Twin Tails Are Justice and the First Appearance of a Divine Skill

Shrek Academy, the freshman teaching building, was bustling with new students everywhere.

Huo Yuhao walked into the classroom of Freshman Class One with his hands in his pockets, looking relaxed and carefree.

Not far ahead of him, Wang Dong dashed into the classroom like a demon was chasing him. His eyes swept across the room in a flash, and he found a seat as far away from Huo Yuhao as possible.

After sitting down, Wang Dong glanced back vigilantly. Seeing that Huo Yuhao had no intention of following him, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Hmph, the further away from this pervert, the better! Wang Dong secretly vowed in his heart that he would never give Huo Yuhao another chance to bully him.

Watching Wang Dong's desperate attempt to avoid him, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but chuckle, then casually found an empty seat in the middle of the classroom.

Before long, the classroom began to fill up.

"Um... excuse me, is anyone sitting here?"

A timid voice rang out beside Huo Yuhao's ear.

Huo Yuhao turned his head to look, and his eyes lit up.

Standing by his desk was a petite young girl.

She was wearing a pale green dress with her hair in a shoulder-length ponytail. Her skin was as fair as jade, and her features were as delicate as a porcelain doll.

Her large eyes, in particular, were clear and bright, filled with a sense of spirit yet tinged with shyness.

Huo Yuhao already had a guess as to her identity.

"No one is here. Sit down."

"Thank you." The girl breathed a sigh of relief and sat down cautiously in the empty seat next to Huo Yuhao. She seemed quite shy; after sitting down, she kept her head lowered, twisting her small hands together, looking somewhat uneasy.

Huo Yuhao didn't rush to strike up a conversation, instead observing his future teammate with great interest. The Three-Life Soul Suppression Cauldron and the Nine Phoenix Flute—this was a top-tier Twin Martial Souls configuration.

Seemingly sensing Huo Yuhao's gaze, Xiao Xiao's cheeks flushed slightly. She gathered her courage, turned her head, and whispered, "Hello, my name is Xiao Xiao."

"Hello, I'm Huo Yuhao." Huo Yuhao extended his hand generously. "The 'Yu' of rain, the 'Hao' of vastness."

Xiao Xiao froze for a moment, then burst into a giggle.

Although this introduction was essentially nonsense, it unexpectedly eased her nervousness.

She reached out her soft little hand and gave Huo Yuhao's fingertips a light shake before retracting it as if she'd been electrocuted.

"Um... classmate Huo Yuhao, your eyes are very unique and very beautiful." Xiao Xiao looked at Huo Yuhao's pale golden eyes and praised him sincerely.

"Is that so? Thank you." Huo Yuhao propped his chin on one hand, leaned slightly toward Xiao Xiao, and looked straight into her eyes with a faint smile. "Actually, I think you're very unique, too."

"Ah?" Xiao Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and she lowered her head in a panic. "I... how am I unique? I'm very ordinary..."

"No, you're not ordinary at all." Huo Yuhao's voice was low and magnetic. "You're very cute. The kind of cute that makes people want to protect you the moment they see you."

BOOM!

Xiao Xiao felt a rush of heat surge to her head. Her entire face turned bright red, and even her earlobes turned a shade of pink.

She had grown up, but this was the first time a boy had been so direct and bold in calling her cute!

"However..." Huo Yuhao changed the subject, his tone carrying a hint of regret.

Xiao Xiao looked up instinctively: "However what?"

Huo Yuhao said with a straight face, "Although you are very cute right now, it would be even more perfect if you changed your hairstyle."

"Hairstyle?"

Huo Yuhao leaned in closer and whispered in Xiao Xiao's ear, "Twin ponytails."

"Twin... twin ponytails?" Xiao Xiao's eyes widened.

"That's right, twin ponytails are justice." Huo Yuhao nodded solemnly, his expression sincere. "With your temperament, if you wore twin ponytails, you would absolutely charm everyone. Even I wouldn't be able to resist that kind of charisma."

Xiao Xiao was stunned. Twin ponytails... charm everyone... even he couldn't resist...

These words swirled in her mind. She snuck a glance at Huo Yuhao and found him looking at her with an expectant expression.

Could it be... that he likes girls with twin ponytails?

Xiao Xiao's heart pounded, and her small hands unconsciously touched the ends of her hair, imagining what she would look like if she changed to twin ponytails.

"Hmph! You big pervert! You heartless flirt!" Wang Dong jabbed his desk fiercely. "You're fierce as a demon to me, but all smiles for other girls! Huo Yuhao, you're a double-standard dog!"

"Ding-a-ling—"

The bell for class rang, and the noisy classroom instantly fell silent.

The light at the doorway dimmed as a hunched figure walked in.

It was an old woman with a head of silver hair, her face covered in wrinkles and her eyes sharp and sinister.

Zhou Yi, Shrek Academy's infamous "perverted old hag."

Huo Yuhao watched the old woman on the podium, who was speaking in a hoarse voice and spouting nonsense, and couldn't help but want to laugh.

Who would have thought that hidden beneath this mask of withered old age was a stunning, mature, and breathtakingly beautiful face?

"My name is Zhou Yi, and I am your homeroom teacher." Zhou Yi's gaze was like a blade, sweeping coldly across the room. "I'm not sure how many of you will be able to make it through this year with me. But I want to tell you this: in my class, trash has no place to exist. If you don't want to be eliminated, then put your life on the line!"

The classroom was in an uproar.

Huo Yuhao curled his lip, silently complaining in his heart: This woman's teaching philosophy is a textbook example of "survivor bias." If it weren't for the fact that the original Huo Yuhao was the Child of Destiny with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm backing him up, any other ordinary spiritual-type soul master would have been eliminated long ago.

During the physical training that followed, Huo Yuhao performed in a standard, unremarkable fashion.

It wasn't until the sun set that the day of devilish training finally came to an end.

"Huo Yuhao, follow me to my office," Zhou Yi said coldly, dropping the words.

The surrounding students cast sympathetic glances his way. Wang Dong, on the other hand, looked on with schadenfreude, his eyes seeming to say: You're finished.

Inside the office, Zhou Yi sat in her chair, scrutinizing Huo Yuhao: "I have read your enrollment file. A Body Martial Soul of the eyes—I want to know what your soul skill is."

Huo Yuhao didn't waste words and activated his Martial Soul directly.

His eyes instantly ignited with golden flames, majestic and ancient. A profound spiritual fluctuation rippled outward.

Immediately following, a purple soul ring rose from beneath his feet.

"Spiritual attribute, Martial Soul Golden Eyes. First soul ring, thousand-year level."

"What?!"

Zhou Yi sprang up from her chair, her eyes filled with disbelief.

For a spiritual-type soul master, being able to absorb a three or four-hundred-year soul ring for their first would be a stroke of incredible luck; this kid actually went straight to a thousand-year one?!

After closing her eyes to experience the effects of Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing soul skill, Zhou Yi revealed a look of pleasant surprise: "Good! Good! Good! Come with me!"

"Where to?"

"The Soul Guidance Department!"

The Soul Guidance Department testing area.

"Fan Yu!" Zhou Yi burst in, full of energy, and pushed Huo Yuhao to the front. "I've brought you a treasure! This kid is a spiritual-type soul master, and his first soul ring is already at the thousand-year level. Test him!"

The tall Fan Yu glanced at Huo Yuhao in surprise. Though he found it hard to believe, he nodded: "Kid, use your soul skill on me."

"Yes, Teacher Fan Yu."

Huo Yuhao's lips curled upward slightly.

First soul skill: Spiritual Detection Sharing!

Hum—!

An invisible spiritual wave instantly enveloped Fan Yu.

The next second, Fan Yu's body stiffened, his pupils shrinking violently.

The testing area, which had looked plain and ordinary to him just a moment ago, instantly changed.

Everything around him seemed to have become a detached data model; every detail was magnified infinitely. Even the breathing frequency of Zhou Yi standing behind him was clearly presented in his mind.

What was even more terrifying was that this detection was omnidirectional, with no blind spots!

"This... this is..." Fan Yu's voice trembled.

As an eighth-rank soul master and the person with the highest level of soul guidance expertise at Shrek Academy, he knew exactly what this soul skill meant!

This was a divine skill tailor-made for fixed-location soul cannons!

"Distance!" Fan Yu grabbed Huo Yuhao's shoulders, asking excitedly, "What is the detection range of this soul skill?!"

Huo Yuhao replied: "Currently, it's about a thousand meters in radius. However, as my spiritual power increases, this range will continue to expand."

"One thousand meters... and it's still expanding..." Fan Yu took a deep breath, his eyes burning as he stared at Huo Yuhao as if looking at an uncut piece of peerless jade. "A genius! You are a born soul master! Huo Yuhao, starting today, come here after class every day. I will teach you everything I know about soul guidance!"

"Thank you, Teacher Fan Yu!" Huo Yuhao bowed in salute.

Standing to the side, Zhou Yi watched her husband's excitement, and beneath her stern, aged mask, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curve into a satisfied arc.

When Huo Yuhao walked out of the Soul Guidance Department building, it was already late.

Looking up at the starry sky, he stretched his back.

The door to the Soul Guidance Department had been opened. Next, it was time to increase his soul power, delve into the study of Soul Tools... and then go back to tease his cute desk-mate and bully his tsundere roommate.