NOVEL WEB Chapter 59: Chapter 62: Harem on Fire
"Then... I'll head back first," Huo Yuhao reluctantly let go of Ma Xiaotao's hand and said softly.
Ma Xiaotao's red lips parted slightly, as if she wanted to say something to make him stay. She knew how important the upcoming new student assessment was for Huo Yuhao and his team, so it was better to let him prepare for it these few days.
Watching Huo Yuhao's retreating back, Ma Xiaotao couldn't help but stomp her foot, her face flushing red. "Ma Xiaotao, how can you be so shameless?"
Ever since her martial soul had evolved into the Sinful Desire Demonic Phoenix, Ma Xiaotao had been restraining her emotions. It wasn't until the night she and Huo Yuhao truly underwent their transformation that the affection she had suppressed for a whole year finally erupted uncontrollably—
When Huo Yuhao returned to the villa of Ning Tian and the other two girls, it was already late at night. As he was thinking about how to get back to the second floor without disturbing them, he was blocked at the main door by the three of them.
"What are you all doing?" Huo Yuhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had clearly only been gone for one night.
"No way! Without you to hug, this old lady can't sleep!" Wu Feng rushed over with shocking words and grabbed his arm. Suddenly, she stopped, her shapely brows furrowed tightly. She leaned down and sniffed Huo Yuhao.
"You have the scent of another woman on you?"
"What did you say?" Hearing this, Ning Tian and Nanmen Yun'er's expressions immediately became incomparably shocked and angry. Even the gentle and virtuous Nanmen Yun'er had a face full of resentment. Is it true that the wild flower is more fragrant than the flower at home?
After spending several months together, it was impossible for Huo Yuhao not to have noticed the three girls' gradually warming feelings for him. It was just that he felt the four of them hadn't reached that step yet. On one hand, Shrek Academy had too many requirements for new students; on the other hand, the three girls were still too young, so he just let their feelings take their own course.
"And it's not the scent of that vixen!" Wu Feng said with certainty.
"My god, are you a dog?" Huo Yuhao was speechless. He picked Wu Feng up by the waist and, ignoring her struggles, said, "All of you, stop messing around. Go back to sleep and cultivate."
"Bastard! Did you go out and cheat?" Wu Feng attacked Huo Yuhao, flailing her arms and legs.
Huo Yuhao's intimate behavior with Wu Feng had always made Ning Tian and the other girl jealous. There was nothing they could do about it. Who could blame the fiery-tempered Wu Feng for getting there first? The two of them hadn't even been kissed by him yet...
"Sigh, when the harem is on fire, the fish in the pond get affected," Huo Yuhao couldn't help but let out a shameless sigh. If other boys heard this, would they be able to resist the urge to kill him?
In terms of luck with women, Huo Yuhao had never disappointed.
Through chatting, he learned that Ning Tian's team had also easily passed the first round of the assessment. After all, the three of them being three-ring Soul Elders were not to be trifled with. As long as they didn't face Huo Yuhao's team, the Wang Dong team he had mentioned, or the Dai Huabin team too early, there was no possibility of them losing.
After a quick wash-up, Huo Yuhao continued from the land of softness into the land of dreams.
When the new student assessment began the next day, all the students belonging to New Student Class One had already begun to thank their Teacher Zhou Yi from the bottom of their hearts. Four matches a day for all new students was not just a matter of soul power consumption; the physical stamina consumption was also extremely severe. And after Zhou Yi's devilish special training, New Student Class One's ability to accept this kind of competition system was clearly much stronger than that of other classes.
As for the students of Class Nine taught by Mu Jin, each of them fully displayed their own strengths, and the teams cooperated with each other, also achieving excellent results. Their consumption was not much higher than that of the students of Class One.
Without the deterrence of the four-ring Xie Huanyue, Huo Yuhao and Cui Yejie were not thought highly of by most people at first. With the help of the simulation soul skill, Cui Yejie was still at the previously known two-ring Soul Grandmaster level, and Huo Yuhao was even only one-ring.
However, unexpectedly, even with one person missing, Team Shi-Hi-Kai still won match after match "with difficulty," relying on their astonishing combat power.
Therefore, the remaining two members of Team Shi-Hi-Kai were gradually "figured out" by other teams of similar levels—
Huo Yuhao, a one-ring agility-attack type soul master carrying a pig-butchering knife, defeated his opponents with the help of the charm soul skill of the two-ring Nine-Tailed Fox Soul Grandmaster, Cui Yejie. Cui Yejie's second soul skill was the Fox Tail Needle she shot out when Huo Yuhao was in crisis.
Many teams believed that as long as they broke through their only control-type, Cui Yejie, Team Shi-Hi-Kai would have no chance of turning the tables.
In short, they had to eliminate Team Shi-Hi-Kai before the four-ring Xie Huanyue returned!
On the other side, after a day of competition and observation, Wang Dong's team had already confirmed that among the thirty-three groups, there were indeed no opponents who could pose a threat to them. Besides them, there were only a few new students above level twenty.
Under the academy's dense competition system, the other groups of new students were not stupid either. In order to achieve better results, when facing Wang Dong's team, they would directly make a symbolic move and then raise the flag to surrender.
As a result, in complete contrast to the exhaustion of the other new student teams, Wang Dong's team of three easily won all four of their matches on the second day, thus achieving a fine record of five wins out of five. With this result as a foundation, they could basically say they had already passed the new student assessment. Moreover, these five victories had also made them even more arrogant.
As the assessment teacher for Area Thirty-Three, Wang Yan became even more curious. A full five matches had passed, and the combat style of Wang Dong's team was mostly the same: Wang Dong would make a move, and Cao Jinxuan and Xiao Xiao would watch the show, or Xiao Xiao would make a move, and Wang Dong and Cao Jinxuan would watch, and the battle would end in a short time. He still hadn't been able to see what Cao Jinxuan's time ability was, which made him, a theory-stream teacher, feel a bit frustrated.
However, he was not annoyed. After the last match today, he called the three of them over.
"You three little ones are very good. You have achieved an excellent result of five wins in the first five matches. You can continue to work hard in the following matches and strive to enter the top sixty-four to participate in the ranking tournament. However, tomorrow's five matches will definitely not be as easy as today's. After today, there will be a new draw. The teams with five losses will be directly eliminated. And during the draw, besides considering that teams from the same class won't collide, the previous battle records will also be taken into account. Your match location tomorrow will definitely still be in Area Thirty-Three, but it is very likely that you will encounter one or two powerful teams."
Wang Dong nodded and said, "Thank you, sir. We will continue to work hard."
Seeing this, Wang Yan smiled faintly and said, "Then get some rest early. As long as you don't run into Dai Huabin's team, I believe you will definitely not lose."
Walking on the road back to the dormitory, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but worry, "It seems everyone thinks that Dai Huabin's team is the strongest among the new student teams. If we keep winning, we'll have to face them sooner or later."
"What's there to be afraid of? So what if he's three-ring? Wasn't that four-ring taken down by a two-ring?" Wang Dong said with disdain. He had originally considered Xie Huanyue as his final imaginary opponent, but he never expected him to be abused by a two-ring at the very beginning.
"In that case, the final opponents we can foresee are only down to two groups?" Cao Jinxuan touched his chin and analyzed.
Yes, setting aside the already crippled Team Shi-Hi-Kai, the current big favorites to win the championship were Ning Tian's team of three all-three-ring soul masters, and Dai Huabin's team, which possessed the martial soul fusion skill, the Nether White Tiger.
"How about this? I'll find a way to deal with that troublesome martial soul fusion skill," Cao Jinxuan suddenly showed a strange smile. "As long as they don't perform the martial soul fusion, their team really only has the level thirty-seven Dai Huabin worth looking at."
"What way do you have?" Xiao Xiao tilted her head, a look of cute confusion on her face. "Isn't it relying on your soul skill, Time Slow?"
"That's a secret, naturally," Cao Jinxuan said with a mysterious smile.
The highly anticipated Dai Huabin team, due to the changes in the world line, was already completely different from the one in the original novel.
First was Dai Huabin himself. A year ago, he had fortunately escaped disaster by going out to train with his father and brother. The Duchess was the biological mother of both brothers, yet she had perished in the explosion without a trace of her body left.
When Dai Hao learned of this, he immediately fainted. Afterward, he even invited several Titled Douluo to investigate the cause. They unintentionally discovered several complete corpses in the ruins, with no residual soul left on them.
Evil soul masters!
This was the unanimous opinion of the several Titled Douluo. After all, the slaughter the White Tiger Duke had caused on the battlefield was not a small number. It was not impossible for evil soul masters to use resentful spirits to sneak attack the Duke's Mansion.
Since then, Dai Huabin had become a different person. The fierce hostility emanating from his entire body became even heavier. After coming to Shrek, he had been cultivating diligently, and as of today, three months later, he had already reached level forty!
Yes, he was the second, unknown Soul Ancestor-level expert among this year's new students. It was just that he hadn't had time to add the fourth soul ring to his martial soul.
So he didn't put Xie Huanyue in his eyes at all. Even if the latter's soul rings were of a higher quality, it was only because their team possessed the invincible martial soul fusion skill among the new students!
His fiancée, Zhu Lu, was also influenced by him and had successfully advanced to Soul Elder half a month ago. She was now a genuine three-ring expert.
And the last person in the team, due to the transfer of Cui Yejie from the same class, had been replaced by another two-ring auxiliary-type Soul Grandmaster from the class, a soul master with the Nineheart Begonia martial soul, which was not inferior to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda—Ye Linlin.
And today, after they had participated in the five matches of the second round, their guiding teacher from Class Five personally led the team to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for Dai Huabin's fourth soul ring.
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Author's Note: As I have said before, from the moment the male protagonist blew up the Duke's Mansion, the world line has changed. In the future, there will be more things that are beyond the male protagonist's expectations. Writing a fanfiction also requires paying attention to cause and effect. If you rewrite the original world line, then the cause and effect will also have their retribution on you.