Chapter 44

One of them lost his breath, rolled his byakugan, and fell straight back.

Seeing that he was about to hit his head on the ground.

Huo Yuhao was still kind-hearted, catching him with spiritual telekinesis and tossing him toward the Class 3 head teacher.

"Alright, Wang Dong, let's go."

Only then did Wang Dong stop his output, but he swept the entire crowd with a disdainful gaze.

Not a single one of the students who had just kicked a man while he was down dared to meet his eyes.

"Hmph! Bully the soft and fear the hard, cowards!"

He taunted loudly.

Wang Dong lowered his altitude, landing in front of Huo Yuhao and the other.

"Sorry, rushing all the way here was still a bit slow."

"You didn't need to rush so much, I could've beaten through them all by myself!" Xiao Xiao said, putting her hands on her hips. "Today I didn't even use a soul skill!"

"It's good that you're back." Huo Yuhao smiled. "Look at how travel-worn you are, go back to the dorm to wash up first, today's assessments are already over."

The first day of the freshman assessment only had one match, used for adaptation.

Tomorrow morning and afternoon would have two matches each, making four in total.

On the third day, it would surge to five matches, deciding the freshman champion team.

Hearing this, Wang Dong nodded in agreement.

He took the lead and flew toward the dorms.

Huo Yuhao brought Xiao Xiao beside the soul dueling platform to practice Tai Chi Fist while watching the freshman matches.

On the teachers' viewing platform.

Zhou Yi and other teachers stood in twos and threes, with Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo in the center, and Xuan Zi lying on a lounge chair behind them eating a chicken drumstick.

At this moment, the center of their discussion was entirely Huo Yuhao.

"The one called Xiao Xiao is using Tai Chi Fist, Dean Yan has been practicing it recently too."

"I heard it's the inherited combat technique of the Sacred Fire Cult."

"Sacred Fire Cult? What is that?"

"Your information is too outdated, the body-tempering method in physical education classes now is the outer sect cultivation method of the Sacred Fire Cult."

"Ah? I only returned from hunting a soul ring last week, tell me in detail."

Listening to the discussion below.

Yan Shaozhe looked at Qian Duoduo and shook his head firmly.

"My junior brother is destined to be a core disciple of the Martial Soul Branch, it's impossible to hand him over to your Soul Tool Branch."

Qian Duoduo became somewhat anxious.

"Little Yuhao's mental attributes and soul skills are great material for a soul engineer!"

"And he can also be cultivated as a core for the ultimate individual soldier plan!"

"Your Martial Soul Branch has so many people splitting the resources, I can give him the resources of the entire Soul Tool Branch!"

Yan Shaozhe sneered.

"You're planning right to my face."

"Little junior brother is Teacher's closing disciple, how could his resources be lacking?"

"Not to mention there is also that person—"

"Don't even think about it, there's no way I'm letting him go."

Qian Duoduo twirled a gold soul coin in his hand, moving faster and faster until it formed an afterimage.

Yet he simply couldn't think of a reason to persuade Yan Shaozhe.

He could only look behind him.

"Xuan Zi, what do you think of this matter?"

"Don't ask me, the pavilion master is Mu En, go ask him."

Qian Duoduo tightly clenched the gold soul coin, feeling somewhat desperate.

"Such a good soul engineer seedling, how can you guys—"

"How can we what?"

"How can you bear to watch him go to waste?"

Qian Duoduo realized belatedly that the voice sounded wrong.

He turned his head to look.

The Taoist-immortal-like Mu En was standing at the edge of the viewing platform, his gaze falling on Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao sparring.

His eyes were full of surprise.

This simple fist technique seemed to have a lot of depth to it.

Qian Duoduo was immediately overjoyed and trotted over to Mu En.

"Mu En, you must judge this for me, this Little Yuhao is a born soul engineer and Yan Shaozhe is being stubborn and arbitrary."

After a flurry of grievances.

Qian Duoduo added: "You must uphold justice for me!"

Yan Shaozhe stood to the side without a single word of rebuttal.

Because—

"I think Shaozhe did the right thing." Mu En said indifferently. "With that person's high regard, Little Yuhao's future is smooth sailing, there's no need to be distracted by other things."

Qian Duoduo almost choked on his breath!

What did that mean?

Just because a quasi-god-level senior was escorting and protecting him, he was going to treat soul tools as a heterodox path?

You are... this is—

Hmm.

A quasi-god-level soul tool was indeed something he had never heard of.

It seemed he really had been focusing on one thing to the detriment of another.

Qian Duoduo even began to doubt his outlook on life; could his persistence have been wrong?

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Huo Yuhao, who was feeding moves to Xiao Xiao, paused his movements!

Xiao Xiao caught the opening and headbutted straight over.

Huo Yuhao reacted extremely quickly, pressing down on her little head with one hand while bending his knees and jumping backward to discharge the force, landing lightly.

"Tch~ You still managed to parry that." Xiao Xiao said unhappily. "Come again!"

"Hold on, I have something to attend to and need to go back for a bit." Huo Yuhao waved his hand.

"Alright then, I'll practice by myself."

"Yeah."

Huo Yuhao used spiritual telekinesis to fly away, his spiritual body splitting its consciousness to enter the spiritual world.

"Brother Lan, what's going on here?"

Zhuge Lan's gaze stared into the void, using Luck Value to check the source of the problem.

"So that's how it is."

"Your recent performance has been too monstrous, and the higher-ups of Shrek have decided not to let you get distracted by soul tools."

"This is the era of soul engineers; with sufficient resources, how can single-cultivating martial souls compare to dual cultivation?"

"It's not a big problem; later on, you can bring up wanting to enter the Soul Tool Branch to study yourself. With your current learning speed of using one mind for four tasks, it's more than enough."

Huo Yuhao let out a long breath.

He thought some major event had happened.

But then he caught the main point.

"Brother Lan, you seem to be able to see my future?"

Uh.

Why did he suddenly become smart this time?

"Yeah, I can see some of it." Zhuge Lan said vaguely. "Knowing the specifics is useless anyway, I'll arrange it."

Huo Yuhao really stopped asking and nodded in agreement.

"Then I'll go find Wang Dong. We haven't dual-cultivated for a month, today we must have a hearty two-person journey!"

He directly exited the spiritual world.

Zhuge Lan nodded with satisfaction.

This attitude of clinging to a powerhouse was quite proper.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm walked over at this time to ask about the situation.

Zhuge Lan gave a brief explanation.

"Soul tools are actually this important?" Electrolux said in surprise.

"To be exact, the ultimate individual soldier plan is useful for Little Yuhao." Zhuge Lan explained. "Although Shrek's technology isn't up to par, the philosophy is correct. Cultivating an individual who can turn the tide of battle by their own strength doesn't conflict with martial souls; the two complement each other, and they won't fall behind even when reaching the God Realm."

--The Death Ray Tower researched by Huo Yuhao after becoming a god rivaled a Rank 1 Deity, and the God Transmission Tower could even freeze a God King briefly!

These were all additional combat powers that didn't conflict with the main body.

"I see."

Huo Yuhao nodded and said—

"I can already exercise my physical stamina while using spiritual telekinesis to read books at the same time, and I still feel like I have energy to spare."

"There is indeed surplus time, adding soul tools shouldn't be much of a problem."

Having determined the direction.

Huo Yuhao sped up his flight back to the dorms, and in his haste, he once again forgot about knocking on the door, pushing it open directly.

"Clack—"

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"Clack—"

The door lock didn't turn; it was bolted from the inside.

"I knew it!" Wang Dong's smug voice came from inside. "Wait, just a few more minutes and it'll be done."

"Alright, then I'll wait for you at our usual spot." Huo Yuhao muttered to himself. "We're both men, what is there to be afraid of?"

Returning to the large tree in front of the dorms, he took out four books and turned the pages using spiritual telekinesis.

This reading session lasted for more than two hours, and he had already gone through three rounds of books.

Wang Dong was running fashionably late.

"Is this time-awareness of yours learned from Xiao Xiao?" Huo Yuhao complained. "I used to think only girls were troublesome, but I never expected you, a big man—"

"Hey!" Wang Dong raged. "We haven't seen each other in a month, why are you still just as annoying!"

"Oh right, we haven't dual-cultivated in a month, hurry up and let me take a bite!" Huo Yuhao opened his arms for a hug.

Wang Dong retreated to dodge it, his face full of disgust.