59 A Matter Of Pride!

After letting go of Sheng Feilong, Tang Wulin ran over to the shelf inside the forging workshop and pulled out a small device. He smiled excitedly when he turned the device on, telling everyone that he'd measure the alloy's harmony rate. While forging Spirit Alloys, their harmony rate measured their quality. The higher the harmony rate, the higher the quality and, essentially, its worth. Moreover, only a Spirit Alloy with a harmony rate of 60 or above would be considered a success.

It didn't take long for the device to finish its appraisal, but the result caused Tang Wulin to freeze, not moving for long time. The rest of the students glanced at each other before Gu Yue walked over to Tang Wulin and Xu Lizhi tried to cheer Tang Wulin up.

"Listen, you don't have to worry. We already saw your forging and believe you when you say you can forge Spirit Alloys. It doesn't matter if you failed this time, ha, ha..."

Tang Wulin didn't answer, but Gu Yue had already reached him by now. She glanced over his shoulder and froze for a moment as well. She then took two steps back with a disbelieving expression on her face and muttered a few words, barely audible for everyone.

"Ninety- Ninety-seven percent harmony rate..."

Ye Xinglan's and Xu Lizhi's mouth twitched before they also run over to take a look at the display and soon over stood in place with their mouth wide open, looking at the piece of metal like starved wolves. This really was a Spirit Alloy with a harmony rate of 97 percent! Not to mention 90 percent, even getting up to 60 was a task most fifth ranked Blacksmiths couldn't do, but Tang Wulin actually made one with a 97 percent harmony rate!

A piece of metal like that could, theoretically, be used to forge a nine-metal Spirit Alloy! While the name didn't sound really impressive, it had to be known that the metal Tang Wulin forged was only a two-metal alloy. Even the continent's best forger, Divine Blacksmith Zhen Hua, could only occasionally forge alloy's with more than 90 percent harmony rate and his limit was just a seven-metal alloy, even when using top rated alloys as the base!

Although he was a former Inner Court student and the friend of a fourth ranked Blacksmith, Sheng Feilong had no idea about stuff like Spirit Alloy's quality or the rankings of harmony rates. He looked a bit confused, but considering the others' reactions, 97 percent should be really good. He walked over to them, patting Tang Wulin on the back with a slight smile.

"Well, you did indeed forge a Spirit Alloy, ha, ha. And 97 percent should be really good, right? When 100 percent is the maximum?"

Not even a second later, everyone, except for Xu Xiaoyan and Xie Xie, who also didn't know about that kind of stuff, stared at Sheng Feilong as if he was an idiot. Seeing his confused and idea-less expression, Xu Lizhi proceeded to tell him about Spirit Alloys and their harmony rates. Sheng Feilong just awkwardly scratched his head at first, but he was left with the same disbelieving expression that the others showed, soon after.

The group remained in Tang Wulin's workshop for a while longer. Ye Xinglan had snatched the Jade Silver from Tang Wulin and pocketed it, saying she'll use it for her Battle Armour. Afterwards, while Tang Wulin was forging, everyone else focused on discussing and planning their Battle armour design's with Gu Yue and Tang Wulin dragged Sheng Feilong over to his side, forcing him to use his Mental Detection Soul Skill on the former constantly. Sheng Feilong complied after a while; he understood just how valuable the increased perception of Mental Detection was for Tang Wulin.

A few hours later, everyone left the workshop in high spirits. Everyone except Sheng Feilong; He was dead tired after being forced to use his Soul Skill on Tang Wulin for over two hours twice in a row with minimal time to recover in between. He was gradually making his way to the Outer Courts dormitory with Xu Lizhi in tow.

As they weren't considered Inner Court students any longer, they were forced to move to the Outer Court's dormitory. Although their new rooms weren't as spacious as the ones in the Inner Court, Sheng Feilong didn't really mind as he could still make himself comfortable enough. It was a outlandish as he had to share his room with another person, Xu Lizhi in this case, but the two of them got themselves arranged without a hitch as they were friends anyways.

The next day, Sheng Feilong and Xu Lizhi met Jian Wang at the dormitory's entrance and the three of them made their way to the classroom where they met with everyone else. Though, Jian Wang didn't join them but instead went to gather up with Yang Nianxia and the other rankers further in the back of class. Sheng Feilong, Xu Lizhi and Ye Xinglan had asked a few other students that were seated near Tang Wulin's group of four to switch places, so their team of 7 was now pretty much always together.

At the last class, after the bell had already rung, Shen Yi stood at the front of the class and was just about to dismiss them when she seemed to remember something and called out to Tang Wulin. No one thought much of it, but Shen Yi suddenly dropped a bomb.

"Ye Xinglan will not be allowed to take part in the class representative selection tournament and is only allowed to join the match against the second grade."

Tang Wulin flinched, his face showing distress. "Huh?! Why? She's part of the class so why can't she take part in the representative tournament?" Shen Yi looked at him with an indifferent expression.

"Don't ask me why; There is no reason. Your Mecha Making group's reassignment has been approved, though. Your new group includes Xu Lizhi, Ye Xinglan and Sheng Feilong."

After that, Shen Yi dismissed the class and left the classroom, not wanting to discuss with Tang Wulin any longer and closing this matter. Luo Guixing had a beaming smile on his face – a genuine, this time – as he walked over to Tang Wulin. He had been quite worried about Ye Xinglan in the upcoming match, but now that she wasn't allowed to participate, a lot of pressure fell off his shoulders. He looked at Sheng Feilong and casually spoke in passing.

"Good luck at the tournament, Class President. Don't worry about losing; You can still be the Blacksmith's representative afterwards!"

Gu Yue nearly jumped at him when she heard that, but Tang Wulin quickly held her back. Yang Nianxia and the others also quickly left together with Luo Guixing. Sheng Feilong looked at their backs with an amused expression, focusing his gaze on Luo Guixing.

'How thick is his skin to say that when he couldn't even stand when I played with him? Or did he unconsciously repress the memory of that?'

About an hour later, Sheng Feilong and his group had once again met up at Tang Wulin's forging workshop. The atmosphere was quite heavy as Tang Wulin's plan to easily sack the win in the tournament using Sheng Feilong and Ye Xinglan was busted. The latter's were not really bothered by that, though. Sheng Feilong didn't think much about the whole 'class president' thing, while Ye Xinglan seemingly understood the teacher's intention. She went up to Tang Wulin and blatantly spoke to him in her usual cold tone.

"Tang Wulin, do you feel discouraged now?"

Her question caught Tang Wulin off guard, but he quickly snapped out of it and solemnly answered her with a serious expression. Everyone quietly listened to him talking about himself. It was a first for Sheng Feilong, as he didn't really know much about Tang Wulin. The latter actually came from a commoner's family that could be considered quite poor, even for ordinary families. Tang Wulin's Spirit Soul is a mutated form of the Bluesilver Grass, and the first artificial Spirit Soul he obtained was a defective Grass Snake, that barely reached the 10 years level, still he fought his way up to eventually become a student of Shrek Academy.

Everyone seemed quite enthusiastic after their leader's speech while Sheng Feilong remained silent for a long while. He was different from Tang Wulin. Unlike the latter, he came from a medium sized clan and lived a good live in his childhood. While he had to leave his clan eventually, he still had his father and later his Master to rely on; he had the previlege to obtain a top-tier artificial Spirit Soul, that suited him perfectly, underwent personalized training with a Titled Douluo and enjoyed the best treatment one could think off.

'I guess I'll help him keep his position for now. They only fought Luo Guixing and the others once but it seems like this means quite a lot to Tang Wulin. That being said...'

Sheng Feilong couldn't help but sympathise with Tang Wulin, not knowing what to say, which is why he stayed silent in the first place. But as he thought about it a bit more, he couldn't hold back a question. He looked at Tang Wulin and unconsciously spoke in a cold and indifferent voice, even though he didn't mean to.

"Why do you even want the position of Class President? Isn't it just a useless title?"

His question caught the others off guard, and everyone awkwardly looked at Sheng Feilong and Tang Wulin while Gu Yue frowned and stared at Sheng Feilong. The latter didn't mind that, though, and just waited for Tang Wulin's answer. He saw Tang Wulin's expression change from a surprised look to a smile while a determined glint flashed in his eyes.

"Honestly, the position means nothing to me. But, I fought for it and got it by defeating them in a fight! If they're not convinced, they should just try and come at me; let's see how long they can keep their haughtiness!"