The Freshman Assessment came to a simple, uneventful close, and the rewards were handed out that very afternoon.
The first reward was the usual allocation of core disciple positions. All three members of Su Yuan's team were confirmed as core disciples, while the other places went to students who had stood out during the Freshman Assessment.
These included Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Wang Dong, Nanmen Yun'er, Xie Huanyue, and others.
While the list of core disciples was being announced, Su Yuan deliberately turned his head to look at Lao Huo's expression. When Huo Yuhao realized his name wasn't on the list, his face was quite a sight.
Only when he heard his name on the subsequent list of students receiving a "core disciple trial pass" did he let it go.
Especially since Nanmen Yun'er was on that trial list too.
If even Nanmen Yun'er, a Soul Grandmaster, couldn't become a genuine core disciple, what made him think he deserved it?
So Huo Yuhao's expression darkened only briefly before he quickly regained his composure, putting on a face-changing performance for Su Yuan.
From that perspective, Lao Huo wasn't entirely beyond saving. He knew the talent he had displayed hadn't met the standards required to be trained as a core disciple.
He was only being allowed to enjoy core disciple privileges temporarily because he could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Wang Dong and had placed second in the Freshman Assessment.
Clearly, his derangement still had room to grow. He hadn't even branded Shrek as courting death for failing to make him a genuine core disciple.
The second reward was the exclusive prize for the champions of the Freshman Assessment.
In the original story, Huo Yuhao had received a thousand-year Voidlight Demon Leopard left leg bone. That Soul Bone had eventually