Soul Land: The Savage Star

On the practice fields of the academy, 165 children and 6 teachers stood in front of the dean. They already passed the knowledge and cultivation tests, what remained were the battle prowess and the unknown special feature. Of course, with his strength, Feng was confident that he would not lose no matter what. After all, he single-handedly made his team the strongest one.

Seeing everyone quietly wait for her to speak, the dean announced the beginning of the battle prowess test. All the battles were displaying the amount of efforts put by the students during the year. Beibei's team faced what was considered as the second strongest team of the year and thanks to a great strategy and determination, they managed to win by a hair's breadth.

Feng's match was the last and as expected, Feng bulldozed through any adversary of the opposing team, which was an unfortunate trio of spirit trainees. His poor, but useless teammates had nothing to do and were just standing there with troubled expressions.

Frowning at this, the dean said something quite unexpected. " Ohh, it seems like someone here is so unrivaled that he doesn't need a team... Very well, Leng Feng, you will fight against a second year's team. If you lose, you will have to repeat this year. " While saying this, the dean disappeared and came back by walking with three kids behind her.

They were second-year students and looking at their uniforms, they were most likely from class A as they had a golden pin at their c.h.e.s.t area, the class A's symbol. Spectating this 'special event', every student present was looking at Feng with relatively smug or pleased expressions. His overwhelming strength made them jealous and his indifferent face made him look like an aloof person, not liked by anyone.

The exceptions to this were Beibei, who was frowning and uncomfortable, and teacher Qian. For him, Feng's way of doing things was right. Why bother with dead weights when you can do everything alone? For him, Feng was an elite that shouldn't waste his time with mediocre people, a reason why he never allowed Feng and Beibei to be in the same team.

As this was something the dean decided upon, nobody could refute anything so the fight was unavoidable. Placing himself in front of the three second-year students, Feng waited for them to make a move as he didn't know anything about them. Once the signal for the start of the fight resounded, the three students released their spirit rings. They were all spirit masters who had a tool type sword spirit, with different colors tho and they all had a hundred years old spirit rings.

They all ran towards him at the same pace as they all aimed their swords towards him from different angles. Seeing this, Feng jumped back while activating his spirit. His opponents were slightly caught off guard by its uniqueness but still resumed their assault. Feng could only continuously dodge their attacks as they came at him.

Their teamwork was great as they covered for any mistakes one of them made but their individual skills were comparatively lacking. In a one on one fight, even Beibei would be able to destroy them, tho, if there were three Beibeis facing them, the outcome wouldn't be decided easily. This made Feng realize the dean's objective: demonstrating that teamwork is important.

That's what he thinks, but it's not the entire truth. She wanted to make him realize that by himself, he will f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y encounter a wall someday and that a team that can cover for one's weakness is an absolute necessity for a spirit master.

That said, the observation phase ended as Feng began to fight back. He sent a powerful punch to one of his adversaries, who stumbled back to evade the attack, wreaking havoc to their formation and then he barehandedly caught the swords of the two others, yanked them out of their grips then punched them as well, ko-ing them on the spot. He finally threw the swords that he took at the last one's forehead, with them disappearing on the way tho as their owners passed out. This was still enough to make the poor kid faint.

Massaging her temples as this outcome wasn't something she remotely wished for, the dean sighed and simply announced Feng as the victor. She still kept in mind that she shouldn't underestimate his abilities for his education's sake. Beibei's cheering was thus the only sound that could be heard for the next minute as everyone was either shocked by Feng's strength or just depressed by it.

Him beating everyone in the class was already a thing but him beating upperclassmen was something else. Since everything else was dine, it was time for the unknown special feature to be revealed. Gathering the attention of the people present again, the dean said

" The special feature of the first year's final exam is that the fifteen most outstanding students of the year will have to choose a master. No, to be more precise, you will get chosen by a master while the others will be reassigned based on their performance. " Having finished her speech, the dean disappeared, not before adding " Leng Feng, this year's number one student will be my disciple. "

Teacher Qian, who was apparently also the chief teacher, even though it should normally be the teacher of class A, took the place of the dean and gave more pieces of information.

Basically, apart from class A and B, the other classes will see massive shifts in their ranks as outstanding students from lower classes emerged while the reverse also happened. This will be known the next year by students. Also, the thing about choosing a master is totally new, this never happened before. This was just a way for the dean to make Feng her disciple though, that, teacher Qian knew but he wouldn't say anything about it. Instead, he will take Beibei as his disciple...

" Now then, the holidays begin, you may disperse. " Teacher Qian then left towards the teacher building as the kids cheered. With Beibei in tow, Feng rushed to their room and quickly took their already packed belongings. They will go to flying snow village so the more time they wasted here, the less they will be able to profit of this occasion to see their home, their real home.