A Challenge Duel

At that, Huo Yuhao smiled.

Whenever Xiao Wu wanted grilled fish, when had Huo Yuhao ever refused her?

Every time, he fed Xiao Wu until she was full. He had never mistreated her!

Not long ago, Xiao Wu had done Huo Yuhao a huge favor by taking him into the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest. As a result, Huo Yuhao obtained the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's main body energy and Molted Shell, making the road ahead much smoother.

Although Huo Yuhao had exchanged grilled fish and a Soul Tool Propulsion Device for this, he had always felt that he had gotten an enormous bargain.

To have Xiao Wu risk her life and accompany him into the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest in exchange for so little, Huo Yuhao felt, both rationally and emotionally, that he ought to compensate Xiao Wu generously.

As long as Xiao Wu's request was not too excessive, Huo Yuhao would basically agree to it.

That night.

Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged on his bed, meditating and cultivating.

Within his body, his Soul Power was rapidly increasing at an astonishing rate.

This was the benefit brought by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's main body energy!

In his previous life, when Huo Yuhao encountered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, it had nearly been drained dry by Di Tian and the others, leaving only its origin power and spiritual power.

But now, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's main body energy was still intact!

This was the entirety of the energy possessed by a Million-Year Soul Beast!

If Huo Yuhao absorbed it all, disregarding the matter of Soul Rings, he could likely become a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo on the spot, with all three Soul Cores complete!

Of course, Huo Yuhao himself was still far too weak. He had no way to absorb it all.

He could only absorb it bit by bit, as he was doing now.

Huo Yuhao's body could not bear too much energy. Just like in his previous life, only the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's origin power and spiritual power entered Huo Yuhao's body, while the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi from its main body was stored within its own Molted Shell.

This way, not only could Huo Yuhao more easily absorb the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to increase his Soul Power, but the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could also use the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi from its main body to activate the Molted Shell, making it last longer and strike with greater power.

With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Molted Shell becoming more powerful, Huo Yuhao would also be safer when he went to the Extreme North to find the Ice Empress at rank twenty.

It was a virtuous cycle.

After cultivating for an unknown amount of time, Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes.

Bright moonlight streamed into the dormitory, and all was quiet.

Huo Yuhao glanced at Tang San's bed. Seeing that Tang San was also meditating and cultivating, he could not help but nod.

Tang San had always cultivated diligently, almost no less so than Huo Yuhao.

In his previous life, Huo Yuhao had also learned several of the Tang Sect's ultimate techniques—the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Mysterious Jade Hand, Purple Demon Eye, and so on. However, these techniques had become of little use to Huo Yuhao in the later stages, so he had not practiced them after crossing over.

After meeting Tang San, there was even less need to practice them, lest Tang San misunderstand.

What surprised Huo Yuhao was that not only was Tang San cultivating diligently, but Xiao Wu, on the bed beside him, was also sitting cross-legged in cultivation.

Pure moonlight shone upon Xiao Wu.

When Xiao Wu was quiet, she carried a distinctly different charm.

Usually, not to mention at night, Xiao Wu was rarely seen cultivating even during the day. She had probably been dealt a blow by Huo Yuhao today, which was why she was finally striving to improve herself tonight.

"I wonder how many days Xiao Wu can keep this up?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head with a smile, lay down on the bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Time flew by, and the world changed.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the school year.

Between his constant cultivation and his battle of wits and courage with Xiao Wu, Huo Yuhao did not feel that time passed slowly. Instead, he felt that the year had slipped by before he knew it.

Xiao Wu was far too curious, while Huo Yuhao had crossed over from ten thousand years in the future and possessed countless things worth being curious about. Throughout this year, aside from cultivating, Xiao Wu spent her time studying Huo Yuhao.

Fortunately, Huo Yuhao had a good temper and a kind heart. Otherwise, Xiao Wu's curiosity would have driven him to death long ago.

Today she wanted to learn how to make Soul Tools, tomorrow she wanted to learn how to grill fish, and the day after that she became curious about why Huo Yuhao's soul skills could evolve... She had a new fascination every day. If it were anyone other than Huo Yuhao, no one could have endured Xiao Wu's curiosity.

Of course, if it were anyone other than Huo Yuhao, Xiao Wu would not have developed such intense curiosity in the first place.

Tomorrow, the school year would come to an end. They had completed their assessments yesterday, and Huo Yuhao had received excellent marks. Xiao Wu sat beside Huo Yuhao, so naturally, she had received excellent marks as well.

Once the school year ended and vacation began, Huo Yuhao would head to the Extreme North to have a little talk with the Ice Empress.

Since he could leave the academy tomorrow, Huo Yuhao had long since prepared cold-weather clothing. He had also made several Soul Tools with warming functions.

In his previous life, Huo Yuhao had foolishly gone to the Extreme North just like that. If not for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Molted Shell, he would have frozen to death on the way.

This time, Huo Yuhao had learned his lesson and prepared every kind of cold-weather supply.

Over the past year, Huo Yuhao had spent quite a bit of money. However, because he persisted in selling grilled fish every day, not only had his money not decreased, it had increased considerably. He had now surpassed one thousand Gold Soul Coins again.

Huo Yuhao did not continue selling Soul Tools. The risk was simply too great. Even now, when he went to the auction house, he would occasionally hear people asking about the Electric Baton.

If Huo Yuhao sold the Soul Shield, Soul Tool Propulsion Device, and Soul Light Ray as well, the Pope of Spirit Hall would probably be at his doorstep tomorrow...

Today was the last day of the school year. Huo Yuhao had already prepared everything and could set off for the Extreme North tomorrow.

But before leaving, he still had one thing to do.

Have a fight with Tang San.

It was something Huo Yuhao and Tang San had agreed on a few days ago.

Over the past year, Huo Yuhao had fought Xiao Wu quite a few times and sparred with Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu as well, but he had never crossed hands with Tang San.

A few days earlier, everyone had been chatting in the dormitory when, somehow, the topic turned to who was stronger now: Xiao Wu or Tang San.

When school had first started, both Xiao Wu and Tang San possessed Innate Full Soul Power and were considered the strongest. Now that a year had passed, no one knew who was stronger.

So everyone began egging them on, asking Xiao Wu and Tang San to fight and see who was the real boss.

But Xiao Wu refused. With a mischievous look, she glanced at Huo Yuhao and pushed him forward, saying that anyone who beat Huo Yuhao would earn the right to challenge her.

But only Xiao Wu and Huo Yuhao knew that when the two of them fought, it was usually Xiao Wu who got knocked down and pinned underneath him, forced to answer whether she admitted defeat.

At first, Xiao Wu and Huo Yuhao had been evenly matched, but as Huo Yuhao's soul power rapidly increased, Xiao Wu had begun losing far more often than she won whenever they fought.

At the end of the year, Xiao Wu was only Level Seventeen, while Huo Yuhao had already reached Level Twenty and could obtain his second Soul Ring.

And so, Huo Yuhao and Tang San made their agreement: on the final day of the school year, they would have a spar.