Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 353 He stood me up! (8K)

Possessing top-tier talent, having a soul bone at this age, a top-tier martial soul or even a super martial soul, and the best soul ring configuration or even a super-limit soul ring configuration, it's normal for them to win the competition, but that doesn't mean Shrek Academy has the right to deny the efforts of others.

When you want to criticize someone, at least consider whether their innate conditions are the same as yours before judging their merits or demerits.

A higher starting point should provide a faster climbing speed and a greater possibility of climbing, rather than a reason to show off or mock those who come from humble backgrounds but are striving hard.

How many soul masters in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Competition would willingly take drugs? It's just that a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch, forcing most teams to take drugs to keep their academy's performance from declining.

If these people could truly cultivate to the same Soul Emperor or even Soul Saint level as Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao solely based on their talent, they would never do something like taking drugs that would jeopardize their future development.

Huo Yuhao's words were not meant as a reprimand, but rather to prevent people from being blinded by the illusion before them and becoming arrogant. After all, Dai Huabin, who had been driven to despair by his and Wang Dong's combined attack, was the best example.

Everyone lowered their heads thoughtfully, including Huo Yuhao.

However, Huo Yuhao's thoughts were somewhat different from those of others.

Although he was born with only a level one soul power, he was still a soul master with the ability to cultivate, and not an ordinary person in the true sense.

Ordinary people who have no innate soul power at all don't even have the chance to appear on the Soul Battle Arena. They can only appear in the audience and watch the Soul Masters freely unleash their power on the Soul Battle Arena, unleashing a power that they may never feel in their entire lives.

Is there a way for ordinary people to cultivate themselves?

Huo Yuhao really wanted to know the answer to this question, but Qian Daoliu, Tianmeng, and Bingdi could only shake their heads.

Huo Yuhao glanced at Elder Yi, who was still huddled inside the gray sphere, studying and constructing various spell models, and shook his head.

This question was too far removed from his life, even more distant than the idea of ​​becoming an exchange student in the Sun Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao could only keep it in his heart and wait for an opportunity to bring it up again someday.

Come to think of it, how many things have I temporarily put aside?

Huo Yuhao immediately felt a bit troubled, realizing that he had put many things on hold because he was too busy to handle them all at the moment.

For example, further developing Ning Ge's soul-guided arm controlled by mental power, creating mechanical tentacles to be embedded in his external vertebrae, the remains of ancient beasts deep in the far north, investigating Wang Dong's Goddess of Light Butterfly martial soul, and the business deal he had agreed upon with Ning Tian.

Huo Yuhao suddenly slapped his forehead, realizing he had stood Ning Tian up.

Ever since the freshman competition ended, his life has been on a fast track.

First, he was poisoned to death at the Soul Master Exchange Conference and almost captured to be a bandit's disciple. Then he was chased by Dai Huabin's assassins. After killing Dai Huabin, he was given a vacation, but his vacation life was not peaceful.

He tricked the Ice Emperor into coming to the far north, and fearing being hunted down by the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan, he sprinted down the snow mountain on skis. After returning, he was selected for Shrek Academy's reserve team and dragged by Elder Xuan to participate in training camp. As soon as the training camp ended, he participated in the mission to eliminate evil soul masters, and then he arrived at the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

Huo Yuhao helplessly covered his head. It was definitely not Huo Yuhao's intention to stand Ning Tian up. He was just too busy, spinning around like a top. It was perfectly normal for Huo Yuhao to overlook some things that were not particularly important.

Even after the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament ended, Huo Yuhao wouldn't have a moment of rest. He hadn't yet acquired his third soul ring, and he still needed to continue researching ancient soul beasts. He would also soon be going to the Sun Moon Empire as an exchange student.

Huo Yuhao leaned back in his chair, feeling somewhat powerless, and sighed with melancholy.

He had never been this tired when he was a ninja in Ashina!

That said, my mother had previously obtained two acres of land from the school and built a greenhouse. The crops planted on that land have been growing for quite some time now, so it should have reached a certain scale. If the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School is interested, this deal can still be discussed.

Shrek Academy is, after all, an educational institution. If it oversteps its bounds, it will easily arouse the suspicion of other forces. But handing it over to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School is not so troublesome.

Thinking that he would likely have a stable share of the profits for the next few years, Huo Yuhao smiled.

This is one of the few pieces of good news.

Oh, right, a portion of this money should be shared with the academy, since it's land belonging to the academy.

Huo Yuhao stroked his chin with his left hand, trying to sort out as many things as possible that he would need to do next.

As for Wang Yan, he sat at the head of the long desk, feeling a deep sense of unease.

Yes, if it weren't for the limitations of natural talent, who wouldn't want to become a powerful Soul Master? It was only after my cultivation progressed extremely slowly that I devoted myself to the path of researching Martial Souls.

In the context of Douluo Continent, if one's talent wasn't lacking and their cultivation level wasn't capped, who would truly be willing to study martial souls and knowledge?

Even if it were Yu Xiaogang from ten thousand years ago, after exhausting his father Yu Yuanzhen's last bit of luck and devouring all the high-grade medicinal herbs that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had treasured for countless years, he still found himself stuck before level 29. Did he ever study any so-called theoretical knowledge? Probably not.

After studying for so long and reading countless ancient books from both the inner and outer academies, Wang Yan could only glean a record like, "Only rare and precious materials can cleanse the marrow and transform the body; a strange beast will always guard one side of it."

What constitutes a rare and precious treasure? What is a rare and precious treasure that aligns with his royal decree? Where can one find rare and precious treasures? What is the strength of the exotic beasts waiting for these treasures to mature?

Wang Yan didn't know either.

Even the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan from ten thousand years ago couldn't find such rare treasures, so how could Wang Yan possibly find them?

Why.

At dawn, the Shrek Academy team, dressed in dark green outfits, appeared on Star Luo Square, eliciting a deafening roar of cheers.

For the remaining four teams, each team has at most two more major battles left.

The decisive moment has arrived; the time to fight with all our might has come!

With nearly half an hour to go before the start of the match, all four teams had already arrived.

The members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy noticed that the Shrek Seven Devils' aura had changed.

It has lost some of its arrogance and aggression, and gained more composure.

But this composed Shrek gave off an even more terrifying feeling than he had a few days ago.

(End of this chapter)