Chapter 96: Shrek Academy was shrouded in gloom.
"Thank you, Teacher."
Huo Yuhao took the Body Sect's Meditation Method. It must be said that the Body Sect's research on the Body Martial Soul is indeed unparalleled.
Whether it was Shrek Academy or those top sect forces, when it came to research on the Body Martial Soul, they weren't even fit to carry the Body Sect's shoes.
Wouldn't saying that hurt Shrek Academy too much?
Hurt what? If Shrek Academy were truly as powerful as it was advertised, Mu En wouldn't have said that Shrek Academy was far behind the Body Sect in Body Martial Soul research when Du Busi was snatching people.
Officially endorsed and personally admitted by Shrek Academy!
In fact, Shrek Academy's research on the Body Martial Soul is not just shallow; it could practically be said to be non-existent. At the very least, there has been no substantial guidance from Shrek Academy in the area of Body Martial Soul.
Even after Huo Yuhao became Mu En's disciple, the old man's guidance to him was limited to advanced applications of mental power, plus a Golden Tree cultivation room. It didn't involve the deep development of Martial Soul characteristics at all.
Besides, could that Golden Tree even count? That couldn't be considered Shrek Academy's help at all. Who knows who started it, but successive Shrek Academy pavilion masters nourish the Golden Tree after their deaths. Who exactly is inside? It's really hard to guess.
To put it bluntly, Shrek Academy never had a specialized training program from beginning to end. After all, it's a Soul Master Academy, and what they arranged was general Soul Master education. This simply couldn't compare to the Body Sect's systematic cultivation system, which includes the 'Secret of the Body.'
Unlike the myriad of Martial Souls, there are only so many Body Martial Souls in the world. Passed down through generations of Body Sect ancestors, the Body Sect has extremely clear cultivation plans for Body Martial Souls of different parts.
Whether your Martial Soul is an arm, a leg, or even a heart, there are paths laid out by the Body Sect's predecessors to serve as references.
Shrek Academy? No competitive advantage, no resource allocation. So what does Shrek Academy rely on? Maintaining Soul Master allegiance through personal emotional ties.
Not just Huo Yuhao, but Shrek Academy also used the same old general teaching methods for other Body Soul Masters, such as the sisters Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu, who possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and had hair as their Martial Soul. Most of them were just fleeting.
Did Shrek Academy provide them with specialized guidance? Don't be ridiculous. If you were assigned to Zhou Yi's class, you'd see if she'd let you do weighted running. Who cares if you're support or food system? Isn't that terrifying?
When facing more powerful forces, Shrek Academy lacked mature response mechanisms, and its teaching system was riddled with holes.
Du Busi still wanted to arrange some things and spoke up.
"Yuhao, as Old Kong said, after this competition, this old man will personally go to Sun Moon to teach you for a while. The Secret of the Body has always only been for the Sect Master's successor."
Du Busi said a lot, and Kong Deming couldn't stand this garrulous fellow anymore, interrupting him.
"Alright, alright. There will be plenty of time for you to teach later. For now, let Yuhao rest well. There's still the finals tomorrow!"
"And you, old fellow, don't be unhappy. When Yuhao becomes a Level 5 Soul Engineer and his soul power breaks through rank fifty, this old man will let you take Yuhao to the Body Sect for a period of cultivation."
After all, it was true that there was a perfect development path for Soul Engineers in Sun Moon, but since it was decided to let his own disciple reach the pinnacle in both paths, deeper development of the Martial Soul was inevitable.
The Body Sect has mimetic environments suitable for the cultivation of various Body Soul Masters, and cultivating the Body Sect's Secret Method requires a special, exclusive ritual to stimulate the Martial Soul's bloodline power and imbue it with new characteristics.
There are also high-intensity battles, and only the Body Sect can provide this. It's not like Du Busi can always be his exclusive bodyguard, secretly teaching Yuhao. That wouldn't make sense.
And rank fifty is just a threshold. He'll have enough time to adapt, and his physical strength won't suffer too strong a backlash from cultivating the Body Sect's secret method by then.
"Hmph." Du Busi was very displeased, but there was nothing he could do. It was his own fault for being a step late.
Just as the two had settled all the arrangements and planned Huo Yuhao's future development, Huo Yuhao suddenly remembered something.
"Teacher, after observing these days, your disciple has found that a certain member of Shrek Academy is very unusual."
Oh?
Huo Yuhao continued, "It's He Caitou. Teacher, don't you think he resembles the imperial family of our Sun Moon in both appearance and characteristics?"
He intentionally guided Kong Deming to think along these lines. Although his teacher only pledged loyalty to the legitimate rule of the Sun Moon imperial family, he wasn't completely unconcerned about the scattered imperial bloodline.
If he knew that He Caitou was a former imperial orphan, although he wouldn't directly act, he would probably be happy to inform the current old emperor to prevent instability within the imperial family.
After all, the current Sun Moon imperial family came to power through a coup. An incomplete purge would only cause trouble for the Sun Moon Empire, wouldn't it?
Upon hearing this, Kong Deming thought of that Shrek Academy student named He Caitou and indeed instantly remembered something.
Members of the Sun Moon imperial family generally have tall figures and deep facial contours. He Caitou's height of 1.9 meters and robust physique indeed conformed to the dominant genetic expression patterns of the Sun Moon imperial family.
Even though He Caitou shaved his head and tanned his skin to disguise his identity, his basic skeletal structure still retained the characteristics of the Sun Moon imperial family.
Now, if one intentionally made the connection, one would find that his appearance presented a contradictory state, seemingly disguised yet unable to conceal its origin.
Moreover, although long-term exile had diluted He Caitou's linguistic characteristics, when he was emotionally agitated in the arena, he would still unconsciously use dialect words from the Sun Moon Empire.
There were no rumors of any princes of the current imperial family messing around outside, and their ages didn't match. The old emperor, needless to say, was even less likely.
"Yuhao, are you saying that He Caitou is a former imperial orphan?"
Although this was a question, Kong Deming had already determined it to be about eighty or ninety percent certain in his heart.
Seeing Huo Yuhao nod, Kong Deming thought for a moment and then said.
"This matter doesn't concern this old man. I will inform His Majesty later and let those imperial family members have a headache over it."
The imperial family had quite a lot of hidden power. Only the old emperor knew the most about the events of that year.
If they discovered the existence of someone who might be a former imperial orphan, the Sun Moon imperial family would definitely take action secretly, preferring to kill the wrong person rather than let one go. Even if He Caitou was not of the former imperial bloodline, if he died, he died.
Huo Yuhao shrugged helplessly at this. He had just mentioned it casually. He had no particular feelings about He Caitou from Shrek Academy.
He didn't need to do anything, and Kong Deming didn't need to do anything either. They only needed to reveal his identity as a former imperial orphan, and the people of the Sun Moon imperial family would naturally take action.
Du Busi temporarily took Huo Yuhao away, and Kong Deming didn't stop him. Lang Ya and Yu Tao were reliable this time, allowing him to take in such a talented and good-natured disciple.
Rewards were certainly indispensable. At the same time, Du Busi also wanted to cultivate a teacher-student relationship with Yuhao, his newly accepted disciple.
On the other side, the Shrek Academy lounge was shrouded in gloom.
Dai Huabin was dead. His body had been handed over to White Tiger Duke Dai Hao, who was already mentally unstable because of Huo Yuhao.
Coupled with the fact that Xuan Zi, that old fellow, had extremely high cultivation and was backed by Shrek Academy, even though his two sons had almost both fallen into the hands of this old man, he didn't dare to push too hard.
He wasn't planning to watch the finals tomorrow. He was going to Shrek Academy to bring the child Yueheng back to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
Shrek Academy only said that Yueheng was severely injured. He didn't know the specific injuries yet, but he hoped it wouldn't affect her future growth.
(Huo Yuhao: Good, wiped them all out, perfect!)
The relationship between this generation of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and Shrek Academy had clearly fallen to a freezing point.
Bei Bei was still in a coma. He was seriously injured, but after Elder Zhuang's treatment, he was fine now and only needed a period of rest to recover.
Among the injured, he was the least severely hurt, only breaking ribs and his jaw, and the treatment wasn't difficult.
He Caitou's injuries were mental. Under Huo Yuhao's Spiritual impact, his injuries were more severe than Bei Bei's. Coupled with Elder Zhuang's main ability being life force healing, he could only temporarily stabilize his pain. To fully recover, he could only rely on time.
As for Ma Xiaotao, she wasn't seriously injured, but the evil fire had completely eroded her reason. Every time she was about to wake up, Xuan Zi would knock her unconscious again with a single blow. There was no other way.
This old fellow was completely helpless. He looked at the current situation of the Shrek Academy team and found it unbearably headache-inducing.
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