Reunion with the Evil Fire Enchantress

When Huo Yuhao woke and opened his bleary eyes, the alluring sight before him made his blood race. He had already grown used to it and could not help marveling at how carefree these three girls were, trusting a lecher like him so completely.

He simply gave Wu Feng's round rear a slap. "Time to get up, you three."

"Stop messing around. Let me sleep a little longer..."

Watching the half-asleep Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao was unusually seized by the urge to play. He took out a feather plucked from the Purple Cloud Eagle corpse he had bought two days ago from his Storage Soul Tool and gently brushed it back and forth beneath Wu Feng's pert little nose.

"Ah-choo—"

"Huo Yuhao! I'll kill you—" For a moment, the bedroom descended into utter chaos.

After breakfast, the four of them set off for class together. Since arriving at Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao's mood had gradually brightened. Here, he had finally formed his own little circle and had Wu Feng and the other two girls who cared about him. It was far better than the cold atmosphere in the Holy Spirit Cult, where everything had felt frigid.

"There's still some time before class. Let's take a walk by Sea God Lake." Wu Feng lazily stretched her fiery body, looking especially alluring beneath the morning sunlight.

"Sure." Huo Yuhao agreed readily. He had not visited Sea God Lake in the days since enrolling, and there was indeed still half an hour before class. A stroll sounded nice.

The two girls and Huo Yuhao went around the freshman teaching building and headed east along the southern side of Shrek Plaza. Before long, they reached the lakeside path.

Passing through the woods beside the path, the sparkling Sea God Lake unfolded before their eyes.

A soft mist of water mixed with fresh air washed over them. Though Sea God Lake was merely an artificial lake, its water was exceptionally clear—blue in pure, deep, gentle elegance. Faint ripples rolled across the satin-blue surface like the glistening autumn eyes of a young girl, reflecting the blue sky, white clouds, and lush green trees lining the shore.

"It's so beautiful!" Nanmen Yun'er could not help taking a deep breath, a captivating smile blooming across her delicate face.

Huo Yuhao looked toward the distant reaches of Sea God Lake. Just as recorded in the original work, the lake covered an enormous area, perhaps even larger than Shrek Academy's main campus west of Shrek Plaza. A hazy veil of mist hovered over the distant waters.

After his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul underwent multiple evolutions, Huo Yuhao's vision had improved dramatically once again. Even without channeling Soul Power into his Spirit Eyes, he could still see far into the distance. He could clearly make out scattered buildings amid the mist above the distant lake. Recalling the descriptions from the original work, he silently thought that place should be the inner courtyard.

Even outstanding Soul Masters like Beibei and Xu Sanshi could only study in the outer courtyard. The inner courtyard's students must be several levels stronger!

"Hm?" Just as Huo Yuhao was lost in thought, he suddenly seemed to spot a red dot within the mist on the lake.

"What is it?" Ning Tian asked curiously beside him.

Ning Tian followed the direction of Huo Yuhao's finger, but saw only mist. "Where?" She had barely questioned him when her eyes widened. She saw it too. What red dot? It was clearly a red figure racing across the water at a terrifying speed, and it appeared to be charging straight toward them.

Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er exchanged a glance and cried out together, "A senior from the inner courtyard?"

The red figure was simply too fast. In just that brief moment, they had already reached the middle of the lake. Every time their toes touched the surface, ripples spread outward, yet they used that faint buoyancy to accelerate continuously, drifting forward like a crimson cloud.

As the figure drew closer, the three girls could see more clearly. Not only were their clothes red, but their hair was blood-red as well. Their figure was slender, yet their entire body radiated a fierce, chilling aura, like some terrifying soul beast. The air around them distorted slightly, and sheets of water mist rippled outward in their wake.

"This senior looks really strong! Look, they can run across the lake without even releasing their Martial Soul." Nanmen Yun'er eagerly analyzed the situation for Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao's spiritual perception far surpassed theirs, and before long, a meaningful smile appeared on his face. "I know who it is!"

The red figure came astonishingly fast. In the time they had spent talking, she had already entered within a hundred meters of the shore. A terrifying wave of heat swept over them in an instant, and shock filled the eyes of the three girls. They could all sense an indescribably terrifying presence erupting from that senior. That was absolutely not pressure a normal student should possess.

"Huo. Yu. Hao!" It was a clear female voice, its severely suppressed emotions erupting almost instantly. "I finally found you!"

"Yuhao, she's coming for you!" Nanmen Yun'er's little face turned pale. This fierce-looking senior sister clearly bore Huo Yuhao no small amount of hostility.

"You should go back to the classroom first. If I don't return on time, please ask Teacher Mujin for leave on my behalf." Huo Yuhao neither dodged nor retreated. He simply stood before the girls, chest raised, letting the figure charge toward him.

The red figure arrived in an instant. She reached out, seized Huo Yuhao by the collar, and lifted him into the air. Without even sparing Wu Feng and the other two girls a glance, she flew off into the distance.

Feeling the biting lake wind slice past his ears, Huo Yuhao calmly raised his hands and rested them behind his head. "Ma Xiaotao, after a year apart, do you still miss me this much?"

"Shut up, you vile creature of the Holy Spirit Cult! Don't try to shake my resolve!" Ma Xiaotao gritted her teeth and glared at Huo Yuhao.

"Holy Maiden, I can help you cultivate, no matter what position..." Huo Yuhao burst out laughing, seemingly completely unafraid of what she might do to him.

"Position my ass, get lost!" Ma Xiaotao flung Huo Yuhao straight into the lake. Huo Yuhao had no ability to fly at the moment, so he naturally ended up drenched like a drowned rat.

At that moment, Huo Yuhao activated the Mental Imprint deep within Ma Xiaotao's mind. She only felt the world spin, instantly losing her balance in midair. The two of them fell into Sea God Lake together.

After choking down a huge mouthful of water, Ma Xiaotao was casually pulled out by Huo Yuhao. She too was soaked from head to toe.

"You..." Ma Xiaotao looked at the youth right before her, but her thoughts drifted back to that night of Martial Soul Evolution—the scene in that spiritual illusion, where she had completely given herself over.

"The Evil Fire hasn't troubled you again, has it?" Huo Yuhao looked Ma Xiaotao over as she struggled to catch her breath, his gaze frivolous. "Looks like you've reached the Soul Sage realm. Not bad. My efforts weren't wasted after all."

"Easy for you to say!" Ma Xiaotao said viciously. "Ever since you helped evolve my Martial Soul into this damned Sinful Desire Demonic Phoenix, all the male students in the inner courtyard turn into creeps whenever they see me..."

"Creeps are great. So have you creeped on any of them in return?" Huo Yuhao laughed loudly, only for the humiliated and furious Ma Xiaotao to grab the soft flesh at his waist and twist it viciously one hundred and eighty degrees.

As the ultimate version of the Evil Fire Phoenix, the Sinful Desire Demonic Phoenix retained the nearly unsolvable traits of Evil Fire while possessing the attribute of Ultimate Fire. It could also provoke the primal sinful instincts of nearby members of the opposite sex to the greatest extent. If not for Ma Xiaotao's naturally irritable temperament and domineering personality, she would have long since been relentlessly pursued by the male students of the inner courtyard.

As for the Mental Imprint Huo Yuhao had left behind, he had planted it with the aid of Rakshasa Divine Power. Even Shrek's Limit Douluo could not possibly detect anything amiss and could only conclude that Ma Xiaotao had been frightened by someone.

After returning to the academy, Ma Xiaotao no longer had to worry about the backlash of Evil Fire. Over the past year, she had advanced by leaps and bounds. Not only had her Soul Power risen to rank seventy, but with the help of Shrek's powerhouses, she had also obtained an exceptionally powerful Soul Ring close to one hundred thousand years in age.

It was no exaggeration to say that if Ma Xiaotao participated in the upcoming Soul Master Academy Tournament, she could effortlessly crush everyone there.

After all, she was a Soul Sage with Ultimate Fire!

Ma Xiaotao had only learned in the past couple of days that Huo Yuhao had enrolled at Shrek Academy. Long Xiaoyao had revealed to Mu En the matter of the Holy Son's arrival, and Shrek Academy, which had always been wary of the Holy Spirit Cult, naturally took note of it. That was not confirmed until Huo Yuhao personally came to report to Shrek Academy.

For now, Huo Yuhao had not displayed any abilities of an Evil Soul Master. Mu En had also personally met the child and had not done anything unnecessary to him.

Whether a person would become an Evil Soul Master in the future was not determined by their mutated Martial Soul. As Shrek's most farsighted elder, Mu En saw matters far more clearly than the other elders.

"You came to see me. Do you have something in mind?" Huo Yuhao wrapped one arm around Ma Xiaotao's soaked waist while paddling beneath the water with his feet to keep them both afloat.

"Name your terms. When will you remove your Mental Imprint from me?" Held in his arms, Ma Xiaotao's pretty face involuntarily flushed. She had naturally come to Huo Yuhao with a purpose—for the Mental Imprint he had planted in her.

"I'll have to think about that..." Huo Yuhao looked over her curvaceous body and could not help revealing a wicked smile.

Third update! A huge end-of-month burst!