Chapter 48: Chapter 51: Do You Want to Become an Immortal?
"You are Huo Yuhao?" The young girl seemed somewhat resentful about the class transfer. "If you can't do what you said you would, I will apply to be transferred back."
As Huo Yuhao's playboy antics gradually spread among the new student circles, his reputation was now in tatters. Almost all the girls kept their distance from him.
"Cui Yejie, is it?" Huo Yuhao paced back and forth in front of her with his hands behind his back. "Do you think you have a sure victory by following that White Tiger from Class Five?"
"Hmph!" The girl named Cui Yejie snorted coldly. "Young Master Dai's aptitude crushes all the new students. Will I be stronger following you than following him?"
Clap, clap, clap!
"Well said!" Huo Yuhao clapped his hands with a smile. The most important thing in a negotiation is not to lose your momentum. "Fatty, activate your martial soul!"
Xie Huanyue had the best relationship with Huo Yuhao and immediately understood his meaning. Four pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul rings instantly rose from under his feet, slowly moving in rhythm around him.
Yes, along with the third awakening of Xie Huanyue's martial soul, his original soul rings had all evolved to the ten-thousand-year level. After three months of cultivation, he had even leapfrogged to level forty-five. In terms of soul power level alone, he was the true number one among the new students.
Unlike Xie Huanyue, the three white soul rings that rose from under Huo Yuhao's feet on the other side looked somewhat like a crane standing among chickens. It even made Cui Yejie suspect that Huo Yuhao had gotten into Shrek Academy through a back door.
"You have three rings? Why are they still ten-year soul rings?" Mu Jin was also taken aback by the number of soul rings Huo Yuhao displayed. She was at once angry and amused. It seemed this Huo Yuhao didn't play by the rules and had a particular fondness for those simple and unadorned ten-year soul rings.
Xie Huanyue knew about the special nature of Huo Yuhao's soul rings. In his view, they were very likely not ten-year soul rings at all. It was just that, limited by his own mind, he was too lazy to delve deeper into what year his soul rings actually were.
Cui Yejie was shocked speechless. After all, no matter how top-tier her martial soul was, she was currently still just a two-ring Soul Grandmaster.
One with four rings, one with three. Although the one with three was a bit comical, it was undeniable that this was already a top-tier configuration in the new student assessment!
However, even so, Young Master Dai's side still had the trump card of a martial soul fusion skill...
Just as Cui Yejie was thinking this, Huo Yuhao spoke up with a smile, "Cui Yejie, if you want to awaken your martial soul a second time, then honestly follow me. Don't think about how much benefit that White Tiger can bring you."
"Huo Yuhao, on what basis can you fight against Young Master Dai? Even if you have a four-ring teammate..." Cui Yejie was about to bring up Dai Huabin's trump card to scold him but worried that she would reveal the existence of the martial soul fusion skill, so she timely shut her mouth.
"A martial soul fusion skill with the explosive power comparable to a five-ring Soul King, right? The same style as that pair from the original Shrek Seven Devils from ten thousand years ago, the Nether White Tiger," Huo Yuhao naturally knew about this martial soul fusion skill. It was also the most classic fusion skill in the original Douluo novels, running through the plots of Douluo I to Douluo III.
"Since you already know, then I advise you to give up," Cui Yejie glanced at Xie Huanyue beside him. "A single four-ring is not enough capital for you to fight against Young Master Dai."
"Oh? Is that so?" Huo Yuhao knew that if he didn't show some real skill, it would probably be difficult to gain the recognition of this supporting character from the original novel.
An ultimate spiritual pressure that not even Mu Jin had ever felt before, with Huo Yuhao as the center, swept out in all directions.
At this moment, Cui Yejie only felt that she was facing a humanoid ferocious beast, opening its bloody maw at her, suffocating her.
Mu Jin and Cui Yejie both collapsed to the ground. Under this terrifying spiritual pressure, everyone lost their normal ability to think.
"This... this is..."
Looking at the two who had collapsed on the ground, Huo Yuhao calmly retracted his spiritual power, a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened just now.
Is this Huo Yuhao's true strength? On the surface, Mu Jin was as calm as water, but in reality, a stormy sea was raging in her heart. This spiritual realm, even those prodigies in the inner court couldn't compare!
Xie Huanyue also hadn't expected Huo Yuhao's spiritual power to be this strong. But he was big-hearted, and plus, Huo Yuhao was his own brother, so he was actually the calmest one.
"Do you still think... that little cat still has a chance to use his martial soul fusion skill in front of me?"
Facing Huo Yuhao's light and breezy question, Cui Yejie's face turned pale. Yes, at the moment of martial soul fusion, because the two fusing parties had to completely relax their minds to merge with each other, their spiritual immunity was at its lowest. As long as a guy with abnormal spiritual power like Huo Yuhao didn't want them to fuse, they would absolutely be unable to use their martial soul fusion skill.
"I admit, you've moved me," Cui Yejie took a deep breath. She was by no means a pedantic person. On the contrary, with her Nine-Tailed Fox martial soul, she was very smart and knew how to assess a situation.
"From today on, I am your companion."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao didn't waste any words. He smiled at her and extended a hand. "Welcome to Class Nine," not minding Cui Yejie's previous doubts about them in the slightest.
It was human nature to gravitate towards power. Cui Yejie was just an eleven or twelve-year-old girl. Huo Yuhao believed that as long as she stayed by his side, her mentality could be completely transformed through subtle influence.
"Then, let's go," Huo Yuhao shook her hand, and at the same time, didn't forget to turn his head and ask Mu Jin for a leave of absence. The assessment registration was tomorrow. The promise to help Cui Yejie was something he had to complete this afternoon.
Watching the three of them leave, Mu Jin's face was excited, her heart surging. With Huo Yuhao and Xie Huanyue, she was even confident that her class could win the championship in the new student assessment!
In fact, what she didn't know was that ever since Xie Huanyue had awakened his martial soul and come to Class Nine, Huo Yuhao had never paid any mind to the new student assessment.
Even excluding Xie Huanyue and Cui Yejie, after Huo Yuhao broke through to three rings and obtained that ability, he himself could use a single spiritual shock skill to defeat most teams, and even sweep all the teams. After all, even in the original novel, the gap between Huo Yuhao's spiritual power and that of normal genius students of the same age was too huge.
The three of them went to the cafeteria for a quick lunch. Cui Yejie was still shocked by Xie Huanyue's appetite. Then, she was led out of the school gate by Huo Yuhao, and they walked east, winding their way to a dense forest. It was none other than the place where Huo Yuhao had first met the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
Here, the shed skin that the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had buried underground beforehand could very well conceal their aura.
Cui Yejie was mystified. This area was a region where soul beasts roamed. A four-ring, a three-ring, plus her, a two-ring, was not a big deal in front of soul beasts.
"This is the place," Huo Yuhao looked around, scanned the area with his Spiritual Detection, and after confirming that there was nothing threatening, he said with a smile.
"You're going to help me have a second martial soul awakening here?" Cui Yejie asked curiously.
Yes, the condition Huo Yuhao had offered Cui Yejie was to help her have a second awakening of her Nine-Tailed Fox martial soul for free. Although the Nine-Tailed Fox was already a top-tier beast martial soul, it was still a bit lacking in front of those divine beast-type martial souls.
After all, among the future Shrek Seven Devils of the original novel, besides the male and female protagonists and a tool-rabbit, the others were either a Golden Holy Dragon, a Golden Xuanwu, or had twin top-tier tool martial souls. Even the only soul tool master could be said to be a war-type food-system genius.
If Huo Yuhao wanted to build his own small team base, then he had to first let his companions surpass the future Seven Devils of this generation in terms of martial soul quality.
Xie Huanyue's abnormal divine-level phantasmal beast martial soul was out of the question. Ning Tian, after another year or so of being washed by life energy, could evolve into the legendary Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. How Nanmen Yun'er's Jadeite Green Sparrow martial soul could be transformed into a Jadeite Demon Bird, he and Bibi Dong were still thinking of a way. As for Wu Feng's Red Dragon martial soul, it itself carried some ancient dragon clan bloodline, so there was a chance for it to further surpass the Golden Holy Dragon in the future.
"Yes, right here," Huo Yuhao sat down cross-legged with the two of them and had the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm connect to the shed skin underground, instantly isolating the aura of a half-kilometer radius.
"Cui Yejie, do you want to become an immortal?" Seeing that all was ready, Huo Yuhao asked.
"An immortal?" Cui Yejie felt that her brain wasn't enough to process this. On this continent, there were only soul masters and gods. She had never heard of the concept of an immortal.
"That's right. Immortals cultivate by devouring the essence of the sun and moon, and the spiritual qi of heaven and earth. They use natural energy to bless themselves. With a raise of their hand, they can burn mountains and boil seas, roaming freely between heaven and earth."
Isn't that referring to a god? Cui Yejie couldn't help but complain in her heart.
"The Nine-Tailed Fox is born a darling of nature. As an ancient exotic beast, it is extremely sensitive to natural energy. What I am going to do today is to help you complete the transformation of your martial soul with the help of natural energy."
"At that time, you will be able to freely control a certain amount of natural energy. Connecting it to your Nine-Tailed Fox martial soul's awakening ability, I will call it—"
"Sage Fox Mode!"