Scorching Blood Vials—How Much Are They Worth? (Please Bookmark and Follow)

Not long after returning to school, Huo Yuhao had only rested for one night when someone came knocking the next day.

"Um... hello."

Huo Yuhao rubbed his eyes, yawned, and reached out to open the dormitory door. Then he froze. The moment he opened it, he saw Ma Xiaotao, who had apparently been waiting outside for quite some time.

Ma Xiaotao stood at the door in the red uniform of an inner courtyard student, her long hair draped over her shoulders. From her posture, she had clearly been standing outside for a while.

"Senior Ma Xiaotao? What did you come to see me for?"

Huo Yuhao asked, though he quickly thought of the answer.

After all, aside from her evil fire problem, there probably was nothing else that would make Ma Xiaotao come looking for him.

"Because of the evil fire, and this."

Ma Xiaotao took out a storage soul tool. Inside were all kinds of cultivation resources Yan Shaozhe had prepared, all of them ice-element resources.

"This is the academy's compensation for what Dai Huabin did last time."

Ma Xiaotao said. This was indeed the academy's compensation. After all, Huo Yuhao had been attacked within the academy last time, so Shrek Academy bore some responsibility as well.

"Then I'll accept it. But as for your evil fire, Senior, I'll need to contact Sister Bing Xue."

Huo Yuhao accepted the compensation. There was no reason to refuse free benefits; Shrek should have compensated him in the first place. However, he had no solution for her evil fire right now. The Ultimate Ice within his body was not enough to help her, so he could only see whether the Ice Empress had time.

Ever since the Snow Empress arrived, though, the Ice Empress seemed to have been playing some kind of survival game with her. Every day, they were either mining, fighting monsters, or building houses. She did not seem to have much time.

"I'm not looking for the senior."

Ma Xiaotao's voice suddenly lowered. Her gaze shifted from Huo Yuhao's face to the floor, and her toe lightly ground against the ground.

"I want... you."

As she said it, Ma Xiaotao hemmed and hawed, as if she were saying something strange.

Huo Yuhao: "???"

Wang Dong: "!!!"

At some point, Wang Dong had already sat up in bed. Still wrapped in his blanket, he lay sprawled there, his pink-blue eyes fixed intently on Ma Xiaotao at the door.

"That's not what I mean!"

Seeing their expressions, Ma Xiaotao immediately realized they had misunderstood and hurriedly protested.

"There's no need to trouble the senior. Huo Yuhao, you just need to help me deal with it, okay?"

With Huo Yuhao's current cultivation, his Ultimate Ice certainly would not be as effective as the Ice Empress's. But that was precisely Yan Shaozhe's intention. After all, if Ma Xiaotao could not achieve Ultimate Fire in the future, then her partner would have to be someone with Ultimate Ice.

Huo Yuhao just happened to possess Ultimate Ice. Yan Shaozhe hoped the two of them could slowly get along, and ideally...

That would be especially wonderful!

Thinking of her teacher's idea, Ma Xiaotao's face reddened slightly. Still, that did not seem so bad?

Wang Dong: Not good!

Wang Dong got out of bed and crossed his arms as he stared at Ma Xiaotao. First, he noticed the blush on her face, then he looked over her curvaceous, explosive figure.

Then Wang Dong lowered his head and looked at his own shoes. He became even more unwilling. Huo Yuhao had only returned last night, and the bed had not even warmed up yet. Was he already going to be taken away?

"My cultivation is only at three rings, and there's too great a gap between Senior's cultivation and mine. The effect might not be as good as my senior's."

Huo Yuhao said, but Ma Xiaotao did not care about that.

"My teacher said the same thing. Asking the senior to help me really would be overkill. Yuhao, you can help me."

"The payment for each suppression will be five thousand gold soul coins and some ice-element cultivation materials. If you think the materials are too few, we can discuss it."

Ma Xiaotao said. It was impossible to have Huo Yuhao help her for free. Even if he were willing, Yan Shaozhe would not dare truly withhold payment. Xia Liang and the others were not people to be trifled with.

"Alright."

Huo Yuhao thought it over. He truly had been relying on Xia Liang and the others all this time. He should do something within his own abilities as well.

Besides, while helping Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire, he could also cultivate his ice element.

"Change the herbs. Don't give me ice-element ones; exchange them for a large quantity of basic herbs. Turn those five thousand gold soul coins into basic cultivation herbs as well."

Xia Liang's voice suddenly sounded in Huo Yuhao's ears.

"Hm? Alright, Brother Xia Liang."

Though he did not know why, Xia Liang certainly had his reasons for doing this.

For the rest of the day, Huo Yuhao helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire, while Yan Shaozhe carefully examined the list of basic herbs Huo Yuhao required.

"What are such basic herbs for? Could the force behind him be about to reveal itself?"

Most of these basic herbs were used to lay foundations. The highest grade among them was only suitable for Soul Elders.

They were not precious, but the quantity required was enormous. Of course, to Shrek Academy, that amount was merely a number.

What Yan Shaozhe worried about now was whether Xia Liang's faction would affect the existing powers of the Douluo Continent once it emerged.

After all, every piece of the pie already had someone taking a bite out of it. If another power appeared...

Forget it. It was not something he should be worrying about.

After thinking it over, Yan Shaozhe finally put down the herb list. No matter what, Shrek was still the number one power on the continent, and it was on good terms with Xia Liang. Even if someone needed to worry, it would be the lesser factions. It had nothing to do with Shrek.

He should speak to his teacher about it later. This matter still needed to be handled by him.

Although Mu En still looked old and frail, he remained Shrek's stabilizing pillar.

For some reason, Mu En had not told anyone in Shrek that he had recovered. No one knew...

Over the course of a day, Huo Yuhao suppressed Ma Xiaotao's evil fire to the point where it was almost undetectable.

"Mmm~~"

After her evil fire was suppressed, Ma Xiaotao lay limply on her bed. Her whole body felt incomparably relaxed, as though all the impurities in her body had been cleansed away.

Only then did her opinion of Huo Yuhao, this little Soul Elder, begin to change.

Maybe this isn't so bad?

Nearby, unlike the comfortable Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao was currently suppressing the evil fire within his own body.

In the process of helping Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire, Huo Yuhao had also been tainted by it. The evil fire of a Soul Emperor was naturally no trivial matter, and Huo Yuhao was now being scorched by it.

However, as someone with Ultimate Ice, suppressing it was quite easy for Huo Yuhao. He even improved his physical condition in the process.

Meanwhile, deep within the Flame Swamp of the Twilight Forest...

Boom—

The Nine-Headed Serpent crashed to the ground, leaving behind an item box and a million-year soul ring.

"Ultimate Fire really is annoying."

As the Ice Empress wiped the Snow Empress's sweat, she cursed. The Nine-Headed Serpent's power had been enhanced into Ultimate Fire. There was more than one monster here, and while Xia Liang was fighting, the other monsters nearby had begun gathering as well.

With no other choice, the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Electrolux had begun holding those monsters back.

The weakest of those monsters were all at the ten-thousand-year level. There were also quite a few at the hundred-thousand-year and three-hundred-thousand-year levels. If not for the equipment Xia Liang had given them, the Ice Empress and the others would have struggled even to break their defenses.

Among them, little Snow Empress was under the greatest pressure, since she was the weakest person present.

Besides the boss's loot, Xia Liang obtained thirty-two vials of Scorching Blood. Every drop of blood in those vials could burn a Limit Douluo to ashes.

"It can be diluted and sold outside."

This was no ordinary resource on the Douluo Continent. Every fire-element soul master would probably bankrupt themselves to buy a single drop, even if it had been diluted.

"Save a few vials for me. I'll see if I can make an Ultimate Fire puppet."

Electrolux said. This was no ordinary material. Perhaps he could make a puppet with an attribute, adding another Ultimate Fire Super Douluo to the Spirit Pagoda.

As for that million-year soul ring, its grade was simply too high. Electrolux did not yet have any way to make full use of it.

"Then kill a few more."

Xia Liang replied. After all, there were plenty of bosses in this Evil God-level Twilight Forest.

"Next, let me look at the map..."

Xia Liang looked at the map. There was a snowy area nearby, and Aurora Palace was not far away.

"Ice Queen."

Although the Ice Queen's drops were not particularly impressive, the weapons within her palace dealt considerable damage.

Whether it was the Ice Sword or the Glass Sword, both had terrifying damage. The Ice Sword might even be something Huo Yuhao could take and play with.