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"Gulp! Gulp! Gulp—"

The tea had barely gone down his throat when the Yi Jin Jing began digesting it.

He drained the whole pot.

He had also completely refined the Soul Power within, and a small burst of aura erupted from his body.

He had broken through to Level 13!

Rewrite Huo Yuhao's Destiny, +300 Luck Value!

Xu Sanshi rubbed his little tuft of yellow hair and made to brew another pot of tea.

"No need, Brother Sanshi." Huo Yuhao stopped him. "I can feel the effects have weakened considerably. Isn't the Mysterious Water Pill also made with this as an auxiliary ingredient? After taking it, this Jade Spring Tea probably won't work on me anymore."

Xu Sanshi realized that made sense.

Rather than pouring out the pot of Jade Spring Tea, he continued brewing it and pushed it toward Huo Yuhao.

"The medicinal effect of the second brew is less than one-tenth of the first, but there's still a little left. Give it a taste."

Huo Yuhao could not help looking at the trash can.

So he had poured it out directly earlier?

This...

He really was loaded!

"Creak—"

The dormitory door opened. Beibei walked in first, followed by a long-haired girl. Even from a distance, Huo Yuhao could feel a wave of heat rushing toward him.

The moment Xu Sanshi saw her, he immediately stood up with a smile.

Huo Yuhao rose with him.

"Little Yuhao, this is Ma Xiaotao, a senior from the inner courtyard," Beibei introduced. "Sister Xiao Tao, this is Huo Yuhao, the one I mentioned to you. We all call him Little Yuhao."

"Hello, Sister Xiao Tao." Huo Yuhao greeted her obediently.

"You're quite pretty for a junior, aren't you? If Beibei hadn't told me, I'd have thought you were a junior sister." Ma Xiaotao laughed brightly. "Take a look, then. If you can solve my Martial Soul's flaw, I definitely won't treat you poorly."

"Alright, Sister Xiao Tao."

Huo Yuhao activated his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, and Martial Soul markings emerged on his forehead.

He put on a show of examining her for a while.

In truth, he was listening to Zhuge Lan's explanation.

"This girl's Martial Soul is the Evil Fire Phoenix, once the Martial Soul of the Phoenix God. Once Evil Fire latches onto you, you can't shake it off without shedding a layer of skin."

"But Evil Fire is both her making and her undoing. It also ignites the negative emotions in her heart. Once it erupts, she'll lose her reason and fall into becoming an evil Soul Master."

"Whether she uses Soul Skills or cultivates, Evil Fire will continuously accumulate inside her body. External methods can only suppress it temporarily; they cannot cure the root of the problem."

A trace of regret appeared in Huo Yuhao's eyes.

Such a valiant senior sister, yet she had ended up with a Martial Soul like this.

What a pity.

"Then, Brother Lan, is there any way to solve it?" Huo Yuhao asked.

"Extreme Ice can suppress it temporarily, but it only treats the symptoms, not the root cause." Zhuge Lan said, "Still, she's lucky. The Yi Jin Jing can't expel the Evil Fire, but it can prevent more Evil Fire from forming while she cultivates. After that, we can find a way to evolve her Martial Soul into a Fire Phoenix, and the Evil Fire problem will be resolved."

Huo Yuhao let out a breath of relief.

As long as there was a solution, it was fine.

"But Little Yuhao, have you decided what to say?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly asked. "Are you giving the Yi Jin Jing away for free, or recruiting her into the Holy Fire Meow Meow Sect?"

Hearing that, Huo Yuhao did not hesitate at all.

"Of course I'll have Sister Xiao Tao join the Holy Fire Meow Meow Sect and become one of us!"

"She has the Martial Soul of the Phoenix God, she's descended from a god, and she's a student of Shrek Academy's inner courtyard. If she becomes one of us, it should add quite a lot of Luck Value, right?"

Zhuge Lan was rather surprised.

"Little Yuhao has thought this through very thoroughly." He agreed. "That's right. Ma Xiaotao has a great deal of Luck Value on her. If she becomes one of us, a conservative estimate would be 10,000 Luck Value, and there will be further gains afterward."

"Then we'll have one-tenth of what we need to awaken Mental Power!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said excitedly. "Quick, Little Yuhao! Win her over!"

Huo Yuhao nodded almost imperceptibly.

Then, he briefly repeated Zhuge Lan's words.

"Sister Xiao Tao, Extreme Ice is hard to find, so the only solution at present is the secret cultivation method of my Sacred Fire Cult—the Yi Jin Jing."

"But this cultivation method cannot be taught to anyone who is not a member of our sect—"

"I'll join!" Ma Xiaotao said without hesitation. "As long as it lets me cultivate without restraint, I'll join this Sacred Fire Cult!"

Huo Yuhao was somewhat stunned.

That decisive?

Little did he know.

Two days earlier, Mu En had gone to Sea God Pavilion and highly praised Huo Yuhao's cultivation method, instructing the academy to find a way to recruit him or cooperate with him.

Ma Xiaotao's teacher, Yan Shaozhe, was the dean of the Martial Soul Branch. He treated her like his own daughter and told her this information that very day.

It just so happened that Beibei had contacted her earlier, saying he would introduce Huo Yuhao to help examine her Martial Soul's flaw.

So she had come prepared today.

She simply had not expected herself to be so decisive that she seemed to have "aroused his suspicion."

No!

She had to find a way to make up for it.

Ma Xiaotao slapped the tea table and pretended to be angry—

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"What, I already agreed. Could I be lying?" Ma Xiaotao said unhappily. "Or are you saying there's no Yi Jin Jing at all, and you made everything up?"

Huo Yuhao came back to his senses and asked Zhuge Lan in his mind what he should do.

"What else can you do? Take her in!" Zhuge Lan said with amusement. "Teach her the Yi Jin Jing right here. If you're lucky, you can take in Xu Sanshi too."

He did not give Beibei much thought.

That guy was Tang Ya's lapdog and the current eldest senior brother of the Tang Sect.

He could not be poached.

Having found his anchor, Huo Yuhao nodded at Ma Xiaotao.

"Our Sacred Fire Cult is currently recruiting talents, and Sister Xiao Tao certainly meets the requirements to join."

"Then I'll first teach you the Yi Jin Jing."

"Open your mind. I'll guide you through the cultivation method."

A platinum Soul Ring lit up.

First Soul Skill—Spirit Sharing!

He shared the Yi Jin Jing's circulation process with Ma Xiaotao in real time. It was the most direct form of personal instruction.

Ma Xiaotao looked at Huo Yuhao in surprise. This move alone was extraordinary.

Then she saw Huo Yuhao wearing an expression as though he were constipated.

Because—

"Oh, right." Zhuge Lan reminded him. "Don't forget our sect-entry ceremony. Have her shout the slogan."

Was that slogan something a normal person could even say aloud?

Come on, Brother Lan...

"No, she has to shout it." Zhuge Lan insisted. "If she isn't willing to make even this small sacrifice, how could she be worthy of a cultivation method as heaven-defying as the Yi Jin Jing?"

—It definitely was not because he wanted to watch the show. Hehehe!

That was some logic.

With no other choice, Huo Yuhao sent Ma Xiaotao a mental message—

Huo Yuhao: Before I formally teach you, you still need to complete the sect-entry ceremony. You have to shout—

Ma Xiaotao: ???

She stared at Huo Yuhao with wide eyes. Was he serious?

Huo Yuhao helplessly closed his eyes and nodded. She had heard correctly.

Ma Xiaotao twitched her lips.

She suddenly felt as if she were being conned.

But since Huo Yuhao had seen through her Martial Soul's flaw at a glance, she still decided to take the gamble.

She turned to Beibei and Xu Sanshi.

"You two, get out."

"It really isn't appropriate for us to stay while you're passing on a cultivation method," Xu Sanshi nodded.

"Then we'll stand guard outside," Beibei said.

Once the dormitory door closed—

Ma Xiaotao took a deep breath and used her Soul Power to envelop the dormitory, preventing any sound from leaking out.

Then she shouted—

"Sacred Fire Shining, Sacred Fire Blazing, all disciples of mine... meow meow meow meow!"

Even someone as outgoing as Ma Xiaotao blushed a little after shouting that.

She glared at Huo Yuhao in embarrassment and anger. That should do it, right?

Without another word, Huo Yuhao directly shared the Yi Jin Jing cultivation process with her.

Feeling the profound Soul Power circulation route, Ma Xiaotao's expression eased somewhat.

She calmed herself and began learning in earnest.

"Zhuge, you really do have terrible taste," Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said speechlessly. "Is this actually fun?"

Zhuge Lan said nothing, merely grinning.

This was far too fun!

Just imagine it.

In the future, the main cast standing in a row, all meowing together.

How hilarious would that be!

Hehehehehe—

After ten thousand years of development—

Shrek Academy also had its own cultivation methods, perhaps a modified version of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

They had some foundation already.

So learning the first stage of the Yi Jin Jing was fairly easy for her.

The night passed.

She could already circulate it haltingly and sense some of its mysteries.

The most obvious change was that the Evil Fire, which had once constantly formed and accumulated whenever she cultivated Soul Power, was gone!

More precisely, it was being released through her pores.

Ma Xiaotao opened her eyes in delight and found wisps of black flames drifting from her body, falling onto the nearby tea table and floor, where they burned fiercely.