NOVEL NEXT Chapter 25 On the Eve of Holiday
Chapter 25 On the Eve of Holiday
In the remaining semester after the official division of classes, Huo Yuhao's cultivation began to gradually get on track. Apart from daily chores and unavoidable classes, Huo Yuhao spent almost all his time in the Fighting Spirit Arena of Shrek Academy.
Because although only students in the second year and above can participate in the Shrek Academy's fighting spirit arena competition, first-year students cannot enter and freely challenge or challenge others to actual competition.
However, the spectator seats are open to students of all grades equally, but they need to pay a certain amount of gold soul coins as the viewing fee.
Huo Yuhao can directly use his status as a core disciple to waive this part of the fee.
As core disciples, there are only a few of them in each class.
With this identity, Huo Yuhao can enjoy a series of free nourishing foods in Shrek Academy, such as the flesh and blood of low-level soul beasts and materials, or exchange for some training equipment and seek special guidance from teachers.
There are also some additional privileges. For example, the college will award a certain amount of scholarships to students every month. Although the amount of the scholarships is not large, it can be regarded as an encouragement.
At the same time, some fixed facilities within the academy, such as the Fighting Spirit Arena and the Colosseum, can be entered and exited freely or entered in advance by students with the status of core students, without having to pay tickets or make reservations.
In general, having the identity of a core disciple is quite convenient in Shrek Academy. Anyway, because his original body had already been targeted by Buddha Tang, Huo Yuhao didn’t care so much anymore. After all, what he could get in his hands was his.
For eight months, Huo Yuhao spent every day in the Fighting Spirit Arena and did not participate in the actual battles. Of course, due to the regulations, Huo Yuhao himself could not participate in the battles in the Fighting Spirit Arena.
However, most students in all grades knew about Huo Yuhao. After all, Huo Yuhao was the only idle person who would hang out in the fighting arena after school. Moreover, he would just watch but not fight or participate in betting, so he still attracted a lot of attention.
And through the nourishment and nutrition of the soul beast's flesh and blood, combined with his own improved martial arts skills, with the help of the continuous circulation of soul power.
Huo Yuhao's original body, which was thin and short due to malnutrition, has now been successfully recovered. With sufficient nutrition and energy, he has even surpassed most of his peers.
After all, most people don't have the ability to use soul power to open up the meridians throughout the body, and nourish the body through the soul power circulation that becomes one with the body and forms a self-contained cycle, 24 hours a day.
With the widening and stabilization of his meridians, Huo Yuhao's talent for cultivation has also been greatly enhanced. Coupled with the existence of the soul power circuit, Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed is now no less efficient than those soul masters who possess martial soul fusion skills.
After all, even the so-called Mysterious Water Pill, which is said to be able to speed up the soul master's cultivation, is actually just reducing the impurities in the soul master's body by cleansing the essence and marrow, so as to achieve a smoother, more efficient and faster circulation of soul power.
After all his meridians were opened, Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed had already completely gotten rid of the disadvantages brought about by the first-level innate soul power due to his congenital physical defects.
Of course, during this period Huo Yuhao still found time to go to the city to pawn his fifth-level soul guide, the White Tiger Dagger. With the funds from the pawning and the help of Beibei, he exchanged it for a Mysterious Water Pill from Xu Sanshi.
Although Huo Yuhao no longer needs the so-called Mysterious Water Pill to assist him in his cultivation, he still needs to find a suitable reason and excuse for his cultivation speed.
With his current speed of cultivation, it is no longer possible to conceal it by simply relying on the Mysterious Heaven Skill itself and the wonders of his own martial soul, so he still needs some elixirs to cover it up. As for whether other people will feel suspicious, at least he has a reason to shirk it.
Of course, Huo Yuhao himself would not take the Mysterious Water Pill, because there was no need for it, and all medicines are poisonous. Huo Yuhao was not sure whether there were any other hidden dangers in the unsystematic pills on Douluo Continent.
Even though he didn't eat it, he could still use it for research. Through the analysis of the Eye of Truth, Huo Yuhao easily figured out the ingredients and effect principles of the Mysterious Water Pill.
By working backwards to figure out the method of refining the Mysterious Water Pill, and taking a peek at the Douluo Continent's native medicine system, Huo Yuhao could then go elsewhere to find an opportunity to sell the Mysterious Water Pill. This would mean he could make a profit.
Although the Mysterious Water Pill is a unique elixir of the Xuanming Sect and is extremely precious, it is only worth a fortune. Every year, many of them are sold in major auctions on the mainland, but the output is very rare.
As for why the White Tiger Dagger was only pawned instead of sold, it was because in Shrek City, all the shops, big and small, were actually considered properties of Shrek Academy.
Huo Yuhao’s status as a core disciple can be checked by some soul master-related industries, such as auction houses or pawn shops.
Therefore, considering his status as a core disciple, the people in the pawn shop gave Huo Yuhao a considerable discount. In fact, the White Tiger Dagger was only mortgaged in the pawn shop. As long as Huo Yuhao could collect the principal and interest later, he could still get it back.
However, whether Huo Yuhao will go to retrieve it is another matter.
Now, Huo Yuhao's soul power has been measured through the observation of the Eye of Truth, and his soul power is about the twenty-three level.
You have to know that this was achieved solely through the custodial cultivation of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, and he had not yet used the Soul Ascension Pill, or through the cultivation of the fusion of martial souls with Wang Dong to reach the 23rd level. The speed at which Huo Yuhao improved his soul power cultivation was already quite astonishing.
And with the subsequent practice, Huo Yuhao's practice speed will only get faster and faster.
Because soul power runs through the entire body, completing the soul power circulation is only the first step. As the soul power circulates more smoothly, the meridians that the soul power relies on will become stronger and stronger, and at the same time more suitable for the circulation of soul power.
Moreover, the level of the soul power circuit constructed by Huo Yuhao will become higher and higher, and the effect will become better and better.
At least before level 70, Huo Yuhao believed that his cultivation speed would only be faster than that of a soul master of the same level with full innate soul power, but not slower than a soul master of the same level with full innate soul power.
It is really hard to say what will happen next. After all, the next step after the meridians are opened is to condense the soul core. However, the soul core is definitely not something that can be touched at present. Therefore, how to transition before condensing the soul core is something that Huo Yuhao needs to continue studying.
After watching another boring fight offstage, Huo Yuhao stretched, stood up and prepared to leave.
Huo Yuhao had been in the Soul Fighting Arena for several months. He had already figured out the structure of the martial souls, the body organization, and even the soul power flow routes and soul skill composition of most of the soul masters participating in the Soul Fighting Arena through the Eye of Truth.
This also includes some soul masters who just watch but do not personally participate in the battle.
After all, although they did not use soul skills, the soul skills themselves were integrated into their martial souls in the form of soul rings. By seeing through their martial souls, Huo Yuhao spent a little effort to "dismantle" their soul skills.
However, Huo Yuhao certainly did not have much expectations for the students in this fighting arena. After all, it was almost the end of the semester.
Most of the students are preparing for what to do after the holidays, so naturally they have no intention of staying in the academy to participate in the spirit fighting arena. Now, only some familiar faces can be seen in the spirit fighting arena.
Whether it was their physical skills or their self-created soul skills, they had already been recorded by Huo Yuhao, so it was difficult to innovate.
"Yuhao, why are you here alone again, watching fighting spirits every day, aren't you bored?"
Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong's voices were heard. They were carrying bags full of delicious food and snacks. It was obvious that they had just returned from visiting the snack street outside Shrek Academy.
Wang Dong naturally handed the snack in his hand to Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao took it and took a few bites. He said, "Even the slightest change in tactics may open up new directions and possibilities. How can I say that coming here to find inspiration is boring?"
As they were all in the same team for the freshman assessment, and they joined the Tang Sect together, the friendship between Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong became closer during these eight months.
"Yuhao, you are now level 20. Have you submitted a soul hunting application to Director Du? What is your target soul beast?" Wang Dong asked curiously.
"I submitted it two days ago, but because it's close to the end of the semester, Director Du assigned me to the final soul hunting team."
"It depends on luck. Currently, the ones that have been decided include the Phantom Eyed Sky Moth, whose innate soul skill is a spiritual illusion, or the Big Headed Spirit Ape, which has soul skills such as spiritual amplification and concentration. For the first few soul skills, I am more optimistic about the amplification type of soul skills."
“After all, soul beasts with spiritual attributes are extremely rare. If I were to come across a suitable one, I probably wouldn’t be too picky.” Huo Yuhao shrugged and said nonchalantly.
For him, the choice of soul skills is actually not that important, because from the beginning he did not think of relying on the soul master's nine soul skills, which are at most a Titled Douluo, to form his own combat system.
In the early stage, before you have the ability to condense your own soul ring, or before you are qualified to display the technology of condensing your own soul ring, you can follow the power of the laws of Douluo Star and randomly select a few soul rings of soul beasts with spiritual attributes that are not too outrageous to break through.
For Huo Yuhao, as long as his mental power and soul power are sufficient, he can freely create various soul power circuits and construct a skill system suitable for different battles through the analysis of soul skills and soul guide core formations.
So if I have to say, the spirit rings and spirit skills attached to the original martial soul would be more suitable for Huo Yuhao himself if they were amplification type rather than functional type spirit skills.
Hearing this, Wang Dong nodded: "But the second year's entrance examination is a real battle. If you choose the amplification type for your second soul skill, is it really okay?"
Huo Yuhao shook his head: "If you choose your future just for the sake of exams, then you are putting the cart before the horse. Exams can only be regarded as a confirmation of your own path."
"If you already have a clear plan for your future, you shouldn't use so-called exams to constrain yourself or even change your direction."
"Everyone knows that the later a soul master's training progresses, the more effective the attack and defense soul skills that come with the Hundred Year Soul Ring and Thousand Year Soul Ring will be, and they will even start to become useless."
"On the contrary, the amplification soul skills that have little effect and are not very functional in the early stage may shine. After all, the soul skills themselves will also be strengthened to a certain extent as the user's soul power increases."
"As for offensive and defensive spirit skills, Soul Saints, Soul Douluo, and Titled Douluo often have better alternatives among the ten thousand year spirit skills in their hands, so naturally they will not waste their spirit power to use those low-level spirit skills."
"But the amplification soul skills are different. As time goes by, every bit of amplification can greatly widen the gap in strength between soul masters."
"And all we have to pay for this is a relatively weak transition period in the early stage. Now with the advent of soul guides, think carefully about it. Is it really necessary to choose a century- or thousand-year-level attack or defense soul skill in order to pursue instant combat power?"
"Wouldn't it be good to spend a little money to buy a decent quality soul guide to equip myself as a transition?"
"Although the acquisition of soul skills depends on luck to a certain extent, the source of the soul beast produced can also determine the soul skills obtained by the soul master. This can be proved by a lot of data.
"That's my opinion anyway. It's getting late. Why don't we go home early, or do you want to go out for dinner?"
"The holidays are coming up soon, and we have to separate. Anyway, I know what the entrance exam for the second semester will be like. No matter what, it shouldn't be a problem to pass it."
“Come on, come on, of course we have to go out to eat! It’s almost holiday time, and this time you, Huo Yuhao, must treat us!” Wang Dong’s eyes lit up, and he quickly pushed Huo Yuhao out of Shrek Academy.
Xiao Xiao also hurriedly caught up and walked side by side with them.
"Finally I get the chance to slaughter you. Wahahahaha, I'm going to eat my fill this time!"
"Wang Dong, you never eat as much as Yu Hao. Yu Hao is a head taller than you now. How dare you say that?"
"What are you talking about! I just didn't show my strength before."
As the sun sets, the figures of the three people gradually move away towards the brightly lit streets of Shrek City.
Today, the three of them, including Huo Yuhao, are only about twelve-year-old boys and girls. The carefree years of youth only last for a few years, and if they are not careful, they will be gone in a flash.
But now, the three of them are cherishing the hard-earned youthful years and the pure friendship between each other.
(End of this chapter)
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