Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

Chapter 29 Fifteen Years Old

At the age of fourteen and with a soul power of level twenty-three, Yang Ping'an entered the Advanced Soul Master Academy for Beasts, which can be considered as having achieved a small goal in the early stages.

The biggest difference between advanced soul master academies and other soul master academies is the class division. Lower and intermediate soul master academies are generally divided into classes according to the age of enrollment. The students in each class are of varying abilities, and as long as they achieve the school's goals, they can graduate.

Advanced Soul Master Academies are the complete opposite. They are normally divided into low, middle and high classes. Within each class, almost everyone is assigned based on their soul power, without considering age or other factors.

The lower class has a soul power level of 20 to 25, the middle class has a soul power level of 25 to 30, and those with a soul power level of 30 or above are generally in the upper class. Although the names of different advanced soul master academies are different, the basic differences are not too big.

Another point is that all advanced soul master academies generally require students to reach level 30 or be 25 years old to graduate directly. In other words, only some younger and relatively outstanding disciples will enter the advanced class.

Yang Ping'an is only level 23 now, which means he can only enter the low-level class of alien beasts.

Unlike other academies, the Beast Academy is divided into three classes from lowest to highest: Ferocious Beast, Savage Beast, and Divine Beast, corresponding to the low-level, intermediate, and high-level classes.

The entire Beast Academy has about 600 students, with more than 60% in the Fierce Beast Class, 30% in the Savage Beast Class, and the last 10% in the Divine Beast Class.

Yang Ping'an became an ordinary member of the Beast Class One.

There were only about thirty people in the whole class, and Yang Ping'an began his life at the Advanced Soul Master Academy.

It has to be said that entering an advanced soul master academy is a very good choice, at least that's what Yang Ping'an thinks.

All students at the Beast Academy possess beast-type martial souls or martial souls related to beast-type martial souls, and they have all sorts of rare and exotic beasts.

The learning content is mainly practical, with only a small portion of the learning time spent in the classroom and the majority spent in the training field or playground.

Even in the classroom, the knowledge of Soul Masters will no longer be taught. Instead, the focus will be on comparisons and on-the-spot responses.

Inside the training ground, it's a battle between Soul Master students. Every morning, they fight one to three matches against each other, all decided by drawing lots. Everyone else watches the entire battle, which is also a form of observation and learning. There are relatively few support Soul Masters in the Beast Academy, but they still have to participate.

The teachers are mostly Soul King level Soul Masters, who maintain order in the classroom and act as judges for the students' written records.

Of course, the academy also has its own curriculum that introduces the combat methods of various beast souls, which can be considered comprehensive.

The afternoons are free time, and students at the Advanced Soul Master Academy tend to focus more on improving their soul power and don't allocate much time for studying.

Yang Ping'an is now very clear about his shortcomings: his soul power is too low and his improvement speed is too slow. In addition, his combat ability is indeed relatively poor.

Although Yang Ping'an acquired his spirit rings independently both times, he mostly used external tools and rarely used them as a means of combat. Especially before acquiring his second spirit ring, the Purple-Gold Mastiff had little offensive capability other than a keen sense of smell, and it was even unable to fight its enemies.

The focus of advanced soul master academy training is combat, and relatively safe combat at that.

Yang Ping'an was thoroughly enjoying himself. Even the usually lazy Purple Gold Mastiff bared its fangs when attacked by other soul beasts, no longer acting like a lazy pig that only knew how to fire cannons.

Every day at school, Yang Ping'an liked to learn from his classmates and was almost always fighting. While others would have three battles, he would have five every day. In just a few months, Yang Ping'an had already fought against everyone in his class many times.

At the beginning, Yang Ping'an had more wins than losses, which was largely due to the lazy nature of the Purple Gold Mastiff.

However, after three or four months, Yang Ping'an's performance gradually began to turn around, and the Purple Gold Mastiff changed from being lazy to being fierce, which made everyone in the class very strange.

Time flies. During this year, Yang Ping'an spent more than half of his time in battle, and the rest of the time he cultivated his soul power and trained his body to the extreme.

Every afternoon, I had to carry a 100-pound weight and train hard inside the academy, doing running, frog jumps, climbing, and swimming. After all that hard training, my whole body was sore by evening.

However, all of this has yielded some achievements.

During his year in the Beast Class, Yang Ping'an has now become invincible. He has even sparred with students from all the other Beast Classes multiple times and has basically reached the top level among them.

After a year of hard training, Yang Ping'an's physique has also undergone significant changes.

Yang Ping'an is currently fifteen years old, with a soul power level of only twenty-five. He has just joined the ferocious beast-level class.

Yang Ping'an is now 1.85 meters tall, which is relatively tall among all the students, at least among his peers.

However, Yang Ping'an was still very dissatisfied with the improvement of his soul power. At the age of fifteen and level twenty-five, he was already considered relatively mediocre. But even if he tried every means, the speed of soul power improvement was still very slow. His low innate soul power level was indeed his biggest obstacle.

Yang Ping'an himself began to think about his next plan. Normally, when he was around sixteen years old, the main storyline of the original work would begin. At that time, Tang San could join Shrek Academy, improve rapidly, and the entire world's plot would revolve around Tang San.

He was only level 25 at the moment, and even if he were to reach level 27 in another year, he wouldn't even qualify to participate in the Soul Master Competition, let alone hinder the development of the plot.

If things continue like this, there will be no hope of revenge in the future, especially against Tang Hao, the murderer of his father. Should he just let him go unpunished? This is something Yang Ping'an absolutely cannot allow.

Thinking of this, Yang Ping'an's face became resolute, and he held a black object in his hand, which was whale glue.

This piece of whale glue is black, only the size of a fist, and has very clear patterns on it. If an expert were to examine it, they would know that it is a piece of whale glue that is thousands of years old.

Yang Ping'an obtained this piece of whale glue at the auction house in the Beast City. It cost him five thousand gold soul coins and even caused many people to look at him strangely.

The Beast City mainly auctions various parts of spirit beasts, including some rare bull horns and internal organs. Many of these items can be used in medicine and are quite valuable.

Whale glue is also a product that is frequently auctioned in the Beast City. However, in the past, only older people could participate in the auction. It was rare for a young man like Yang Ping'an to auction whale glue, which immediately attracted the attention of many people.

But Yang Ping'an couldn't care less about that. Whale glue was the easiest and most practical treasure to obtain at this stage.

(End of this chapter)