Chapter 51 - A Single Step

Huang Yu and Gu Yue walked side by side through the forest in relative silence. The two of them had many words to say, but somehow, the silence communicated better than words ever could.

Gu Yue had a beautiful smile on her face throughout all of it. Walking next to him, she felt as if she was on top of the world at this moment.

Every step they took seemed to accelerate her heartbeat when she was next to him. Despite that, Gu Yue didn't dislike it.

In fact, she liked it quite a bit.

Is this what humans called liking someone?

She had come to the human world in order to learn about humans to learn them. From what she had seen initially, she couldn't understand why most humans would only choose one person for life. Wouldn't it be better if they had more partners so that they could spread their genes?

However, at this moment, she had realised exactly why.

This feeling she felt when she was with him, it was something special, something beautiful that she didn't want to lose.

And she would never want to share it with someone else.

The trees rustled as a gentle breeze blew across the forest. Pulses of spiritual energy from battles in the vicinity came in their direction, breaking the two of them out of their silence.

This little disturbance annoyed Gu Yue a tiny bit, but it didn't even so much as cause a dent to her amazing mood, being forgotten as if it was the passing wind.

Both of them weren't planning on being the class president anyways. There was no reason for them to be serious about this little mock battle.

"Gu Yue," Huang Yu suddenly called out at this time.

"Yes?"

"Let's leave shall we? While I would love for us to stay here for a while longer, I don't think there are many people left."

Gu Yue gave a nod. "Okay."

In a flash, the both of them disappeared from the forest that they were in.

— — — —

The doors to two cabins side-by-side one another opened at the same time. The two who came out were naturally Huang Yu and Gu Yue respectively.

The moment most of the students saw them, or rather Huang Yu, a look of fear and surprise appeared on their faces.

That person was a deviant! He had run around eliminating most of the students in the class by himself! Not only that, he had clearly been fooling around the entire time, clearly not putting them in his eyes.

Who was the monster who could eliminate a devil like Huang Yu? It definitely couldn't be the girl next to him. She was very clearly his teammate from the interactions they had seen between them.

Could it be Hell Wu Siduo? She was a powerhouse at the ninth rank of the Genius Youth's Rankings. If it was her, it may not be that far-fetched.

However, Zheng Yiran and Xu Yucheng knew better. They had seen first-hand how strong Wu Siduo was, and it was clear to them that she definitely wasn't a match for him.

In that case, was there a hidden tiger inside their class pretending to be a pig?

Or perhaps it was the even more scary option…

He had left the platform of his own accord since he disdained to lead them.

Throughout all these speculations, Gu Yue turned to Huang Yu with a raised eyebrow. "So…"

A wry expression appeared on Huang Yu's face. "Don't say it."

Soft laughter emerged from Gu Yue's lips as she heard those words. She paused for a bit, mustering up a bit of courage before she went through with her actions.

"C'mon, let's go find somewhere to sit." she said, grabbing his hand before pulling Huang Yu along.

A look of surprise appeared on Huang Yu's face as Gu Yue pulled him along. Her actions were rather brave weren't they?

Looking at her face, he saw the faint signs of a blush. She had hidden it rather well with her spirit energy but she naturally couldn't hide everything from his eyes.

Eventually, Gu Yue pulled Huang Yu along to two seats that were next to one another. Huang Yu really couldn't help but feel she was being a bit obvious about it.

However, he didn't try to stop her. While he wasn't romantically interested in her at the moment, he would let nature run its course. Who knew what the future would have in store for the two of them.

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In the end, Tang Wulin became the class president while Wu Siduo became the ȧssistant class president. A few more positions in the class such as the representatives for occupations were filled up before everyone left the class for the day.

Late at night, after everyone had gone to sleep, Huang Yu had sneaked out of the dorm room he shared with Gu Yue before sneakily leaving the compounds of the academy through the powers of space he had gotten through initial mastery of the usage of gravity.

In fact, he had left the compound taking only five steps overall. This was the level he could use leisurely with his current attainments of the powers of space.

If he pushed himself further, he could do better, but there wasn't really a point to do so at the moment.

Huang Yu arrived at a rather tall building near the centre of Shrek City and entered it. Before he did so, he made sure not that there was no surveillance on him first.

"My king," Xiao Chen greeted Huang Yu with a bow as he entered through the doors.

"Have you gotten the cultivation manuals?"

"Yes, my king. We have managed to get cultivation manuals all the way from completely unknown techniques to the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Technique and Purple Demon Eye cultivation method. They are all in the scrolls in this spatial ring, my king." Xiao Chen said before handing over the aforementioned ring.

Huang Yu took the given spatial ring and went through its contents before nodding his head. "Thank you. You've worked hard Xiao Chen. Since you've done this for me, you deserve a reward."

Before Xiao Chen could react, Huang Yu waved his hand, a powerful burst of vital energy entering into Xiao Chen's body as he did so.

Instantly, all the hidden injuries that had accumulated as a result of her use of her martial spirit were healed. Realising what had happened to her, she immediately dropped to her knees before kowtowing before Huang Yu.

"Thank you for your blessing, my king!"

Huang Yu seeing this, gave a nod before walking off. He had a use for all of these cultivation techniques.

The project he was about to be attempting was a rather arduous one, not one that could be done in a few days.

In a way, this project may be just as large as the genetic engineering project he had done in order to gain a massive healing factor for himself.

Huang Yu was going to make his own cultivation manual. The reason he was doing this was because he had a small epiphany a few days ago about why he couldn't enter the sword intent into his meridians.

He had been using the wrong path! All this time, he had been trying to force the sword intent into his meridians. However, the essence of cultivation was to return to the primordial state, so how could he attempt something that went against nature?

The reason it succeeded in the spirit ascension platform was because the energy he had been using from slaying spirit beasts was naturally inclined to stay in his body despite it being in sword intent form.

It was a completely different story in real life.

Hence, if he ever wanted to succeed, he would have to create his own cultivation method that made what he was attempting happen in a natural way.

Perhaps in the future, he could use his cultivation technique to unify all his powers as well.

There wouldn't be single cultivations like body cultivation or spiritual cultivation.

Just one unified power.

Huang Yu didn't know that on this day he had taken his first step into becoming the true King of the Heavens.