The New Student Assessment Elimination Round consisted of sixty-four teams. Thirty-two matches were held simultaneously across the enormous Assessment Area, and Huo Yuhao's group encountered a team made up entirely of Soul Grandmasters.
Relying on Time Freeze and Years Erasure, Huo Yuhao used the same formula to lead the Huo Yuhao Team smoothly into the top thirty-two.
They had only advanced into the top thirty-two that morning, and that afternoon, the assessment to determine the top sixteen followed.
Huo Yuhao drew number seven. When the three of them arrived at the assessment venue, Teacher Wang Yan was standing in the center of the field. He nodded at them and said, "Huo Yuhao Team VS Zhou Sichen Team. The assessment begins."
"New Student Class Ten, Zhou Sichen, Assault System Battle Soul Master."
"New Student Class Ten, Long Xiangyue, Agile Attack System Battle Soul Master."
"New Student Class Ten, Cao Jingxuan, Control System Battle Soul Master."
Facing the Huo Yuhao Team, which had advanced triumphantly all the way, the three were not afraid. Any team that had made it through the Elimination Round and reached the top thirty-two was no weak team.
White light flashed in Zhou Sichen's hand, and a book appeared, accompanied by two Hundred Year Soul Rings.
What drew Huo Yuhao's attention most was Cao Jingxuan's Time Fleeting Bell. The entire bell was shaped like a doorway. Beneath its round clock face, the pendulum covered in golden patterns swayed gently, and two Hundred Year Soul Rings lit up as well.
As for Long Xiangyue, an Agile Attack System Soul Master, his Martial Soul was a Boomerang. Two Hundred Year Soul Rings also appeared beneath his feet.
At that moment, the three Soul Rings beneath Huo Yuhao's feet lit up, and an extremely powerful mental pressure radiated across the entire field.
The Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron above Xiao Xiao's head glimmered with black light, as though it would descend onto the opponents' heads the next instant. Two Hundred Year Soul Rings appeared.
As in the previous match, Song Hanqing hid behind Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao. As a Food System Soul Master, fighting was not his strong suit to begin with.
Two eggs fell into Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao's hands. After they swallowed them, Song Hanqing's task was complete.
The assessment began. Long Xiangyue struck first. The Boomerang in his hand grew enormous, and the instant he threw it, the surrounding time seemed to slow.
Xiao Xiao felt as though both her legs had sunk into a swamp and could not be pulled free. Her hands also became extremely heavy at that moment.
Cao Jingxuan activated his Martial Soul, the Time Fleeting Bell. Like Huo Yuhao's Time Eye, it was also a supreme Tool Martial Soul of the Time Element.
"This is a battle between time and time. Facing Cao Jingxuan's Time Fleeting Bell, how will you respond, Huo Yuhao?" Xuan Zi took a sip of wine.
On the platform in the Assessment Area, Huo Yuhao sensed the sluggish changes in his body and understood the effects of the Time Fleeting Bell.
At the same time, the two Hundred Year Soul Rings of Zhou Sichen's Treasure Scroll Martial Soul flashed. A ferocious tiger wreathed in flames and a huge, savage roaring bear appeared. They threw back their heads and roared as though they possessed minds of their own.
When all kinds of attacks arrived, the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring beneath Huo Yuhao's feet suddenly shone brilliantly.
"Third Soul Skill, Time Rewind."
As the black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring lit up, Zhou Sichen and the other two immediately felt that something was wrong. Then, something that the observing teachers and everyone else had never expected occurred.
The Time Slow imposed on Xiao Xiao and Song Hanqing vanished in an instant. Likewise, Cao Jingxuan, who was extremely sensitive to time, suddenly widened his eyes. "Not good!"
"Good—no!"
The words reached Cao Jingxuan's lips, but this time he truly swallowed them back down.
The flaming tiger and savage bear also returned to Zhou Sichen's Treasure Scroll the next instant. The Treasure Scroll closed again, as though the tiger and bear had never existed.
The dart thrown by Long Xiangyue actually returned to his hand counterclockwise, shrinking back to its original size.
Huo Yuhao's face was somewhat pale. Using a Ten Thousand Year Soul Skill for the first time had consumed a great deal of his Soul Power. Even so, Huo Yuhao still used Time Freeze and Years Erasure!
When Zhou Sichen and the other two could no longer move and a huge Time Grinding Mill appeared above their heads, the three sighed at the same time. They had lost.
Wang Yan looked at Huo Yuhao with unprecedented brightness in his eyes and immediately announced, "Huo Yuhao Team, victorious!"
Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief, and the three Soul Rings vanished along with it. Xiao Xiao and Song Hanqing hurried over and helped the great contributor of the battle, Huo Yuhao, down to rest.
At that moment, the entire venue was deathly silent.
The teachers who had come to watch all stared wide-eyed. Even Xuan Zi had forgotten to gnaw on the half-eaten chicken leg in his hand.
"What just happened? Time reversed at that moment!" one teacher said in shock.
"Time cannot be reversed. If I could live through it once more, I really would like to tell her, 'I love you.'"
All the teachers cast disdainful looks at the sentimental teacher in the corner. We're discussing the match, yet you're thinking about your youth.
"Old Xuan, did you feel it?" Du Weilun watched Huo Yuhao's departing back. For the first time, he felt that Huo Yuhao was truly extraordinary.
"I felt it." Xuan Zi swallowed the chicken leg in his hand, gulped down a mouthful of wine, and said with a strange expression, "I felt my stomach start churning. If this little fellow Huo Yuhao were a Titled Douluo, I'm afraid the chicken leg in my stomach would have come back up. It nearly made me sick to death."
Du Weilun: "..."
"But now that I think about it, Huo Yuhao's Third Soul Skill is truly incredible. It returned everything around it, including the attacks, to their original positions. Everything went back to the starting point. Such a terrifying time-type Soul Skill truly lives up to the name Time Rewind."
After saying that, Xuan Zi hurriedly stood up. "The match is over. I'm going to make a round around the academy. If someone from the Body Sect saw this, that old bastard Du Busi would probably come to snatch him away."
At this moment, Huo Yuhao's value had multiplied several times over. With just the Time Rewind Soul Skill, Huo Yuhao was already enough to shock the entire Shrek Academy.
"Class monitor, are you all right?" Xiao Xiao looked at Huo Yuhao with concern.
Huo Yuhao shook his head, his expression easing. "My Mental Power and Soul Power were heavily depleted. This was also my first time using the Third Soul Skill. Reversing time goes against the laws of nature, so the price was enormous."
What Huo Yuhao had relied on after returning to Ten Thousand Years Ago was Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Mental Origin. Therefore, only after using his Third Soul Skill, Time Rewind, did he truly realize how difficult things had been for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm nodded empathetically. "I'm great!"
With Xiao Xiao and Song Hanqing supporting him, Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory to rest.
Sea God Island, Inner Courtyard.
Qian Renxue held a Golden Longsword. The hilt spread open like Angel Wings. She handed the sword to Xian Lin'er for inspection, her heart pounding like a student waiting for a teacher to check her homework.
Xian Lin'er waved the longsword and injected Soul Power into the Core Magic Array. A faint golden Sword Qi spread from around the blade.
"Very good, Xiao Xue. Your talent has exceeded my expectations. This is a Fourth-level Melee Soul Tool. From today onward, you are a Fourth-level Soul Master."
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