Chapter 26 (1/2)

Several months had passed since the first time class zero had entered the spirit ascension platform.

The class of elites went to the spirit ascension platform every week, increasing their battle experience and slowly strengthening their rings.

However, the 'slowly' part didn't apply to Huang Yu.

Every single time he entered the spirit ascension platform he would always get haphazardly ȧssaulted by hundreds of spirit beasts coming at him from every corner.

Although he liked a good fight, he quickly got sick of being forced to fight so many spirit beasts every time.

He had gained great benefits from slaying all those beasts of course, easily increasing his spirit ring's age to the 5000+ year-old level, but he wished that he could actually enjoy the view inside the spirit ascension platform for once.

The matter about his spirit ring's were only known by Long Hengxu, Wu Zhangkong and several staff members of the spirit pagoda.

Huang Yu didn't deign to tell anyone about the continued progress of his spirit ring. In fact, even Long Hengxu and Wu Zhangkong would have been kept in the dark about it had they not been monitoring Huang Yu inside the spirit ascension platform.

The Spirit Pagoda, finding out about Huang Yu's talent, wanted to recruit him into their organisation. They flooded him with requests, offering him many benefits and the best teachers.

While any normal person would immediately agree, Huang Yu chose to ask for time to think about it.

This was Huang Yu's way of stalling the offer. He had no intentions of joining the Spirit Pagoda at the moment since he had his hands full with Nox. However, he couldn't just refuse them straight to their face.

Speaking of Nox, it had become quite successful in Eastsea City. After Huang Yu had instructed Guang Biao on the methods of using vital energy and some precautions, he let him loose to begin the cu—organisation.

Cult had such a negative connotation attached to it. Organisation sounded much better.

Back to the topic, Guang Biao had been very smart in spreading the organisation. He and the three others that were under Huang Yu started their organisation from the slums.

Why the slums? It was a place where a lot of people were sick and unable to get proper medical treatment. However, more importantly, the people in the slums weren't very educated.

They would be far more willing to believe that Guang Biao was a priest sent by a god to save them after the usage of vital energy to produce a miracle for them than others.

The number of members of Nox had increased very quickly. So much so that it far surpassed Huang Yu's expectations.

It turned out that Guang Biao regularly held sermons, slowly brainwashing Nox's new followers that vital energy was 'a blessing from God'.

Huang Yu gave a big thumbs up to that.

At the moment, class zero was in their class, having a lesson with Wu Zhangkong.

”Teacher, do we need to take a final exam?” Tang Wulin asked.

Wu Zhangkong kept his usual stony expression on his face as he answered. ”Yes you will need to take them. Your final exam will test two things. The first is the spirit ascension platform.”

A groan sounded out of Huang Yu's mouth.

Ignoring Huang Yu, Wu Zhangkong continued. ”You must survive for at least an hour to pass the exam. However, this time you will be entering the rebellion spirit ascension platform.”

Xie Xie asked in shock, ”Teacher, what is the rebellion spirit ascension platform?”

Everyone except for Huang Yu stared at Wu Zhangkong in shock and curiosity. They had never heard of the rebellion spirit ascension platform.

Wu Zhangkong said, ”Twice a year, the spirit ascension platform will rebel. At first, they were caused by the unstable energies that the spirit ascension platform was made of. As the technology progressed, however, they were able to gain control over the rebellion periods and turned them into a special feature of the spirit ascension platforms. During a rebellion period, the soul beasts will grow excited and become more visible, increasing the danger within the spirit ascension platform. The Eighteen Pillars of Heaven imposed a limit of 300 people to enter the rebellion spirit ascension platform each time. This time, you five are fortunate enough to be one of those 300 people after the academy spent an enormous amount of resources to secure five quota spaces for you. You should appreciate just how great of an opportunity this is.”

”During the rebellion period, you will be able to enter the spirit ascension platform as a team, but your number cannot surpass seven. Since there are only five of you, so there will be no problems for you to enter together. This will serve to test your coordination as a team. Don't forget though, in addition to soul beasts, you might encounter other Spirit Masters. They will pose just as much of a danger to you as spirit beasts, because if you are ejected from the spirit ascension platform within the 100 seconds it takes to absorb a spirit beast's spiritual energy, the remaining energy will go to the nearest Spirit Master. These are the special rules of the rebellion spirit ascension platform.”

Huang Yu wasn't surprised when he heard this. He had already heard about it from Guang Biao.

From the descriptions he got from Guang Biao, what they would be facing wouldn't be much different from what he usually faced in the spirit ascension platform anyways.