Time flies, and the years pass like a shuttle.
Amidst the daily fulfillment and busyness, five months slipped away silently, like fine sand flowing through one's fingertips.
Inside a spacious first-year classroom at Shrek Academy.
Sunlight poured through the bright floor-to-ceiling windows onto the tidy desks. Compared to a few months ago, everyone's spirit and energy had undergone a qualitative change, as if they had been reborn.
At the front of the podium, the homeroom teacher, Teacher Shen Yi, looked at the excited faces below and nodded with satisfaction.
She clapped her hands, drawing everyone's attention once again.
"Students, please listen. I have something important to announce."
Teacher Shen Yi said to everyone with a smile.
"All in all, you have been at our Shrek Academy for exactly eight months. During these eight months, I'm sure everyone has learned many, many things here, right?"
Hearing Teacher Shen Yi's words, the first-year students below nodded vigorously, their eyes sparkling with bright light.
It was more than just learning a lot; the experiences of these eight months had practically reshaped their entire understanding of the profession of Spirit Master!
Especially since the New Student Grand Competition ended and everyone successfully joined their respective core factions, each of their growth rates had become even faster.
Under five months of high-pressure special training, the entire class had basically mastered the foundational secret techniques used by their respective core factions.
For instance, Wang Dong'er, who sat in the front row.
After this half-year of hard cultivation, the current Wang Dong'er had already learned the major core secret techniques taught by the Tang Sect!
Whether it was the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Step that could make one's figure as elusive as ghost, the Purple Demon Eye that could perceive the smallest details, or the balanced and endless Mysterious Heaven Skill, as well as the poison-resistant Mysterious Jade Hand and the Controlling Crane Catching Dragon that could retrieve objects from a distance...
Wang Dong'er had thoroughly mastered these exquisite Cultivation Techniques and could skillfully apply them in actual combat!
Of course, besides the martial arts cultivation within their respective factions, everyone had also spent a significant amount of time diligently studying their Secondary Professions.
And among them, the one whose progress was most jaw-dropping was undoubtedly Huo Yuhao!
In just these five short months, Huo Yuhao had delivered what could be called a miraculous result.
Now, he had not only progressed further in his original field, successfully promoting to a Rank 4 Soul Engineer!
He had also simultaneously become a Rank 1 Mecha Designer, a Rank 2 Mecha Manufacturer, and a Rank 2 Mecha Repairman!
One person had forcefully secured titles in four major core professions!
It must be said that for Huo Yuhao to achieve such a level, besides his massive Mental Force foundation, the Heavenly Derivation Divided Soul Art he learned from Mu Ye was also instrumental.
With the assistance of this Cultivation Technique, Huo Yuhao's study of Secondary Professions was like a fish in water.
He could completely divide his mind into several parts to study these different professions simultaneously.
Of course, this was also because these three mecha-related professions were inextricably linked to his original Soul Engineer profession.
Aside from Mecha Designer being more troublesome, the other two were closely related to being a Soul Engineer. If these professions truly had no connection to the Soul Engineer profession and required starting from scratch, even for Huo Yuhao, such rapid progress would have been impossible.
As for Spirit Power...
During this time, although the numerical increase in everyone's Spirit Power Rank didn't seem particularly massive, however!
The accumulation and purity of the Spirit Power within their bodies had reached a considerably formidable level.
Through the extreme pressure from their factions and the tempering of various Heaven And Earth Treasures, even the students with the weakest cultivation in the class were now approaching Rank 37 in Spirit Power!
And Huo Yuhao's Spirit Power had steadily entered the Rank 43 Realm!
Teacher Shen Yi looked at everyone, a smile suddenly blossoming on her face as she spoke.
"Since the foundation of the first stage has been solidified, for the upcoming period, it's time for everyone to leave the academy."
Leave the academy?!
As soon as Teacher Shen Yi said those words, everyone who was still immersed in pride was collectively stunned.
The entire classroom went silent for a moment, followed by expressions of reluctance and unwillingness to leave.
"Teacher Shen, why are you making us leave?"
"This is our home; we want to stay here and continue our cultivation!"
Everyone was anxious. Here, they had the best cultivation resources, top-tier Cultivation Techniques, and the best teachers. Who would want to leave this blessed land?
Seeing the extremely reluctant expressions of everyone below, the smile on Teacher Shen Yi's face grew even wider.
"Alright, everyone sit down first!"
Teacher Shen Yi motioned for them to be quiet and comforted them with a smile.
"The academy isn't trying to kick you out!"
Hearing they weren't being kicked out, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, though their eyes remained filled with confusion as they looked at Teacher Shen Yi.
Teacher Shen Yi's expression turned serious as she explained.
"You are first-year students, and there are less than four months left in the first academic year. During these next four months, you need to temporarily leave this Floating Island and head down to the Douluo Continent below!"
"You are going for training, to struggle in real combat, and to see for yourselves what the World outside is like today!"
"True powerhouses can never be created through closed-door training. Only by applying theories and secret techniques to real combat in the outside World can your strength become solid!"
After hearing this, everyone finally understood.
So it was for external training!
Realizing this, everyone nodded seriously in understanding.
Immediately after, the atmosphere in the classroom became heated again, and some people began to look forward to it.
"Training! Doesn't that mean we can go home and visit?"
As someone shouted, many people's eyes brightened.
After all, not everyone was a day student like Wang Dong'er. For most, it had been exactly eight months since they enrolled, and they hadn't been back since.
Going home to visit and showing off the skills they had learned at this academy was definitely an exciting prospect.
However, amidst the noisy anticipation.
Ling Luochen, sitting in a corner toward the back of the classroom, had a very complicated look in her eyes.
Unlike the others' anticipation, Ling Luochen's mood was somewhat heavy.
During these eight months, she had received top-tier instruction at the academy and enjoyed massive resources, sometimes even having the illusion that she was just an ordinary member of this Sky Shrek Academy.
But reason reminded her that she and Zhang Lexuan had infiltrated with a mission as undercover agents.
Now that the academy was arranging for them to train in the Lower Realm, it meant she would inevitably have to face that Shrek Academy located on the ground of the Douluo Continent again.
On one side was the old academy, and on the other was the new academy that had given her so much help. Ling Luochen lowered her head slightly, a flash of complexity in her eyes. How should she face this?
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A/N:
I hope all of you are enjoying this story so far. I would appreciate some Power Stones if you can spare any. Leave a review if you like the story. Thank you.