Chapter 23: End of Class Division
But since your Shrek Academy has enjoyed the bulk of the resources and talent output of Douluo Continent in the past ten thousand years, then can't you equip major departments such as the Power Attack Department, Control Department, Defense Department, and Agility Attack Department with independent educational resources?
Or is it that the so-called tactical coordination you teach must require students from two different departments to be in the same class and have the same teacher to teach?
If so, why don't you combine the spirit masters of a complete team into one class? This is really incomprehensible to Huo Yuhao. Isn't this a serious problem?
Moreover, the theoretical courses at Shrek Academy are said to teach soul masters knowledge about tactics, training methods, cooperation, etc.
However, you must know that there are huge differences between each department, and this gap is not simply determined by the soul master's positioning of his own combat direction.
Because whether it is the strong attack system, the agile attack system, or even the auxiliary system, in fact, in Huo Yuhao's view, none of them is the interpretation of the essence of martial souls, but only a route to distinguish the different development directions of soul masters.
Rather, it is the martial soul that is deeply rooted in the soul masters and what distinguishes them.
For example, for a soul master with a beast spirit, no matter whether he chooses the strong attack system or the auxiliary system, the innate physical fitness bonus brought by the years after their spirit is possessed is much stronger than that of a soul master with a weapon spirit.
Moreover, in the early and middle stages of a soul master's cultivation, the strength of the soul master's own physical fitness is directly related to the speed of the soul master's cultivation. This is because the soul power in the soul master's body at this stage is not abundant and condensed enough.
Their soul power cannot be completely dispersed and deployed in their bodies, but is gathered in their Dantian. Only when they are practicing and releasing soul skills will it leave the Dantian and travel around the body under the control of the soul master's own consciousness.
The enhanced physical fitness brought about by the possession of the beast soul masters' martial souls can actually make their bodies more compatible with the operation of soul power from an innate level. This is why, under the same conditions, the beast soul masters' early cultivation speed is faster.
The advantage of weapon spirit masters in the early stages is the effect of their spirit skills. Compared with beast spirit masters, perhaps for the sake of balance, the spirit skill effects of weapon spirit masters themselves will be more powerful after combining with their own martial souls.
This is because any weapon spirit of a decent quality will more or less have some of the spirit's own characteristics, and most of these characteristics will directly affect the spirit skills.
For example, Xiao Xiao's San Sheng Soul-Suppressing Cauldron's ability to split into three and then combine into one, combined with her original soul skills, will produce multiple changes.
Moreover, unlike beast spirit masters, weapon spirit masters' soul power is directly attached to their spirits instead of being evenly distributed over the body to strengthen physical fitness. Therefore, weapon spirit masters will have more advantages in the use of soul skills and soul power in the early stages.
This situation will only change when the soul master reaches the seventh ring, when he obtains the true body of the martial soul, or when he condenses the soul core. Only then will the beast martial soul soul master and the weapon martial soul soul master enter a training mode that leads to the same goal.
Because once the spirit body is formed, the physical strength of the beast spirit and weapon spirit masters will gradually become balanced, and the beast spirit masters will be able to free up more soul power for precise control.
So even if we really need to divide the classes according to a certain rule, whether it is to teach the cultivation method or to develop the potential of martial spirits, shouldn't we divide the classes according to the difference between beast martial spirits and weapon martial spirits?
Let the beast martial spirit masters focus on the training of combining physical fitness with martial spirits and soul power in the early stage.
In the early stages, soul masters with weapon spirits focus on the techniques of using their spirits, spirit skills, and spirit power.
To be honest, after three months of classes at Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao’s current feeling is that the significance of the teachers at Shrek Academy is actually quite subtle.
To put it bluntly, these teachers are nothing more than soul masters who have mastered the power. The most important requirement for Shrek Academy to select teachers is the level of their soul power, which must be at least a Soul Emperor.
As for whether the qualities accumulated by these Soul Emperors are derived from their innate soul power advantages and martial soul strength, or whether they really have genuine knowledge accumulation and unique insights, it all depends on the students' luck.
At least Zhou Yi, whose body-building method was running like Yu Xiaogang's, and the first-grade teacher who could only read from the textbook, could be considered illiterate in Huo Yuhao's eyes.
Therefore, what they actually teach are just some very popular cultivation methods or knowledge. As for the secret methods or secret arts, they will only mention their effects, names, or origins at most.
Because even in the library of the outer courtyard of Shrek Academy, there are not many records about secret methods or special secret arts. Of course, it is not difficult to imagine why.
After all, the disciples and teachers of the outer courtyard of Shrek Academy are essentially still unable to enter the real core circle of Shrek Academy, and only the disciples who enter the inner courtyard will be regarded as one of the members by Shrek Academy.
Whether it is the inner courtyard library, teaching staff, or even the difference in resources, these are the real reasons why Shrek Academy has been able to maintain its strength for ten thousand years.
But in this case, in fact, there is no essential difference between the educational philosophy and methods of the External College of Shrek Academy and other traditional soul master academies.
Most of the soul masters who come here are just to gild their skills. It is even possible that their cultivation will regress due to the environment of Shrek itself, because the outer courtyard is too introverted.
As the saying goes, it is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. Those who can join Shrek Academy, even if they are not prominent in Shrek Academy, can easily get resources from any academy or sect in the outside world with their talents.
With talent and the allocation of resources, although he is still not as good as the top soul masters in the inner courtyard who have been screened out by Shrek Academy, at least he will not be lost in the crowd.
Although the disciples who graduated from Shrek Academy had a good reputation, how many of the disciples who left the outer courtyard could enter the true high-level class of soul masters?
Therefore, even though the education system of Shrek Academy is different from that of other academies, it only retains the bad aspects. For example, the school motto "Don't dare to cause trouble" which has been passed down for thousands of years is a waste of mediocrity.
It is simply because Shrek Academy has occupied the best students and locations that originally belonged to the Three Douluo Kingdoms for thousands of years, and at the same time, it can obtain an endless supply of resources with the help of the Star Dou Great Forest.
And relying on the background of seven gods who once ascended to heaven, it has been able to develop smoothly over the past ten thousand years and become a behemoth, or a cancer, that parasitizes the three kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent.
It’s just that the current situation is not very obvious because of the pressure from the Sun-Moon Empire and the level of development of the soul master civilization itself.
Soon, with Du Weilun’s announcement, the list of classes was decided, and Huo Yuhao was still assigned to Class 1.
At present, Huo Yuhao naturally does not have the ability to influence the system of Shrek Academy, and he is not going to waste too much time on changing classes or Zhou Yi, because all this is meaningless.
For him, he can now completely entrust himself to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm during class, and he can go to the Sea of Spirit to study what he needs to study during class.
This was the coping strategy that Huo Yuhao had been adopting after he realized that the classes were of no value in the first three months.
The teachers of Class 1 were still Zhou Yi and Wang Yan from the original novel. After announcing the class division, Du Weilun said, "Okay, now everyone will return to the teaching building according to the class division led by the class teachers."
"Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, the three of you come with me to claim the rewards."
After arriving at Du Weilun's office, Du Weilun once again praised Huo Yuhao and the other two for their performance in the freshman assessment. Then he got down to business and took out a leather bag from the conspicuous ruby ring on his right hand.
Looking at this soul guide with a somewhat exaggerated shape, one can only say that it is worthy of being the academy founded by the four-eyed cat-owl Flanders, and it is truly of the same lineage.
The skin bag emitted slight soul power fluctuations, but Huo Yuhao could see through the Eye of Truth that the skin bag was actually a soul guide device with the effects of hiding aura and soul power fluctuations.
It's just that the quality is not very high, so the soul bone aura inside it will leak out a little, but it is definitely not visible with the perception of a low-level soul master.
"Kids, you have defeated the team led by three Soul Master freshmen and won the final championship."
"So I applied to the academy to make an exception and give you this award. Although there is only one award, you need to distribute it among yourselves."
Du Weilun handed the leather bag to Wang Dong.
"This prize is the most precious prize the academy has given out in the freshman assessment in at least three hundred years. Please open it and take a look."
After saying that, Wang Dong glanced at Huo Yuhao, who nodded. Then Wang Dong untied the rope on the leather bag.
As the skin bag opened, a ball of yellow light emerged from the skin bag, and then slowly floated in the air, accompanied by a strong breath of soul power. This is the soul bone, an extremely precious treasure in Douluo Continent.
Huo Yuhao was naturally not surprised by this. Knowing the plot and with the help of the Eye of Truth, he had already seen through what was stored in the skin.
However, Huo Yuhao discovered that the structure of soul bones seemed to be quite complicated, much more complicated than ordinary soul skills and soul rings.
Such a complex thing is just like the martial soul and body structure of a high-level spirit master. Even Huo Yuhao's Eye of Truth needs a certain amount of time to fully analyze and record it.
"This, this is a soul bone?" Wang Dong said with a look of shock.
“.” Huo Yuhao didn’t know what to say. Wang Dongtian was shocked by this and that every day. It was such a waste of your background.
Xiao Xiao on the side was also looking at the soul bone with curiosity. As an ordinary student, Xiao Xiao had never seen a soul bone before.
Du Weilun smiled slightly: "Yes, it is the soul bone. You should all know the preciousness of soul bones, so this is the only reward given by the academy this time."
"You will need to go back and discuss to decide who to give it to. But don't let this soul bone affect your friendship. Next, I will briefly introduce this soul bone."
"This soul bone is a left leg bone, named the Wind Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone. After fusing with it, it can increase the soul master's own speed. It is very suitable for attack and control soul masters."
"And after the fusion, you will also gain an attack-type soul skill that can be launched with your left leg. It will automatically adapt according to the different martial souls that are fused, and it will definitely suit you."
"Put it in a leather bag and take it back. With the storage soul guide, it can effectively conceal the soul power fluctuations of this soul bone."
"It's best to integrate as soon as possible after you return. Although the academy is very safe, it is a crime to possess a treasure. You also need to keep this reward secret."
Du Weilun then sent Huo Yuhao and the other two out. After Du Weilun left, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao looked at Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong immediately said, “Huo Yuhao, take this soul bone.”
"After all, your cultivation level is the lowest among the three of us. If you can fuse this soul bone, it will definitely be very helpful for improving your cultivation level in the future."
"And this time, when facing the teams of Ning Tian and Dai Huabin in the freshman assessment, Yuhao put in his best effort. If it weren't for him, we might not have become the final champions."
Xiao Xiao also nodded in agreement: "Well, Wang Dong is right."
“Okay, I won’t say any more. Let’s go first.” Huo Yuhao took it without saying anything else. He certainly had no intention of fusing this soul bone.
Although it is impossible to determine the exact age of this soul bone, it is definitely not a very good soul bone. It is estimated to be between a thousand and ten thousand years old.
The Wind Demon Leopard itself is not a particularly strong soul beast. The common Wind Demon Leopard is about the same level of cultivation. Although the soul bone of the Wind Demon Leopard is not suitable for him, it is good after analyzing it.
Coupled with the existence of Electrolux, soul bones, which are something between bones and energy, are a perfect match for Electrolux. If there is a chance, this soul bone may be able to play other values.
Afterwards, Huo Yuhao put the leather bag containing the soul bone into his belt and walked towards the dormitory building with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
Because Huo Yuhao was different from the one in the original novel and did not get along well with Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi did not act as a money-giving boy like in the original novel, and "just right" gave Huo Yuhao the left arm bone of the secret soul that he urgently needed to fuse the Ice Emperor soul bone.
Of course, Huo Yuhao doesn’t need it either.
(End of this chapter)