socalfunplaces Chapter 34 The Arrangement of the Poison That Never Dies
Chapter 34 The Arrangement of the Poison That Never Dies
Huo Yuhao solemnly accepted the gifts with both hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Princess."
Xue Heng smiled and waved his hand: "Let's not talk about serious matters now, no need to be formal. Since you are Vina's junior brother, you can just call me Uncle Heng in private."
"And," he looked at Vina with a smile, "Vina has been urging me to prepare some nice things for you ever since she got back. I've put them all in the necklace now, are you satisfied with them?"
Huo Yuhao channeled his mental energy into the starlight sapphire necklace.
In an instant, his eyes were drawn to the piles of gold soul coins.
He roughly counted and found that there were at least 1.5 million gold soul coins.
"Once you've truly grown up, you'll realize that gold soul coins are actually the least valuable thing, but you absolutely can't do without them."
Xue Heng noticed Huo Yuhao's expression: "There's more inside."
Huo Yuhao continued watching.
This time, he saw a spiritual object emanating an extremely cold aura in a corner of the necklace space.
"Ice Emperor, Heavenly Dream, this..." Huo Yuhao was shocked.
This thing in the corner is actually an extremely rare ice marrow!
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Emperor spoke, informing Huo Yuhao that this piece of ice marrow was not the ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow, but it was still extremely rare.
For Huo Yuhao at this stage, this piece of ice marrow might be even more useful than the ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow.
Because the cold energy contained in this ice marrow is at a near-ultimate level, as long as Huo Yuhao has it, he can adapt his meridians to the stimulation of extreme cold in advance, laying a solid foundation for his future cultivation of "using extreme ice as firewood and martial arts as a furnace".
Xue Heng pushed her portion of tea and snacks towards Huo Yuhao.
His voice was gentle, like flowing spring water: "This piece of ice marrow was originally intended for Vina. However, the Snow Lotus Martial Soul is ultimately only a support type. It will take at least three or four years before she can successfully absorb all the energy in the ice marrow."
"I have always believed in the principle that things are valuable when they are available. If something is useful, it should be used at the right time. So I'm giving you this piece of ice marrow."
Huo Yuhao pursed his lips.
"Uncle Heng, I will always remember Tianhun's kindness." He put the star sapphire necklace around his neck, its touch cool.
Vina's eyebrows curved, and her pure eyes were full of laughter.
She walked slowly to Huo Yuhao and said, "Junior brother, you're being too polite."
"Father values you because you are a genius worthy of cultivation. Moreover, we are from the same school, so it is only right that we support each other."
Xue Heng smiled and nodded: "Vina is right. I don't want you to make any vows, I just hope you can go further."
"Alright, alright, now that we've finished talking about business, it's time to relax."
"These are all new desserts recently developed by the imperial chefs. Come and try them!"
Huo Yuhao didn't stand on ceremony and took a bite of a small, exquisitely shaped pastry.
A delicate sweetness melts on the tongue, with a refined jasmine fragrance lingering between the teeth, like holding a soft cloud in your mouth.
Huo Yuhao couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.
The silver disc hangs high, and the clear moonlight shines down like a silver veil.
Huo Yuhao and Du Busi walked on the white jade road, talking to each other.
"Teacher," Huo Yuhao couldn't contain his curiosity and asked, "How was the Shrek Academy incident handled?"
Poison Undying curled his lip and said, "What else can we do? We can't really drive them out of the Heavenly Soul."
"First of all, Xuanzi must hold a public apology meeting to the Imperial Academy and bear all related losses."
"Oh, right," Poisonous Immortal added, "remember when I grabbed your arm and smashed down the headmaster's tower? That's on Shrek Academy's tab too, make them pay for it."
"You can rest assured about what Mu En promised you. His Majesty has already reached an agreement with Shrek Academy using the Heavenly Soul Seal. Unless they take Shrek City away, they won't be able to renege on their promise."
Huo Yuhao remained silent for a long while before saying, "This disciple has learned a great deal."
Poison Undying nodded with considerable satisfaction.
He then continued, "Secondly, Shrek Academy must restrain its faculty and students and regulate their behavior within the Heavenly Soul Empire. If any similar incidents of offense against Heavenly Soul occur again, the Empire will punish them severely."
Huo Yuhao said "Oh," and then added, "That makes sense, it's normal."
"The last point is the most important."
Du Bu Si said, "His Majesty believes that this incident was caused by the two families vying for students, so he has asked Shrek Academy to issue a public statement that it will not interfere with the students' right to choose within the Heavenly Soul Realm by any means in the future."
"At the same time, the two academies will conduct a six-month exchange program before the start of the Star Luo Soul Master Competition."
"It is worth mentioning that after Xuanzi and the others left, His Majesty specifically requested that Aotian join the Imperial Academy and go as Imperial Academy's representative to participate in the exchange student program."
"Because His Majesty said that Mu En's granting access to the materials represents Shrek Academy's show of weakness to the Heavenly Soul Empire, meaning that Heavenly Soul should not unite with the Soul Master sects within its territory to completely cut off its source of life."
"His Majesty proposed the exchange student program simply to follow Moon's wishes."
Huo Yuhao seemed to be deep in thought.
Shrek Academy's influence is deeply rooted in the three great empires, and every year a large number of outstanding soul masters choose to go there to study. The three royal families have probably long wanted to weaken its influence.
It's true that Moon showed weakness, but he still needs to be disciplined.
Otherwise they won't learn their lesson.
Therefore, this student exchange program, on the surface, is an academic exchange, but in reality, it is an opportunity for Tianhun to demonstrate its strength to the Shrek Academy students in order to compete for students in the future and to put Shrek Academy in a bad light.
Otherwise, why would Xue Heng specifically request Long Aotian to participate?
Through his conversation with Long Aotian that night, Huo Yuhao learned that, based on the former's talent, he could definitely become a high-level Soul Emperor before the age of twenty, and might even become a Soul Saint.
"But teacher, if we let Senior Brother Long participate in the exchange student program, won't Shrek Academy try to back out?"
Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment: "If they say that Senior Brother Long was trained by the Body Sect, not Di Ao, wouldn't that backfire?"
"You think all of Shrek Academy's outstanding students are trained by themselves?" Du Bu Si said indifferently.
"The White Tiger Clan, the Netherworld Clan, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, the Xuanming School, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and so on—almost all of Shrek Academy's outstanding graduates over the years have come from these powerful families. Which one of them doesn't possess a family-inherited soul skill?"
"Their so-called 'only accepting monsters' is really just about gathering geniuses from various forces and training them. If we're talking about the ability to train ordinary soul masters, I don't think Shrek Academy can compare to some of the smaller academies here."
"Look at Zhou Yi, she even wants to expel the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. You can imagine how difficult life would be for a true commoner martial spirit there," Du Busi said smugly.
Huo Yuhao nodded, indicating that he understood what Du Busi was saying.
Then, Huo Yuhao suddenly frowned, as if he had thought of something.
He hesitated, then said, "The representative from Shrek Academy...could it be Ma Xiaotao?"
Poisonous Undying grinned: "You guessed right, but there's no reward. Song Yunzhi demands that Ma Xiaotao, that slovenly phoenix, be kept at Di'ao."
Huo Yuhao frowned even more deeply: "Her evil fire is at risk of getting out of control at any time. If Shrek leaves her in Di'ao, wouldn't that be abandoning the lives of Di'ao students?"
"So His Majesty wants you to join Di'ao as well."
"This way, we won't completely offend Shrek Academy and deplete the Empire's resources to fight them. Secondly, we can keep track of the progress in purifying Ma Xiaotao's evil fire."
Poison Undying said, "Besides, you're just joining Di'ao in name only. You can come when you have time, and forget about it when you don't."
"All you need to do is appear in next year's Soul Master Competition and, together with Aotian, represent Di'ao to defeat the Shrek team. This will make it easier to thoroughly humiliate Shrek in the Heavenly Soul Realm."
"As for her evil fire problem," Poison Undying pondered, "His Majesty fears she might fall into becoming an evil soul master, which is why he agreed to treat her evil fire. However, you must be careful not to let her soar to great heights before you grow stronger."
"This wasn't His Majesty's request; it was something I made to you. I'm just petty and can't stand seeing Shrek do well."
Huo Yuhao pondered.
It's not impossible for them to represent Di'ao Academy in the Soul Master Competition next year.
This way, one can compete with the top geniuses on the entire continent, and also earn merit to increase one's prestige, making it easier to be promoted to a higher rank in the future.
Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao replied, "Okay, teacher, but I want to join the Soul Guidance Department."
Poisonless looked displeased and was about to reprimand him.
Huo Yuhao quickly said, "Because I want to draw inspiration from the core array of the soul tool and try to see if I can treat my physical body as a rare metal and my mental power as a carving knife to achieve the unity of spirit and body."
Poison Undying was taken aback.
He stroked his chin, pondering, and said, "Your idea... is quite interesting."
"Using the body as a weapon and the spirit as a blade, this seems like a promising approach."
"How about this?" Poison Immortal clapped his hands. "I'll have Lang Ya and Gu Tong study with you."
"They are also spiritual martial spirits, so you can look out for each other, discuss things together, and avoid making mistakes due to studying alone."
"Secondly, if this path really works, they can also find a completely new way, which will be of great benefit to themselves and to the Body Sect."
"However, the final plan needs to be reviewed by Hongyue and me before it can be implemented."
In the end, they were still not at ease even if the poison didn't kill them.
He reiterated, "No one has walked this path before, so you must be careful and not act rashly. The Body Sect and the Heavenly Soul Empire will be your strongest support, so don't blindly work on your own. If you need anything, be sure to speak up."
"Do you understand?"
Huo Yuhao smiled and replied, "Thank you for your concern, Master. I understand."
Poison Undying nodded: "Alright. It's getting late, you should go and get some rest. I'll take you back to the Body Sect tomorrow."
"After all this time, it's time for you to officially begin your cultivation in the Body Sect."
"You're now the deputy leader of the Heavenly Ring and the captain of the Azure Dragon Guard. It's unacceptable that you're only a Great Soul Master. You're embarrassing me."
"Moreover," Poison Undying grinned, "this time, I'm leading the Body Sect to utterly humiliate Shrek Academy."
"If you can't dethrone Shrek from the championship throne in next year's Soul Master Tournament, you can go and resign from your Azure Dragon title and the position of vice-captain of the Heavenly Ring yourself."
"Similarly, if you can lead Di'ao to victory, then I might consider giving you the position of Young Sect Master, Dangdang."