Preparation to Return to Ten Thousand Years Ago

The New Student Assessment concluded with the victory of the Huo Yuhao Team, and the remaining four hundred and fifty new students were to be reassigned into new classes.

The class Huo Yuhao was assigned to consisted of the Assault System and Control System, and to his surprise, his arch-rival Dai Huabin had become his classmate.

At this moment, the bell for class had not yet rung, and Huo Yuhao had arrived at the classroom early.

Wang Dong looked at Huo Yuhao with unconcealed resentment; if not for the massive depletion of his soul power during the semi-finals, he believed he could have defeated Huo Yuhao, and the first place in the New Student Assessment would have been his.

Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in this world; the assessment was already in the past, and just like life itself, once an opportunity is missed, it is gone forever.

Killing intent flickered in Dai Huabin's eyes as he gripped his fists tightly, watching Huo Yuhao return to his designated seat. Throughout this process, Huo Yuhao did not acknowledge him or even glance his way.

Not long after, as the class bell rang, the sixty-plus students of the Assault and Control Systems were all seated.

The homeroom teachers for New Student Class One were Wang Yan and Zhou Yi, serving as the primary and secondary homeroom teachers respectively.

Wang Yan and Zhou Yi entered the classroom together. After their gazes swept across the room, Wang Yan nodded slightly at Huo Yuhao before turning to the group and saying, "Hello everyone, my name is Wang Yan. I believe some of you have already dealt with me. My teaching philosophy is that we are all friends, and I hope we will have a pleasant time together in the days to come."

Zhou Yi kept a stern face, and after her gaze swept across the room, the students from the original New Student Class One felt a sudden chill down their spines: "I am Zhou Yi."

There were no other words, just those four brief syllables.

Wang Yan played the good cop while Zhou Yi played the bad cop; one positive and one negative, one kind and one stern—such an excellent combination made them the perfect pair for primary and secondary homeroom teachers.

"Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, Zhou Sichen, Huang Chutian, Wu Feng, Cao Jinxuan, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo."

Every time Wang Yan called out a name, the corresponding person's name was written on the blackboard.

Once all nine names were written on the board, Wang Yan turned around and smiled: "These nine are the candidates for class monitor and deputy monitor that Teacher Zhou Yi and I have decided upon after consultation. We will rotate the positions every month using a secret ballot. In a moment, please write down your preferred candidate on a piece of paper and hand it in."

Soon, everyone received their slips of paper and began to write.

Huo Yuhao wrote "Dai Huabin" on his paper and submitted it.

There were sixty-seven students in the class, and Huo Yuhao received the highest number of votes with sixty-two. The others, Dai Huabin, received two votes, Wang Dong two votes, and Wu Feng one vote.

"Can't I vote for myself?" Wu Feng muttered under his breath, seeing that Huo Yuhao's victory as class monitor was a foregone conclusion.

Dai Huabin was slightly stunned; the name he had written was Wang Dong. During the New Student Assessment, the two had never faced each other in battle, so there was no conflict between them.

Dai Huabin knew that Zhu Lu had voted for him, but who was the other person who had cast a vote for him?

After Wang Yan finished counting all the votes, he looked at Huo Yuhao with eyes full of curiosity and surprise; he had not realized Huo Yuhao held such a high status among the new students.

"It seems the candidates for class monitor have been decided. Huo Yuhao will be the class monitor, and the position of deputy monitor will be shared between Dai Huabin and Wang Dong."

Just then, Wang Dong raised his hand: "I don't want to be the deputy monitor; it's too much trouble."

Wang Yan nodded, respecting Wang Dong's wishes, and said: "In that case, the class monitor for New Student Class One is Huo Yuhao, and the deputy monitor is Dai Huabin. Excluding Wang Dong, the remaining seven will rotate the position of deputy monitor each month. Does anyone have any objections?"

"No!" the students shouted in unison.

Huo Yuhao had crushed the competition with absolute strength to take first place in the New Student Assessment, a fact everyone had witnessed; choosing him as class monitor was the will of the majority.

As for Dai Huabin becoming the deputy monitor, he was quite frustrated himself. Who exactly had cast that second vote for him?

Knowing full well that he had a conflict with Huo Yuhao, wasn't making him the deputy monitor just a deliberate attempt to annoy him?

Having experienced the battle during the New Student Assessment, Dai Huabin fully realized the gap between himself and Huo Yuhao. He had already decided that until his soul power reached Level Forty, he would absolutely not make an enemy of Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao did not find the monotony of academy life—the two-point line between the dormitory and the classroom—to be dull; on the contrary, he found a certain joy in it.

Every afternoon for two hours after class, he would head to the Soul Tool System to follow Fan Yu and study soul tools, starting from the theory and learning the names and functions of every piece of rare metal.

Huo Yuhao studied very diligently. His martial soul was no longer the original Spirit Eyes, and he no longer possessed the so-called Mental Detection Sharing.

However, Huo Yuhao still relied on his powerful mental power to deeply imprint these lessons into his mind. In just one day, he had memorized the appearance and function of every rare metal, which greatly pleased Fan Yu.

At night, Huo Yuhao would sit on the bench by the Lakeside of Sea God Lake, cultivating while holding hands with Ma Xiaotao.

From their initial discomfort to eventually becoming accustomed to it, and even to the point of interlacing their fingers, such astonishing progress went unnoticed by both Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao while they were immersed in cultivation.

This was essentially how Huo Yuhao's daily life went.

Qian Renxue, however, was much busier in the Inner Courtyard. As the first semester of Shrek Academy drew to a close, she began intensive cultivation. While raising her original soul power to Level Sixty-Eight, she spent her days immersed in the Library Pavilion of the Inner Courtyard, absorbing knowledge like a sponge, tireless and relentless.

Even Huo Yuhao only learned of this through Ma Xiaotao. The longest time he went without seeing Qian Renxue was three full months; if not for the existence of Huo Yunxue, Huo Yuhao would have thought he had failed to bring Qian Renxue back to the time 10,000 years later.

Xuan Lao was very satisfied with Huo Yunxue. The academy now possessed three soul masters with ultimate attributes: Huo Yuhao with the Extreme Ice, Ma Xiaotao with the Extreme Fire, and Huo Yunxue with the Ultimate Holy Attribute. Such a situation was a rarity for Shrek Academy, something not seen in 10,000 years.

Xuan Lao had a premonition that Shrek Academy would flourish in this generation.

In truth, what Xuan Lao did not know was that Huo Yunxue was actually Qian Renxue. In the span of a single semester, she had nearly emptied the entire Library Pavilion.

All the advanced soul master knowledge that Shrek Academy had researched over 10,000 years had been transcribed by Qian Renxue and hidden within her own soul tool, waiting for Huo Yuhao to go on break and return to 10,000 years ago, so she could deposit it into the archives of the Martial Soul Hall.

On the last day of the first semester, Huo Yuhao turned twelve years old. His height had already reached 1.78 meters, and since his body had not yet fully developed, he would certainly exceed 1.8 meters in the future, with 1.9 meters being a distinct possibility.

Qian Renxue closed the thick book and stretched vigorously: "The first semester is finally over. Time to go home!"