"So.... you're the Monster that's appeared among the freshman?" Wang Dong asked as she looked in absolute shock at Yuhao who was calmly eating grilled chicken, he had even been kind enough and brought some for Wang Dong, ah, he was truly a kind soul.
"Hm? Has it already spread?" Yuhao asked calmly as Wang Dong understood that Yuhao was confirming it for her that yes, it's him.
"What do you mean by such a bland reaction?! You just beat one of the best students in the Outer Courtyard!" Wang Dong said with twitching eyes.
"... Don't know, it took me the exact same effort to beat you too." He shrugged while she became frustrated at his nonchalance and bit into the chicken angrily and her eyes widened "..T-this....so..good." She said as she inhaled the chicken and took the next one and began devouring it too as it vanished faster than Xu Sanshi's dignity.
Her earlier shock? Forgotten in some corner of her mind.
.
.
.
"Have you heard the news?"
"What news?"
"Xu Sanshi lost a match today."
"Huh, that's rare, And?"
"It was to a first year! I was there at that time, he beat Xu Sanshi in three moves!"
"No way! You're exaggerating."
"Not at all!"
Such similar conversations where occuring across the Outer Courtyard.
"..Hm... He's stronger than expected..." The old man at the dormitory door muttered seriously as he heard the student's gossip. "That's great...." He smiled, his wrinkled face wrinkling even more as he then relaxed again and lay on the recliner with a book over his face.
.
.
.
{Next Morning}
Mu Jin tapped her attendance sheet against the desk, quieting the murmuring students. "I expect you've all heard about the new rumours?" Her gaze flickered briefly to Yuhao as she continued "That a Freshman defeated a 6th Year Student yesterday?"
Ning Tian's eyes sparkled with curiosity as she studied Yuhao who looked like he couldn't care less. Wu Feng scoffed loudly, arms crossed. "Obviously it's fake news," she muttered, though her fingers dug nervously into her sleeves as she also glanced towards Yuhao.
"What I'm about to say is, that rumour is true." Mu Jin said as she looked at the students who burst into discussion "Infact, it's someone from our class." She continued with obvious pride as the students all basically looked at Yuhao because they all had unanimously decided yesterday that Yuhao brought them the most pressure and was hence the strongest.
"What? He wasn't that strong." Yuhao said calmly while he looked at Mu Jin who's smile widened "Confidence is good but don't be arrogant." She advised "But considering that you beat him in less than three moves, I guess it's confidence backed up by strength." She smiled as the students gasped when they heard how easily he defeated Xu Sanshi.
"Anyways! Students, please meet me at Training Ground 9, except Yuhao, could you please come with me first?" Mu Jin first instructed the class and gave Ning Tian the location and told her to lead the students there while she asked Yuhao to follow her.
"What is it, Teacher Mu?" Yuhao asked as he followed her to the staff room and arrived at her desk and she took out a storage guide shaped like a bracelet and gave it to him.
"This is..?" He looked at her quizzically as she smiled "The school rewarded me for teaching an excellent student like you but, I know I didn't teach you anything since it's only been a day since you enrolled." Mu Jin smiled "It has 25,000 Gold coins, it's the academy's reward to me, which belongs to you and the bracelet is a gift from me as a teacher to you." She said as he blinked at her, he never expected her to give her bonus to him and she even gave him a Storage Guide, "Don't look at me like that, because of you I have a chance to get promoted if our class wins the Freshman Assessment." She explained but he knew that this was more of a gift than an investment.
'She's a nice woman.' Skydream said as Yuhao agreed as he gripped the blue and black bracelet with sections on it and smiled at Mu Jin who was stunned because it was the first time she saw him smile "...Thank You Teacher." He said as he bowed, genuinely this time as she tried to stop him.
.
.
.
Around 10 minutes later, they were at Training Grounds 9 after Mu Jin managed to stop Yuhao from bowing.
"Students, we'll keep it simple, you'll all have to spar with each other, it doesn't matter who loses or who wins, what matters is that you gain some experience with single combat to understand your abilities." Mu Jin said while standing on the arena like floor of the Training Ground and infront of her stood all the students... except Yuhao who after the students' strong(and terrified) request and his own indifference, chose to opt out and got a free period for today, training with Yuhao would give them experience fighting against someone stronger but what they needed now wasn't that, what they needed was to understand their own limits, most students were nobles or commoners who didn't know much about battle while some were like Ning Tian from the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda clan and Wu Feng who was her follower since young and had experience.
_____
"...So, that's why I'm here, for advice in becoming stronger." Yuhao said bluntly.
"And why did that bring you to me?" The old man on the recliner besides the dormitory asked Yuhao who explained why he wasn't in class but here.
"You're strong, I can feel it. You're much stronger than anyone else I've seen in Shrek till now." Yuhao said bluntly as the old man smiled slightly, his wrinkled face becoming even more wrinkled "Oh? Perceptive, aren't you?"
"So tell me, what would you like to ask an old man like me?" He asked curiously as Yuhao looked at him and opened his mouth and said something that stunned the old man himself.
"Your name."
".... Hahahaha, you're different, aren't you." The old man smiled even wider if that was possible "Mu En, you can call me Mu Lao." Mu Lao said.
"Huo Yuhao." Yuhao introduced himself once again as the old and young exchanged smiles, although the young one didn't actually have a smile.
______
[Host: Huo Yuhao]
[Martial Soul: King Of Hell (1st Stage), Eyes of The King (1st Stage)]
[Bloodline: ???(Sealed)]
[Soul Power: Level 30 Soul Master (Level 41)]
[Skills: Hell's Vision Lv.3 (93/1000), Spiritual Sharing Lv.3 (71/1000), Hell's Gaze Lv.3 (1/1000), Hell's Domain Lv.3 (0/1000), Seeds of Sin Lv.2 (0/100), The True Ruler's Technique Lv.3 (166/1000)]
[Soul Points: 57]