Douluo Continent: The Eternal Dawn

Chapter 72 Xu Sanshi's Awakening of Xuanwu
The fourth-grade advancement assessment will last all day and will take place in the Soul Fighting Zone.

The Soul Fighting Zone is a very important area in Shrek Academy, located in the northwest corner of the Martial Soul Department, near Shrek City.

Shrek Academy does not have a back gate connecting it to Shrek City; instead, it is completely enclosed by a tall city wall. From the top floor of the Soul Arena's grandstand, one can even see over the city wall and peer into the interior of Shrek City.

Shrek Academy's outer campus eliminates many students every year during its promotion exams. By the fourth year, the number of students has dwindled to less than three hundred, and today's promotion exam will further eliminate some of them.

At this moment, all the fourth-grade students were sitting around the edge of the venue, participating in the upgrade assessment in an orderly manner under the organization of their respective class teachers.

As for why the upgrade assessment was held in the Soul Battle Zone, it's naturally because the assessment content is actual combat.

When Ye Xixuan entered the Soul Fighting Zone from the entrance, his conspicuous white freshman uniform immediately attracted the attention of many fourth-year students.

His attention, however, was immediately drawn to the burly fourth-year male student in the center of the arena. This guy had clearly passed the test, but he lingered in the arena, unwilling to come down, his smug expression full of pride and smugness.

Isn't that Xu Sanshi?

"Xi Xuan!"

Upon seeing Ye Xixuan, Xu Sanshi immediately waved his arm dramatically and said with a self-satisfied air.

"Haha, you've come to witness my prowess too? No problem, today I'll show you what the true strength of the number one student in the outer academy is!" As he spoke, Xu Sanshi suddenly took a step forward, and a dense, dark green light burst forth from his body, almost enveloping the entire Soul Arena, making the surrounding air seem thick and viscous.

In his hand now appeared a dark green shield. Not only was its color and aura significantly different from the previous Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield, but a dark green snake had also appeared on the dense and thick tortoise shell. The snake's eyes were bright red, clearly resembling the divine beast Xuanwu.

Ye Xixuan was not surprised that Xu Sanshi's original Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield Martial Soul could successfully evolve into Xuanwu Shield through the awakening ceremony. What surprised him was the four soul rings that rose from Xu Sanshi's feet.

Yellow, yellow, purple, black!

After successfully awakening his Xuanwu bloodline, Xu Sanshi surprisingly absorbed a black ten-thousand-year soul ring at level forty, a level far exceeding his own. It seems the divine beast bloodline provided an astonishing boost to his spiritual power and physique, especially considering that even the Light Holy Dragon Soul Master Bei Bei's fourth soul ring was only a standard thousand-year level.

Xu Sanshi, holding a shield in one hand and his other hand on his hip, laughed triumphantly, "Xi Xuan, do you think the color of my fourth soul ring is good? From now on, I'll be an insurmountable mountain pressing down on that stinky Bei Bei's head!"

"Xu Sanshi, if you don't come down from the Soul Battle Platform, I'll cancel your promotion assessment score!" The homeroom teacher of Class 2, Grade 4, covered his face in embarrassment and scolded him irritably.

"No, no, no! Teacher, I'll come down right now!"

Xu Sanshi subconsciously shrank back, then quickly and obediently jumped off the Soul Fighting Platform, walked briskly to Ye Xixuan's side, and put his arm around his shoulder.

"However, not just anyone can have a fourth spirit ring that lasts for ten thousand years, right, Xi Xuan?"

"Are you never going to stop?!" Beibei from Class 1, Grade 4 next door came over, the muscles at the corner of her mouth twitching slightly.

Xu Sanshi shook his head, putting on an air of self-importance.

"All I can say is that you simply don't understand the value of absorbing knowledge beyond your level."

"Is Xiaoya alright?" Jiang Nannan followed closely behind Beibei. Ignoring Beibei and Xu Sanshi's bickering, she asked Ye Xixuan with concern.

Ye Xixuan comforted Jiang Nannan with a serious expression.

"Don't worry, Sister Nan, Sister Xiaoya is fine. I spent the whole noon with her, so you don't need to worry. Senior Sister needs to talk to her, so she asked me to come and ask for leave for her." "Xixuan, I'll talk to the teacher about the leave for you." Beibei agreed with mixed feelings, then turned and walked towards the area where Class 1 of Grade 4 was located.

Jiang Nannan gently patted her full chest, relieved for her best friend, but she still couldn't help but ask the question that had been bothering her.

"What's your relationship with Tang Wutong?"

"It's irrelevant." Ye Xixuan smiled lightly, which made Xu Sanshi, who was standing next to her, give a thumbs up and chuckle.

"Xi Xuan, you're really something! No wonder you're the man I've chosen, you're just as genuine as I am."

"Senior Xu, you and I are not the same." Ye Xixuan curled her lips meaningfully, but she was also inexplicably envious of Xu Sanshi.

"I think your martial soul has been fully awakened. You must feel quite accomplished."

"It's alright." Xu Sanshi looked at Ye Xixuan with a flushed face. As someone who had been through it all, he immediately understood the meaning behind Ye Xixuan's words.

"Well, to be honest, it's not all that complicated. Xi Xuan, I'm not trying to show off, but once you become a real man, the feeling is definitely different."

"What do you mean?" Ye Xixuan's interest was instantly piqued by Xu Sanshi, while Jiang Nannan blushed and turned away quickly. Her original intention was to hope that Ye Xixuan would have less contact with people like Xu Sanshi, but then she thought that someone of her status had no right to restrain Ye Xixuan, so she could only choose to avoid him.

Next, Xu Sanshi and Ye Xixuan had a long chat.

Besides matters between men and women, another thing that Ye Xixuan was particularly concerned about was that Xu Sanshi's fiancée would also participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament a year later.

However, Xu Sanshi deliberately kept his fiancée a secret and refused to reveal her identity.

"Alright, Senior Brother Xu, I'm going back to class now." Although the afternoon classes at the outer academy had already started, Ye Xixuan hadn't planned to skip class on the first day.

Back in the classroom of Class 7, Nan Ruyao was very friendly and let him in right away.

In the spacious lecture hall, the Lan sisters, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, deliberately left the seat between them for Ye Xixuan. Ye Xixuan didn't feel embarrassed at all and sat down to listen to the lesson.

At the same time, Class 1 of the new students also got a new homeroom teacher.

He was an ordinary-looking, gentle-tempered middle-aged male teacher, none other than Wang Yan, who led the Shrek Academy's regular and reserve teams to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament in the original story.

Wang Yan's talent for cultivation is average, but his theoretical experience is extremely rich, which at least makes our Tang Princess somewhat convinced.

However, after what happened that morning, almost every student in Class 1 kept their distance from Tang Wutong. Tang Wutong herself was happy with this, monopolizing a large area by herself.

In her view, only Ye Xixuan could stand on the same level as her in this plane, so how could she possibly take these new students seriously?
Huo Yuhao sat in a corner of the lecture hall, listening intently to Wang Yan's lecture.

He didn't have Tang Wutong's powerful background, so he made up for it with hard work. He always believed that he could compensate for his shortcomings through diligence.

The freshmen of Shrek Academy this year each harbor their own thoughts and goals. And regardless of the outcome of the promotion assessment three months later, they can at least focus on their studies and training during this time.

After all, not every teacher would expel students as easily as Zhou Yi, completely disregarding their hard work and future prospects.

(End of this chapter)