During the semester holidays*

This one month was the most bountiful and also the hardest month in the life of Fan Lin.

He ate the same amount of food that he ate before the semester exams except he ate that amount daily. He then trained his body till its body's limit, and after reaching the limit, he used his stored energy to restore his body and then repeats the same dozens of time. When he becomes exhausted, he goes to the boundless forest to cultivate using the Tang sect techniques.

He spent 12 hours for cultivation and 10 hours for body training. The remaining 2 hours were spent on eating and bathing. As the boundless forest forbade him to come without washing the blood and dirt on his body.

He wouldn't have persisted if the results were not so shocking. His Soul Power absorbtion at 12 times the speed of a normal spirit master without the external aid of food. So does his spirit power. His physique become far more better and his perception and control of soul and spirit power increased a lot.

He had reached level 49 Soul Ancestor. His Soul Power was denser than others. How much he didn't know.

He had breached to bottleneck after practicing Purple demon eyes. His spirit power was at 1873 yesterday and it increases by 1 to 5 points everyday.

His physique was close to level 65 soul emperor and his body control and flexibility had also increased.

His perception increased a lot because of his breakthrough. It caused his range when he used his second skill to increase as well. He could absolute control every crystal in the 100 meter radius around him.

He also gained two fusion skills, one was his spirit rings fusion and the second was spirit rings and martial soul fusion.

The holidays ended in a flash. A new semester came and went by a flash.

Second academic year

Shrek Academy. Assembly ground.

With six classes, one for each of the six grades, the whole assembly only contained several hundred students. Elder Cai spared few words and casually praised Tang Wulin's team for their victory against the Imperial Sun Moon Soul Engineering Academy. Then the ceremony concluded. The teachers led their students back to their respective classrooms, marking the start of the semester.

Naturally, close congregation of students led to conversations, and conversations led to gossip. Shen Yi's class was no exception. "Have you heard? Luo Guixing and the other rankers challenged the class president's team to a match. It's happening this afternoon. I heard it from a teacher yesterday. Luo Guixing has already rented an arena."

"Really? They're fighting again? Those rankers still haven't had enough?"

"Of course they're not convinced! They're all on the Genius Youths Rankings while none of the members of Class President's team are on it. It'd be weird if they kept quiet. Well, good for us. Just means we have a show to watch this afternoon. Who knows how strong they all are now?"

"Yeah. One thing's for sure: they've left us in the dust. You know, back then I had believed Luo Guixing and Wu Siduo would definitely win, but who would have thought Class President's team was so powerful? I still don't see anything too special about them, even though they managed a victory. And they even defeated the second grade's class. I don't think Luo Guixing's team has got much of a chance."

"Totally. I feel the same. But let's wait and see. Luo Guixing wouldn't have posed the challenge if he didn't have some confidence. We gotta go watch this match."

Patience wearing thin, Shen Yi swept her cold gaze through the classroom. The students quieted immediately. Satisfied, she went over the objectives for the academic year. Their task this year was simple: start the construction of a set of one-word battle armor.

In order to enter the inner court, they must become one-word battle armor masters by the age of twenty. So it was best to start early. Crafting battle armor was no simple task, and it would take much time, effort, and luck to accomplish. In fact, many had secretly begun this after witnessing Tang Wulin's one-word gauntlet. But making progress was another story. While they could buy the required metals, a bottleneck existed in the designs and crafting department. None of them were sufficiently skilled in their professions.

Still, after spending a year in Shrek Academy, students of the first grade had grown by leaps and bounds. The end-of-semester exam had stimulated them further, presenting numerous challenges for them to overcome and learn from.

Pride had filled their hearts when their class president prevailed over the second grade's team. And in that moment they had been crowned the most powerful class of new students in the past hundred years. Tang Wulin's team and the rankers were the idols of the first grade. The goal they strived for, hoped to one day overtake.

Despite the difficulty of obtaining inner court seats, they still dreamed of getting in. Still fought hard for even the barest sliver of a chance.

Tang Wulin asked the teacher Wu Zhangkong for the permission to fight the 3 grade. This news spread everywhere in the academy.

The third grade differed tremendously from those before it. Due to the structure of Shrek Academy's academic calendar and the three-year length of grades, everyone in the third grade was approaching twenty years old, if not just over that. Third grade students had been studying at Shrek Academy for seven years, and the most talented of the bunch were preparing to take the inner court exam. The third grade simply couldn't be compared with the second. They probably are one-word battle armor masters!

Tang Wulin's team was extremely talented, but talent alone couldn't overcome the divide between a battle armor master and a regular soul master. Tang Wulin knew this all too well from the incident with Yan Feng.

Generally, anyone who didn't enter the inner court by the end of the third grade no longer had hopes of ever making it in. Most of the students who stayed for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades were gifted people who needed that final push to become a one-word battle armor master before graduating. Even if it was just from the outer court, Shrek Academy's name carried a prestigious and hefty weight.

All this was happening around Fan Lin but he didn't care about this.

He was tensed.

Spirit Pagoda were successful in erasing all the substantial evidence and suppressed the voices of everyone . The case is closed.

What should have been in the hot topics ended in less than two months. Qiangu Dongfeng doesn't have this much power. If he did, then he wouldn't need his help. The whole Spirit Pagoda acted in this.

Why? Weren't they a good and just organisation.

This was something that Fan Lin was unable to understand.

Tang sect is the only organization that could be trusted huh .