Old Bull Wants to Eat Tender Grass

Xu Sanshi was slightly stunned, then let out a dry laugh: "Kid, has something gone wrong with your brain? You want to challenge me?"

Huo Yuhao walked out of the crowd. The people parted to both sides, voluntarily clearing a path, their expressions varied as they watched him.

"Do you dare, or do you not?" Huo Yuhao stared intensely at Xu Sanshi.

Xu Sanshi nodded reluctantly: "Fine! Just for that courage of yours, I'll see you in the Battle Soul Zone!"

The Battle Soul Zone, located in the northwest corner of the Martial Soul System at Shrek Academy, was a place specifically for students to spar. It was fully equipped, with teachers serving as referees and providing various functions like immediate medical treatment after a match.

Huo Yuhao walked toward the Battle Soul Zone with a large crowd following behind him; the vast majority were people from the East Gate looking for excitement, while others had heard about it along the way.

"Worthy of an academy opened by that conman Flender, they charge money for everything." Huo Yuhao shook his head.

In the crowd, Tang Ya and Bei Bei followed the flow of people toward the Battle Soul Zone.

Tang Ya pointed at her head, looking puzzled: "Bei Bei, do you think Huo Yuhao's brain is fried? Of all people to challenge, why go after Xu Sanshi?"

Bei Bei shook his head. Watching Xu Sanshi walk ahead without any pressure, a cold smile tugged at the corner of his refined face: "Xu Sanshi is about to suffer."

As the one who brought Huo Yuhao to Shrek Academy, Bei Bei had personally experienced Huo Yuhao's Time Freeze; even he had been unable to break free from it at the time.

Huo Yuhao walked into the Battle Soul Zone. It was a hexagonal structure sitting on the ground, large enough to accommodate three thousand spectators, roughly the same size as Shrek Plaza.

At this very moment, quite a few students were sitting around, a glance suggesting there were about three or four hundred of them.

"The soul duel match requires a fee of ten Gold Soul Coins."

After Xu Sanshi finished paying, Huo Yuhao followed closely behind and pulled out a large gold brick: "I don't really have a concept of money, could you please cut this for me, teacher?"

Seeing this scene, Xu Sanshi was truly speechless. He was already considered wealthy within the academy, but this was his first time seeing someone so arrogant.

The teacher in charge of collecting fees twitched his eyelids. After shooting a disgruntled glare at Huo Yuhao, he hurried to the back to find tools to cut the gold.

"Kid, it's not too late to regret it now. Once you're on the dueling platform, it'll be too late." Xu Sanshi wore a confident smile. In this small corner of the Outer Court, who didn't give him, Xu Sanshi, some face?

"Understood." Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, took the gold back from the teacher, and walked slowly onto the platform.

"This kid really is impervious to reason. Fine, I'll just go easy on him later." Xu Sanshi followed him toward the platform.

In the spectator seats, Bei Bei's sharp eyes caught sight of someone beside him—a beautiful woman, one who had defined his childhood. Accompanying her were four maidens, each a national beauty.

"Senior Sister, why are you here?" Bei Bei asked softly, his gaze subconsciously shifting toward Tang Ya, breathing a sigh of relief only after seeing she hadn't noticed this side.

"The four of us just returned from the Soul Tool System with Xiao Xue after handling some paperwork. We heard on the way that Huo Yuhao was going to duel Xu Sanshi, so we came over. What's the situation with them?" Zhang Lexuan asked, pointing at the two on the dueling platform.

At this moment, Bei Bei recounted everything that had just happened from start to finish.

Wu Ming pursed her lips and chuckled: "This Xu Sanshi really is an infatuated seed. It's said he specifically stayed back a grade for Jiang Nannan. If he weren't one of the Inner Courtyard designated students, he would have been expelled long ago."

Zhang Lexuan frowned: "This Xu Sanshi is becoming more and more outrageous. And Huo Yuhao—I can understand the rashness of youth, but Xu Sanshi's Mysterious Nether Tortoise spirit has astonishing defensive power, although..."

Zhang Lexuan hesitated. With Huo Yuhao's second spirit, the Extreme Ice Attribute, and the fact that both were Soul Elders, the outcome was hard to predict.

"Look! That's my younger brother Huo Yuhao! An eleven-year-old Soul Elder. I wonder if he catches your eye, little sister?"

At this time, Qian Renxue had transformed into a salesperson, blurting out all of Huo Yuhao's merits at once, while Ma Xiaotao beside her felt like she was sitting on pins and needles.

After being surrounded by the four maidens this morning, Ma Xiaotao hadn't said a word since she woke up. Even now, the scene of her hugging Huo Yuhao kept flashing through her mind—the close physical contact between them was just too embarrassing.

Ever since Qian Renxue had traveled ten thousand years forward, she had shed the shackles of being Crown Prince Xue Qinghe. Her whole person had become much brighter. While making some girlfriends, she had also organized the latest soul master cultivation methods and soul master theories that only existed ten thousand years later, intending to bring them back to the Martial Soul Hall of ten thousand years ago after the semester ended.

Just then, the soul duel was about to begin.

The referee teacher walked up, took a long look at Huo Yuhao, and announced in a grave tone: "New student Huo Yuhao challenges fifth-grade student Xu Sanshi. Considering Huo Yuhao's status as a new student, if any special circumstances arise, I will intervene directly. I hope both sides will control the scale. Are both sides ready?"

Huo Yuhao and Xu Sanshi nodded simultaneously.

"The match begins!" After the referee announced this, he retreated rapidly. Huo Yuhao and Xu Sanshi released their spirits almost at the same time.

Xu Sanshi's body expanded, stretching his well-fitting school uniform taut. A turtle shell shield appeared in his right hand, and two yellow and one purple soul rings emerged.

Huo Yuhao's eyes were filled with gray. The moment the three soul rings beneath his feet lit up, the referee teacher was slightly stunned, and Xu Sanshi's expression turned serious.

"One ten-year, one thousand-year, and one ten-thousand-year—what a weird soul ring configuration. I have to admit, you've successfully caught my attention!"

Xu Sanshi's Mysterious Nether Tortoise spirit had astonishing defensive power, and he even possessed a trace of the bloodline of the Divine Beast Xuanwu within him.

Huo Yuhao took a step forward and charged, his right hand turning into a palm. Xu Sanshi sneered; his Mysterious Nether Tortoise was the number one defense in the Outer Court, and the nickname "Eternal Lord" wasn't just for show.

Huo Yuhao's palm pressed against the emerald turtle shell. To Xu Sanshi's surprise, Huo Yuhao didn't use any force; in other words, he was just stroking his Mysterious Nether Tortoise Shell Shield.

But the next second, a great force erupted from Huo Yuhao's palm. Xu Sanshi's entire right arm went numb instantly. His face changed greatly, and realizing he had underestimated his opponent, he hurriedly raised the turtle shell shield high and jammed it into the ground, which kept him from falling off the platform.

Seeing this, Qian Renxue smiled slightly. Her stinky younger brother's right arm was actually a 700,000-year right arm bone. The quality of this soul bone was something even Bibi Dong, with her hundred-thousand-year soul ring, would likely covet.

Huo Yuhao had been hiding his strength from the beginning. He wanted to test his true combat power to see how high it would be without using the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion spirit.

"You brat! You've successfully made me serious." Xu Sanshi's expression was excited. A massive phantom of the turtle shell shield appeared in mid-air and pressed straight down toward Huo Yuhao.