Huo Yuhao was still unaware of what had just happened inside the spiritual world.
He was simply happy that the Skydream Iceworm's wish had been fulfilled.
Suddenly, he felt a splitting headache, as his spiritual power irreversibly began transforming into spiritual force.
The process was no less painful than scraping bones or cutting flesh—except it directly acted upon his spirit and soul, a pain that cut straight to the core!
Watching this made Zhuge Lan grit his teeth.
Fortunately, back then he had spent that extra 1 Fortune Points to block the sensation of pain.
Otherwise, if the Skydream Iceworm saw him rolling all over the ground in agony, how would he ever joyfully tease him again?
As for little Yuhao…
Pain was also a form of cultivation, and this was in fact a perfect assist.
——Huo Yuhao's appearance at this moment completely frightened Wang Dong!
"Yuhao? What's wrong with you?"
"I only pushed you earlier without thinking, but you landed on your feet, didn't you? How could you end up like this?"
"It's okay, I'm here!"
Wang Dong hugged Huo Yuhao tightly to restrain him, stuffing his own collar into Huo Yuhao's mouth to prevent him from biting himself again and suffering secondary injury.
As for Huo Yuhao writhing in his arms, squirming, rubbing close—Wang Dong couldn't care about any of that right now.
After half an hour of torment—
Huo Yuhao's small reserve of spiritual power was finally fully transformed into spiritual force, leaving him limp with exhaustion in Wang Dong's equally weakened arms.
"Shua—"
The spiritual force unconsciously radiated outward, lifting everything in the dorm into the air as if they were in a zero-gravity field.
The floating Wang Dong forced himself to look around, and eventually his gaze locked onto the figure resting against his chest.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao's eyes shone with the glow of soul power, pressed close against Wang Dong's chest, completely focused.
Having learned from the "lesson" just now—
This time Wang Dong didn't overreact.
He quietly pushed Huo Yuhao away, touching his burning cheeks in an attempt to cool them down.
Damn it!
He actually…
Well, he had tied it tightly enough, so he shouldn't have noticed, right?
Unbeknownst to him—
Huo Yuhao wasn't paying attention to the outside world at all. He was in the middle of an intense discussion inside the spiritual world.
"Brother Lan, didn't you say this was for Brother Tianming?"
"I only said you get to vote, not that you get to decide." Zhuge Lan said lazily: "You voted for Tianmeng, but me and Tianmeng voted for you. Two to one, so you awakened."
Huo Yuhao looked toward the Skydream Iceworm. Was that true?
The Skydream Iceworm nodded with tears in his eyes.
"Brother Tianming, your expression looks off. Did you really vote for me?" Huo Yuhao frowned. "It feels like…"
"Of course not!" The Skydream Iceworm shouted loudly: "I voted for you! Anyway, I'm always in the spiritual world. What's the point of me awakening spiritual force early? Better to let you gain fighting strength first!"
Huo Yuhao's eyes darted back and forth.
Zhuge Lan smiling brightly, the Skydream Iceworm suppressing grief.
His heart instantly became clear.
With a sigh, he said helplessly: "Brother Lan, don't bully Brother Tianming all the time."
"Me, bullying it?" Zhuge Lan looked at the Skydream Iceworm: "You tell him, did I bully you?"
Could the Skydream Iceworm dare to speak the truth?
Warning: Spiritual force awakening in progress!
He decisively shook his head—Nope, nothing like that!
"All right, they're still waiting outside for you to tidy up." Zhuge Lan waved his hand.
A surge of spiritual force rushed out, dispersing Huo Yuhao's spiritual body.
His attention instantly returned outside, realizing everything was still floating. He quickly and gently set everything back down.
As soon as Wang Dong landed, he immediately ran outside the dorm.
"Hurry, we'll be late for class!"
Huo Yuhao was startled!
Without time to think about the strange situation, he used spiritual force to levitate his clothes and flew straight toward the teaching building.
Wang Dong also summoned his Light Butterfly martial soul, transforming into a dreamlike butterfly that fluttered gracefully.
One after the other, they flew through the air, drawing the attention of Mu En, who slightly opened his eyes from his lounge chair.
His gaze lingered briefly on Huo Yuhao.
"Interesting."
"A strange spiritual power seal, flying without using external tools…"
"This Holy Flame Meow-Meow Sect—no information at all. Is it hidden too deep, or has it only just risen?"
"Bah, I'm old. No need to worry so much."
Mu En closed his eyes again and sank back into deep sleep.
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Meanwhile, Wang Dong suddenly remembered that he'd left Huo Yuhao behind in the dorm.
He was just about to fly back to pick him up—when he nearly collided with Huo Yuhao head-on. Luckily, the latter swerved in a curve to avoid him.
Seeing Huo Yuhao flying in midair without even summoning his martial soul—
Wang Dong's eyes nearly popped out of his head!
"You… how can you fly?"
"The martial soul fusion caused my Spirit Eyes to mutate again, my spiritual power evolved into a new form. I call it spiritual force. It can manipulate objects from a distance." Huo Yuhao explained.
At the same time, he took out the White Tiger Dagger from the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, controlling it with spiritual force to circle around his body.
Wang Dong's lips twitched unnaturally.
Another mutation?
Your Spirit Eyes martial soul is really…
"How come I don't get such good luck?" Wang Dong muttered.
"The Light Butterfly Goddess is already the strongest martial soul on the continent. What else do you want to mutate into?" Huo Yuhao said with a smile. "My martial soul was born deficient. I can only rely on mutations to evolve."
Wang Dong rolled his eyes.
How dare you even say the words 'rely on mutations to evolve'?
This is the kind of chance soul masters dream of their whole lives, and for you it's just a strengthening method?
"Ding-dong—"
"Class is about to begin. Please…"
"Latecomers will not be allowed to enter!"
The two of them tightened their expressions and accelerated.
One after the other, they shot through the closing doors, dashing into the classroom, landing amidst a chorus of startled exclamations.
Just as Zhou Yi emerged from the teacher's passageway, she stared in astonishment at Huo Yuhao.
Her brain rapidly sifted through data. Huo Yuhao, 11 years old, entered at Rank 11, rose four ranks in four days, martial soul Spirit Eyes (an innate martial soul), spiritual attribute, first soul skill: Spiritual Detection Sharing.
And just now, he hadn't summoned a martial soul, hadn't used a soul tool, and clearly had no soul bone.
He had no means of flight!
Zhou Yi was completely baffled.
Simply waving her hand, she said:
"Wang Dong, take the class members to warm up first."
"Huo Yuhao, stay behind."
Everyone knew Zhou Yi wanted to ask about the flying.
Although curious, matters involving such secrets weren't something that should be exposed to too many people besides teachers.
——And even then, whether a teacher could get the truth was another matter altogether!
After everyone left—
Zhou Yi finally spoke:
"This is just a routine inquiry, to help with future teaching. If there's any confidential matter you can't disclose, you may refuse to answer."
"Now, can you tell me why you were able to fly just now?"
Huo Yuhao didn't hide much, explaining that his martial soul had resonated with Wang Dong's, leading to mutation, and that his awakening of spiritual force came from this martial soul mutation.
Hearing this made Zhou Yi's brow twitch violently.
"You said your martial soul mutated once when you absorbed your first soul ring, and the soul skill mutated along with it."
"Now, through martial soul resonance, one night of cultivation and it mutated again, and your spiritual power transformed too?"
"And all this happened within six days?"
Huo Yuhao nodded cautiously. Wasn't that possible?
Brother Lan said so, it should be fine, right?
But Zhou Yi, in her state of shock, didn't notice his unease.
Her mind was in a frenzy of brainstorming.
A Wind Baboon with ten years of cultivation—even if it were at the ninety-nine-year level—for the Spirit Eyes martial soul to evolve upon absorbing it, that meant the martial soul quality was extremely low!
To be able to evolve once without shattering was already a miracle.
But to mutate again and evolve?
And even drag spiritual power along into mutation and sublimation, giving the ability to manipulate physical objects…
Hmmm?
Spiritual power manipulating objects?