As soon as class ended, Wei Xiaofeng and his roommate sought out Huo Yuhao. "Student Yuhao, I'd like to ask you again about those previous questions the key points of the Spirit Soul Symbiosis Meditation Method..."
During this time, they had gradually become familiar with Huo Yuhao and had received guidance from him.
Some of the cultivation tips regarding the new meditation method had benefited them greatly.
They had no idea how he had managed to become so knowledgeable at such a young age.
Watching Huo Yuhao finish giving guidance and leave the classroom, with Gu Yuena following shortly after, Wei Xiaofeng looked at the person beside him and asked:
"Come to think of it, I've never seen Student Huo Yuhao at the dormitory. Is he living somewhere else?"
"Huh? You're just noticing that?"
Wei Xiaofeng frowned. "Of course I know that. I'm just a bit curious about his relationship with Student Gu Yuena."
After learning that Gu Yuena wasn't actually aloof by nature, some of the girls had mustered their courage and approached her. They had actually managed to strike up conversations. But her personality was somewhat cold, so they could only be considered acquaintances.
However, Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao seemed to have a good relationship. He often saw the two of them leaving the academy together. So he was a bit curious — his desire for gossip had been stirred.
Was it mutual admiration between geniuses, or was there another reason?
"They probably live together, so they have a good relationship."
Just then, Wang Jinxi, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke.
Wei Xiaofeng and Xie Xie's eyes widened. They looked at him in disbelief.
They hadn't expected that this guy, who usually didn't like to talk much, would open his mouth with such explosive gossip.
Wang Jinxi knew they had misunderstood and said another sentence: "You're misunderstanding. I meant that their dormitories are in the same building. Earlier, when I was doing morning exercises and ran to the green belt on campus, I saw a building near there, and they went inside."
"So that's it."
Xie Xie nodded, then said thoughtfully, "But I think their backgrounds are not simple. Remember when I asked if Teacher Luo was from the Spirit Transmission Tower, and he more or less admitted it?"
"You mean that Students Yuhao and the others are both from the Spirit Transmission Tower, so they have a good relationship?"
Wei Xiaofeng frowned, a bit surprised. "Really?"
"I believe this guess." Xie Xie stroked his chin. "In Eastsea City, only people from that place can surpass me by several notches."
Wei Xiaofeng's eye twitched. He curled his lip. "Tch. You're not even as good as me."
"If you don't undergo spirit elevation to raise your Spirit Soul to the thousand-year level, your cultivation speed will gradually slow down. You know that better than I do."
Xie Xie shrugged and smiled. "And for me, the advantage begins when I reach Level 30."
His family's Inherited Spirit Soul was thousand-year. That was where his advantage lay!
Hearing this, Wei Xiaofeng opened his mouth but couldn't refute.
No matter how compatible they were, his Xiaoqing could only accompany him to the second ring. After the third ring, when he added a new Spirit Soul, he wouldn't be able to go as fast as now.
Wang Jinxi looked at Wei Xiaofeng for a moment, then rare took the initiative to speak and break the silence. "If they're from the Spirit Transmission Tower, what is their purpose in coming to Eastsea Academy? They could go to better middle schools, even Shrek Academy, couldn't they?"
Xie Xie thought for a moment and said, "The accommodation was arranged by the academy. It's not surprising that they get special treatment given their strength. But they've been like this since the start of the term, which means the academy knew about them from the beginning... Or maybe the academy went out of its way to recruit them."
"Could it be because of the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition in a year? Our dean is pretty capable he managed to recruit people from the Spirit Transmission Tower to help..."
Listening to Xie Xie gradually started talking about topics he didn't understand, Wei Xiaofeng and Wang Jinxi looked at each other in confusion.
What was this guy talking about?
At the Mecha Designer Association, Huo Yuhao walked toward a reception room and knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Hearing a female voice that sounded somewhat familiar from inside, Huo Yuhao's expression became strange. Still, he opened the door and walked in.
In the center of the room, a girl with a golden ponytail turned around and said, "Hello, you're the manufacturer arranged by the Mecha Designer Association to cooperate with me, right? I'm Grade Two Blacksmith Mu Xi..."
She stopped mid-sentence. Looking at the somewhat familiar boy before her, Mu Xi recalled the embarrassment from three years ago...
She wanted to crawl into a hole!
"Miss Mu Xi, there's no need to be so nervous."
Huo Yuhao looked at Mu Xi, who had her head lowered as if studying whether there were any cracks in the floor, and found it a bit amusing. "We didn't really have any conflict back then."
"...You certainly have a good attitude."
Mu Xi took a light breath, raised her head to look at Huo Yuhao, and barely managed to appear natural. Inside, she was constantly pounding on the little figurine of Tang Wulin.
This is all your fault, Tang Wulin!
After the Blacksmithing Association and the Mecha Designer Association formally reached a cooperation agreement, they had some resources toward junior training. The Mecha Designer Association would provide rare metals to blacksmiths. After forging, the products would be handed over to Mecha Designer Association members for design and manufacturing to bring the two sides' juniors closer together and promote mutual progress.
The reason for adopting this collaboration method was naturally because the Mecha Designer Association was richer than the Blacksmithing Association. One only provided materials, while the other manufactured soul tool products.
Although blacksmiths were important, aside from outliers like Divine Craftsmen and Saint Craftsmen, raw material processing didn't earn much money. For those low-level blacksmiths, this was a very good opportunity.
With such good conditions, Mu Xi as the first... now the second most outstanding genius of the Eastsea Blacksmithing Association had been arranged by Mu Chen to come as a representative.
But she had been busy trying to compete with Tang Wulin in blacksmithing in the days prior and hadn't gotten around to it. The result was that when she finally came today, she had run directly into Huo Yuhao.
The events of three years ago were still vivid in her mind. She really didn't want to cooperate with him!
Not paying attention to Mu Xi's stiff expression, Huo Yuhao took out three pieces of rare metal.
"Let's put aside those matters. The metals I need you to process are these — all of them need to be Hundred-Forged and purified. Can you do it?"
Mu Xi frowned, took them, looked at them for a moment, and nodded. "Of course, no problem."
"Then I'll leave it to you." Huo Yuhao expressed his thanks, then asked, "Speaking of which, didn't your association recently produce a nine-year-old Grade Two blacksmith? Didn't he come here?"
"No, he's been busy earning money lately." Mu Xi narrowed her eyes at Huo Yuhao. "By the way, how do you know about our association's affairs?"
"I'm from the Spirit Transmission Tower."
"..."
She had almost forgotten. That Tang Wulin had a close relationship with the Spirit Transmission Tower.
Mu Xi looked thoughtfully at Huo Yuhao. "You don't actually want to partner with me, do you? You want to cooperate with Tang Wulin?"
Huo Yuhao chuckled and shook his head. "Miss Mu Xi is overthinking things."
Since Tang San's divine consciousness had awakened and Tang Wulin was busy earning money... it meant that Tang Wulin was not far from breaking the first seal.
After chatting with Mu Xi a bit longer and seeing her gaze wandering, Huo Yuhao let her off the hook and stood up to leave the reception room.
Just as he was about to head to his manufacturing room to tinker with that piece of spirit metal, Huo Yuhao saw Gu Yuena standing at the door of his manufacturing room, holding a small hammer.
"..."
Miss Gu Yuena, you wouldn't be thinking of hitting me over the head with that, would you?
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