Eye of Plunder, Devouring Ability

Aside from some changes to the specific soul beasts she faced, Wang Dong's overall path matched the original story. She scored a full hundred points, only to have fifty points deducted from her combat skills for a baseless thirty-percent chance of being killed in a counterattack.

Dai Huabin's luck, however, did not seem quite as good. The Wind Tiger he drew did not back down for some reason this time, instead charging head-on into him. A massive gash was torn across his chest, costing him a full fifty points.

Though he still relied on his formidable combat strength to knock the Wind Tiger to the ground, he collapsed right afterward as well.

After thinking it over briefly, Huo Yuhao guessed the general reason. In the original story, that batch of soul beasts had been intimidated by the ferocious beast pressure belonging to the Ice Empress that Huo Yuhao released while showing off.

Although Shrek Academy claimed they had been nursed back to health and brought in to retake the exam, their outward condition could be restored, but psychological trauma could not be erased so quickly.

After coming so close to death, people often became more protective of their lives. That was why, under most normal circumstances, someone who had attempted suicide once and been saved would not attempt it a second time.

After another fifty points were deducted, Dai Huabin said nothing more.

Under the current circumstances, even if Zhu Lu earned a perfect score, she would not be able to catch up.

"Don't forget that a bet is a bet, and you have to accept the loss." Huo Yuhao smiled as he delivered the final twist of the knife to Dai Huabin.

Dai Huabin's expression stiffened. Then he gave a cold snort and deliberately spread his arms, putting on an indifferent look as he said, "Go ahead. Do whatever you want."

With blatant humiliation, Huo Yuhao patted Dai Huabin's cheek and said, "You still need more training, kid."

Dai Huabin's face froze. Then his blood surged in reverse, making the wound on his chest hurt even more. His eyes rolled back, and he fell backward.

Huo Yuhao curled his lips. Someone as short-sighted as Dai Huabin could only see the shallowest layer. That gesture had humiliated Dai Huabin, but what no one noticed was that a trace of icy crystal particles had entered his brain through the blood vessels in his cheek.

Unlike the seed in Ma Xiaotao's brain, this seed of Huo Yuhao's was intended to kill Dai Huabin.

As one of Huo Yuhao's highly restricted skills, the greatest advantage of this ability of the Ice God Eye was that as long as he touched the opponent's head at close range, and the opponent was not deliberately protecting their brain with Soul Power, the seed could enter their brain.

It could be considered an extremely cheap first-meeting kill move when there was a gap in strength, or it could be used as Huo Yuhao had used it now—as a hidden move won through cunning.

After the assessments of Huo Yuhao's group ended, Mu Jin allowed them to leave on their own. After all, it was impossible to finish assessing more than a hundred students from two classes in a single day. To waste as little time as possible, those who had finished could move freely.

That evening, when Dai Huabin woke on a bed in the infirmary, he could not help clenching his fists in resentment. Zhu Lu had remained at his side the entire time, and she looked at him worriedly. "Huabin, are you alright?"

Dai Huabin shook his head. His eyes immediately reddened with blood as he glared in the direction of the freshman dormitory area. Gritting his teeth, he said word by word, "Huo Yuhao, I will repay today's humiliation tenfold!!"

Then Dai Huabin began plotting actions against Huo Yuhao in his heart.

Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao was tickling Wang Dong, who had once again teased her. As Wang Dong burst into laughter, a woman's voice suddenly slipped out.

Huo Yuhao froze at the sound of Wang Dong's female voice. He narrowed his eyes at her. "What was that sound you just made?"

Wang Dong knew she had misspoken and frantically waved her hands in denial. "I didn't! You heard wrong!" As she spoke, she suddenly shoved Huo Yuhao away. Huo Yuhao stopped teasing her and cooperated by falling backward.

After Huo Yuhao got off Wang Dong, she immediately sprang back onto her own bed, pulled up the blanket, and said, "Alright, alright, it's time to sleep. There's no class tomorrow morning for once, so I'm going to get some proper rest."

Huo Yuhao shrugged and said to Wang Dong with some helplessness, "Fine. I knew that once you had no classes, you'd just sleep. Do you want me to bring you breakfast tomorrow morning?"

Wang Dong's eyes immediately sparkled. She gently wriggled beneath the covers and said in a slightly coquettish tone, "That would be perfect. And you were so satisfying today. Dai Huabin's face turned green from anger."

Huo Yuhao chuckled, stretched lazily without a care, and said to Wang Dong, "It was just a convenient opportunity. He put you in the infirmary during the Freshman Assessment, so the two of us worked together to put him in the infirmary during the Upgrade Assessment. That makes us even."

Wang Dong paused, not expecting Huo Yuhao to have remembered to help her get even. She nodded, then lay back beneath the covers and said, "I'm sleepy."

The next morning, with no classes, Huo Yuhao was free for once. After sitting on his bed and cultivating for a while, he began studying the newly acquired Ghost Eye and Eye of Plunder.

Ghost Eye's ability was relatively simple. It merely allowed him to silently use Teleportation and enter the Ghost Domain to evade certain damage. The Eye of Plunder, on the other hand, was far more powerful.

Stealing one person's ability within his field of vision was not especially terrifying on its own, but Huo Yuhao now possessed all-around vision, along with extraordinarily long-range eyesight.

After testing Ghost Eye, Huo Yuhao stood by the windowsill and looked at Bei Bei and Tang Ya taking a walk together. A flash of blue light passed through his eyes.

The Eye of Plunder activated silently at that moment.

The ability Huo Yuhao plundered from Tang Ya was the Devouring Ability of Blue Silver Grass. He did not gain the corresponding soul skill; he could merely absorb another person's life force through a grasping motion of his palm.

This was practically a jackpot. Huo Yuhao lightly curled his fingers and felt the layer of black, viscous substance on his palm. With a thought, he drew it back in.

At the same time, the Eye of Plunder returned something resembling an energy bar. It was divided into ten slots, and the lowest slot had already been filled by that black, viscous substance.

It seemed the Eye of Plunder could plunder and store up to ten abilities at once. Huo Yuhao wondered whether this ability could be upgraded through some method. At the same time, he had no intention of returning the Devouring Ability to Tang Ya. Even if it might not be as effective on him as it was on Tang Ya, the ability to forcibly absorb life force alone was already a decent trump card...