"Yuhao, you have a plan?" Hearing Huo Yuhao say that, Snow Girl looked at him and blinked.
Huo Yuhao nodded.
Through his conversations with Electrolux, Huo Yuhao had learned that in Electrolux's world, all powers involving bloodlines, physique, and other aspects of vital energy were called external spiritual power.
Clearly, a Soul Master's soul power fell under external spiritual power, as did the internal energy Huo Yuhao had cultivated after joining the Tang Sect in his previous life, which was also fundamentally bloodline power.
By the standards of Electrolux's world, the entire Douluo Continent practiced body cultivation in the broad sense.
Huo Yuhao had no objection to Elder Yi's assessment.
"Of course I have a plan!" Huo Yuhao said. "Across the entire continent, among us humans, everyone except the Body Sect currently knows next to nothing about cultivating the body."
"Once Soul Hunting gradually stops yielding Soul Rings, the Body Sect, with its profound understanding of the human body, will become the darling of the entire continent."
"But that glory won't belong to the Body Sect forever. Human transformation has never been a matter of building a cart behind closed doors."
Snow Girl looked skeptical. "You're going to steal their cultivation methods, or trade for them? You know that with our current identities, going to the Body Sect would be courting death. These past few days, quite a few high-achieving students from the academy have mysteriously died on their way to or from school."
Huo Yuhao shook his head with a mysterious look. "Of course not. Don't worry, Xue'er. This mountain sage has a clever plan of his own."
Three days later, Huo Yuhao persuaded Xu Tianran to let him take charge of the Martial Soul Department at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
The Martial Soul Department at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was just like the Soul Tool Department at Shrek Academy: nothing but a signboard, a place where various factions stuffed their well-connected slackers so they could coast through their days.
"This counts as my first moment in the spotlight in the martial soul field in this life!" Still only a low-ranking Soul Master himself, Huo Yuhao looked at the young masters and ladies of Sun Moon Upper Society below him, all attempting to "work hard" at Soul Master cultivation, and felt like a monkey crowned king because there was no tiger on the mountain.
"You're all here to slack off, right?" Huo Yuhao cut straight to the point with the students below.
Among the students, who were only a few years younger than Huo Yuhao, several sitting in the front row blinked slyly at their young teacher's words, then nodded.
"I assume you've heard about the change: Soul Masters no longer need Soul Rings to cultivate. In the old days, even if you accomplished nothing here, you could go home and tell your parents that Sun Moon simply lacked resources for cultivating soul power, so it wasn't your fault you had nothing to show for several years at school."
At that point, Huo Yuhao teased, "What excuse do you have now?"
Huo Yuhao's voice was clear and bright. Some of those below were making a racket, while others were sleeping, yet all of them heard him distinctly, because he was producing his voice by directly using the primordial energy of heaven and earth to vibrate the air.
"Teacher, do you have any good methods, then? Preferably something we can master quickly!" asked a young delinquent who often bullied boys and harassed girls outside the academy.
"Of course I have a way for you to achieve quick results. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here! Watch closely: this is a set of fist, sword, and palm techniques."
"These three are as simple as a fitness dance. But as long as you follow the movements I demonstrate and recite the mantras, you can quickly cultivate power. With just a little perseverance and repeated practice, you'll be able to condense Soul Rings!"
Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, the young delinquents below immediately perked up. For those who wanted to reap rewards without putting effort into studying or working, his words were simply too tempting.
"Watch closely, then. This is the fist technique," Huo Yuhao said, launching into a bout of Turtle Fist.
Then Huo Yuhao said, "While performing these punches, remember to recite the mantra: Si Dong Fist, thoughts gush forth like a spring!"
The little troublemakers below followed his instructions. Sure enough, they felt some sort of pull on their emotions, and the more they allowed themselves to sink into that feeling, the more their bloodline power increased.
Then Huo Yuhao took out a soul-tool light sword and began swinging it. "Remember, this is the sword technique. While wielding the sword, you must recite the mantra: Nian Dong Sword, never forgotten! Have you remembered it?"
Finally, Huo Yuhao tossed aside the sword and performed a set of palm strikes. "This is Master Ling Bing's final technique. When striking with your palms, you must recite the mantra: Haodong Palm, through life after life! Understood?"
Only after confirming that every troublemaker present had nodded did Huo Yuhao say, "The second half of the mantra is: Dong'er, Dong'er, Dong'er!
Withering amid splendor, Golden Road!
Blazing heat amid extreme frost, Heavenly Emperor's Hammer!
Truth amid nothingness, Spiritual Storm!
A solitary dance amid ice and frost, Raiment of Light! Boys, memorize the second half too when you get back."
After that day's lesson ended, Huo Yuhao left the classroom and found Xu Tianran staring at him in astonishment.
"How is this possible? Minister Ling Bing, the primordial power of heaven and earth within these unruly brats has increased so much in a single day?"
Carrying a large number of high-grade Soul Tools, Xu Tianran was especially sensitive to the strengthened fluctuations of primordial power within the children of the Martial Soul Department.
"This is a cultivation method I comprehended. I've never been good at Soul Master cultivation since childhood, and one day, I comprehended this method." Huo Yuhao looked utterly sincere.
Xu Tianran, meanwhile, was already beside himself with excitement. How could a man wielding power like his fail to see the enormous threat posed by the Body Sect and the Heaven Dou Empire, with their profound understanding of the human body, once Soul Masters gradually became unable to improve through Soul Hunting alone?
For Huo Yuhao to appear at this moment and offer a cultivation method completely different from traditional Soul Master cultivation was, to Xu Tianran's grand vision of conquest, like having someone deliver a pillow just as he began to doze.
"To have a minister like you is truly our nation's good fortune! Sadly, my imperial father will never see that day!" Xu Tianran put on a sorrowful expression.
Huo Yuhao knew that this was the Crown Prince informing him that the Sun Moon Old Emperor had died that day.
He was already receiving something approaching the treatment of a trusted confidant.
After returning to his dormitory, Huo Yuhao busied himself with teaching Snow Girl to become proficient in making Soul Tools between her cultivation sessions.
The Sun Moon Royal Academy was, after all, an academy primarily devoted to Soul Engineers.
"Yuhao, you taught the supreme divine techniques of your previous life to those unruly children. Isn't that a bit..." Lying on his bed, Huo Yuhao connected to the Undead Demiplane and heard Tian Meng's grumbling.
"If these people weren't completely devoid of cultivation aptitude, I wouldn't have taught them this method in the first place!"
"Brother Sky Dream, having people learn this cultivation method benefits me far more than any great deed I could accomplish in this world to gain vast amounts of faith! Because I'm free!"
Electrolux caught the key point in Huo Yuhao's words. "You intend to use this to rid yourself of your inner demon?"
"Elder Yi, no one knows a disciple better than his master. You really do understand me!" The manifestation of Huo Yuhao's spiritual origin scratched his head.
"In this life, I should soon be able to settle things with that day when I walked into Shrek Academy's dormitory all those years ago."
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