obtain a new spirit soul, gained valuable combat experience in the process, and settled his path toward creating a one-word battle armor. Gu Yue's support lit the embers of confidence in his soul. He was convinced that as long as he kept persevering, he would one day become a mighty battle armor master.
It didn't matter if it took him a little longer than others. There was still plenty of time before the outer court graduation deadline. The path he chose would cause him to endure some difficulties and be pressed for time, but the reward would be worth it in the end.
After Gu Yue handed him a staggering amount of star iron and essence gold, he was curious over her method of obtaining it. However, he didn't press the issue. Everyone was ent.i.tled to their secrets.
With the materials gathered and their daring plan ready for execution, gone were Tang Wulin and Gu Yue's free time. Tang Wulin attended cla.s.ses in the morning and forged in the afternoon. Under Feng Wuyu's personal guidance, he made much progress with alloy forging and added spirit gold and star silver to his repertoire.
Although his success rate was low, it was steady. As his perception and experience increased, his success rate would naturally follow. Now was the time to forge like his life depended on it, no matter how tedious it was.
Feng Wuyu still criticized him as harshly as before, nitpicking every mistake, small or otherwise. Compared with Mu Chen's, their teaching styles were as different as night and day. Initially, Tang Wulin had been shocked by the difference, but he adapted to his situation and soaked up Feng Wuyu's knowledge and experience. He harbored no resentment toward Feng Wuyu for he knew that the crazy old man had his best interests at heart.
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“It's been a month since the beginning of the school year and I'm sure you've all grown quite a bit. We will be holding a compet.i.tion between the first and second grades in the four main professions and combat,” Shen Yi announced from behind the lectern, sweeping her gaze through her students.
“In order to decide on the partic.i.p.ants fairly and put forth the best combatants, you will be tasked to form your own teams. Then each team will sign up for a compet.i.tion where the winners will represent our cla.s.s. Each team may have no more than seven people and no less than three. The cla.s.s council will be representing us for the profession compet.i.tions. When forming your teams, keep in mind that for the sake of fairness, the second grade's team will have one less person than ours. So if our representative team has three people, then the second grade's team can only have two. Now, let's begin the process for selecting the representative team. Tang Wulin.”
“Yes.” Tang Wulin stood up.
“Once cla.s.s is over, record all the teams and submit a report to me.”
“Understood.”
After cla.s.s, the entire cla.s.sroom erupted into chatter. Everyone was tantalized by the possibility of representing their cla.s.s in a battle against the second grade. It was an opportunity for them to earn extra credit, boosting their chances of entering the inner court in the future. There wasn't a single person willing to let this chance slip through their hands.
Gu Yue nudged Tang Wulin. “Who's going to be in our group?”
Tang Wulin glanced at Wu Siduo and Luo Guixing. He knew that their best chance was to gather all of the cla.s.s's greatest talents into one team.
In their cla.s.s, apart from himself and Gu Yue, the five most powerful people were Wu Siduo, Luo Guixing, Yang Nianxia, Zheng Yiran, and Xu Yucheng. Each of the five were on the Genius Youths Ranking, so if they formed a seven-man team with him and Gu Yue, their chances of winning over the second grade were high.