Chapter 15.2: Three Months
âHuo Yuhao, I didnât think that the quality of your roasted fish would be so high. How about this. After I treat you to dinner, you can treat me to some roasted fish. How does that sound?â Wang Dong spoke with an excited expression as he recalled the delicious fragrance of the roasted fish heâd just eaten.
Huo Yuhao couldnât help but laugh. âYou couldnât possibly want to eat roasted fish every night, could you? Even if itâs as tasty as you say it is, youâll still get tired of it if you eat it too much.â
Wang Dong replied, âNo worries, I donât care. Letâs talk about that when Iâve managed to satisfy my cravings. Itâs settled; I want to eat four roasted fish tomorrow night! Two fishes just werenât enough to satisfy me! Besides, did you see how many people were in line today? I think that you should sell a few more fish, it doesnât waste too much time anyway. If you donât, weâll finish eating them before youâve even started selling them!â
By this time, the two had already packed up and returned to their dormitory. Before returning to their rooms, they decided to head to the canteen to get some dinner.
âWang Dong, since my eldest senior brother gave me another Mysterious Water Pill, do you think that I should eat it or the Soul Advancement Pill first?â Huo Yuhao took out the two pills and asked Wang Dong. Wang Dong was clearly more knowledgeable than him in the field of medicinal pills. After receiving the two pills, Huo Yuhao was truly feeling somewhat impatient. If he added the medicinal properties of the two pills to his own cultivation, he wouldnât be behind the other students in their class anymore.
Wang Dong thought for a while, before replying, âIâd recommend that you not be so eager to take these two pills; at least, for the time being.â
âWhy?â Huo Yuhao asked with a puzzled expression.
Wang Dong replied, âThink about it. You just used a Mysterious Water Pill yesterday. A lot of your bodyâs impurities have already been flushed out. The medicinal efficacy of the Mysterious Water Pill will stay in your body for a period of time, but will be dissolved as you continue to meditate. If you take any other medicine right now, even though itâll still have some partial effects, youâll waste some of its medicinal power. The Mysterious Water Pill and the Soul Advancement Pill can both be described with the words âHeavenly Treasureâ. Since you have such precious pills, you should naturally make full use of them. I suggest that you cultivate for around ten days or so; wait until your body has managed to fully absorb the effects of the first Mysterious Water Pill before you use the second one. Youâll be able to improve your physique by a step, while increasing your soulforce at the same time. Once youâve finished absorbing the medicinal effects of the Mysterious Water Pills, both your physique and passageways will have had a rather large improvement. If you then use the Soul Advancement Pillâsince your body will be free of obstructionsâyouâll naturally be able to obtain the greatest amount of benefits possible.â
Huo Yuhao felt that Wang Dongâs analysis was extremely reasonable. âThanks, Iâm lucky that you told me about all of this now. If you hadnât, I wouldnât have known how to use them effectively. What about you? Are you going to eat yourâs today?â
Wang Dong nodded his head and said, âIâm already at rank twenty one; my physique and passageways are in extremely good condition. Itâs naturally perfect for me to absorb the Soul Advancement Pill as soon as possible. When I eat it, Iâll be able to dissolve its medicinal power in a single night. Hehe, Iâll be at rank twenty two tomorrow, or possibly even rank twenty three! Didnât senior Xiao Ya say that sheâd let me enter the Tang Sect if I rank first in the freshmenâs assessment? After eating this Soul Advancement Pill, Iâm even more certain that Iâll be able to achieve first place. Alright, Iâm going to start now. You should go and cultivate by yourself.â
After heâd finished speaking, he took out the walnut-sized Soul Advancement Pill and popped it into his mouth. He bit into it softly, causing an extremely strong fragrance to immediately gush out of the pill. Wang Dong inhaled softly, then immediately began to suck a green liquid out from the pill. He didnât even waste the pillâs outer shell; he popped it into his mouth and chewed it a few times before swallowing it.
At that moment, the dorm became suffused with a natural fragrance that resembled a cluster of ten thousand flowers. Huo Yuhaoâs mind felt refreshed, while all thirty-six thousand of his pores seemed to open up accordingly, causing a hard-to-describe stimulation to spread through his entire body. He didnât dare to waste any time, hurriedly sitting on the ground in a cross-legged position to take advantage of the fact that his soulforce had been adjusted to an optimum state for cultivation.
After the baptism of the Mysterious Water Pill, cultivation was simply a form of pleasure for Huo Yuhao. He quickly entered a meditative state, then began to circulate the Mysterious Heaven Technique without any obstructions. It permeated throughout his body while simultaneously increasing his soulforce slowly, albeit at a very stable rate.
A faint jade light gradually started to emerge from Wang Dongâs body, followed by the strong refreshing aura that was circulating throughout the room. Some of it was absorbed by Huo Yuhao, but even more of it was inhaled by Wang Dong as he practiced his breathing exercises. Under the stimulation of the Soul Advancement Pill, his soulforce had begun to increase at a startling rate.
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After the twists and turns that had occurred to him two days ago, Huo Yuhaoâs school life started to calm down. Not only that, but heâd gradually begun to gain some fame. Practically all of the students and teachers whoâd tried his roasted fish had unceasingly praised it.
Huo Yuhao increased the number of fish he sold from twenty to thirty, but he was still far from satisfying the desires of the students and teachers. However, he wasnât willing to make any more, as he still needed most of his time for cultivation.
For the sake of a single roasted fish, many students would rush out of the school once class ended. Moreover, because of the high demand for his roasted fish, he had no choice but to impose a limit of one fish per person. However, although the demand for his roasted fish was as high as it was, Huo Yuhao never increased his price, causing him to receive unanimous positive reviews from the students. Furthermore, he even made several new friends.
The number one beauty of the outer courtyard, Jiang Nannan, still ended up eating one of his roasted fish in the end, though she queued up by herself in order to buy it. However, the more interesting thing was that, even though Xu Sanshi wasnât able to please Jiang Nannan with the roasted fish, he also liked its taste. Hence, he became one of Huo Yuhaoâs most faithful customers.
In the blink of an eye, the first three months of school had passed. Under Zhou Yiâs teaching, which was strict to the point of being perverted, Class 1 could be said to have completely transformed. However, the upper echelon of the academy was slightly astonished by the fact that there were actually between sixty and seventy students left from the three month baptism of Class 1, which Zhou Yi had been in charge of. This was leagues apart from the schoolâs one-third estimate.
If one were to ask whoâd changed the most in all of Class 1 during these three months, the answer would undoubtedly be Huo Yuhao.
When he entered the academy, his soulforce had merely been rank eleven. In addition to that, heâd just obtained his soul ring. His strength had been absolutely dead last when ranked in the academy, without any suspense at all.
However, after these three months, Huo Yuhao had completely changed. Furthermore, not one person had challenged him for his position as class monitor since heâd taken up the role.
It wasnât because Huo Yuhao had used his strength to astonish everyone, or that no one could beat him. Instead, it was because his vigor had sparked the admiration of the students in Class 1. This was the main reason that two-thirds of the class was able to persevere in Class 1, even under Zhou Yiâs strict teaching.
Huo Yuhao was truly too hard working. Practically all of the teachers who taught Class 1 knew of his existence. No matter when the class was, nor what lesson was going on, there would always be a pair of eyes focused on the teacher for the duration of the entire lesson; the owner entirely focused on listening to the teacherâs explanation.