Chapter 48 - Training

A/N: Tbh, I wanted to write about Yue Zhengyu this chapter, but my Chem paper this morning completely slew all my brain cells so I couldn't think of anything for it.

A few days after the trials of joining Shrek Academy, everyone had settled down in their dorms. Unlike Huang Yu and Gu Yue who were studying at Shrek for free, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan had to settle for being working students.

What did that mean? It meant that they had to work to be allowed to stay in the school.

The first time Huang Yu had heard of it, he had likened it to child labour. However, the excuses for it were that it was to instil 'discipline' and 'teamwork' so Huang Yu couldn't really say anything about it.

At the moment, Huang Yu, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan were at the Spirit Ice Plaza. The opening ceremony for the new year for Shrek Academy was about to begin.

After waiting for a while, Elder Cai, who had reawakened from being knocked unconscious and Huang Yu and Gu Yue's spirit fusion attack by this time, came down together with nineteen other people.

Out of the rest of the people that had arrived, Huang Yu could only recognise two. They were Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi. However, he could tell that the others had strength rivalling those two.

Elder Cai was invited to give a speech since she was the headmaster of the outer court. After a few words from her that Huang Yu had frankly just tuned out, all the teachers went to their respective classes.

Naturally, Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi were heading to their area. However, Huang Yu didn't expect that there was a third party coming with them.

It was Elder Cai…

As she arrived above the class he was in, she spoke, "I will be personally managing this year's new class. Beside me are my ȧssistant teachers, Teacher Shen YI and Teacher Wu Zhangkong. Now to the classroom."

Bruhhhhh…

Seeing the signs of a sly smirk on her face, Huang Yu couldn't help but think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have stopped that palm from turning her into a pancake. It seems like she really doesn't learn her lesson...'

Beside him, his classmates also had their own responses.

Tan Wulin's eyes went wide, Xie Xie's jaw dropped, Xu Xiaoyan gasped, while Gu Yue's lips quivered slightly.

After Elder Cai finished speaking, she flew toward the school building, leading the way for the rest of the class.

Walking towards the classroom with Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi in front of them, Gu Yue whispered softly to Huang Yu, "This woman is definitely going to make our lives difficult in this place after what happened a few days ago."

Huang Yu gave a smile in reply. "It doesn't matter. We can always just leave if it goes too far. I'm sure some other schools would love to accept us into our ranks."

Gu Yue nodded in affirmation.

They entered the outer court's classroom for the first grade, which was on the first floor in the school building.

It was a lecture theater large enough to hold three hundred people. Elder Cai ascended it and stood behind the lectern.

At the side, Shen Yi spoke up. "Students, please take your seat according to what I announce. Huang Yu, row one seat one."

Oh? So Elder Cai is trying to look as if she was favouring his strength compared to the other students so they would all target him?

It was a stupid to try that if she wanted to affect him to be honest. She should have known from their fight a few days ago that he was leaps and bounds beyond everyone else here.

However, if it was for the sake of making him a goal for the other students to surpass, then this action she had done wasn't that bad. Yet, if the other students noticed that Huang Yu was too far above them, it may cause them to be discouraged instead.

The only thing that her action could possibly do was to make it so that Huang Yu couldn't outright sleep through the lessons. Unfortunately for her, Huang Yu had a very nice cheat called the King's Wisdom.

Huang Yu made his way to his seat. It was at the dead centre of the lecture theatre.

"Gu Yue, row one, seat two."

"Tang Wulin, row one, seat three."

"Xie Xie, row one, seat four"

"Xu Xiaoyan, row one, seat five."

Eventually everyone was seated. Elder Cai gave another short speech before she left.

Seriously, what is it with headmasters and speeches? It seems like everytime you meet them, they would give a little speech before leaving.

With Elder Cai gone from the class, the sombre mood that had been plaguing all the students lessened somewhat. Shen Yi went up on the lectern before she started talking as well.

"All of you are now members of Shrek Academy..."

"Today's first topic is about battle armour masters. As all of you may know, you can't graduate from Shrek Academy if you don't become a battle armour master by thirty-five years of age. Also, you can only get into the inner court if you can become a battle armour master before reaching the age of twenty-five."

Shen Yi continued talking about battle armours for the rest of the class.

Despite Huang Yu sitting in the front, he didn't even pretend that he was interested in the topic. He wasn't planning on becoming a battle armour master anyways and he was going to leave Shrek Academy when he felt the time was right anyways.

Shen Yi obviously noticed this, and with that, her dislike of him grew. She couldn't help but want to ask how Wu Zhangkong had managed to deal with Huang Yu.

The class soon ended and the students left the class to return to their dorms.

— — — —

On an open plain under the night sky, Huang Yu sat on the grass in a lotus position.

With the second gate open, he had obtained another one of the fundamental forces of the universe.

Which one?

Since he had already obtained two fundamental forces from opening two gates, he had an inkling of what the other two gates would provide.

They would most likely contain the powers of containing the weak force and the strong force.

Back to gravity, although it was considered the weakest force among all the fundamental forces, it was pretty damn versatile.

Gravity, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, could distort the curvature of space and time. One could tell how broken it was just from the description.

With Huang Yu's current control over gravity, he did have some control over space and time. That was how he had created a time domain to nullify Elder Cai's attack a few days ago.

However, he knew he had to train in it. When he had used it a few days ago with such intensity, it caused many internal injuries to him.

If he hadn't had a healing factor, it may incapacitated him then and there.

Raising his hand, he manipulated gravity around the area as he slowly got used to the nuances of the ability.

After an hour of training in the usage of gravity, he moved on to the main course for tonight. He would attempt to fuse sword intent into his meridians again.

He already had a glimpse of the power he had managed to wield when he was in the Spirit Ascension Platform and it wasn't something he would give up on so easily.

Hence, he had been trying this almost everyday during the night when he had free time.

It failed each and every time.

He knew that he was missing something, but he didn't know what he was missing exactly. With his situation like this, he didn't have a clear cut path on how to proceed with this.

What he was attempting was an entirely new path, one never traversed before by sword intent users in the past.

Thus, Huang Yu could only rely on trial and error at the moment to try and gain enlightenment.

Soon, the sun began rising from the east. At that signal, multiple holes were blown in Huang Yu's body that quickly healed up thanks to his healing factor.

This was the backlash he faced each and every time he failed. To make a new internal cultivation path, there would naturally be dangers that he would have to face.

After his wounds completely healed, Huang Yu sighed gently before making his way back to the dorms.