Douluo: The Rebirth of the Supreme King Dong'er

Snow Empress and Ice Empress both stared intently at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm withdrew the shed shell he had draped over Huo Yuhao. Once Little White released his Spiritual Origin, he immediately wrapped Little White's Spiritual Origin in his own shed shell, then carried it into Huo Yuhao's brow. The shed shell itself remained outside, protecting Huo Yuhao.

With Wang Dong'er's resource support, Huo Yuhao's physique had long since become completely different from before. The martial soul he was fusing with was not an overwhelmingly domineering one like Ice Empress's, so under Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's guidance, he was already ready to begin the fusion.

At that moment, Wang Dong'er suddenly said to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, "Bone first, then soul."

Though it was not a domineering martial soul like Ice Empress, fusing the bone before the soul would still be easier on Huo Yuhao.

Having experienced two Soul Spirit fusions, Wang Dong'er had gained some understanding of Soul Spirits and offered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm several suggestions.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress also made a few suggestions based on their own insights.

However, they were not helping Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. They were helping Little White.

After thinking it over carefully, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began attempting to fuse the soul bone with the martial soul.

Very soon, white light covered Huo Yuhao's body and connected with Little White's body beside him.

This process could not possibly be easy, but with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm watching over him, and with Huo Yuhao's endurance having improved greatly, he was still able to hold on.

At this moment, Wang Dong'er could clearly sense that the blood and vitality within Huo Yuhao's body were accelerating. He was fusing with Little White's soul bone, and the soul bone Little White provided was a torso bone.

As he fused with the soul bone, Huo Yuhao's physique was also gradually improving.

The reason soul bones drove soul masters wild was not only because they gave soul masters another means of combat, but also because fusing with them could improve the soul master's own physique.

The stronger the soul bone, the greater the improvement it could provide.

It was like the soul skills granted by soul rings. The stronger the soul ring, the more powerful the soul skill it bestowed.

As time passed second by second, Snow Empress and Ice Empress continued watching Huo Yuhao, while Wang Dong'er began considering what kind of Soul Spirit she should choose for Xiao Xiao.

Xiao Xiao was also a Twin Martial Soul master, but unlike Wang Dong'er, who had cheat-like advantages, and unlike Huo Yuhao, who was a Child of Destiny, Xiao Xiao's aptitude meant that she would have to wait until she reached a higher rank before directly fusing with a powerful Soul Spirit.

Otherwise, she could only wait until she became a Soul King to fuse with a ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit first, then choose a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for another Soul Spirit fusion later.

If the boost brought by her first martial soul was sufficient, perhaps she could attach a powerful Soul Spirit to her second martial soul ahead of time.

A Soul Master's Path Was Already Invincible—Why Learn Soul Tools?

Shrek Academy.

Every year, a great number of new students applied to enroll at Shrek Academy, and this year was no exception.

However, besides the many new students coming to apply, Shrek Academy was also crowded with old students returning from break to begin the new school year and undergo advancement assessments.

The new students' schedule differed from that of the old students. Once today passed, the old students would begin registration for their advancement assessments the next day.

Xiao Xiao waited anxiously in the dormitory. She knew Wang Dong'er was strong and came from an influential background, so nothing should have happened to her, but she could not help worrying anyway.

Fortunately, Wang Dong'er finally returned the day before registration.

"Dong'er." Xiao Xiao grabbed Wang Dong'er's hand and looked her over from side to side, as though she had to make sure Wang Dong'er had not lost even a single hair.

"All right, all right. Look at you." Wang Dong'er soothed Xiao Xiao. Xiao Xiao's concern for her moved her quite a bit.

"What did you eat while you were home? Why do you seem bigger?" After calming down, Xiao Xiao even had the mood to tease Wang Dong'er.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Wang Dong'er froze. Only when Xiao Xiao's mischievous gaze drifted over did she realize what she meant, and her face reddened slightly.

Although she had grown used to this identity, her way of thinking had not completely changed yet.

The next day, Wang Dong'er's year officially began their second-year studies. Xiao Xiao had already familiarized herself with the route and led Wang Dong'er toward Class One's second-year classroom.

As they neared the teaching building, they happened to run into a pair of sisters who looked alike.

Upon seeing Wang Dong'er, the sisters were delighted and came forward to greet her.

"Class monitor!" The two sisters were Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo. As they stepped forward to greet her, they felt as though a chill wind had swept through the surroundings.

However, neither sister thought much of it and continued smiling brightly.

"So it's Susu and Luoluo." Wang Dong'er greeted them as well. She had been the class monitor throughout the entire first year, and with Zhou Yi not stirring up trouble, the only people in class who had any dissatisfaction with her were Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu. Even their teammate, Cui Yajie, had never shown Wang Dong'er any particular hostility.

It was only because of Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu that Cui Yajie had rarely spoken to Wang Dong'er.

But Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo were different. Though they had once teamed up with Huang Chutian, that had only been for the freshman assessment.

During their first year, aside from Xiao Xiao, these two had spoken with Wang Dong'er more than anyone else. Even Huo Yuhao could not compare.

"Class monitor, you must be even stronger after coming back this time," Lan Susu said.

"Mm-hmm." Lan Luoluo echoed her.

Just then, the four of them ran into three more familiar faces.

Dai Huabin, with his head of golden hair, had grown much taller. Though he was still only a youth, the expression on his face had become far gloomier.

Zhu Lu, clinging to Dai Huabin's side, had become much more striking, and her development was considerably more mature as well. Unlike Wang Dong'er, who had only begun to take shape and would disappear when bound up.

The last person was naturally Cui Yajie.

No one knew how this Nine-tailed Fox soul master had ended up hanging around with the couple Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu. Though they were not inseparable, they did indeed spend time together often. Cui Yajie, who possessed the Nine-tailed Fox martial soul, seemed even more physically mature than Zhu Lu and was nearly as tall as Dai Huabin.

Cui Yajie's role was rather special, so she was also studying in Class One. Furthermore, during the freshman assessment, she had not violated the rule that a team could only have one Assault System soul master.

The moment Dai Huabin saw Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao, his face darkened.

To Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, losing the match because they had failed to unleash their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was an unbearable humiliation.

Dai Huabin had always believed that if he could face Wang Dong'er one-on-one, he would never have lost. He simply had never been given the opportunity.

However, Wang Dong'er's humiliation of him back then had instead given Dai Huabin even greater motivation to grow stronger. Over the past few months of first year, not only had he not taken the initiative to cause trouble, but he had cultivated even more diligently.

Now that he had returned from break, Dai Huabin had already reached Rank 36 and was about to reach Rank 37.

He refused to believe Wang Dong'er could have reached such a high rank as well.

He had heard that Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and that inexplicable Huo Yuhao with his first ten-year soul ring had all gone to study in the Soul Tool Department as well.

In Dai Huabin's eyes, this was simply a waste of talent.

A soul master's path was already invincible—why learn Soul Tools?

But that was perfect. Wang Dong'er and the others were wasting their talent while he cultivated diligently. By the relativity of cultivation, rounding things off meant that while he improved, Wang Dong'er was also falling behind. The gap between them would only grow wider.

Still, Dai Huabin did not take the initiative to provoke them this time. Zhu Lu merely snorted coldly, her hostility obvious.

Xiao Xiao had long since looked down on sore loser Dai Huabin, but she was no longer the impulsive child she used to be. She immediately imitated Zhu Lu and gave a cool snort, angering Zhu Lu so much that her chest rose and fell.

"What are they acting so smug for? They lost to the class monitor and still refuse to accept it..." The Lan sisters muttered softly nearby.

However, Dai Huabin's group were still soul masters. Even though the Lan sisters had only muttered under their breath, they could still hear them and immediately glared over.

"Who are you talking about?" Dai Huabin glared coldly at Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo.

"Whoever answers, that's who," Xiao Xiao said with a smile.

When Dai Huabin's fierce eyes suddenly fixed on them, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo became a little frightened and hurriedly hid behind Wang Dong'er.

"Hmph. You got lucky during the freshman assessment, but you won't get that chance again!" Dai Huabin stared coldly at Wang Dong'er. "Wang Dong'er, do you dare make a bet with me?"

Wang Dong'er was somewhat speechless.

But thinking about how she herself had once made a Douluo Continent-style bet with Xu Shishi, she really had no grounds to criticize others.

"Go on. What kind of nonsense are you trying to pull?"

Dai Huabin did not quite understand what Wang Dong'er meant, but he grasped the gist. His face darkened as he said coldly, "We'll bet on our advancement assessment results. If my score is higher than yours, you hand over the class monitor position to me. From then on, whenever you see me, you'll have to lower your head."

"That's it?" Wang Dong'er waved a hand. A bet without stakes that interested her was not worth making.

"The White Tiger Duke's Mansion should have more than nothing, right? If you really have nothing valuable to put up, you can even borrow it from me," Wang Dong'er said.

As it happened, her resource-loan gift package mission was still short one quota.

"You!" Dai Huabin did not care that Wang Dong'er had recognized his identity. It was normal enough if no one recognized him, but it was not a big deal if they did.

But in response to Wang Dong'er's words, he truly had nothing he could offer.

A Ten-Thousand-Year Fourth Ring That Shocked the Entire Audience

Although Dai Huabin was the young master of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and had no shortage of resources, he had basically already used them all. How could he still have anything left on hand?

What Dai Huabin could not bear most was Wang Dong'er's dismissive attitude.

In the end, the bet was never made.

Dai Huabin was so furious that he called Wang Dong'er someone obsessed with money, but those words had no real bite. Wang Dong'er could not even be bothered to respond and simply led Xiao Xiao and the Lan sisters into the classroom, leaving Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu standing there with livid faces, raging helplessly.

Before long, Wang Yan and Mu Jin arrived in the classroom.

The students had already found their seats and sat down quietly, waiting for their homeroom teacher, Mu Jin, to explain the rules of the advancement assessment.

The rules were not much different from what Wang Yan had described before the break. This second-year advancement assessment would also be held in the Beast Fighting Zone, with one-on-one battles.

Each student could choose the rank of soul beast they wished to face. The stronger the soul beast they challenged, the easier it would be to earn a high score.

Of course, that was on the condition that they won the challenge.

Teachers assigned to score the assessment would observe the entire process. Different soul beasts had different scoring standards.

Mu Jin then mentioned several more points to note.

Although students could choose the rank of soul beast themselves, if they deliberately selected soul beasts with cultivation too weak, then even an easy victory might not earn them a high score. They might even be judged to have failed the assessment.

Conversely, choosing a powerful soul beast could still result in a high score even if the student lost, so long as their performance during the battle was good enough.

However, students could not simply choose soul beasts with excessively high cultivation without thinking. The proctors might not necessarily be able to rescue them in time, and if they were even a moment too slow, the students could pay with their lives.

If a student died during the assessment, Shrek Academy would bear no responsibility whatsoever.

Students of different cultivation paths would also be judged by different standards. The Assault System's goal would be to defeat the soul beast, while the Control System's score would be determined by the duration of their control, and so on.

Naturally, there was also the most important point: Shrek Academy reserved the final right to interpret all rules of the advancement assessment.

This time, Huo Yuhao returned shortly after Wang Dong'er. He also had not received Fan Yu's attention in the Soul Tool Department, so some events did not happen again.

That afternoon, the students of Class One arrived at the Beast Fighting Zone under Mu Jin and Wang Yan's guidance.

Shrek Academy had several different areas, but the Beast Fighting Zone was the largest among them.

Shrek Academy had acquired an enormous and abundant "inheritance" as early as ten thousand years ago. Not to mention its full ten thousand years of development and independent tax revenues. Describing Shrek Academy as rich enough to rival a nation was almost an understatement.

Under such circumstances, there were indeed academies and factions that raised soul beasts in captivity, but almost none could match the immense scale of Shrek Academy's Beast Fighting Zone.

Shrek Academy's Beast Fighting Zone was divided into two sections. One was naturally the area where soul beasts were kept, while the other was the beast fighting arena.

There were even ten-thousand-year soul beasts in the soul beast enclosure.

The beast fighting arena, meanwhile, was where students trained and underwent assessments.

Like the assessment area, the beast fighting arena could host multiple beast battles at once, or use a larger area for a single spectacular battle.

Furthermore, unlike the assessment area, which had only one elevated viewing platform, the beast fighting arena was surrounded by stands. There were four tiers in total, descending from high to low, with room for more than ten thousand spectators.

So far, this beast fighting arena was the grandest building the second-year students had seen at Shrek Academy.

However, although multiple beast battles could be held at the same time, this second-year advancement assessment would still test each student individually. Multiple teachers responsible for different assessment duties were already waiting inside the beast fighting arena.

Du Weilun, the dean of studies, stood on an elevated platform separate from the spectator stands with the teachers responsible for scoring, looking down below.

Normally, only Du Weilun, as dean of studies, would pay attention to an advancement assessment at the second-year level. But besides Du Weilun, two more people stood on the platform. Because of the angle, the students below found it difficult to notice them.

One wore a white robe and had grizzled hair and beard. He was Yan Shaozhe, dean of the Martial Soul System.

The other stood beside Yan Shaozhe, wearing a red mask. His hair and clothes were both red. It was Ma Xiaotao.

Below the platform.

Mu Jin looked toward Wang Dong'er, signaling for her to take the field first for the assessment.

To set an example for the students in their class, the class monitor was always the first to undergo the assessment.

Wang Dong'er did not refuse. She strode forward, handed over her assessment form, and announced her information and chosen challenge level. "Second-year Class One, Wang Dong'er. Challenging a thousand-year soul beast."

The highest target for the second-year advancement assessment was only a thousand-year soul beast. The captain of the freshman assessment champion team had actually chosen a thousand-year soul beast right from the start?

The referee teacher did not hesitate. He merely confirmed Wang Dong'er's target before signaling for another teacher to open the gate and release the soul beast.

The metal gate slowly let out a creaking sound. Once it had opened fully, an enormous bear covered in tawny-brown fur slowly emerged. The distinct white fur on its chest was particularly eye-catching.

This enormous bear was a Bloodthirsty Demonic Bear. Its eyes were crimson, with bloodthirsty light flickering within them.