Duel

After registering, it was time to ask about the dormitories and get settled in. Hu Xue also took his leave. Even someone like Hu Xue had to tread carefully in Shrek Academy, where experts were everywhere.

His current mission was to lie low in Shrek City and secretly protect the Young Emperor. To that end, he had moved the entire "Shadow" organization over.

Shadow was the Azure Hill Clan's intelligence organization in the outside world, codenamed Shadow. Hu Xue was also known as the Shadow King.

Shadow's high-end combat strength was roughly as follows: Hu Xue, a Soul Douluo; two Soul Sages; and five Soul Emperors.

Shadow had only just arrived in Shrek City, and Hu Xue still had many matters to handle. However, he was not worried that Ye Mo would encounter danger while he failed to arrive in time.

That was because Hu Zixin had left a spiritual imprint on Ye Mo. It could sense whether the Young Emperor was in danger, and the moment danger arose, Hu Xue would rush over immediately.

Ye Mo also knew about Shadow. He did not want to be protected so rigorously, but there was no helping it. If anything truly happened to Ye Mo, the Azure Hill Clan would undoubtedly never recover. If even the Young Emperor they regarded as a legend were to fall, would the Azure Hill Clan still have any hope of rising again?

Now, Ye Mo could be said to be the faith of the entire Azure Hill Clan.

A cultivation frenzy had swept through the younger generation of the Azure Hill Clan. They all shared the same wish: to follow in the Young Emperor's footsteps and witness the Azure Hill Clan at its peak.

They all knew that, with the Young Emperor's talent, he would soon surpass them. Only by cultivating tirelessly now could they avoid holding the Young Emperor back in the future.

Naturally, Ye Mo knew nothing about the cultivation craze within the clan. Otherwise, he would definitely have gotten smug about it. Was his charm really that great?

Ye Mo soon arrived at the freshman dormitory area. He had checked the notice earlier and found that he was assigned to Freshman Class 1. He was actually in Class 1. That was truly interesting.

He had thought he would not be placed in Class 1, but so what?

It did not matter which class he was in. Ye Mo had only come to Shrek Academy because he was bored. He also wanted to spar with Shrek's so-called genius students, hone his combat skills, and give Huo Yuhao a good beating.

Before the white dormitory doors sat an elderly man who looked quite advanced in years. He wore plain gray clothes, and the wrinkles on his face were deep enough to crush more than a double-digit number of flies at once. His eyes were clouded and yellow, his eyelids drooped, and he looked as though he had one foot in the grave. The sunlight filtering between the buildings happened to fall over him, and the reclining chair beneath him looked quite comfortable.

"Hello, I'm—"

Before Ye Mo could finish speaking, the old man's half-lidded eyes suddenly flew open. A sharp gleam flashed in them as he stared at Ye Mo.

"Uh..."

Although Ye Mo knew that the old man before him was no ordinary person, being stared at so intensely made him feel as though he had been seen through completely, with no privacy whatsoever.

"Ahem, a freshman?"

The old man knew he had lost his composure and coughed a few times, but his gaze continued to scan Ye Mo without restraint, as if he wanted to see through him entirely.

"Yes."

Ye Mo grew a little nervous. Could this old man possibly have some strange hobby? The novels never mentioned it, but this was the real world. Besides, what was written in novels was not necessarily all correct.

"Show me your badge and dorm key."

Ye Mo let out a breath of relief. He had thought the old man was about to take him somewhere strange.

The old man took the badge and key, inspected them, and then said, "Go on. Dorm 108 is the third room on the left on the first floor. The fourth floor and above are the girls' dormitories. You are not allowed up there. If you are caught, you will be expelled."

"Thank you."

Ye Mo hurried into the dormitory building. The old man's piercing gaze made him feel guilty, and he did not want to remain downstairs.

After Ye Mo entered the dormitory building, the old man withdrew his gaze and muttered, "Are young people these days all this handsome? No, that is not what I should be thinking about. That little boy seems to have many secrets."

"This year's freshman assessment seems like it will become interesting."

After saying that, the old man returned to his previous drowsy appearance.

Following the old man's directions, Ye Mo soon arrived outside a dormitory room. The door was open.

Ye Mo frowned. What the old man had said earlier somehow felt familiar, but he did not think too much about it and quickly entered the room.

The dormitory was spotlessly clean, as though someone had carefully tidied it up. A figure sat cross-legged on one of the beds, seemingly cultivating.

The figure seemed to notice someone's arrival and hurriedly stood up. The moment he turned around, Ye Mo froze. At the same time, the other person froze as well.

"It's you!"

"It's you!"

The two spoke in unison with remarkable tacit understanding, but this was not the time to marvel at that.

Ye Mo stared at the person before him in shock. This was too ridiculous a coincidence. He had actually run into Huo Yuhao here?

Huo Yuhao had also never expected that the roommate he had been awaiting would turn out to be him.

The two glared at each other without speaking, while the scent of gunpowder gradually filled the air between them.

"Were you the one who took my clothes in the Star Dou Great Forest last time?"

Although he knew it was probably the person in front of him, Huo Yuhao could not help but demand an answer. He would never forget the expressions on Tang Ya and Bei Bei's faces when they saw him back then.

"That's right, it was me. So what?"

Ye Mo spoke indifferently. Back then, he should have tied Huo Yuhao to a tree as well. Had he gone too easy on him?

"You..."

Huo Yuhao panted heavily as he stared at Ye Mo, his chest heaving violently. He was clearly furious.

He had never seen anyone so shameless. Taking someone else's clothes was one thing, but he actually admitted it right to his face. Did he have no dignity at all?

Soul Power surged violently around Huo Yuhao, and a purple Soul Ring slowly rose beneath his feet.

"Oh? You want to fight?" Ye Mo looked at Huo Yuhao disdainfully. As expected of this world's favored child. Even after Ye Mo had taken that great opportunity from him, he had still managed to obtain a Soul Ring—and a thousand-year one at that.

"To deal with you, I will not even need to use my martial soul."

The contempt and disdain in Ye Mo's tone only further ignited the anger in Huo Yuhao's heart.

"Let's fight downstairs," Huo Yuhao said in a low voice.

"Sure."

Ye Mo replied calmly. The plot seemed to be getting a little off. Shouldn't Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao have been the ones fighting? How had it turned into him and Huo Yuhao?

And if he was sharing a dorm with Huo Yuhao, then where was Wang Dong?

Ye Mo pondered this in confusion. The entire plot's development seemed to be becoming interesting.

End of chapter.