Listening to the system prompt, Dai Yu felt overjoyed in his heart.
Look at that.
This was the correct way to unlock things.
This wave, this wave was a win-win.
"Thank you, Yu Ge!
My life is yours from now on!"
Huo Yuhao was moved to tears, hugged the jade bottle, and dashed back to the neighboring dorm.
Dai Yu turned his head and found Wang Dong staring at him with a bizarre gaze.
"What?
Do you want one too?"
Dai Yu took out a Mysterious Water Pill with a half-smile and dangled it.
Wang Dong let out a proud, haughty hum and turned his head away:
"Who cares!
This young master has heaven-sent talent, I don't need this kind of stuff!"
Even though he said that, his gaze still couldn't help but drift toward that pill.
Dai Yu chuckled inwardly.
This little girl was all hard talk and soft heart.
He flicked his finger casually, and the Mysterious Water Pill traced an arc, landing precisely in Wang Dong's embrace.
"Take it.
Consider it this-few-days' board and lodging.
Besides...
I don't want my roommate to be too weak and drag me down."
Wang Dong caught the pill in a fluster and froze.
He looked at Dai Yu's punch-me face, and his heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat.
"You..."
"Don't misunderstand."
Dai Yu had already climbed onto the bed, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes:
"Hurry up and eat it, go take a bath when you're done.
Don't make the dorm stink like last time."
In his heart, however, he sighed slightly:
Didn't it trigger?
Not bad either way, two Mysterious Water Pills in exchange for a Luck Value +100, and the reward of the spiritual power cultivation method Heart Separation Control (Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Secret Improved Version)!
Next, I'll start cultivating Heart Separation Control; this thing will be very beneficial for me walking the path of soul tools.
Wang Dong gripped the warm pill in his hand and looked at Dai Yu's profile, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve slightly upward.
"Hmph...
Arrogant jerk."
He muttered softly, but inside it felt as sweet as if he had eaten honey.
This Dai Yu...
didn't seem quite as annoying after all.
Deep in the quiet night.
Dai Yu took the two Mysterious Water Pills previously given as a system reward for suppressing Xu Sanshi.
He swallowed them one after the other and refined them.
Though the effects diminished with each, using them to sprint to rank 25 soul power was definitely enough.
As for that mental attribute soul bone fragment?
Dai Yu didn't care about it all that much.
It was only a ten-thousand-year-limit one.
He could give it to someone else later, or trade it for money and resources.
Early morning.
Dai Yu slowly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing through his pupils and vanishing.
After a night of cultivation, the medicinal efficacy of the two Mysterious Water Pills had been completely refined.
His soul power also successfully broke through to rank 26.
"Heart Separation Control..."
Dai Yu's mind stirred slightly, and three different trains of thought emerged in his mind simultaneously.
While perceiving the circulation of soul power within his body, he listened to the chirping of birds outside the window.
He could even spare a sliver of mental focus to observe Wang Dong, who was sleeping sprawled out on the opposite bed.
This secret technique was truly wondrous.
As a support sect with a ten-thousand-year heritage, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's core secret technique Heart Separation Control was originally created to support multiple people simultaneously.
Moreover, the "improved version" rewarded by the system was optimized by incorporating the soul power system of the Douluo World, making cultivation yield twice the result with half the effort.
In just a single night, Dai Yu was already able to achieve "one mind, three uses."
"If I can cultivate it to the extreme, using one mind for multiple tasks while simultaneously controlling multiple soul tools and releasing multiple soul skills...
That combat power will see a geometrically multiplied growth."
The corners of Dai Yu's mouth curled up slightly.
"Dong—dong—dong—"
At that moment, a hurried bell suddenly rang out across the skies of Shrek Academy, deep and resonant.
That was...
The summoning bell for the New Student Assessment!
"Ngah... What's that sound..."
Wang Dong on the opposite bed opened his eyes dazedly, his powder-blue pupils still carrying a hint of sleepiness.
His hair stuck up in a messy tuft, looking like a fluffed-up little kitten.
"The New Student Assessment is starting."
Dai Yu leaped down from the bed, his movements clean and decisive, and donned his academy uniform in a flash.
"Ah?!
So fast?!"
Wang Dong jolted awake, becoming completely clear-headed, and began scrambling to put on his clothes.
Yet because he was too flustered, he tried tying his belt for a long time without success.
"Idiot."
Dai Yu walked over, reached out to help him straighten his collar, and skillfully tied the belt, forming a pretty knot.
Wang Dong froze in place, feeling Dai Yu's breath close at hand, his cheeks blushing uncontrollably.
"Th-thank you..."
His voice was as quiet as a mosquito's buzz.
"Let's go, don't keep Yuhao waiting."
Dai Yu patted his head, turned around, and pushed the door open to step outside.
Wang Dong covered the spot where he had been patted, stunned for a second, and then hurried to follow.
"Wait for me!
Arrogant jerk!"
The venue for the New Student Assessment was set in Shrek Plaza.
When Dai Yu and Wang Dong arrived, the plaza was already densely packed with people.
This year's new students had eight classes in total, with one hundred people per class, totaling eight hundred people.
Yet after the "stiff greeting" on the first day of school and three days of observation and elimination, fewer than seven hundred people remained standing here.
In the very center of the plaza, ten huge fighting rings had been erected, each a hundred meters square.
The surroundings of the rings were engraved with complex defensive soul guidance arrays, more than enough to withstand the aftermath of battles at the Soul Ancestor level.
Meanwhile, on the viewing stand at the very front of the plaza sat over a dozen deep-aura figures.
Martial Soul Department Dean Yan Shaozhe, Soul Guidance Department Vice Dean Qian Duoduo, Head Instructor Du Weilun...
Even, when Dai Yu's gaze swept across the corner of the viewing stand, his pupils contracted slightly.
Sitting there was a twilight-years old man dressed in gray cloth, seeming as though his breath might cut out at any moment.
The Dragon God Douluo, Mu En.
Though the old man still kept his eyes closed as if he were asleep, Dai Yu knew that once those turbid eyes opened, it would surely shake the heavens and earth.
"Yu Ge!
Over here!"
Huo Yuhao's voice came from not far away.
Dai Yu looked toward the source of the sound and saw Huo Yuhao standing at the very front of the Class One formation, waving frantically toward them.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao's entire temperament seemed to have undergone a subtle change.
Though his soul power was still only around rank 12, his eyes were clearer and sharper, and his spiritual power fluctuations were much more condensed.
It seemed that Mysterious Water Pill had a fine effect.
"How is it?
Did you break through?"
Dai Yu walked to his side and asked casually.
Huo Yuhao scratched his head, lowering his voice somewhat sheepishly:
"I didn't break through, but my meridians have broadened quite a bit, and my spiritual power has increased by a notch as well.
Yu Ge, my range can expand to three hundred meters when I use Spiritual Detection now!"
"Not bad."
Dai Yu nodded, satisfied in his heart.
A three-hundred-meter range, coupled with Spiritual Detection Share, was simply like turning on hacks in team battles.
"Hmph, you have the nerve to boast about just this little improvement?"
Wang Dong at the side raised his chin proudly:
"Just wait and watch this young master's performance later, I'll let you witness what true strength is!"
"Yes, yes, yes, Young Master Wang is the most amazing."
Dai Yu perfunctorily acknowledged him, but his gaze swept past the crowd and landed on several other squads not far away.
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