Magic Professor Electrolux! Ma Xiaotao

"I understand!"

Lu Yi made no effort to hide the excitement in his eyes and immediately laid out everything he had grasped.

Electrolux listened quietly to his student's ideas and nodded.

This one could be taught!

"Exactly. You can look for materials with the same properties and strip away any unnecessary traits. The result should be just as good."

Electrolux sounded certain, but he still warned him, "This will be far harder than you think. Don't let it interfere with your cultivation."

"I understand, Professor!" Lu Yi said respectfully.

No wonder this man had been able to become a god. He had resolved Lu Yi's confusion with ease.

Realizing he had been in the Magic Library for quite some time, Lu Yi decided it was time to take his leave of Elder Yi.

Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something important.

"Professor, I know where to find a piece of Gold of Life. I can't afford it right now, but give me a year and I'll find a way to get my hands on it."

Lu Yi had already made his plans. Once the freshman assessment was over, he would find a way to recreate several Potions using materials native to Douluo, no matter what it took.

Felix Felicis, which could increase luck; the potent healing Invigoration Draught; Skele-Gro, which could regrow bones...

The market was vast. And as far as he knew, the effects of many Potions had never been seen in Douluo, making them scarce in the extreme.

Medicine and a monopoly—Lu Yi hardly dared imagine how terrifying the profits would be if he managed to recreate those Potions and mass-produce them.

"To think you even know of such a treasure!"

A rare flash of surprise crossed Electrolux's usually calm face. "Very well. Once you obtain the Gold of Life, I'll have something to tell you too. Go on, then. But take care in all things, and don't force the issue."

Electrolux realized that, apart from Lu Yi, he would be hard-pressed to find anyone suited to inherit his necromancy. He might as well make that the deciding point.

When the time came, whether Lu Yi accepted it or not, Electrolux would respect his choice.

"I'll take my leave, Professor!"

Lu Yi pushed open the Library's Wooden Door and dissolved the mental space.

"What's that smell?"

A sharp, indescribable stench jolted Lu Yi awake. It hit him so hard that he wondered whether someone had taken a dump on him.

His skin felt sticky, yet his body felt utterly renewed, leaving him clearheaded and refreshed.

Only then did Lu Yi remember that before going to catch up with Elder Yi, he had taken a Mystic Water Pill.

The pill had clearly taken effect, and its results were every bit as extraordinary as promised.

When he opened his eyes, the rising sun was spilling warm light across Sea God Lake.

Mist drifted over the water like a scene from an immortal realm. Sea God Island showed a faint wash of green in the distance. Insects chirped, birds sang, and now and then a fish splashed at the lake's surface.

Everywhere he looked, life was bursting forth, with all things racing to bloom.

Lu Yi stretched comfortably, then summoned his Wand.

The impurities expelled from his body had soaked into his clothes. They stank, they were filthy, and they stuck to him all over. He couldn't let anyone see him like this.

Pointing his Wand at himself, Lu Yi spoke the incantation: "Scourgify!"

His yellowed white clothes turned spotless in an instant. The sticky feeling swiftly faded, and the pungent odor vanished with it.

Whenever Lu Yi felt lazy, he used this handy little spell. But convenient as the cleaning charm was, it could never give him the same deep comfort as a hot shower.

After taking the Mystic Water Pill, though, his body already felt wonderful.

Just as he put away his Wand and prepared to get breakfast, Wang Dong's familiar voice came from behind him.

"Lu Yi! Don't tell me you stayed here all night?"

Lu Yi turned to see Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao walking together. He nodded. "Yeah. Absorbing the Mystic Water Pill would've disturbed my roommate, so I spent the night by the lake."

At the mention of disturbing a roommate, Huo Yuhao looked a little embarrassed.

When he had woken that morning, he had seen just how filthy he was. Even he couldn't stand the smell.

But then he noticed Lu Yi's white school uniform was spotless, and his face was perfectly clean. He couldn't help feeling puzzled.

Wang Dong had noticed too. "Lu Yi, did you really absorb a Mystic Water Pill? Because it sure doesn't look like it!"

Lu Yi hadn't expected to run into them right after cleaning his clothes, but he only half-joked, "I don't know. Maybe I have a body without a speck of impurity!"

Wang Dong didn't believe a word of it. "Hah. Give you an inch and you take a mile. You probably went back to the dorm ages ago and cleaned yourself up."

Then she took out a metal sphere and tossed it to Lu Yi. "Let's see where your Soul Power is. Huo Yuhao just tested his—he's at level thirteen now. He went up a whole level."

Lu Yi caught the sphere and, without another word, channeled Soul Power into it.

As yellow light slowly spread across the metal sphere, its numbers began to change. Lu Yi pushed with every ounce of strength he had, and the number finally stopped at eighteen.

Just like Huo Yuhao, he had gained one level of Soul Power.

But the Mystic Water Pill could also raise Innate Soul Power by one level. Huo Yuhao's progress was striking: going from level one Innate Soul Power to level two was a leap in quality.

Lu Yi had no idea what his own Innate Soul Power was, nor did he have any real sense of it.

He had been suppressed from the moment he arrived in this world. After absorbing a Soul Ring, he had jumped a full six levels; otherwise, Zhang Lexuan would never have taken such an interest in him.

"Same as Huo Yuhao. I went up one level too."

Smiling, Lu Yi offered the metal sphere back to Wang Dong, but she didn't take it. Something seemed to have caught her eye, and she pointed. "Over there... is something coming toward us?"

Lu Yi turned. The red figure in his vision was growing larger by the second, and a name immediately flashed through his mind.

Ma Xiaotao!

Lu Yi instantly realized they were in trouble. He vaguely remembered what had happened to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, but he hadn't expected it to happen today.

"Run!" Wang Dong activated Martial Soul Possession in an instant. A pair of beautiful butterfly wings appeared behind her, and without a word she seized Huo Yuhao and Lu Yi by their collars and took to the air.

"Prote—cough, cough!"

Lu Yi summoned his Martial Soul almost at the same time as Wang Dong, intending to cast a Protective Charm over them all. But Wang Dong suddenly hauled him up by the back of his collar, choking the words right out of him.

The terrifying heat had already turned the area into an oven. With the added weight of two people, Wang Dong had barely lifted off before she crashed back down with Lu Yi and Huo Yuhao.

Wang Dong passed out at once. Lu Yi was lucky enough to land in a soft thicket, but before he could right himself, a pair of enormous red palms came sweeping toward him.

With no time to catch his breath, Lu Yi threw up a shield.

"Protego!"

The moment the invisible barrier met the enormous red palms, Lu Yi thought he heard glass shatter.

But just as the palms were about to break through, the scorching air turned bitterly cold. In an instant, the world within a hundred meters seemed to plunge into ice and snow, and the red palms vanished before Lu Yi's eyes.

Lu Yi hurriedly kept Protego active to stop himself from freezing stiff.

He turned toward Huo Yuhao and saw that his entire bearing had changed. The white Soul Ring beneath his feet had turned gold.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had taken over Huo Yuhao!

Lu Yi knew Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would deal with the threat Ma Xiaotao posed, but a thought suddenly struck him.

Why not see whether a spell could affect someone far stronger than me?

Lu Yi raised his Wand, while Huo Yuhao extended a finger. Together, they pointed at the Fire Phoenix in midair.

"Stupefy!"

"You dare disturb my sleep? Die!"