Chapter 73

With Tang Wulin's stunning opening, the later assessments seemed to become much duller. Although there were also many children who in previous years would have been eye‑catching, their brilliance was completely overshadowed by Tang Wulin alone.

For example, Wang Dong, whose second soul ring is exceptionally rare and at the thousand‑year level, making him a Soul Elder, his own strength in this batch of students is absolutely among the strongest, and in previous years he could even compete for first place in the year.

However, ahead of him there is Tang Wulin, a far stronger assault‑type existence, which makes his performance seem less exaggerated.

Zhou Sichen is the same; this kid actually broke through to three rings during this vacation, but because his third soul skill is not an attack type, his dueling ability actually hasn't improved much compared to before the vacation. Although he also chose a thousand‑year‑level soul beast as his opponent like Tang Wulin did, his performance pales in comparison, and he only scored a hundred points.

The individual test of this upgrade assessment lasted just a morning, and all the students finished their battles.

Class One's results are undoubtedly the best; not only do they have Tang Wulin, a class monitor whose strength is leaps ahead, but the whole class passed the assessment, achieving the record of no one dropping out.

Next, as long as the class assessment also passes with full marks, they might become a rare case in the academy's history of the whole class passing the upgrade assessment.

However, Tang Wulin isn't really concerned about that; he just wants to know where Huo Yutong went.

The individual test is already over; after waiting three more days the class test will also end, and if she doesn't come back by then it will truly be too late.

If it's just that she's been delayed by something, that would be fine; but if something happened…

Tang Wulin doesn't want to think about that possibility.

On the second night, Tang Wulin sat blankly on the shore of Haishen Dao, gazing toward the direction of Shrek's Outer Courtyard.

Now his inner unease has swollen to an astonishing degree; even though he doesn't want to think of the worst, he now has to admit that the possibility of Huo Yutong meeting with misfortune is very great.

While he was gazing at Haishen Hu and chewing over his memories with Huo Yutong, he suddenly furrowed his brow.

He saw a white figure running across the surface of Haishen Hu, rushing toward Haishen Dao at great speed.

That figure's steps showed no hesitation; although she was running on Haishen Hu, the rolling waves had no effect on her at all, as if she were walking on flat ground.

No, it's not like walking on flat ground; she is actually running on flat ground.

When the white figure approached to a certain distance, Tang Wulin noticed the floating ice behind her.

Obviously, she creates ice blocks for her feet at the moment her steps land on the lake surface, thus making the lake surface act as flat ground for her to speed across.

At the moment he saw that white girl, she obviously also saw him, and she instantly turned direction and ran toward him.

As she drew nearer, Tang Wulin also made out more features.

This girl not only has white hair and skin, but even her clothes seem to be covered with a layer of fresh snow, showing a pale whiteness.

Merely having her figure in his sight gave Tang Wulin a faint chill, as if she herself were composed of the concept of white snow.

As the distance between the girl and him shrank, looking at her, Tang Wulin suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu.

He felt as if he had seen this girl somewhere before.

But that's impossible; he has no impression of her at all.

A girl like that, merely standing still in a crowd, would become the focus of attention; if he had ever seen her, she would definitely leave a considerable memory in his mind.

But if they hadn't met before, how could this déjà vu be explained? Just as Tang Wulin was racking his brains trying to recall where he had seen this girl, she had already arrived at the shore of Haishen Dao.

Even though Tang Wulin was right ahead, she didn't slow down; instead she leapt up and lunged at him.

Tang Wulin froze; his reason told him to dodge, but his instinct shouted to catch her, and this instinct was so strong he could hardly resist. In the end he followed his instinct, caught her in one grab, and held her in his arms.

At the moment he embraced the girl, he thought he was holding a piece of ice jade; although her skin was as smooth as porcelain, it gave off an intense chill that calmed his originally somewhat irritable mood.

Up close, this girl is truly a rare beauty in the world.

Snow‑white long hair, features so delicate they seem non‑human, a lovely figure, skin that looks breakable by a blow, from head to toe almost nothing is imperfect.

Without a doubt, in terms of appearance she is absolutely a peerless existence that Tang Wulin has ever seen; Na'er, although also pretty, is only six years old and mostly just cute, and cannot compare to this girl before him.

And strangely, the closer he looked, the stronger his déjà vu feeling became.

Somewhere in his mind a voice was loudly shouting, "I've seen this sister before."

"Who are you……"

"Wulin, I'm back!"

Before Tang Wulin could even ask, the girl happily said.

The moment she spoke, the gears in Tang Wulin's brain finally meshed.

"Yutong?!"

"Mm!"

Seeing the girl happily nod, Tang Wulin was completely bewildered.

Although now that we know the answer, a closer look reveals that this girl is simply an older version of Huo Yutong, but the change in hair and eye color is too great!

Originally Huo Yutong had blue hair and blue eyes, but now her hair has turned snow‑white, not to mention her eyes have become a more translucent ice‑blue, and her whole aura feels different.

He hurriedly asked: "Yutong, what's going on with this appearance? Also, where exactly did you go? What happened? Why did you come back so late?"

Huo Yutong's change is truly too great; as a result, he now feels more doubt and shock than relief and joy.

Seeing him like that, Huo Yutong finally pulled herself out of her joy, she loosened the arms wrapped around Tang Wulin and gave a wry smile.

"Yeah, seeing me like this would startle any normal person. Wait a moment, I'll change back."

After saying that, the whiteness of her hair and clothes began to fade, her body quickly shrank, and in a moment she returned to the form Tang Wulin knew.

"What is this……"

Watching the series of changes on her body, Tang Wulin's doubts grew even stronger.

Huo Yutong grabbed his hand and said seriously:

"Wulin, I know you're feeling very doubtful right now, but please wait a moment; let's first go find Elder Mu, and then I'll explain the situation clearly to you."

"……Alright."

Hearing her say that, Tang Wulin swallowed the questions rising to his throat again and nodded.

He now urgently wants to know what happened to her.

(End of chapter)