"Since you've come to Shrek Academy, you have to obey the teachers' arrangements absolutely. If you don't agree, then pack your things and get out. And as for your claim that you should prioritize sharing a dorm with someone you know, aren't Dai Huabin and Huo Yuhao already in the same dorm?"
Zhou Yi stood tall with her arms folded, looking down at Wang Dong'er with an unquestionable air and tone.
"But I'm a Power Attack System Soul Master. You said it yourself: the academy rules say a group can only have one Power Attack System Soul Master." Wang Dong'er still refused to give up.
"If I say you're Power Attack System, then you are. If I say you're not, then you're not. If you don't want to team up with Dai Huabin and Huo Yuhao, then pack your things and get the hell out."
Zhou Yi didn't even bother pretending anymore.
"You..."
Looking at the unreasonable old woman before her, Wang Dong'er felt a deep sense of frustration.
Before, she'd only thought the old woman was strict, nothing more.
Now she finally understood why Feng Piaoling had such a strong aversion to the old woman. Not only had he made her lose face in public, he'd also rejected her offer.
So this was the kind of person she was: someone who'd stop at nothing for graduation rates and results, selfish and unbearably conceited.
Don't think she didn't know what the other woman was plotting.
It was nothing more than that she'd seen how useful Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection skill and that Spiritual Attack skill were for support and control.
Over the past three months, Zhou Yi had shown favoritism toward Huo Yuhao more than once or twice. She'd even made him, with his Body Martial Soul and two white Ten-Year Soul Rings, the Class One monitor.
She'd threatened him with expulsion and forced Dai Huabin, the original monitor, to step down.
If she teamed up the two strongest Battle Soul Masters in Class One, herself and Dai Huabin, with Huo Yuhao, then unless they ran into that freak Feng Piaoling, victory would be all but guaranteed.
"Forget it, Dong'er. It's not worth getting expelled over this." Xiao Xiao, sitting beside Wang Dong'er, urged her softly.
Dai Huabin called out from a short distance away, "That's right, Dong... Student Wang Dong'er. It's not worth getting expelled over such a small matter."
Compared to the start of the school year, Dai Huabin had undergone a complete transformation.
And it wasn't just any kind of change.
It was his attitude toward Huo Yuhao.
At first, when the two had been assigned to the same dorm, Dai Huabin had kicked and punched Huo Yuhao at the drop of a hat for two and a half months straight.
But for some reason, things had suddenly changed recently.
Well, how exactly had they changed? He couldn't really explain it. It was as if someone whose Martial Soul was being dominated had encountered someone who dominated Martial Souls.
He'd even let Huo Yuhao take his position as monitor without so much as looking into it.
And how had Huo Yuhao responded to such a dramatic change in Dai Huabin?
Of course, he'd forgiven him.
After all, Dai Huabin was his half-brother.
When Dai Huabin had treated him so well even without knowing he was his younger brother, stopped beating him, how could Huo Yuhao not forgive him right away?
Seeing Dai Huabin speak up, Huo Yuhao joined in to urge her as well. "Student Wang Dong'er, I know you might have some misunderstanding about me, but we're all students in Class One, part of the same whole. We have to fight for Class One's honor."
The students who had stayed in Class One until now had, for the most part, already been tamed by Zhou Yi.
Hearing the two of them, the other students also began to urge Wang Dong'er to back down.
Wang Dong'er was, after all, a girl who'd only just turned eleven. Faced with the whole class trying to persuade her and Zhou Yi threatening her, she could only comply, no matter how unhappy she was.
Somewhere in the Divine Realm, inside a magnificent palace wreathed in clouds and mist.
A figure stood silently amid the clouds and mist, gazing into the endless distance. No one knew what he was looking at.
He had cascading water-blue hair. Tall and broad-shouldered, he looked to be in his twenties, and his deep eyes would occasionally flash with a hint of purple.
This man was none other than Tang San.
One day in heaven was a year on earth.
More than three months had passed since his daughter, Tang Wutong, had her soul split into three and descended to Douluo Continent, but only three hours had passed in the Divine Realm.
For Tang San, that wasn't even enough time to make one full patrol of the Divine Realm.
Originally, according to his plan, the Tang Sect's only two remaining disciples, Tang Ya and Bei Bei, would happen upon the Child of Destiny. Then they'd use the abridged Mysterious Heaven Skill he'd left behind on Douluo Continent to plant a suggestion in Tang Ya's mind while she cultivated.
He'd have her invite Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect and enroll at Shrek Academy.
At the same time, he'd have one-third of his daughter's soul take control of her body. Disguised as a boy, she'd go to Shrek Academy as the Clear Sky Sect's young mistress and end up sharing a dorm with the Child of Destiny. They'd get to know each other, and little by little, he'd slip a dog leash around the boy's neck, turning him into a dog for the Tang family.
One of the other two pieces of her soul was in his hands, while the other was hidden inside Wang Dong. This was insurance against his daughter falling in love with someone else or helping Huo Yuhao defy him out of love.
It would also allow Wang Dong and the Child of Destiny to perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. When their souls merged, the third of his daughter's soul sleeping inside Wang Dong would be transferred into the Child of Destiny.
For this purpose, Tang San had specifically tampered with Huo Yuhao. Any light-attribute Martial Soul that encountered him first would be a perfect match for his Martial Soul.
That would give birth to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
The fortune of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, the Emperor Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest, was closely tied to that of Douluo Continent's Child of Destiny, Huo Yuhao. The two were bound to meet sooner or later.
Although he didn't know exactly how their fortunes would become linked, once they were connected, the third of his daughter's soul inside Huo Yuhao would enter the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
It would gradually develop a consciousness, leading the Emperor Auspicious Beast to take human form and fall in love with Huo Yuhao.
After that, things would be simple: he'd arrange for Huo Yuhao to face mortal danger, then lead the Emperor Auspicious Beast to sacrifice herself for him.
His father, Tang Hao, had already done this twice. He'd even used it once on Tang San himself. It couldn't have been simpler.
After the Emperor Auspicious Beast took human form, the third of his daughter's soul would return to Wang Dong, carrying half of the beast's fortune and the Golden Dragon Spear with her, and devour Wang Dong's soul.
That would tame Huo Yuhao further, fitting him with another layer of shackles.
Finally, he'd use the last piece of his daughter's soul, the one in his possession that contained all of her memories, to swoop in and claim the prize.
He'd devour the new soul born after it had consumed Wang Dong's, completing the third round of dog training.
With every link in the chain locked in place, how could the Child of Destiny not become the Tang family's—his, Tang San's—most loyal dog?
And the consciousness of the Douluo Continent's plane, which had tried to save itself by creating a Child of Destiny to escape being devoured by Tang Hao, would lose its final chance to turn the tables.
In the end, Douluo Continent would become nothing more than the Tang Sect's private garden.
Unexpectedly, after returning from patrolling the Divine Realm to fulfill his duties as God of Law Enforcement and consolidate his position, Huo Yuhao had indeed been drawn into the Tang Sect—but Wang Dong had somehow revealed that she was a girl.
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