Chapter 61 Huo Yuhao's Twin Martial Souls.
Ignoring the cheers from the crowd, Wu Xuan slowly walked to the back of the viewing platform.
Most of the students sitting there were of low strength and lacked confidence in the upcoming assessment. "Everyone, raise your heads! Soul beasts aren't that scary. You saw it yourself; they feel pain and fear too. With the proctors here, feel free to charge forward and fight them. Whoever is tougher wins!"
"Yes!!" the students roared in unison. Recalling Wu Xuan's previous battle, the students felt their blood boil. Mere soul beasts? What was there to fear? They were human, beings superior to soul beasts; soul beasts should be afraid of them. Seeing the students regain their confidence, Wu Xuan smiled slightly: "Of course, what I said earlier only applies to this assessment. If you encounter an invincible soul beast in the Soul Beast Forest, it's best to run away first. After all, as long as you're alive, you can always fight again."
"Hahahaha!" Laughter erupted, and the tense atmosphere dissipated.
Wu Xuan slowly walked to Huo Yuhao's side, his expression calm. "Don't you have anything to say?"
Huo Yuhao's face was pale. "Brother Wu Xuan, Dai Huabin provoked you time and time again. I'm doing this to help you get revenge!"
Wu Xuan said calmly, "The promotion assessment is fair and just, testing the students' perseverance and combat skills. It's not your place to break the rules as a third party. Huo Yuhao, poor talent doesn't matter, low soul power doesn't matter, these things don't judge a person. But knowing your mistakes and refusing to correct them, having no shame, that's truly hopeless. As long as you're human, you should at least retain one of your abilities or your dignity."
"I have abilities!" Huo Yuhao's eyes reddened as he stubbornly said.
"Oh! So you have no shame?" Wu Xuan stood up and looked down at Huo Yuhao.
"No! I have abilities, and I also have dignity. You'll see what happens next!" Huo Yuhao almost shouted.
Seeing the students all looking at him, Wu Xuan left without saying anything more.
The assessments for Class 1 and Class 2 of the second year continued. Due to the students' high enthusiasm and significantly reduced fear of spirit beasts, the pass rate was the highest in nearly ten years.
Du Weilun and the assessment teachers beamed with joy.
"The last candidate, Huo Yuhao from Class 1 of the second year, please come to the stage." The assessment teacher stretched his neck; it was nearly dusk, and he was a little tired after proctoring for so long.
Huo Yuhao slowly walked onto the stage. The assessment teacher asked casually, "This student chooses a spirit beast that's several hundred years old?"
Huo Yuhao shook his head and said, "I choose a thousand-year-old spirit beast."
"A thousand-year-old?" The referee teacher was surprised, looking at Huo Yuhao with a strange expression.
The students outside the arena also stared in astonishment at the confident and exuberant Huo Yuhao.
Du Weilun frowned slightly and said, "Are you sure? Huo Yuhao, have you thought this through? You're just a two-ring Great Soul Master. Even a thousand-year-old Soul Beast is a lot of pressure for a Soul Venerable."
The proctor echoed, "Yes! Huo Yuhao, you saw it yourself just now. In close combat, even if we wanted to rescue you, it would take time."
Huo Yuhao, however, affirmed without hesitation, "Teacher, I'm sure. I want to challenge a thousand-year-old Soul Beast."
His voice was loud enough for the students waiting for the assessment on the platform and in the distance to hear clearly.
Wu Xuan looked at Huo Yuhao in the arena with surprise, lost in thought. At this moment, he couldn't understand why Huo Yuhao was so confident.
Dai Huabin, standing to the side, also stared intently at Huo Yuhao in the arena. Choosing a thousand-year-old Soul Beast? What right did a two-ring Great Soul Master have?
"Since you insist, then you can choose." Du Weilun's voice floated down from the platform.
"Yes." The referee replied. At this time, the arena had been cleared.
"Huo Yuhao, are you ready?" the referee asked.
Huo Yuhao nodded. As Huo Yuhao slowly extended his left palm, a small, ice-blue grass bloomed from his palm, followed by an extreme low temperature that began to spread from his body.
Wu Xuan's eyes narrowed as he looked at Huo Yuhao in astonishment, not for any other reason than that he recognized the grass in Huo Yuhao's hand. It was a celestial herb from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, the Eight-Cornered Profound Ice Grass.
In an instant, the students outside the arena, along with the proctors, all stared at Huo Yuhao's figure in disbelief.
"Twin Martial Souls? This Huo Yuhao actually has twin Martial Souls?" Du Weilun clenched his fists in disbelief.
Just then, Huo Yuhao's opponent appeared.
A lion with a kingly aura and incredibly large claws charged out from the beast enclosure.
"A Terrorclaw Lion!" The students who recognized the origin of this soul beast gasped in unison.
Because this Terrorclaw Lion, like the Azure Sea Spirit Ape, belonged to the second-tier, second-level top-tier soul beasts.
After emerging from its enclosure, the Deinonychus roared to the sky, its magnificent mane spreading out, its pale purple fur appearing even more majestic and imposing under the purple light surrounding it.
The Deinonychus was far more robust than the Wind Tiger from before, measuring over three meters long and standing one and a half meters tall at the shoulder. Its muscles were sharply defined, and its brownish-yellow eyes radiated a cold aura.
Following its roar, the Deinonychus charged towards Huo Yuhao, its four paws flashing.
As the Devilclaw Lion ran, its sharp claws carved cracks into the arena floor.
Facing its frenzied charge, Huo Yuhao remained stationary. In the blink of an eye, the lion was within fifty meters of him.
At this moment, most people's attention was focused on the lion, paying no attention to Huo Yuhao.
"First Soul Skill, Mystic Ice Cage!"
A purple soul ring lit up, and Huo Yuhao slammed his hand into the ground. A terrifying chill instantly spread, transforming into a cage of solidified ice that trapped the lion in place.
"Yuhao! Well done!" Wang Dong cheered and applauded.
Before Huo Yuhao could even smile, the Devilclaw Lion roared, the purple light between its front paws surging violently. As it slammed its hind legs into the ground, its front paws slashed fiercely at the ice pillars of the cage.
"Bang bang bang!" In just a few breaths, the Mystic Ice Cage shattered, turning into ice shards scattered across the ground.
The Devilclaw Lion charged at Huo Yuhao again.
"What?" Huo Yuhao's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly activated the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass's torso bone skill.
Extremely cold energy began to condense in front of it, transforming into more than a dozen sharp arrows.
The torso bone soul skill—Eight-Cornered Ice Arrows—was activated by Huo Yuhao's hands, and more than a dozen sharp arrows shot out towards the Devilclaw Lion.
Danger struck, and the Devilclaw Lion's charging body suddenly paused. The purple light rising from its body instantly condensed, then transformed into a phantom figure identical to its own body, rushing straight towards Huo Yuhao.
The Devilclaw Lion's innate skill, Purple Light Conversion.
With this attack, the purple light on the Devilclaw Lion's body completely extinguished, but its running speed did not slow down at all. It pounced directly at Huo Yuhao from the side.
The referee, who had been watching Huo Yuhao closely, showed some surprise at seeing him release two attack-type soul skills in succession with only one soul ring.
Just as a dozen or so arrows were about to pierce the Devilclaw Lion's body, the purple light shifted, and the Devilclaw Lion and its purple phantom switched positions.
At such a short distance, Huo Yuhao had no time to react; the purple phantom collided with his ice arrows.
"Sizzle!"
The Devilclaw Lion's purple phantom was instantly pierced by the ice arrows, then frozen in place, turning into a massive ice sculpture.
The freezing of an energy phantom—this unprecedented and strange sight left the two referees slightly stunned. This momentary lapse in concentration naturally delayed their control of the situation. By the time they reacted and realized that Huo Yuhao might not be able to withstand the Devilclaw Lion's attack, the lion was already upon them.
Seeing the impending attack, Huo Yuhao's face turned pale; clearly, his level 26 soul power was insufficient to support the release of another soul skill.
Just then, Du Weiren's figure instantly appeared on the field, his powerful soul force erupting instantly, directly pressing the Devilclaw Lion to the ground.
"Alright! The assessment is over! Take the Devilclaw Lion away!" Du Weiren said calmly to the two proctors.
"Yes, yes, yes!" The two proctors awkwardly bowed, then worked together to drag the Devilclaw Lion away.
Du Weiren returned to the judges' platform, his voice slightly excited, "Huo Yuhao, facing the highest level thousand-year soul beast assessment, with a base score of one hundred, your control ability is outstanding, successfully restraining the Devilclaw Lion twice. You can get eighty points for the base score. Your performance in the battle was lacking, as you did not allocate your soul force well, leading to a desperate situation. Therefore, your combat skills can be awarded twenty points."
"Huo Yuhao's final assessment! One hundred points, passing the upgrade assessment." Du Weiren announced loudly.
Huo Yuhao's face was pale. After bowing, he returned to Class One's team.
On the way back, the students in Class One looked at Huo Yuhao with surprise, confusion, envy, and even jealousy, but none of them were happy to congratulate him on passing the assessment.
"Huo Yuhao! Good job." Mu Jin looked at the returning Huo Yuhao with considerable surprise.
"Thank you, Teacher Mu!" Huo Yuhao's expression was calm, but his eyes unconsciously drifted towards Wu Xuan's direction.
Wu Xuan remained indifferent, ignoring Huo Yuhao.
"Classmates! Let's give Huo Yuhao a round of applause!" Wang Yan clapped with a smile.
Surprisingly, the scattered applause from Class One sounded unusually jarring.
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