Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Emperor, Unifying the Continent!

In the early morning, sunlight shines on Poseidon Lake, creating shimmering ripples.

The freshmen who were about to be late for school ran out of the dormitory building at lightning speed, still chewing on emergency bread and milk they had bought from Shrek City. They quickly passed the old man lying under the big tree and ran towards the teaching building.

I'm going to be late!

Normally, they wouldn't be late, but these past few days, having just returned from a holiday, they've been cramming for the upgrade assessment at the last minute, practicing like crazy every night, but the results are clearly not very good.

When you're anxious, spiritual practice is not more effective, but rather less effective.

With class about to start, none of them had washed up, and they all looked a bit disheveled.

"Ring ring~"

The school bell rang, and the classroom fell silent, with only the sound of some students breathing heavily.

"The class monitor is here!"

Xu Tianming walked into the classroom as the bell rang.

In Class One, Xu Tianming, the class monitor, initially attended classes on time.

But later on, Xu Tianming started coming to class every few days.

Now, the students in Class One haven't seen him for a long time.

All eyes immediately turned to Xu Tianming, and everyone was quite surprised.

"Boss!"

Li Yuan walked over.

With Xu Tianming not in class, he was basically the strongest after Bei Bei.

However, he knew very well that even after so many days apart, Xu Tianming's strength was definitely much, much greater than his own!

Xu Tianming nodded to him in greeting, then walked to his seat by the window in the back row and sat down.

The promotion assessment is tomorrow, and today was their last class in first grade, so he came.

After the bell rang, Zi Ling, the homeroom teacher of Class 1, also walked in.

"Ah~ it's the class monitor!"

Zi Ling immediately spotted Xu Tianming sitting at the table reading a book, which was quite a surprise.

Hearing Zi Ling's teasing, Xu Tianming looked up and smiled at her.

Good morning, teacher.

Although he hardly studied in class during the second half of the year, Zi Ling helped him a lot during the first half.

Zi Ling nodded slightly, not paying too much attention to Xu Tianming.

After a whole year, some students from Class 1 left for various reasons, but most of them remained.

As the homeroom teacher, she needs to be responsible for everyone.

"The entrance exam for first-year students to second-year students is relatively easy compared to other exams at Shrek Academy. The exam content for Class 1 and Class 2 is the same, and it will take place in the Beast Fighting Area. If any of you have experience facing spirit beasts alone, then this exam will be very easy for you. Otherwise, you need to be more careful..."

In the first year, Class 1 and Class 2 are filled with Soul Masters with combat abilities, such as those specializing in offensive, control, and agile attacks. Class 3 and Class 4 are filled with Soul Masters of non-combat types, such as those specializing in support, food, and healing.

On the surface, this seems fair, but in reality, with the development of soul tools in recent years, the boundaries between battle soul masters have become very blurred.

Support-type and food-type Soul Masters are not necessarily without combat capabilities when assisted by Soul Tools.

On the contrary, if one has talent in Soul Mastery, their combat power may even be stronger than that of an ordinary combat Soul Master!

However, the first graders have clearly not yet been reformed to this extent, and the upgrade assessment still separates the different types of Soul Masters.

"In the Beast Fighting Zone, you will have to fight spirit beasts face-to-face! That's why I asked if you have any experience fighting spirit beasts one-on-one. If you do, you can be more confident when choosing a spirit beast..."

The rules for the upgrade assessment are simple: choose a soul beast to fight, and you can get different scores by challenging soul beasts with different cultivation levels.

If you choose a weak one, such as a ten-year-old soul beast, you won't be able to pass the level even if you win the battle.

However, if you choose one that is too powerful, you will risk being killed by the soul beast.

Of course, even if you choose a powerful spirit beast and lose, you won't necessarily be eliminated. The entire assessment mechanism is comprehensive, and the scoring criteria include not only winning or losing but also the process of the battle.

The students in the class were all listening attentively, as this concerned whether they could continue studying at Shrek Academy.

Even highly skilled and confident students are no exception.

Nobody wants to be the one who carelessly loses everything.

Except for Xu Tianming.

The intensity he faced was far greater than that.

The last lesson in first grade didn't cover much curriculum; everything that needed to be covered had already been taught. This lesson was almost entirely dedicated to explaining the rules for the promotion assessment and providing specialized guidance based on the students' abilities and characteristics.

It's clear that Ziling is already very familiar with first-grade teaching, and is even more responsible than the first-grade teachers in other classes.

The whole process continued until the end of get out of class, and several students were still anxious because they hadn't received any guidance.

Zi Ling never used to extend class time, but now she lets the students who have already received guidance go home first, while she continues to guide the other students.

Finally, after seeing off the last student besides Xu Tianming, Ziling walked to Xu Tianming's seat and plopped down in the seat next to him.

"You don't need my guidance, do you? How have you been lately?"

As the class teacher, Zi Ling would normally not allow Xu Tianming to skip classes frequently. However, after the freshman assessment, Dean Yan Shaozhe personally approached her and gave Xu Tianming the right to attend classes freely.

At that time, he knew that the academy would definitely give Xu Tianming a lot of support!

This is not surprising at all, after all, Xu Tianming's talent is too strong! What is even more surprising is that Xu Tianming is now appearing in the outer courtyard.

Logically speaking, this kid should have already entered the inner courtyard.

"Me? I'm doing alright. I recently completed an inner court assessment task, and I'll be going to the inner court in a few days."

Xu Tianming put away the book in his hand and looked at Zi Ling beside him.

He came here today to say goodbye to his class.

"An inner court assessment task?! You got into the inner court directly through the exam?!"

Zi Ling's eyes widened, her face filled with astonishment.

She came from the Inner Court and knew all too well the difficulty of the Inner Court's assessment tasks.

In his view, it was only natural for Xu Tianming to enter the inner courtyard, but he should have been accepted as a disciple by a senior elder of the inner courtyard and specially recruited into the inner courtyard.

But now it seems that Xu Tianming is probably not going down this path!

He actually got into the inner academy directly through the entrance exam!

First year, directly admitted to the inner court...

As the homeroom teacher, she was also deeply shocked.

Xu Tianming nodded slightly, then stood up and bowed to Zi Ling.

"Well, I'll be heading to the inner courtyard in the next few days, so I came to say goodbye. And... thank you, teacher."

After saying that, he turned and left, bathed in the sun that was now directly in the center of the sky, shining brightly!