Anglers Never Go Home Empty-Handed

The moment these female students appeared, they drew countless eyes.

Especially the girl at the front. She was tall and well-proportioned, her long golden hair falling in large waves behind her, as though it could make one's heart ripple along with it.

Not only was her figure outstanding, her beauty was natural and flawless. Some of the male students were so captivated that they stared blankly.

When they headed toward Huo Yuhao's little stall, the students gathered around the barbecue stall actually took the initiative to make a path for them, allowing the girls to reach the front without obstruction.

The breathtaking girl at the front showed no arrogance at all. She even wore a gentle smile as she nodded to the students who had moved aside for her.

Huo Yuhao naturally recognized her.

Soft Bone Charm Rabbit Jiang Nannan, a commoner Soul Master who possessed the same martial soul as Xiao Wu, his "mother-in-law" from his previous life.

The big fish he wanted to catch today was Xu Sanshi... behind Jiang Nannan.

"Eh, junior, are you packing up?" Jiang Nannan asked softly.

As though he had no interest whatsoever in Jiang Nannan's appearance, Huo Yuhao calmly packed up his stall.

"Yeah. Can't you see?"

The atmosphere around them instantly turned cold.

The students who had been eagerly watching Huo Yuhao earlier all glared at him angrily.

One of the female students behind Jiang Nannan snapped, "What kind of attitude is that?"

Huo Yuhao asked curiously, "Was my attitude that bad? Or are you all... blind and unable to see?"

"Then I'm sorry. I didn't know you were all blind. How pitiful. Unfortunately, I really do need to close up. Otherwise, I'd be willing to give you a few grilled fish for free as an act of charity."

"You!" The female student who had spoken earlier clearly had not expected Huo Yuhao to say something like that.

Just then, a deep voice filled with anger rang out.

"Brat, you dare refuse to sell?"

Immediately afterward, a streak of golden light shot toward Huo Yuhao's barbecue stall like lightning.

Huo Yuhao raised the spatula he used for frying fish and flicked his wrist. The golden light was sent flying to the ground just as it neared the stall's grill.

Huo Yuhao's body trembled slightly, and a notch had appeared in the fish spatula in his hand.

He knew it. Xu Sanshi had arrived.

"Hm? You actually managed to take that move from me."

That deep, powerful voice sounded once more as a tall young man in a black school uniform appeared.

He had thick brows and striking eyes, with fair skin. Although his features were handsome, he somehow carried an indescribably sleazy air.

It was Xu Sanshi.

At that moment, Xu Sanshi's face was slightly flushed with anger. Combined with his appearance, he cut an imposing figure.

Xu Sanshi stepped past Jiang Nannan and took a large stride forward, reaching out with one big hand to grab Huo Yuhao by the chest.

A sharp glint flashed through Huo Yuhao's deep blue eyes.

He was no longer the incomparably weak person he had been in his previous life.

Huo Yuhao suddenly stepped forward instead of retreating. With a tap of his foot, his entire body drifted away like a phantom, floating to Xu Sanshi's side.

"Stop! Xu Sanshi, what are you doing?!" Jiang Nannan cried out in shock and fury.

Meanwhile, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao behind Huo Yuhao had already made their move.

A pair of blue butterfly wings instantly unfurled from Wang Dong's back. The colors at the tips of the forewings shifted continuously from dark to light, and the entire surface of the wings resembled a blue sky set with a string of dazzling halos.

Whether in shape or color, those wings possessed an incomparable, flawless beauty.

Even Xiao Xiao beside her could not help but freeze for a moment before coming back to her senses and continuing to release her martial soul.

Two Soul Rings rose beneath her feet. Her body did not change at all, but a mass of light and shadow rapidly condensed above her.

The light and shadow took the form of a cauldron with three legs and two handles. It was Xiao Xiao's martial soul, the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron.

"Buzz!" Xiao Xiao's second Soul Ring shone with yellow light. With a sharp cry, the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron swung fiercely toward Xu Sanshi.

"Second Soul Skill, Cauldron's Sway!"

As Xiao Xiao attacked, Wang Dong's first Soul Ring also lit up.

"First Soul Skill, Wing Blade Guillotine!"

Golden patterns of light spread across Wang Dong's wings, and the edges of the Light Goddess Butterfly's wings gleamed with sharpness.

Wang Dong spread her wings in midair and flapped toward Xu Sanshi, attacking in succession with Xiao Xiao's Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron.

Xu Sanshi was, after all, a fifth-year student. His strength surpassed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao's, and his reaction was not slow.

Three Soul Rings instantly rose beneath Xu Sanshi's feet. Two yellow and one purple—the optimal combination—revealed his status as a Soul Elder.

At the same time, Xu Sanshi's originally fair skin darkened as his Soul Rings appeared, and the muscles throughout his body began to swell.

A black tortoise shell shield appeared in Xu Sanshi's right hand.

"Hah!"

Holding the enormous tortoise shell shield, Xu Sanshi thrust it forward.

Xiao Xiao's Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron happened to swing into it at that moment.

"Clang—"

After a long, resonant clash, ripples seemed to spread through space around Xiao Xiao's Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron and Xu Sanshi's Darkwater Tortoise Shell Shield.

At that moment, Wang Dong's attack arrived.

The sharp edge of the Wing Blade Guillotine swept across the Darkwater Tortoise Shell Shield. Xu Sanshi's arm had gone numb from Xiao Xiao's Cauldron's Sway, but when he caught sight of that streak of blue light, he ignored the numbness and immediately raised his tortoise shell shield to block Wang Dong's Wing Blade Guillotine.

However, Wang Dong's Wing Blade Guillotine seemed to have eyes. In an extremely short instant, it found Xu Sanshi's weak point.

Even with the Darkwater Tortoise Shell Shield protecting him, Xu Sanshi ultimately failed to completely block Wang Dong's Wing Blade Guillotine.

No one noticed the gleaming white Soul Ring around the forgotten Huo Yuhao.

Xu Sanshi had suffered a setback.

The watching crowd, Jiang Nannan included, was somewhat stunned.

No matter what, Xu Sanshi was a defense-type Soul Elder. Yet he had actually been injured by the combined attack of two Soul Grand Masters.

The white school uniforms on Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao proved that they were merely freshmen!

No one would believe it if they heard that a fifth-year student had been defeated by two freshmen.

Yet it had truly happened right before their eyes.

Xu Sanshi's face had turned the color of pig liver, and he looked like a balloon ready to burst at the slightest touch.

In full view of everyone, especially with Jiang Nannan watching, being injured by two freshmen was undoubtedly something Xu Sanshi found utterly unacceptable.

"Phew... Good. Very good!" Xu Sanshi glared furiously. "Few people of the same rank can break through my defenses, let alone freshmen like you."

"Xu Sanshi, stop right there!"

Jiang Nannan stepped in front of Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao and glared at Xu Sanshi angrily.

"Bullying the weak and picking on freshmen—aren't you ashamed enough already?"

After Jiang Nannan said that, Xu Sanshi visibly calmed down.