NOVEL NEXT Chapter 36: Selection Begins, First Eliminated
Chapter 36: Selection Begins, First Eliminated
Zhou Yi's unpleasant voice interrupted the others' discussion: "Okay, this time is different from the past. It's an emergency."
"You don't have to worry too much. There won't be any punishment if you lose the trials, because besides you, there are also third-, fourth-, and fifth-year students from the Soul Guidance Department and the Martial Soul Department participating in the competition. As second-year students, you just need to do your best."
"But even so, there are only about thirty people at most, and only seven of them will be selected to participate in a special mission. You guys should show some courage and at least don't be wiped out."
"Okay, you guys go back to the classroom first, study when you need to, attend class when you need to, and don't affect your state."
After hearing this, everyone left Zhou Yi's office.
"Yuhao, what do you think is going on this time? It looks like a big commotion, and it actually affects the second, third, fourth, and fifth grades," Wang Dong said to his external brain.
Huo Yuhao shook his head: "I don't know. Don't think too much about it. Just practice normally. At least we second-year students have the advantage in numbers, right? There are more than 30 people, and we have more than a dozen of them."
At this point, Huo Yuhao also felt it was a little ridiculous. It was no wonder that Shrek Academy lowered the standard for selecting reserve team members to the second grade. After all, apart from the second grade, there might not be many capable students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades.
Compared to the resources originally belonging to the Three Kingdoms in the entire Douluo Continent, for Shrek Academy, the students of these generations can be said to be in a period of transition, and only the fresh blood of the second grade is worth looking forward to.
Of course, Xuanzi's contribution was probably also partly to blame. After all, under his leadership alone, a number of inner court disciples were inexplicably killed in what should have been a relatively safe soul hunting operation.
In the next few days, Huo Yuhao continued to absorb the medicinal power contained in the magic potion and did not do anything else, because he found that as the magic potion was absorbed, his body seemed to be undergoing some subtle changes.
Feeling the energy and blood growing in his body, Huo Yuhao gradually began to try some more dangerous operations.
In the dormitory, Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged, his body immersed in a wooden barrel filled with special potion.
Shrek Academy naturally has a secret training room prepared for its students, which is fully equipped with all kinds of facilities. However, the amount of gold soul coins consumed is not a small number. Even for core disciples, the maximum discount they can get is 50%.
After all, sometimes the training of soul masters involves privacy, which mostly happens among soul masters who have families or sects behind them, and these students naturally don’t care about the small expense of renting a secret room
However, this was still quite painful for Huo Yuhao. However, because Wang Dong seemed to have a need in this regard, he took a leave of absence and left alone to go into seclusion these few days.
Now Huo Yuhao was the only one left in the dormitory, so there was naturally no need to rent any secret room.
These potions were mixed after Huo Yuhao exchanged them at the Chamber of Commerce under the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect in Shrek City these past few days. In addition, he also exchanged them for a sum of gold soul coins for subsequent actions.
Red Blood Vine, Pure Bone Wood, and Cleansing Marrow Grass are all relatively common medicinal herbs that can sharpen the physical strength of low-level soul masters, but they are not very effective for high-level soul masters.
Huo Yuhao needs the help of these herbs to stimulate his body faster in order to digest the medicinal power of the potion.
During this process, Huo Yuhao's body will continue to be damaged due to external stimulation, and then it will be continuously repaired due to the medicinal properties of the magic potion.
The Eye of Truth constantly recorded this process, in order to gain insight into the subtle changes in Huo Yuhao's own body.
Although the body structures of soul masters are roughly the same, there are subtle differences due to differences in their bloodlines, martial souls, growth environments, and training methods.
Huo Yuhao is now trying to filter out these subtle differences, and at the same time, use the process of repairing the inharmonious parts to gradually reshape them according to his own needs.
Seeing that his originally short black hair had grown to his waist, Huo Yuhao controlled his mental power and transformed it into a sharp blade, restoring it to its original state in no time.
"Well, it's a success. Thank you for your help, Mr. Alex. Go and have a rest first." Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief.
Electrolux's old voice was somewhat helpless: "You are such an adventurous person. You directly interfere with the body through energy outside the meridians and acupoints. If you are not careful, you will cause physical damage. What's more, you still have to transform it from the root."
"How can this be easy? You only have so much strength now. Even though you have those magical eyes, you can't act so recklessly."
"Hey, isn't it all right? And it's almost successful, isn't it?" Huo Yuhao was very satisfied when he saw the hair in his true eyes, which was slightly stronger in structure than other people's hair.
By controlling his soul power and the power of qi and blood through mental force, Huo Yuhao tried to strengthen his body, wanting to make its structure more solid and tough.
Of course, Huo Yuhao would not attack those important parts, so the hair was naturally the best choice.
By imitating the spirit structures of the two sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, Huo Yuhao gradually made some changes to his hair. Although it is not as good as a real hair spirit now, it is much stronger than the body of an ordinary spirit master.
This toughness is not due to the addition of qi, blood, and soul power, but a change in the fundamental structure.
If the fundamental structure is the foundation, then the energy of qi, blood and soul power are additional multiplications of this foundation.
Why is it that the physical strength of soul masters of the same level is generally not as good as that of soul beasts? It is because soul beasts far surpass soul masters in terms of basic physical strength. Unless the soul master's own martial soul is strong enough and the transformation of the soul master's foundation is too excellent, it is normal in the Douluo World that the human body is not as good as the beast body.
This was also true even at the level of gods. After all, gods had divine power, so how could divine beasts not have divine power?
Although Huo Yuhao could not say that his body had undergone a qualitative change, since he could transform his hair, it would not be difficult to gradually transform other parts of his body.
As for why it can only be considered a success, it is because Huo Yuhao currently possesses too little energy and blood power.
Relying solely on the power of the magic potion and Huo Yuhao's current soul power, at best he could only achieve the most basic strengthening of unimportant parts like the hair, and it couldn't even reach the level of a martial soul, let alone other parts.
Huo Yuhao's goal is his true martial soul, his true self. By using his true eye as a foundation, he gradually transforms his entire body into a part of his martial soul and strengthens his physical body.
He stood up and simply wiped it a few times. At this time, Huo Yuhao's skin all over his body was light red, and it looked like a baby's skin, delicate and fragile. Because this layer of skin is the new skin that has just grown with the help of the magic potion. As for Huo Yuhao's original skin, it was refined away under the power of the red blood vine.
The originally dark red medicinal liquid had now turned black, and the medicinal power in it had been completely consumed by Huo Yuhao.
"I'm still too poor. If I could do it a hundred times, I should be able to fully absorb the potion's power." After cleaning up and tidying up everything, Huo Yuhao thought with some regret.
But there was no other way. He had to keep some gold soul coins to participate in the auction of the Soul-Devouring Knife and couldn't spend them all on medicinal herbs.
However, Huo Yuhao’s physique has now reached the level of Soul Master, and it won’t be long before Huo Yuhao’s soul power can be upgraded to the next level.
The next day, Wang Yan looked at the students in the audience and said, "The rest of the students can leave get out of class. The core disciples will stay and go to the fighting spirit area with me later."
Because Zhou Yi had notified them in advance, all the core disciples were present in the classroom. Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Dong. In the vision of the Eye of Truth, other parts of Wang Dong’s body were normal, except for his hands, which seemed to have been strengthened a lot.
There is a lot of energy accumulation in it that has not yet been completely absorbed, and the whole body has a light jade color.
'.From the looks of it, are you going to start using a sledgehammer?'
But Wang Dong didn't know what Huo Yuhao was thinking.
As the core disciples followed Wang Yan towards the fighting spirit area, Wang Dong approached Huo Yuhao and said, "I wonder what the format of this selection competition will be like. If we still form teams, should the two of us and Xiao Xiao go together first?"
Huo Yuhao nodded but didn't say much, because this selection competition was held by Xuanzi, and it was not as formal as Wang Dong thought. Whether he could stay or not at that time would depend on fate.
Soon, a dozen formal core disciples from the second grade came to the fighting spirit area under the leadership of their class teacher. At the same time, core disciples from other grades also arrived here one after another.
Seeing Ning Tian, Huo Yuhao nodded politely. After all, he still remembered the agreement he had made with Ning Tian.
At the same time, he also remembered the words that Ning Tian asked the manager to bring to him when they were in the shop under the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. He hoped that he could do his best to help her stand out from the selection this time.
'Maybe she has guessed something? But that's true. After all, there are seven disciples, and the official competition is not far away. There are also age requirements for participants. After a little investigation, anyone with a little bit of brains can figure out what's going on.'
Although the age span this time is quite large, Huo Yuhao thinks that the difference in strength among them is not that big. Except for Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and Cai Tou who are four-ring disciples, most of the other senior disciples are only three-ring disciples.
Among the second-year disciples, there are a mixture of second- and third-ring disciples. If we only look at their strength on paper, the difference in soul power is just like this, not too much.
After everyone was present, an old man came over with a gourd in his left hand and a chicken leg in his right hand. This configuration also revealed his identity. Who else could it be but Xuan Zi?
Xuan Zi said to Wang Yan with drunken eyes: "Little Wang, are all the people here?"
"They are all here. There are 26 core disciples from the second to fifth grades in the Martial Soul Department, but only one person from the Soul Guidance Department has come. According to the information submitted by the Soul Guidance Department, the others have been screened out."
Today's fighting arena has been reserved in advance by Shrek Academy, and the other teachers and students have been cleared out.
Xuan Zi led everyone to the center of the fighting spirit area, then looked at everyone and said, "The content of this core disciple assessment is very simple."
"I call it a mass brawl. Within the fighting spirit area, you can attack as you please. There are no rules. Those who admit defeat or are rescued will be eliminated. The last seven people left will be the winners."
"Alright, teachers, get out of here. Once I say start, you can start fighting."
“Oh my god, that’s impossible.” Wang Dong subconsciously moved closer to Huo Yuhao. At the same time, Xiao Xiao stood beside Huo Yuhao without thinking too much after hearing what he said.
Not far from Huo Yuhao were Ning Tian and Wu Feng. Wu Feng was still a little confused about the situation, but Ning Tian understood it and quickly grabbed Wu Feng's hand and ran towards Huo Yuhao.
Several teachers quickly left the fighting spirit area, and then Xuanzi raised the wine gourd in his hand and shouted, "Begin!"
Afterwards, the man disappeared, and soon thereafter, only twenty-seven core disciples from the outer courtyard were left in the fighting arena.
Huo Yuhao glanced at everyone and first launched a full-strength mental attack at He Caitou.
Don't ask, because asking will only disturb the shit.
Now, the strongest soul master present is only a four-ring soul master, while He Caitou is both a four-ring soul master and a soul master.
The destructive power of soul guides in the early stages is already terrifying, not to mention that He Caitou is a master among them.
But now Huo Yuhao has nothing to do with the only core disciple sent by the Soul Guidance Department. He doesn't want to be hit by a soul guide cannon for no reason, or try to use hidden weapons to PK soul guide devices.
Covering his head, He Caitou did not fall down, but the attack that was originally prepared was interrupted.
The sudden mental shock caused the soul power that He Caitou had originally injected into the soul guide cannon to flow back, and the soul power was a little disordered for a moment.
Looking at the four soul rings under the opponent's feet, a hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of those who were still in a daze.
After all, no one knew that this silent big guy in the Soul Guidance Department was actually a master at the level of a four-ring Soul Master.
Seeing that the other party was covering his head as if he was affected by some kind of soul skill, several core disciples who were quick to react and relatively close would never miss this opportunity. They hurriedly used their martial spirits to possess their bodies and greeted He Caitou.
After all, he was the only one in the Soul Guidance Department among the people present, and he was not very familiar with everyone. Who else should he attack first? As a result, the unlucky He Caitou became the first core disciple to be eliminated, and fell as the target of everyone's criticism.
However, they failed to make any progress in the selection of core disciples, which was probably a big blow to the status of the Soul Guidance Department in Shrek Academy.
(End of this chapter)
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