Helping Ma Xiaotao Purify Some of Her Evil Fire

Xue Ningbing nodded as well. "That makes a lot of sense. Besides, whether we get first or second place doesn't make much difference to us."

"You should head back first. I have something to do today." After saying goodbye to Xue Ningbing and the others, Huo Yuhao left the classroom before them.

"What could he possibly have to do?" Wang Dong looked doubtfully at Huo Yuhao's departing figure.

Xiao Xiao shook her head. "I don't know. No idea."

Xue Ningbing watched Huo Yuhao's back, seemingly lost in thought. Of course, she knew what he was going to do.

A while ago, Huo Yuhao had told her that he would soon be helping Ma Xiaotao purify her Evil Fire.

Xue Ningbing had not tried to stop him. It was only purifying some Evil Fire—nothing to make a fuss about.

Xue Ningbing said to Xiao Xiao, "It has nothing to do with you two. Xiao Xiao, let's go practice our fusion skill."

"Sure!" Xiao Xiao agreed readily.

Seeing Xue Ningbing and Xiao Xiao preparing to leave, Wang Dong said excitedly, "I want to come with you too!"

In response to Wang Dong's request to join them, Xue Ningbing answered with crisp decisiveness, "Get lost."

"Sorry, Wang Dong. You should wait for Huo Yuhao instead, hehe." Xiao Xiao grinned at the scolded Wang Dong and followed Xue Ningbing out of the classroom.

Only Wang Dong, left in disarray, remained in Class One's classroom.

"Huo Yuhao, you bastard!" Wang Dong roared furiously.

Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao headed for the Inner Court under the guidance of an Inner Court teacher.

After arriving at the Inner Court, Huo Yuhao bade the teacher farewell and made his way to Ma Xiaotao's room.

When he arrived outside Ma Xiaotao's door and saw that it was locked, Huo Yuhao still felt somewhat nervous.

That wasn't right. He was only here to help Ma Xiaotao—his sworn elder sister—purify her Evil Fire. He wasn't going to do anything improper, so why was he so nervous?

Although that was what Huo Yuhao told himself, being alone in a room with a woman still made him feel a little uneasy.

Just as Huo Yuhao hesitated, a woman's voice sounded behind him.

"Huo Yuhao, why are you still standing outside? I remember giving you a key."

Hearing the voice, Huo Yuhao turned around and found that it was Ma Xiaotao, returning from the Inner Court dormitories.

Seeing that it was Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao said somewhat awkwardly, "That's true, but seeing that no one was here made me feel a little embarrassed."

"What's there to be embarrassed about? Hurry inside. Lately, my Evil Fire has been showing signs of becoming impossible to suppress again."

"It's perfect timing that you're here."

Before Huo Yuhao could answer, Ma Xiaotao opened the door and directly pulled him into the room.

After entering, Ma Xiaotao immediately shut the door.

Since it was daytime, the room was bright enough that there was basically no need to use soul tool lamps.

Ma Xiaotao's room was a perfectly ordinary one-bedroom apartment.

Ma Xiaotao sat cross-legged on the carpet in front of the sofa. "Then let's begin now."

"Mm, all right." Huo Yuhao immediately sat cross-legged opposite Ma Xiaotao as well.

As he meditated, Huo Yuhao stared at Ma Xiaotao. "Then begin releasing your soul power, Senior Ma Xiaotao."

"Since this is our first time, we'll use the simplest method to purify some of the Evil Fire first."

After hearing that, Ma Xiaotao nodded seriously. "Understood."

With Huo Yuhao's permission, Ma Xiaotao began releasing the soul power within her body. Though it was called soul power, the blackish-red energy it displayed was more accurately described as Evil Fire.

The instant the Evil Fire was released, the temperature throughout the room surged by dozens of degrees.

The entire room seemed to be set ablaze by Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, as if it were melting.

After releasing the Evil Fire, Ma Xiaotao herself fell into agony. The blackish-red flames she had released directly wrapped around her entire body.

Entangled by the flames, Ma Xiaotao let out endless wails of pain.

"Endure it a little longer, Sister."

Seeing Ma Xiaotao wracked with agony by the Evil Fire, Huo Yuhao's heart ached for her.

Just as Ma Xiaotao was about to descend into a berserk state, Huo Yuhao directly released icy-blue soul power.

With the emergence of Ultimate Ice, the room's previously scorching temperature quickly turned cool beneath its spread, and the temperature gradually began returning to normal.

Ultimate Ice enveloped Huo Yuhao. As he pointed at Ma Xiaotao, all the soul power containing Ultimate Ice attached itself to her Evil Fire.

With Ultimate Ice entering it, Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire began to calm down.

Amid the purification of Ultimate Ice, a hint of orange-red appeared within the originally blackish-red flames.

Though the orange-red flames were not very noticeable, Huo Yuhao still caught sight of them. Once the Evil Fire was no longer in its previous berserk state, he withdrew his soul power.

After Huo Yuhao withdrew his soul power, Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire returned to her body.

Having successfully purified the Evil Fire, the utterly exhausted Ma Xiaotao went limp in Huo Yuhao's arms, unable to support herself at all.

Feeling Ma Xiaotao's fragrant, feminine scent as she fell into his arms, Huo Yuhao could only hold her.

Looking at the unconscious Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao had no idea what to do. His body was only that of an eleven-year-old child, and facing a woman eight years older than himself, he could barely manage to lift her.

After failing several times, Huo Yuhao could only barely carry Ma Xiaotao onto the sofa.

Looking at Ma Xiaotao lying quietly on the sofa, Huo Yuhao said, "Maybe in a few years, I'll be able to carry her properly."

Compared to his previous life, Huo Yuhao felt that this purification of the Evil Fire had gone much more smoothly.

After all, in his previous life, he had helped his elder sister purify her Evil Fire before. The experience he had accumulated in purifying it was still there.

But when he thought of how his elder sister had once called him short, Huo Yuhao felt ashamed of his former self.

Still, he seemed to remember that even after they had acknowledged each other as sworn siblings, Elder Sister Xiaotao had developed feelings for him that she should not have.

In other words, if he had wanted to build a harem back then, Elder Sister Xiaotao would have agreed without question.

I'm truly awful. I was clearly a man who could have had a harem, yet Tang San's restrictions left me with only Tang Wutong, a woman I couldn't touch.

The thought made Huo Yuhao want to slap himself.