Douluo: The True Eye

Zhou Yi's unpleasant voice interrupted the others' discussion: "Alright, this time is different from the past. It's a sudden situation."

"You don't need to worry too much. There won't be any punishment for losing the selection competition, because in addition to you, there will also be third, fourth, and fifth-grade students from the Soul Guidance Department and the Martial Soul Department participating. As second-grade students, just do your best."

"However, even so, there will only be thirty-some people at most. Only seven people will be selected from among them to participate in a special mission. You all need to make me proud and at least not suffer a complete defeat."

"Alright, you can all go back to the classroom first. Study what you need to study, attend classes that you need to attend, and don't affect your condition."

Upon hearing this, everyone left Zhou Yi's office one after another.

"Yuhao, what do you think is going on this time? It seems like a big deal, affecting second, third, fourth, and fifth graders," Wang Dong said to his external brain.

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "I don't know. Don't think too much about it. Just cultivate normally. Anyway, at least we second-graders have the advantage in numbers, right? There are thirty-some people, and we account for more than a dozen of them."

Speaking of this, Huo Yuhao also felt a little ridiculous. It was no wonder that Shrek Academy had lowered the standard for selecting reserve team members to the second grade. After all, apart from the second grade, there might not be many capable students among the third, fourth, and fifth grades.

Compared to absorbing the resources of the original Three Kingdoms of the Douluo Continent, the students of these generations in Shrek Academy can be said to be experiencing a talent drought. Only the fresh blood of the second grade is worth anticipating.

Of course, Xuan Zi's contribution should not be underestimated. After all, even under his leadership, inner court disciples inexplicably suffered losses during soul beast hunts that were supposed to be relatively safe.

In the following days, Huo Yuhao continuously absorbed the medicinal power contained in the magic medicine, without doing anything else, because he discovered that with the absorption of the magic medicine, his body seemed to be undergoing some subtle changes.

Feeling the power of qi and blood constantly growing in his body, Huo Yuhao gradually began to try some relatively dangerous operations.

In the dormitory, Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged, his body immersed in a wooden barrel filled with special medicinal liquid.

Shrek Academy naturally has cultivation secret rooms prepared for students, with complete facilities, but the gold soul coins consumed are not a small amount. Even core disciples are only given a 50% discount at most.

After all, sometimes soul master cultivation involves privacy, which mostly occurs among soul masters with families or sects behind them, and these students naturally would not care about this small expense of renting a secret room.

However, this was quite painful for Huo Yuhao. However, because Wang Dong seemed to have a need in this regard, he asked for leave these days to leave alone and go into seclusion.

And now only Huo Yuhao was left in the dormitory, so naturally, there was no need to rent any secret room.

These medicinal liquids were prepared by Huo Yuhao after exchanging them from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's chamber of commerce in Shrek City these days. In addition, he also exchanged a sum of gold soul coins for future actions.

Crimson Blood Vine, Marrow Cleansing Wood, and Marrow Washing Grass are all relatively common medicinal materials that can temper the physical strength of low-level soul masters, but they have little effect on high-level soul masters.

Huo Yuhao needed to use these medicinal materials to help him stimulate his body faster, so as to digest the medicinal power of the magic medicine.

During this process, Huo Yuhao's physical body would be constantly damaged due to external stimulation, but then constantly repaired due to the medicinal properties of the magic medicine.

The Eye of Truth constantly recorded this process, so as to understand the subtle changes in Huo Yuhao's own body.

Although the physical structures between soul masters are roughly the same, there will be differences in the details due to their bloodlines, martial souls, growth environment, and cultivation methods.

And Huo Yuhao is now trying to screen out these subtle differences, and at the same time, with the help of the re-repairing process, gradually reshape the uncoordinated parts according to his needs.

Seeing that his original black short hair had grown to his waist, Huo Yuhao controlled his spiritual power to turn into a sharp blade, and restored it to its original appearance in a few strokes.

'Well, it can barely be considered a success. Thank you, Elder Yi, for always helping me watch. You should go and rest now,' Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief.

Iliex's old voice was a little helpless: 'You kid are really an adventurous master. Directly interfering with the physical body outside the meridians and acupoints through energy, a carelessness will cause damage to the body, not to mention that you still want to transform it from the root.'

'How easy is that? How much strength do you have now? Although you have your magical eyes, you can't mess around like this.'

'Hehe, isn't everything alright? And it's almost successful, isn't it?' Looking at the strands of hair in his Eye of Truth that were slightly stronger in structure than other people's hair, Huo Yuhao was very satisfied.

By imitating the martial soul structure of the Lan Su Su and Lan Luo Luo sisters, Huo Yuhao gradually made some transformations to his hair. Now, although it is not comparable to a genuine hair martial soul, it is far stronger than the bodies of ordinary soul masters.

And this kind of toughness is not because of the blessing of qi and blood power and soul power, but because of the fundamental structural change.

If the fundamental structure is the foundation, then the power of qi and blood and soul power are additional multipliers to this foundation.

Why is the physical strength of ordinary soul masters of the same level not as good as soul beasts? That is because in terms of the basic strength of the body, soul beasts far surpass soul masters. Unless the soul master's own martial soul is strong enough, and the transformation of the soul master's foundation is too excellent, otherwise, the human body is not as good as the beast body is the norm in the Douluo world.

Even until the level of the gods, this is still the case. After all, gods have divine power, so how can divine beasts not have divine power?

And although Huo Yuhao can't be said to have caused a qualitative change in his body, since he can transform his hair, then gradually transforming other parts is naturally not difficult.

As for why it can only barely be considered a success, it is because the energy and the power of qi and blood that Huo Yuhao currently possesses are still too little.

Relying only on the power of the magic medicine and Huo Yuhao's current stage of soul power, at most, only unimportant parts such as hair can complete the most basic strengthening, and even fail to reach the level of a martial soul, let alone other parts.

Huo Yuhao's goal, however, was the true meaning of the Body Martial Soul: the Main Body. By using his own Eye of Reality as a foundation, he would gradually transform his entire body into a part of his Martial Soul, strengthening the foundation of his physical body.

Standing up and wiping himself down briefly, Huo Yuhao's skin was now a light red, and looked as delicate as a baby's, as if it could be broken with a puff of air.

This was because this layer of skin was the newly grown epidermis, thanks to the medicinal power of the magic drug. Huo Yuhao's original skin had been refined away by the power of the Crimson Blood Vine.

The original dark red medicinal liquid had now turned black, its medicinal power completely exhausted by Huo Yuhao.

'I'm still too poor. If I could do this a hundred more times, I should be able to completely absorb the medicinal power of the magic drug.' After cleaning up and tidying everything, Huo Yuhao thought with some regret.

But there was no way around it. He still needed to save some gold soul coins to participate in the auction for the Soul Devouring Vicious Blade; he couldn't spend them all on medicinal herbs.

However, Huo Yuhao's physique had already reached the Soul Grandmaster level, and it wouldn't be long before his soul power would likely increase by another level.

The next day, Wang Yan looked at the students below the stage and said, "The other students can leave. Core disciples, stay behind; you'll come with me to the Soul Fighting Zone later."

Because of Zhou Yi's prior notification, the core disciples were all present in the class. Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Dong; in the vision of the Eye of Reality, Wang Dong's other body parts were normal, but his hands seemed to have received a great deal of strengthening.

There was a faint accumulation of energy within them that had not yet been completely absorbed, and they had a faint jade-like color throughout.

'...Judging by the looks of it, is he going to start playing with a big hammer?'

Wang Dong, however, had no idea what Huo Yuhao was thinking.

As the core disciples followed Wang Yan towards the Soul Fighting Zone, Wang Dong approached Huo Yuhao and said, "I wonder what the format of this selection competition will be. If it's still teams, how about the two of us and Xiao Xiao together first?"

Huo Yuhao nodded, but didn't say much, because this selection competition was being held by Xuan Zi, and it wasn't as formal as Wang Dong thought. Whether they could stay in the end would depend on their own fate.

Soon, the ten or so official core disciples of the second grade arrived at the Soul Fighting Zone under the leadership of their homeroom teacher. At the same time, core disciples from other grades also arrived one after another.

Seeing Ning Tian, Huo Yuhao nodded politely; after all, he still remembered the agreement he had made with Ning Tian before.

At the same time, he also remembered the words that Ning Tian had asked the manager to bring him when he was at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's shop, hoping that he could do his best to help her stand out from the selection.

'Perhaps she has already guessed something? But that's also true. After all, there are seven disciples, and the official competition isn't far away. There are also age requirements for the personnel. After a little investigation, anyone with a brain can guess what's going on.'

Although the age range was a bit large this time, in Huo Yuhao's opinion, the difference in strength between everyone wasn't that great. Except for Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou, who were all four-ringed, most of the other higher-grade disciples were only three-ringed.

Among the second-grade disciples, there was a mixture of two-ringed and three-ringed. If you only looked at the paper strength, the difference in soul power was just like that; it wasn't too much.

After everyone had arrived, an old man with a gourd in his left hand and a chicken leg in his right hand walked over leisurely. This configuration also showed his identity; who else could it be but Xuan Zi?

Xuan Zi said to Wang Yan with hazy eyes, "Little Wang, are all the people here?"

"They're all here. There are a total of twenty-six core disciples from the Martial Soul Department from the second to fifth grades, but only one person came from the Soul Tool Department. According to the information submitted by the Soul Tool Department, the others have all been screened out."

Today's Soul Fighting Arena had already been reserved by Shrek Academy in advance, and all other teachers and students had been cleared out.

Xuan Zi led everyone to the center of the Soul Fighting Zone, and then looked at everyone and said, "The content of this core disciple assessment is very simple."

"I call it a collective free-for-all. Within the range of the Soul Fighting Zone, you can attack at will, without any rules. Those who admit defeat or are rescued are eliminated, and the last seven remaining are the winners."

"Alright, teachers, get out of here. After this old man shouts 'start,' you can start fighting."

"What the, no way." Wang Dong subconsciously moved closer to Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao also stood beside Huo Yuhao without thinking when she heard this.

Not far from Huo Yuhao were Ning Tian and Wu Feng. Wu Feng was still a bit confused about the situation, but Ning Tian understood and quickly grabbed Wu Feng's hand and ran towards Huo Yuhao.

Several teachers quickly exited the Soul Fighting Zone, and then Xuan Zi raised the wine gourd in his hand and shouted, "Start!"

Then, he disappeared, and only twenty-seven outer court core disciples remained in the Soul Fighting Arena.

Huo Yuhao glanced at everyone, and first launched a full-force mental shock towards He Caitou.

Don't ask, just know that we must deal with the turd-stirrer first.

Currently, the strongest soul masters present were only four-ringed, and He Caitou was also four-ringed, and a soul tool master.

Soul tools have terrifying lethality in the early stages, not to mention that He Caitou was a master among them.

And now, Huo Yuhao had no relationship with this only core disciple sent by the Soul Tool Department. He didn't want to be hit by a soul tool cannon for no reason, or try to use hidden weapons to PK soul tools.

Covering his head, He Caitou didn't fall, but his original, ready-to-fire attack was interrupted.

The sudden mental shock caused the soul power that He Caitou had already injected into the soul tool cannon to flow back, and for a moment, his soul power was somewhat disordered.

Looking at the four soul rings under his feet, a hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the originally stunned crowd.

After all, no one knew that this silent big guy from the Soul Tool Department was actually a four-ringed Soul Grandmaster-level expert.

Seeing that the other party was covering his head and seemed to be affected by some kind of soul skill, how could the few core disciples who reacted quickly and were closer miss this opportunity? They hurriedly summoned their martial souls and greeted He Caitou.

After all, he was the only one from the Soul Tool Department present, and he wasn't very familiar with everyone, so who else would they hit if they didn't hit him first?

And so, the unlucky He Caitou became the first core disciple to be eliminated, falling as the target of public criticism.

It's just that he didn't make any contribution in the core disciple selection. Thinking about it, this would be another not-small blow to the Soul Tool Department's position in Shrek Academy.