Chapter 46 Awakening Spirit Fluid

Suns rise and moons fall, year after year.

Early July.

Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, Primary Department, Grade Three, Glorious Class.

Today marked the graduation of the third-year students from the primary department of the academy.

Xu Zhao sat in the classroom alongside his classmates, listening to their head teacher, Zhang Xuanfeng, rambling on endlessly at the podium with a long-winded string of cliches.

"It has already been half an hour. How much longer is he going to speak?"

"Who knows? Maybe another half an hour, maybe a few hours."

"No way? Still that long?"

"Yeah, but what can we do? This is a traditional virtue passed down by all academies across the Federation. Only Shrek Academy is eccentric enough to disdain bothering with these superficial formalities."

...

More than an hour passed.

Zhang Xuanfeng finally finished the graduation speech he had specially prepared as the head teacher, and added at the very end:

"Very well, students."

"The advancement letters for entering the intermediate department have already been sent to your soul guidance communicators. Those who wish to continue their studies in the intermediate department of the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy need only sign their names at the bottom of the advancement letter and send it back the way it came."

As his voice trailed off,

"Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep..." Thirty-six consecutive message-receiving notification tones rang out from the soul guidance communicator on Zhang Xuanfeng's person.

He picked up the soul guidance communicator and glanced through it roughly:

All thirty-six students of the Glorious Class had signed their names in the advancement letters without a single omission.

At this, Zhang Xuanfeng did not feel the slightest bit surprised.

Across the entire Federation, the only academy capable of rivaling their Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy was Shrek Academy.

Firstly, Shrek's once-every-three-years recruitment period would not take place until next year, leaving the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy as the absolute best choice for higher education.

Secondly, since a future Divine Craftsman had emerged within his own class, who wouldn't want to cling tightly to this powerful ally to make their career as a battle armor master go further and smoother?

Standing at the podium, Zhang Xuanfeng waved to bid everyone farewell:

"Students, the teacher wishes you a pleasant summer vacation. In two months, we shall meet again in Grade One, Glorious Class, of the Intermediate Department!"

The primary department had thus been graduated from.

Xu Zhao was born on August fifteenth; he still had a little over a month before turning nine years old.

Over the nearly three years of study and growth, his gains could hardly be described as small.

He had already completed the first step, body-penetration, of the Body Sect's innate secret technique, and the progress of the second step, marrow-cleansing, had also passed the halfway mark.

This caused his skin to appear as warm and lustrous as jade on the surface, while in reality, it was as indestructible as alloy metal.

The cultivation progress of the innate secret technique was so rapid that, aside from his own innate talent, it was inseparable from the backing of vast amounts of piled-up resources.

The sheer expenditure of these resources caused Zhen Hua's gazes toward Mu Ye to gradually show signs of developing green-eyed sickness.

Yet, the effects brought by cultivating the innate secret technique were unquestionably powerful.

The second realm of the innate secret technique enabled Xu Zhao, at not yet nine years of age, to possess physical fitness comparable to that of a Soul Emperor whose martial soul was a top-tier beast martial soul.

With the restriction on his physical fitness lifted, the seal on his Mirror Image Beast soul spirit—whose age had previously been sealed—was completely undone, reverting it once more to a ten-thousand-year soul spirit.

However, the fact that he possessed a ten-thousand-year soul ring at this age was known among his classmates only by the other six individuals selected for the Seven Stars of Glory.

The appearance of the ten-thousand-year soul spirit and ten-thousand-year soul ring also caused Long Chen and Jian Mochen, two of the Seven Stars of Glory, to completely extinguish any thoughts of contending with him.

...

After the class dispersed.

Within the spacious classroom, only the Seven Stars of Glory and the head teacher Zhang Xuanfeng remained.

"This year's summer special training will take place at the God Palace headquarters, where the God Masters of the God Palace will personally guide your actual combat abilities. This is an opportunity the academy begged the God Palace for over a very long time to secure."

Zhang Xuanfeng had purposely kept the seven members of the Seven Stars of Glory behind precisely to announce this matter.

"This special training will begin in a week and continue until three days before the start of the semester, lasting a little over a month."

"Once you return home, you can relax and unwind properly. What awaits you next is the devilish training from the God Masters of the God Palace."

When the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy forged the Seven Stars of Glory and cultivated them with all their might, those words were far from empty talk.

Ever since the end of the first year, when all seven candidates for the Seven Stars of Glory were finalized, this wholehearted cultivation poured forth by the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy had already begun.

The Inaugural Seven Stars of Glory:

Heavenly Zhao Star: Xu Zhao; Martial Soul: Sun and Moon Dual Pupils (external display)

Demonic Scythe Star: Xu Yucheng; Martial Soul: Dark Demon Scythe

Cold Moon Star: Xue Liushuang; Martial Soul: Light-Splitting Sword → Moonlight Sword

Heavenly Dragon Star: Long Chen; Martial Soul: Radiant Sacred Dragon

Moon Shadow Star: Weng Daimin; Martial Soul: Snow Shadow → Snow Soul Moon Shadow

Guarding Tiger Star: Jian Mochen; Martial Soul: Heavenly Tiger Shield

Battling Tiger Star: Kuang Zhantian; Martial Soul: Heavenly Tiger Axe

Aside from the special training during the winter and summer vacations every year, the academy's cultivation of them also included countless rare resources.

Among them, the most precious was a medicine capable of nurturing and strengthening the spiritual origin while enhancing spiritual power talent without side effects—Spirit-Waking Liquid!

The most crucial material for making Spirit-Waking Liquid was an origin essence extracted from unhatched evil eyes within a giant nest in the Demonic Great Forest, where the Evil Eyed Tyrant clan once bred and nurtured their offspring.

The origin essence extracted from each evil eye embryo varied; the purer the attribute, the more origin essence could be extracted.

Yet even with a purely spiritual attribute evil eye embryo, the extracted origin essence could only produce three drops of Spirit-Waking Liquid.

At the same time, the Demonic Great Forest was adjacent to Ming Du, meaning this place was not controlled by the Pagoda like the remaining core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, but was instead held in the hands of the major top-tier factions of Ming Du.

The Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy was one of them.

This also became one of the few areas where the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy surpassed Shrek Academy, as Shrek was not one of the original shareholders of Spirit-Waking Liquid.

Furthermore, the number of evil eye embryos nurtured annually in the evil eye nest was limited, making this medicine extremely precious; it was only digested internally and was never circulated to the outside world for sale.

...

"The special training is going to last until three days before the semester starts?"

Hearing this, Xu Zhao collated the timeline from the book in his mind.

"Three days before the semester starts, the timing should just barely allow me to catch it."

Except for Shrek, the start dates of all academies across the Federation were uniform.

Therefore, the start date of the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy was the start date of the East Coast Academy.

Although the book did not explicitly mention the exact time when Tang Ziran and Lang Yue were taken away by the Holy Ghost Church, it certainly occurred after Tang Wulin left Ao Lai City.

And the day after Tang Wulin arrived to report at the East Coast Academy was the opening ceremony.

In other words, on the third day before the start of the semester, Tang Wulin was still living at his foster parents' home and had not yet left.

In terms of timing, Xu Zhao would completely have enough time to participate in his formulated plan to intercept Tang Wulin's foster parents from the hands of the Holy Ghost Church.

Although he had already arranged everything in advance and participating or not would not affect the outcome of the plan.

Yet, he had no intention of missing such an important moment.