I'm Not a Pervert

On the lawn.

Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Dong as if she wanted nothing more than to pounce on him and bite him, then sighed helplessly.

He pulled a small porcelain bottle from the storage Soul Tool at his waist, poured out a pale blue pill, and held it in his palm. It gave off a faint chill, and merely smelling it made one feel Mind-Clearing.

A Cold Jade Pill.

It was a byproduct he had casually made while researching medicinal combinations in the past.

It had no strategic value, merely clearing internal heat and cooling the body.

"Here."

Huo Yuhao handed her the pill.

Wang Dong eyed him warily.

"What is this?"

"Poison. Are you eating it or not?"

"Do you take this young master for an idiot?"

Though her words remained defiant, Wang Dong really had been pushed to her limit. With an irritated snort, she snatched the pill and tossed it straight into her mouth.

The moment it entered her mouth—

A cool, crystalline current instantly spread through her body.

Her lungs, which had been burning from the intense exercise, and her dry, stinging throat quickly regained their freshness.

Even her breathing became much deeper and steadier.

Comfortable.

Far too comfortable.

Wang Dong's eyes brightened slightly. Feeling that refreshing coolness seep into her heart, her entire body relaxed.

When she looked again at Huo Yuhao standing opposite her, the resentment in her heart had somehow dissipated by more than half.

This guy usually looked like he deserved a beating.

But he did not seem rotten to the core.

For some reason, she suddenly thought the brat looked rather decent right now.

Thinking that, Wang Dong magnanimously decided to forgive him this once.

Very soon.

The one-hour deadline arrived.

All the freshmen completed the entire run within the allotted time.

Shrek Square was filled with people gasping for breath, sprawled haphazardly across the ground.

Zhou Yi walked before the crowd with a stern expression.

Her sharp eyes swept over the entire field. Without wasting words, she raised a hand and pointed at several people in the group.

"You, you, and you."

"Go back to the dorms, pack your things, and get out of my class."

The entire square fell silent.

The people she had pointed at were stunned.

A few seconds later, a lavishly dressed boy abruptly leaped to his feet.

"Why?!"

His face flushed red as he pointed at Zhou Yi and roared, "We clearly finished one hundred laps! What right do you have to expel us?"

Zhou Yi gave a cold laugh.

"What right?"

"Because you cut corners and took shortcuts while running."

Having been exposed, the boy's expression changed.

But he still refused to admit it.

"You're slandering me!"

"My grandfather is a count of the Heaven Dou Empire, and my father is a city lord! You're only an Outer Court teacher. You have no right to expel me!"

The others who had been singled out began clamoring as well.

They each flaunted their backgrounds.

They were either princes and nobles or direct descendants of major sects.

They were used to throwing their weight around outside and simply could not tolerate this humiliation.

In the face of those so-called statuses,

the mockery on Zhou Yi's face deepened.

Boom.

A powerful pressure of Soul Power instantly swept across the field.

Two yellow, two purple, and two black.

A full six Soul Rings rose from beneath her feet.

The few people who had just been shouting were instantly pressured into speechlessness.

The overwhelming majority obediently shut their mouths.

The strongest experts in their families were, at most, Soul Kings or Soul Emperors.

At Shrek Academy, no one dared challenge a battle Soul Emperor.

That noble boy from the Heaven Dou Empire still could not swallow his anger and shouted from the crowd under the pressure.

"I'm going to report you to the Academic Affairs Office!"

Zhou Yi could not even be bothered to spare him a glance.

Not far away.

Wang Dong watched this unfold, her brows tightly furrowed.

"Expelling people outright over something so minor? That old hag has gone too far."

Her sense of justice began to stir.

She felt that running a few fewer laps was hardly an unforgivable crime.

Xiao Xiao, standing beside her, heard her words.

"Rules are important."

The little girl spoke calmly.

Wang Dong froze for a moment and turned to look at her.

Huo Yuhao stood nearby and nodded in complete agreement.

"Even if they file a complaint, it will be useless."

Huo Yuhao watched the boy's back.

"Shrek Academy's underlying logic is simple. They only select talent and cultivate the strong."

"This method of cultivation is destined to eliminate a great many people."

"The people before us are merely the first batch to be eliminated."

At ordinary Soul Master Academies, students' complaints might have some effect. But at Shrek, such complaints might even be considered achievements.

Wang Dong opened her mouth, only to find that she could not come up with any reason to refute him.

Zhou Yi withdrew her Soul Rings.

"Now, you have half an hour to get yourselves in order."

"Go back to your dorms, wash yourselves clean, change into proper clothes, and come back for class."

"Be one second late, and you'll end up just like them!"

Leaving those words behind, Zhou Yi turned and left the field.

Whoosh.

The freshmen instantly sprang up from the ground and ran madly toward the dormitory buildings.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong walked side by side on their way back.

Just as they were nearing the dormitory building,

Huo Yuhao turned his head and looked Wang Dong up and down. She was drenched from head to toe in sweat.

"Hey."

"Young master."

Huo Yuhao deliberately paused, his tone strange. "Are you planning to bathe in the dorm, or go to the Public Bathhouse?"

Wang Dong stopped dead in her tracks.

Her entire body stiffened.

She whirled around, her pink-blue eyes glaring fiercely at Huo Yuhao as a blush rapidly crept across her face.

"Y-you... what are you trying to do?!"

Her arms instinctively crossed over her chest, and her whole body entered a state of maximum alert.

This bastard definitely had ulterior motives!

Seeing Wang Dong's exaggerated reaction as if she were looking at a pervert,

Huo Yuhao shook his head expressionlessly.

"I'm not."

"I'm not a pervert."

Wang Dong:?

Before she could curse at him, Huo Yuhao had already strode forward.

"The dorm is yours."

"I'm going to the Public Bathhouse."

Huo Yuhao waved at her without turning around. He entered the dormitory building, returned to the dorm to grab a few things, then headed for the Public Bathhouse.

In the corridor.

Wang Dong stood there blankly, her mind in utter chaos.

Not interested?

Not a pervert?

Could it be that this great beauty was not attractive at all?

For some reason, Wang Dong, who had just been guarding against a lecher, now felt exceptionally furious.

What was this feeling of being utterly rejected?

That bastard had to be blind!

Half an hour later.

Freshman Class One's classroom.

Everyone had changed into clean school uniforms and sat properly in their seats.

After witnessing Zhou Yi's method of expelling people, no one dared provoke her again.

The lessons that followed proceeded very normally.

Standing at the podium, Zhou Yi did not spend much time explaining traditional Martial Soul theory. Instead, she devoted considerable time to emphasizing the importance of Soul Tools.

This viewpoint was extremely rare in the Douluo Three Kingdoms, where Martial Souls were revered.

Huo Yuhao sat below and listened intently.

In his heart, he also agreed with Zhou Yi's words.

The times had changed.

Soul Tools were what could truly change the landscape.

But unfortunately, what Shrek taught was far too basic and outdated.

The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool textbooks were updated constantly, while this Soul Tool study material used by Shrek had long been an obsolete old edition in the Sun Moon Empire.

The morning passed quickly.

The dismissal bell finally rang.

The freshmen breathed sighs of relief. To be honest, as traditional Soul Masters, they had little interest in Soul Tools to begin with. Zhou Yi's Soul Tool lessons sounded like heavenly scriptures to them and made them want to sleep.

Zhou Yi organized the lesson plans on the lectern and looked up at the students below.

"Huo Yuhao."

Huo Yuhao, who was about to leave, stopped moving.

Zhou Yi glanced at him.

"Come with me to the office."