Chapter 99

Huo Yuhao picked up a Red Jade Shrimp, peeled off the shell and removed the tail, and began to savor it.

The flesh was sweet, soft, and glutinous; swallowing it into his belly brought a warm sensation, as if his entire body were being nourished by a kind of energy, causing Huo Yuhao's skin to be covered in a layer of red, and the Blood Qi Vortex inside his body began to rotate madly, digesting these greatly tonic energies.

The energy of the Blood Qi Vortex slowly flowed into his meridians, circulating along a specific route. With each completed cycle, Huo Yuhao could feel his body becoming more resilient.

Muscles, bones, and internal organs were all strengthened under the nourishment of this energy, and his skin gradually changed from its initial flush to become crystal clear and translucent.

In the end, after one whole shrimp was eaten, the Blood Qi Vortex directly expanded by one ring, and only then did Huo Yuhao's skin return to normal.

"Having a Blood Qi Vortex really is different." Mu Ye, watching from the side, nodded secretly.

Ordinary Soul Masters without a Blood Qi Vortex need about one year to absorb the energy of a Red Jade Shrimp; much of the energy is wasted, the utilization rate is extremely low, and they cannot compare to Yuhao at all.

Mm, truly worthy of being the disciple he, Mu Ye, had the foresight to accept.

To reforge the Body Sect's glory, he, Mu Ye, duty-bound!

Thinking this, Mu Ye looked again toward Gu Yue Na's direction; the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and several question marks popped up on his forehead, "???"

After Gu Yue Na finished the Red Jade Shrimp, her joy-filled face merely flushed with a faint hint of red, and it dissipated very quickly.

Could it be that Gu Yue Na is also a good seedling for cultivating Blood Qi power?

Mu Ye's gaze was strange; he almost gave rise to the thought of poaching from Zhenhua and Titled Douluo Feng Huang.

But two voices of surprise interrupted his thoughts.

"What food? It smells so good!"

"Isn't the food in the dining car usually terrible? How come it's so fragrant?"

It was a youth of about fourteen years old and a same-aged girl who walked in from another carriage.

The girl moved in quick steps, skipping all the way to the small table where Huo Yuhao and the others were; seeing what they were eating, her eyes widened, "Ice Crystal Eel, Starlight Rice, and... Red Jade Shrimp?"

As a member of the Nine Treasures Liuli Sect, Ning Yue had broad knowledge and knew the preciousness of these ingredients.

The former two are specialties of the Extreme North, affordable only by disciples of major powers, sometimes even in short supply; the Red Jade Shrimp even requires a Limit Douluo or a Four-Word Battle Armor Master to obtain. As the young miss of the Nine Treasures Liuli Sect, let alone tasting them, this was the first time she had ever seen them.

This also showed that the few people before her were not simple, making her suppress the urge to place an order with Mu Ye, who looked like a chef.

Compared to Ning Yue, who focused on the food, the youth beside her turned his gaze toward Huo Yuhao, frowning secretly.

Right now Huo Yuhao was eating his second Red Jade Shrimp, his whole body surging with Blood Qi fluctuations, which made him feel a wave of suppression, as if his own martial soul were being suppressed.

But how could that be possible?

His martial soul is the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, a top-tier dragon-type martial soul; what martial soul could suppress him?

As one of the heirs of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family, the strongest in Shrek's current first year, Yu Longheng's personality was not considered flamboyant, but he had his own pride.

Having his martial soul suppressed by someone else was something he found difficult to remain calm about.

Seeing the two youngsters enter, Mu Ye's expression did not change; his gaze turned toward the corner.

A woman with a forced smile at the corner of her mouth walked out from the shadows. She looked about twenty-five or twenty-six, extremely beautiful. Strange white long hair scattered behind her, and a pair of ink-green eyes continuously alternated, flashing with the auras of vitality and destruction.

Upon revealing herself, she performed a salute, "I have seen His Excellency! I am a teacher of Shrek, currently observing the students' assessment; I did not intend to disturb your meal with the juniors."

Shen Yi truly had not expected that since the assessment began, merely taking the Soul Guidance Train for the second time, she would run into a Titled Douluo.

She recognized the Red Jade Shrimp too; those two kids being able to so easily digest the energy within was absolutely not simple, and this middle-aged man she could not read might be a Four-Word Battle Armor Master... or even a Limit Douluo!

Her luck... was only a bit better than the teachers thrown out by the Spirit Pagoda; fortunately Yu Longheng and the other were fairly steady and did not cause trouble.

"Shrek's?"

Mu Ye sized her up, brows furrowing slightly, "Doesn't matter whether it's a disturbance or not; this is a dining car, anyone who wants to come can come, we didn't book the whole place. Just don't let your assessment affect us."

Once, the Body Sect was a sect that could rival Shrek Academy, but a war changed everything.

Ten thousand years ago, Shrek Academy, as the pillar of the Douluo Three Kingdoms, was beaten into a rout when facing the Silver Moon Douluo; in the process the matter of the Death God Envoy, a deed passed down through the ages, also occurred; in the end, for various reasons, they simply withdrew from the battlefield.

And their Body Sect, as the Heaven Dou Empire's guardian sect, fought until the very last moment; sect disciples suffered casualties exceeding two-thirds, eleven Titled Douluo fell with five dead and four heavily injured, the sect master died, and the inheritance was nearly severed.

By now, because Shrek Academy produced a Sea God and suffered no heavy blow, it has remained at the peak, glorious to this day, remembered by ten thousand people.

The Body Sect nearly lost its inheritance; now only he, a single Rank 94, holds up the facade, unasked after by anyone.

The overly disparate contrast made Mu Ye have no good feelings toward Shrek Academy at all, but not to the point of showing a bad face to a few juniors.

Seeing Mu Ye finish speaking and then ignore their group, Shen Yi let out a light breath and sent a voice transmission to the two students: "Don't affect them."

Ning Yue nodded, and together with the slightly frowning Yu Longheng, found seats and sat down.

Shen Yi then glanced once more toward Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na's direction, and quietly hid herself away.

"Longheng, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Yu Longheng still secretly paying attention to Huo Yuhao, Ning Yue asked in a low voice.

"His martial soul..." Yu Longheng spoke halfway, then shook his head, "It's nothing; let's get off at the next stop."

"But the next stop is Heaven Dou City." Ning Yue frowned slightly, "The assessment's final target is Heavenly Sea City; going straight to the Heavenly Sea Alliance would be better, right?"

Yu Longheng: "We are doing a cooperative assessment, so we face more opponents; the Heavenly Sea Alliance's Soul Master quality is not high, hard to find opponents; let's go challenge other cities first."

The Academy's final assessment is not very friendly to Support System Soul Masters; even though their Shrek Support Types also have combat power, in the end they cannot compare to Battle Soul Masters; they can't possibly make them specifically find Support Types five levels higher than themselves to fight, right?

So the cooperative assessment came about; although the difficulty doubles, with his strength and Ning Yue's Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, few are their match.

According to some teachers and senior brothers, past final assessments still had a bottom-elimination system; the few with the lowest assessment scores would be expelled, and Support Types couldn't team up... their class is much happier than the past, catching a good time.

Ning Yue thought for a moment, then still nodded; after all, she relied on Yu Longheng, this first-year strongest, "Then we'll go to Heaven Dou City; after that, where to find opponents to raise our score?"

The final assessment score is closely related to whether one can enter the Inner Court; once in the Inner Court, registered in the Tang Sect, becoming a disciple there, one has the chance to go to the "Ice Fire Yin Yang Well" and obtain the legendary Immortal Herbs.

Their Nine Treasures Liuli Sect's ancestor Ning Rongrong became a god because Immortal Herbs transformed her into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda; her purpose in joining Shrek was the Immortal Herbs.

Light flashed in Yu Longheng's eyes, "Go to a Soul Master Academy or... outside the one-kilometer range of the Spirit Pagoda; the Soul Masters coming and going there are the most, we can find opponents the fastest!"

Immortal Herbs are likewise what he seeks; he naturally must go all out to enter the Inner Court.

Shen Yi, hidden in the dark, heard this and thought of the Spirit Pagoda complaint letters the Academy had received earlier; her brow twitched fiercely, but after thinking, she still said nothing.

She had experienced the Academy's final assessment herself and understood the students' pressure.

The Heavenly Sea Alliance is located on the East Side of the Continent, while Shrek Academy sits at the center of the Continent. Even riding the Soul Tool High-Speed Train without transfers, it takes a full three days to arrive.

And the students only have fifteen days; after completing the assessment they must return to Shrek Academy; the round trip alone needs at least six days. Moreover, they must still find people to challenge in ten different cities; time is not sufficient.

In Elder Cai's words, this was a very good comprehensive quality education class; food, clothing, housing, transportation, strategy, and so on were all places where the students were tested.

As for running into an iron plate along the way... they had given a reminder: do not provoke those you cannot afford to offend; people must always be responsible for their own actions.

"Long Heng hasn't forgotten the rule that within a one-kilometer radius of the Spirit Pagoda, one must not use soul power to fight or use any Soul Guide weapons; it's fine." Shen Yi thought secretly.

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