Sent to Shrek Dormitory

Huo Yuhao had this to say.

Whichever freshman class he ended up in, it did not really matter.

He had come to Shrek first and foremost to complete enough Achievement Tasks. Only secondarily had he come for a suitable environment to aid his cultivation.

As for the latter, his Second Martial Soul was a pretty good calling card.

As long as the Shrek High-level were not idiots, they would be able to see his potential.

Twin Martial Souls, Ultimate Ice, all alone, with a clean background.

They could safely go all-in on him!

That brought him back to the Achievement Tasks. How was he supposed to approach suitable targets?

Naturally, he had to start with the plot.

Whether it was the selection for the Shrek Seven Devils' reserve team, the later Soul Fighting Tournament, or even the subsequent exchange student arc...

There would always be opportunities.

However, the time invested and the rewards gained from a task would not always be proportional.

Huo Yuhao's personal passive achievements could be set aside for now.

As for Achievement Tasks actively triggered through other people—there was not much to say about them.

Their function was simple and clear, living up to their name.

But the criteria for triggering tasks, how to reach each stage of favorability, and what rewards each stage would grant...

"Host, please explore those functions later"—Huo Yuhao seemed to hear the Achievement System telling him that.

Yet from the various signs so far, he could boldly draw a conclusion.

The higher a target's cultivation, the greater their potential, and the more significant their role in the Original Work's plot, the better the rewards from their Achievement Tasks would be.

Like the Soul Masters he had encountered while registering at the Freshman Teaching Building just now—their information had not even appeared on his panel.

Unlocking Achievement Tasks later by raising their favorability was even more absurd.

Besides, even if those minor supporting characters had Achievement Tasks, so what?

Huo Yuhao knew that six tasks were merely a theoretical upper limit.

Most of the time, successfully completing three or four tasks was already very good.

The system's favorability ranks were acquaintance, friend, close friend, and soulmate.

Once one reached the close friend stage, taking things further could not be accomplished through idle chatter or simple physical contact.

Usually, it required an actual intimate relationship.

And close relationships between people had clear boundaries and divides.

For example, strangers, acquaintances, friends, lovers, romantic partners, and family—there were distinct dividing lines between every level of intimacy.

Whether friendship, love, or familial affection, all of them were catalysts that accelerated favorability.

Just like Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao. They had a mutually beneficial symbiotic host relationship, and he had unilaterally read Huo Yuhao's memories, which was why they had so smoothly reached the soulmate stage.

Moreover, even after reaching the soulmate stage, refreshing new tasks probably would not be so easy.

Other than that.

If Huo Yuhao's personal passive achievements were considered the main quest, then the Achievement Tasks completed through others were side quests.

With the threat of God King Tang looming over him, side quests needed to be advanced appropriately, but he could not place too much emphasis on them.

Side quests were only supplementary; the main quest was the foundation!

He needed to selectively grind Achievement Tasks as side quests.

Trying to bite off more than he could chew would only leave him unable to digest it.

It was not as if he were some time-management master.

So raising Ma Xiaotao's favorability was certainly more worthwhile than raising Ning Tian and the others' favorability.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect sounded pretty good, but Huo Yuhao had no intention of getting deeply involved with it.

As he had said, once one entered a sect, it was like entering a bottomless sea. It was not worth it.

If he wanted to join a sect, was the Body Sect not a far better choice?

Later on, he could directly become the Body Sect Holy Son.

That was far better than becoming some sect's live-in son-in-law.

Passing between the white Freshman Teaching Building and the yellow buildings for second- and third-year students, Huo Yuhao saw the Dormitory Building.

The Dormitory Building covered an enormous area. Though it was only one building, it was marked with four colors—white, yellow, purple, and black—representing the residential areas for students of different grades. It stood six stories tall.

At the entrance to the Dormitory Building sat an elderly man who looked very old. He wore plain gray clothes, his face covered in wrinkles. His eyes were cloudy and yellowed, his eyelids drooping, and he looked as though he were in the twilight of his years.

The sunlight between the buildings fell perfectly upon him, and the reclining chair he lay half-sprawled in looked rather comfortable.

The old man's somewhat hoarse, low voice rang out. "The girls' dormitories start from the fourth floor. You are not allowed upstairs. If you are caught, you will be expelled."

"I understand."

Huo Yuhao glanced at the old man, then headed into the dormitory building on his own.

He appeared calm on the surface, but his heart was anything but settled.

Mu En

Locked

This old man was the Sea God Pavilion Master, a level 99 Assault System Limit Douluo, Dragon God Douluo Mu En—the Sea Stabilizing Divine Needle of Shrek, one of the strongest people alive, and Beibei's Mystic Ancestor.

Though this elderly man, steeped in the air of twilight, looked like a candle flickering in the wind, he was still one of the peak combatants of the Douluo Continent.

Setting all that aside, Huo Yuhao was also quite interested in his ultimate technique, Reign Over the World.

Reign Over the World perfectly fused Mental Attack and physical attacks, and could be incorporated into Soul Skills. The "Vast Winter Three Absolutes" from the Original Work were derived from it.

It was somewhat like Conqueror's Haki Infusion from One Piece, attaching one's powerful will to an attack.

Even for the sake of his good brother Beibei, Mu En was someone Huo Yuhao could not avoid.

When Zhang Lexuan was young, another noble family of the Heaven Dou Empire slaughtered her entire family. She knelt and begged Mu En to avenge them, and Mu En proposed that she become Beibei's child bride in exchange for the Academy's help.

Later, as Beibei grew up, Mu En recovered from the blow of Beibei's parents' deaths and became more even-tempered. More than once, he told Zhang Lexuan that she no longer needed to keep that vow.

Zhang Lexuan replied, "Even if Beibei does not accept me, that is fine. My lover is this Shrek Academy!"

The old man remained in his original posture. Yet after Huo Yuhao left, he murmured to himself.

"Eleven years old, with twenty-seventh-rank Soul Power, and such a solid foundation. The younger generation is truly formidable..."

The student dormitory was a long corridor building, with dorm room doors lining both sides of the lengthy hallway, each bearing a number plate.

The inside of the Dormitory Building was already somewhat old and worn, who knew how many years it had been in use. At each end of the corridor stood a communal bathroom.

Hmm... had he been sent to the Shrek dorms to fight four hundred people for one toilet?

It was not quite that exaggerated, but it was clear that wealthy and powerful Shrek did not invest very generously in new student education.

The Inner Court students might be Shrek's key beneficiaries, but weren't they Outer Court students still students?

Well... perhaps not necessarily.

If they failed the New Student Assessment three months later, they would likely be ordered to withdraw.

Not to mention that there were systems like the Advancement Assessment.

In short, it was like raising venomous insects in a jar. Through round after round of selection, the true geniuses would stand out and enter the Shrek Inner Court.

To Shrek Academy, only the Inner Court was the core—the true number one on the continent.

Techniques such as Ma Xiaotao's multi-Soul Skill fusion and Ling Luocheng's linked, instant casting of multiple Soul Skills were secrets only Shrek Inner Court disciples could access.

Huo Yuhao's dormitory key was still numbered 108, the third room on the left side of the first floor.

He unlocked the door with the key and pushed it open.

The dorm room was tiny, only around ten square meters. Two beds took up most of the space, and aside from them, there was only one table and two metal wardrobes.

A Soul Guidance Lamp hung from the ceiling, requiring Soul Power to be infused into it before it would light up.

A handsome youth around Huo Yuhao's age was lazily sprawled across one of the beds. When he saw Huo Yuhao in the doorway, he first froze, then snorted coldly.

"You're my roommate? Why are you so late!"

His features were delicate, his skin fair, and his neat short hair and bright, lively eyes carried a faint pinkish-blue hue. Few could compare to his handsome appearance.

Unfortunately for him, someone no less attractive happened to be standing before him.

That humble nobody was none other than Huo Yuhao himself.

Oh, wasn't this Wang Dong'er, dressed as a boy?

He had not expected that even though he enrolled several days late, he still could not escape fate's arrangements.

Or rather, was this the hand of God King Tang?

"My name is Huo Yuhao. New student registration has not even ended yet, so don't rush me."

Coming late had its advantages. Wang Dong had clearly already cleaned the dormitory thoroughly, saving him quite a bit of effort.

The youth said arrogantly, "My name is Wang Dong. You had better remember that I cleaned this dormitory all by myself."

Huo Yuhao nodded. "Then thank you."

When they first met, there was none of that cliché where they immediately disliked each other and started fighting at the slightest disagreement.

Perhaps this was the power of looks-based diplomacy?

Unfortunately, Wang Dong, who was dressed as a boy, was not a normal roommate. The two of them were destined to have a clash.

The pink-blue-haired youth lowered his voice, looking fierce and imposing.

"I declare that from now on, I'm the boss of this dorm. You have to obediently follow my rules, or get the hell out."

"First, you are not allowed to bring people back to the dorm whenever you please. Second, you are not allowed to snore at night. Third, you will be responsible for cleaning the dorm from now on, but do not touch my bed. Understand?"

"I declare your declaration invalid."

Huo Yuhao spoke coldly.

Wang Dong'er

Relationship: Acquainted

Achievement Task: Strength Above All

Shrek Academy, where strength reigned supreme?

A task delivered right to his doorstep—there was no reason to turn it down.

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