The Cabbage Was Rooted by a Pig

Outside the door.

Yan Shaozhe was so anxious he was about to tear the door down himself.

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

The news had nearly made Yan Shaozhe's heart stop on the spot.

Ma Xiaotao was a six-ringed Soul Emperor.

If she had completely lost her mind, let alone an outer courtyard student, even an ordinary Soul King might not have survived if they stood before her.

Du Weilun had remained by Sea God Lake to comfort 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, urgency creeping into his voice.

Inside the bathroom.

Ma Xiaotao had just covered Huo Yuhao's mouth.

Hearing the increasingly urgent voice outside, her already crimson face reddened even further.

"I'm fine!"

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

Outside the door, 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 mortal 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 force himself to 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 her buttons incorrectly twice in a row, then simply threw on a large red robe and wrapped herself from head to toe.

As for Huo Yuhao.

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

Ma Xiaotao glanced at the red mark by his lips, then noticed the obvious marks on his neck. Her entire body went stiff.

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

"Wipe it off."

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

Huo Yuhao accepted the towel and looked at her expressionlessly.

"When you bit me, why didn't you think about covering it up?"

Ma Xiaotao: "..."

Why had she used so much force just now?

No.

That was not the point.

The point was, why had she kissed him just now?

Ma Xiaotao opened her mouth, but 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 just happened."

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

"I..."

Ma Xiaotao choked on her words.

She usually threw her weight around in the inner courtyard. Even many Soul Sage-level teachers found her troublesome.

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

After all, no matter how one looked at it, 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 that."

For some reason.

Seeing him agree so readily, Ma Xiaotao instead felt a faint sense of foreboding.

But Yan Shaozhe was still outside, and she could not worry about that now.

Soon.

The door opened.

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

Yan Shaozhe strode in.

"Xiaotao, are you hurt?"

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

After firing off several questions in a row, Yan Shaozhe suddenly fell silent.

He could clearly sense that the restless aura which had lingered around Ma Xiaotao for years had vanished.

It was not temporarily suppressed.

It was true calm in every sense of the word.

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

A flash of delight appeared in Yan Shaozhe's eyes.

"Xiaotao, your Evil Fire has been suppressed?"

Ma Xiaotao's body stiffened.

With Yan Shaozhe's reminder, she recalled the absurd events that had just taken place in the bathroom.

That icy aura had indeed suppressed the Evil Fire.

But the process of suppressing it...

Was truly too embarrassing to speak of.

"Mm."

Ma Xiaotao lowered her head and gave a vague response.

Yan Shaozhe quickly noticed her abnormal behavior.

This girl had always been bold and forceful in speech and action. When had she ever acted so bashful?

Following Ma Xiaotao's gaze, he turned his head.

Then he saw Huo Yuhao sitting on the sofa.

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

Most eye-catching of all were the lip marks that had not been fully wiped away.

And the several red marks on his neck.

Yan Shaozhe fell silent.

He looked at Huo Yuhao.

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

Finally, he glanced at the bathroom, where the mist had yet to fully dissipate.

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 courtyard.

Elsewhere.

By Sea God Lake.

Wang Dong stood beside the charred trench, her face frighteningly grim.

Du Weilun stood before her and patiently explained, "That student was an inner courtyard disciple. Something went wrong during her cultivation, so 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 martial soul affliction of an inner courtyard disciple was clearly not something that could be casually disclosed to a new outer courtyard student.

Du Weilun thought for a moment, then took a jade bottle from his storage soul tool.

"There is a Soul Ascension Pill inside."

"After taking it, your soul power can directly rise by one rank."

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

Wang Dong did not reach for it.

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 that woman carrying Huo Yuhao away had already been permanently etched into her mind.

Especially the sight of their lips pressed together.

At the thought of that, 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."

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

Du Weilun reached out to stop her.

"Sea God Island is not a place outer courtyard students can enter at will."

"Then what about Huo Yuhao?"

"Dean Yan has already gone over."

Hearing that, Wang Dong finally stopped.

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

She had better not run into that crazy woman again.

Otherwise...

Fine.

She could not beat a six-ringed Soul Emperor for now.

Wang Dong suddenly became even angrier.

Inside the room.

Yan Shaozhe's gaze had already turned quite unfriendly.

"What is your name?"

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

Yan Shaozhe frowned.

This name sounded familiar.

He seemed to be the spiritual-type student who had consistently ranked first in both theory and practical combat among this year's outer courtyard 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 simple."

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

Yan Shaozhe keenly caught the key point.

"Second martial soul?"

"Cold energy?"

The displeasure on his face lessened somewhat, and his gaze swiftly fell upon Huo Yuhao's left hand.

Huo Yuhao did not hide it.

A cluster of icy blue air slowly emerged in his palm.

The next instant.

The temperature throughout the room plummeted.

A layer of white frost formed across the tabletop, windows, and floor at the same time.

The evil fire that had just calmed within Ma Xiaotao's body completely went dormant upon the appearance of this chill, no longer showing the slightest restlessness.

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

In its place was undisguised shock and fervor.

He would never mistake such incomparably pure ice-attribute aura.

Ultimate Ice.

This eleven-year-old outer courtyard student was actually a twin martial soul master with the Ultimate Ice attribute.

More importantly, his power could suppress Ma Xiaotao's evil fire.

Yan Shaozhe looked at Huo Yuhao.

That gaze, as if he were looking at a wild boar, instantly turned into unconcealed admiration.

His precious cabbage had been rooted up?

That was unimportant.

This pig possessed Ultimate Ice.