Grouping

"I always feel like something's missing..." Wang Dong'er said, rubbing her chin.

"What?" Huo Yuhao had already sat up in bed. It was morning, and the three had just finished a night's cultivation. Feeling the abundant Soul Power within him, Huo Yuhao felt wonderfully refreshed.

"Look, if we keep cultivating instead of sleeping, we won't be able to wake people up in special ways." Wang Dong'er said seriously. "For example, things like 'Why are you in my bed?' or 'You treated someone else like a body pillow while you were asleep' would never happen."

"Actually, they have happened." Wang Qiu'er glanced at her. "Back when our Soul Power fused..."

"I wasn't talking about you!"

Ever since that day's Martial Soul Fusion, the three of them had basically spent every night cultivating. Their cultivation had now improved dramatically. Dong'er and Qiu'er's Soul Power had both reached rank twenty-eight, while Huo Yuhao had reached the peak of rank twenty, with one soul ring. As soon as he acquired another soul ring, he could break through.

But he had not found a suitable one...

Mental attributes were tough...

"Although the teacher explained it in class, I guess neither of you listened." Huo Yuhao had already changed and was getting ready to wash up. "Today is the grouping for the freshman assessment. Don't be late."

"That's happening?"

"No idea..."

Heh.

Wang Dong'er stretched lazily, revealing a large expanse of pale skin. At first, Huo Yuhao would blush at such little perks, but later, their image in his mind had gradually changed from looking pretty when they smiled to looking pretty funny...

The three still arrived at the classroom just in time. Zhou Yi handed out blank sheets for them to write down their future cultivation directions, and they would later be assigned to classes based on those directions.

Huo Yuhao casually wrote down assault type. He felt that this method of class assignment was not quite appropriate. On one hand, they emphasized teamwork, while on the other, they taught students separately according to different tendencies. Students in the same class would become more familiar with one another, and then there would be a group of support-type Soul Masters with seamless coordination...

That would be quite a sight.

As for why he chose assault type? Assault and control types attended class together anyway, and the character for assault had fewer strokes than the one for control...

Zhou Yi explained the rules at the front. In short, students had to form teams of three, and their tendencies could not be the same. Each team could only have one assault-type member. They would first go through ten point matches, eliminating half the students, then select sixty-four teams for elimination rounds to determine the winners.

Zhou Yi directly handed out the team roster. Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er were unsurprisingly assigned to the same group. Compared to messy reasons like being roommates or having compatible Martial Souls, a Martial Soul Fusion Skill was the most suitable reason for them to be together.

"Huo Yuhao, Wang Qiu'er, Wang Dong'er, Qian Chaoguang, Wen Tianren, Mu Ying, the six of you, come to my office."

Ha, immortals stood in ranks as dense as hemp.

Zhou Yi was already different from before. After shedding her various absurd antics, she was no longer the old hag despised by every student. Though the students who had harbored grudges against her before could not forgive her, Freshman Class One had at least gradually accepted this reformed teacher.

"You came here to mess with me, didn't you?!" Zhou Yi slammed down the sheets of paper.

Bang!

"Assault type!"

The first one up was Huo Yuhao's sheet. Huo Yuhao said he had his reasons too. He could copy soul skills, so why could he not be an assault type?

Bang!

"Control type!"

Wang Dong'er was at the level of, "Do you even hear what you're saying?"

Bang!

"Control type!"

Wang Qiu'er was no less outrageous than Wang Dong'er. With nothing better to do, they had decided to make a big scene.

"Are you three here to make a joke out of this?" Zhou Yi glared furiously. Although she would no longer expel students at random, they could not pull something like this either.

"Because each team can only have one assault type, but I want to team up with them and don't want us to be split into different classes, so I wrote control type." Wang Qiu'er said pitifully.

"Ah! You can say that... Right, right, I thought the same thing." Wang Dong'er nodded along. It looked like this one really was just causing trouble.

Zhou Yi no longer wanted to deal with those two. Even if they had written assault type, could the academy possibly separate them when they had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill? She turned to Huo Yuhao.

"If I said I wrote assault type because I anticipated this situation, would you believe me..."

"Rewrite them!" The three sheets were thrown back at them.

"And then there's you!"

Bang!

"Support type!"

Bang!

"Support type!"

Bang!

"Still support type!"

Mu Ying trembled at the side. Huo Yuhao remembered this girl clearly, because when they had enrolled, he had used her soul skill, Lover's Bridge, to link the Soul Power of over ninety people as a supplement before defeating Zhou Yi.

"Teacher, please judge fairly. My Martial Soul is light, so I'm obviously a support type." Qian Chaoguang spouted the words with complete confidence, as though the assault type who had fought Xu Zihuang on the Soul Fighting Platform every day was not him.

"Teacher, don't be fooled by the fact that my Martial Soul is a sword. Actually, I... Uh, anyway, I'm a support type!" Wen Tianren had not even finished making up his excuse, but he still sounded forceful.

"T-Teacher, I, I really am a support type." Mu Ying was so frightened that she started crying T﹏T. She was genuinely innocent.

"I know." There was already a sense of resignation in Zhou Yi's tone. "You five! Fix them and hand them in now!"

After setting aside those insignificant little interruptions, they changed their respective tendencies. Huo Yuhao and Wen Tianren changed to control type, while Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, and Qian Chaoguang changed to assault type.

Huo Yuhao no longer made a living by selling grilled fish as in the original story, so he naturally had no chance to encounter Ma Xiaotao when she came out. Only Xu Sanshi suffered, getting taken away by Ma Xiaotao to suppress her Evil Fire. The Xuanming Sect behind Xu Sanshi attached great importance to this matter and even wanted to use it to stimulate Xu Sanshi's Martial Soul, whose mutation was still incomplete.

Huo Yuhao and the other two had already developed enough coordination over these three months, so they did not continue practicing. Since there was no assessment today, Huo Yuhao continued his cultivation. He had now developed a new technique that allowed him to store the three of their fused Soul Power within his body. Though it could not replenish itself, it still enhanced his personal strength. This was also why he had been able to exchange blows with Xu Zihuang before.

"Let's not cultivate tonight. Let's sleep." Wang Dong'er bumped Huo Yuhao with her shoulder. "The freshman assessment is tomorrow. Resting for a day to restore our energy is the right thing to do."

"Sure. One day won't make a difference." Huo Yuhao readily agreed.

"You can't secretly cultivate by yourself either. You need to rest properly too. We'll be watching you." Wang Qiu'er glanced at him, knowing exactly what he was thinking.

"Eh..."

As night fell, Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er held Huo Yuhao from either side and pressed him onto the bed. "All right, make sure you get a good rest. Good night."

Huo Yuhao did not resist. He merely stared up at the ceiling. He had improved greatly over the past three months, but he really had been too tired. Taking an occasional break was not bad either.

Let's leave it at that...

The freshman assessment had finally arrived. Some matters could also be put on the agenda.

Dai Huabin!

Huo Yuhao grinned, revealing a terrifying smile.

You had better not get defeated before you met me...