Seeing Zhou Yi not answering for a long time, Huo Yuhao smiled and pressed on:
"Teacher, what's wrong? What do you think?"
Zhou Yi snapped back to attention and said indifferently:
"Of course. This afternoon's classes are canceled. Everyone, follow me to the Soul Dueling Zone. It's time for you to witness the changes brought about by the evolution of the times."
As Fan Yu's wife, she originally intended to guide excellent students towards the Soul Engineering Department.
Her morning lecture on soul tools was precisely for this reason.
Having Huo Yuhao, a Rank 3 soul engineer, demonstrate his skills and letting the students see how powerful modern soul engineers are would be beneficial to her and have no downsides.
Besides, pressure is necessary for effort and progress. While she could provide this, Huo Yuhao could also be responsible for it.
As a result, the teaching task for Class 1 freshmen this afternoon was temporarily changed from physical training to a class president competition.
Zhou Yi led the entire class of students grandly to the Soul Dueling Zone. After showing her token to the teacher on duty, she led the students inside.
The Soul Dueling Zone, provided by Shrek Academy for students to spar and battle, usually requires payment in gold soul coins whether for spectating or participating in a fight.
Fortunately, Zhou Yi was leading today. As a teacher, she had the right to directly use the Soul Dueling Zone once a week.
After entering the Soul Dueling Zone, Zhou Yi asked expressionlessly:
"Time is tight, let's start quickly. Who wants to go first?"
Dai Huabin was about to raise his hand, but someone was a step faster than him.
"Teacher, I'll go first!"
Looking at the student who raised his hand, many students were stunned.
This student was named Shangguan Chentian, one of the nine students who were nearly expelled by Zhou Yi that morning.
Zhou Yi frowned and looked at Huo Yuhao.
"Huo Yuhao, are you willing to accept his challenge?"
"Of course."
Huo Yuhao smiled slightly.
Through the eyes of this classmate named Shangguan Chentian, he already saw that this student he had helped was trying to help him establish authority by losing intentionally.
How should he put it? Huo Yuhao didn't actually need him to do this, but he was still happy that the other party had such intentions.
Since both sides agreed, Zhou Yi naturally had nothing to say. After directing the two onto the competition stage, she waited a few seconds before shouting:
"Match start!"
As soon as the sound fell, Shangguan Chentian revealed his martial soul.
A bow appeared in his hand, and two yellow soul rings rose from under his feet. He was indeed a Great Soul Master specializing in long-range attacks with a tool martial soul.
However, before he could even draw his bow and nock an arrow, a scorching white beam shot past his cheek. The sensation of the high-temperature beam grazing his cheek made him unable to resist plopping down onto the ground.
Tens of meters away, Huo Yuhao lowered the Rank 3 soul tool beam in his hand and smiled slightly at Shangguan Chentian.
"Admit defeat."
Shangguan Chentian finally came back to his senses and said to Zhou Yi with disappointment:
"...I lost."
He hadn't expected to win this match, that was true, but losing so miserably was completely unexpected.
He hadn't been without contact with soul engineers before. Logically, a Rank 2 soul tool beam shouldn't have had such attack range and speed.
But saying anything now was useless. The battle just now was witnessed by the entire class. No student would think he had the ability to defeat Huo Yuhao.
Shangguan Chentian walked off the stage with his head down. Zhou Yi looked at the students of Class 1 freshmen and asked indifferently:
"Who's next?"
Her answer was silence.
Huo Yuhao's performance of instantly defeating a Great Soul Master was simply too astonishing. Even if Shangguan Chentian had only just broken through to Rank 20, he was a genuine Great Soul Master, and his cultivation ranked among the top ten in the class.
Even he had lost so miserably, let alone anyone else.
Even Dai Huabin, who had originally come for Huo Yuhao, hesitated at this moment.
He knew Huo Yuhao was learning about soul tools, but he never expected this kid to have researched to such a degree.
Even he couldn't defeat Shangguan Chentian so quickly.
So after a brief hesitation, he nudged the hand of the black-haired girl beside him.
Zhu Lu looked at him in surprise, then saw the fierce look in her fiancé's eyes.
Having been together for so many years, Zhu Lu immediately understood Dai Huabin's meaning.
He wanted her to go up and test Huo Yuhao's strength.
Shangguan Chentian's miserable defeat, besides being genuinely outmatched, was also significantly due to his own carelessness.
Zhu Lu's strength was above Shangguan Chentian's. If she didn't underestimate Huo Yuhao, she might not be without a chance of winning.
Zhu Lu pursed her lips, then nodded heavily and raised her hand.
"I'll go next!"
Hearing her voice, Huo Yuhao felt a bit speechless.
This guy Dai Huabin is really...
If he could have maintained the fearless momentum he had just now, Huo Yuhao might have even been able to praise him for his courage.
If he had been cautious like this from the start, using his fiancée to gather information, Huo Yuhao could also have praised him for being exceptionally shrewd.
But his approach was to provoke trouble at the beginning with an attitude of being the best in the world, only to hide behind his woman after seeing the enemy was stronger than imagined.
It wasn't entirely incomprehensible, but this posture made it difficult for others to respect him.
In fact, many students shared Huo Yuhao's thoughts. After seeing Zhu Lu step onto the stage, their gazes towards Dai Huabin became strange.
Zhou Yi didn't pay attention to the students' reactions. After seeing Zhu Lu walk to the edge of the competition stage, she announced:
"Match start!"
As soon as the words fell, Zhu Lu shot out like an arrow from a bowstring, rushing towards Huo Yuhao.
However, she didn't run in a straight line, but approached Huo Yuhao along an unpredictable curved path.
Clearly, she was also extremely wary of Huo Yuhao's soul tool beam, preferring to take a slightly longer route to reduce Huo Yuhao's hit rate.
But at this moment, something nobody expected happened.
Huo Yuhao raised his hand and shot casually, and the soul tool beam hit the dodging Zhu Lu.
"Ah!"
Immediately, Zhu Lu let out a scream, and blood appeared on her shoulder where she was hit.
The students of Class 1 freshmen instantly looked at him as if he were a monster.
To be fair, as the strongest agility-type soul master in Class 1 freshmen, Zhu Lu's movement speed was definitely not slow. If they both entered martial soul fusion state, even Dai Huabin, who finished the hundred laps first, was far inferior to her.
Some students with lower cultivation couldn't even see her movements clearly, only a blur of black moving at high speed on the competition stage.
However, under these circumstances, Huo Yuhao actually hit Zhu Lu with a casual shot. How accurate was that?