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 took a small porcelain bottle from the storage soul tool at his waist, poured out a pale blue pill, and held it up. The pill emitted a faint chill; merely smelling it made one feel refreshed.

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 the pill over.

Wang Dong watched him warily.

"What is this?"

"Poison. Are you eating it or not?"

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

Though her words were tough, Wang Dong had indeed been put through enough. She snatched the pill from him irritably and popped it straight into her mouth.

The moment it entered her mouth.

A cool, clear current instantly spread through her body.

Her lungs, which had been burning from the intense exercise, and her dry, stinging throat recovered their freshness at a visible pace.

Even her breathing became much steadier and more prolonged.

Comfortable.

So comfortable.

Wang Dong's eyes brightened slightly. Feeling that refreshing chill, her entire body relaxed.

When she looked again at Huo Yuhao standing opposite her, much of the resentment in her heart had somehow dissipated.

This guy usually looked like he deserved a beating.

But he did not seem rotten to the core.

For some reason, she suddenly felt that the brat looked rather decent at the moment.

Thinking this, Wang Dong generously decided to forgive him this time.

Very soon.

The one-hour limit arrived.

All the new students completed the course within the allotted time.

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

Zhou Yi walked up before them with a stern face.

Her sharp eyes swept across the entire crowd. Without wasting words, she directly pointed at several people in the group.

"You, you, and you."

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

The entire square instantly fell silent.

The people whose names had been called froze.

A few seconds later, a richly dressed boy suddenly sprang to his feet.

"Why?"

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

Zhou Yi sneered.

"What right?"

"Because you cheated while running and took shortcuts."

With the truth exposed, the boy's expression changed.

Yet he still stubbornly refused to admit it.

"That's slander!"

"My grandfather is a count of the Heavenly Soul Empire, and my father is a city lord. You're just an outer academy teacher. You have no right to expel me!"

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

They all flaunted their backgrounds.

They were either royalty and nobility, or direct descendants of major sects.

Accustomed to throwing their weight around outside, they simply could not stand such humiliation.

Faced with these so-called statuses,

The mockery on Zhou Yi's face deepened.

Boom.

A powerful oppressive aura of soul power instantly swept across the entire square.

Two yellow, two purple, and two black.

Six soul rings rose from beneath her feet.

The people who had just been shouting were instantly crushed speechless.

Most of the others obediently shut their mouths.

The strongest members of their families were, at best, Soul Kings or Soul Emperors.

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

That noble boy from the Heavenly Soul Empire still could not swallow this insult. Resisting the pressure, he shouted from within the crowd.

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

Zhou Yi could not even be bothered to glance at him.

Not far away.

Wang Dong watched the scene, her brows tightly furrowed.

"Expelling them over something this trivial? That old hag has gone too far."

Her sense of justice began to stir.

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

Xiao Xiao beside her heard what she said.

"Rules are important."

The little girl spoke calmly.

Wang Dong paused and turned to look at her.

Standing beside them, Huo Yuhao nodded in full agreement.

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

Huo Yuhao looked at the boy's back.

"Shrek Academy's underlying principle is simple: they only select talent and cultivate the strong."

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

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

At ordinary soul master academies, student 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 together."

"Go back to your dorms, clean yourselves up, change into fresh clothes, and return for class."

"If you're one second late, you'll end up just like them!"

With those words, Zhou Yi turned and left the field.

Whoosh.

The new students instantly scrambled up from the ground and sprinted 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 and looked Wang Dong over from head to toe, her entire body soaked in sweat.

"Hey."

"Young master."

Huo Yuhao deliberately paused, then asked in an odd tone, "Are you planning to bathe in the dorm, or go to the public bathhouse?"

Wang Dong stopped dead.

Her entire body stiffened in place.

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

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

Her hands instinctively crossed over her chest as her entire body entered maximum alert.

This bastard definitely had no good intentions!

Seeing Wang Dong's exaggerated reaction, as though she were looking at some pervert.

Huo Yuhao shook his head expressionlessly.

"I'm not."

"I'm not a pervert."

Wang Dong:?

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

"I'll leave the dorm to you."

"I'm going to the public bathhouse."

Huo Yuhao waved without turning around, then walked directly into the dormitory building. After returning to the dorm and picking up a few things, he headed for the public bathhouse.

In the corridor.

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

Not?

Not a pervert?

Did this stunning beauty really have no appeal at all?

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

What was with this feeling of being utterly rejected?

That bastard had to be blind!

Half an hour later.

Classroom of Freshman Class One.

Everyone had changed into clean school uniforms and sat properly at their desks.

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

The lessons afterward proceeded normally.

Standing behind the lectern, Zhou Yi did not spend much time explaining traditional martial soul theory. Instead, she devoted a great deal of time to emphasizing the importance of soul tools.

Such views were extremely rare in the three Douluo nations, where martial souls were revered.

Huo Yuhao listened attentively from below.

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

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 constantly being updated, while the learning materials on soul tools used by Shrek had long been obsolete editions in the Sun Moon Empire.

The morning passed quickly.

The dismissal bell finally rang.

The new students felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted. To be honest, as traditional soul masters, they were not interested in soul tools to begin with, so Zhou Yi's lesson on soul tools had sounded like incomprehensible nonsense and made them drowsy.

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

"Huo Yuhao."

Huo Yuhao, who was preparing to leave, stopped.

Zhou Yi glanced at him.

"Come to my office."