Chapter 29 (1/2)
A/N: Surprise double chapter today. Not only that, this chapter is double my usual word count.
Waking up, Huang Yu found himself inside a metal box that he had become quite familiar with in the past few months.
With both hands, Huang Yu supported his own body as he got out of the metal box.
When he exited the metal box, he noticed that the others were getting out as well.
After everyone got out of the metal boxes that had sent them into the spirit ascension platform, Wu Zhangkong appeared in front of them.
With a cold and apathetic voice, Wu Zhangkong spoke. ”For the first part of your final exam, everyone passes. Although your actions inside the spirit ascension platform weren't completely to my expectations, you still managed to survive for several hours.”
”Teacher, why were our actions not to your expectations? We killed a lot of spirit beasts and even eliminated two spirit masters!” Xie Xie asked.
If possible, the cold expression on Wu Zhangkong's face seemed to become colder. ”What do you mean by we? Did you do anything inside the spirit ascension platform?”
”But, it's not our fault! The beasts were targeting Huang Yu and he took them out way too fast!” Xie Xie complaint.
”So you didn't even bother to help out?”
That shut Xie Xie up.
Wu Zhangkong began chewing all of them out. Each of them had a gloomy expression on their faces when Wu Zhangkong was done with them.
When he was done with the rest on the students on class zero, Wu Zhangkong finally turned to Huang Yu.
”As for you Huang Yu, although you may be strong, you shouldn't neglect working with your teammates. If you had worked together with the others, the spirit beasts that had attacked you would have been taken out a lot faster.”
Wu Zhangkong didn't try to force Huang Yu to work together with his team. It wasn't his teaching style to.
He would attempt to guide his students on the right path, but what they do after that depended completely on them.
Huang Yu gave a nod. ”OK.”
As a person who was formerly from the 21st century, Huang Yu indeed knew about the benefits of teamwork.
However, the problem here was that the others were far too weak to work with.
Could you work together with babies in a fight?
The only person in the entire class who was strong enough to work together with him was Gu Yue. Although she hid it, he could tell she was leagues beyond the others.
This was also one of the reasons the two of them were good friends. It was easier for those nearer to the same level to become friends.
”Although this section of the exam is over, don't relax yet. There is still one more section to your final exam. If the lot of you don't do well in your next test, you still may not pass your exams. For now, let's go back to the academy.” Wu Zhangkong said before beginning to leave.
When everyone arrived back at Eastsea Academy, it was already dusk. Everyone had their dinners before heading back to their dorms to do their own activities.
Inside his own room, Huang Yu sat on top of his bed. After going into the spirit ascension platform for so many times, and absorbing so much energy from killing those beasts, he had felt a fundamental change in his spirit soul.
He summoned his spirit soul. It was the Blue-Tailed Poison Serpent, if you could even call it that anymore that is.
Through the continuous cultivation of his body, the energies from the spirit ascension platform nourishing it, the trash spirit Blue-Tailed Poison Serpent had evolved.
Looking at it, Huang Yu thought it was quite cute. In the past, the Blue-Tailed Poison Serpent, as an artificially created 10+-years-old spirit ring, it didn't have any intelligence. Hence, Huang Yu didn't bother naming nor interacting with it.
However, after receiving so many benefits from Huang Yu, how could it not grow from that once pathetic state.
Now, as a 5000-year-old spirit beast that had been nourished with Huang Yu's physical energies, it was far more intelligent than any spirit beast of the same age. With that, Huang Yu now needed to bond with it.
Bonding with your spirit souls was paramount for a Spirit Master.
”Do you want a name?” Huang Yu asked his spirit soul.
It couldn't talk, but it seemed to understand Huang Yu's words. It nodded before ŀɨċkɨnġ Huang Yu's hand with its forked tongue.
Huang Yu smiled at that. ”Alright then. What do you think about the name 'Jormungandr'?” He had come ip with that name the Blue-Tailed Poison Serpent in fromt of him looked rather similar to the Midgard Serpent he saw in God of War. Not only that, Jormungandr was a pretty cool name.
The Blue-Tailed Poison Serpent's eyes seemed to glow a little before it started getting a bit excited.
”You like it?”
It nodded its head.
”Ok. Then from today onwards, your name will be Jormungandr. I'll call you [ ] for short.” (A/N: Can you guys give me a nickname for him? I can't think of a good one.”)
Its mouth curled into what seemed to be its own smile. Huang Yu patted its head before unsummoning it.
'The Jormungandr's evolution just gave me an idea… If this works, even Guang Biao can beat Wu Zhangkong...:”
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The next day, the students of class zero followed Wu Zhangkong to the academy training facilities. Wu Zhangkong had found the teacher-in-charge of the building and reserved a field for the sake of the exam.
This proved how much the academy was favouring the students of class zero.
Xie Xie asked, ”Teacher Wu, are the five of us going to fight Huang Yu alone again?” Xie Xie sneaked a glance at Huang Yu before a trail of sweat trickled down from his forehead.
If his predictions about them fighting Huang Yu was accurate, then he really wasn't looking forward to this test.
He had gotten so many beatings from Huang Yu in the past that he developed a sort of trauma towards him. He would still treat Huang Yu like a friend of course, but there was that bit of carefulness employed when he was with Huang Yu.
”No.” Wu Zhangkong answered. ”The six of you will be battling me.”
”Six against one, that's very unfair… Huh? Against you…” Xie Xie stared at Wu Zhangkong, dumbfounded.
With his usual indifference Wu Zhangkong said, ”Don't forget, this is no longer the spirit ascension platform. You won't revive here in the real world and I might not be able to hold back properly. This time, I will be fighting you with my martial spirit along with my first spirit rings. Begin.”
The moment those words were spoken, Huang Yu let out a grin before charging towards Wu Zhangkong with his martial spirit summoned.
In response, Wu Zhangkong summoned his own martial spirit: the Skyfrost Sword.
They all summoned their martial spirits as they attempted to help out.
During the numerous clashes, Huang Yu noticed a weak point for himself. His martial spirit… it was being suppressed by Wu Zhangkong's Skyfrost Sword.
This was to be expected. His martial spirit was just an ordinary sword. How could it compare with the Skyfrost Sword which was considered to be a very powerful martial spirit.