Life Is Hard

Huo Yuhao did not sympathize with Xiao Wu. Instead, he kicked her while she was down. "Stop wasting my Grilled Fish. This Green Fish is worth one copper coin in your hands, but one silver coin in mine. You've already wasted two silver coins' worth."

"..." Xiao Wu puffed out her cheeks and shot Huo Yuhao a glare with her big eyes before turning away from him in a huff.

The tempting aroma of Grilled Fish continued to waft through the air. Xiao Wu could not help swallowing, her eyes shifting as she suddenly leaned closer to Huo Yuhao. "We're classmates now, and roommates too. Can't you give me a discount?"

"How about one percent off?" Huo Yuhao asked with a faint smile.

Xiao Wu: "..."

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Wu asked again, "We're such good friends. We've even eaten together. Can't you make it a little cheaper?"

Huo Yuhao considered it. "Two percent off?"

After a pause, Huo Yuhao added, "My money doesn't grow on trees. I can't give you too much of a discount."

"You're so stingy!" Xiao Wu pouted and said nothing more.

After a while, Huo Yuhao sold another batch of Grilled Fish. Xiao Wu suddenly sidled up to him again and said somewhat bashfully, "Yuhao Gege, could you..."

Hearing the title "Yuhao Gege," Huo Yuhao's wrist trembled, and he nearly dropped the Grilled Fish in his hand. He immediately turned to Xiao Wu and frowned. "Who did you learn that from?"

Xiao Wu had already been holding back her embarrassment just to eat Huo Yuhao's Grilled Fish, but he did not appreciate it at all. Her delicate brows shot up at once. "Why do you care who I learned it from? Just tell me, are you giving me any or not?!"

"Yes." Huo Yuhao answered concisely, immediately handing Xiao Wu one of the Grilled Fish in his hand and selling the remaining two.

Huo Yuhao was genuinely afraid of her. For the sake of eating Grilled Fish, this Crazy Girl would truly stop at nothing. He was afraid that if he did not give her any more, she might do something even more outrageous...

Xiao Wu eagerly ate the fragrant Grilled Fish while it was still hot, then licked her greasy fingers and looked at Huo Yuhao again, her eyes occasionally darting about.

Huo Yuhao said calmly, "I can't give you any more. If I let you eat as much as you wanted, you could finish five Grilled Fish. I can barely bear to eat them myself, and I've already given you two. That's generous enough, isn't it?"

Xiao Wu made a couple of disgruntled noises but did not say much else. She knew Huo Yuhao was right. He could barely bring himself to eat them, yet he had given her two. That was already incredibly generous for a friend.

In less than two hours at noon, Huo Yuhao sold nearly fifty Grilled Fish and sold out of Green Fish entirely. This left Xiao Wu somewhat unhappy, as she had been waiting for leftover Green Fish so she could pick up another bargain.

Huo Yuhao tidied up the Grilled Fish rack, folded it away, packed his things, and returned to Dorm Seven.

Huo Yuhao's Grilled Fish rack was very compact. It could fit beneath his bed and did not take up much space.

Seeing Huo Yuhao finish packing up and prepare to sleep, Xiao Wu sat her little butt beside him on his bed and whispered, "Yuhao, you sold over forty Grilled Fish in one noon. Doesn't that mean you can earn more than four Gold Soul Coins a day?"

Huo Yuhao nodded. "I have an important use for the money. Four Gold Soul Coins isn't much. What I need to buy is very expensive, at least a thousand Gold Soul Coins..."

The Mysterious Water Pill required the essence blood of more than ten types of Soul Beasts, as well as over ten kinds of plants. The plants were easy enough; Huo Yuhao could gather them himself. But with his current strength, there was no way he could obtain Soul Beast essence blood, so he would need to hire someone to hunt them.

Huo Yuhao estimated that the essence blood of more than ten kinds of Soul Beasts would cost several hundred Gold Soul Coins at the very least.

Of course, since he was hiring people to hunt Soul Beasts anyway, he could obtain more essence blood. The Soul Beasts were already being killed, after all. Drawing one bottle of blood or ten made no difference; killing the Soul Beast was the difficult part.

On average, the price was not too high.

Taking more than two or three Mysterious Water Pills would not mean much. The first Mysterious Water Pill had the greatest effect. Huo Yuhao intended for these one thousand Gold Soul Coins to cover the cost of making three Mysterious Water Pills.

Huo Yuhao also wanted to give Xiao Wu and Tang San a few Mysterious Water Pills to try, but he himself was broke, so he had better not worry about anyone else for now.

Hearing that Huo Yuhao needed more than a thousand Gold Soul Coins, Xiao Wu's eyes widened in disbelief. "What do you need so much money for?"

Huo Yuhao said wistfully, "To cultivate diligently, of course. I can't compare to people like you with Innate Full Soul Power. I can only make up for it through hard work."

"Tch!" Xiao Wu did not believe there was anything that could make up for Soul Power, but she also knew Huo Yuhao must have a use for his savings, so she did not ask any further.

Huo Yuhao shook his head and was about to lie down when he suddenly noticed that Xiao Wu had not left. Her little butt was still sitting on his bed.

Huo Yuhao asked strangely, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

Xiao Wu thought for a moment before saying, "I have something to do this afternoon, so I need to go out. I'll be back tonight at the earliest, or tomorrow morning at the latest. You don't need to wait for me for dinner tonight."

"I understand." Huo Yuhao nodded.

Xiao Wu got up and returned to her own bed, while Huo Yuhao lay down as well.

At dusk, Huo Yuhao went to the entrance of Nuoding Academy and sold another batch of Grilled Fish, bringing in five Gold Soul Coins.

However, Huo Yuhao had bought this batch of Green Fish, so there had been costs involved. He only earned a little over four Gold Soul Coins.

After an entire day, he had only made nine Gold Soul Coins. To save up one thousand Gold Soul Coins, he would need nearly four months.

"Only nine Gold Coins a day. Life is so hard..."

Huo Yuhao sighed, put away the Grilled Fish rack, and returned to the dormitory.

He sat in meditation to cultivate, and before he knew it, it was late at night.

Under the night sky, bright moonlight shone into the dormitory. Wang Sheng and the others were mostly asleep.

Huo Yuhao finished cultivating, pulled up his blanket, and fell asleep as well.

The next day, classes officially began.

Nuoding Academy did not impose mandatory attendance on its students. The teachers did not care whether they attended class, but those who failed the end-of-term examinations could be expelled.

Huo Yuhao possessed the extensive cultural knowledge, as well as knowledge of Martial Souls and Soul Beasts, that he had learned in his previous life. The courses at an elementary academy like this were meaningless to him. While Wang Sheng and the others attended class, Huo Yuhao cultivated alone in the dormitory.

Huo Yuhao's talent was not particularly high. In his previous life, it had taken him a full five years to cultivate from Level One to Level Ten. Although poor nutrition and the need to work, which prevented him from focusing on cultivation, had played a part, it was still enough to show that Huo Yuhao's talent was quite ordinary.

Before school started, Huo Yuhao had cultivated desperately for a full three months, yet he had only advanced from Level One to Level Three. Only after taking the Soul Ascending Pill had he barely reached Level Seven.

Huo Yuhao estimated that without taking the Mysterious Water Pill, even if he cultivated diligently, it would take him more than half a year to advance from Level Seven to Level Ten.

I should cultivate as quickly as possible. Once I have the Wisdom Soul Ring and the Ice Empress Martial Soul, my Soul Power will be able to grow rapidly... Brother Sky Dream said that his original body's energy still remains. If I obtain Brother Sky Dream's energy, my cultivation speed should become even faster, right?