Chapter 74 Perhaps Because of Love?

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"If you want to go."

"I want to go too."

Looking at Tang Wulin in front of her, Gu Yue's expression was unusually serious, with a sweet smile, saying so.

This appearance was as if she was talking about something perfectly normal.

"This..."

But hearing such words, Tang Wulin himself couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

In the original work, was it because of this reason that Gu Yue joined the Spirit Ascension Tower? Why did he feel something was off?

...

Eastsea Advanced Academy, Zero Class.

At this moment, a group of people had returned to the front of the gate.

In an instant, led by Tang Wulin, several classmates also returned to the classroom under Wu Zhangkong's lead, taking their seats quietly.

"Back."

Among them, Tang Wulin and Gu Yue had the calmest expressions, their gazes inadvertently meeting, filled with smiles.

Xie Xie, on the other hand, seemed a bit more restrained.

After all, he hadn't really cherished this opportunity to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform and was afraid of being scolded by the teacher.

"Trouble."

"What to do."

"It's a big problem."

And Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi, the two classmates with the lowest presence, were the most flustered.

There was no other reason than their extremely poor performance in the Spirit Ascension Platform earlier. If it weren't pointed out, it would be the most bizarre thing.

"Come."

"Tell me about your feelings in the Spirit Ascension Platform."

Wu Zhangkong's gaze swept lightly over the group, his expression calm as he spoke.

"Let's start with the order of withdrawal."

In the end, Wu Zhangkong's gaze landed on Zhang Yangzi, the meaning couldn't be clearer as he said so.

"Teacher..."

"I, uh..."

Zhang Yangzi felt particularly awkward for a moment, emitting an air of embarrassment, and stuttered.

"My actions were really too bad, I realize my mistake, I'm sorry."

He finally managed to say.

In short, admit the mistake first!

"No need to admit your mistake to me."

However, Wu Zhangkong just glanced at him lightly at his words, devoid of any other emotion, and said.

"It's your own fate. You still have a chance to admit your mistake now. If yesterday you were really in the Spirit Beast Forest, right now you'd be just a corpse, or even bones."

"I don't want to hear apologies or expressions of hatred towards me. Talk about your feelings, about the Spirit Ascension Platform, or about yourself."

Wu Zhangkong thought for a moment, looking at the other as if he hadn't understood his meaning, and added.

He could tell that the other had misunderstood his intentions.

He asked the students to speak, not to hear any kind of apology or self-criticism. He didn't have the habit of watching his students make fools of themselves, and besides, it was useless.

Going to the Spirit Ascension Platform and experiencing it was the most qualified answer, and at the same time, it was a question with no standard answer.

"This..."

"Okay okay."

Seeing the other explain again, Zhang Yangzi's face twitched even more, hastily nodding in response.

"Teacher Wu, the world of the Spirit Ascension Platform is too real, isn't it?"

"When I was inside, I couldn't feel any sense of illusion at all. So, when I first entered, I was particularly curious. I climbed the tree to see farther."

"And, since my martial soul is an eagle, although I can't fly yet, I have a certain gliding ability. I thought I could fly in multiple directions from the top of the tree and also observe everything around me better."

"So, at the beginning, I didn't do anything wrong. My train of thought was correct. I was wrong in underestimating the enemy and being arrogant."

"I didn't observe the surrounding situation clearly, acted recklessly, became the target of everyone, and was eliminated from the battlefield."

"Next time I go to the Spirit Ascension Platform, I will be extra careful and try to protect myself as much as possible. Strive to survive longer."

After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Yangzi concluded.

Having said these, he sat down again.

"Mm."

"The next one."

Wu Zhangkong responded lightly, without any evaluation of these words.

"What about you?"

Then, he turned to look in the direction of Wang Jinxian, his expression unchanged, and asked.

"Teacher Wu, I don't remember much about anything else now, just... that face falling from above."

"And then, it's that kind of freezing cold that seems to freeze the soul. They're like my nightmares, always haunting me. I don't know what will happen the next time I encounter them."

At this point, Wang Jinxi's face showed a wave of unnaturalness, even fear.

"You need to relax your mind now. It will gradually get better in a few days, don't worry."

"Your situation is quite special. The human-faced demon spider is extremely rare and extremely powerful. With a hundred years of cultivation, it can hunt down thousand-year soul beasts. It's not shameful to die at its hands."

"But remember, next time you encounter such a soul beast, press the distress signal immediately. This time, you were in danger of being directly killed by it in the Spirit Ascension Platform."

Wu Zhangkong looked at Wang Jinxi in front of him, unusually comforting in his tone.

Being killed by the human-faced demon spider, what was harmed wasn't just the body, but also... the mental torment. And from what he knew, Wang Jinxi's mental power was indeed weak?

"Understood, Teacher Wu."

Wang Jinxian weakly nodded in response.

However, even though he had exited the Spirit Ascension Platform a long time ago, even though he completely understood these things, the fear in his heart still hadn't diminished in the slightest.

It wasn't just because of the terrifying nature of the human-faced demon spider, though that was a major reason. But at the same time, there were some reasons of his own—weak mental power.

Weak, very weak, extremely weak!

For some reason, perhaps because his talent was too good, heaven played a big joke on his mental power:

Although he had reached the rank of Grand Soul Master at the age of nine, his mental power could only support him absorbing a hundred-year soul ring.

Yes, with the appearance of soul spirits, which lessened the deaths of soul beasts, it also limited humans. For soul masters, if they didn't have strong mental power, they couldn't even absorb a hundred-year soul ring for their first spirit ring.

And he, Wang Jinxi, was one of them.

The increase in mental power could be described as minimal, almost negligible. Just like now, his mental power wasn't much stronger than when he first awakened his martial soul.

This meant that, without the nourishment of powerful treasures from heaven and earth, even with his formidable cultivation talent, without mental power, he couldn't absorb a third soul ring.

And without being able to absorb a third soul ring, no matter how strong he became, he would always be stuck at the level before the third ring. In today's era, the advancement in mental power was still quite difficult.

"Xie Xie, it's your turn."

Shifting his gaze onto Xie Xie from Wang Jinxi's group, Wu Zhangkong looked in Xie Xie's direction and said.

"I really like that place."

Xie Xie's face showed a longing expression, genuinely saying so.

"Hunting soul beasts in the forest feels amazing. That environment is particularly suitable for us agility-type combat soul masters. If my speed could be faster, my survivability would be even stronger!"

"Then fighting those Green Wolves later was also particularly exhilarating. I tried to avoid their vital points as much as possible, so I could fight for a longer time. I've learned this fighting style long ago, but I've been unable to practice it anywhere. This time, I really experienced it."

"At least next time, I definitely won't run into the muzzle of a thousand-year soul beast and get killed in one move."

Although the ending wasn't too good, Xie Xie's face still showed a feeling of emotion, excitedly murmuring.

"It's good to have such a good feeling."

Seeing the other's good expression, Wu Zhangkong nodded in satisfaction, thinking to himself.

And after this, he then turned his gaze towards Tang Wulin and Gu Yue.

"Gu Yue, it's your turn."

Wu Zhangkong said straightforwardly.

"Mm, okay."

"The Spirit Ascension Platform is a very realistic world. I feel like I really entered an ancient forest. I think, I like it there, very much. In battle, the soul beasts feel very real. Everything seems no different from reality."

Gu Yue's face remained calm as she spoke softly.

Her words were short, and at the same time, very plain and without ambiguity, to the point where it felt like listening or not made no difference.

"Is that all?"

Seeing that the other didn't seem to want to continue, Wu Zhangkong furrowed his brows slightly, unable to resist asking.

How could it be that she, the second most beneficiary among the students who entered the Spirit Ascension Platform this time, only had these feelings?

Even though he knew that all of her soul beasts were found and left with their last breath by Tang Wulin, she shouldn't have had only these few feelings.

"Just that."

"I don't have any other feelings."

Gu Yue shook her head, her face showing a sense of affirmation as she spoke.

She didn't like to talk too much, except to Tang Wulin.

And as for the Spirit Ascension Platform, her current feelings were just these. It gave her a strange feeling, like being in a fantasy Soul Beast Star Dou Forest.

"Then explain to me, how did you... find Tang Wulin?"

Wu Zhangkong silently looked at Gu Yue in front of him, pondering for a moment, but still asked this question that made him very confused.

"Huh?"

Hearing this question, Gu Yue was stunned for a moment, obviously not sure how to answer.

She couldn't tell the other that she and Tang Wulin were two halves of a Dragon God, could she?

"Perhaps because of... friendship from good friends beside me!"

Gu Yue thought so in her heart, already having an idea.

(End of this chapter)