Douluo: Crossing the Yuhao Star Palace Master

Chapter 65 The Sword Must Be Held in One’s Own Hand (3,000 words)

After the award ceremony, the students were divided into classes. According to Shrek’s tradition, there were four classes in each grade.

The strong attack and control departments are combined into one class, the defense and agility attack departments are divided into class two, the auxiliary department combat soul masters are divided into class three, and finally the other special types of combat soul masters and weapon soul masters including the food department and healing department are combined into class four.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao, as control specialists, and Wang Dong, as offensive specialists, were naturally assigned to Class 1. Core disciples Dai Huabin, Cao Jinxuan, Zhou Sichen, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, and Wu Feng were also assigned to Class 1.

Xie Huanyue, as a defense type, and Zhu Lu, as an agility type, naturally had to go to Class 2, while Ning Tian, ​​who was an auxiliary type, went to Class 3.

As for why Shrek insisted on this division, no one really knew. It had been the same for Shrek's external academy for six years. While the content of the Agility Attack and Defense Departments was largely similar, and the spirit ring acquisition and team positioning were different, this was Shrek's teaching arrangement.

It can only be said that the rise of geniuses often depends only on the investment of resources and one's own efforts. The teacher's teaching can only play the role of increasing knowledge and popularizing common sense, right?
After all, not every teacher is a theoretical person and has enough profound knowledge to answer students' questions.
Next came the introductions to the homeroom teachers of each class. After the class division, the academy employed a principal and deputy homeroom teacher to manage the students. Due to Zhou Yi's previous suspension, the teachers for Huo Yuhao's class became Wang Yan and Mu Jin, the former homeroom teacher of Freshman Class 9.

"Alright, everyone, return to the teaching building under the guidance of your class teachers according to the latest class division. Huo Yuhao, the three of you come with me to receive your rewards," Yan Shaozhe announced.

Huo Yuhao and the other two followed Yan Shaozhe to the teacher's office area behind the senior teaching building. Yan Shaozhe's office was actually in the inner courtyard; he had only prepared a temporary office for himself in the outer courtyard. This office was located on the top floor of the teacher's office area, right next to Du Weilun's office.

The decoration inside the temporary office is very simple, with only a few bookcases, a set of tea tables and chairs for entertaining guests, and a desk.

Yan Shaozhe pointed to the tea chairs and said with a smile, "You little ones, just sit here. The three of you performed very well in this freshman assessment, especially Huo Yuhao. If I'm not mistaken, you should have arranged the battle arrangements for Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, right?"

Huo Yuhao nodded without saying anything, but gently lit up the only yellow soul ring among the three soul rings that appeared under his feet.

"Dean Yan, please don't deliberately reject my spiritual power."

Yan Shaozhe was stunned for a moment, then he lowered his mental defense line according to Huo Yuhao's instructions.

The next moment, the entire office, along with the corridor and the scene outside the window, emerged in his mind. A 360-degree, comprehensive view of everything within his reach was organized and categorized, transforming it into information that was transmitted into his mind. Yan Shaozhe felt as if he had an external brain. Everything around him suddenly became clear and visible.

Yan Shaozhe took several slow breaths, the shock in his eyes not diminishing at all. With such skills, he was simply a natural-born spirit master commander! The result of the compromise just yesterday at the Sea God Pavilion meeting made Yan Shaozhe particularly want to regret it!

"Yuhao, I've wanted to ask you this before. Why are you so obsessed with learning soul guides? Both your original spirit, the Spirit Eyes, and your other ultimate ice spirit are powerful enough on their own. Do you really have enough energy?"

Huo Yuhao looked at Yan Shaozhe's undisguised serious expression with some surprise. He was silent for a moment, gathering his thoughts, and replied, "Dean Yan, I'm used to preparing for the worst-case scenario in everything I do. Therefore, my life motto has always been that what others have is not as good as what I have. The sword must be in my own hands."

"In my opinion, this sword, in today's era, represents soul-guiding technology. If I don't master it, my enemies in the future will gain control of it, and it will threaten the safety of me and those around me. So even if I can truly achieve great accomplishments in martial spirits, I can't sit idly by and watch someone else master this sword while I turn a blind eye."

"Because of this, and also because I happen to have some talent in soul guides, I must hold the sword firmly in my own hands."

Yan Shaozhe stared blankly at the young man in front of him, as if meeting him for the first time. No wonder Xian Lin'er said that he was quite talented in understanding soul guides. Was that really the case?
Yan Shaozhe sighed softly and said, "Yesterday we held a meeting to discuss your future development direction. We in the traditional martial soul department all hoped that you would put aside your soul guides and focus on cultivating your martial soul. But in the end, the martial soul department and the soul guide department each made a concession. Before the third year, you will be able to study both departments concurrently, and then it will be up to you to decide. Now it seems that this result should be very wise, right?"

A meeting at Poseidon Pavilion?

Huo Yuhao guessed it immediately. He now understood Yan Shaozhe's intention. Was he still trying to get me to give up my soul guide? "I'm really sorry, but I don't intend to give up on either side."

Huo Yuhao bowed slightly to Yan Shaozhe and said, "Thank you for your concern, Dean. I am very satisfied with the academy's arrangement. Huo Yuhao is very grateful for the academy's dedicated training."

Yan Shaozhe smiled and said nothing more. A ruby ​​ring on his right hand flashed, and a leather bag appeared in his hand.

This skin bag seemed to be a soul guide device. There were faint dark patterns on the brown surface. Huo Yuhao looked carefully and could clearly feel the subtle fluctuations of soul power on it.

Yan Shaozhe glanced at Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, whom he had just ignored, and said gently, "Children, considering that you have defeated three Soul Master teams in succession and won the championship with a perfect record, the Academy Education Committee discussed it internally and finally decided to make an exception and give you this award."

"Although there's only one, and you'll need to decide how to distribute it, this is the most precious prize the academy has given out during the freshman assessment in at least three hundred years. Open it and take a look." As he spoke, he handed the leather bag to Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao took it and untied the rope with a relaxed look.

A ball of yellow light emerged from the skin without warning, and slowly hung in the air under the surprised gaze of Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.

It was a small, palm-sized piece of left leg bone, emitting a pale yellowish glow. Rich soul energy emanated from it, thickening the air throughout the office.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao's expressions suddenly changed with shock. They had never expected that the academy would actually give out a soul bone as a reward. You know, the value of a soul bone far exceeds that of a soul ring.

All soul beasts will produce soul rings after death, but the chance of producing soul bones is one in ten thousand. Only high-level soul beasts have a greater chance of producing soul bones after death, and only a soul beast that has lived for 100,000 years can consistently produce a soul bone.

Any spirit master would likely fight over a spirit bone, or even become enemies, because the improvement it brings to a spirit master is too direct. Not to mention the spirit skills provided besides the spirit ring, just the improvement in spirit power and physical fitness through absorbing the spirit bone is enough for any spirit master to refuse.

It is conceivable how incredible it is that Shrek Academy has produced such a treasure this time.

However, Huo Yuhao had no interest in this thing at all. Putting aside his two exceptionally beast-grade torso bones and Ice Phoenix wings, his left metacarpal bone alone was more than enough to outdo the decent, but somewhat useless, left leg bone in front of him.

Huo Yuhao didn't hesitate at all and handed it to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. "Divide it between you two. This soul bone doesn't match my attributes."

Wang Dong immediately followed Huo Yuhao's instructions and pushed the soul bone to Xiao Xiao. "I don't want to help either. I'll give it to you, Xiao Xiao."

Yan Shaozhe was stunned. "I gave you soul bones, didn't I? Why did you pass it on to Xiaoxiao so quickly? If Xiaoxiao refuses again, you three will sell the soul bones for the money and split it equally, right?"

Xiao Xiao was dumbfounded. Why didn't these two guys show any reluctance? This is a soul bone! Please respect the soul bone for me, okay?
"You two, are you sure you're going to give it to me like this? Yuhao is the one who put in the most effort!"

Huo Yuhao looked nonchalant. "If it doesn't fit, then it doesn't fit. If you don't want it, then we can ask Dean Yan to get us something else."

Wang Dong rolled his eyes at Huo Yuhao and said, "Is there anything more precious than a spirit bone? Xiaoxiao, you take it. We'll have our turn next time."

Xiao Xiao took a deep breath, looked at his two teammates carefully, nodded slightly, put the soul bone into the leather bag, and put it into his storage soul guide.

Yan Shaozhe looked at the three children in front of him with satisfaction and nodded.

"Okay, you've finished your division, go back to the classroom and go to class."

Huo Yuhao and the other two respectfully bid farewell to Yan Shaozhe and were about to leave the office when Yan Shaozhe suddenly remembered that he had something important to tell Huo Yuhao.

"Wait a minute! Huo Yuhao!"

Huo Yuhao and the other two were startled by Yan Shaozhe's shout. They turned around and looked at Yan Shaozhe in confusion.

"Yuhao, I have something to ask of you."

Huo Yuhao vaguely remembered something, but remained calm and asked, "Dean Yan, is there anything I can help you with? Please just say it."

Yan Shaozhe walked up to Huo Yuhao with a solemn expression and patted his shoulders. "You should remember the person in red from earlier. That was my disciple Ma Xiaotao. Her martial spirit cultivation requires the help of your ultimate ice spirit power. So, if it's convenient, I'll have her come to you tonight."

Huo Yuhao suddenly felt two pairs of eyes staring at him from behind. He knew without hesitation that they were Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, but since Yan Shaozhe had said so, could he still refuse?
"Dean Yan, it's convenient for me. Just ask her to come to the Soul Guidance Department's experimental building to see me at 7pm."

"Okay, okay! It's settled then!"

(End of this chapter)