Douluo Dalu 3: Legend of the White Fox

For ordinary people, as long as their talent is good enough, joining Shrek Academy is the best choice.

To avenge the countless soul beasts of the Endless Mountain against the Abyss Plane, Wu Jin had long since made plans for his life.

Joining Shrek Academy was his first goal.

"If you want to enter Shrek Academy, you should join Class Zero even more. The continent is vast, and there are countless geniuses from all over. Although you are extraordinary, it's not guaranteed that you can get into Shrek Academy. Joining Class Zero now would greatly increase your chances of entering Shrek Academy," Long Hengxu still hadn't given up on persuading Wu Jin. Wu Jin's strength was the strongest among this year's students.

If Wu Jin could join Class Zero and team up with its members, perhaps they could win the Eastern Sea Academy's Grand Tournament this year.

At that time, Eastern Sea Academy would gain tremendous fame, and the benefits it would bring would be beyond what Long Hengxu could even dream of.

"No need. Even without Class Zero, I can still enter Shrek Academy," Wu Jin shook his head again. He had grown tired of the persuasion.

He turned his cold gaze toward Xia Yi, deciding to drag him into this conversation. "Class One isn't worse than Class Zero. Just between Xia Yi and me, we're no less capable than anyone in Class Zero. We can both enter Shrek Academy with our abilities. Xia Yi, you agree with me, right?"

"Just him, enter Shrek Academy?" Neither Ye Yingluo nor Long Hengxu could hide their disbelief. If they weren't teachers, they would have laughed at Xia Yi's delusions right in front of him.

"As for Shrek Academy, I'm not really interested," Xia Yi remained silent. Unlike Wu Jin, who had a very clear life goal, Xia Yi had no such clarity.

Xia Yi had no sense of belonging to the Star Dou Forest soul beasts, especially after experiencing Na'er's assassination. It made him feel even less connected to the forest.

He was originally just a ten-year-old soul beast, unable to comprehend the responsibility and obligations that someone like Wu Jin, who was a ruler of soul beasts, might feel.

Xia Yi was willing to help the Star Dou Forest, but only if it didn't endanger him. If it required him to do something suicidal, like Wu Jin did for the soul beasts of Wu Jin Mountain, he simply couldn't do it.

Of course, this wasn't entirely Xia Yi's fault. Growing up in the environment of Star Dou Forest, even Wu Jin had been disappointed by people like Gu Yue, and Xia Yi had encountered even worse people like Na'er.

It was hard to not feel disillusioned with Star Dou Forest.

Xia Yi could only try his best to help, but it was difficult for him to act recklessly for the forest's sake.

At least, he wasn't ready for that yet.

For this reason, Xia Yi knew he wasn't like Wu Jin. He was far more selfish than Wu Jin.

And for this, Xia Yi admired Wu Jin deeply.

This was also why Xia Yi didn't have a clear goal in life like Wu Jin did.

Wu Jin's goals were simple: cultivate, grow stronger, join Shrek Academy, join the Blood God Legion, and conquer the Abyss.

As for Xia Yi, he only thought about cultivating, becoming as strong as Wu Jin, Gu Yue, and Na'er, and then traveling the continent to figure out what was going on with himself.

Of course, if he could recover his lost memories, that would be even better.

Perhaps once he got his memories back, he'd understand what he should really do, just like Wu Jin.

Ye Yingluo, Long Hengxu, and even Wu Jin had no idea what Xia Yi was thinking.

But when they heard Xia Yi say he wasn't interested in Shrek Academy, they couldn't help but almost laugh out loud.

Shrek Academy was the sacred place for all soul masters. How could a soul master not be interested in Shrek Academy?

"Recognizing the gap between oneself and geniuses is a good thing," Long Hengxu said meaningfully.

If it weren't for Ye Yingluo already agreeing to Xia Yi's request, he wouldn't have even allowed Xia Yi to join Class One. With Xia Yi's martial soul and cultivation, he would be lucky to join Class Three.

Wu Jin shook his head. A small academy was just a small academy. The teachers at Eastern Sea Academy couldn't see how extraordinary Xia Yi really was.

Not to mention Xia Yi's terrifying strength. Just that alone made him invincible at the same level among soul masters.

Long Hengxu and Ye Yingluo didn't waste any more time on Xia Yi. After taking a soul-guided photo and sticking it onto a student ID, they let him leave.

As for Wu Jin, they kept him behind to continue persuading him to join Class Zero.

They were determined to make Wu Jin join Class Zero, no matter what.

"You can keep persuading, but it's useless," Xia Yi thought to himself as he shook his head.

By noon, Wu Jin still hadn't returned. Xia Yi was left alone in the classroom. The day's lesson was on the second profession.

Xia Yi nearly fell asleep as he couldn't understand a word of it.

In fact, most of Class One, over ninety percent of the students, were also dozing off. A few students had even started snoring in class.

The second profession was something that only senior students learned. It was being taught early to Class One because of the special class that Teacher Wu Changkong was giving.

The academy decided to use Class One, the strongest class, to test this out by introducing second profession knowledge to first-year students.

"There's still a lot to learn," Xia Yi sighed as the lesson finally ended. After school, he headed for the cafeteria. Just the day before, Gu Yue had given him a rough overview of Eastern Sea Academy's layout, so he quickly found the cafeteria with the help of the general directions and the flow of students after school.

The Eastern Sea Academy cafeteria was located in a small building next to the main teaching building. The building had three floors.

Inside the cafeteria, there were only tables and no chairs, as it was the academy's rule to make students eat while standing to enhance their sense of urgency.

There were three service windows, marked with the letters A, B, and C. C meals were completely free, B meals were partially paid for, and A meals were fully paid for.

Of course, the quality of the food was the best at window A, followed by window B. Window C had only ordinary food.

Xia Yi took a quick glance and immediately noticed just how extravagant Class Zero's benefits were.

Compared to A meals, C meals were almost unbearable.

No wonder the members of Class Zero always looked so energetic—they could eat A meals every day.

By coincidence, as soon as Xia Yi entered the cafeteria, he ran into the members of Class Zero.

"What happened to you?" Gu Yue asked curiously when she saw how sickly Xia Yi looked.

"Nothing, just a lucky breakthrough," Xia Yi shook his head, not revealing the situation with Wu Jin to Gu Yue.

"A breakthrough? You're kidding!" Gu Yue rolled her eyes. She had just broken through to the second ring, and unless Xia Yi fought with her, she couldn't directly sense his cultivation, just like how Ye Yingluo couldn't sense Xia Yi's cultivation.

Xia Yi had only been in the human world for less than two days. Gu Yue didn't believe he could have broken through so quickly.

Moreover, how could someone who had just broken through end up in such a state?

(End of Chapter)