Huo Yuhao, You...

The Soul Fighting Zone could be said to be an extremely important part of Shrek Academy's educational system.

Looking at the two students standing ready before her, Mu Jin, temporarily acting as referee, began the introduction.

"Within Shrek Academy, practical combat ability is valued above all else.

"The Freshman Assessment three months from now will likewise primarily judge whether you may remain based on your performance in actual combat."

At Mu Jin's words, the students seated in the stands grew excited.

A clash between Soul Masters had always been one of the most captivating spectacles on the Douluo Continent.

Mu Jin swept her gaze across the crowd. Seeing that everyone had arrived, she saw no need to waste any more time.

"This is a spar between classmates. The two of you may use every method at your disposal.

"However, remember to stop at the proper point. You must never deliberately cripple or injure a fellow student. Nor will private retaliation be permitted afterward. Any violators will be expelled from the academy."

"At the same time, if Wu Feng can defeat Huo Yuhao, she will replace him as Class Nine's vice class monitor. Do you both understand?"

Mu Jin gave the two people in the arena another reminder.

"Understood."

"Alright."

The two answered at the same time and began backing away, widening the distance between them.

Before retreating, however, Wu Feng gave Huo Yuhao a cold warning.

"Stay away from Ning Tian from now on."

Huo Yuhao's brow twitched slightly at her words, but he neither refuted nor mocked her.

Wu Feng was Ning Tian's personal guard, yet she seemed to harbor a different kind of affection for Ning Tian?

With that thought, Huo Yuhao suddenly looked at Wu Feng with a trace of pity.

Wu Feng keenly sensed the change in Huo Yuhao's gaze. Though she could not tell exactly what it meant, the feeling inexplicably stirred even greater irritation within her.

Very quickly, the two sides separated by a hundred meters.

"The soul fight begins."

As Mu Jin's voice rang through the Soul Fighting Zone,

Wu Feng let out a sharp cry. Her delicate body suddenly exploded with force, and she kicked off the ground, charging toward Huo Yuhao at full speed like a mass of red clouds.

Each time her long, powerful legs struck the ground, her body shot forward, trailing a faint crimson afterimage. In the blink of an eye, she had already crossed dozens of meters.

A scorching wave of heat spread outward from her, seeming to distort the air itself, accompanied by a faint dragon's roar.

Wu Feng's body instantly became more slender. As she moved through the air, she actually resembled a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl who had just fully matured.

Her slender figure directly burst through her academy uniform, revealing the tightly bound clothing beneath—a highly elastic dark-red leather suit.

The one-piece leather suit cinched upward, covering the full breasts that had become more pronounced after she unleashed her martial soul, while below, it exposed a pair of long legs gleaming with a soft fleshly sheen.

A faint crimson glow spread over Wu Feng's skin. Beginning from her left cheek, fine dragon scales covered her skin, extending down along her neck to cover her entire left shoulder, left arm, and left hand.

Wu Feng's figure appeared slender and beautiful, yet it also gave off a sense of explosive power.

As her body flickered, two yellow Soul Rings rose from beneath her feet.

Wu Feng's martial soul was the Red Dragon, an exceptionally domineering, top-tier fire-element dragon martial soul.

Compared to Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao's side was far less dramatic.

There was no change to the surface of his body. Only his originally gentle eyes shifted, their pupils quietly turning vertical and glimmering with a faint fiery-red light.

Two deep purple Soul Rings rose beneath his feet.

"His first and second Soul Rings... are both thousand-year level?!"

Unlike Mu Jin, who had known already, the other students seated in the stands stared wide-eyed at Huo Yuhao in the arena, unable to believe what they were seeing.

The female students' gazes toward Huo Yuhao instantly became scorching, their eyes sparkling brightly.

With his outstanding appearance, extraordinary temperament, and terrifying strength far beyond that of his peers...

Such a young man was simply the perfect image of a partner in their hearts.

Compared to the students in the stands, who were merely shocked, Wu Feng, standing directly before Huo Yuhao, suddenly trembled.

A stirring from deep within her bloodline made her clearly feel her martial soul shaking uncontrollably.

Though her Red Dragon martial soul was not a true Fire Dragon, nor did it possess Ultimate Fire, its quality could certainly be called top-tier.

Yet at this moment, before Huo Yuhao, it trembled as though it had encountered the true emperor of the dragon race.

Huo Yuhao, however, felt helpless inwardly.

Unlike the Ice Dragon King, which had completely fused with him and become his second martial soul, the Fire Dragon King's Dragon Soul was currently only temporarily residing within his body.

Still, Huo Yuhao vaguely had a feeling that once he successfully condensed a complementary yin-yang Soul Core, the Fire Dragon King's Dragon Soul would truly become part of his second martial soul as well.

At that time, he would be able to freely shift between ice and fire, reaching the realm where extremes reversed into one another.

The reason the Fire Dragon King's Dragon Soul had taken the initiative to reveal its aura now was because it had sensed the aura of Wu Feng's fire dragon martial soul.

To the Fire Dragon King, a dragonkin like Wu Feng did not even possess the qualifications to pay it homage, much less dare to attack it.

Wu Feng forcibly suppressed the unease and fear rising within her. Her body accelerated again, and after several flashes, she arrived before Huo Yuhao.

Her first and second Soul Rings lit up simultaneously. The crimson Dragon Fire rising around her suddenly transformed into a deeper dark red.

The scales covering half her body became thicker and more solid, the red light in her eyes intensified, and her left hand completely mutated into a vicious dragon claw.

Dense flames coiled around Wu Feng's left dragon claw. The astonishing heat even caused the surrounding air to warp slightly.

"Ha!"

Wu Feng cried out, her left dragon claw screeching through the air as it clawed straight at Huo Yuhao's lower abdomen.

Yet Huo Yuhao, who moved later but arrived first, casually caught her seemingly unstoppable dragon claw with his bare hand.

Even stranger, the dark-red flames that had been burning fiercely vanished completely the instant Huo Yuhao seized her.

"Huo Yuhao, let go of me!"

Wu Feng's pretty face instantly flushed crimson with shock and fury.

She desperately tried to ignite her Dragon Flame again while attempting to wrench her left dragon claw free from Huo Yuhao's grasp.

But no matter how she urged her Soul Power, it was useless.

The inexplicable fear left her body limp and weak, making even standing difficult.

Her body went soft, and she fell directly into Huo Yuhao's embrace.

"Huo Yuhao, you..."

Leaning against Huo Yuhao's chest, Wu Feng let out a helpless, humiliated whimper.

"Student Wu Feng, are you still refusing to concede?"

Huo Yuhao looked down at the girl in his arms, her face flushed red and her body trembling faintly, and asked calmly.

Though he had to admit that her body was soft and springy, something he could feel even through their clothes,

maintaining this position under everyone's watchful eyes was far too strange.

As for simply letting go and allowing her to fall to the ground, Huo Yuhao would not go that far.

After all, she was only a little girl under twelve years old. The Fire Dragon King's aura had frightened her legs weak, and she truly no longer had the strength to stand steadily.

"I concede!"

Wu Feng practically shouted the words, several aggrieved tears slipping from the corners of her eyes despite herself.

Mu Jin, who was also on the Soul Fighting Platform, and the students in the stands all wore expressions of confusion and incomprehension as they watched the anticlimactic and even somewhat ambiguous conclusion to the match.

What just happened?

Were you two fighting or flirting?

Were all of us here just part of your flirting?

As Wu Feng's surrender rang out, Ning Tian hurried down from the stands and took the still-weak Wu Feng from Huo Yuhao's arms.

Seeing Wu Feng's flushed face and unfocused eyes, Ning Tian cast Huo Yuhao a reproachful glance with her beautiful eyes.

Mu Jin, however, seemed thoughtful as she recalled the scene from earlier.

Huo Yuhao's martial soul was the exceedingly rare spiritual-type Spirit Eye. At that instant, he must have used some spiritual Soul Skill that even she could not detect, allowing him to defeat Wu Feng so easily and without leaving a trace.

At that thought, uncontrollable delight appeared on Mu Jin's face.

With Huo Yuhao's powerful and mysterious methods, along with Ning Tian's support from the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda,

wouldn't the championship of the Freshman Assessment three months later already be firmly in their grasp?