Candidates for the Ultimate Soldier
After everyone finished their exams, Huo Yuhao was questioned by his homeroom teachers Wang Yan and Zhou Yi, about his Second Martial Soul.
After learning the whole story that Huo Yuhao had fabricated, Zhou Yi immediately took him to the Soul Tool Department to tell her husband the good news.
Fan Yu was overjoyed to learn that his disciple had become so powerful and told Huo Yuhao that he was now qualified to compete for the position of Ultimate Soldier.
Fan Yu had originally planned to recommend Huo Yuhao as a candidate for training as Ultimate Soldier, mainly because his first Soul Skill, the Spiritual Detection ability, was simply too overpowered.
However, Huo Yuhao was too weak at that time. With He Caitou and Xu Yanxue as the two candidates, there was no need to consider Huo Yuhao. Therefore, Qian Duoduo rejected Fan Yu's suggestion.
However, it's not a problem for Huo Yuhao to compete with Xu Yanxue now. As for He Caitou, although He Caitou strength far surpasses Huo Yuhao's, his compatibility with the Ultimate Soldier is not high.
Their Soul Tool Department is now considering whether to train He Caitou into a powder keg for Ultimate Soldier, while Xu Yanxue has been selected as the main candidate for training Ultimate Soldier.
This inevitably disappointed Fan Yu, since in his opinion Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection ability was the most needed reconnaissance ability in the Ultimate Soldier Plan.
At the same time, the fact that his students failed to become candidates for the Ultimate Soldier means that it will be even more difficult for him to obtain the position of Vice Dean of the Soul Tool Department.
Although Fan Yu is ostensibly the most likely candidate to become the vice dean of the Soul Tool Department, who knows when Vice Dean Qian Duoduo will be willing to step down?
Indeed, for Qian Duoduo, the position of vice dean of the Soul Tool Department is dispensable, after all, he is one of the core members of the Sea God Pavilion, but that does not mean that he can easily give up this position to someone else.
Because those who obtain the position of vice dean of the Soul Tool Department will also be granted the qualifications of members of the Sea God Pavilion, and the Sea God Pavilion can be said to be the gathering place of the academy's high-level officials, so important decisions about Shrek's future are made by the Sea God Pavilion.
Therefore, to obtain the membership of the Sea God Pavilion, one needs to make a great contribution to the academy, and turning one's disciple into the primary candidate for Ultimate Soldier is Fan Yu's greatest pledge of loyalty.
Of course, Fan Yu himself has little interest in power, and sees it purely as a responsibility that must be borne by those in high positions. The reason he wants to enter the Sea God Pavilion is that he can obtain more resources in this way.
Furthermore, the Soul Tool Department will have more say in the Sea God Pavilion in the future, which can be seen as a step towards enabling the academy to accept Soul Tool in the future.
Fortunately, Xu Yanxue was personally recommended by Qian Duoduo, so her position as the most powerful vice dean at Fan Yu remains unshaken.
The qualitative leap that Huo Yuhao has made makes Fan Yu very happy, because Huo Yuhao is now definitely a candidate for the Ultimate Soldier.
It's not just because he has the same Ultimate Ice attribute as Xu Yanxue, but also because his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul provides him with the Spiritual Detection Soul Skill and Simulation Soul Skill. These two Soul Skill can be said to have been created specifically for the Ultimate Soldier Plan.
After a moment of excitement, Fan Yu immediately informed Qian Duoduo about Huo Yuhao's situation, and Qian Duoduo personally verified Huo Yuhao's abilities.
After several tests, Qian Duoduo admitted that Huo Yuhao was the most suitable candidate for the Ultimate Soldier Plan. However, the problem was that Qian Duoduo could not immediately give Huo Yuhao the position in the Ultimate Soldier Plan.
Firstly, Xu Yanxue, another candidate for the Ultimate Soldier Plan, is also very suitable. She has a wider range of knowledge about Soul Tool than Huo Yuhao and even most of the high-ranking members of the Soul Tool Department at Shrek, and her manufacturing ability is no weaker than Huo Yuhao's.
Furthermore, the academy had just begun to improve its relationship with the Spirit Contract Pagoda behind Xu Yanxue, and then it turned around and removed one of their key talents from the previously agreed-upon plan, replacing him with someone else. Doesn't that seem a bit inappropriate?
Therefore, Qian Duoduo did not directly announce Huo Yuhao as the final candidate for the Ultimate Soldier, but instead designated him as Ultimate Soldier candidate, just like Xu Yanxue.
Afterwards, he went to his wife, Xian Lin'er, who was also the dean of the Soul Tool Department, to discuss the selection of the Ultimate Soldier. In the end, they decided to let the two of them compete. Whoever could pass the three tests set by their Soul Tool Department would get the position of Ultimate Soldier.
If both pass, then their total scores will be compared.
As for the specific exam questions, they still need to discuss them. Once the exam is set, they will be notified of the exam time. Until then, both of them can focus on their cultivation.
Huo Yuhao and Xu Yanxue had no objection to this arrangement, after all, it was the most direct way to prove that they were the most suitable for Ultimate Soldier.
Moreover, they all had absolute confidence in their ability to win, and they had reasons why they absolutely had to win.
Huo Yuhao, needless to say, wanted more cultivation resources to become stronger, so that taking revenge on the Duke's Mansion in the future wouldn't be a problem.
Xu Yanxue's attitude towards the Ultimate Soldier Plan was actually one of striving for it if possible, and letting it go if not. So she didn't really care if Qian Duoduo directly replaced her.
The reason she stayed in the Soul Tool Department was simply to find a place where she could safely create Soul Tool and obtain the rare metals she needed.
Now that the Spirit Contract Pagoda in Shrek City has been completed, she can leave the Soul Tool Department and continue learning about Soul Tool there if she wants, since the technology of the Spirit Contract Pagoda itself far surpasses that of Shrek.
For Xu Yanxue, Shrek's Soul Tool Department teachings were basically meaningless except for reviewing past knowledge and winning over Shrek's higher-ups to expand her network.
Xu Yanxue's competition with Huo Yuhao for the position of Ultimate Soldier was mainly due to personal grudges.
As mentioned before, Xu Yanxue met with Ice Empress during the holiday and learned about Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao. She also learned that these two bastards almost killed her good sister for his so-called second Martial Soul Awakening!
Xu Yanxue already disliked anyone hunting down her people in the Far North, and this time she actually attacked her good sister. I can only say that I will not rest until I teach her an unforgettable lesson!
However, what puzzled Xu Yanxue was why she could sense a divine aura on Huo Yuhao, and it was the aura of a deity comparable to the Ice God.
Could it be that Huo Yuhao has become a successor to God Position? If so, it's quite normal for him to escape from the encirclement of numerous Soul Beast in the Far North. But if that's the case, his aura is far too weak!
To give an example, Xu Xingyu and Wang Dong'er possessed very strong divine auras, Xu Yanxue could tell at a glance that they were related to gods based on the connection between their God Position.
However, Huo Yuhao's aura was extremely weak; Xu Yanxue would not have been able to detect it at all unless she was in close proximity.
There are just too many mysteries surrounding Huo Yuhao right now. Hopefully, this competition will help us uncover the secrets surrounding Huo Yuhao, and hopefully, he won't push his limits again. Otherwise, it'll be questionable whether he'll even survive after this.