The Rebirth of the Supreme King Dong'er

As they watched the two leave, the previously silent Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao were both practically shining with excitement.

If Wang Dong'er had not been there, Ma Xiaotao would certainly have succeeded in taking them away this time.

And Yan Shaozhe—no matter what, he was the dean of Shrek Academy and a Super Douluo. Even other Titled Douluo would show him some degree of respect.

But Wang Dong'er gave him no face at all.

Even if they had been given the same background, they might not have been able to act as Wang Dong'er did.

"Alright, we should leave too." Only after Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao's backs vanished into the depths of Sea God Lake did Wang Dong'er withdraw her gaze.

Most of the people in the assessment area had already dispersed, and every trace Ma Xiaotao had left behind was gone. It seemed Yan Shaozhe had urgently sent people to clean up the scene and offer explanations.

After all, the last time Ma Xiaotao's evil fire had erupted had been on the sparsely populated shore of Sea God Lake. This time, she had gone mad right outside the assessment area.

Early the next morning, the assessment area was bustling with activity once more. When Wang Dong'er's group arrived at Area Thirty-Three, the remaining five freshman teams there had already been replaced once.

These new teams were not the first-place teams from other areas, but they were stronger than the teams from the previous five matches.

Once he saw that all six teams had arrived, Wang Yan spoke. "According to the competition rules, the seed team with the best results in this area will compete first."

"According to the drawing results, this match will be between Wang Dong'er's team from Freshman Class One and Huang Chutian's team from Freshman Class Seven. Both teams, enter the field. Martial Souls may only be released after the match begins."

A tall, brawny male student stepped forward first, followed closely by two female students with identical faces and the same long blue hair.

The male student who had stepped out first was clearly the captain of this team, Huang Chutian.

Seeing Wang Dong'er's group step forward, Huang Chutian politely offered a pre-battle greeting.

"Hello, I'm Huang Chutian. They are Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo. Please enlighten us."

Since they were courteous and held no past grudge against her, Wang Dong'er had no reason to deliberately give them the cold shoulder, so she returned the greeting as well.

Soon, both sides took their places at opposite corners of the field. Huang Chutian's group formed a triangle, with Huang Chutian in front and the sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo standing behind him to either side.

"Assessment begins!"

As Wang Yan's voice fell, Huang Chutian immediately let out a howl and pounded his fists against his chest like a gorilla. His height abruptly shot up to around 1.8 meters, his muscles bulged, and his academy uniform tore apart, exposing his incomparably dark skin.

The sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo moved in sync as well. With a toss of their heads, their blue hair instantly spread through the air and began lengthening at high speed. It soon reached more than ten meters long, yet not a single strand touched the ground, all of it swaying in the wind.

Six yellow soul rings rose at once. All three of them were Soul Grandmasters above Rank 20.

However, they clearly had intelligence on Wang Dong'er's group. From the very beginning, the sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo had released their Martial Souls while standing half-turned. The moment they finished, they immediately embraced each other.

A massive wave of Soul Power instantly spread outward. A deep-blue halo emanated from the two sisters, covering their figures.

At the same time, the more than ten meters of blue hair behind their heads turned a crystalline blue, like glazed glass, weaving into a vast blue net that descended upon Wang Dong'er.

"A Martial Soul Fusion Skill?" Xiao Xiao immediately recognized the ability the Lan sisters had unleashed.

If two soul masters possessed exceptionally compatible Martial Souls, they might develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill—a soul skill that surpassed their current level.

Generally speaking, two soul masters with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill could even use it to fight opponents above their rank.

Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo were extremely confident. Even a three-ringed Soul Elder would be unable to break free from their Martial Soul Fusion Skill if they were alone.

Therefore, they had chosen the three-ringed Wang Dong'er as their target.

Although Xiao Xiao's Nine Cauldrons Sealing Origin Array also seemed highly threatening, Wang Dong'er's threat was more immediately apparent.

After all, Xiao Xiao's Nine Cauldrons Sealing Origin Array required nine black cauldrons to form the Sealing Origin Array. Theoretically, as long as one cauldron could be prevented from landing, the array could not be established.

And their Martial Souls were perfectly suited to using softness to overcome strength and stopping Xiao Xiao's Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron.

The Lan sisters had calculated well, but reality went against their wishes.

Though the extreme Light Attribute had not granted Wang Dong'er's first soul skill greater sharpness, it had enhanced the skill's power.

No matter what, the Lan sisters were merely two Control System soul masters. Their destructive power was innately lacking. Even though their Martial Soul Fusion Skill had enhanced the toughness of their hair net, it could only restrain ordinary Soul Elders.

Xiao Xiao unleashed her Nine Cauldrons Sealing Origin Array and sent it toward Huang Chutian.

Huo Yuhao had wanted to support both of them simultaneously, but the moment his Mental Detection landed on the Lan sisters' hair net, it was like a clay ox sinking into the sea. He could not detect anything at all, much less find any weakness or flaw, so he could only join Xiao Xiao in dealing with Huang Chutian, the Assault System soul master, first.

Wang Dong'er flew through the air, the golden edges of her butterfly wings gleaming brilliantly beneath the sunlight.

Until now, no one—not even Wang Yan, who had been watching the battle, nor Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao—knew that her first soul skill did not rely solely on sharpness and an ultra-fast strike to win.

Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer could be used with a hammer, and the same principle could naturally be applied to blades. Wang Dong'er's butterfly wings were precisely two blades.

In truth, if Wang Dong'er used her third soul skill, she could easily break the Lan sisters' Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

But the reason Wang Dong'er did not use it was not because she wanted to save a trump card for those three-ringed teams led by Dai Huabin. It was simply unnecessary.

Those crystalline blue strands of hair looked immensely tough, but beneath the whirlwind-like slashes of her butterfly wings, they snapped apart inch by inch, only to grow back wildly the next moment.

In the original story, Xuan Zi had once commented on Body Martial Souls: the more important the body part, the greater its potential as a Body Martial Soul.

He had passed judgment on the sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, and on Huo Yuhao, in turn. He believed the former's hair Martial Soul was too insignificant to be worth nurturing, while the latter's talent was too poor and his first soul ring was only ten years old—an irreparable flaw.

Putting aside Xuan Zi's discernment, Wang Dong'er herself was rather interested in the Lan sisters.

Going by Xuan Zi's words alone, hair truly was not an important part of the body. But from another perspective, precisely because it was not so important, their Martial Souls offered far more room for creativity.

I should find a chance to get in touch with them and see if I can trigger some kind of reward.

"Xiao Xiao, stop playing around. Deal with that gorilla."

"Got it." Hearing Wang Dong'er's words, Xiao Xiao brought her hands together. The nine cauldrons merged into one, then split into three again. Her first soul ring lit up as Cauldron's Shock activated, leaving Huang Chutian utterly dazed.

Huo Yuhao followed up by throwing out a Mental Shock. Poor Huang Chutian was completely locked down by the combo and fainted to the ground before he could even use a soul skill.

As for Huo Yuhao, after unleashing that Mental Shock with only one ring, he was looking somewhat drained as well.

After all, his opponent was a two-ring soul master. Even with his cultivation of the Purple Demon Eyes, Huo Yuhao had been unable to completely overpower him.

Meanwhile, over on Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo's side, Wang Dong'er relied on her speed advantage to weave through the hair nets. Those nets could not stop her from building momentum, and the hair nets that should have been able to trap a Soul Elder were no more troublesome in Wang Dong'er's hands than irritating cobwebs in a room.

Before long, the sisters could no longer sustain their Soul Power output and released their Martial Soul Fusion state.

They had never been proficient with this Martial Soul Fusion to begin with and had only treated it as a trump card. Even in the previous rounds, they had never used this ability.

It was only because they had to face Wang Dong'er's three-ring team in the very first match that they had chosen to open with their ultimate move.

Yet even so, they had failed.

The moment the Martial Soul Fusion was released, the blue hair filling the sky instantly retracted and lost its crystal-clear sheen. The two girls went limp and were about to collapse, only to be supported by a figure.

"Are you two all right?"

Wang Dong'er had yet to retract her martial soul. Beneath the faintly glowing light patterns, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo's cheeks looked bright red.

"W-We're fine. Thank you."

The two of them thanked Wang Dong'er almost in unison.

Crack—

Huo Yuhao seemed to hear the sound of something being squeezed until it creaked. He instinctively looked toward Xiao Xiao's tightly clenched fist.

By the time Wang Dong'er flew back, Xiao Xiao was once again wearing a beaming smile.

Women were terrifying.

Huo Yuhao sighed inwardly and decided that he would become a sigma male in the future. He absolutely could not fall into a woman's trap.

"Dong'er, how are they?"

"Not bad. They're soft-tempered. They'd probably cry if you bullied them." Wang Dong'er squeezed Xiao Xiao's palm, then looked at Huo Yuhao. "You both have Body Martial Souls. I'll take the lead later, and when we have time, you can talk about matters related to martial souls."

Wang Dong'er did not remember much about Body Martial Souls, but she did remember the Body Sect's utterly absurd "Secondary Awakening Secret Method."

The essence of this "Secondary Awakening Secret Method" was to use a life-or-death crisis or sufficient pressure to force a soul master's survival instinct and martial soul to undergo a secondary awakening.

However, it was not something that could guarantee awakening one hundred percent of the time.

That was why it was so absurd. In essence, it was not all that different from Zhou Yi's extreme running drills.

Those with weak bodies would run themselves to death, while those with poor Body Martial Souls were not qualified to use this secret method in the first place. Even if they used it, there was a high chance they would not survive it.

Those with strong bodies did not need her extreme running drills, while those with good Body Martial Souls could undergo a secondary awakening as soon as their martial souls awakened. Even if it did not happen initially, they would most likely encounter another opportunity later on.

What made this secret method better than Zhou Yi's was that it ultimately served its users, and it truly applied to every soul master with a Body Martial Soul. As for Zhou Yi... there was nothing worth saying.

Still, comparing it to Zhou Yi was indeed unfairly disparaging the Body Sect's secret method.

In truth, although the method was absurd, the Body Sect was genuinely formidable. Using this method, they had somehow produced a large number of Body Soul Masters with secondary awakenings at a success rate close to one hundred percent. There were even "barely related Body Martial Soul" soul masters like the Lan sisters, whom Xuan Zi would not have considered worthy of notice.

In Wang Dong'er's terms from her past life, Zhou Yi and Shrek Academy were like, "As long as I set the college entrance examination cutoff at 680, my graduates will definitely be better than ordinary people."

The Body Sect, on the other hand, was like, "My research institute is excellent, and it has real results to show for it. My graduates will definitely be outstanding."

"Class One, Wang Dong'er's team wins." Wang Yan announced the match result.

Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo looked at Wang Dong'er once more before reluctantly walking over to the groups watching from the sidelines.

Huang Chutian: Am I not a person? Am I even a person?

Fortunately, Huang Chutian's martial soul was rather resistant to being knocked out, and he soon regained consciousness.

The matches that followed continued in a round-robin format.

Without the slightest surprise, Wang Dong'er's trio continued winning every battle and once again achieved the best record in District Thirty-Three. Huang Chutian and the Lan sisters came in second.

Huang Chutian was somewhat puzzled, though. During their battles, the Lan sisters did not seem as focused as before and kept glancing toward Wang Dong'er in the spectator area.

But whenever Wang Dong'er smiled at them, the two sisters seemed to be pumped full of adrenaline, and their combat strength became astonishing.

What exactly had happened while he was unconscious???

Unlike Huang Chutian, the examiner Wang Yan had focused his attention on Huo Yuhao.

Wang Dong'er was undoubtedly the strongest combatant among the trio right now, but Wang Yan always felt that there was something different about her martial soul whenever she released it compared to ordinary soul masters.

Yet he could not say exactly what was different.

Xiao Xiao had finally revealed the soul skill of her first soul ring. Based on his observations, Wang Yan guessed that Xiao Xiao was a half-control, half-support type.

Finally, that left only Huo Yuhao, who looked the simplest of them all with just a ten-year soul ring.

Wang Yan had also noticed the light that appeared in Huo Yuhao's eyes when he used his martial soul, but he did not pay it much attention.

After all, changes appearing in one's eyes during Martial Soul Possession were perfectly normal.

After pondering it for a long time without figuring it out, Wang Yan finally decided not to keep it bottled up any longer. As soon as the match ended, he stopped Wang Dong'er and the other two.

"Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, first of all, Teacher would like to congratulate you on maintaining such an excellent undefeated record."

"Among all the teams participating in the freshman assessment, I'm afraid fewer than ten could achieve results like yours."

"However, there are a few things I'm puzzled about, and I'd like you to explain them."

As he spoke, Wang Yan's gaze swept across the three of them before finally settling on Wang Dong'er.

"Wang Dong'er, you're very strong. From what I observed, your first soul skill should make your butterfly wings as sharp as blades. The move you used later to break Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo's Martial Soul Fusion Skill should have been a Self-Created Soul Skill, correct?"

"More or less, but I didn't create it myself." Wang Dong'er nodded.

"A self-created soul skill that you didn't create yourself?" Wang Yan was somewhat surprised, but he did not press the matter.

"Then what about your thousand-year second ring..."

"Because I'm awesome."

"...Fine."

After thinking for a moment, Wang Yan still asked Xiao Xiao a question. "Xiao Xiao, your martial soul is a mutated martial soul, isn't it?"

"That's right. My martial soul is called the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron. It is indeed a mutated martial soul."

Hearing Xiao Xiao's answer, Wang Yan stroked his chin.

It seemed his eye for such things was still sharp. Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao were simply too mysterious.

Or perhaps that strange feeling Wang Dong'er's martial soul gave him had merely been a misjudgment on his part.

But when it came to Huo Yuhao, he truly could not tell what kind of martial soul he possessed.