The Cabbage Had Been Rooted by a Pig

Outside the door.

Yan Shaozhe was so anxious he was on the verge of tearing the door down himself.

Just a few minutes ago, Du Weilun had suddenly found him and told him that Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire had gone out of control again. Not only had she attacked two Outer Court students, but she had also forcibly taken one of them away.

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaozhe had nearly suffered cardiac arrest on the spot.

Ma Xiaotao was a six-ringed Soul Emperor.

Having completely lost her reason, let alone an Outer Court student, even an ordinary Soul King standing before her might not have been able to keep his life.

Du Weilun had remained by Sea God Lake, responsible for comforting the other student.

As for the one Ma Xiaotao had taken away...

Yan Shaozhe had tracked the fluctuations of Soul Power all the way here.

"Xiaotao!"

He knocked on the door several more times, his voice carrying a trace of urgency.

Inside the bathroom.

Ma Xiaotao had just covered Huo Yuhao's mouth.

Hearing the increasingly urgent sounds outside, her already crimson face flushed even deeper.

"I'm fine!"

"Godfather, I've already recovered. Don't come in yet!"

Outside, there was a moment of silence.

Yan Shaozhe relaxed slightly.

She could still recognize him and speak normally.

At the very least, it meant Ma Xiaotao had regained her senses, and the student inside was not in immediate danger.

But soon, he frowned again.

A rustling sound came from the room.

It sounded like...

Someone was getting dressed?

Yan Shaozhe's expression gradually turned strange.

He instinctively heightened his senses, but then felt that eavesdropping on his goddaughter's room was inappropriate, so he could only forcibly withdraw his spiritual power.

Inside the room.

Ma Xiaotao took out a clean set of clothes from her storage Soul Tool and hurriedly put them on.

The more anxious she became, the more likely she was to make mistakes.

She fastened the buttons wrong twice in a row. In the end, she simply threw on a loose red robe and wrapped herself from head to toe.

As for Huo Yuhao.

Though his school uniform was soaked through, it was at least still intact.

Ma Xiaotao glanced at the red mark around his mouth, then noticed the obvious marks on his neck. She instantly felt awful.

No matter how one looked at it, this did not resemble a normal rescue.

"Wipe it off."

She tossed him a towel and said with feigned composure, "And cover your neck."

Huo Yuhao took the towel and looked at her expressionlessly.

"When you bit down, why didn't you think about covering it then?"

Ma Xiaotao: "..."

Why had she used so much force just now?

No.

That was not the important part.

The important part was why she had kissed him just now.

Ma Xiaotao opened her mouth, yet could not form a complete sentence for a long while.

In the end, she could only glare fiercely at Huo Yuhao.

"You are not allowed to tell anyone about what happened just now."

Huo Yuhao wiped his face and asked calmly, "Are you threatening the victim?"

"I..."

Ma Xiaotao choked on her words.

She normally threw her weight around in the Inner Court, to the point where even many Soul Saint-level teachers got headaches upon seeing her.

Yet now, facing an eleven-year-old Outer Court student, she somehow could not hold her head up.

After all, no matter how one looked at this matter, she was the one in the wrong.

"I'll compensate you."

Ma Xiaotao gritted her teeth. "Soul coins, pills, Soul Tools—whatever I have, you can ask for it."

Huo Yuhao nodded thoughtfully.

"You said it."

For some reason.

Seeing him agree so readily, Ma Xiaotao instead felt a faintly ominous premonition rise in her heart.

But Yan Shaozhe was still outside, so she could not spare attention for that now.

Very soon.

The door opened.

Ma Xiaotao stood in the doorway, wrapped in a loose red robe, the blush on her face not yet fully faded.

Yan Shaozhe strode inside.

"Xiaotao, are you hurt?"

"Why did your Evil Fire suddenly lose control this time? Did you hurt that Outer Court student?"

After asking several questions in succession, Yan Shaozhe's voice abruptly stopped.

He could clearly sense that the restless aura that had lingered around Ma Xiaotao year-round had disappeared.

It was not temporarily suppressed.

It was true calmness in every sense.

Even the Evil Fire accumulating continuously within her Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul seemed to have been completely frozen by some kind of power.

A flash of delight crossed Yan Shaozhe's eyes.

"Xiaotao, your Evil Fire has been suppressed?"

Ma Xiaotao's body stiffened.

At Yan Shaozhe's reminder, she recalled the absurd events that had just occurred in the bathroom.

That icy aura had indeed suppressed the Evil Fire.

But the process of suppressing it...

Was truly difficult to speak of.

"Mm."

Ma Xiaotao lowered her head and gave a vague response.

Yan Shaozhe quickly noticed that something was off with her.

This girl had always been forthright and fiery in both speech and action. When had she ever acted so bashful and hesitant?

He followed Ma Xiaotao's gaze and turned his head.

Then, he saw Huo Yuhao sitting on the sofa.

The boy's black hair clung wetly to his forehead, his school uniform still dripping water, and his expression carried a measure of awkwardness.

The most conspicuous thing was the lip print he had not fully wiped from his mouth.

As well as the several red marks on his neck.

Yan Shaozhe fell silent.

He looked at Huo Yuhao.

Then at Ma Xiaotao, whose clothes were obviously somewhat disheveled.

Finally, he looked at the bathroom, where the steam had not yet completely dispersed.

At that moment.

He suddenly understood everything.

The cabbage he had painstakingly raised had been rooted by a pig.

And it was a little wild pig from the Outer Court, no less.

Elsewhere.

By Sea God Lake.

Wang Dong stood beside the scorched ravine, her expression frighteningly gloomy.

Du Weilun stood before her and patiently explained, "That student was an Inner Court disciple. An accident occurred during her cultivation, which was why she temporarily lost her mind."

"The academy has already sent people over. Your companion will be fine."

Wang Dong raised her head.

"She snatched him away, and you're telling me he'll be fine?"

Du Weilun was momentarily speechless.

He had seen that scene as well.

When Ma Xiaotao carried Huo Yuhao away, her movements had indeed not been gentle.

But the hidden danger within an Inner Court disciple's martial soul was clearly not something he could casually disclose to an Outer Court freshman.

After thinking for a moment, Du Weilun took a jade bottle from his storage Soul Tool.

"There is a Soul Ascension Pill inside."

"After consuming it, you can directly increase your Soul Power by one rank."

He held the jade bottle out before Wang Dong and said sternly, "What happened tonight concerns academy secrets. Do not spread it to anyone, or the academy will handle it according to school regulations."

Wang Dong did not reach out.

She did not care about any Soul Ascension Pill right now.

She did not even know the red-haired woman's name.

But the image of the other party carrying Huo Yuhao away had already been engraved deeply into her mind.

Especially the sight of those two with their lips pressed together.

At that thought, Wang Dong's fists clenched again.

There was only one thought in her mind now.

The cabbage she had worked so hard to watch over had been rooted by a pig.

And rooted especially fiercely at that.

"I don't want it."

Wang Dong went around Du Weilun with a cold expression and headed straight toward Sea God Island.

Du Weilun reached out and stopped her.

"Sea God Island is not a place Outer Court students can enter at will."

"What about Huo Yuhao?"

"Dean Yan has already gone over."

Hearing that, Wang Dong finally stopped.

She stared fixedly at distant Sea God Island, yet the anger in her heart did not diminish in the slightest.

She had better not encounter that crazy woman again.

Otherwise...

Well.

She could not beat a six-ringed Soul Emperor for the time being.

Wang Dong suddenly became even angrier.

Inside the room.

Yan Shaozhe's gaze had become extremely unfriendly.

"What is your name?"

Huo Yuhao stood up and said politely, "Freshman Class One, Huo Yuhao."

Yan Shaozhe frowned.

This name sounded familiar.

He seemed to be the spiritual-type student who had consistently ranked first in both theoretical and practical results among this year's Outer Court freshmen.

But even if he was the top freshman, he could not root Yan Shaozhe's cabbage.

"What happened just now?"

Huo Yuhao glanced at Ma Xiaotao.

Ma Xiaotao's body immediately tensed.

"It's very simple."

Huo Yuhao said calmly, "Her Evil Fire lost control and she attacked me. I used my second martial soul to release cold air and suppress the Evil Fire, then she forcibly brought me here."

Yan Shaozhe keenly caught the key point.

"A second martial soul?"

"Cold air?"

The displeasure on his face lessened somewhat as his gaze quickly fell upon Huo Yuhao's left hand.

Huo Yuhao did not hide it.

A mass of ice-blue energy slowly appeared in his palm.

The next instant,

the temperature in the entire room plummeted.

A layer of white frost formed over the table, windows, and floor at the same time.

The Evil Fire that had just calmed down inside Ma Xiaotao also completely went dormant when this chill appeared, no longer showing the slightest agitation.

The dissatisfaction in Yan Shaozhe's eyes vanished in an instant.

It was replaced by undisguised shock and fervor.

He would never mistake such an utterly pure aura of the ice element.

Extreme Ice.

This eleven-year-old Outer Court student before him was actually a Twin Martial Souls Soul Master with the Extreme Ice attribute.

More importantly, his power could suppress Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire.

Yan Shaozhe looked at Huo Yuhao.

The look in his eyes, as though he were looking at a wild boar, instantly turned into undisguised appreciation.

The cabbage had been rooted up?

That was not important.

This pig possessed Extreme Ice.