The second year at Shrek started blandly. Most of the class 1 was practically being puppeted by Elder Cai who wanted to make Gu Yue's life hard in the name of studies.
Good thing was, I was not alone in my Battle Armour piece task as the whole class was a part of it now. That was the requirement for the year.
School life was pretty much activities and was constant grinding in between Tang Wulin's challenge with the third grade in the half yearly show and him being sent as an exchange student after the year.
I am fine. I joined Tang Sect. It was nothing much. My third year passed in Shrek as well. The time at grade 1 ended with it.
It the holidays after that when I made a mistake.
I absolutely hate it when someone dies due to me or for me...
Six years later.
"This took longer than I expected. I knew it, the Heaven Dou attack was just a decoy, the fact that it took the lives that it took was just the victims being unreasonable unprepared. Shame on them."
"I should be able to handle this. I am already a level 81 Soul Douluo. Three word battle armourer and a level Eighth Mecha Designer. Yeah, I stick to it and also learnt Mecha Making and Mecha Mechanics as well. I had lots of time in my grade two since the meditation speed had come to a stagnation even with the Superior energy body.
I was just unlucky and got hit with two 60% cultivation speed decrement during my rank 50 and 60 advancements. As stated by my now third grade class teacher (previously my Spirit Engineering teacher in grade 2 when I asked this), my martial soul, the Blue Silver Grass, had reached the peak of its achievements long ago, sheding all its potential, and now it was being dragged into doing more by my Superior energy body. Thus the maximum cultivation decrement effects on me.
In simple words, I had a peak of around rank 30 - rank 40 (Soul Elder - Soul Ancestor), and after that I can't advance the organic way and have to either rely on soul food to nourish myself and slowly enhance my body, martial soul and mind or take a panacea to advance my body, martial spirit and mind or get a better and suitable spirit soul that advances/aides my martial soul or do all them or etc.
At the current age of mankind, there were many ways to solve this but they all required money. And I have done all that.
It was my Superior energy body that was the reason for my cultivation but even it had limits and they had been reached during the second grade.
Hence, the entire of the second grade and even the first half of the third grade, with my superior energy body activated every single moment, I slowly and really slowly advanced towards the rank 70.
Do you know the funny thing, my inner court invitation cancelled and taken away from me when they this. Well they got to know this after I went to the teacher so I am partially to blame for it, and it's not like I ever wanted to join the Inner court in my good days so of course they would not let me in my worthless bad days *cough cough*.
You reap what you sow, is it not? Not it is not.
Tang Sect also did the same but at least they gave me a ten percent discount on spirit souls. A great deal to give, you know, in my condition. They must have a lot of confidence in me.
Oh! Did I even mention about the cultivation decrement before?
There's a reason why martial souls were divided into different categories based on quality. There were,
Low quality martial souls(below rank 3 innate soul power),
Average martial souls (below rank 5 Innate soul power),
Good martial souls (below rank 7 Innate soul power)
Advanced rank martial soul (above rank 7)
Top quality martial souls (Innate full soul power)
And this was primarily divided as thus due to the rank up meditation speed decrement of the martial soul every major breakthrough (every ten ranks).
Top quality martial souls faced little to no changes in their base martial soul cultivation speed.
Good ones faced 10 - 15 % decrement every breakthrough.
Average ones faced 18 - 30% and poor or low quality martial souls faced 40 - 60 % cultivation speed decrement every ten levels.
This was the data based on the past twenty thousand years of research. It was also why low ranking martial souls were so looked down upon.
Your child took 5 years to reach rank 10, then 9 years to reach rank 20 and then even after twenty years, he still haven't reached rank 30. This was the norm until the Sun Moon Federation had decided to step in and aide them with nutritious food, schooling and training and knowledge to earn money to further aide themselves.
I got side tracked. Where was I?
After it was found that I had become useless, Shrek and Tang Sect took back their inner circle and was even going to be expelled from Shrek because they said and I quote,
"You may not be able to meet the requirements of the third grade exams. Sincerely Elder Cai."
I was a bit angry at that, I was not in a good mood for an entirety of five years, and I one day challenged and mauled everyone in the grade 3, 4 and 5 along with some inner students and some teachers.
I was suspended a year later because of this. A year later. I can understand why they were destroyed.
Anyways, I basically crawled my way to the rank 70 taking all the help of my Superior energy body, Petrosapien Physique and the tears of Kindgom: The Legend of Zelda and I reached it.
I reached rank 70, brought a Red Hundred Thousand year old spirit soul from the Tang Sect and made sure to remind them of the ten percent discount that they had given me.
With the Spirit Soul, my martial soul was able to advance and mutate or maybe evolve, I don't know which one happened its not showing anything that I can perceive but something did happen as my martial soul cultivation speed improved which in turn became a massive improvement due to my Superior energy body.
And, yes, and, because I absorbed a hundred thousand year old spirit soul, the excess energy from the Tang Sect provided high quality spirit soul literally advanced me to rank 81. 11 whole ranks.
It took me five years to reach rank 70 from rank 60!
And do you know the funny thing, this happened two weeks after I was suspended. Do you know what's even funnier?
I got an invitation from Inner court again, Battle Hall and Spirit Pagoda.
Yeah, from Spirit Pagoda and sent by my favourite Qiangu Dongfeng himself.
I... forget it.
In all this though, the most interesting thing to happen were my soul abilities. They are as follows,
5th soul skill - Fiery Fire.
6th soul skill - Indestructible shield.
I don't know how I got Lightning fire and energy shield from a poison type snake spirit soul. Well, this also applies to my teleport as well but I didn't pay it that much attention then since I blame it all on the Punishment God.
But then I got my Hundred thousand year old spirit soul and I realised that the skills are what I desire + spirit soul but I lose bits of my self everytime. Heck, there wasn't much to begin with. I am pretty sure that is exactly the case though.
7th soul skill - Blue Silver Energy Spear.
Extremely strong single target attack.
It was called Blue Silver Energy Spear. I didn't name it like that. I wanted a really strong single target attack since Fiery Fire was a AOE.
8th soul skill - Shinra Tensei.
And then I wanted an attack to thwart away the attack on Shrek.
9th soul skill - Chibaku Tensei (Planetary devastation).
And I also wanted a backup attack to thwart away the attackers.
10th soul skill - Boundless vitality.
Grants the user 425% increase in all his plant related soul skills and ability.
Lastly, I wanted a buff or healing related skill since for my cultivation related troubles.
My fourth spirit soul was Fantasia Tulip. A hundred and 67 thousand year old spirit soul in the plant type spirit souls. The only reason why I chose this was because of its plant typing and this was the only one that Tang Sect was selling me in the plant section. The others were contribution locked and required me to be a exclusive Tang Sect internal hall , preferably the Battle Hall, member.
Now you may say that I may have lost a chance at a better spirit soul for my refusal but I really don't want to join any organisation anymore. All of them are the same from the inside. There wasn't much difference.
I am strong now. I have seen titled Douluo fight each other and I had easily competed and defeat them as well... I needed to run for my life from a level 96 Titled Douluo though. I was weak at that time.
Now though, well I don't even know my strength so no use talking over it. I will see if I can survive this.
The fortunate thing though, they have attacked a week after I become a Soul Douluo. The not unfortunate thing was that I don't have any practice with my skills so it will be a first for me too.
Oh yeah, by the way, completely unrelated and I think useless thing to share but I think, I need to share it with you.
During the beginning of my third year, I have seen Gu Yue naked because we got into an argument and I attacked with MY Fiery Fire and she tried to element cancel it but failed because it's mine and everything burned except her.
There was no one to witness it, so I didn't kill anyone and I had erased this memory from my mind but it came back later when she confronted me at another time along with my previous self and the urge to kill her but I erased it as well.
We are chill though as we have reached an agreement on never mentioning it again along with a simple deal of non interference although I was not asked what were we having this pact for.
She had just came, made a pact and went.
So if you encounter them, don't say it your way. You think know what I will do to you. You actually don't.