Ye Hao's Third Soul Ring

Last time, Ye Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu had successively broken through to level twenty. Led by Grandmaster, the school leaders, and the principal, they arrived at Soul Hunting Forest.

Returning to an old haunt, the soul beasts in Soul Hunting Forest were weak, but they still could not be underestimated.

On the first day, they selected a Hundred-Year Ghost Vine for Tang San as his second Soul Ring. The soul skill it granted was: Parasite.

Blue Silver Grass seeds would remain on the target's body. As long as Tang San activated his second soul skill, the seeds could grow instantly, binding the target and achieving a perfect control effect.

For a control-system soul master like Tang San, this soul skill was undoubtedly the best possible choice.

As for Xiao Wu, she vanished for a while when no one was paying attention. She then quietly reappeared, accompanied by her second Soul Ring.

It was also Hundred-Year. According to Xiao Wu, she had gotten separated from the group and happened upon a dying Hundred-Year Soul Beast. She had dealt with it casually, absorbed the Soul Ring, and then found everyone searching for her.

Faced with this "excuse," everyone had no choice but to accept it.

Only Ye Hao knew the truth. Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had taken human form, so she had no need to kill soul beasts to obtain Soul Rings.

She did this only to conceal her identity as a soul beast. In a backwater place like Nuoding City, Xiao Wu could act without restraint.

That was because she was not worried about a Titled Douluo arriving. Only a Titled Douluo could see through Xiao Wu's identity as a soul beast.

Ye Hao's second Soul Ring, meanwhile, came from a Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider. That was right—they had discovered a Man Faced Demon Spider that had only just crossed the thousand-year mark in Soul Hunting Forest. Back then, the group had exhausted all their strength before finally killing it.

Ye Hao's martial soul was the Death Spider Emperor, so a Man Faced Demon Spider was undoubtedly the most suitable soul beast for him.

But an accident occurred when he absorbed the Soul Ring. The Man Faced Demon Spider had only just entered the thousand-year range, making it unsuitable for a second Soul Ring. They had intended to stop Ye Hao, but then...

Grandmaster's heart went cold. Absorbing a Thousand Year Soul Ring as a second Soul Ring was undoubtedly courting death. If anything happened to Ye Hao, none of them present would be able to go on living.

In Grandmaster's eyes, as Ye Hao grew older, his appearance had undergone earth-shaking changes and become increasingly similar to Bibi Dong's.

Grandmaster had seen this with his own eyes, and he became more and more convinced that Ye Hao had been placed at his side by Bibi Dong to seek an opportunity for revenge.

If something really happened to Ye Hao, then they truly would be...

The result was unexpected. Ye Hao successfully absorbed the Thousand Year Soul Ring, and his Soul Power Level advanced to level twenty-two. Seeing this, Grandmaster and the others all breathed a sigh of relief.

They secretly rejoiced. Just moments ago, they had witnessed history—the first genius in history whose second Soul Ring was Thousand Year had been born.

Everyone was happy for Ye Hao, but Tang San could not bring himself to feel happy. The gap between them was gradually widening. Tang San was also fiercely competitive. Ye Hao's strength had already been terrifying, and now he possessed the first Thousand Year Soul Ring of his life—and it was even a Thousand Year second ring. The blow to Tang San was anything but small.

Several years later, the three of them were nearing graduation...

What followed was Grandmaster persuading Ye Hao to further his studies at Shrek Academy in Suotuo City. There, Ye Hao could bring out his full potential more perfectly and avoid having his talent buried.

Ye Hao refused on the spot. The atmosphere at Shrek Academy did not suit his tastes. Going to Shrek Academy would undoubtedly mean following the protagonist's old path.

Since he was already here, why not forge a path of his own?

A few days before graduation, Ye Hao left alone and set out for Heaven Dou City.

As for why he joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy, that could wait until after Ye Hao absorbed the Purple Winged Demonic Spider's Soul Ring before him.

In Sunset Forest, Ye Hao released his Death Spider Emperor possession.

The Purple Winged Demonic Spider before him was dead beyond doubt. Purple motes of light emerged around its body, gradually gathering into a purple ring of light. It was unmistakably a genuine Thousand Year Soul Ring—Ye Hao's third Soul Ring.

Ye Hao had inquired for a long time for this Soul Ring. At last, he learned from the academy teachers that Purple Winged Demonic Spiders had appeared in Sunset Forest.

"You really are something."

At that moment, a green-haired, green-eyed girl strode over angrily and grabbed Ye Hao by the ear.

"You could clearly handle it alone, yet you made us go through all this trouble. Were you deliberately trying to make fools of us?"

Ye Hao looked at Dugu Yan and forced a smile. "Sister Yan, misunderstanding, misunderstanding. How was I supposed to know this Purple Winged Demonic Spider was so weak? If I'd known, I would have..."

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

What Dugu Yan heard was that the Purple Winged Demonic Spider was weak, that so many of them could not handle it, while Ye Hao could finish it with one blow. The implication was that they were weak.

Of course, that was only what Dugu Yan thought, not what Ye Hao truly meant. Without their help, Ye Hao would likely have had to spend quite a bit of effort himself.

At those words, Dugu Yan flew into a rage and was about to give Ye Hao a good beating. As Old Poison's Granddaughter, she had naturally inherited Dugu Bo's strange temperament.

Speaking of Dugu Bo, Ye Hao had not seen the Titled Douluo, who had made his formidable name through poison, even once during the three months since joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

"Enough, Yan. Let Xiao Hao finish absorbing the Soul Ring first. You can punish him afterward."

Yu Tian Heng walked over with a bitter smile. Yu Feng descended from the air beside him. Seeing Ye Hao being tugged by the ear, the two exchanged a smile.

Ye Hao was only eleven years old. There was no denying that he was a genius—a genius who had already reached level thirty at eleven. It would probably be difficult to find another like him on the entire continent.

At first, when Qin Ming brought Ye Hao into Heaven Dou Royal Academy, not only Dugu Yan and Yu Tian Heng, but even the Three Education Commissioners of the academy refused to believe it. How could an eleven-year-old boy possibly...

But when Ye Hao displayed his martial soul and announced his Soul Power Level, the expressions of everyone present instantly froze.

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Yes, exactly that expression.

Level twenty-nine. Ye Hao's Soul Power Level had been level twenty-nine when he entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy. After three months of cultivation, he had finally raised it to level thirty, which was why they had come to hunt the Purple Winged Demonic Spider.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy was indeed an aristocratic academy, but with Qin Ming's recommendation, someone like Ye Hao—without a background yet exceptionally strong—was exactly what Heaven Dou Royal Academy lacked. The Three Education Commissioners immediately arranged for Ye Hao to enroll and waived his future tuition and numerous other fees.

What a joke. Heaven Dou Royal Academy was established by the empire. It had money to spare, but talented people were rare. Qin Ming had finally found one in the wild, and they were going to make him pay?

Wouldn't that just be driving him away in disguise?