Once I was done with my internal monologue, I got up, took a few deep breaths and left the Spirit Pagoda.
I went to the Eastsea Academy to register myself. I haven't forgotten my main goal. So to say it was easy. One just needed to be a Spirit Master(rank 11-20) and must possess the certificate to prove that he had passed the Elementary Academy. I had that. Red mountain academy provided me that certificate after I graduated from there.
This certificate is also why I had failed on purpose so that I can have the qualifications to join the Eastsea Academy when I graduated from the Red Mountain Academy. If I graduated without the soul master level, then guarantee to the god that I would have to join some mediocre place. That was the harsh reality of the world of Soul Master. Resources were finite and not everyone was obliged to it.
If I hadn't failed, then I would have graduated at the same year as Wulin and would be forced to attend to those mediocre places because "Elementary and Intermediate schooling was FREE and COMPULSORY for all.
I hate this law. Thankfully I found the loophole and used it to delay my destiny or I would have been thrown into some random place. So would my plans.
I needed to be in the Eastsea Academy. It was important. None other for now.
I joined the other students to the way to the Eastsea Academy and truth to be said, Wulin and his gang had already spread their name in the past year. The class Zero was something that everyone were bragging about. Why wouldn't they?
The school had printed posters of them and their fights from the Soul division individual and group competitions from the Skysea Alliance tournament on the walls and buses and brochures and advertisements. Who didn't know them at this point? Who indeed.
I took a look at the picture of Gu Yue on the brochure that I was given and memorized her face. She, as was mentioned in the novel, felt and looked normal. No fancy features and not a hint of cuteness or naivety that children passively possessed. This girl was the female lead and definitely troublesome due to her habit of spying on Tang Wulin.
I had dropped the novel and I don't know exactly what she was or how she turned out to be later on but for now, I should keep a distance away from her. She was related to the Spirit Pagoda and it was definitely hinted to be a quite "higher" connection.
I quickly skimmed through the brochure and put it aside, only to be greeted with a bill board with the class Zero on it. Now this was getting a bit too much. I did read that the Class Zero was getting lots of benefits but if this was the cost, it feels like they were taken advantage of instead.
Maybe this all must have been the reason why in the story, Class Zero disappeared from the eyes of people after the Skysea tournament. The school made them an advertisement, gaining donations, supporters and more than all, the school gained recognition. Many wealthy businessmen and rich aristocrats were sending their children with heavy donations to the school, wanting their children to achieve the same success as the rest in the Class Zero.
This could could be how the Class Zero was being funded but I could be wrong.
At this particular time, If I am not wrong, they guys must be in the Spirit Ascension plane and either preparing or giving the final test that Wu Zhong something, well their teacher, gave them.
...
Ummmmmm.
Reaching the academy, I gained two piece of information. One, Classes will start 10 days later due to the uneven weather and stormy winds. A storm might come for the city. Probably.
Two, I am sorted in the class 5, the trash one. I was just a Rank 11 Spirit Master and that was all they need.
I was in class 5 of year one. There was still time for the classes to start. A lot of time actually. Time enough that I can do a lot of work and I don't lack money this time around.
Well, time to explore the Eastsea City.
*Ten days later*
No storm came. Just to be clear.
Secondly, I regretted not taking the Starfall something spirit soul. If my skill was going to be changed into this anyways then I should have taken it and benefitted from the 9% passive cultivation boost.
Anyways, regrets are all I have. Enhanced digestion is good for now. At least I don't get hungry.
I have a few plans as thoughts and ideas arose in my mind regarding this but I have put everything aside. For... Memories my own come to me with them and that unfortunately was something I don't like.
Since I don't like, I won't do it. I can choose and so I did.
Eastsea Academy was a large academy which was actually comprised of both an intermediate academy and an advanced academy. Quick topic change.
The intermediate academy still fell under a compulsory education, so do I. It didn't require any tuition fees. Eastsea Academy was a Soul Master academy and the intermediate academy took up two thirds of the total area. On the other hand, the advanced academy, which only took up one third of the area, was still the most important part of the academy.
As long as one was a Soul Master and resided within the greater area of Eastsea City, or had a recommendation letter, one would be able to enter the intermediate academy and receive a Soul Master's education. They would study at the intermediate academy for six years. After graduating, students would then be able to take the entrance exam to enter an advanced Soul Master academy, but no more than a tenth of the applicants pass.
Advanced academies weren't part of the compulsory education, so a series of rigorous exams would be used to test the applicants. Anyone who was accepted into an advanced academy would definitely be considered an elite and rich.
Now that the introductions were over. I felt a weight off my chest. It was the baggage that I was carrying on my shoulders while walking towards the Eastsea Academy.
I did have a Soul storage Guide but I wasn't using that at the moment . Less than two weeks had passed since the Glorybound City massacre and now everyone knows about it and if, by any chance that I unfortunately left any clues that could get them to me, then my possessions could make their suspicion into a reality. Hence I have kept my storage guide in my dorm room and that was it.
Onto the Glorybound massacre though, more than 15 "innocent" Criminals have already been suspected, caught and dealt with. The Officers announced it as a group plan done by a mysterious gang and I didn't want to become a part of their 'mysterious gang' that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. At least that's what they proclaimed.
"Haaaah-"
In my ten days of holidays, I was re learning how to cook again. It's a necessary skill that requires practice. Previously I was poor and couldn't afford the stuff. My Orphanage also didn't help much.
Now I am slightly rich. I can afford lots of ingredients and knife and board and a stove and some cookery and plates and spices. There's a lot actually. I realised that after I had brought them. Now I was carrying it to the dorm.
I also brought two basic cook books a few days ago and I felt like they were worth it until I visited the library and found them there, along with hundreds of others. I can take them for free.
My broke a bit.
10 days of cooking was a lot though, I still can't properly cook food but now I know how much I should cook things to not burn them. That's an amazing skill to have.
I didn't meditate a bit. I know, kinda contrary of me but I had a reason. Hear me out first.
So I was going to be given a better Mysterious Heaven Method transcription by the Eastsea academy.
That was it.
I thought I should wait. And calm myself. Things are good but a single thought would be all to make it worse.
I should learn how to make orange tart next. I brought the cook book specially for that.
Thinking about it, I do have enhanced digestion and of course, this was the proper way to do it. I will eat and never get fat.