Soul Bone

Once all the names had been read out, the students whose names had been called were all beaming with joy.

"Ahem. In addition, although some students lacked talent and ability during the assessment, they performed outstandingly. The academy has decided to let them temporarily receive Core Disciple treatment until the end of this school year. If they show a breakthrough in ability during next year's assessment, they will officially be promoted to formal disciples. The list is as follows: Huo Yuhao, Cui Yajie, Huang Chutian..."

After announcing the list of students who would receive Core Disciple treatment, Du Weilun took out another folder and announced the class assignments for the students.

Without question, just like in the original story, Huo Yuhao's group was assigned to Class One, taught by Zhou Yi and Professor Wang Yan.

Once the class assignments were over, Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao followed Du Weilun all the way to the top floor of the teachers' office building.

Downstairs from the office building, Xu Jie and the other two had already received their vouchers to exchange for soul bones. Xu Jie casually placed the vouchers in Xiao Xiao's hands.

"No, no, you should..." Seeing Xiao Xiao about to refuse, Xu Jie hurriedly said, "You deserve this." With that, he quickly left with Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao turned back to look at Xiao Xiao, apology on his face.

Xiao Xiao stood where she was, holding the exchange vouchers in her hands as she watched Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao grow farther and farther away, somewhat dazed.

In the evening, the setting sun's afterglow fell across Xu Jie's face as he sat beside the window. Nearby, Huo Yuhao absentmindedly fiddled with a small metal block.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A knock sounded at the door. Huo Yuhao immediately got up and opened the dormitory door. Xiao Xiao was standing outside.

"Xiao Xiao?" Huo Yuhao was somewhat surprised when he recognized her.

"Can I come in?" Xiao Xiao asked, looking at Huo Yuhao, who was still blocking the doorway.

Huo Yuhao hurriedly stepped back and raised a hand, sending a thread of Soul Power into the Soul Power transmitter beside him. The previously dim dormitory immediately brightened.

"Xiao Xiao?" Xu Jie looked up and saw that it was not Dugu Lu. A trace of surprise appeared on his face as well.

"Hmph!" The young girl snorted and ignored Xu Jie. She turned to Huo Yuhao instead. Green light flashed from the emerald-green bracelet on her wrist, and two brown pouches appeared in her hands.

Seeing Xiao Xiao's expression, Xu Jie also felt apologetic. Earlier, he had gotten a little carried away. In his impulsiveness, he had not considered Xiao Xiao's feelings. His fault, his fault.

He had already lived through three lifetimes, yet he was still so impulsive. Come to think of it, Xu Jie had recently noticed that the memories from his previous world seemed to be slowly separating from him. They had not disappeared, but had become more like a movie stored in his mind.

However, his memories of Earth had not been affected. He could feel that this change seemed to be an instinct born from the coordination between his soul and body.

He guessed that human memories were like files, while the soul and brain were like the C drive and D drive—one was the primary partition, while the other was an extended partition. When Xu Jie was still in his first body, everything had been original equipment, so it did not matter whether he opened the D drive or not.

But once he reached his second body, that would not do. The C drive already had plenty of things installed on it, and he could not just keep adding things from scratch. Some places would conflict, so he opened a D drive and started anew.

Then, when he reached his third body, there was not much data at first. Since they were all extended partitions anyway, it did not matter if things were squeezed together a little. But later, as the data increased, the D drive refused. I don't even have enough space for my own things anymore. Go squeeze into the C drive.

The C drive heard that and said it could not do that. My stuff is important. You can't just cram things in here. The D drive would not allow it either. Seeing no other choice, the two drives each gave up a little space and split off an E drive. But that drive was a little small too. What then? Convert Blu-ray into 360p—wouldn't that leave enough room?

Ignoring Xu Jie, she took out the longer soul bone and said, "This is the academy's reward for the champions. It's called the Ethereal Demonic Leopard Left Leg Bone. After fusing with it, it can increase a soul master's speed. It also grants an offensive skill activated through the left leg."

Then she opened the other pouch and took out the soul bone. "This was won by Teacher Zhou in a bet. It's called the Secret Method Soul Left Arm Bone. I heard Teacher Zhou say that Secret Method Soul Bones are obtained in a special and cruel way. If any type of soul beast kills one hundred creatures of its own kind within half an hour, then uses a secret method to trigger their soul rings, there is a ten percent chance of obtaining a Secret Method Soul Bone.

"If you fuse with it, it will give you a five percent increase in Soul Power." After saying that, she turned to glance at Xu Jie.

Looking at the soul bones on the table, Xu Jie shamelessly stepped forward and picked one up to examine it. Xiao Xiao snorted but did not stop him.

The tiny soul bone, only the size of a palm, emitted a faint yellow glow! Feeling the Soul Power fluctuations coming from it, Xu Jie fell into thought.

Judging from the fluctuations emitted by the soul bone, the one before him was undoubtedly a century-old soul bone. The Secret Method Soul Bone beside it was undoubtedly century-old as well.

Looking at the yellow glow emanating from the soul bones, he wondered whether the grade of a soul bone was related to the light it emitted. White for ten years, yellow for a hundred years, purple for a thousand years, black for ten thousand years, and red for a hundred thousand years?

"Hmph!" Xiao Xiao seemed somewhat dissatisfied that Xu Jie had been staring blankly at the soul bones. She snorted. "Yuhao, you're the captain of our team. You divide them!"

Huo Yuhao looked at the two soul bones on the table, one long and one short, and was just about to refuse when the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his mind suddenly woke up. "Little Yuhao, take the Secret Method Soul Left Arm Bone. It'll be useful."

"Brother Sky Dream." Huo Yuhao immediately hesitated. Looking at the soul bones on the table, he became indecisive and could not help turning to Xu Jie.

Seeing Huo Yuhao look at him, Xu Jie immediately put down the soul bone, turned around, returned to the balcony, and picked up the Poison Scripture to continue reading. None of my business. The young lady is still angry. Why should I go over there and invite trouble now?

Still, when Xu Jie turned away, he inadvertently glanced at the shorter Secret Method Soul Left Arm Bone. For one thing, Xiao Xiao had already brought the soul bones over, so it would not be appropriate for him to refuse again. One did not slap a smiling face.

For another, the Ethereal Demonic Leopard bone had already been reserved by the academy for Xiao Xiao. It had been exchanged for a Class Three Soul Tool, though he had thrown that lousy blade away.

Huo Yuhao: "..."

"Yuhao, how about you take the Ethereal Demonic Leopard Left Leg Bone? If it hadn't been for your soul skill in that match, Xu Jie and I could never have struck so accurately. You deserve it," Xiao Xiao said, seeing Huo Yuhao's hesitation.

"No!" Hearing that, Huo Yuhao came to his senses. The hesitation in his heart vanished as he reached out and picked up the Secret Method Soul Left Arm Bone. "I'll take this one instead. This soul bone will actually help me more. I plan to join the Soul Guidance Department in the future, so an increase in my total Soul Power will undoubtedly be more helpful to me."

"Fine, then the remaining soul bone goes to Xu Jie (Xiao Xiao)!" ×2