Shrek City, Eye of Truth

The journey had been quite smooth. The main reason this caravan still needed to recruit a control-type Soul Master was simply to ensure nothing could go wrong.

After passing through the Star Dou Great Forest and filling the vacant position, the greatest danger they encountered was merely a mountain road where bandits often appeared.

It was not as if Huo Yuhao had failed to spot the bandits hiding along the mountain road. However, after assessing the strength of the caravan Huo Yuhao was traveling with, they quietly withdrew instead of choosing to openly turn against them.

In a major city not far from Shrek City, Huo Yuhao took advantage of the caravan's rest stop to visit a nearby black market and obtain a letter of recommendation for Shrek Academy.

This had also been within Huo Yuhao's calculations. The caravan's evening rest period happened to coincide with the opening hours of most black markets. In other words, there were plenty of opportunities to buy a recommendation letter at night.

After several days of jolting travel, the caravan finally arrived safely at Shrek City. At the city gates, Huo Yuhao collected the payment from the caravan leader, then carried a bundle of daily necessities he had bought along the way toward the center of Shrek City.

At the center of Shrek City stood Shrek Academy, renowned throughout the entire Douluo Continent.

Without a recommendation letter from the Tang Sect, Huo Yuhao's enrollment was somewhat more complicated than before. Put simply, there were a few additional assessments.

Aside from the basic bone-age test and verification of his recommendation letter, there was also an additional basic test of Soul Skill release.

This truly opened Huo Yuhao's eyes. There really were people who possessed Soul Rings yet did not have complete control over their own Soul Skills.

After completing the assessments and receiving his enrollment handbook, the moment Huo Yuhao truly stepped into Shrek Academy, his Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord System chimed once more.

[Detected that the host is currently within Shrek Academy. Eye of Truth successfully acquired.]

After the system's voice sounded, Huo Yuhao felt something strange at his right wrist. Once he reached an area with no one around, he raised his right arm to look. At the junction between the back of his hand and his forearm, another eye had split open, its golden pupil gleaming with intelligence.

At the same time, Huo Yuhao received an introduction to the Eye of Truth's abilities in his mind.

This eye's ability was to see through deception. Its effect was to sense in advance the range and operating principle of an opponent's Soul Skill.

It could be considered a patch for the Eye of Time and Space, allowing Huo Yuhao to reduce the number of times he needed to use the Eye of Time and Space to rewind time. After all, the Eye of Time and Space still had enormous limitations at this stage.

Passing between the white freshman teaching building and the yellow buildings for second- and third-year students, Huo Yuhao saw the dormitory building. The dormitory occupied an immense area. Though it was a single building, it was divided into white, yellow, purple, and black sections, representing the residential areas for students of the four different grade levels.

When Huo Yuhao arrived at the dormitory entrance, he found an elderly man sitting there. The old man wore plain gray clothes and looked as if he were in the twilight of his years. Sunlight filtering between the buildings happened to fall upon him, and the reclining chair he lay in looked rather comfortable.

Huo Yuhao naturally knew the identity of the man before him: Mu En, the Dragon God Douluo, one of the three remaining Ultimate Douluos on the continent and the one currently in the worst condition.

Huo Yuhao passed by Mu En without greeting him to draw his attention as before. Instead, he silently entered the freshman dormitory and treated him like air, passing him by as an ordinary new student would.

Mu En did not stop Huo Yuhao either. He merely continued reclining in his chair, looking drowsy.

Huo Yuhao quickly found his dormitory in this life. When the dorms had been assigned earlier, he had deliberately avoided Room 108 and chosen Room 111 instead.

"Two rooms apart. If Wang Dong still comes chasing after me, then I can't be blamed for deliberately putting my neck into a dog collar. When the time comes, it won't count as me being too ruthless." Huo Yuhao muttered as he used his key to unlock the door.

As the key opened the lock, a somewhat stale gust of air rushed out. Huo Yuhao quickly stepped aside. After waiting a while, he held his breath and dashed inside to open the window. With more eyes than ordinary people, he was clearly more sensitive to such things. He muttered with some difficulty,

"Damn, I was so focused on that dog collar that I forgot about this."

This room had clearly been unoccupied for at least a month, and a layer of dust covered everything.

The dormitory was very small, only around ten square meters. Two beds occupied most of the space. Other than that, there was only a table and two metal wardrobes. A lamp hung from the ceiling, while several metal protrusions lined the walls.

That lamp was the room's only Soul Tool, and those metal protrusions were switches used to charge Soul Tools. Huo Yuhao had not forgotten that much, but looking at the dust-covered dormitory, he helplessly rubbed his forehead.

Fine. His first chore since arriving in the Douluo Continent had begun.

It took nearly an hour before the room was finally cleaned and barely fit for living. Huo Yuhao was not as obsessive about cleanliness as the original Huo Yuhao. A dorm was not an aircraft carrier; good enough was good enough.

After roughly tidying the dormitory, Huo Yuhao kept his attention fixed on waiting for his next roommate.

After all, whether his future roommate would be some random nobody or that dog collar was a major matter that would determine the course of his future.

The next morning, Huo Yuhao heard the sound of the door lock moving in his sleep. He immediately rolled over and rose from the bed.

Huo Yuhao had never had the habit of sleeping naked. With that roll, he had already put on his casual clothes, his gaze fixed tightly on the door before him.

The key on the other side did not seem to work very well. After fumbling with it for quite some time, Huo Yuhao finally stepped forward and twisted open the door himself.

The instant the door opened, both of them froze. Huo Yuhao swept his gaze over the newcomer.

The youth outside had delicate features and fair skin. His large eyes were especially striking, a light pinkish-blue, and his neat short hair was the same color. He appeared to be about the same height and age as Huo Yuhao.

The moment Huo Yuhao saw that pinkish-blue short hair, he knew he had hit the jackpot.

The youth outside, however, did not have much patience. He spoke with a hint of impatience. "Hey, you..."

With a bang, Huo Yuhao shut the door again. Then he immediately opened it once more, only to see the youth's stunned expression swiftly turn somewhat angry.

After failing to rearrange reality, Huo Yuhao accepted his fate. He stepped aside to let Wang Dong enter, meeting her eyes once more.

For some reason, Wang Dong found that she simply could not get angry while looking at Huo Yuhao. She snorted and dragged her suitcase into the room...