Ninefold Refinement

Wang Dong was given no time to be shocked.

Huo Yuhao's cultivation level began to drop.

Level twenty!

Level nineteen!

Level eighteen!

Level seventeen!

Level eleven!

He had dropped directly from level twenty to level eleven, falling a full nine levels.

Wang Dong rubbed her eyes. "Am I seeing things? How did this guy suddenly drop another nine levels?"

Huo Yuhao exhaled a breath of turbid air and ended his cultivation.

Wang Dong hurried over and asked, "Huo Yuhao, why did your cultivation level rise so much all at once, then drop so much all at once?"

Huo Yuhao glanced at Wang Dong.

With a single look, he saw through her disguise and beheld her true appearance.

No wonder the original Huo Yuhao was so head over heels for Tang Wutong. With a face like that, who wouldn't be smitten?

Tang Wutong had a perfect oval face, a delicate nose, and alluring peach-blossom eyes.

Her clear, lively eyes sparkled like water.

Her pink-blue hair fell across her shoulders, white and smooth as jade.

She possessed an ethereal aura, like a fairy descending to the mortal world.

She gave off the feeling that she could be admired from afar but not profaned.

But... flat as a board. Major points deducted.

When Wang Dong noticed where Huo Yuhao was staring, she hurriedly covered her chest, her face flushing as she said:

"Bastard, what are you looking at?"

Huo Yuhao shrugged. "We're both guys. Looking won't cost you any flesh. Come on, let me see how well you've trained your pecs."

"Get lost!"

Wang Dong grabbed a pillow from the bed and viciously hurled it at Huo Yuhao.

The pillow stopped forty centimeters away from Huo Yuhao before falling to the floor.

"Tell me already, what exactly is going on?"

Wang Dong asked curiously.

Huo Yuhao spread his hands. "Nothing much. I'm just using a special cultivation method to refine my Soul Power and increase its purity."

This was a special cursed technique Huo Yuhao had specifically developed in his previous life.

It was called "Ninefold Refinement."

It used "Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue" to draw out impurities from Cursed Energy, then "Hollow Purple" to hammer, compress, and condense it, before finally using the Reverse Cursed Technique to reverse the compressed and condensed Cursed Energy.

Into stable Cursed Energy.

After completing the full process,

it increased purity without causing any side effects.

This was why his Cursed Energy in his previous life had far surpassed that of the original Gojo Satoru.

It could also be used for Soul Master cultivation on Douluo Continent.

He merely had to replace Cursed Energy with Soul Power.

The only side effect was that, after cultivation, one's level would fall to the lowest point of the current realm.

Level ten would drop to level one, while level twenty would drop to level eleven.

In short, it could not fall below the realm beneath a Soul Ring.

One would have to spend time and resources cultivating again.

The benefit was that every time his Soul Power was refined, each level of Huo Yuhao's Soul Power would be worth twice that of others.

After nine refinements, it would be nine times as much.

Of course, this cursed technique could not be refined endlessly.

Each realm could be refined at most nine times. Once that limit was exceeded, the energy would collapse.

Don't ask how he knew.

It was all experience from his previous life.

The more said, the more tears there were.

"I want to learn!"

Wang Dong's eyes sparkled, her face full of eagerness.

A Self-Created Soul Skill that could increase the purity of Soul Power.

If she learned it, wouldn't she leave people at the same level far behind?

Wang Dong felt that this Self-Created Soul Skill

had been tailor-made for a genius like her.

Huo Yuhao calmly refused. "I won't teach you."

Wang Dong was pretty shameless.

Who did she think she was?

Why should she get someone else's Self-Created Soul Skill just by asking for it?

If this happened to her father, Tang San, he would definitely tell her that she had a death wish.

Besides, the cursed technique Ninefold Refinement involved the Limitless Technique and the Reverse Cursed Technique.

Without the Six Eyes, don't even think about it. You could train until you smoked, and you still wouldn't learn it.

Wang Dong pouted. "Cheapskate. Fine, don't teach me. It's not like I care to learn it anyway."

Huo Yuhao shook his head and said nothing further.

He had originally planned to continue cultivating.

But the natural essence within the dormitory area had just been absorbed in one sweep.

It was extremely thin now. If he absorbed any more, there would be none left.

The Inner Court really is better. The natural essence there has even condensed into mist. The Outer Academy is far too lacking.

Outer Academy students: Damn you! You sucked it all dry, and you still think there isn't enough? If you've got the guts, stop absorbing!

Inner Court students: Don't come over here!!

Wang Dong wrapped herself in her blanket and kept muttering under her breath, "Cheapskate, cheapskate..."

The following morning

After washing up, Wang Dong put on her white, European-style school uniform.

She glanced at Huo Yuhao, who was still sleeping soundly, and grinned mischievously.

"This guy's sleeping so peacefully. I'd better not disturb his sweet dream."

As she spoke, she drew the curtains shut, darkening the dormitory.

"Huo Yuhao, just keep sleeping..."

Wang Dong covered her mouth and carefully left the dormitory.

First-Year Freshman Teaching Building

Wang Dong looked excited, her steps light.

Her handsome face drew repeated stares from the girls along the way.

"Huo Yuhao, let's see whether you get in trouble this time."

When Wang Dong imagined Huo Yuhao being sternly scolded by the teacher,

the corners of her mouth could not help rising.

Entering Class One's classroom,

Wang Dong was dumbfounded. Huo Yuhao was sitting by the window in the back row.

He was surrounded by girls from their class.

"Y-you... why are you here?"

Wang Dong asked.

Huo Yuhao waved a hand. "I came to school, obviously."

"No... I mean, when did you get up?"

Wang Dong asked in confusion.

Huo Yuhao smiled. "Naturally, when my good brother helped me draw the curtains."

At that, Wang Dong sat down angrily in a nearby chair.

"Damn it. He was clearly awake, yet he pretended to be asleep."

Still, he isn't wearing the school uniform. Just wait until he gets scolded!

Wang Dong noticed that Huo Yuhao was not wearing the school uniform.

She thought excitedly.

Huo Yuhao was not wearing the Shrek school uniform.

He thought the all-white uniform looked like mourning clothes.

So he was currently wearing the simple, comfortable black stand-collar uniform from his previous life.

Ring ring ring!

Just then, the class bell rang, and the students returned to their seats.

Before long, the teacher entered.

She was an elderly woman with wrinkled skin and crane-like white hair, her graying hair coiled atop her head.

She wore rigid, old-fashioned clothing.

She was of average height.

Most unusually, she possessed an exceptionally bright pair of eyes, with sharp light flashing in her black pupils.

"Hey, hey, looks like the teacher's here!"

"Is she the homeroom teacher? She's a woman. She looks kind of strict!"

The students whispered among themselves.

The old woman walked to the podium and looked coldly at the students.

"My name is Zhou Yi, and I am your homeroom teacher."

"Remember this! In my class, no trash will ever pass the assessment!"

"What I want to cultivate are monsters, not idiots!"

The moment she said that, the students erupted in outrage.

"How dare she say that! Who's trash? I'm one of the top ten promising Soul Masters in the entire prefecture!"

"That's too much!"

"If anyone's trash, it's definitely not me!"

"How can she be like this?"

"Exactly! That's way too harsh!"

Huo Yuhao glanced sideways.

Using the Six Eyes, he examined Zhou Yi, the original story's harsh, merciless teacher.

Beneath her disguise was a stunningly beautiful face, brows like spring mountains and features gentle and captivating.

Especially those huge boobs... major points added!

Zhou Yi suddenly shuddered on the stage. Looking down at the class, she felt as though someone had seen right through her.

Unable to find the voyeur, Zhou Yi shook her head with a bitter smile. "What am I thinking? How could a bunch of freshmen possibly see through my disguise?"