The Youth of the Outer Academy Would Never Meet a Clumsy Senior Sister from the Inner Academy

Huo Yuhao cultivated alone in the dormitory. The Blackwater Pill was expelling impurities from his body, making the entire room stink unbearably. Qiu'er and Dong'er returned to Qiu'er's dormitory and made do there for the night.

Yes, Wang Qiu'er had a dormitory. She was not disguised as a man; it was a perfectly legitimate girls' dormitory.

No matter how one looked at it, Wang Dong'er was really playing things dangerously...

As he cultivated, he clearly felt his cultivation speed gradually increasing. His meridians were being widened, and a comfortable tingling sensation spread through all four limbs and every bone in his body.

So this was Tendon Cleansing and Marrow Washing? This felt amazing!

The Soul Power brought by the medicine's effects was driven by Huo Yuhao's cultivation, circulating throughout his body. As time passed, his cultivation speed reached its peak.

Huo Yuhao opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing within them. He had just wanted to let out a triumphant shout, but remembering that it was the middle of the night, he held himself back. A thick layer of black sludge covered his body, the source of that foul smell. He quietly went to bathe, then fetched clean water and carefully scrubbed away the remaining black sludge in the dormitory. Only after taking several deep, satisfying breaths did he resume cultivating.

So comfortable!

Although it was not as fast as the three of them cultivating through fused Soul Power, it was vastly faster than his original cultivation speed. At the very least, he had gone from crawling on the ground to walking. At this rate, if the three of them continued their fused cultivation, the speed would rise another level!

After cultivating for an entire night, Huo Yuhao actually broke through a full rank!

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Huo Yuhao still could not help laughing out loud.

"What are you yelling about so early in the morning?"

What a sin.

Though it was already daylight, some people still had not gotten up and were happily enjoying a second round of sleep.

"You're awake. You look to be in pretty good shape." Wang Dong'er's voice came from somewhere, but she was nowhere to be seen. Huo Yuhao followed the sound and looked out the window.

"Stop talking and get inside first, will you?" Wang Qiu'er was being carried by Wang Dong'er, looking utterly aggrieved. The two flew in through the window and carefully examined Huo Yuhao. His entire aura had changed, becoming much gentler. Even his skin had acquired an icy, jade-like quality, making him prettier than some of the girls in class.

Their little Yuhao was beginning to drift farther and farther down a strange path...

After breakfast, they did not wander around anywhere else and obediently waited for class to begin. In the original timeline, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er would encounter Ma Xiaotao by Sea God Lake today while her evil fire went out of control. Though they might have had a chance to obtain a Soul-Raising Pill, they did not have Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to save anyone now. Going there would just mean death.

"Good morning, Class Monitor."

"Morning, Class Monitor!"

"Why did the Class Monitor get prettier?"

"The Class Monitor... has always been this pretty."

The students of Freshman Class One greeted Huo Yuhao. At first, their greetings had been fairly normal, but then things took a strange turn, leaving Huo Yuhao thoroughly embarrassed.

All of today's classes were theoretical. In the morning, they studied martial soul classifications, while the afternoon covered identifying soul beast age limits. These subjects might have seemed dull to natives of Douluo Continent, but Huo Yuhao found them full of novelty. Combined with the rigorous training of exam-oriented education, he easily absorbed the knowledge from both courses.

Tang Ya did not invite them to eat grilled fish today. New student enrollment was quite busy, and Huo Yuhao was not idle either. He pulled Dong'er and Qiu'er along again to hunt soul beasts.

There was practically no risk in honing their practical combat skills in Star Dou Great Forest. With Wang Qiu'er, the Emperor Auspicious Beast and the most exalted of soul beasts, among them, what soul beast could possibly hurt them?

"Careful, there's movement ahead." Huo Yuhao was the first to warn them. Naturally, Wang Qiu'er would not directly use the Auspicious Beast's abilities, or it would lose the point of practical combat.

It was a black leopard, quite large and radiating an intimidating aura. It hid in the shadows, waiting for a chance to attack.

A Ghost Leopard.

The more Huo Yuhao used it, the more he felt that Imprint was an absurdly powerful soul skill. It could attack, defend, and scout. He really did not understand why Huo Yuhao in the original story only ever Imprinted Xuanming Displacement...

Shadow Bind!

Huo Yuhao used the skill he had just Imprinted to restrain the Ghost Leopard. Qiu'er and Dong'er attacked together, striking in the direction Huo Yuhao indicated. The Ghost Leopard was caught completely off guard and immediately used its shadow-transformation soul skill to escape.

"Why is our luck so terrible... Everything is either poisonous or impossible to catch. Qiu'er, hurry up and use your ability." Wang Dong'er sighed and urged her on.

"What can I do... Let's keep looking." Wang Qiu'er was also somewhat dejected. Those giant bugs from before had not only been troublesome, they were inedible too. It felt like they had fought them for nothing.

The three traveled through the forest when they suddenly spotted patches of solid ice on the trees, seemingly traces left behind by something fighting.

"Ice attribute! This definitely isn't poisonous, and it probably can't run very fast either. Let's hurry and follow it!" Wang Qiu'er's eyes lit up. She stepped forward first, clearing a path.

"Maybe it's one of those kinds whose entire bodies are made of ice..." Huo Yuhao recalled several interesting ice-type soul beasts he had seen in class.

"Pah, pah, pah! Don't say such discouraging things. Charge!" Wang Dong'er was excited as well and immediately followed after her.

The three followed the traces of battle until they reached the edge of a stream. At the end of the trail stood a young woman. With white hair and blue eyes, she had a cold and ethereal appearance, like a princess from a fairy tale or an elf who had walked out from the depths of a snowy plain. It was as though someone had plucked a cold plum blossom from a heavenly mountain and brought it into the mortal world, where it had suddenly appeared before them.

She was currently roasting a roe deer-like soul beast by the river, but her method...

She had simply placed the roe deer over a fire, propped it up with sticks, and roasted it directly with its fur still on. She muttered smugly, "This looks pretty simple. I finished it in no time."

The white-haired, blue-eyed girl noticed the movements of Huo Yuhao and the others. She turned toward them, blushed when she saw other people, then immediately resumed the air of a cold and aloof fairy.

"Where are you children from? How did you end up running into Star Dou Great Forest?" The white-haired, blue-eyed woman ignored the roe deer over the fire. Her tone was cool, yet her voice was as pleasant as silver bells.

She was so beautiful.

"We're not children!" Huo Yuhao blurted out instinctively, but the words sounded strange no matter how he heard them. "Um... We're here to hunt soul beasts."

"Just the three of you? No elders with you?" The white-haired, blue-eyed woman looked surprised. "Which soul ring are you getting? I'll help you."

"No, we're here to hunt game, and sell some materials on the side to earn living expenses." Qiu'er took over. Even she could tell that it was impossible to roast the roe deer soul beast using that method. She was anxious now, extremely anxious. Pointing at Huo Yuhao, she said, "It won't cook like that. Sister, hurry and let him do it!"

"Yeah, exactly! You're wasting all that meat. Yu Tong is really good at grilling meat," Wang Dong'er added anxiously.

"You can grill meat?" The white-haired, blue-eyed girl could no longer maintain her cold demeanor. She looked at Huo Yuhao with the excitement of a child. "Quick, quick, quick! Leave everything to you!"