Grilled Fish, Activate!

Wang Yan was clearly extremely interested in the Spirit Eyes, which appeared to be an eye-type Martial Soul.

After Mu Jin left to oversee the practical combat drills, Wang Yan led Huo Yuhao out of the Soul Fighting Zone and toward the teachers' office building behind the black teaching building, arriving at his private office.

Wang Yan pointed to the seat in front of his desk, smiling.

"Sit. Don't be so reserved."

Naturally, Huo Yuhao did not stand on ceremony. He sat down directly and casually accepted the tea Wang Yan handed him.

Wang Yan got straight to the point, making no attempt to hide his intentions.

"Student Huo, is your Spirit Eyes Martial Soul actually your eyes?"

Huo Yuhao took a sip of tea and nodded. "That's right."

"So it really is a Body Martial Soul!"

Wang Yan looked excited as he immediately asked, "I heard from Mu Jin that you're from the Heaven Dou Empire. Are you a member of the Body Sect?"

Wang Yan was both excited and nervous. This concerned the secrets of Body Martial Souls.

The Body Sect was located within the Heaven Dou Empire. Although Huo Yuhao's City Lord Recommendation Letter stated that his background was clean, what if?

If he really was from the Body Sect, Huo Yuhao certainly would not dig his own grave by revealing secrets related to Body Martial Souls.

Then everything Wang Yan was doing now would be meaningless.

Huo Yuhao fell silent for a moment.

On his way from the Extreme North to Shrek Academy, he had happened to pass through the Heaven Dou Empire. Relying on his powerful Spiritual Power and Simulation Soul Skill, he had conveniently acquired a recommendation letter proving his clean background.

He had not expected it to cause such a misunderstanding.

Under Wang Yan's tense gaze, Huo Yuhao set down his teacup and said sincerely, "Teacher Wang, I'm just an ordinary person. Although I heard some rumors about the Body Sect when I was young, I'm not a member of the Body Sect."

Well, at least not yet.

"Although I know that Spirit Eyes is a Body Martial Soul, Teacher Wang, you also know how difficult it is to find any trace of the Body Sect. I'm only a minor two-ring Soul Grandmaster. How could I risk so much just to search for the Body Sect?"

"And one of the reasons I came to Shrek was because of my Spirit Eyes Martial Soul. I want to find a path to cultivate a Body Martial Soul here. Surely the number one academy on the continent won't disappoint me, right?"

Advance the plot, rack up some tasks—what could be better?

Huo Yuhao's sincere words made Wang Yan believe him completely.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the wild joy in his heart.

"Student Huo, when it comes to Martial Soul research, Shrek is unquestionably number one on the continent. However, even Shrek has few records regarding Body Martial Souls. But I can guarantee that you will receive the best treatment in the academy!"

The Body Sect had always remained secluded, and information on Body Martial Souls was even scarcer. Now that a research subject had practically delivered himself to his door, he could not let him slip away!

Coupled with Huo Yuhao's exceptional cultivation talent, reaching Rank 28 as a Soul Grandmaster at just eleven years old, he was undoubtedly among the most gifted.

He could not let such a genius fall into the hands of the Body Sect.

"Mm."

He could see Teacher Wang Yan's sincerity.

Achievement completed: Wang Yan—"Spirit Eyes? Let me see."
Reward obtained: Bookworm.

Bookworm: Rank One Gu Worm. Any book it consumes will have its contents automatically memorized by the soul master.

Evaluation: Perfect recall, but expensive in books.

Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao had long since reached the level of perfect recall, so this Gu Worm's usefulness to him was greatly diminished.

He could not possibly mow through every book in the Library Pavilion just for a moment of convenience, could he?

Shrek Academy was not his, after all.

Still, Bookworm was at least related to the Wisdom Path. The reward for the next level would most likely be a Wisdom Path Gu Worm.

There was a one-hundred-percent chance of that—perhaps even ninety percent!

Wang Yan

Relationship: Friend

Achievement Task: Unmissable Genius

If nothing unexpected happened, the genius mentioned in the task description was him.

Huo Yuhao continued, "Then I have a small request right now. I don't know if Teacher Wang can help me?"

Wang Yan immediately promised, "If it's something I can help with, Student Huo, feel free to ask."

Huo Yuhao had indeed run into a small problem.

"When I first enrolled, I wanted to look through some records on Martial Souls in Shrek's Library Pavilion. But I gave up because I didn't have sufficient access privileges. I wonder if Teacher Wang could help me with that?"

"Leave such a small matter to me!"

It was merely access to the Library Pavilion, nothing worth mentioning. Wang Yan was already planning to introduce Huo Yuhao to his grandteacher, Xuan Zi.

As they continued discussing Martial Soul cultivation, the two had a thoroughly pleasant conversation.

It was not until Huo Yuhao had left—

—that Wang Yan remembered something.

He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses.

"I forgot to discuss this morning's match with Yuhao. I wonder how the icy aura Mu Jin mentioned was achieved using the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul?"

During their conversation, Wang Yan had learned that Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul attribute was an exceptionally rare Spirit Type Martial Soul.

This delighted him even more: the Spirit Eyes had to be an extremely high-grade Body Martial Soul!

Although Spirit Type soul beasts were exceedingly rare, he believed that with the Academy's support, Huo Yuhao would surely receive the best possible training.

With that thought, he could not wait to share the good news with Xuan Zi.

He pushed open the office door and hurried away.

Since it was still early, Huo Yuhao could not be bothered to return to the Soul Fighting Zone.

He went straight back to his dormitory to continue cultivating.

When the time was right, he headed downstairs from the Dormitory Building.

Tang Ya had already been waiting impatiently. Her coquettish voice rang out, "Yuhao, you finally came down. I've been waiting forever."

Huo Yuhao said helplessly, "Senior Sister Xiaoya, class only just ended, didn't it?"

Tang Ya giggled. "It's been too long since I last had your grilled fish, Yuhao. I've missed it terribly. Grill twenty fish today—I've already prepared them all for you. It won't take up too much of your time.

"As for the price, let's make it five Copper Soul Coins per fish."

Huo Yuhao shook his head. "Senior Sister Xiaoya, have you ever heard the saying that rarity creates value? I think we should price them at one Gold Soul Coin each."

Since the war between Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent had ended, thousands of years of development had completely standardized the currency: one Gold Soul Coin equaled ten Silver Soul Coins, which equaled one hundred Copper Soul Coins.

Selling one grilled fish for five Copper Soul Coins meant that selling twenty of them would earn one Gold Soul Coin in less than an hour. For the Huo Yuhao of the Original Work, that was already an excellent arrangement.

But for the current Huo Yuhao, such a small amount of money was barely worth mentioning.

He felt that with his current skills, even selling a grilled fish for one Silver Soul Coin would be cheap. He might as well set the price at one Gold Soul Coin.

It would save him the trouble of making change, too.

This was Huo Yuhao's exclusive craft, one he monopolized all by himself. So what if it was a little expensive?

If you did not want to eat it, plenty of others would.

His target customers were precisely these well-off Shrek students!

Besides, it was not expensive for them anyway.

Only five Copper Soul Coins? Who were they looking down on?

Tang Ya's mouth fell open in shock. "Little Yuhao, you're really ruthless."

Then she flashed an arrogant grin. "Now that you put it that way, I think it's totally feasible too. Let's go fleece those rich bastards! Even if we can't sell them, we can eat them ourselves."

"Mm, let's go. To the Academy entrance."