Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao, the villain from a parallel world

She looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, with long, black hair casually draped over her shoulders and a few stray strands falling beside her ears, making her already delicate face appear even smaller.

A thin layer of mist covered her bright, lively eyes, her eyelids drooping slightly, as if she had just been startled awake from a dream and was not yet fully awake.

What is most enviable is her fair and almost translucent skin, so delicate that you can't see a single pore, as if you could squeeze water out of it with a light touch of your fingertips.

The college's uniform accentuated her beautiful figure perfectly.

The lazy, slightly naive charm she exudes makes it hard to take your eyes off her.

Hearing the door open, the girl rubbed her eyes and looked towards the doorway.

Seeing that it was Xuan Ziwen, she tilted her head slightly, her voice still a little sleepy: "Teacher, why are you back so soon? Weren't you going to be an examiner?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her gaze fell on Huo Yuhao behind Xuan Ziwen.

Those misty eyes blinked, curiously looking him up and down, and then asked, "Who is this?"

“He is my new student,” Xuan Ziwen explained succinctly, “meaning he is your junior.”

"Junior brother." The girl placed her hands on the table, leaned forward slightly, and looked Huo Yuhao up and down with her big, bright eyes, as if she were looking at something new and interesting.

Huo Yuhao stood still, meeting her gaze without changing his expression. His eyes were calm, without the slightest awkwardness or evasion.

He was all too familiar with the girl in front of him.

Orange, his senior from his previous life.

He had a deep impression of oranges.

In his world, ever since joining the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, he has devoted himself to cultivation and the creation of soul tools.

He has little interest in anything else and makes friends very casually.

But after all, they were classmates under the same teacher, seeing each other every day, so it was hard for them not to get to know each other.

Actually, their relationship wasn't good at the beginning because of certain things.

Huo Yuhao considered their relationship to be "good" because of their two subsequent collaborations.

One was about Xu Tianran, the crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire, and the other was about Dai Hao, the Duke of White Tiger.

Both collaborations went exceptionally smoothly. Ju Zi was decisive and clear-headed, and Huo Yuhao had a great rapport with her.

Therefore, he had always had a fairly good impression of this senior.

"Hello, senior." Huo Yuhao nodded slightly and greeted her calmly.

Upon hearing this, Ju Zi looked away from Huo Yuhao, her eyes misty with tears, and gave a lazy smile, politely replying, "Hello."

Her voice was soft and gentle, with a slightly nasal tone, as if she hadn't woken up properly.

After greeting him, she went back to the lab table and buried herself in the array she was drawing, seemingly not very interested in the new junior apprentice.

Huo Yuhao also withdrew his gaze. Although his impression of Ju Zi was not bad, that was ultimately a matter from his previous life.

The current Orange is not the strategist and empress she later became; she's just an ordinary senior student dozing off in the lab.

This time, however, he no longer needs to seek cooperation from all sides to achieve his goal, as he did in his previous life.

He has his own path to follow, and there's no need for him to get to know everyone again.

“Come with me.” Xuan Ziwen beckoned to him.

Huo Yuhao composed himself and followed Xuan Ziwen around to the front of the experiment table.

Xuan Ziwen stopped in front of the table, turned around and asked him, "What did you learn before you enrolled in school?"

Huo Yuhao calmly recited a few basic terms.

The basic classification of soul tools, the construction principle of core arrays, and the property charts of several common metals.

These are all essential things that a Soul Master must learn before starting out, and any beginner with even a little knowledge of them can say a thing or two about them.

He neither overreported nor underreported, keeping it just within the level expected of a beginner who was "quite talented and had some basic self-study experience."

After listening, Xuan Ziwen nodded slightly without saying anything more.

If Huo Yuhao has truly understood and mastered the aspects he mentioned.

Therefore, it's not entirely unreasonable to draw inferences from this and design entirely new works with structures like energy storage arrays.

He cleared his throat, his expression more serious than usual: "Next, I'll teach you some other aspects of soul guidance knowledge to help you solidify your foundation. Listen carefully."

He had never seen many promising talents like Huo Yuhao in all his years as a teacher at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

At such a young age, being able to break free from the frameworks of predecessors and design formations independently demonstrates a creativity that cannot be cultivated through arduous practice.

Xuan Ziwen had never taken on many true disciples in his life, so now that he had taken one on, he had to teach her seriously.

"I understand, teacher." Huo Yuhao's expression was equally serious.

Xuan Ziwen picked up a blank metal sheet and a carving knife from the lab table and began to explain the basic theory of soul guides.

The first thing he talked about was the principle of guiding soul power in the array circuit. This is the foundation of all soul tools and also the place where most beginners get stuck.

As he spoke, he used a carving knife to carve a few simple circuits on the metal sheet as a demonstration, speaking at a moderate pace and explaining each step in great detail.

Chapter 36 Future Plans (Please read on!)

After he finished the first part, he looked up and, as was his habit, wanted to see if Huo Yuhao had understood.

But Huo Yuhao had already picked up another blank metal piece and a carving knife from the table and carved out the circuits perfectly.

Not only that, he added a tiny node at the end of the circuit and asked, "If we add a flow guiding node here, could we reduce the loss of soul power in the circuit?"

Xuan Ziwen's brow twitched suddenly.

That node was added at just the right time, and that's exactly what we'll discuss next.

He suppressed his surprise, nodded, and continued speaking without saying anything more.

In the following time, Xuan Ziwen continued to explain one knowledge point after another.

From the self-consistency of the array structure to the differences in soul power transmission between different metals.

After he finished explaining each point, Huo Yuhao could replicate it on the spot, and sometimes he would even make just the right improvements on the replication.

It was as if he had already learned these things, and was just being reminded of them now.

Even Ju Zi, who was engrossed in carving her own array, had stopped carving at some point and stared at them with wide, bright eyes.

She looked at the circuits that Huo Yuhao had casually carved on the metal sheet.

The skills that she had struggled to master for weeks were rendered effortlessly by this boy, as if he were tracing characters.

She opened her mouth slightly, forgetting to put down the carving knife on the table, her mind filled with only one thought: "This junior of mine seems to be quite remarkable."

Only then did she finally understand why Xuan Ziwen had simply handed over the assessment work to someone else and taken the boy back to the laboratory without saying a word.

The teaching continued into the afternoon, with Xuan Ziwen not stopping and Huo Yuhao not complaining of being tired.

He was like a dried-out sponge thrown into water, absorbing every piece of knowledge quickly and thoroughly.

Later on, Huo Yuhao could almost always respond to a sentence that Xuan Ziwen spoke.

The pace of the master and apprentice was so fast that even Orange, who was just listening, felt a little unable to keep up.

When the last knowledge module was finished, Xuan Ziwen put the carving knife on the table and let out a long sigh.

He looked at the row of metal plates on the table that Huo Yuhao had carved as practice. The array on each plate was so neat and precise that it was like an example in a textbook.

He was silent for a moment, then said, "You've finished learning the basics; go back and consolidate them."

He suddenly stopped halfway through his sentence.

He wanted to say, "Go back and consolidate your knowledge," but then he thought, what need does this young man have for any consolidation?

People who can learn something immediately and understand it instantly don't have the concept of "forgetting".

Xuan Ziwen shook his head slightly, swallowing back the words he hadn't finished saying.

He reached out and picked up a silver ring from the table, handing it to Huo Yuhao: "This is a storage soul tool, you can take it and use it."

"As students of the prestigious Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, we can't hold onto everything."

Huo Yuhao accepted the ring with both hands. It was slightly cool to the touch, and a simple spatial magic circle was engraved on the ring face. "Thank you, teacher."

He put the ring on his finger and put the school uniform and badge that he had been holding in his arms into it.

Then he said goodbye to Xuan Ziwen and Ju Zi, and turned to leave the laboratory.

The heavy metal door closed silently behind him.

The corridor was quiet as Huo Yuhao walked back towards the dormitory area along the same route he had come from.

Having lived here for countless years in his previous life, Huo Yuhao found his dormitory building with ease, even without anyone to guide him.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is very wealthy and provides each official student with a single dormitory room, so there is no need to worry about being disturbed.

He pushed open the door and found the room spotless, with not a speck of dust on the table or bed, as if it were cleaned every day and just waiting for the new owner to move in.

"I'm back in this place again." Huo Yuhao lay on the bed, his hands behind his head, staring at the familiar ceiling.

His blue eyes appeared exceptionally deep in the dim light, and his thoughts were already churning.

From his rebirth until now, he has traveled all the way from the Star Dou Great Forest to Star Luo City.

After traversing the Heavenly Soul Empire from Star Luo City to Mingdu, he has finally successfully entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

The first step has been taken steadily.

Although his current strength is still a long way from his peak, it is much better than when he was first reborn, when he had lost all his divine power, his soul was shattered, and he even had to use a stick to poke a fish.

At least we are no longer empty-handed and have nothing.

But what we really need to figure out is what to do next.

Following the same path he took in his previous life and regaining his position as God-King would not be difficult for him.

He had walked that road once, and he knew exactly where the dangers and opportunities lay.

If you just want to get back to where you were before, you could do it almost perfectly even with your eyes closed.

But that's not what he wanted.

In his previous life, he ultimately had to burn his divine position to fight Tang San to the death.