Wang Dong looked at Huo Yuhao and raised an eyebrow. "Hey, what are you looking at?"
Huo Yuhao smiled. "Watching you eat candy. Why do you add three spoonfuls of sugar?"
Wang Dong gave a little cough. "I like it that way. It's sweet enough to suit my taste. What, do you want some?"
As she spoke, Wang Dong reached to add three more spoonfuls of sugar for Huo Yuhao.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao immediately shook his head. He didn't like three spoonfuls of sugar.
Next, Huo Yuhao simply picked up something that looked like a hot dog and started eating.
Before long, everyone had finished eating. Then they returned to class.
Back in the classroom, Huo Yuhao noticed that nobody wanted to sit at the front.
They didn't like sitting too close to Zhou Yi, with her stern old-lady face.
So the back rows were full, while a large stretch of seats at the front remained empty.
Huo Yuhao had no choice but to pick a seat near the front.
Xiao Wu sat to his left, Wang Dong to his right, and Xiao Xiao to Wang Dong's right.
Before long, Zhou Yi arrived. Events unfolded just as Huo Yuhao had expected.
As soon as Zhou Yi entered the classroom, she swept her gaze around. After first having a few students hand out textbooks to everyone, she looked at the class and asked, "Did anyone get into a fight yesterday?"
In response to Zhou Yi's question, every student present shook their head.
Seeing their reaction, Zhou Yi shook her head and declared, "Those who don't dare cause trouble or get into fights are all useless."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
Wasn't this basically training street thugs?
As Huo Yuhao thought about it, another outrageous incident suddenly came to mind.
Shrek Academy's school culture had been this messed up for thousands of years.
For example, there was that clash with Canghui Academy a thousand years ago.
At the time, they were eating at a small restaurant.
Ma Hongjun saw that the girls from Canghui Academy were pretty, and immediately stared at them with lecherous, shining eyes.
This instantly offended the students from Canghui Academy.
Dai Mubai even went so far as to provoke them.
Of course, back then they had lived by Shrek Academy's motto: "A Soul Master who doesn't dare cause trouble isn't a good Soul Master."
After that...
Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and the others beat up the students from Canghui Academy.
Zhao Wuji even beat up Canghui Academy's teacher, then boasted that it felt great to beat someone up without using his Martial Soul.
That was a little messed up.
The whole thing had clearly started with Ma Hongjun leering at the girls from Canghui Academy and Dai Mubai provoking them.
Yet somehow, Tang San and his friends were treated as the righteous ones. Their sense of morality was pretty rotten.
Huo Yuhao didn't mind sparring, but he didn't want to cause trouble either.
But in the original story, Zhou Yi really had said something like this. Shrek Academy's teaching philosophy encouraged students to pick fights whenever they had nothing better to do. It was hard to know what to say.
At that moment, Wang Dong beside him shot Huo Yuhao an annoyed look. Her meaning was obvious.
The night before, she had wanted to fight Huo Yuhao. If they'd fought, maybe she wouldn't have had to run laps.
Huo Yuhao saw what Wang Dong was thinking. His mouth twitched twice, and he was tempted to point out that even if she had fought him, she would still have had to run.
In the end, he kept quiet.
Next, Huo Yuhao planned to blend into the crowd. He wanted to get through the day peacefully and avoid trouble.
Tomorrow or the day after, he would go find Mu Jin and recruit her into the Endless Fire Territory.
Of course, he would have to get a few things ready tomorrow.
He wasn't very comfortable with Shrek Academy's "thuggish" school culture.
What's more, in this place, all he had to do was look up and he could see Sea God Tang San's statue through the window.
It made Huo Yuhao uncomfortable.
Just then, Zhou Yi's voice rang out.
"Huo Yuhao, come here."
Although Huo Yuhao was puzzled, he didn't hesitate. He glanced at Xiao Wu, signaling for her to go run laps with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, then walked over to Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi didn't waste any time. She pointed at the stack of books in front of Huo Yuhao and said, "You don't have to run. Read these books first."
Huo Yuhao nodded. Then, without hesitation, he said, "Teacher Zhou, I'll stay one more day, then take leave tomorrow and the day after. I'll come back on the third day. Is that okay?"
Zhou Yi nodded. "That's fine."
With that, Zhou Yi left.
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then began reading the books they had handed out.
There were three books in total. The first was titled On the Eighteen Core Theories of Martial Soul Competition (Expanded Edition, Meticulously Prepared by Yu Xiaogang).
Seeing the title, Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched. He opened the book.
The first page introduced Yu Xiaogang's life.
It passed over the "quasi-incestuous" relationship between him and Liu Erlong, who shared the same bloodline, and focused instead on how Yu Xiaogang had worked hard after Tang San ascended to the Divine Realm.
With his exceptional intelligence and unusually discerning perspective, he had once again conducted an in-depth study of his ten core theories.
In the end, he had developed the eighteen core theories of competition, laying an unshakable foundation for Shrek Academy for the next ten thousand years and beyond.
Huo Yuhao continued reading.
But on the very next page, a few bold characters leaped into view: "There are no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters."
Below them was a figure seen from behind. It was Tang San.
His bright blue hair and imposing stature made him look incredibly tall.
Huo Yuhao set the book aside.
Then he picked up another book.
Its title was History of Douluo Continent Development.
Huo Yuhao opened it, intending to read through it.
But the first page made his mouth twitch again.
It declared the year Tang San was born to be Year One of the Douluo Continent calendar.
Everything before Tang San's birth was labeled Before the Douluo Continent calendar.
Huo Yuhao was disgusted all over again, but he endured it and kept reading.
He soon couldn't take any more.
The book mainly glorified Tang San and the first generation of the Shrek Seven Devils.
Then it covered the achievements of the next generation of the Shrek Seven Devils at Shrek Academy. It was practically a history of the Shrek Seven Devils.
As for events outside the Douluo Continent, they were barely mentioned.
Huo Yuhao turned to the last book.
At last, this one was actually somewhat useful to him: it was an introduction to the Soul Beasts of the Douluo Continent.
Of course, it only contained three or four hundred Soul Beast species, all of them fairly common.
It wasn't comprehensive, but it was enough for Huo Yuhao to study.
Huo Yuhao began looking into the Soul Beasts.
The book covered them in considerable detail.
It described their weaknesses and habits, and even went so far as to introduce their breeding seasons.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao sighed inwardly.
The teachers at Shrek Academy really were something. Had they actually captured a Soul Beast and watched it the whole time just to find out when it laid eggs...?
Huo Yuhao continued studying.
Time flew by. Before he knew it, it was already noon...
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