Huo Yuhao, the Odd One Out

Since this top-tier auction was in the evening, after receiving the invitation and exchanging some subtle words with the auctioneer named Qing Ya, Wang Yan continued to plan his tactics.

During this process, Huo Yuhao raised an objection because he wanted to participate in the individual battle if possible, mainly to make up for his previous defeat.

After all, he never imagined that his Power of Rakshasa would start to stir because of an angel, and eventually go berserk.

However, Wang Yan ultimately rejected Huo Yuhao's suggestion. Putting aside Huo Yuhao's berserk behavior, Huo Yuhao's strength was only at the Soul Elder. Even if he had the ability to fight against Soul Ancestor, he was ultimately not suitable to appear in this kind of individual battle.

Furthermore, Huo Yuhao still has the problem of his Martial Soul going berserk. If he goes berserk again and no one stops him in time, and the referee can't react in time, what will Shrek say if Huo Yuhao accidentally kills his opponent?

It's important to understand that while the competition is quite lenient on accidental killings, none of the participants in this competition are geniuses from the Brother Academy.

Moreover, the academies that can advance to the finals are almost all composed of noble children, and accidentally killing one would still affect Shrek Academy's reputation.

If the opponent is the Sun Moon Royal Academy, Wang Yan wouldn't care too much, and might even support Huo Yuhao in killing, simply because Sun Moon is the enemy.

However, the next Dou Ling Academy belongs to the Dou Ling Empire and is supported by the royal family.

Although the Shrek aren't afraid of causing trouble—after all, there aren't many people who can control their fists—they don't need to provoke just anyone.

Therefore, Wang Yan's plan for Huo Yuhao was to use his Spiritual Detection Sharing to assist the person who entered the fray during individual battles.

However, Huo Yuhao was very dissatisfied with this arrangement and argued that it was no different from cheating.

This angered Wang Yan. "I gave you a chance to make up for your mistakes and fight to preserve Shrek Academy's honor, but you, being so self-righteous, thought it was cheating!"

The so-called Soul Master Tournament is essentially a small-scale war between various countries! Therefore, this Soul Master Tournament is a war, and in war, if you don't use every means to achieve victory, what's the difference between that and courting death?

If it were Huo Yuhao from the original novel who heard this explanation, he would most likely apologize to Wang Yan and then obediently follow Wang Yan's instructions.

However, the current Huo Yuhao is not the same as the one in the original story. Because he has read the notes of Hu Liena, the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall from ten thousand years ago, he has begun to question Shrek's educational methods.

So he immediately retorted that regardless of whether this competition is a substitute for the shocking and dirty one, it is still just a competition at its core! It cannot be generalized!

If Shrek truly needs to resort to such underhanded tactics to achieve victory, then it means that Shrek himself is unworthy of this millennia-old glory!

Huo Yuhao's words shocked everyone present. Those who belonged to Xu Xingyu's faction were relatively calm, at most they were just a little impressed that Huo Yuhao could perceive this.

But to those who value Shrek's glory above all else, these words were extremely grating.

This led to Huo Yuhao not only arguing with Wang Yan, but also with Bei Bei, with whom he used to have a good relationship.

You must understand that Shrek Academy considers itself the pride of the continent's number one academy and is everything to them; they would absolutely not allow anyone to trample on them in the field of education.

And now, a mere student from an Outer Court dares to question Shrek's education and glory accumulated over ten thousand years. In the words of Tang San's ancestor, if it weren't for the fact that you, Huo Yuhao, are still useful to Shrek, you would already be courting death!

In the end, Xu Xingyu spoke up to stop the argument, and his statement that he believed Shrek could win even without Huo Yuhao's secret Spiritual Detection made Wang Yan respect the fact that Huo Yuhao did not want to Spiritual Detection Sharing.

Whether Wang Yan made a compromise due to the Spirit Contract Pagoda behind Xu Xingyu and his own strength remains unknown.

Although Huo Yuhao was grateful that someone spoke up for him, he didn't want that person to be Xu Xingyu, because he didn't want to have any goodwill towards this person who had seized the Tian Meng Origin, his goddess, and who resembled his father.

Moreover, Xu Xingyu's words just now made Huo Yuhao feel somewhat displeased, because didn't that imply that he, Huo Yuhao, was a dispensable person?

Xu Xingyu, aren't you really underestimating me Huo Yuhao?!

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If Xu Xingyu could hear Huo Yuhao's inner thoughts, he would only retort, "You're such a stickler for details! I just helped you get rid of Wang Yan's responsibilities, and you're already acting like this? Do you just love finding loopholes in people's words?"

After that, Wang Yan ended the meeting, and everyone returned to their rooms to prepare for tonight's auction.

Seeing that everyone present was intentionally or unintentionally rejecting his presence, Huo Yuhao began to realize that he was ultimately unable to integrate into this family called Shrek Academy.

He knew that the diary left by Hu Liena wasn't very reliable, and he shouldn't trust its contents too much.

Looking back now, he realizes that he was encouraged by Tang Ya and others to cheat, got caught, and was told he must never do such a thing again. As a result, now the teachers at Shrek Academy want him, Huo Yuhao, to cheat for the Shrek Academy to win whenever they need to.

This contradictory behavior left Huo Yuhao somewhat perplexed. Was he being criticized simply because he was caught cheating?

But isn't this kind of education method a bit too strange?

Just as Huo Yuhao was in a dilemma, a clear, cold voice sounded behind him, "Little Yuhao, are you alright?"

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao immediately turned around and found Ling Luochen looking at him with a worried expression. Huo Yuhao quickly stopped and said, "I'm fine, I was just lost in thought."

Huo Yuhao wasn't particularly surprised that Ling Luochen would suddenly show concern for him, after all, Ling Luochen was one of the few regular team members he could get along with.

He was completely unfamiliar with Ma Xiaotao, who rarely spoke to him. He also had no liking for Dai Yueheng, his half-brother. Jiang Nannan Huo Yuhao indifferent to him as well, and as for Xu Xingyu, there was no need to even approach her.

Now, his interpersonal relationships in the reserve team have been completely ruined because of the incident. Bei Bei and He Caitou Tou have different ideas, Xu Yanxue and Wang Dong'er are both Xu Xingyu's people, Xu Sanshi has been tricked by him several times, and there's also Xiao Xiao, whom he almost killed when he went berserk.

Therefore, Ling Luochen might be the only person Huo Yuhao can still call a friend.