Additional Hidden Quest Reward: Space Storage Soul Tool

That night, everyone habitually entered a state of cultivation.

Huo Feng briefly explained things to Xiao Wu, basically telling her that he would not be at the academy tomorrow.

That meant the work-study duties that had originally been shared between him and Xiao Wu would have to be handled by her alone.

Of course, Huo Feng did not make any idiotic promise about taking over all the work for the entire semester once he returned.

Xiao Wu readily agreed.

Although she had known Huo Feng for less than a day, she had formed a good impression of him.

A very good one, in fact.

The other person who had left an impression on her was Wang Sheng.

As for that Tang San fellow, unless she thought carefully about it, she would not even remember that there was such a person in the dormitory.

The two lay on the same bed and slept fairly soundly.

Early the next morning, Huo Feng left the dormitory together with Tang San.

The two headed straight for the academy gates.

Sure enough, Huo Feng spotted Yu Xiaogang from a long way off.

After Tang San had finished speaking with him yesterday afternoon, he had hurried off.

There was no need to think about it—he had definitely gone to find Yu Xiaogang.

As for what the two had discussed, Huo Feng had no idea.

"Teacher, we're here."

Upon seeing Yu Xiaogang, Tang San immediately bent at the waist, bowed, and saluted.

Huo Feng was utterly speechless. Damn it, you were only one step away from kneeling down and kowtowing three times.

Still, he symbolically nodded in greeting. "Master."

"Mm, let's go."

Yu Xiaogang responded, and the three of them headed out of the academy.

Although Huo Feng did not know why Yu Xiaogang had brought him along to hunt Soul Beasts for Tang San,

based on his own guess, there were only two possibilities.

The first was that Yu Xiaogang treated him the same as Tang San, who had already become his disciple, to show how much he "valued" him.

The second possibility, according to Huo Feng's guess, was that after helping Tang San obtain a soul ring, Yu Xiaogang would use some excuse to leave.

The implication was clear: if you became my disciple, someone would help you hunt soul rings.

Otherwise, all you could do was watch.

But either way, Yu Xiaogang had his eye on Huo Feng's Innate Full Soul Power and Attack-Type Martial Soul.

He wanted Huo Feng to take the initiative and acknowledge him as his master.

Little did he know that Huo Feng had no interest whatsoever in hunting Soul Beasts.

I've got system-rewarded soul rings. Aren't those better?

As for Yu Xiaogang, the only thing Huo Feng was interested in regarding him now

was successfully sacrificing him.

"Teacher, where are we going to find Soul Beasts?"

Tang San asked curiously.

"We're going to the Soul Hunting Forest, four hundred li northeast of Notting City. It's a place where Soul Beasts are raised in captivity."

Yu Xiaogang answered.

Along the way, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang chatted endlessly.

Whenever the former heard about things such as Soul Beast ranks and soul ring colors,

it was as though he had discovered a new continent. His entire face brimmed with excitement.

Huo Feng, on the other hand, walked by himself to the side.

He seemed utterly uninterested in Yu Xiaogang's supposedly invincible theories.

Yu Xiaogang was deeply puzzled by this.

Why did Huo Feng's emotions not match his age at all? Or was it simply his personality?

But at the second floor of the cafeteria yesterday at noon, he had not been like this.

Could it be that he really isn't interested in my theories?

For the first time, Yu Xiaogang felt a sliver of doubt in himself.

But he soon regained his confidence.

He refused to believe that Huo Feng could remain so calm after seeing Tang San absorb a soul ring.

A child was still a child, after all, and could only see things from a limited perspective.

When the time came, he would probably kneel and beg to become his disciple, asking him to help hunt Soul Beasts.

At that thought, a stiff smile unconsciously appeared on Yu Xiaogang's face.

It gave Tang San, who happened to be looking at him, quite a fright.

Yu Xiaogang led them around the city to buy some supplies for the journey, then hired a carriage and left the city.

What puzzled Tang San the most was that, despite how cramped the carriage was, they had still made room for twenty jin of white radishes.

Huo Feng, whose expression had barely changed throughout the journey, smiled for the first time.

He simply could not hold it in any longer.

If not for those white radishes, he really would have forgotten Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul.

The famous farting pig.

Even to use his soul skills, he had to eat two white radishes first to settle his stomach.

If two armies faced each other, would that not make the enemy laugh themselves to death?

Inside the carriage, Yu Xiaogang took off his belt in front of Huo Feng and gave it to Tang San.

He called it a gift for meeting his disciple.

"Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night. What a lovely name."

Yu Xiaogang kept praising the name his beloved disciple had given this Soul Tool.

He paid no attention whatsoever to the fact that Huo Feng was sitting beside them.

According to Yu Xiaogang's plan, Huo Feng's thoughts should have already begun to waver.

Ding!

Hidden quest reward increased!

At that moment, the system's voice suddenly sounded in Huo Feng's mind.

The reward had increased?

Delighted, he asked,

"What reward was added?"

Hidden Quest: Sacrifice Yu Xiaogang! New quest reward: Space Storage Soul Tool.

Upon completion of the quest, this reward will be issued together with the original reward.

A Space Storage Soul Tool? Huo Feng had originally thought Yu Xiaogang's belt was rather nice.

After all, it could store items and was highly practical.

But now, he was not interested in it at all.

The system had carefully selected it as a reward.

It was bound to be better than Tang San's.

The Soul Hunting Forest was four hundred li from Notting City. They did not reach their destination until noon the following day.

After passing through the noisy market outside the forest, they arrived at the entrance near the forest's outer perimeter.

Along the way, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had kept whispering and talking without pause.

Every now and then, they also said a few words to Huo Feng.

Naturally, he replied casually.

Yu Xiaogang put on a show of taking out Spirit Hall's token and handing it to the guards, and they smoothly entered the Soul Hunting Forest.

"Come out, Luo Sanpao!"

The moment they reached the forest's outskirts, Yu Xiaogang suddenly shouted.

The unprepared Huo Feng jumped in fright and silently sent his warmest regards to Yu Xiaogang's relatives.

Immediately afterward, pale purple Soul Power began to spread around Yu Xiaogang's body.

Two yellow soul rings rose beneath his feet.

The next instant, a strange-looking creature appeared out of thin air on the ground.

It looked like both a pig and a dog.

Though he had already prepared himself and even imagined what it would look like,

when Huo Feng truly saw this pig-dog monstrosity, he still nearly failed to hold it in.

This is way too damn abstract! Even a mutated Martial Soul shouldn't mutate like this, right?

Huo Feng truly could not understand how the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon could turn into something like this.

Are you sure some old pig from next door didn't pay a visit back then?

Tang San, meanwhile, wore an equally shocked expression.

"This is my Martial Soul. Its name is Luo Sanpao."

Yu Xiaogang explained to the two of them. Huo Feng snickered inwardly. Luo Sanpao? That was quite the euphemism. Luo Sanfart would be more accurate.

Its only two soul skills were both farts. Not only could it only fart three times in total, it also had to eat white radishes first to build up the gas.

If it were Huo Feng, he would be too embarrassed to even shout the skill's name when using it.

It was truly the kind of thing he would not take even if it were given to him for free.