When the first ray of morning light once again scattered over Ming City, this super-large city gradually began to operate.
Sun Moon Royal Academy.
This was a hexagonal silver-white building, over thirty meters tall, with flowing walls that exuded a sense of technology.
At this time, it was the new student enrollment period for Sun Moon Royal Academy, and at a glance, groups of young people in the prime of their youth were coming and going.
"It's a familiar yet strange scene!" Xu Tianyang looked at the scene before him, feeling a sense of emotion.
Sun Moon Royal Academy was an academy established with funding from the Sun Moon Imperial family. Sun Moon Royal Academy was the top educational institution in the Sun Moon Empire, and students who came here would not have innate spirit power lower than rank six.
The academy was divided into a Junior Academy and an Intermediate Academy. Each academy was further divided into two major departments: Spirit Master and Soul Engineer. The Junior Academy taught for three years, and the Intermediate Academy taught for six years.
There were several ways to advance to the Intermediate Academy. The simplest was to advance to Spirit Grandmaster, or to complete the assessment for a rank two Soul Engineer. Some Spirit Masters whose Spirits possessed certain special abilities would also be specially approved by the academy to enter the Intermediate Academy.
Of course, Xu Tianyang knew that above the Intermediate Academy, there was also an Advanced Academy, similar to Shrek's Inner Court, which housed the empire's elite talents.
Its purpose was to cultivate the empire's most outstanding Spirit Masters and Soul Engineers.
After absorbing his first spirit ring, Xu Tianyang's spirit power rank successfully broke through to rank thirteen, and he obtained a top-grade Spirit Ability.
Subsequently, after the decision of Xu Yunxiao and Mu Mengyu, Xu Tianyang successfully enrolled in Sun Moon Royal Academy. This was not only for Xu Tianyang to make friends and broaden his horizons, but also because the Sun Moon Empire was about to launch a war of unification against the Moonflow Empire. As the Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire and the leader of the Fire Phoenix Soul Guidance Group, Xu Yunxiao and Mu Mengyu no longer had time to accompany Xu Tianyang. Compared to the imperial palace, the academy was more suitable for Xu Tianyang's growth.
New Student Class One.
When Xu Tianyang walked into the classroom, there were already quite a few little rascals chatting with each other. There were about fifteen or sixteen people, and the entire classroom was buzzing with noise.
"My Spirit is the Gale Sword, innate spirit power rank seven. I'm definitely going to be the first Sword Saint of the Sun Moon Empire in the future, and right now, I'm the strongest in the class."
"I also have innate spirit power rank seven, and my Spirit is the Iron Armored Bear. Tool-type Spirits are not as good as beast-type Spirits. I'm the strongest in the class."
"Nonsense, tool-type Spirits are stronger! You big clumsy bear are too slow, you can't hit me at all."
"Beast-type Spirits are stronger…"
Listening to the quarrels, a thinner boy was chasing a chubby boy, causing chaos in the classroom. Most of the students were showing off their Spirits, each with its own characteristics. In Class One, everyone, without exception, had innate spirit power talent of rank seven or above.
Xu Tianyang smiled slightly. Vigor was good; they were all talents of the Sun Moon Empire, the more the better. He casually walked to a back seat and sat down, quietly waiting for the teacher to arrive.
"Hmm? Such a cold aura!"
Just as class was about to start, Xu Tianyang's keen perception detected a bone-chilling coldness, making him frown slightly as he looked towards the door.
The next second, a blue figure came into view. It was a girl wearing a white tight-fitting suit and a blue and white hat. Her long blue hair fell from beneath the hat, cascading down her back. Her blue eyes, paired with her porcelain doll-like cheeks, made her look like a doll.
However, looking at the girl's icy gaze, Xu Tianyang felt that she might not be as harmless as she appeared on the surface.
With the girl's arrival, the classroom also quieted down. Everyone stared blankly at the door. The love of beauty was universal, and although most of them were still young, people on the Douluo Continent matured very early.
Ignoring everyone's gazes, the little girl walked to the back with an expressionless face and sat down in a seat only two positions away from Xu Tianyang.
Xu Tianyang glanced at her with some surprise. He wondered if it was his imagination, but he seemed to feel her gaze fall on him several times.
The three great illusions of life?
"Hello, classmate, my name is Wang Yan, innate spirit power rank seven. What's your name, and where do you live…" Wang Yan was the chubby boy with the Iron Armored Bear Spirit. In a short while, he had already run up to her to curry favor.
Xu Tianyang exclaimed, "Good heavens!" So young, yet he already understood the principle of finding a wife early. Truly the Continent of Love.
"…#"
"Get lost!"
As if annoyed by Wang Yan's words, the little girl frowned, her eyes icy as she looked at Wang Yan, speaking without a trace of emotion.
"You…" Rejected, Wang Yan's face instantly darkened. Just as he was about to flare up, the temperature in the classroom suddenly dropped.
A terrifying chill erupted from the blue figure. Several rhomboid ice cones, the size of a baby's arm, instantly formed and, in the blink of an eye, flew towards Wang Yan's chest.
"An ice-attributed Spirit? Such strong control ability. This fluctuation… she has already advanced to Spirit Master!"
The moment she attacked, Xu Tianyang sensed her spirit power fluctuation. She was indeed at the Spirit Master realm. He hadn't expected that besides himself, there was another Spirit Master in this class.
Noticing that Wang Yan's feet were encased in a layer of ice crystals, as if he was scared stiff and could only watch the ice cones fly towards him, Xu Tianyang had no intention of saving him. This attack would at most cause some superficial injuries, nothing serious.
Moreover, the rank four defensive spirit tool on his wrist wasn't just for show. This attack wouldn't harm Wang Yan in the slightest.
"If you want to spar, go to the Soul Dueling Arena. Fighting is prohibited in the classroom."
A gentle voice came. Xu Tianyang felt a wave of spirit power pass by. In an instant, the cold air in the classroom dissipated completely, and even the ice cones flying towards Wang Yan turned into water vapor and scattered.
Turning his head, he saw a graceful figure standing at the door, her gentle gaze sweeping over the students in the class.
As the danger was resolved, Wang Yan's face flushed crimson as he recalled his performance just now. The other students also recovered, looking with some fear at the seemingly harmless figure at the back of the classroom.
Although they knew that with the protection of a spirit tool, the opponent couldn't harm them, such large ice cones hitting them would definitely hurt a lot!
With the teacher's arrival, the classroom quickly returned to quiet. She slowly walked to the podium and spoke softly: "Hello everyone, I am Lin Ximeng, the homeroom teacher for Class One. For the next three years, I will teach you some basic knowledge about Spirit Masters and Soul Engineers. Now, students, please introduce yourselves, stating your name, Spirit, and innate spirit power rank."
Ultimately, Class One only had nineteen students. The self-introductions quickly concluded. Most of the class had innate spirit power rank seven, numbering fifteen people. There were also two with innate rank eight, and one with innate rank nine, who was the last to arrive, the blue-haired little girl, Xu Nianshuang.
Her Spirit was the extremely rare Ice Element, and she had already broken through to Spirit Master, with rank twelve spirit power.
Finally, there was Xu Tianyang with his innate full spirit power. When everyone heard Xu Tianyang's spirit power rank, it immediately drew a chorus of gasps, and even Lin Ximeng couldn't help but feel surprised and envious.
Lin Ximeng's expression quickly returned to normal, and she smiled, saying: "Today is your first day of class. First, I will tell you about the basic situation of the school and the classification of Spirits."
"Firstly, Spirits are divided into two major categories: Tool-type Spirits and Beast-type Spirits. Tool-type Spirits, Beast-type Spirits, and some special-type Spirits, such as Xu Nianshuang's elemental-type Spirit, all have many subcategories, whether they are Spirits or Spirit Masters…"
Besides students like Xu Tianyang, whose families had a legacy, there were also many commoner Spirit Masters from all over the country in the class. No one taught them this basic knowledge, so they could only learn it after coming to school.
After listening for a while, Xu Tianyang immersed himself in his newly acquired Spirit Ability, preparing to see if there was any room for further development.
The day's lessons quickly ended. Walking out of the teaching building, Xu Tianyang smiled as he saw the excited faces of the students after school. Indeed, no matter which world it was, students' longing for school to end was always the same.
"Your Highness…"
"Zui Hongchen, don't call me Your Highness at school."
Two figures approached Xu Tianyang, but before they could even bow, Xu Tianyang stopped them.
The two were precisely the two rank eight innate spirit power geniuses from Class One, and also Xu Tianyang's acquaintances.
Zui Hongchen, the most outstanding genius of the Hongchen family in this generation. His Spirit, like Xiao Hongchen's, was the Three-Legged Golden Toad. His greatest talent was not in Spirits, but in spirit tools. Before even awakening his Spirit, he had already mastered the theoretical knowledge of rank one spirit tools, and now he was studying knowledge of rank two spirit tools.
Huang Xiuwen, from an old Spirit Master family of the Sun Moon Empire, held a pivotal position in the Sun Moon Empire. His inherited Spirit was the Purple Lightning Winged Dragon, and he was also the most outstanding disciple of the Huang family in this generation.
"Then what should we call you?"
"Since we are classmates, you can call me Boss Xu or Brother Tianyang," Xu Tianyang said to the two in a gentle tone. These were his future subordinates, and he had to cultivate them well.
"Boss Xu!" Zui Hongchen and Huang Xiuwen exchanged glances and shouted in unison.
He nodded. At this moment, Xu Nianshuang's figure walked past the three of them.
Seeing this, Xu Tianyang turned and asked, "Which family is this Xu Nianshuang from? Why haven't I heard of her?"
He had paid attention to all the well-known families in the Sun Moon Empire, but in his memory, there was no family named Xu with an ice element as their inherited Spirit.
Zui Hongchen and the other exchanged glances and shook their heads, "We haven't heard of this person either. She must be from a remote area."
Nodding, Xu Tianyang didn't dwell on it. He turned to Zui Hongchen and asked, "Zui Hongchen, how is your research progressing on the spiritual metal forging topic I mentioned last time?"
Zui Hongchen's Spirit was the Three-Legged Golden Toad, and his talent was metal manipulation. If anyone was most suitable for researching metal textures, it was him.