This Year's Freshmen Are in for a Rough Time

Ning Tian wore an equally incredulous expression.

Her mind was a complete mess.

How could he possibly be a one-ring Soul Master?!

Had Da Jiangyou been acting along with him all this time?

That was impossible!

Just as Ning Tian and Wu Feng were at a loss, they suddenly sensed a strand of Spiritual Power attempting to invade their Spiritual Space.

As they instinctively prepared to resist, Huo Yuhao's calm voice reached them.

"Lower your mental defenses. This is my Spirit Skill."

Ning Tian froze for a moment. After only a slight hesitation, she immediately lowered her mental defenses.

Wu Feng frowned, debating whether to trust Huo Yuhao's words, when she saw Ning Tian beside her suddenly widen her almond-shaped eyes, her face filled with shock.

She cried out, "Th-this is..."

Seeing Ning Tian's reaction, the deeply curious Wu Feng immediately lowered her mental defenses as well.

Then, in the next instant, the world before her eyes changed completely.

Everything within a hundred-meter radius appeared before her with perfect clarity.

This was actually an all-around, three-dimensional field of vision!

Everything within that range seemed to slow down. She could even move her perspective into every corner with a thought!

The same stunned expression appeared on Wu Feng's face.

In battle, wouldn't this allow them to see through every change in the enemy's movements and always seize the initiative?!

Ning Tian finally came back to her senses and said in shock, "Impossible! Can a ten-year Spirit Skill really produce an effect like this?"

Huo Yuhao's teasing voice rang directly in Ning Tian's mind. "Maybe the ten-year soul beast I killed had higher base stats?"

Ning Tian blanked out for a moment, then asked instinctively, "What ten-year soul beast did you kill?"

"The Ten-Year Wind Baboon Great Emperor."

Ning Tian's mouth twitched.

A Wind Baboon, that trash-tier soul beast? Great Emperor my ass!

Watching Huo Yuhao tease Ning Tian, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm laughed so hard that he rolled around in the Spiritual Space.

"HAHAHAHA! Trash soul beasts like Wind Baboons could never become Great Emperors! The one who gave Yuhao his Spirit Ring was me, the Tianmeng Great Emperor!"

At that moment, Wu Feng suddenly sensed that something was off. She asked doubtfully, "Your Spirit Skill really is powerful, but it shouldn't have any offensive ability, right? How did you glare Da Jiangyou unconscious earlier?"

Huo Yuhao gave an "oh" and smiled. "My Spirit Skill seems to have mutated. That was another application of my Spiritual Power. By concentrating it, I can directly strike the other person's Spiritual Space."

"Da Jiangyou's Spiritual Power was rather weak, and I caught him off guard with a direct hit to the brain. Naturally, he fainted."

Ning Tian's eyes widened. "What? Doesn't that mean your ten-year Spirit Ring is equivalent to giving you two Spirit Skills?!"

Huo Yuhao nodded with a smile. "You could understand it that way."

Ning Tian stood there in a daze. An absurd thought even surfaced in her mind: When I add my next Spirit Ring, should I find a Wind Baboon and try it too?

Wu Feng's mind was filled with exclamation points and question marks. She asked blankly, "Since your martial soul is of the Spiritual Attribute, how did you knock Da Jiangyou unconscious with one slap the second time?"

Huo Yuhao withdrew his Ice God Eyes, and the golden phantom of the Drunken Sword Immortal instantly separated from his body.

"Because I have Twin Martial Souls, and my other martial soul is at the Soul Ancestor realm."

Looking at the two yellow and two purple Spirit Rings around the Drunken Sword Immortal, Ning Tian and Wu Feng nearly popped their eyes out.

"Twin Martial Souls!"

"A twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor? Oh my God!"

Ning Tian and Wu Feng were so shocked that their eyes nearly popped out!

Huo Yuhao had deliberately used Simulation to lower the colors of his Spirit Rings, lest they appear too shocking.

The reason he had previously revealed a configuration of two purple and two black Spirit Rings before Qian Duoduo was, first, to increase his importance in Qian Duoduo's eyes, and second, to prepare Qian Duoduo in advance.

After all, given the power of the Spirit Skills from his four Spirit Rings, if they were merely two yellow and two purple, then when he used them later, they would probably exceed the expected standard by far.

Ning Tian's face was full of horror. "Y-you... just how did you cultivate?"

Wu Feng's eyes were vacant. "Monster. This is a real monster!"

Huo Yuhao did not answer their questions and instead continued the previous topic. "My martial soul is called the Drunken Sword Immortal. Its skill types are fairly varied—it has defense, control, and attack."

"Oh, right. This martial soul possesses the Ultimate Ice attribute. As for control, it mainly relies on extreme low temperatures to affect opponents."

Ning Tian's pupils contracted violently again, and her face had even become somewhat numb. "Ultimate Ice."

As the young princess of the ancient Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, she naturally understood what an ultimate attribute represented.

Invincible among those of the same rank!

With Huo Yuhao's Soul Ancestor-level Ultimate Ice second martial soul, the outcome of this New Student Assessment was already decided.

Their group would definitely be champions!

Wu Feng muttered, "Ultimate Ice... Then your second martial soul should belong to the assault type."

"But didn't Teacher Mu say that a team could only have one assault-type member?"

Huo Yuhao retorted unhappily, "What kind of logic is that? Aren't my eyes control-type? Who said that when dividing teams for Twin Martial Souls, you can only use the martial soul with the higher realm as the standard?"

Wu Feng paused, feeling that something was wrong. "That works too?"

Huo Yuhao nodded decisively. "As long as the rules don't forbid it, of course it works!"

Ning Tian gave him a long look. "Looks like this year's freshmen are in for a rough time."

The next day, Qian Duoduo spoke with Mu Jin in advance. Huo Yuhao no longer attended classes with his classmates, but he was still a student of Class Nine.

Qian Duoduo said that he would give Huo Yuhao Special Training during the time before the Assessment. If Huo Yuhao could win the New Student Assessment, it would likewise count toward Mu Jin's performance record.

With Qian Duoduo saying that, Mu Jin naturally had no reason to refuse and readily agreed.

Thus, the students of Freshman Class Nine discovered in surprise the next day that the mysterious Huo Yuhao had taken leave again.

At this moment, Huo Yuhao was in Qian Duoduo's personal laboratory, receiving one-on-one Soul Tool instruction from Qian Duoduo.

". . . So, although Soul Tools cover an extremely wide range of fields, the most important aspect—and the one that most limits a Soul Engineer's development—is still the Core Array."

"Yuhao, your Spiritual Attribute martial soul can help you achieve perfect control when engraving Core Arrays, greatly reducing the chance of failure."

"At the same time, you possess advantages in operating Soul Tools that ordinary Soul Engineers do not. Most importantly, in terms of precision and prediction, you can absolutely crush every Soul Engineer of the same rank."

"Next, I'll demonstrate the complete process of engraving a Core Array. Activate your Mental Detection and carefully observe my movements."

Huo Yuhao nodded, activated Mental Detection, and watched Qian Duoduo's hands with great interest.

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