Chapter 31

A/N: This chapter was quite rushed so sorry if the quality isn't that high for this chapter.

"Daga Kotowaru!"

"What?"

"Ah, sorry. I forgot that you don't understand the reference." Huang Yu exclaimed.

Everyone looked at him awkwardly. Did Huang Yu get brain damage from training too much? Maybe the build-up of stress did this to him?

After a few moments of silence, Wu Zhangkong chose to dispel the awkwardness by asking Huang Yu again. "So do you want to join the Tang Sect?"

"I'm sorry, but I'll have to refuse that offer."

Expressions of shock filled the visages of the others. The Tang Sect was one of the most prestigious sects that one could enter. To refuse an offer like this… did Huang Yu truly get brain damage?

Looking at them, Huang Yu could easily decipher their thoughts. He didn't think that his answer would be this unexpected. He had more or less refused Spirit Pagoda's invitation, what made them think that he would do any different for the Tang Sect?

To his knowledge, joining a sect meant swearing your absolute loyalty to it. If one betrayed the sect, he would be branded 'unfilial' by others. As the King of Nox, he naturally wouldn't want that title on him when he eventually swallowed the Tang Sect whole. It was a bad brand rep.

Sure he could join it as a spy and a secret agent to get their knowledge, but what type of King does that type of work?

It would be much more to his character to send a few spies in or just rip out the information directly from a member from the Tang Sect's brain.

"Did you accept the Spirit Pagoda's offer like Gu Yue?" Wu Zhangkong asked with a slight grimace on his face.

"Nope."

"Then may I ask why you don't want to join the Tang Sect?"

"I just don't want to."

Huang Yu could see slight twitches at Wu Zhangkong's left eye as he stared at him. The two stared at each other down for a few moments before Wu Zhangkong broke eye contact first.

Wu Zhangkong sighed, "Well it's up to you. I won't force you to join if you don't want to. Just make sure you won't regret your choice in the future. This is a once in a lifetime chance."

Sorry Wu Zhangkong, but that mediocre trick won't work on me.

"Don't worry Teacher Wu, I won't" Huang Yu answered with a bright smile.

— — — —

Inside the soul bus on the trip back, Gu Yue couldn't help but ask Huang Yu's true reason for not joining any organisations. For some reason, she always felt a nagging sense of curiosity at whatever Huang Yu did although it wasn't her business.

She didn't understand it, and she couldn't help but succumb to those dėsɨrės each time.

"Huang Yu, you're really not joining any organisation?"

"Nope." Huang Yu said casually. This was another half-truth told by him. He naturally didn't join an organisation since he created one.

"Ok." Gu Yue smiled. She completely believed his words. Her sense of trust in Huang Yu had grown quite strong throughout the few months they had spent together as friends.

The soul bus was silent for the remainder of the trip back to the academy.

— — — —

During the end term vacation, Xie Xie and Gu Yue chose to return home while Tang Wulin left with Wu Zhangkong on a journey

Throughout the one month vacation, Huang Yu had experimented with the idea he had come up with when he saw Jorm's evolution. (A/N: Wanted to call him JoJo but it sounded kinda if Huang Yu called it that in a fight)

What the idea was, was to genetically modify humans to have the characteristics of spirit beasts that made them superior to humans with the King's Wisdom.

Electromagnetism could affect things even on a subatomic scale, so although it was difficult, Huang Yu could do it.

During the month, the best he could do was increase Guang Biao's muscle and bone density, increasing his true battle power by quite a bit. He didn't have a spirit beast to study for this but he had something better for this specific modification: his own body that had been tempered from physical energies.

By his own calculations, the current Guang Biao should be strong enough to at least not get completely fodderized against Wu Zhangkong anymore, which was a huge improvement.

There were a few caveats to this. Guang Biao couldn't reach the same level as Huang Yu's body for an unknown reason, and Huang Yu couldn't grow stronger through this since the template was of his own body.

However he knew that as long as he could study more bloodlines he would eventually crack the enigma known as the genetic code. If he did so, then even a Wolverine level regeneration would be within his grasp.

Despite doing all this plus training during the vacation, Huang Yu still found himself with ample time due to his godlike analyzation skills.

With free time to spare, he decided to take up a very interesting hobby… the art of God Hands.

As for why he called himself that, let's just say with his knowledge of acupuncture and the ability to stimulate the nerves through electromagnetism, his hands held great power over women.

You know what they say: With great power, comes great responsibility.

And he found it his responsibility to completely abuse the power he had.

After a short fiasco, Nox had a lot more women joining the organisation.

— — — —

On the first day of the new semester, Xie Xie, Gu Yue and Huang Yu all arrived at the class on time. Tang Wulin arrived quite a bit later since he had been breaking through to Rank 17

To the surprise of all the students of class zero other than Xie Xie, a girl entered the class. This girl's face was familiar to all of them. How could it not be? It was the same girl who Huang Yu had bullied in the spirit ascension platform a month prior, Xu Xiaoyan

The moment Xu Xiaoyan saw Huang Yu, her face paled. However, Wu Zhangkong who had come in after her noticed this, but chose not to care about it. "Introduce yourself."

Hearing this, Xu Xiaoyu remembered that she had to prove herself worthy to the others to join this class of geniuses. Xu Xiaoyu took a deep breath and calmed down before introducing herself. "Hello, everyone. I'm Xu Xiaoyan and my martial spirit is the Starwheel Ice Staff. My cultivation is at Rank 17."

After this, Wu Zhangkong said a few words of warning to her before taking all the students of class zero for a test of spiritual power.

Xu Xiaoyu really couldn't believe her eyes seeing their score. Her spiritual power of 61 was already considered to be a monstrous level of spiritual power in her clan. However, these two completely blew her out of the water.

As Huang Yu went up to take his test, Xu Xiaoyu felt a strange sense of trepidation. Huang Yu was an agility-type spirit master right? Surely his spiritual power shouldn't be that great...

"2400 points…" Wu Zhangkong said softly.

"..."

What was this group of monsters she found herself in???