Freshman Assessment

After getting themselves into a good state, Xu Xingyu and the other two began their practice.

They first played several practice matches to better understand each other's abilities, and then used the collected combat data to plan the tactics they would need to use.

Over the next few days, Xu Xingyu and the other two would immediately start practicing after class, repeating this pattern, which made them become more and more in sync.

When the freshman assessment began a few days later, it can only be said that Xu Xingyu's team overcame all obstacles and resolved any competition quickly and effortlessly.

Basically, in the round-robin tournament for freshmen assessment, Jiang Haoyue played the forward and tank role, Xu Yanxue played the main attacker role, and Xu Xingyu was responsible for commanding and finishing off opponents.

It's a very simple arrangement, but also very practical.

At the same time, this plan allows Xu Xingyu to slack off without feeling guilty, and allows Xu Yanxue and Jiang Haoyue to properly demonstrate their value in this exam.

The only trouble Xu Xingyu's team encountered was probably the slight difficulty they faced during their battle against Xie Huanyue's team.

After all, the opponent's Rubber Elephant Martial Soul has amazing defensive power, and even a higher-level Soul Ancestor would not find it easy to break through its defense.

This resulted in Jiang Haoyue, this half-baked Tyrant Dragon, failing to break through the opponent's defenses with almost a single attack.

Xu Xingyu had originally planned to take matters into her own hands and defeat Xie Huanyue in that battle, but fortunately, Xu Yanxue found a way to break the deadlock.

She used a method that broke through the barrier to condense all her Soul Power into a giant ice sword and stabbed it at Xie Huanyue.

Seeing the ice sword coming straight at him, Xie Huanyue could feel a powerful ice attribute spreading in the air, making it clear that he couldn't possibly block this attack.

All he could do was dodge the attack as quickly as possible, but just as he was about to escape Xu Xingyu's second Soul Skill Purple Tenuity Star God Barrier, trapped him.

Ultimately, the referee saved Xie Huanyue at the crucial moment, because if Xie Huanyue had taken that blow head-on, he would have been either dead or seriously injured.

As for why Xu Yanxue used such force, it was mainly because at the beginning of the competition, Xie Huanyue couldn't help but tease Xu Yanxue a few times because she was pretty.

Xu Xingyu originally wanted to teach Xie Huanyue a lesson himself, but after seeing Xu Yanxue's cold smile, he respected her wishes and let Xu Yanxue handle it herself.

After all, she has a history of this kind of thing, so she has plenty of ways to deal with it (in the original work, Titan Snow Demon King once confessed his love and proposed to Snow Empress, but was beaten half to death by Snow Empress, and was only spared when Snow Empress was on the verge of death because Snow Empress had the blood of the Ice God).

After this incident, Xie Huanyue felt a lingering fear, and from then on, she would always take a detour whenever she saw Xu Yanxue, for fear that the other party still held a grudge.

However, Xie Huanyue should feel fortunate in some ways, because Xu Yanxue deliberately did not use her Ultimate Ice and Snow attribute during the freshman assessment in order to avoid causing too much trouble.

Otherwise, Xie Huanyue would have to experience firsthand what it feels like to have a ball at minus 198 degrees Celsius.

Xu Xingyu's only real worry right now is the situation with Wang Dong'er's team.

On the night that Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao competed for the team captaincy, Wang Dong'er told Xu Xingyu she had won against Huo Yuhao and become the captain of her team.

However, for some reason, even though Wang Dong'er became the captain, Huo Yuhao Wang Dong'er n't really trust her and often acted at his own pace.

Take the recent round-robin tournament for freshmen as an example. There were many times when Wang Dong'er and her teammate Xiao Xiao were able to defeat their opponents on their own, but for some reason, Huo Yuhao would launch Soul Shock at these times and knock them unconscious.

Several times, they made unplanned moves, disrupting their well-arranged rhythm and nearly giving the opponent an opening to end the game.

In gaming terms, it's like you and your teammates are messing around, but your teammates, in order to show off, disregard the original plan and randomly unleash skills.

Perhaps they ultimately won, but it took more time and consumed more energy.

Simply put, there's someone in the team who likes to cause trouble and mess things up.

Therefore, Wang Dong'er would have a big argument with Huo Yuhao after every match, but Huo Yuhao would always ignore it.

As the conflict between Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao deepened, Wang Dong'er's team also became increasingly disharmonious.

It's like a powder keg about to be lit; it'll explode at the slightest touch.

Fortunately, not everyone in the team was as disobedient as Huo Yuhao. Xiao Xiao basically did whatever Wang Dong'er said.

Although she admired Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection, she couldn't bring herself to like him because Huo Yuhao always seemed to like showing off.

However, Huo Yuhao was also under tremendous pressure.

Normally, Huo Yuhao would listen carefully to Wang Dong'er, the team leader, for the sake of ultimate victory, even though she belonged to Xu Xingyu, who had a grudge against Tian Meng.

But don't forget that last time in the Soul Fighting Zone, he helped Bei Bei and Tang Ya cheat to defeat Xu Sanshi and Dugu Yanran, and the academy teachers found out about it!

At that time, he received a warning from the academy, which told Huo Yuhao that if he wanted to stay at the Shrek Academy, he had to be among the top four in the freshman assessment team.

At the same time, you should demonstrate your value and make the most of your strengths during regular exams.

Only in this way will the academy consider allowing Huo Yuhao to continue staying at the Shrek Academy.

In normal circumstances, Huo Yuhao's act of assisting in cheating should have resulted in his immediate expulsion. However, the person he assisted, Bei Bei, is the great-grandson of the current Sea God Pavilion Master, while Tang Ya is from the Tang Sect, which has a strong connection with the Shrek Academy.

In addition, Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection ability was the reason why the academy gave Huo Yuhao this opportunity.

However, according to Wang Dong'er's arrangement for Huo Yuhao, in the eyes of outsiders, he is no different from someone who takes advantage of the chaos!

Wang Dong'er's plan for Huo Yuhao was to use Spiritual Detection to assist her and Xiao Xiao, and then appropriately use his Spiritual Power to harass the enemy.

It can be said to be a very reasonable arrangement.

The problem is that Huo Yuhao's Soul Skill are all of the Mental Attribute, so to detect Huo Yuhao's actions, one needs to use Spiritual Power to check.

If you use your Soul Power, you can at most vaguely sense that Huo Yuhao seems to be probing something.

Most of the teachers who made the evaluations used their Soul Power to probe the situation on the field, and they were completely unaware of Huo Yuhao's contributions in the competition!

This is why Huo Yuhao openly defied Wang Dong'er's orders to attack the opponent, turning himself from a hidden trump card into an open one.

Indeed, after Huo Yuhao's numerous performances, many teachers noticed the strength of Huo Yuhao Spiritual Power and the powerful way he used it, which earned him a lot of attention from the teachers.

However, as mentioned before, Huo Yuhao's relationship with his teammates also deteriorated as a result.

However, in Huo Yuhao's eyes, they were ultimately just classmates, and he wouldn't have much interaction with them in the future, so he didn't take the issue to heart at all. And this situation has continued until now. This made Xu Xingyu sigh helplessly. He really couldn't understand why Huo Yuhao, the protagonist of the original work, would become such a person.

To say that he's always been this kind of person is a bit of an exaggeration. After all, Huo Yuhao should be a very reasonable person, the kind of person who puts aside his own discomfort for the sake of victory and achieves it in the best way. This kind of fighting style that completely disregards his teammates is completely unlike the Huo Yuhao in the original work.

Could it be that I've become too reliant on the original work, leading me to view the character through biased lenses and preventing me from seeing their true self?

Or is it because I only skimmed through the second part of the story, which prevented me from fully understanding what kind of person Huo Yuhao is?

After some thought, Xu Xingyu gave up searching for the answer and began preparing for the remaining matches.

Perhaps the next few battles will be as easy as the previous Douluo I, but who knows when there might be a moment when I need to step in?