Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains!

"It was you who analyzed it for me back then. I needed to seek refuge, and that's why I decided to go to Shrek among many options."

"But the answer we can get isn't limited to Shrek Academy. You brought me to study under Master Makino for the same reason, didn't you? Now, continuing to plan for Shrek Academy is just a further safeguard."

"Now, I'm going to Shrek Academy partly to seek refuge, but more so because I need a learning environment and a stage for outstanding Soul Masters to compete."

"I have no doubt that Teacher Makino is capable of protecting me."

"I can't let down Professor Makino just for the sake of so-called insurance. I need to persuade him to allow me to study under someone else, even if it's a teacher in a different field."

Even if he were to become Yun Ming's apprentice, it should be Yun Ming who recognized his talent and communicated with Mu Ye to reach a consensus, rather than Xu Yuan planning it on his own.

Xu Yuan knew that his talent wasn't extraordinary, but he still had the arrogance of a transmigrator.

To grovel and fawn over Yun Ming as much as possible?

Sorry, can't do that.

Xu Yuan, on the contrary, thought more about the unimaginable pain that this process must have caused Mu Ye.

"Teacher Muye has dedicated himself to teaching me for the past year. Whether it's cultivating my physical martial spirit or designing mecha, he's a great teacher," Xu Yuan said earnestly, looking at his uncle.

Xu Shengqun was awakened by Xu Yuan's words and stood there stunned for a moment.

After a long while, he gave a bitter smile: "It's because your uncle didn't change his mindset. Yes, with Muye as your teacher, your safety is no longer a concern."

Not only Mu Ye, but Xu Yuan and Zhen Hua also have a very close relationship now. With these two, as long as no catastrophic accident occurs, Xu Yuan no longer needs to prioritize seeking protection.

At the same time, based on Xu Yuan's speech, Xu Shengqun also discovered that his nephew was more mature than he had imagined, and his thinking was more comprehensive than he had imagined. Even in terms of his ideas, he had almost formed a stable framework.

"Xiao Yuan, what do you think if your uncle lets you participate in Shrek Academy's recruitment now?"

"We can give it a try," Xu Yuan said calmly.

If you enter Shrek Academy now, you'll have six years to focus on training. If you enter again three years later, you'll only have three years left.

Because he remembered that after Tang Wulin's class enrolled, the students who were originally designated as inner court students would also have to study in the outer court.

Putting aside everything else, studying at the Foreign Languages ​​Department is really stressful.

Chapter 21 Xu Yuan's Bottleneck (Please continue reading!!!)

Xu Shengqun frowned.

He was awakened by Xu Yuan and realized that Xu Yuan's main purpose in entering Shrek Academy was no longer to seek protection, but to hone himself on the stage where genius soul masters gathered.

However, one of the reasons he didn't want Xu Yuan to apply this year was that he was worried that Xu Yuan, at his age, would be influenced by Shrek's philosophy if he entered Shrek Academy.

Xu Shengqun frowned and pondered for a long time before finally abandoning his previous worries.

Putting everything else aside, Xu Yuan's words just now have already proven that there is nothing wrong with his character and values.

Moreover, everything is actually a matter of weighing the pros and cons.

Xu Shengqun's previous inclination to let Xu Yuan participate in the recruitment three years later was also influenced by other factors. Now that those other factors have been resolved, this one reason alone is not enough to make him completely biased.

He even began to refute this idea from other perspectives, wondering what could be wrong with being influenced? Could there be anything about Shrek Academy's style that was unsuitable for Xu Yuan?

This is people.

People's hearts can change in the blink of an eye.

“Xiao Yuan, since that’s what you think, your uncle will register you.”

Other Soul Masters might have to consider the number of places available for application. After all, Shrek Academy is a sacred place in the hearts of Soul Masters across the entire continent, and everyone wants to apply. If any Soul Master could apply, Shrek's enrollment pressure would be too great. Currently, Shrek does not have the technology to support a continent-wide open selection, nor does it have the opportunity to launch this model.

Therefore, the only option is to determine the number of places available each year.

Every three years, Shrek Academy's entrance exam allocates a certain number of slots to various factions.

Other Soul Masters might have to struggle with this decision, but Xu Yuan didn't need to.

The spots were all given by Shrek Academy, so whether there are one more or one less is not a big deal for Shrek Academy.

Anyway, recruiting another genius won't do Shrek any harm.

If Xu Shengqun were to speak up, it wouldn't be difficult for Zhuoshi to grant Xu Yuan the qualification to apply.

It's fair to say that these are rules made by a group of Shrek people who are the least likely to follow the rules, so we shouldn't take them too seriously...

As for why they didn't get a spot from forces like the Skysea Alliance? There's only one week left before Shrek Academy's recruitment officially begins...

......

After deciding to apply, Xu Yuan received the qualification for admission to the Inner Academy from his uncle in just one day.

“There are still a few days until the exam, so let’s not rush off,” Xu Shengqun said. “After you pass the exam, you will most likely be admitted directly to the inner academy to cultivate. If you want to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform, you will have to do so from the Spirit Transmission Tower headquarters, which will inevitably cause some trouble. Take advantage of these few days to go to the Spirit Ascension Platform a few times.”

Xu Shengqun is a Spirit Transmission Envoy, so obtaining the qualification for the Spirit Transmission Tower Ascension Platform is not difficult. However, if he were at headquarters, there would always be three people above him, especially Qian Gu Dongfeng, so interference would be inevitable.

It's not that he can't qualify, but he'd rather avoid trouble. Xu Shengqun isn't from Shrek Academy, and he doesn't subscribe to the idea that being afraid of trouble is a sign of mediocrity.

Tianhai City's Spirit Pagoda.

"Spirit Messenger, sir."

Xu Shengqun led Xu Yuan to the first floor of the upper level of the Spirit Pagoda.

"This is a Spirit Ascension Platform used exclusively by internal staff of the Spirit Tower. It is connected to the same Spirit Ascension Platform, but the quotas are only available to internal staff and can be exchanged for contribution points. Unlike the quotas that are available to the outside world, there are always vacancies here."

Xu Yuan's lips twitched.

Are there vacancies all year round?

These are reserved for people like you Spirit Messengers and Tower Masters, right?

Xu Yuan didn't come in blindfolded the whole time. There were other rooms on this floor, probably for internal staff only, so it was quite crowded. Only the innermost room was empty.

Moreover, strictly speaking, Xu Yuan is not an insider.

It can only be said that rules are often made by the strong.

To be honest, Xu Yuan has never entered the Spirit Ascension Platform either.

"Lie down." Xu Shengqun directed Xu Yuan to lie down in a sealed cabin.

"Remember, if you encounter a crisis inside the Spirit Ascension Platform and are destined to be killed, then press the button to exit. You still have to participate in the Shrek Academy exam. If you are killed on the Spirit Ascension Platform, your mental state will be damaged, which will affect your assessment."

"Understood." Xu Yuan nodded.

The hatch closed, and Xu Yuan closed his eyes, feeling a strange force inside the cabin drawing his spiritual energy into its fusion, drawing his consciousness away in a unique way.

Consciousness detached from the body, and amidst the dizzying sensation, one arrived in a fantastical world.

Inside the Shengling Platform.

Xu Yuan landed.

He carefully put away the red emergency exit button and began to adjust to his new body.

"After all, it's not a real body. Although it's a near-perfect replica of my real body through my consciousness, there are still some differences."

Xu Yuan possessed strong mental power and was able to perceive the difference in his current state.

In reality, the best state is when the physical body is the main body and consciousness is the dominant force. However, in the space of the Spirit Ascension Platform, everything is based on consciousness.

"This body is my consciousness. To be precise, there is no physical body; it is just my consciousness that has formed a body." Xu Yuan was amazed by the peculiarity of this Spirit Ascension Platform.

The person who invented the Ascension Platform was a genius.

"I estimate that the predecessor of the Spirit Ascension Platform was a technology similar to a combat space used to hone combat skills," Xu Yuan guessed.

The Tang Sect has a Hall of Heroes, and the Federation has also developed a virtual world-like technology, both of which seem to have some similarities to the Spirit Ascension Platform.

The Spirit Pagoda developed this technology into the Spirit Ascension Platform, which is characterized by being able to enhance one's soul spirit while fighting. The Tang Sect's Hall of Heroes simulates the abilities of existing powerful soul masters, allowing players to hone their skills by battling real-life projections of historically powerful figures. The virtual world developed by the Federation focuses on broad appeal and is committed to being promoted throughout the Federation.

After his initial shock, Xu Yuan quickly adjusted to his body and began to pay attention to his surroundings.

The Spirit Ascension Platform simulates the original Soul Beast Forest, most of which are modeled after the former Star Dou Great Forest.

The area simulated by the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform is the former outer area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, where most of the beasts are ten-year-old soul beasts, hundred-year-old soul beasts are relatively rare, and there are almost no thousand-year-old soul beasts.

"Hundred-year-old soul beasts are rare, and you can avoid them if you just avoid them, but if I want to ascend to higher spiritual level, killing a hundred-year-old soul beast is the fastest way."

That's right, Xu Yuan is going to ascend to a higher spiritual level.

Back when he fused with his soul, his spiritual power had already broken through to the Spiritual Realm, reaching a value of 130. Now, a year later, after opening up his spiritual sea, his spiritual power has a solid foundation, and his progress is more stable, increasing by a full 80 points in a year, reaching 210 points.

An increase of 80 points in one year.

This is not Xu Yuan's limit, but the limit of the mental power that his physical development can bear.

Indeed, Xu Yuan's mental strength improvement has reached a bottleneck.

Chapter 22 Developing Your Own Cultivation Technique? (Please Read On!!!)

The bottleneck in his mental strength was not that he lacked the aptitude for mental strength to support his continued progress, but rather that the power of his mental strength was about to transcend the constraints of his body.

At this moment, Xu Yuan also roughly understood why Gu Yue's mental power in the original work, although abnormal, seemed to be understandable in the early stages.

An underdeveloped body coupled with excessive mental strength can actually lead to accidents.

She ultimately chose to start over, although it was vastly different from the way ordinary 100,000-year-old soul beasts started over. Her body was still just a human body fused with the bloodline of the Silver Dragon King.

The Silver Dragon King was not good at physical strength, so she did not show an overly powerful physique in the early stages. However, her physical attributes were always extremely impressive.