Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

After reading it, she snorted again and turned to sit back on the bed.

"You've been gone for so long, and I've been helping you move into your new dorm. You have so many blueprints and weird stuff, it's exhausting!" Wang Dong said angrily.

"Isn't there a storage soul tool?"

"It's full, we'll have to move it by hand."

"It's because you're always too lazy to go out and take out the trash, so you stuff all the trash into your storage soul tool, which is why it's full. You're basically using the storage tool as a trash can..."

"Ugh...you bastard!"

Wang Dong bared his teeth and brandished his claws, almost pouncing on him.

This guy is still as infuriating as ever.

"You still know to come back. The freshman assessment is tomorrow. We're in groups of three. Other groups have been training together for a long time, but our group hasn't even had a single get-together."

After she finished being angry, Wang Dong sat cross-legged on the bed wearing a silk nightgown that matched her hair color and started chatting with Huo Yuhao.

Do we still need to participate in training?

"Hmph, of course not, I can take on the whole field by myself!" Wang Dong proudly raised his head.

Who's in our group?

"It's her, Xiao Yisha."

"Oh, it's her."

………………

Second school district,

Assessment Zone 33

"Hey, Xiao Zhang, good morning." Wang Dong greeted Xiao Xiao with a smile.

"It's Xiao Xiao!" The petite girl in green grabbed Wang Dong's face with one hand, her expression menacing.

Even though the girl in front of him was shorter than him, Wang Dong somehow felt that the thing pinching his face was a monster made of muscles.

"Yes, oh my god... my face is going to fall off!" Wang Dong screamed in agony.

Huo Yuhao ignored them and simply stood aside watching silently, praising Xiao Xiao's physical body for being trained to the extreme. He had only taught her some fitness techniques, yet she had managed to train to a level similar to Kenjiro, which showed her talent for body training.

After teasing Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao let go and yawned. She was exhausted from working on her manuscript all night, but after patting the manuscript in her small handbag, she smiled with satisfaction.

"First round, first assessment: Class 1 freshmen: Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao; Class 3 freshmen: Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, Zhao Haochen... Assessment begins."

The referee was a teacher who looked to be around forty years old. He appeared quite gentle, and his name was Wang Yan.

Like Xiao Xiao, he also had dark circles under his eyes and looked exhausted.

His symptoms were also caused by Douluo Weekly. Since the publication of this magazine, he has been reading it day and night, and he pays attention to various columns such as martial spirit and science.

As a teacher specializing in theoretical research, he was overjoyed by this convenient way to acquire more knowledge.

He often asks questions about his own problems in the Q&A section, and he is quickly answered by professionals, such as Mr. Huo, as well as several senior members of the Sea God Pavilion who are not usually seen.

This is knowledge he doesn't usually have access to; some of it might not even be available in the inner courtyard library. It's the result of research by those experts themselves.

He even tried submitting some of his own research to the publication, and it was published successfully a few times.

"Wang Yan, you are a teacher. Don't let your fatigue affect your work. The children are still competing."

Wang Yan tried to open her eyes wide, fighting off sleepiness, and then discovered...

The match is over.

The three students from Class 3 collapsed to the ground as soon as they stood up on the ring.

What did their opponent do? What kind of martial spirit caused this? Why didn't he see any sign of it being used?

Wang Yan was now wide awake and looked at Huo Yuhao and the other two in shock.

Wait, it doesn't seem to be over yet!

Chen Junfeng and the other two actually stood up again!

"What determined children... But why are their eyes closed? Didn't they sleep well?"

………………

"Yuhao, you took care of them all in one go, what are we supposed to fight for!" Wang Dong complained from the side, she immediately realized that Huo Yuhao was behind it.

"Wouldn't it be better to resolve this quickly? The three on the other side are all at the first ring, and their martial souls aren't top-tier, so they're not very valuable for research," Huo Yuhao said. He came here to observe rare martial souls up close, and he knew all the students' martial soul information like the back of his hand.

No, it should be said that he knows all the information about the people of Shrek City, because as one of the initiators of the real-name system for martial souls, he has seen the identity information of everyone who has registered.

“Boss, the freshman assessment isn’t just about winning or losing. More importantly, it’s about demonstrating your martial spirit and abilities to the teachers during the battle so they can make an evaluation. If you ignore us like this, they won’t even be able to release their martial spirits before the assessment ends, and Wang Dong and I won’t have a chance to show off,” Xiao Xiao explained.

Xiao Xiao likes to address people by their titles. Since Wang Dong is now the class monitor, she calls him class monitor. In her mind, Huo Yuhao is the owner of a grilled fish restaurant and a general store, so she calls him boss.

This is also what most teachers and students believe: apart from the college's higher-ups and Wang Dong and a few others who have frequent contact with him, no one else knows that Mr. Huo and Huo Yuhao are the same person.

After all, Huo Yuhao had already transformed into an adult form when "Mr. Huo" appeared.

"I see." Huo Yuhao nodded, then suddenly laughed as if he had thought of something interesting.

He reached out and used mental manipulation to help the three unconscious people, including Chen Junfeng, stand up.

"Then I'll control them to fight you guys." Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. "Be careful, I can control them much better than they can do it on their own."

"This isn't three against three anymore, it's four against two!" Wang Dong complained.

"How could this be?! Boss, you've betrayed us? Fine, then let's fight!" Xiao Xiao seemed to have used this as writing material, falling into a chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) state.

Chapter 49 Huo Qiu'er? An imposter!

"Let me see, to activate a martial soul, you have to do it like this..." Huo Yuhao manipulated his three unconscious opponents to unleash their martial souls, just like he was controlling puppets.

Three hundred-year-old soul rings rose up: a sword-beaked hummingbird, a soft sword, and a chicken leg.

"Two agility-based attackers and one food-based attacker."

Huo Yuhao had already devised a strategy. He multitasked, controlling Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng to launch rapid attacks on Wang Dongxiao.

The sword-beaked hummingbird battles the goddess of light butterfly.

The soft sword battles the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.

Meanwhile, Zhao Haochen, who specializes in food, ran towards Huo Yuhao, and then...

I gave him a chicken leg.

"Hmm, the taste of food-type martial souls is okay, but it's too monotonous. It's better to make them by hand. Will they taste even better as the level increases?" Huo Yuhao thought while eating a chicken leg.

A strange scene unfolded on the stage: while the four members of the two teams were fighting, the remaining two teammates were sharing a chicken leg.

"Honestly, this guy is so unpredictable!" Wang Dong rolled her eyes. The sword-beaked hummingbird controlled by Huo Yuhao was much faster, but not as fast as her. Moreover, she could fly, easily winning through aerial bombardment.

Xiao Xiao unleashed a powerful suppressive force, summoning a massive black cauldron to block her path. No matter how the soft sword stabbed her, it couldn't budge her an inch.

"You are already dead." Xiao Xiao said coldly, her white palm pressing down on Chen Junfeng's head with terrifying power, suppressing him fiercely.

"Damn it, we lost." Huo Yuhao said regretfully, as if he had lost a game, and then directed Zhao Haochen to jump off the stage.

"You should have won! Which team are you on?!" Wang Dong was speechless.

Referee Wang Yan was stunned for a moment before declaring Huo Yuhao's team the winner.

"Is this some kind of mind control? That's outrageous! What kind of top-tier mental attribute martial soul would that be?" Wang Yan guessed, his eyes filled with fervent curiosity.

However, he did not go forward to ask, even though every student at Shrek Academy now has a student ID, and as a senior teacher, he could check the students' martial soul information at any time.

But he wanted to use his own abilities to find out what Huo Yuhao's martial soul was.

………………

Huo Yuhao's team's five matches ended quickly.

Although their opponents were directly controlled by Huo Yuhao each time, with Huo taking over their bodies and fighting for them, resulting in a terrible gaming experience, they also benefited from his control.

For the first time, those students realized that their martial spirits could be used in such a way, and that their bodies could perform such bizarre movements.

rest area

While drinking the newly launched Dream Soda from the Huo Group, Huo Yuhao and his two companions wandered around to watch the other groups' assessments.

"Xiao Xiao, the paper fell out of your bag." Wang Dong picked it up for her.

"Thank you, it must have been torn during the fight... Ah! Don't look at it!" Xiao Xiao screamed in alarm, snatching the paper away, but it was too late.

Wang Dong had already seen the contents of that piece of paper.

[After school ~ Huo X Wang... Forbidden X Delinquent...]

“Xiao Xiao…” Wang Dong’s eyes were bloodshot and his face turned bright red.

"exist!"

Xiao Xiao was at a loss for words and wanted to explain, "It's just that we have the same surname, but our given names are completely different..."

"What is this thing?!" Wang Dong shouted, tearing the paper in his hand to shreds, the beam of light from his palm burning it to ashes.

Wow, this is my hard work!

"Xiao Xiao, you filthy little thing, I'm going to use the power of light to cleanse your soul!"

"Waaaaah, I'm so sorry."

"Stop fooling around, something seems to be happening at that arena over there, let's go check it out." Huo Yuhao called to the two of them and walked towards another arena.

………………

"Too violent!"

Below the arena, the students watching the battle could hardly bear to look at the miserable scene unfolding on stage.

On the stage, a blonde girl punched her opponent so hard that his nose bled from just a few blows.

Violent, barbaric, and ruthless.

The opponent was also a powerful offensive Soul Master, and he was defeated after exchanging only one punch.

After knocking out her opponent with three punches, the blonde girl grabbed another agility-based attacker and threw them both off the stage.