"I'll never forgive him!"
Now that she knew the reason behind it, there was no way she could forgive him.
Ji Siyuan patted her shoulder. "That's fine. Get stronger, then take your revenge."
With that, he prepared to start cultivating.
Huo Yuhao suddenly looked at him, fidgeting. "S-Siyuan, can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead."
"W-Well, if you have a wife someday, will you be like Dai Hao?"
Tang San's face lit up at once. "That tone, tsk, tsk, tsk. She's got you."
Ji Siyuan said, "Uncle Tang, quit tsking. How am I supposed to answer that?"
"I don't know. Your Uncle Tang here doesn't have much experience with this sort of thing."
"But isn't that how the Angel God talks to you?"
Tang San said, "That's slander! I could go complain to your parents."
"Then tell me how to respond."
Tang San said, "Different situations call for different responses. The Angel God and I have a blood feud over her mother, so I have to steer clear of her. You need to find a way to make the other person happy. This really isn't within my realm of experience."
Ji Siyuan was asking Tang San for an answer, but Huo Yuhao only saw him fall silent.
"Siyuan, you're not the kind of person Dai Hao is, right?" There was a faint pleading in her voice.
"What do you mean? Are you asking how many wives and concubines I'll have, or whether I'll give the women in my life a proper status?"
"Huh?" Huo Yuhao hadn't expected Ji Siyuan to ask her in return.
After thinking it over, she asked with some hesitation, "Are you the kind of person who could fall in love with several women?"
"Mm, probably. But we're still young. Isn't it a bit early to talk about this?"
Tang San said, "Not too early, not too early. For her to ask you something like that, this little girl has probably fallen for you."
"That can't be right. I haven't done anything." Ji Siyuan genuinely couldn't believe it.
Everything he'd done since arriving here had been perfectly ordinary. He couldn't see what was so appealing about him. Could he really have attracted the Daughter of Destiny?
Huo Yuhao's voice grew low. "Can't a man just have one wife?"
"Damn, how am I supposed to answer that?" His own parents had been monogamous. How could he say it wouldn't work? "All I can say is that it depends on the person. I figure I'm probably not that type."
"Hmph. Two-timer." After that, Huo Yuhao turned her back to him and began meditating.
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Night fell, and the two began meditating and cultivating.
Ji Siyuan sought out Mu En again. "Senior, why hasn't our homeroom teacher been replaced yet?"
"I'm just an old man. I can't manage everything."
"Tell me the truth."
"The new homeroom teacher is still learning."
As long as they had a plan, that was enough.
Ji Siyuan still couldn't get over Zhou Yi's attempt to expel him on the very first day.
"By the way, how do you get into the Soul Tool Department?"
Mu En was startled. "You want to study Soul Tools?"
"No. I think my roommate has some talent with Soul Tools. I want him to give it a try."
"You think I'm a wishing well?"
"Do I need to toss in a coin? I made a little money yesterday."
Mu En smiled. "The Soul Tool Department is short on people. Have your roommate go see Qian Duoduo. They'll be delighted."
It was like buying a fine horse with a thousand gold pieces to attract others. If there was even a little talent, Qian Duoduo would take him in.
Of course, Ji Siyuan still had to check with Mu En first. Otherwise, they wouldn't even get through the door.
With that settled, he passed the information on to Huo Yuhao.
As for where Qian Duoduo's office was?
They could ask Wang Yan. Surely a teacher would know.
Ji Siyuan took Huo Yuhao to find Wang Yan and asked him to recommend Huo Yuhao to Qian Duoduo.
Wang Yan looked at Huo Yuhao. "Transfer to the Soul Tool Department? That could indeed be a way to stay. When you advance to second year, you'll be much less likely to be eliminated."
"Eliminated?"
"To advance to second year, you need to be at least a two-ring Soul Master. Your Soul Power foundation is far too weak."
Huo Yuhao lowered her head. Her Soul Power was only at level eleven, nowhere near the requirement.
Ji Siyuan said, "Then let's take a look at the Soul Tool Department."
Wang Yan nodded. "I can help with that." He wasn't particularly opposed to the Soul Tool Department.
"By the way, Ji Siyuan, could you let me have a look at your Martial Soul?"
His Martial Soul appeared, and the Thousand-Year Soul Ring blazed brightly.
Even though this wasn't the first time he'd seen it, Wang Yan was still shaken.
A thousand-year first ring—something far beyond Shrek's research into Soul Rings.
Then again, who knew what they'd been researching all these years? All they seemed to do was slaughter Soul Beasts and make Soul Bones.
"Could you let your teacher feel your flame?"
The flame Ji Siyuan had used to strike Zhou Yi during their first class had caught Wang Yan's attention. But at the time, there hadn't been an opportunity to study it carefully. He'd had to clean up the mess Zhou Yi left behind.
A scorching flame burned upon the Fire Lotus.
"What kind of Martial Soul is this? I've never seen one before." Though Wang Yan had read widely, he'd never encountered a flame or lotus like this.
Lotuses were usually associated with support-type tool Soul Masters, who aided their teammates. But Ji Siyuan's Martial Soul clearly wasn't one of those. What support Soul Master had such a powerful flame?
"Geocentric Red Lotus."
Wang Yan was surprised. He carefully sensed it. "I can't quite tell. But I can ask Dean Yan to take a look. Please wait here for a moment."
"Teacher, weren't we talking about getting into the Soul Tool Department?"
"Your teacher won't go back on his word. If your flame really is what I suspect, taking your roommate to see Dean Qian Duoduo will carry more weight."
Wang Yan hurried off toward the dean's office. The two of them stayed behind, chatting and cultivating.
"Siyuan, is your Martial Soul really that powerful?"
"No need to doubt it. When it comes to Martial Souls alone, no one should be able to surpass me right now."
Even Wang Dong'er's third Martial Soul—the Sea God or the Golden Trident—couldn't match the level of his Sword of Three Realms Judgment.
But neither of those was a Martial Soul she'd revealed yet.
The Light Goddess Butterfly and the Clear Sky Hammer couldn't possibly be stronger than the Geocentric Red Lotus, either.
"Teacher Wang? What brings you here?" Yan Shaozhe looked worried. His prized disciple was still suffering from Evil Fire.
"Dean Yan, come with me. There's a student whose Martial Soul seems to be Ultimate Fire." Wang Yan was so out of breath he hadn't even had a drink of water. He absolutely had to tell Yan Shaozhe about this.
"Are you sure it's Ultimate Fire?"
"I'm not sure, because I haven't seen his Martial Soul before. It's called the Earth Core Fire Lotus."
Hearing the familiar name, Yan Shaozhe remembered that Mu En had once told him to make sure a student with a Fire Lotus Martial Soul wasn't expelled. Could this be the one?
"Take me to him right away."
Yan Shaozhe stood up. "No. Tell me where he is, and I'll take you there."
If it really was an Ultimate Martial Soul, they absolutely couldn't let the student slip away.
He knew all too well how powerful an Ultimate Martial Soul could be.
Someone Mu En had specifically mentioned couldn't be ordinary.
And he'd never heard of a Martial Soul called the Earth Core Fire Lotus.
"Teacher should be able to tell it's Ultimate Fire. Why didn't he say anything to me?"
Mu En sneezed. "Who's talking about me? Probably that kid again. He knows how to find a way forward for his roommate. Seems to have a good disposition, too. Looks like I'll have a successor someday."