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

The results came out quickly. The match in Area Sixty-Six was judged a draw for both sides, and both advanced together.

Huo Yuhao of Team Shi-Hi-Kai, for being too ruthless and deliberately injuring a student whose soul power was exhausted, was considered for punishment. However, taking into account that the team included Xie Huanyue, a pre-approved inner court student, the academy chose a self-contradictory compromise, assigning Gou Luanshi's team to another competition zone for reassessment.

Huo Yuhao had long anticipated this. As long as he didn't directly kill his opponent, their team, possessing Xie Huanyue, would never be eliminated for such a reason.

But in reality, neither Huo Yuhao nor Cui Yejie was inferior to Xie Huanyue in terms of talent. It was just that Xie Huanyue had been discovered prematurely due to his martial soul awakening startling the academy, making it impossible for him to hide his skills.

After obtaining his third soul ring, Huo Yuhao's soul power had also directly reached level thirty-nine. The only change was that his soul power compression density had decreased from level nine to level six. Once his fourth soul ring was completed, he could instantly become a Soul Ancestor.

This made Xie Huanyue, who knew him best, extremely envious. Others cultivated level by level. Even some soul masters with great fortune would only jump three or four levels at a time. Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, either didn't level up, or when he did, he soared by ten levels at a time.

After the supervising teacher registered the match results, he once again glanced at the departing Huo Yuhao and his companion, thinking to himself, This group is probably Class Nine's trump card. The students taught by Teacher Mu Jin are really interesting! However, in the upcoming matches, Xie Huanyue may be unable to compete for a short time. Perhaps I will have a chance to see the strength of the other two.

And at the same time on the other side, Wang Dong's team also smoothly defeated their opponent and gained the appreciation of Wang Yan. Because this time Wang Dong's team did not include Huo Yuhao, he instead became interested in Cao Jinxuan's Time Elapsing Clock martial soul.

The time attribute was always the most bizarre and the rarest.

Wang Yan was a representative of the theoretical and moderate faction of Shrek Academy. His theoretical foundation was solid, and his teaching ability was very strong. He was already over forty years old and was a top-tier senior teacher in the outer court.

After their assessment, Wang Dong's team of three did not leave but watched the other two matches from the sidelines. It wasn't until all three matches were over that they bid farewell to Wang Yan and left.

Wang Yan did not call them over for questioning either. He believed that in the next few matches, he would definitely be able to see the full abilities of Wang Dong's team of three.

The first round of the new student assessment ended quickly. The first day of the academy's assessment was mainly to let the new students adapt to this combat-style assessment method. Therefore, the density of the assessment tomorrow would be greatly increased, with two rounds in the morning and two in the afternoon, for a total of four rounds. And the third day was even more terrifying; each team had to undergo five rounds of assessment. The entire new student assessment would only last for three days.

On the afternoon when all the assessments ended, the participating teams that had won and were ableto enter the next round of competition all received a piece of news at the same time—Xie Huanyue had suffered a heavy blow and was in a coma!

The only four-ring Soul Ancestor among all the new students would be unable to participate in battle for at least a day!

This bombshell news was undoubtedly great news for all the new students. How easy it was for a four-ring to face three one or two-ring opponents could be seen from the battle situation of Gou Luanshi's team. If he hadn't illegally used a soul tool, he would have inevitably ended up being beaten away by Xie Huanyue.

Similarly, Gou Luanshi, the new student who had heavily injured Xie Huanyue, also attracted the attention of many participating teams. Many people worshipped him as a god, and some saw him as a threat greater than Xie Huanyue.

Gou Luanshi himself did not yet know that he had become famous. He was currently lying in the outer court's infirmary, being treated for his wounds by a healing-type teacher. The cut from Huo Yuhao was too deep. If Gou Luanshi's bones weren't hard, his sternum would probably have been split open.

The intense pain made Gou Luanshi curse Huo Yuhao's relatives countless times in his heart. He vowed to use all means in the future to make Huo Yuhao's name stink for ten thousand years to avenge this one cut. It was hard to imagine that at only twelve years old, his mind could be so malicious.

Rather than caring about a mad dog that he didn't even look at straight, Huo Yuhao instead attributed the problem more to his own carelessness. Don't be fooled by the fact that his last cut had nearly finished off Gou Luanshi. A discerning person could see that Gou Luanshi was already at the end of his rope. Having allowed his teammate to be harmed due to his own excessive carelessness, he had clearly attracted many strange looks.

Huo Yuhao was, after all, an ordinary person's soul. After gaining great power, he would become complacent and get carried away. Faced with disdainful gazes, he would feel uncomfortable and blame himself.

At night, by the shore of Sea God Lake.

Huo Yuhao sat alone on the guardrail, staring blankly at the vast starry sky, silent.

"Are you just going to immerse yourself in guilt like this?" Bibi Dong's voice came at the right time. "Huo Yuhao, don't let this Empress look down on you."

"If this is all the extent you have, even if you know everything in advance and have enough resources, you are not Tang San's opponent."

"Sorry, I was overthinking things," Huo Yuhao showed an apologetic, bitter smile. Since coming to the academy, he had begun to feel that he was omnipotent, especially after obtaining his third soul skill. The thought that he would no longer face life-threatening danger on the Douluo plane had made him invisibly much more arrogant.

"I am a person who is afraid of loss. I dare not imagine what it would feel like to lose the people and things I cherish again in this life. So, I am also afraid. In my two lives, I haven't had many brothers. Fatty counts as one."

"So you're worried that one day you will lose more, more important people?" Bibi Dong asked back coldly.

"Yes. This feeling is very unpleasant. After all, this isn't even the official stage yet, just a small academy," Huo Yuhao admitted.

"I don't want to lose Fatty, I don't want to lose Zhongli Yu, and I don't want to lose Xiaotao either."

Huo Yuhao lowered his head, stared at his own hands, and said in a hoarse voice, "Most importantly, I can't be without you."

The moment his voice fell, a pulling force arose, and his consciousness was suddenly pulled into the spiritual sea by Bibi Dong.

This time, returning to his own spiritual sea, Huo Yuhao subconsciously widened his eyes.

He was standing in mid-air. Below him was a vast ocean. Of the great Pontiff's Hall, only a few towering buildings were still barely supported above the water's surface. A torrential downpour was falling, making his wisp of divine sense feel like a small boat, incomparably tiny.

Seeing this apocalyptic scene, Huo Yuhao opened his mouth but couldn't say a word. At his side, Bibi Dong's beautiful body slowly appeared.

"Yuhao, whenever you are sad or lost, it will rain in this place. A monstrous flood will drown everything here," Bibi Dong said with her hands behind her back, neither comforting nor scolding him.

"I don't like the rain, because the rain always makes people who are trapped in a cage think of sad things. That suffocating feeling makes it impossible to breathe, until you are drowned."

"Whenever you are in a bad mood, I, Tianmeng, and Old Yi will all lose our footing in this spiritual world of yours. We will see no hope and also feel despair."

"Because we have bet everything on you."

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao was deeply moved. His lips trembled slightly. Looking at the person before him who was drenched by the rain, he couldn't say a word for a long time.

"You said you can't be without us. We can't be without you either," Bibi Dong looked at him seriously. At this moment, this tragic woman demonstrated to him what strength was.

Because she had been rained on before, she was not afraid of the rain. She was willing to use her own gentleness to hold an umbrella for this youth who had brought her hope.

Huo Yuhao's eyes grew moist. He pulled Bibi Dong's delicate body over and fiercely embraced her. The Power of HaoDong instantly connected and activated, clearing a patch of sunny sky in this rainy world.

The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Electrolux silently poked their heads out of the water, thinking to themselves, Your Majesty, if you hadn't added that word "we," that boy Yuhao would probably have been even more moved.

...

When Huo Yuhao withdrew from his own world of consciousness, he happened to see a fiery red figure flying towards him from a distance. It was none other than Ma Xiaotao, who had rushed over upon hearing the news.

"Yuhao!"

Ma Xiaotao flew to his side in a few breaths and asked with an anxious face, "I heard from your companions that a teammate was injured and fell into a coma in today's first assessment?"

Huo Yuhao nodded. He didn't expect that Ma Xiaotao would be the first to find him here.

"Are you okay? I heard your mood isn't very good..." Ma Xiaotao carefully sized up Huo Yuhao and asked.

"I'm fine. This situation won't happen again next time," Huo Yuhao smiled and shook his head at her.

Ma Xiaotao suddenly felt that the youth before her seemed to have changed a lot. All the youthfulness had faded, and his whole person had become much more mature, and even more attractive.

"Then..." Ma Xiaotao's pretty face suddenly turned bright red. "Are you going back to your residence tonight?"

Huo Yuhao was at a loss for whether to laugh or cry. For the next few days, he had to maintain his best condition to deal with the assessment. He didn't want Cui Yejie to become the second Xie Huanyue. So he slightly shook his head at Ma Xiaotao. "When I have won a great victory, I will go and report the good news to you."

"Oh, alright then," Ma Xiaotao replied with a sense of loss, but was grabbed by the hands by Huo Yuhao.

"Thank you for caring about me," Huo Yuhao placed her hands in his own palm and held them as if they were a precious treasure.

"Who... who cares about you?" Ma Xiaotao's face was flushed. She quickly turned her head away and said with a coquettish huff.

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Author's Note: Our male protagonist is actually just an ordinary person's soul, not some god, great emperor, or immortal king. I think writing it this way will make some things more realistic, and the protagonist's mentality will also grow in an otherworldly way. Subsequently, let us accompany the Yuhao of this life as he grows up, breaks the original shackles of this character, and lives the life he wants for himself.