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"Blazing Academy!"
Upon hearing this, Yan's eyes instantly lit up, and a wave of delight surged through his heart.
Blazing Academy was one of the Heaven Dou Empire's Five Great Element Advanced Soul Master Academies, sharing equal fame with the Elephant Armored Academy run by the Elephant Armored Sect.
It was one of the premier institutions in the Heaven Dou Empire, second only to the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. Its strength was formidable, and its foundation ran deep—far beyond what ordinary forces could compare to.
As one of the Five Element Academies renowned across the continent, when it came to nurturing fire-attribute Soul Masters, there were few factions in the entire continent that could rival it. Within Blazing Academy, every single student possessed a fire-attribute Martial Soul.
They might have Tool Martial Souls, Beast Martial Souls, Plant Martial Souls, or other relatively rare and unusual variants. But one thing was absolute: even if their Martial Soul wasn't inherently of the fire attribute, it was guaranteed to be intimately related to fire.
Even if some students initially awakened a completely attribute-less Martial Soul—
Such as a pure Tool or Beast Martial Soul—once they chose to join Blazing Academy, they would follow the Fusion School of thought under the guidance of the academy's teachers, adding the fire attribute to their own Martial Souls.
This was the signature style of Blazing Academy.
Pursuing the path of flame and revering fire above all else.
In this regard, Blazing Academy, whose entire faculty and student body were fire-attribute Soul Masters, did indeed appear somewhat more extreme than Elephant Armored Academy.
However, while every student specialized in fire, their development paths within the academy were by no means monotonous. In terms of cultivation directions, they boasted a complete array of specialties: Power Attack, Agility Attack, Defense, Control, and even Support system types.
The only common denominator was that they all utilized fire.
As a fire-attribute Soul Master himself, Yan naturally held an immense interest in Blazing Academy. This kind of mutual attraction between identical attributes was something the Elephant Armored Sect could never match.
At Blazing Academy, he was bound to encounter powerful fire-attribute Soul Masters and compete against them with the power of flame, which made him thoroughly thrilled.
Possessing the Flame Lord Martial Soul, he naturally harbored the ambition to become the number one fire-attribute Soul Master in the world.
Blazing Academy was the holy land for fire-attribute Soul Masters across the entire continent. If he could defeat the most outstanding members of their younger generation, there would likely be no peer left on the continent who could rival him in fire-attributed power.
How could he not be excited?
Challenging Blazing Academy could truly be considered the perfect battle to make a name for himself. Watching Yan's expression grow increasingly ecstatic beside him, Ling Xiao chuckled softly.
Having met and been close friends with Yan since their youth, how could he truly let Yan act as a mere foil in this operation? He didn't want Yan to become nothing more than background noise.
Setting Yan's actual strength aside for a moment, simply because he was his friend, Ling Xiao genuinely hoped that Yan could carve out his own reputation in the world of Soul Masters and make a name for himself across the continent.
Moreover, sharing joy was far better than enjoying it alone.
Although Ling Xiao desired to scale the highest peaks of the Soul Master's path and achieve the realm of an ultimate powerhouse, he also hoped to have companions walking alongside him on this journey to exchange insights and share experiences.
Otherwise, even if he reached the absolute summit, it would inevitably be too lonely.
The taste of being entirely alone at the top was not a pleasant one.
These companions didn't just refer to Yan, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue. They also included his other friends within the Spirit Hall Academy, and even some of his competitors from other factions—such as Huyan Li and the others he had just met.
He truly hoped that these people could go further and become stronger. Only in this way would the world become more interesting, and only then could he, having come to this world, enjoy the things he could never have experienced in his past life.
As for whether they would suppress or defeat him once they grew stronger, Ling Xiao didn't care. It wasn't that he possessed an absolute certainty that he would become the number one in the world and therefore had no fear of others growing stronger.
Rather, in his eyes, a person who feared their competitors' continuous growth and feared being surpassed—thus deliberately suppressing others—could never be considered a true powerhouse.
Ling Xiao despised such people.
Even if such a person possessed God King level cultivation and held a Divine Tool in hand, they would still be nothing more than a coward. Because they only dared to strike at the weak, only knowing how to maliciously suppress others and eliminate dissidents.
Once a creature of this caliber faced the kind of ultimate existences that shook the boundless heavens and myriad worlds, they would instantly crumble at the first blow.
A true powerhouse should be like Dugu Qiubai—the stronger others become, the more delighted he is.
Only in this way can one constantly break through their own limits, allowing the strong to become even stronger. These were some of the insights Ling Xiao had gained during his spare time from cultivation over the years.
Though they were still somewhat nascent, they were gradually laying the foundation for his spiritual realm, ensuring he would reap lifelong benefits in the future. However, focusing back on the present, Ling Xiao couldn't help but shift his thoughts to another matter.
He had not forgotten that while the immediate purpose of this operation was to establish his own renown through sparring and challenging others, the deeper motive was to further expand Spirit Hall's influence across the continent and build good relations with other factions.
At the very least, they needed to forge good karma with the younger generation.
This was precisely why he had repeatedly shown mercy when sparring with Huyan Li, constantly encouraging Huyan Li to display his full strength. Consequently, even though he had defeated Huyan Li and his six brothers, he didn't earn their resentment. Instead, they had become friends.
As for Blazing Academy, Ling Xiao actually placed even greater importance on it compared to the Elephant Armored Sect. After all, although there was a vast variety of Martial Souls in the current Soul Master world, Beast Martial Souls ultimately occupied the vast majority.
Tool Martial Souls and Plant Martial Souls were relatively fewer, not to mention other even rarer variants. Furthermore, for most Martial Souls, possessing a special attribute often granted a certain advantage over a pure beast attribute.
While the continent certainly didn't lack powerful pure-beast attribute Martial Souls that were extremely formidable despite lacking elemental attributes, they were the minority in the end.
The continent was still overwhelmingly dominated by low-to-mid-grade Martial Souls and ordinary Martial Souls. For them, under the premise of having a teacher's guidance, the Fusion School was the better alternative.
Among the many common attributes, the fire attribute could absolutely be considered an attribute with obvious advantages. The violent nature of fire could grant a Soul Master powerful destructive capabilities.
Moreover, the number of fire-attribute Soul Beasts was quite large. Therefore, among the demographic of Soul Masters who followed the Fusion School, the fire attribute was often their premier choice.
This resulted in a massive influx of young Soul Masters wishing to join Blazing Academy every year, causing Blazing Academy's overall strength to grow increasingly formidable.
It could be said that although the Elephant Armored Sect was one of the Seven Great Sects and Elephant Armored Academy was by no means weak, it fell short of Blazing Academy when it came to its appeal to young Soul Masters.
Even setting aside Martial Souls and fused attributes, just based on its appeal to male versus female Soul Masters, Elephant Armored Academy suffered from an inherent disadvantage.
After all, very few female Soul Masters wanted to enter Elephant Armored Academy. The faculty and students within Elephant Armored Academy were mostly muscular, buff men; female Soul Masters were exceptionally rare.
Among the Five Element Academies, Blazing Academy was also ranked ahead of Elephant Armored Academy, both in terms of reputation and overall appeal.
This caused Ling Xiao to occasionally daydream, thinking how wonderful it would be if Blazing Academy were willing to join Spirit Hall.
Should that happen, Blazing Academy's individual strength wouldn't mean much to Spirit Hall's overall power, but most importantly, Spirit Hall would gain a training base that was exceptionally proficient in nurturing fire-attribute Soul Masters.
Furthermore, with the help of Blazing Academy, Spirit Hall would be bound to recruit even more elite Soul Masters. In the long run, the benefits would be immense.
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