Amaterasu, Kagutsuchi

The freshman assessment awards ceremony.

Yan Shaozhe stood on the high platform, beaming as he announced the assessment results.

"The champions of this year's freshman assessment are—Huo Yuhao's team!"

There was no suspense and no excited cheering. The overwhelming display in that final had been too shocking, making the result seem only natural to everyone.

Next came the announcement of the core disciple list.

As a genius with Twin Martial Souls, Huo Yuhao had displayed overwhelmingly dominant strength during the assessment.

Naturally, he would not merely receive the status of a core disciple as he had in the original story. Yan Shaozhe publicly announced that he would be directly admitted as a core disciple.

"Yuhao, come to my office alone later."

Yan Shaozhe said to Huo Yuhao with a smiling expression. His voice was not loud, yet it made the surrounding students' eyes redden with envy.

"Regarding your reward, the academy has decided to grant you special treatment."

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, his expression still calm.

A separate reward?

Hopefully, it'll be something substantial, not another empty promise.

The ceremony ended.

Xiao Xiao hurried over, her large eyes sparkling with stars.

"Class monitor! That palm strike you used to defeat the Hell White Tiger... that move where you pinned the tiger to the ground was seriously cool!"

She shyly twisted her fingers together.

"Um... I heard you have Twin Martial Souls?"

"Actually, I have Twin Martial Souls too. Since we have the same talent, why don't we... find some time to exchange cultivation experiences?"

Wang Dong also took the opportunity to come over. Although she was still somewhat haughty, her tone had clearly softened considerably.

"That's right, Huo Yuhao. Xiao Xiao is right. It's better to learn from each other than to shut yourself away."

"We're teammates who won the championship together, after all. How about we have dinner together tonight to celebrate and exchange insights while we're at it?"

Most people would probably have been overjoyed by invitations from two stunning young beauties.

But Huo Yuhao merely stopped and swept them with a cold glance.

"I have no interest in discussing cultivation with deadweights."

"I'm busy."

Compared to playing this sort of boring romance game with little girls, what concerned him more now was the restless Indra Chakra within his body and the imminent mutation of his Sharingan.

With that, Huo Yuhao turned and left without the slightest hesitation.

"Hey! You..."

Xiao Xiao puffed out her cheeks in anger, like a little pufferfish that had been wronged.

Wang Dong looked helplessly at that heartless retreating figure and thought to herself:

This guy... he's still so cold.

But... that proud air of looking down on everyone... is actually... kind of attractive.

Wang Dong clenched her fist, and a stubborn, unyielding fire ignited in her eyes.

Hmph, I won't give up that easily!

One day, I'll definitely make you acknowledge me!

The back mountain, a secluded forest.

After confirming that no one was around.

"Kamui."

A red gleam flashed in Huo Yuhao's right eye. A spatial vortex appeared and instantly sucked him in.

The Kamui Dimension.

It was still as lifeless as ever, with only the blue stone pillars and that crystal coffin enduring through the ages.

"I finally have the chance."

Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged atop a stone pillar, took a deep breath, and released his suppression over the power within his body.

"Let me see what changes this Indra Chakra underwent after being stimulated by the hatred I felt toward that trash Dai Huabin!"

Boom!

The no-longer-suppressed Indra Chakra instantly ran wild.

That purple energy—cold, noble, and brimming with the aura of a curse—surged into his left eye like floodwaters bursting through a collapsed dam.

Pain!

An agonizing pain struck him, as though his eyeball were being torn apart and reconstructed.

But Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth without making a sound. Instead, he forced his left eye wide open.

The original three black Tomoe began spinning wildly, faster and faster, until they became a blur of black afterimages.

Crack.

The sound of some kind of barrier breaking echoed in his mind.

The three Tomoe instantly fused and stretched.

At last, they settled into a pattern.

It was a pitch-black, sharply lined six-pointed star.

It was none other than—Second Pillar's Mangekyō Sharingan!

As his left eye evolved, Huo Yuhao suddenly felt the previously unbreakable shackle restraining his Soul Power vanish in an instant.

The immense medicinal power accumulated through his high-intensity training and constant refinement of Foundation Strengthening Pills finally found an outlet at this moment.

Boom!

His Soul Power soared.

Level 21... Level 22... Level 23...

His aura rose steadily until it finally stopped at level 25.

He had broken through?

Huo Yuhao felt the surging Soul Power within his body in surprise.

My Soul Power Level has broken past the level 20 limit. Does that mean...

At that thought, Huo Yuhao's mind stirred.

Light flickered beneath his feet.

Aside from his first Soul Ring, which Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had disguised as yellow.

A brand-new Soul Ring, radiating an eerie blood-red glow, slowly rose from beneath his feet.

That was...

A red hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring?!

"This is..."

Huo Yuhao stared at the Soul Ring that had appeared out of nowhere in shock.

"I actually... condensed my own second Soul Ring?"

"I don't need to kill a Spirit Beast?"

He recalled how he had felt when defeating Dai Huabin.

That ultimate release of hatred, that pleasure of wanting to destroy everything, and the delight of finally trampling his enemy beneath his feet.

Could this be the effect of Indra Chakra in this world?

Huo Yuhao suddenly understood.

Just as Spirit Beasts in this world could produce their own Soul Rings after cultivating to a certain level.

With Indra Chakra, I could also awaken ocular techniques just as the Uchiha clan did in Naruto.

As long as the emotional stimulus was strong enough and my state of mind met the requirements, I could directly awaken the corresponding ocular technique and manifest it as a Soul Ring!

In other words, unlike the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path Martial Soul, my Sharingan Martial Soul did not require me to kill Spirit Beasts!

"Wait, then my Soul Skill is..."

Suppressing the wild joy in his heart, Huo Yuhao focused his mind on that red second Soul Ring.

A powerful stream of information flooded into his mind.

It was an ocular technique unique to this left eye.

Huo Yuhao abruptly opened his left eye, the six-pointed star pattern spinning madly.

His gaze focused on the empty space ahead.

"Amaterasu!"

Whoosh—!

A mass of pitch-black flames ignited from nothing in midair.

They were black flames that would not die until they had burned their target to ashes, radiating a terrifying heat and aura of destruction.

Immediately afterward, the Kamui Mangekyō in Huo Yuhao's right eye began to turn as well, resonating with his left eye.

Though he did not possess the same-origin pair of eyes needed for Susanoo, he sensed another accompanying ability within his left eye.

"Kagutsuchi!"

The black flames that had been burning wildly instantly changed form under Huo Yuhao's will.

They turned into a long black flaming sword, then into a flaming shield, moving as easily as his own limbs with exceptional flexibility.

So that was it.

Huo Yuhao covered his left eye, a wicked, wild smile curling across his lips.

Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi in his left eye—black flames and the ability to control them?

He rose to his feet, red and black light intertwining around his body like an Asura returned from hell.

"The sight these eyes behold is the path of vengeance!"