Mu Ye looked at Huo Yuhao's excited face but immediately poured a bucket of cold water over him.
"Alright, don't get ahead of yourself just yet."
Mu Ye looked at Huo Yuhao with a calm expression and spoke slowly.
"Although this Heavenly Derivation Divided Soul Art can solve your current predicament, this Cultivation Technique is not something you can just pick up and learn immediately right now."
Hearing Mu Ye's words, Huo Yuhao was first stunned, but his mind worked quickly, and he soon understood.
There was no such thing as a free lunch, let alone a supreme Cultivation Technique that could be considered cheat-level.
"Teacher, I understand."
Huo Yuhao said.
"Such a powerful Cultivation Technique surely requires a large amount of academy Contribution Points to exchange for, right?"
Contribution Points really were never enough no matter how he spent them; he had to continue developing his Secondary Profession. Without development, how could he get more Contribution Points?
Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the Skydream Ice Worm was currently sighing with deep emotion amidst a wave of intense self-doubt.
"This Shrek Academy... just what kind of group of freaks are they!"
The Skydream Ice Worm's chubby Body Martial Soul wiggled in the Sea of Consciousness. Especially when thinking of that unfathomable Dean Lin Feng, the Skydream Ice Worm felt its million-year-old face burning, and an extremely strong sense of frustration welled up.
"I am at least a million-year-old mental-type Spirit Beast! But in terms of the subtle application of Mental Force, I'm actually inferior to a human?! This is simply too much of a blow to this silkworm!"
The Skydream Ice Worm let out a long sigh.
It thought resentfully to itself that although it relied on its million-year lifespan to accumulate a massive Mental Force Origin,
it lacked effective means of converting that into offensive Mental Force skills!
It was sitting on a mountain of treasure but didn't know how to use it!
Originally, when it first met Huo Yuhao and completed the sacrifice, giving the 'Soul Shock' skill to Huo Yuhao, it had been extremely proud, thinking it had given Huo Yuhao a Heaven-Defying trump card!
But after it followed Huo Yuhao into this Shrek Academy, the Skydream Ice Worm was completely dumbfounded!
It discovered that in this academy of monsters, practically everyone mastered a common Mental Force combat technique called 'Mental Shock'!
"If I had possessed the 'Soul Shock' skill back when I was a Spirit Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest, how could I have been treated like an ATM by Di Tian and those guys, pinned to the ground and having my essence drained for so many years?!"
Maybe it could have lived quite comfortably, becoming a local overlord, and then perhaps it would have been invited by Shrek Academy to become a teacher.
While the Skydream Ice Worm was lamenting wildly in the Sea of Consciousness,
Mu Ye, on the outside, couldn't help but laugh and shake his head as he saw Huo Yuhao's distressed look over Contribution Points.
"Yuhao, you've misunderstood again."
Mu Ye crossed his arms, directly interrupting Huo Yuhao's speculation, and said,
"You are now a Personal Disciple of our Body Sect! Since you're one of our own, we will naturally teach you the core techniques of the Body Sect without reservation! How could we possibly deduct your pitiful Contribution Points?"
Hearing that it wasn't because of Contribution Points, Huo Yuhao immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he became even more confused.
"Then Teacher, why did you say just now that I can't learn it yet?"
Mu Ye's expression turned solemn, and his tone became serious.
"I'm not letting you learn it because the threshold for this technique is very high, and it's easy to cause mental backlash!"
"To study and successfully operate this Heavenly Derivation Divided Soul Art, your Mental Force value must strictly reach over fifteen thousand points! This is the minimum foundation!"
"Fifteen thousand points of Mental Force?!"
Hearing this massive number, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but gasp.
He suddenly recalled that when he first participated in the entrance assessment, he had also tested his Mental Force once.
He remembered clearly that at that time, his Mental Force value was only a pitiful double-digit number!
During the test, Dean Lin Feng had even praised him with a smile, saying his Mental Force was 'not bad'.
At that time, Huo Yuhao thought it was due to his Spirit or the Fusion with the Skydream Ice Worm.
However, since entering Shrek Academy and witnessing the insane resources here, Huo Yuhao realized that Dean Lin Feng's praise at the time was just a casual remark!
After all, in this academy, swallowing just one basic golden pearl would increase one's Mental Force value by far more than the mere few dozen points he had when he enrolled! There was absolutely nothing to be proud of!
Moreover, in Teacher Shen Yi's class, they had also systematically studied the specific classification of Mental Force Realms.
Teacher Shen Yi had explicitly stated that only when Mental Force breaks through the five-thousand-point mark and reaches the 'Spirit Sea Realm' can a Spirit Master's Sea of Consciousness initially stabilize, thereby allowing them to host a ten-thousand-year-level Spirit Soul!
And now, looking across their entire first-year class, due to the academy's frantic dumping of resources like various Heaven And Earth Treasures and mimicked environments,
the Mental Force Realms of the people in the class had actually long since broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm! Everyone possessed a ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul.
But fifteen thousand points... that was a full leap beyond the Spirit Sea Realm, approaching the threshold of the next major Realm, the 'Spiritual Abyss Realm'!
Although Huo Yuhao was currently cultivating hard every day, and his Mental Force was advancing by leaps and bounds with the gradual unsealing of the Skydream Ice Worm, the growth of his Spirit, and the nourishment of the golden pearls,
he really didn't know exactly what his current Mental Force value had reached, since he had only done one test upon enrollment.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's uncertain expression, Mu Ye gave a broad wave of his hand.
"There's no point in guessing blindly here. I can't quite gauge your current Mental Force foundation either. Come with me, we'll go test it and find out!"
"Yes, Teacher."
Huo Yuhao hurriedly nodded and followed.
Mu Ye led Huo Yuhao through the training grounds to a professional metal testing room on the side of the Body Sect's station.
In the center of the room stood a silver-white, precision soul tool technology Mental Force testing instrument.
The top of the instrument was connected to a metal helmet covered in various sensing nodes.
Mu Ye pointed to the instrument and said to Huo Yuhao,
"Sit in the chair, put on the helmet, then clear your mind. Don't think about anything; just naturally release your Mental Force completely."
Huo Yuhao took a deep breath, suppressed a trace of nervousness in his heart, and stepped forward to sit on the comfortable leather seat as instructed.
He reached out and picked up the heavy metal helmet, placing it steadily on his head.
"Are you ready? I'm going to start the instrument."
Mu Ye operated the control panel on the side.
"I'm ready, Teacher."
Buzz—!
As Mu Ye pressed the start button, a series of soft blue halos instantly lit up on the metal helmet.
Huo Yuhao closed his eyes and, following Mu Ye's instructions, naturally and without reservation released the Mental Force from his Sea of Consciousness.
Beep beep beep!
With the injection of Huo Yuhao's Mental Force, a string of numbers on the large holographic display in front of the testing instrument began to jump upward at a frantic speed!
One hundred... one thousand... five thousand!
In just the blink of an eye, the number easily broke through the five-thousand-point mark of the Spirit Sea Realm and continued to soar upward with unstoppable momentum!
Eight thousand... ten thousand... thirteen thousand!
Standing before the screen, Mu Ye's brow twitched slightly as he watched the constantly jumping numbers, and a flash of admiration appeared in his eyes.
This kid's Mental Force talent, combined with that Body Martial Soul Spirit Eyes, was indeed uniquely gifted!
Finally!
Accompanied by a crisp 'ding' notification sound!
The frantically jumping numbers on the screen finally slowed down and stopped, fixed at a prominent position.
[16,797!]
"Phew..."
Looking at the numbers on the screen, Huo Yuhao also slowly took off the helmet and let out a long breath.
An irrepressible wild joy flashed in his eyes!
He passed the line!
His Mental Force had unknowingly already broken through the fifteen-thousand-point mark, directly meeting the harsh requirements for learning the Heavenly Derivation Divided Soul Art!
Mu Ye looked at the number and nodded with satisfaction.
"Sixteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven points, very good! It seems the foundation of your Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, combined with your cultivation at the academy during this period, has not been wasted. Your current Mental Force has completely reached the basic requirements for cultivating the Divided Soul Art!"
Hearing Mu Ye's confirmation, Huo Yuhao was quite excited.
This way, the difficult problem of balancing being a Soul Engineer and Mecha Manufacturing would finally be solved!
Just then, Tang Wulin's voice rang out.
"Teacher, Yuhao, so you're here. Are you testing Mental Force? I want to try too!"
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A/N:
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