Douluo: Starting by Taking Control of the Holy Ghost Cult's Saintess

After Huo Yuhao dealt with Ma Xiaotao, he went straight back to the classroom for his lessons. Three months had passed, and apart from the exception of Huo Yuhao, everyone else had made considerable progress.

Not including Huo Yuhao's small team, there was even another student in Class Nine who had broken through to level thirty, becoming an official Soul Elder expert and also the class president. From this, one could see that Mu Jin's teaching level was indeed much higher than that of the teachers in other classes.

Mu Jin never blindly made the entire class undergo physical training. Instead, she maximized the development of their strengths.

In this era where soul tools were about to be recognized and accepted by soul masters, the most correct development path was to continuously enhance the inherent strengths of soul masters and use soul tools to compensate for their weaknesses.

In the near future, large-scale warfare would be the main theme of this continent. The balance of an individual's abilities could not dominate a war.

For example, for the auxiliary and food-type soul masters who were always well-protected by the army, rather than training their physical fitness and willpower, it was better to further optimize their roles on the battlefield. It's always said that the enemy won't spare you just because you're a non-combat type soul master. Well, thinking about it from another angle, if my main force and the guards protecting the rear are all surviving well because of my support, on what basis can you get close to and kill me? It's good enough that I don't turn around and crush you.

With the development of the times, individual heroism will eventually become history. This is also the trend of technological productivity iteration. Every time Mu Jin talked about these theories, Huo Yuhao, who usually disliked listening to lectures, would also involuntarily listen attentively and express his own views.

Therefore, Huo Yuhao became the student that Mu Jin loved the most and hated the most.

Because his spiritual power was far superior to his peers, even when his mind was wandering during class, Huo Yuhao could still use his spiritual power to collect the theories Mu Jin taught and absorb them as his own knowledge. This also led to the existence of a strange anomaly like Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao, who had never seriously listened through a single class, could get a full score in almost all the written theory exams. And the few points he lost were often due to his personal different views from the teacher.

In contrast was Xie Huanyue, the only Soul Ancestor among the new students. Although Xie Huanyue listened attentively most of the time, his theoretical knowledge assessment was a complete mess. The knowledge taught one second, he would turn around and forget it the next, and then he would start reminiscing about last night's barbecue...

"Today's special skills training class is suspended," Mu Jin stood behind the podium, her exquisite face still wearing a serene and beautiful look. As long as it was her class, almost all the male students sat up straight, and not a single one was willing to look away.

"Three months have passed since the beginning of the school year. You will now face your first assessment since entering Shrek Academy. Only by passing the assessment can you officially become first-year students and truly become members of Shrek Academy. If nothing unexpected happens, you will be able to continue cultivating in the academy at least until the first-year final exams. The assessment will begin tomorrow. Today, I will first explain the key points of the assessment to you."

Mu Jin's voice was as calm as ever. Her gaze swept over the one hundred and one students below, and she was quite satisfied in her heart. The quality of this batch of students might not be much stronger than previous students, but after these three months of teaching, their future development potential would definitely not be worse than that of any other class of students.

"Team battles. That's right, the new student assessment is about fighting. And it's a battle that everyone must participate in. I know that among you tool soul masters, especially the auxiliary and food-type tool soul masters, you will find it strange. Why do you also have to participate in battle? I'm not wrong. You do indeed have to appear on the battlefield, just like battle soul masters. Although Shrek Academy cultivates comprehensive talents, the most important thing is still the ability on the battlefield. On the first day of school, I said that with the appearance of soul tools, the classification of soul masters has become blurred. Even if you are an auxiliary or food-type tool soul master, you can still burst forth with powerful combat strength with the help of soul tools. However, where does your combat instinct come from? Do you think any soul master can just be given a soul tool and foolishly go onto the battlefield and survive? Of course not. Combat ability must come from combat. Therefore, all of you must undergo the combat assessment."

"Of course, the academy will never let auxiliary-type tool soul masters compete with power-attack type battle soul masters. That would be unfair to you. Therefore, the new student assessment will be conducted in the form of team battles. But the number of people will not be too large. The final decision for this year's team battle scale is three people per team. This is a higher standard for your age group to be able to produce a certain degree of cooperation. When forming teams, the requirement is that there can be at most one power-attack type battle soul master. The other two team members can be configured freely. First, students in the same dormitory will be considered as one team. The rest will be freely formed by you. Those who fail to form a team freely will be decided by drawing lots."

"The new student assessment will be conducted uniformly throughout the entire year. Since the number of students in our academy has been considerable these years, this time, a total of nearly three hundred groups of students will participate in the new student assessment, but only half of them will be able to stay. That is, the top one hundred and fifty groups. This ranking is based on the points you get from your combat matches."

"The competition will be conducted by drawing lots. Each group of students must fight at least ten battles. The final ranking will be based on the number of wins. Among them, the top sixty-four teams will enter a knockout tournament, and the top four teams in the knockout tournament will have different rewards. The reward for the champion team will be extremely rare."

Every student was listening with rapt attention. For them, the new student assessment was the key to whether they could stay. Once eliminated, they could only go back and choose a second-tier academy, and they would probably never be able to become a top-tier expert on the Douluo Continent. They had already worked hard for three months, and no one wanted to be eliminated at this time.

Mu Jin looked around at the seats and said, "Our class currently has one hundred and one students, which can be divided into thirty-three groups, with a surplus of two. Tomorrow morning, I will report this upwards. I hope you can make your own arrangements tonight, otherwise you will be directly ordered to withdraw from the school for missing this assessment."

"As for the two extra people, through communication with other classes, a new classmate will be transferred to our class soon, so no one needs to worry about being the two who lack teammates."

Listening to Mu Jin's extremely democratic decision, the new students who already played together in small groups immediately gathered together and began to form their own small teams without violating the requirements.

Compared to the dictatorial arrangements of Zhou Yi in Class One in the original novel, perhaps the three people put together could complement each other in terms of ability, but precisely because of their unfamiliarity with each other or some private conflicts, it would instead easily lead to internal team problems during the assessment.

Ning Tian and the other two girls had long agreed to form a team together. Huo Yuhao, on his side, also had his own arrangements.

In the entire class, only Xie Huanyue and Huo Yuhao had not received any team invitations. Over these three months, at the beginning, some people had tried to recruit the former due to his soul power level, but perhaps because he had awakened the Sun God Ape martial soul, Xie Huanyue's personality became more and more unruly. He was very unreliable and even caused trouble in some situations without any explanation, completely ruining his reputation with others.

As for Huo Yuhao, his playboy image had already made him the public enemy of all the male students.

Soon, the bell for the end of class rang.

"Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, you two stay behind. The rest of you are dismissed!" Mu Jin terminated the crowd's discussion and announced the end of class.

Xie Huanyue was mystified. He followed behind Huo Yuhao with a listless look. He was so hungry his chest was sticking to his back.

Mu Jin looked at Huo Yuhao among the two who had stayed behind and said with a smile, "I've poached the person for you. As for how you plan to handle it, that will be up to you."

Huo Yuhao's eyes lit up. After three continuous months of persuasion from Mu Jin, the person he wanted had finally agreed to transfer to Class Nine.

Just then, a beautiful figure entered the classroom doorway and bowed slightly to Mu Jin on the podium. "Hello, Teacher Mu."

It was a girl with long pink hair. Her pretty face had a pitiful look, and she was born with a natural seductive charm. Who knows what kind of femme fatale she would be when she grew up?

"You are Huo Yuhao?" the girl turned to look at the certain Huo person who was showing a wicked smile at the side, her pretty face carrying a trace of faint scrutiny.