Zhou Yi's Surprise

Wang Dong moved into the boys' dormitory.

After careful consideration, Mu En still chose not to intervene; as long as no major trouble occurred, he felt it didn't matter.

Following that, Mu En spent a period of time in tranquility.

When school was about to start, he unexpectedly received another message from that person in the Clear Sky Sect, indicating that someone would be sharing a room with Wang Dong, and subtly suggesting it would be Huo Yuhao.

This left Mu En feeling somewhat astonished, yet he still chose to observe quietly.

Of course, during this time.

Mu En also learned of some unusual matters through his own means.

For instance, he learned through Beibei that they had actually encountered Huo Yuhao on the road.

And Tang Ya was very eager to have Huo Yuhao join the Tang Sect.

After learning of this situation, Mu En formed a hypothesis: the Star Dou Forest was so vast, spanning three empires, and the probability of two strangers meeting and becoming friends was pitifully small, yet it had actually happened. There must be some hidden scheme at play, and it might even involve that person from above.

Immediately after, Mu En released his vast spiritual power once more; he wanted to see what Huo Yuhao was doing.

However, when he "saw" Huo Yuhao leave his room, head straight to the restroom, proceed to urinate, and then go back to sleep.

Mu En frowned slightly; he had an intuition that Huo Yuhao seemed to know he was probing.

Mu En shook his head and began to close his eyes and doze off again.

At the same moment, on the other side.

Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth: "Hey, System, is that person from Shrek Academy still scouting?"

Huo Yuhao said this with a hint of helplessness.

He had just been about to roll some pills when the system prompted him that a strand of spiritual power was about to probe his actions.

Huo Yuhao did not want his privacy peeked at by others.

[System: "Ding, no."]

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao thought for a moment and began to close his eyes to rest.

Just like that, time slipped away quietly, and two hours passed before he knew it.

Two hours later, Huo Yuhao woke up again. Upon learning from the system that no one was observing him, he finally felt at ease and began to roll his pills.

Time ticked by second by second, and with only one hour left until dawn, Huo Yuhao finally finished his work, having rolled out three full iron basins of medicinal pills.

He lay back on his bed, exhausted, and took a nap.

Morning arrived quietly, and Huo Yuhao opened his eyes immediately.

Of course, because of the events of the previous night, his sleep quality wasn't great, but it was nothing serious.

After getting up, he instructed Bai Feng to carefully pack these hand-rolled pills so they could go sell them that evening.

Afterward, he found Liu Erlong to give instructions regarding the construction of the house.

Once finished, Huo Yuhao headed toward Shrek Academy.

This time, the previous task from Mu Jin had been successfully completed.

Now that Huo Yuhao had more energy, his primary task upon arriving at Shrek Academy was to find suitable talent to recruit into the Endless Fire Territory.

Moreover, being close to a gathering place for talent meant that tasks would sometimes trigger randomly.

As for attending classes, he had no interest in that.

Just like that, as time passed, Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek Academy without realizing it.

After returning to the academy, Huo Yuhao naturally returned to his class.

Inside the classroom.

As soon as Huo Yuhao walked in, he hadn't even had a chance to greet Xiao Wu and the others.

Zhou Yi noticed at first glance that Huo Yuhao's soul power had actually risen to level 21, and she was deeply shocked.

One must know, in her understanding, Huo Yuhao's soul power had only been level 17 when he left two days ago.

This was simply too inconceivable.

What Zhou Yi didn't know was that Huo Yuhao had previously triggered a random system task—to reject all of Wang Dong's requests—which granted two levels of soul power, but Huo Yuhao hadn't claimed it immediately at the time.

After completing Mu Jin's task, he gained another two levels of soul power, totaling 4 levels.

Zhou Yi didn't hesitate for long; she took Huo Yuhao out of the classroom, walked into the corridor, and began to question him.

"Huo Yuhao, how is your body? You've increased by 4 levels in two days; what is going on?"

As Zhou Yi spoke, she carefully examined Huo Yuhao's body, fearing he had used some special method that might damage his talent and foundation.

Huo Yuhao didn't hesitate much and said: "Teacher, I've been selling medicinal pills, and I have some even better ones that I haven't brought out yet. There is a pill called the Qi Gathering Powder; according to my own classification, it is a Tier 4 pill. The ones I sold yesterday were only Tier 1 pills. The Qi Gathering Powder can help me increase my soul power by three levels without any side effects."

"As for the other level, that was because I consumed the Mystic Water Pill I won from the bet with Xu Sanshi. It was best to use the Mystic Water Pill first, after all, since it is only useful before level 20."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao took out a packet of medicinal powder.

When Zhou Yi saw this packet of powder, she knew it was indeed the Qi Gathering Powder.

In the Battle Through the Heavens World, the Qi Gathering Powder allows a martial artist at the ninth stage of Dou Disciple to break through to the Dou Practitioner realm with a hundred percent success rate.

Now, applied to soul power, it can indeed raise one's level by three.

This Qi Gathering Powder was exchanged by Huo Yuhao yesterday using points; the cost to exchange for this Grade 4 medicinal pill was as high as 80,000, nearly emptying all of Huo Yuhao's points.

Of course, Huo Yuhao wouldn't buy it for nothing; such a good item would be excellent for either Xiao Wu or Jiang Nannan.

Naturally, the primary purpose of this Qi Gathering Powder for now is to pull the wool over someone's eyes.

Zhou Yi opened the Qi Gathering Powder and, sensing the vigorous medicinal power within, could not help but gasp.

She looked at Huo Yuhao and asked, "How much of this pill do you have left?"

Huo Yuhao replied, "Only one packet; it mainly requires some top-tier medicinal herbs, so it is very difficult to produce."

As Huo Yuhao spoke, he was telling the truth, as he had no points left after all.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yi pondered for a moment before saying:

"This Qi Gathering Powder, based on my preliminary observation, has no side effects, though this is only a preliminary assessment."

"This Qi Gathering Powder can at least allow a three-ring Soul Elder to break through by one level."

"If this packet of Qi Gathering Powder were sold to some large factions or sects, it could fetch at least 200,000 Gold Soul Coins."

Huo Yuhao nodded upon hearing this.

Immediately after, he tentatively asked Zhou Yi if she wanted it for herself.

Zhou Yi, however, just smiled and shook her head.

But Zhou Yi indicated that if Huo Yuhao wanted to sell this pill, she could provide the channels, at the very least by selling it to the academy.

The academy has deep financial resources, so selling it for three or four hundred thousand would not be a problem.

They could discuss it later and make this pill one of the rewards for the Soul Fighting competition in three months; that would be quite good as well.

Then, Zhou Yi began to encourage Huo Yuhao, saying that if he could, he should aim for first place in the competition three months from now, as he would be able to reap both money and pills then.

Huo Yuhao had not expected Zhou Yi to have such thoughts.

Zhou Yi smiled and patted Huo Yuhao on the shoulder, indicating that the academy's money was there to be earned, and as long as it helped the students make progress, it was fine.

Huo Yuhao nodded again upon hearing this.

For the first time, he had a different perspective on Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi's stern and rigid expression remained, but she was not as bound by convention as he had thought.

However, this was quite good, and Huo Yuhao liked it.

Just then, Zhou Yi changed the subject and continued.

"Huo Yuhao, are you interested in Soul Tools?"

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao immediately understood Zhou Yi's intention; she wanted to guide him toward developing in the direction of Soul Tools.