Assimilative Fusion

Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes and saw Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao glaring angrily at each other.

They looked ready to start fighting at any moment.

"If you're going to fight, hurry up and do it!"

Huo Yuhao pulled out a bag of popcorn, becoming a shameless spectator eager for drama.

Hearing Huo Yuhao's voice, Xiao Xiao instantly changed her expression and said with a beaming smile:

"Brother Yuhao! You've wronged me! I'm so adorable—how could I possibly fight?"

"Unlike that pathetic man Wang Dong, who was trying to bully me just now."

"Green tea bitch!!"

Wang Dong gritted her teeth.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Clearly, you were the one just now..."

"Just now what? You're a boy, so why are you nitpicking with a girl like me?"

"But the facts..."

"Setting the facts aside, are you saying you did nothing wrong?"

"..."

Wang Dong was left speechless.

Xiao Xiao's feminist-fighter skills had reached the pinnacle; Wang Dong was nowhere near a match for her!

Huo Yuhao was stunned as well.

The legacy of the female keyboard warriors who had once dominated the internet in his life before last had actually been inherited by Xiao Xiao.

Just two sentences had hit like Garen wielding Lord Dominik's Regards.

Silenced and utterly broken!

Seeing the two glaring at each other again, looking as though they were about to start fighting once more,

Huo Yuhao stepped in as peacemaker. "Alright, alright."

"Stop arguing. Xiao Xiao, what did Old Zhou say?"

"Alright, Brother Yuhao." Xiao Xiao gave him a sweet smile.

"The teacher analyzed our opponents for us. It'll still be quite difficult if we want to win the championship."

"There really are a lot of geniuses at Shrek!"

Wang Dong clasped her hands behind her head and laughed. "What's wrong? Have the great geniuses with Twin Martial Souls lost confidence just because our opponents are strong?"

Xiao Xiao huffed coquettishly. "Of course I'm confident! But Teacher Zhou said that among the undefeated teams, three groups have three-ring Soul Elders. How confident are you against Soul Elders?"

Wang Dong exclaimed, "There are actually three-ring Soul Elders among the freshmen?"

Xiao Xiao nodded. "That's right. There's even one undefeated team where all three members are Soul Elders."

"Even Teacher Zhou doesn't think too highly of us."

A team of three Soul Elders.

That hadn't happened in the original story either, had it?

Was it the butterfly effect, or someone's scheme?

Huo Yuhao rubbed his chin, filled with doubt.

"So what if they're Soul Elders? We have our own advantages! It's not like we're guaranteed to lose!"

"You think I don't want first place?!"

"But our overall strength really is inferior to theirs!"

"..."

The two started arguing again, and Huo Yuhao covered his head.

These two enemies never went a single day without fighting.

"Alright, alright."

"With me here, you won't lose. At worst, we'll just give up those two Soul-Raising Pills."

"Besides, I'm not short on Soul-Raising Pills anymore."

Huo Yuhao chuckled.

Wang Dong nodded. "If Yuhao takes action, our chances of winning will be even greater."

Xiao Xiao clenched her fists excitedly. "If Brother Yuhao takes action, the championship will definitely be ours!"

"We're the champions!"

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Xiao Xiao blushed and said shyly, "Brother Yuhao, don't be so impatient... Of course, if you want it, I'll give it to you."

As she spoke, she eagerly closed her eyes and puckered her little lips.

Thump!

Huo Yuhao gave Xiao Xiao a knuckle rap on the head. "What are you thinking? I came to see you about something serious."

Xiao Xiao held her head, looking aggrieved. "I was only joking."

"Oh, right, Brother Yuhao. What exactly did you need me for?"

Huo Yuhao folded his arms and smiled. "I want to see whether the two of us can undergo Martial Soul Fusion."

"Martial Soul Fusion?"

Xiao Xiao was startled, then smiled. "Actually, I noticed it long ago. Every time I see you, my heart races and I start thinking nonsense. That must be because we can undergo Martial Soul Fusion!"

Hmm...

That's obviously just you being lovestruck.

Huo Yuhao smiled. "Then let's give it a try."

For the first trial, he had to find someone else to undergo Martial Soul Fusion with.

He would start with Xiao Xiao.

"Mm!"

Xiao Xiao nodded heavily, then summoned her martial soul, the Tripartite Soul-Calming Cauldron. "Let's try with the Tripartite Soul-Calming Cauldron first."

"Alright."

The two embraced, and Xiao Xiao instantly turned into a steam maiden, white vapor billowing from the top of her head.

"I... I... I'm hugging Brother Yuhao!!!"

As time passed, their auras slowly emerged from their bodies.

Xiao Xiao had two auras, while Huo Yuhao had three.

Of Huo Yuhao's auras, the ones representing the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and Elder Yi rejected Xiao Xiao's two auras representing her Twin Martial Souls.

The azure aura of Six Eyes completely ignored Xiao Xiao's auras.

Under these circumstances, Martial Soul Fusion was impossible.

The wondrous state suddenly vanished, and Xiao Xiao asked, "Did it work?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head. "It failed."

"How is that possible?!"

"We're a handsome man and a beautiful woman, a match made in heaven. How could it fail?"

Xiao Xiao looked heartbroken as she kept rubbing her head against Huo Yuhao's chest.

Huo Yuhao: Your flat board is poking me!

Huo Yuhao pondered. "If Xiao Xiao won't work, then someone else. Ma Xiaotao, Tang Ya..."

"Their martial souls probably won't work either."

"No, no. My starting point is wrong. Does Martial Soul Fusion necessarily require compatible martial souls?"

"Perhaps I can do it like this..."

Thinking of something, Huo Yuhao suddenly said, "Xiao Xiao, let's try one more time!"

"Alright!"

Xiao Xiao nodded. She was unwilling to accept the fact that she could not undergo Martial Soul Fusion with Huo Yuhao.

The two were still embracing, and with their previous experience,

they quickly summoned their auras again.

It was still the same as before: the two auras repelled each other, while the aura of Six Eyes ignored them.

With a thought from Huo Yuhao, the aura of Six Eyes surged toward Xiao Xiao's aura.

Very quickly, Xiao Xiao's aura merged with the aura of Six Eyes.

No, to be precise, it was assimilation. The aura of Six Eyes assimilated Xiao Xiao's aura, transforming it into an aura similar to Six Eyes.

Xiao Xiao's breathing quickened as a comfortable sensation welled up in her heart.

Seeing this, Huo Yuhao confirmed that the prerequisite for Martial Soul Fusion had been fulfilled.

Unlike with Wang Dong, the former was fusion, while this was assimilation.

He released the assimilated aura state.

Xiao Xiao's aura returned to its original color.

"This time, it should have worked, right?!"

Xiao Xiao said excitedly.

Huo Yuhao nodded slightly. "More or less. Now let's try fusing our soul power."

"Alright!"

The two sat cross-legged facing each other, their hands clasped together.

Their soul power continuously poured out, flowing toward the space between their joined hands.

Huo Yuhao's soul power assimilated Xiao Xiao's soul power.

Azure soul power, as dazzling as a galaxy, appeared within both their perceptions.

"What?! The cultivation speed..."

"Has doubled!!"

In Xiao Xiao's perception, her cultivation speed had doubled.

During their later attempts with soul skills, Xiao Xiao discovered with astonishment that because of this mixed—assimilated—soul power,

the power of her soul skills increased by more than seven times, while the soul power consumption was instead cut in half.

It had completely become an entirely new and exceptionally high-grade kind of soul power.