Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy.
“It’s really strange. We didn’t have a single work-study student in the past two years, but this year three of them came at once.”
Wang Sheng scratched his head, and Tang San and Xiao Wu, who were about to spar, stopped and looked at Xu Yuan at the door.
“Hello, my name is Xu Yuan. Please take care of me in the future.”
Xu Yuan walked in from the doorway, carrying silky smooth bedding in his hand, and he looked very energetic.
“Since you’re also a work-study student, then according to the rules, we have to fight. Whoever wins will be the boss.”
Wang Sheng explained the rules of Dormitory Seven to Xu Yuan.
“Forget it, my spirit is the Wishing Tree, and I plan to become a support-type spirit master in the future. I’m not good at fighting.”
Xu Yuan quickly shook his head.
Standing in front of him were a 30-year professional assassin and a 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast.
Asking a support-type zero-ring Soul Master to challenge these two things is just plain suicide.
Even if he were a time traveler, he couldn’t withstand such abuse.
“Support-type Soul Master? What does that mean?”
One of the work-study students standing in the dormitory suddenly asked a question, but before he could finish, Wang Sheng punched him on the head.
“Are you stupid? Didn’t the teacher already cover this in class?”
“Each Soul Master has their own development path, such as the food type, the power attack type, the control type, and so on.”
Wang Sheng looked at the work-study students who had asked the question with a sense of disappointment, wondering what they would do after leaving the academy.
“However, why is your martial soul called the Wishing Tree?”
“Does your martial soul grant wishes simply by making a wish?”
Wang Sheng made a sarcastic remark without thinking.
“That’s right!”
“I was just saying… wait, what did you just say?”
Before Wang Sheng could finish speaking, he suddenly stopped.
Even Tang San and Xiao Wu, who hadn’t said a word, stared wide-eyed at Xu Yuan in disbelief.
“I said, my martial spirit can make wishes come true!”
Xu Yuan raised his right hand and circulated his soul power.
Behind him, a pale golden glass tree, shimmering with light, rose from the ground.
The trunk is thick and white as jade, the branches are slender and graceful, and the leaves are translucent glass gold, each leaf shimmering with light.
A colossal wishing tree stands tall in the Seventh Dormitory, its roots firmly planted in the ground and its canopy supporting the roof ridge, as if its entire body is formed from pure soul power.
“Really?”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wu became excited and quickly moved closer to Xu Yuan, wanting to see if he was lying.
“As long as it’s not something that goes against the laws of nature, like bringing the dead back to life, most other wishes can be fulfilled.”
Xu Yuan raised his head and said confidently.
“How is this possible?”
“Such an incredible martial soul actually exists in the world?”
A look of shock flashed in Tang San’s eyes.
Xiao Wu’s eyes dimmed slightly for a moment, but then, as if she had thought of something, they brightened up again.
The other people in the dormitory also gasped in shock.
“Of course, there will be some side effects and costs in the process of realizing your wish!”
Xu Yuan made a gesture that resembled the universe between his fingers.
For example?
Xiao Wu was the first to lose her composure; she couldn’t wait to try out the abilities of the Wishing Tree Martial Soul.
“Well, how should I put it…”
“My Wishing Tree Martial Soul allows me to make a wish once a month.”
“Since awakening my martial soul, I have used the wish function three times.”
“The first person to make a wish feels that life is going very smoothly and hopes that their life will have more ups and downs.”
Xu Yuan seemed to have thought of something and tried hard to keep his expression in check.
“Then what?”
Tang San couldn’t help but press on, wanting to know whether Xu Yuan could actually fulfill the other’s wish.
“It was a success, but the result was not quite what I had imagined.”
Xu Yuan hesitated for two seconds and said, “The night after he made the wish, his wife ran off with Old Jerry from the next village.”
“Before leaving, they also took his property and sold his land deeds. Now his life is full of turmoil.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire dormitory fell into a deathly silence; everyone was so shocked that they couldn’t speak.
It’s hard to say that the wish didn’t come true, but it also seems like it did.
However, to insist that the wish came true would be too far-fetched.
Anyway, this was definitely not the original intention of the person making the wish.
However, this is far from over.
“The second person to make a wish was a lazy man in the village. He didn’t want to work and hoped to make a fortune.”
“This person’s wish has come true, and he has received three gold soul coins!”
The other students in the dormitory looked on with envy; that’s enough for a family of three to cover their expenses for a year and a half.
Xiao Wu had no concept of human gold soul coins, but seeing how envious others were, she guessed they must have quite a lot.
“What price did he pay?”
Tang San was the first to react; he also wanted to know the outcome for the second person who made the wish.
“When he went out for a stroll that day, he encountered a drunken Soul Master and had his leg broken.”
“Later, the Spirit Master from the Spirit Hall came to negotiate and gave him three gold spirit coins to settle the matter.”
Xu Yuan recounted the fate of the second person who made the wish.
“Three gold soul coins to buy off a leg, is that considered fulfilling a wish?”
Wang Sheng exclaimed in surprise; this was not what he had expected.
“Look at what you’re saying! Just tell me if his wish came true or if he got a windfall?”
Xu Yuan said confidently.
“This…but…but this also…”
Wang Sheng’s expression kept changing.
He wanted to refute, but he didn’t know where to start, so he eventually gave up.
“And who is the third person?”
Xiao Wu raised her hand to touch Xu Yuan’s martial spirit, but Xu Yuan knocked it away and continued talking.
“The third person’s ending is the most perfect of the three!”
These words made everyone present take notice.
Although the two people who came before met tragic ends, the wishing tree did grant their wishes, albeit with slight deviations.
“The third person wished that he would never have to work hard in his life, and that he could live a life of plenty with plenty of food and drink!”
“Uncle Buck thanked me for fulfilling his wish and bought me brand new clothes and bedding, and also gave me some pocket money.”
Xu Yuan proudly showed off his equipment to everyone.
“No wonder you didn’t seem like a work-study student. The fabric of your clothes doesn’t look cheap, and your bedding is expensive too!”
“I felt something was wrong as soon as I walked in.”
Wang Sheng had a look of sudden realization.
Most of the people in the dormitory were dressed simply, with their clothes covered in patches.
Tang San looked down at his clothes.
All the money for food at home had been used to buy wine, so there was no way he would have any new clothes.
His clothes were similar to those of the other work-study students, all patched up, and he was even stopped by the gatekeeper because of this.
If he hadn’t encountered his teacher, he would have certainly used ruthless methods to show the other party the consequences of choosing death.
“But how did that person achieve their wish?”
Xiao Wu had no intention of fighting at the moment; she only wanted to figure out the scope of the Wishing Tree Martial Soul’s ability to grant wishes.
If it succeeds, it might be able to conceal the aura of a soul beast on one’s body and prevent others from discovering it.