The results came quickly. The match in Area Sixty-Six was ruled a draw, and both sides advanced together.
Huo Yuhao of the Death Fire Sea Team had been too ruthless, deliberately injuring an academy student whose soul power had been depleted. However, considering that Xie Huanyue, an Inner Academy student, had already been assigned to the team, the academy chose this compromise to save itself from embarrassment, assigning Gou Luanshi's team to another competition area for reassessment.
Huo Yuhao had expected this long ago. As long as he did not directly kill his opponent, their team, which had Xie Huanyue, would never be eliminated over it.
In truth, neither Huo Yuhao nor Cui Yajie was any less talented than Xie Huanyue. It was merely that Xie Huanyue's martial soul awakening had alerted the academy, exposing him too early and making it impossible for him to hide his abilities.
After obtaining his third soul ring, Huo Yuhao's soul power had directly reached Rank Thirty-Nine. Only his Soul Power Compression Degree had dropped from Rank Nine to Rank Six. Once he completed his fourth soul ring, he could instantly become a Soul Ancestor.
This left Xie Huanyue, who understood him best, immensely envious. Others cultivated one rank at a time. Even soul masters blessed with tremendous fortune could only skip three or four ranks at once. Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, either did not advance at all or shot up ten ranks at a time.
After the supervising teacher registered the result, he glanced once more at Huo Yuhao and the others as they departed. *This group is probably Class Nine's trump card. The students Teacher Mujin taught really are interesting. However, Xie Huanyue likely won't be able to take the field for a while in the coming matches. Perhaps I'll