You Have Courted Death!

As Huo Yuhao's words fell, the scene instantly sank into an extremely strange silence.

Bei Bei stared at him in stunned disbelief. Even Tang Ya stopped sobbing, her reddened eyes wide as she glared fixedly at Huo Yuhao before her.

At that moment, Tang Ya sensed boundless malice in Huo Yuhao's words and instinctively snapped at him.

"What did you say? Huo Yuhao! Do you even know what you're saying?"

Tang Ya's heart was filled with grief and indignation. Was her parents being murdered by their enemies something worth celebrating? Why did Huo Yuhao look so happy about it? And what was that nonsense about it being so freaking awesome? Was that something a human being should say?

She had even pitied him for being alone and helpless, intending to bring him into the Tang Sect. It seemed she had misjudged him!

Huo Yuhao blinked blankly and asked in confusion, "What did I say wrong, Little Ya?"

"Isn't becoming an orphan something worth being happy about? Then why were you so happy when I said I was an orphan earlier?"

Tang Ya was left speechless by Huo Yuhao's words. Her face flushed red with anger before she finally forced out a classic line.

"Didn't I already apologize? What more do you want from me?"

Classic! Absolutely classic!

That classic remark made Huo Yuhao unable to resist giving Tang Ya another thumbs-up. Grinning, he said, "Then I apologize to you too, because I did it on purpose."

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Tang Ya trembled with rage. She gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with fury as she looked at Huo Yuhao, clearly appearing ready to attack him.

Seeing this, Bei Bei hurriedly grabbed Tang Ya's arm to stop her from actually making a move. Then he frowned at Huo Yuhao and said gravely, "Little Brother Huo, you've gone too far."

"Little Ya had been worried about your safety all along, afraid you would encounter dangerous Soul Beasts and lose your life. She never looked down on you for your poor talent. Instead, she was even prepared to let you join the Tang Sect and use the Tang Sect's exemption slot to become a member of Number One Academy on the Continent, Shrek Academy. And this is how you treat her?"

"Even if Little Ya said something wrong just now, she already apologized to you. As a man, you shouldn't be so petty when dealing with a girl."

Not bad. As expected of Shrek Academy's renowned Thunderbolt Bei Bei—he really was skilled at double standards.

They could wrong others, but the moment someone wronged them, that person had already courted death.

Leaving everything else aside, Shrek Academy was notoriously double-faced when it came to Evil Soul Masters.

When dealing with those outside Shrek Academy, it did not matter whether you were truly an Evil Soul Master. As long as they said you were one, then you had to be one!

But if you belonged to Shrek Academy, then never mind merely showing signs of becoming an Evil Soul Master due to your martial soul. Even if you had truly joined the Holy Spirit Cult and become one of their Saintesses, they could still whitewash you by claiming your heart had been deceived by Evil Soul Masters.

Am I right, Blue Silver Saintess? Fire Phoenix Saintess?

What was that called? That was called flexible Evil Soul Master classification standards.

As for this nonsense about not pursuing matters after an apology—even the Japanese knew you had to bow when apologizing to make it seem more sincere. Did she think a light little "I didn't mean to" would make it all go away? Where did she get that kind of luxury?

As for Bei Bei's considerate, warm-man behavior, Huo Yuhao could only say this: warm men ranked below dogs.

When faced with this sort of gender-card tactic, Huo Yuhao had an equally practiced response. He put on a look of surprise and said, "Huh? No way. I was only joking with Little Ya. Little Ya isn't actually angry, is she?"

Tang Ya went stiff. Her fists went stiff.

What a joke. He could joke about someone else's dead parents? What kind of hellish joke was that?

Tang Ya's mind had already automatically filtered out the fact that she had started this herself. Right now, she only wanted Huo Yuhao to pay for what he had said.

Remembering the scene she had personally witnessed when the Tang Sect was destroyed and her parents were murdered, a trace of blood-red flashed through Tang Ya's eyes. A gloomy, vicious aura radiated from her body as she stared at Huo Yuhao and spoke word by word.

"Huo Yuhao, after committing such a crime, you show not the slightest remorse. You have already courted death!"

Hiss—

Huo Yuhao sucked in a breath. Damn, what a damn line!

On the strength of that sentence alone, even if Tang Ya's martial soul were not the Blue Silver Emperor, she was already qualified to be the Tang Sect Master.

Seeing Tang Ya raise her hand, intending to hit Huo Yuhao with Blue Silver Entanglement, Bei Bei initially wanted to stop her. But when he saw Tang Ya's utterly grief-stricken expression, he ultimately abandoned that thought.

Bei Bei knew that although Tang Ya had always appeared cheerful, she had never once forgotten the hatred of the Tang Sect's destruction. Now that Huo Yuhao had provoked her with her deceased parents, he had instantly ignited the hatred buried deep within her heart.

Rather than letting Tang Ya keep suppressing it, it would be better to use this chance to let her vent it completely. Otherwise, Bei Bei truly feared that her mental state might develop problems because of it.

As for Huo Yuhao... there was no helping it. Protecting their own and taking sides regardless of right or wrong had always been Shrek Academy's way of doing things.

Compared to Huo Yuhao, whom he had only met for the second time, what he ought to do now was obviously stand firmly by Tang Ya's side, no matter what choice she made.

Two yellow Soul Rings rapidly rose from beneath Tang Ya's feet. She swung her arm and shouted, "Blue Silver Entanglement!"

Whoosh—

Several stalks of Blue Silver Grass rapidly sprouted beneath Huo Yuhao's feet, winding up his legs and spreading upward.

Huo Yuhao showed no sign of panic. He activated his Soul Power and gathered it in his eyes. A faint golden light emerged within his deep-blue pupils, while a lustrous white Soul Ring rose from beneath his feet.

In the next instant, Huo Yuhao's gaze sharpened. Soul Shock, one of the four soul skills Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had bestowed upon him, activated and fiercely slammed toward Tang Ya.

Buzz!

"Aaaahhh!!!"

A sharp, miserable cry erupted from Tang Ya's mouth. Under the effects of Soul Shock, she felt as though her head were about to explode. The pain that pierced deep into her soul made it impossible for her to remain standing, and she collapsed onto the ground.

Warm scarlet blood poured from Tang Ya's eyes, ears, nose, and the corners of her mouth, making the young girl look terrifying.

"Little Ya!"

Bei Bei's heart lurched. He rushed to Tang Ya's side at once and supported her limp body.

He simply could not understand what method Huo Yuhao had used to reduce Tang Ya—the Tang Sect Master who already possessed level-thirty Soul Power and needed only a Third Soul Ring to become a true Soul Elder—to this state in a single instant.

But that was clearly not what mattered most right now. Huo Yuhao had actually dared to hurt his Little Ya? Unforgivable!

"Huo Yuhao, you will pay for what you've done! Thunder Dragon Claw!"

With Bei Bei's furious roar, a dazzling blue light lit up between his brows. The blue light instantly spread, flowing from his forehead throughout his body. Strands of blue-purple lightning burst forth like little snakes, writhing around his body.

Three Soul Rings—two yellow and one purple—coiled around his arm. The first yellow Soul Ring lit up, and a dragon claw formed from blue-purple lightning, roughly a foot across, shot out like a bolt of electricity toward Huo Yuhao.

Yet just as the Thunder Dragon Claw was about to strike Huo Yuhao, a lustrous white light screen abruptly appeared around him. Like a shield, it directly rebounded the Thunder Dragon Claw, which contained tremendous power.

Bei Bei's pupils contracted slightly. He hurriedly gathered Tang Ya in his arms and rolled to the side.

Boom!!!

Bei Bei's Thunder Dragon Claw, which had not held back in the slightest, struck the spot where they had just been standing. It blasted a huge crater into the ground and charred the surrounding area black.

"What is going on now? A Soul Tool?"

Bei Bei was filled with uncertainty. Huo Yuhao clearly looked like a commoner, yet he had rendered Little Ya incapable of resisting with a single move, and now he had even reflected Bei Bei's Thunder Dragon Claw back at him. Just who was this guy?

As Bei Bei puzzled over it without finding an answer, Huo Yuhao's amused voice drifted over from the distance.

"Little Ya, Bei Dage, I'm really looking forward to our next meeting. I hope you won't slack off too much and let me surpass you. Otherwise, I'll have to let you properly experience pain!"