Xiao Xiao

Huo Yuhao felt uncomfortable under the little girl's stare, so he greeted her. "Hello, my name is Huo Yuhao."

The little girl came back to her senses, shyly looked away, and said softly, "Hello, my name is Xiao Xiao."

Huo Yuhao gave the little girl another careful once-over. So this was Xiao Xiao. Delicate and soft, with the appearance of a loli—one look was enough to tell that her future figure would be flat as a board. She was unlikely to amount to much.

The little girl glanced at Wang Dong again before finally gathering her courage. "Classmate Huo Yuhao, what's the name of the classmate beside you? Could you tell me?"

Huo Yuhao paused. Well then, the little girl's feelings were written all over her face. Another girl led astray by Wang Dong's charms. But, girl, don't fall for her. Yuri never had a happy ending.

"Wang Dong."

Upon hearing the answer, the little girl was visibly much happier. Her eyes brimmed with curiosity as she asked, "Are you two good friends? The really, really good kind of friends?"

Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched. "What do you mean, the really, really good kind?"

Xiao Xiao's face reddened, and her gaze drifted as she said quietly, "I heard that between two boys, there can be a kind of friendship that goes beyond friendship. Looking at the two of you—"

"We don't have that!" Wang Dong, who had been openly eavesdropping beside them, immediately cried out.

Her handsome face had turned even redder, and a rosy flush had spread across her slender neck. Embarrassed and angry, she shot a fierce glare at Huo Yuhao, who was pretending to be innocent beside her.

Xiao Xiao immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She had been afraid that two handsome guys would end up wasting each other away like this. The one called Huo Yuhao did not matter much, but Wang Dong would have been such a pity.

With smiling eyes, Xiao Xiao happily introduced herself to Wang Dong.

Just then, someone shouted, "Extinction Master is here!" The classroom instantly fell silent. Every student turned to look at the door.

Under the students' gazes, someone entered through the classroom door. She was an elderly woman, with wrinkled skin and white hair. Her graying hair was coiled atop her head, and she wore a long white robe. She was of average height. What was particularly striking was her pair of exceptionally bright eyes, black pupils gleaming sharply.

The old woman wore a grim expression, her back ramrod straight as she strode to the podium in just a few steps.

Her gaze calmly swept from left to right. At once, everyone felt as if they were being watched by her, and an invisible pressure rose in their hearts.

"Who shouted that just now? Stand up obediently. Don't make me drag you out."

The classroom was deathly silent. Huo Yuhao was secretly puzzled. How had the nickname he had given Zhou Yi spread throughout the whole class?

The old woman's sharp gaze fixed on every person in the classroom. After a long while, she finally rebuked them in a hoarse voice, "What a bunch of trash. You don't even dare admit what you said, and you still want to become powerful Soul Masters? You might as well drop out and go home this morning."

After hearing her words, quite a few students showed indignant expressions. Having passed the assessment to become students of Shrek Academy, they had all been carefully selected from across the continent's nations. Every one of them was proud and arrogant—when had they ever suffered such humiliation?

A student immediately stood up and shouted, "I'm not trash. I was the one who shouted it."

Huo Yuhao sighed inwardly. Young people, really. With Zhou Yi's temperament, this kid would probably be expelled.

Zhou Yi sneered. "Very good. At least you've got some guts! You can pack your things and leave the academy. From this moment on, you are no longer a student of Shrek Academy."

"Huh?" The student was instantly stunned, and the other students erupted in an uproar as well.

"Why?" the student shouted angrily.

Zhou Yi said coldly, "Disrespecting a teacher—having strength but no morals—once someone like that is cultivated into talent, they will bring only disaster, not help, to any nation. Therefore, Shrek Academy does not accept students like you."

Huo Yuhao watched the farce before him with cold eyes, taking in the students' gazes—some indignant, some cowardly, some approving, and some indifferent.

Huo Yuhao realized that this was the perfect opportunity to win people over.

He had already decided that he would establish his own faction in the future, mainly to gather faith and leave himself a backup path to godhood through faith. He had also found the method of becoming a god through faith in Electrolux's memories.

The best foundation for the faction he would create in the future would be to win over these freshmen who had entered the academy alongside him. Starting now, he could slowly influence them. As for those who had already matured and formed their own ideas, even if he recruited them in the future, they would merely be talents rather than like-minded companions.

Winning people over would start now.

Huo Yuhao immediately stood and said in a clear voice, "Teacher, there's no need to make such a big issue out of this. Giving someone a nickname does not rise to the level of poor morals or endangering the nation."

Huo Yuhao was not worried about being expelled. Teacher Zhi Wei had his back—could Zhou Yi really expel him? So what if he offended Zhou Yi? It was no big deal.

When the student saw that someone had actually stood up to speak for him, he immediately cast Huo Yuhao a grateful look. The surrounding students also turned all kinds of gazes toward Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao continued, "Respecting a teacher presupposes that the teacher possesses professional ethics and fulfills a teacher's duties. What are a teacher's duties? To impart knowledge, teach skills, and resolve doubts. Yet just now, I did not see you fulfill even the slightest bit of a teacher's responsibility. All I saw was you pressuring students and forcing them to withdraw. May I ask, what principles have you imparted? What skills have you taught? What doubts have you resolved? You demand that students respect you, but on what grounds should they? That old human hide hanging off your face?"

"Good! Very good! You're young, but your tongue is certainly sharp. I just wonder how strong you are?" Fury simmered in Zhou Yi's eyes as she coldly stared at Huo Yuhao. "I'll tell you what gives me the right! I am a Six Ring Soul Emperor, and I am a teacher of Shrek Academy."

Two yellow, two purple, and two black Soul Rings rose beneath Zhou Yi's feet, and an overwhelming wave of Soul Power pressure bore down on Huo Yuhao.

Even in the face of the crushing pressure, Huo Yuhao was still able to hold on.

At that moment, Wang Dong also stood and moved closer to Huo Yuhao. She circulated her Soul Power and resisted Zhou Yi's pressure together with him. Huo Yuhao turned and gave Wang Dong a gentle smile.

Wang Dong glared back at him reproachfully, as if saying, You only know how to cause trouble. She stepped another two paces closer to Huo Yuhao.

On the other side, Xiao Xiao suddenly stood up as well. Huo Yuhao looked at the girl in confusion, wondering why she was joining in for no reason. Could she really be such a good person?

If Xiao Xiao could hear Huo Yuhao's thoughts, she would surely burst into tears.

She had been sitting there peacefully, quietly watching the show, when the teacher's pressure came crashing over. Since she was seated beside Huo Yuhao, she inevitably got caught up in it as well. If she did not stand up, even if she could endure it, the stool beneath her could not.

To avoid landing on the floor butt-first, Xiao Xiao decisively stood up. Then she saw every gaze in the class shift toward her.

Xiao Xiao: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ.

Feeling a little guilty beneath everyone's stares, Xiao Xiao could only force her eyes wide open and glare back at the students one by one.

The students in the class were glared at by a little girl who looked petite and fragile, obviously a Support System Soul Master. Her gaze seemed to say: You bunch of trash. Even a little girl like me dares to stand up against tyranny, but you don't? Cowards!

Thus, under Xiao Xiao's glare—and the guidance of Huo Yuhao's Soul Interference, which he had used at some unknown point—the students stood up one after another, confronting Zhou Yi.

As student after student stood beneath her gaze, Xiao Xiao was dumbfounded.

Xiao Xiao rarely gets much focus in the Unrivaled Tang Sect fanfics I've read, which is a bit of a shame. I'll probably give Xiao Xiao more scenes. As for the female leads, there are two kinds: those who involve both feelings and sex, such as Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, the Auspicious Beast, and Snow Empress; and those who involve only sex, not feelings, such as Xiao Wu and Bibi Dong. In any case, this will definitely be a harem story. How explicit it gets will depend on the review process.