The Unrivaled Tang Sect

“Why aren’t you two wearing your chainmail and running? Why’re you two holdinghands and romancing one another?”

Startled, the two hurriedly let go of each other, then ran back towards theirdorm rooms. Their hearts were currently beating extremely quickly, and itnaturally wasn’t because of Zhou Yi’s shout, but because of the strange changethat had occurred to their martial souls!

The two rushed back to their dorms. As they looked at each other, they couldsee the trace of astonishment that was present in their eyes. Right, the matterthat had just occurred was simply too unusual. Regardless of whether it was HuoYuhao, who had studied a large amount of info with regards to soul mastersafter entering Shrek Academy, or Wang Dong, whose knowledge was expansive, thiswas the first time they had learnt of anything like this; this clearly exceededthe territory of ordinary soul masters.

Huo Yuhao couldn’t help but say, “It seems like our nap last night wasn’t fornothing!”

“Pah.” Wang Dong glared at him. But then, he quickly raised his soft, slenderhands and said, “Let’s try again.”

Huo Yuhao was also anxious to verify the matter that had just occurred tothem. Hence, he hurriedly held hands with Wang Dong.

As the four hands joined together, the flow of soul power immediatelyrestarted. Their soul power were completely different; The soul power that camefrom Huo Yuhao’s Mysterious Heaven Technique was honest, moderate, gentle, andunconstrained, while Wang Dong’s soul power was much more overbearing; it had athreatening and noble aura to it.

If Huo Yuhao’s soul power could be compared to a gentle and honest youth, WangDong’s soul power was a noble, aloof, and overbearing young mistress.

However, these two soul power with completely different temperaments hadcurrently formed a cycle, flowing perfectly through their bodies. Furthermore,these two soul power were actually fusing quietly throughout this process,intimately sharing everything with each other. During this process, there wereno conflicts during this process; it was just as if they had originallybelonged to a single body.

Huo Yuhao was left in a slightly better state; after all, the soul power thatcame from his Mysterious Heaven Technique was extremely gentle in the firstplace. On the other hand, Wang Dong was filled with astonishment. He was fullyaware of how domineering and fierce his soul power was, as well as how stronglyit excluded other things from itself. But, his current situation had vastlyexceeded his scope of knowledge.

During the brief moment where the circulation occurred, the two felt extremelyrelaxed and refreshed. Clearly, it would be much faster for them to cultivatein this state rather than cultivating individually. Furthermore, they clearlyknew that this was just the beginning. Their soul power had fused so perfectly,so how could the benefits that arose from this be as simple as allowing them tocultivate together?

“Let’s go, we should go run first. We can study this further after we get backtonight.” Huo Yuhao took the initiative to let go of Wang Dong’s hands. Then,he put his chainmail on and ran outside.

After listening to his words, Wang Dong was slightly startled, and his mouthslightly twitched for a moment. Huo Yuhao’s words, in addition to how he hadmysteriously hugged him for an entire night, caused a few traces of ambiguityto reluctantly appear in his heart. After making a fist behind his back, he puthis chainmail on and caught up to him

They had already been running with chainmail for three months, so doing it nowwas a walk in the park for them. The two diligently ran till the bell rang, andonly when Xiao Xiao came to the field to find them did they stop. When shearrived, Xiao Xiao informed them that Teacher Zhou had already left.

Huo Yuhao’s entire body was covered with sweat, while Wang Dong, who had ahigher cultivation, deliberately made it so that he wasn’t sweating at all.

“How was it? Did Teacher Zhou say anything?” Huo Yuhao asked as he panted.

Xiao Xiao shrugged her shoulders. “Nothing much, really. She just cheeredeveryone up and gave us some encouragement. After that, she analysed thesituation of our opponents. It’s going to be extremely difficult for us tobecome champions. It seems like the round-robin tournament was only arehearsal. On the other hand, our Shrek Academy’s never lacked geniuses!”

As he looked at her somewhat worried expression, Wang Dong said, “What? Evenour twin martial soul genius doesn’t have any confidence in herself?”

Xiao Xiao curled her lips and said, “Confidence is something I naturally have,but I have to say that there are some people who’re more talented than us.Teacher Zhou told us that out of the five teams which achieved completevictories, three had three-ringed Soul Elders. How confident are you againststhree-ringed soul masters?”

“Soul Elders?” The two simultaneously cried out with a look ofinconceivability on their faces.

Xiao Xiao smiled bitterly. “Exactly. Why else would I be so unconfident?”

“What did Teacher Zhou say?” Huo Yuhao asked.

“When she was talking about those three teams, Teacher Zhou didn’t seem to betoo happy about them. It looked like she had just obtained that piece ofinformation. Previously, those three classes had never told anyone that theyhad students who were Soul Elders. Also, those three students are just likeyou; they’re specially invited students.” Xiao Xiao replied.

Hearing this, Wang Dong laughed and looked towards Huo Yuhao. “See, you’re allspecially invited students, so why is there such a large gap between you andthem?”

Huo Yuhao was speechless for a moment before saying, “There’s no use talkingabout this now, the key thing we need to do now is to think of how we can beatthem.”

“Right now, all we can do is to do our best and let destiny settle everythingfor us. Those three are the respective team leaders of their own teams, so it’sobvious that they won’t be easy to deal with. Think about it: they were able tobreak into the three-ringed realm before the age of twelve. Just how strong aretheir martial souls? Also, there’s definitely a clan that’s fully supportingthem from behind, so their soul rings are definitely at their limit. Even ifthey aren’t as perverted as Wang Dong, who got a thousand-year soul ring as hissecond soul ring, they shouldn’t be too far off. In my opinion, even TeacherZhou doesn’t think it’s looking too good for us. I think that we can only aimfor fourth place,” Xiao Xiao said.

Wang Dong snorted. “What if they have three rings? Are Soul Elders unbeatable?We have our advantages as well; You have your twin martial souls, and I haven’tused all of my strength yet. In addition to Huo Yuhao’s spiritual martial soul,the three of us might not lose to anyone else if we team up together.”

Xiao Xiao said, “Do you think that I don’t want us to become champions! Onlythe top three get a substantial reward; fourth place doesn’t get any goodrewards. However, our combined strength truly isn’t as good as theirs. Thinkabout it, the teammates of a Soul Elder-level student will at least be at theSoul Grandmaster level, just like us. We do have our own strong points, but theonly way for us to have a chance is for the class monitor to break into Rank 20and get another strong spiritual-type soul skill.”

Huo Yuhao looked at Xiao Xiao, glanced at Wang Dong, then said seriously,“Don’t be too worried for now. True, we might be weaker than our opponents, butif we lose all confidence now, we won’t have any chance at all. Xiao Xiao,think about it. When we were facing the Lan sisters’ fusion skill, weren’t weput in a very difficult situation? But we still managed to achieve victory inthe end. The fusion skill they used might not be weaker than a Soul Elder’ssoul skill; it could even exceed it in power. However, we still managed toovercome it. Different people have their own specialties, and likewise, we haveour own. Our advantage lies in the fact that we haven’t used all our strength,and we only have one objective. That is, to become champions.”

Huo Yuhao’s words seemed to have rekindled Xiao Xiao’s confidence. She noddedher head lightly. “Fight! No matter where we get to, that’ll be whatever weget. Let’s do this!”

Huo Yuhao extended his right hand, and Wang Dong quickly placed it above hisbefore Xiao Xiao could. Lastly, Xiao Xiao placed her hand on Wang Dong’s hand.

“We’ll definitely be champions.”

Huo Yuhao said, “Xiao Xiao, it seems like I’ll have to owe you roasted fishfor a few more days. The coming knock-out round is simply too important to us,so no matter what, we have to do our best and use these few days to increaseour cultivations. Even if we can only increase it by a strand, it’ll increaseour chances of victory by a large amount. Once the knock-out tournament isover, I’ll take care of the roasted fish. I won’t be setting up my store forthese few days, so let’s first concentrate on cultivating before talking aboutit.”

Xiao Xiao giggled. “You’ll have to pay interest for an owed debt. Classmonitor, I’m blaming this on you anyway, so I won’t pay you when I eat yourroasted fish in the future.”

Huo Yuhao chuckled. “No problem, I’ll treat you to some fish.”

Xiao Xiao said, “Teacher Zhou said that we’ll have to gather at the AssessmentArea before the bell rings tomorrow. Also, she told me to tell you that you’renot allowed to be late. The first thing we need to do is to pray for luck.However, Teacher Zhou said that teams who achieved a clean sweep during theround-robin tournament will have some preferential treatment during the firsttwo rounds of the knock-out tournament; we won’t meet each other. This is theonly good thing we got from the round-robin tournament. As long as we do whatwe usually do, there should be no problem for us to enter the top sixteen.After that, it’ll just depend on us.”

Huo Yuhao said, “This is actually some good news. Right, before we do anythingelse, I’m sweaty, so I’m going back to shower before grabbing a meal.”

Xiao Xiao said, “Then, I won’t wait for you two. I’ll go to the canteen first,see you tomorrow.” After speaking, she waved towards the two of them and left.

Huo Yuhao turned towards Wang Dong, slightly furrowing his brows. “Seems likeit won’t be easy to get a good result in the knock-out tournament. Let’s goback to the dorms, and after I shower and change, we can go eat. Then, we cango think about this issue regarding our martial soul fusion.”

“Yup.” Wang Dong nodded. However, he clearly seemed somewhat taciturn, to thepoint where he looked blank and lifeless; nobody knew what he was thinking.After returning to their dorm room, Huo Yuhao took a clean set of clothes aswell as a towel and went to shower, while Wang Dong sat by himself on his bed.

“Thump.” The door shut. Wang Dong subconsciously looked towards the door,gradually exposing a slightly complicated look in his blank eyes.

Earlier, he hadn’t had any time to settle his debts with Huo Yuhao regardingthe issue of sleeping together with him due to them turning up late for class.Now, Huo Yuhao had already seemed to have disregarded it as an unimportantissue, but Wang Dong was feeling completely differently.

I, I actually slept with him for an entire night. Moreover, it even seems likewe’ve completed a martial soul fusion, and not a normal one at that.

Wang Dong himself didn’t know how he was currently feeling; he felt that hewas slightly confused, confused to the point where he didn’t know what to do.

Time always flies by when one is distracted. Not long after he left, Huo Yuhaoreturned after a refreshing shower. As he entered, he brought a faintlyfragrant smell with him that came after his shower. As he raised his head, WangDong saw his unusually bright pupils.

Huo Yuhao still hadn’t noticed the change in Wang Dong’s psyche. He beckoned,“Let’s quickly go for a meal and study our martial soul fusion after comingback. Perhaps we’ll have to rely on it if we want to get a good result in theend.” The current him was completely focused on the freshmen assessment’sknock-out tournament.

Wang Dong’s somewhat perplexed emotions seemed to have found an objective.Nodding his head, he said, “Okay.” Since the matter had already occurred, therewas no use in thinking too deeply about it. He would first work hard duringthis assessment and get a good ranking before talking about it. When Xiao Xiaospoke about the appearances of the few Soul Elders, Wang Dong’s fighting spirithad also been aroused.

He firmly believed that his talent wasn’t lacking compared to those SoulElder-levelled students. Only, he had been extremely lazy during his youth, andhad been completely unwilling to cultivate, which was the reason why he wasonly at his current level. In his opinion, ranks didn’t mean everything; bybeating them, he could prove that he was the most outstanding student in ShrekAcademy.

After thinking about this, his heart untangled itself. Following Huo Yuhao tothe canteen, he immediately ate a gargantuan meal. Because they went to thecanteen relatively late, there was practically no one left when they finishedeating.

After returning to their room, Huo Yuhao locked the door, preventing anyonefrom disturbing them while they were cultivating. At the same time, he placed a‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on the outside of the door. Every dorm room had thissign; and as long as a student hung it up, even teachers wouldn’t easilydisturb them, as this sign signified that the students inside were cultivating.

However, Huo Yuhao’s formerly normal behaviour seemed to make the current WangDong somewhat embarrassed. But he quickly adjusted himself, and by the time HuoYuhao turned around, he had already regained his composure.

“How’re we going to start?” Wang Dong asked him.

Huo Yuhao replied, “We’ll try to cultivate while holding our hands for a whilefirst. This way, we can increase the effects and be more familiar with thefusion between our soul power. Then, we’ll try to use the fused soul power tostrengthen each and every one of our soul skills. Later at night, we’ll leavethe academy and test out our fusion skill there.”

Wang Dong curled his lips. “You’re actually quite orderly with your plans.”

Huo Yuhao laughed. “Naturally. Don’t forget, I’m the class monitor. Isn’tbeing orderly something that should be extremely normal for me? Come.” As hespoke, he walked over to Wang Dong’s bed, intending to sit on it.

“What’re you doing?” Wang Dong pushed his body away.

Huo Yuhao suspiciously asked, “I’m trying to cultivate! How are we going tocultivate if we don’t sit cross-legged?”

However, Wang Dong stood up and pointed at Huo Yuhao’s bed. “We’ll cultivateon your bed.”

Huo Yuhao was speechless. “If you’re not afraid of a sore butt, I have nothingto say.”

Wang Dong clearly saw that Huo Yuhao’s expression had turned somewhatunsightly. At this moment, Huo Yuhao was truly somewhat unhappy. In hisopinion, the two of them had already been friends for a long time, but WangDong still continued to bicker and bicker on; this was very petty-minded to him.

However, Wang Dong insisted on doing it his way, so the two sat on Huo Yuhao’sbed. The instant he sat down, Wang Dong felt somewhat gloomy; when compared tohis fur mattress, this completely hard wooden board couldn’t be consideredcomfortable in the least! However, he could only endure it. They hadaccidentally slept on his bed last night, and Wang Dong didn’t want to let HuoYuhao on his bed again.

Huo Yuhao was still a very magnanimous person. After feeling dissatisfied for a

short period of time, he had already regained his composure. In his heart, hethought, “Whatever. Different people have their own habits, but I shouldnevertheless respect everyone.” Thinking this, the small trace of resentment inhis heart disappeared.

As Wang Dong looked at Huo Yuhao, he noticed that Huo Yuhao was also lookingat him, and his heart unknowingly felt somewhat hurried and apologetic. Hehurriedly raised his palms. “Let’s start. We’ll follow your plan. We’llcultivate until dinnertime and see what happens.”

Huo Yuhao had raised his palms as well, placing them opposite Wang Dong’s.Once the two touched each other, their soul power were immediately attracted,causing them to fuse together. After a mere single circulation in their bodies,the two soul power completed the fusion process. Following that, a fuseddual-attribute soul power was now flowing through their bodies.

Since discovering this odd matter in the morning, they hadn’t had enough timeto study it carefully. As they cultivated calmly now, a different feelinggradually appeared.

Just as they had previously felt, the increase in their soul power when thetwo cultivated with their hands held together was extremely quick. Simply put,their individual soul power were increasing at a rate that was equivalent tothat of two people put together.

In other words, if the amount of soul power Huo Yuhao gained after cultivatingfor two hours was represented by one unit, and the amount of soul power WangDong gained after cultivating for the same time was represented by 1.2 units,when the two cultivated together, the mixture of their two soul power would bestrengthened together, and not only would it increase the circulation speed oftheir soul power, but the amount of soul power they would each gain within twohours would be represented by 2.2 units.

This way, Huo Yuhao’s cultivation speed would more than double, while WangDong’s cultivation speed would nearly double. The person who benefitted morefrom this was undoubtedly Huo Yuhao, as Wang Dong’s cultivation was higher thanhis. However, as their cultivation levels started getting closer to each other,the individual benefits they gained would be much more similar as well.

A doubling in cultivating speed to soul masters was completely astonishing!Huo Yuhao’s original plan had been to try and get to Rank 20 before graduatinghis first year, but following his current rate of cultivation, there was apossibility of him getting to Rank 20 within three or four months. On the otherhand, if Wang Dong cultivated with this speed all the way until the end of theyear, getting to Rank 30 wasn’t an impossibility.

After nearly six hours of cultivating, when the sky outside had graduallybegun to darken, the two woke up from their meditative state. Their soul powerreturned to their own bodies, and the originally entwined soul powerimmediately separated. The two could clearly feel that their cultivations hadincreased at a much faster pace than they usually did.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong simultaneously opened their eyes, immediately noticingthe surprise in the other’s eyes. Regardless of where this martial soul fusionhad come from, it was an extremely good thing for them! This was especially sofor Huo Yuhao, as the increase in his cultivation speed was much greater thanthe increase to Wang Dong’s; it could be said that he’d taken a small advantagefrom Wang Dong.

The two couldn’t wait to start trying out their strengthened soul skills, andthis time, they discovered a mystery within their martial soul fusion.

Every single one of their soul skills would be strengthened by an extremelylarge amount following the fusion, and it wasn’t just as simple as ‘1+1=2’.Whenever they worked together to unleash a soul skill, not only would its mightdouble, but the consumption of soul power it required would decrease by a half.In other words, the drain in soul power after the two types of soul power fusedwas extremely small. This was equivalent to an all-new type of high-level soulpower after they fused.

Because of this, their current state couldn’t be considered a martial soulfusion. It would be more accurate to call it a soul power fusion. However, WangDong made was speechless by the fact that it wasn’t him, who had a strongercultivation, who took the initiative after they fused.

When their bodies touched and their soul power fused, Huo Yuhao wasunexpectedly left in the dominant position. As long as he willed it, the fusionwould go ahead once he touched Wang Dong’s body, regardless of whether WangDong cooperated or not. Also, the person who could use the fused soul power toactivate the strengthened soul skills was Huo Yuhao. But if Wang Dong wanted touse this fused soul power, he would need Huo Yuhao’s approval before doing so.The difference in who was dominant in this fusion was clear.

“Why would this happen? It’s too unfair.” Wang Dong said indignantly.

Huo Yuhao, speechless, said, “I don’t know either! Don’t worry, I’lldefinitely try my best to help you out when you need to use it.”

Although he didn’t say anything, Huo Yuhao was faintly aware that this hadsomething to do with the Skydream Iceworm. Otherwise, why would he, who had aweaker cultivation, take the dominant position after the fusion occurred?

“Wang Dong, don’t feel so upset. This new soul power of ours should also havea name, so let’s just use your name to name it.”

Wang Dong giggled. “Whatever. You wanna call it the Winterking Power? Thatsounds really bad. Why don’t we use a word from each of our names? Let’s callit the Haodong Power.”

Huo Yuhao scratched his head. “It does kinda sound better.”

Wang Dong stood up, rubbing his buttocks as he unhappily said, “This brokenmattress of yours is too hard, let’s cultivate on my bed later tonight. Sinceyou’ve taken such a large advantage from me, you’re treating me to dinnertonight.” He raised his head slightly as he spoke. Then, he rested his headagainst his hands and walked out.

Huo Yuhao couldn’t help but smile as he looked at Wang Dong’s seeminglyindifferent expression.This fella never admits his mistakes and always actsarrogant, but in reality, he has a good heart.

“So be it. In any case, I earned all my money from selling roasted fishes, soI’ll eat your food if I run out of money.” He started to chase after Wang Dongwhile talking.

Regardless of whether it was Huo Yuhao or Wang Dong, they both clearly felt achange in their relationship after the creation of the Haodong Power. Wang Dongwas no longer a simple friend or classmate to him, he was a brother. Hebelieved that Wang Dong thought so as well. As for whether that was true ornot, only Wang Dong knew the answer to that…

While eating dinner, a trace of suspicion arose in Huo Yuhao’s heart. Thissuspicion came from his understanding of the Skydream Iceworm; it previouslysaid that it would give more of its Origin Energy to him once his body was ableto endure it, which would allow his soul skills to reach their maximum levelsas his soul rings increased in rank.

However, the strength of all his soul skills had increased after workingtogether with Wang Dong to generate the Haodong Power, and although he couldsense that he was near his body’s limit, he was still able to endure. Sincethis was the case, why didn’t the Skydream Iceworm strengthen his soul skillsto this point?

“You idiot.” Just as suspicion arose in Huo Yuhao’s heart, the SkydreamIceworm’s voice rang out in his mind.

“Bro, you weren’t sleeping?” Surprised, Huo Yuhao immediately asked in hismind.

The Skydream Iceworm snorted. “I’m obviously awake. Do you think I like tosleep that much?”

Huo Yuhao secretly cursed to himself. If you don’t like sleeping, how did yousleep for a million years?

The Skydream Iceworm said, “The answer to your worries is extremely simple.It’s true that I didn’t raise the rank of your soul ring to its limit, butthat’s because I can’t allow you to become an inflated balloon. Let me give youan example. There’s a type of fish called the Tiger Blowfish. Its body isfilled with spines, and whenever it’s in danger, it’ll instantly inflateitself, expanding its body and releasing all of its spines. This makes it sothat its predators are unable to eat it. It could be said that it allows itsbody to expand to its limit in a situation like that.”

“Indeed, the attack power of the blowfish’s spines is raised to its limits ina situation like this, but what if a needle stabs it? What would happen then?Likewise, you’re the same. If I raised the strength of your soul rings to themaximum amount that you can endure, you’d be just like that balloon once youencounter a mishap during a battle or cultivation; you’d explode with a bang.Because of that, the ‘maximum limit you can endure’ I’m referring to is thelimit at which you can completely endure it without any side effects. When yoursoul power fused with Wang Dong’s earlier, the fused energy instantly improvedyour physiques. This is another great benefit that I helped you obtain when youtwo achieved a 100% fusion and thoroughly fused your two types of soul powerslast night.”

“In other words, whenever you soul powers fuse, the endurance of your bodieswill also increase as a result of this fused soul power. And when you cansustain a stronger soul power, the strength of your soul skills will increaseaccordingly. This in itself is the secret behind a martial soul fusion.However, your martial soul fusion differs from that of ordinary cultivators,and you’ll receive different benefits. During your fusion, your bodies will beconstantly improving as a result of your fused soul power, so as long as youcontinue to cultivate together, there’ll be a day when your physiques andcultivation speeds are the best in the human world.”

“Naturally, this process in improvement is rather agonizingly slow. If you twocan achieve a True Fusion in the future, then it’s effects will be even better.?

Puzzled, Huo Yuhao asked, “What’s a ‘True Fusion’?”

The Skydream Iceworm seemed to turn blank for a moment before uttering, “Aih,I don’t know. I’ve never tried it either. Okay, just continue trying things outwith him. You’ll receive enormous benefits from both your soul power fusion andyour martial soul fusion. In the future, you’ll slowly understand what I mean.”

As he finished his sentence, the Skydream Iceworm stopped bothering to talkand disappeared.

“Oi, has your food gotten into your nose?” After looking at Huo Yuhao’sdaydreaming face for a long time, Wang Dong waved his hand in front of his face.

“Eh…” Huo Yuhao hurriedly rubbed his nose, but he then noticed that Wang Dongwas smiling naughtily.

“What’re thinking about? You looked like you were in a trance.” Wang Dong saidlaughingly. He noticed that Huo Yuhao’s blank expression was very funny to lookat.

Huo Yuhao said, “I’m obviously thinking about our Haodong Power. I’m thinkingabout why our soul powers would fuse, and after some thought, there’s only onepossibility. That is, when our martial souls fused last night, ourcompatibility rate was extremely high; that’s why something like this happened.

Wang Dong’s eyes lit up, “Right! You make some sense. If that wasn’t the case,why would something unique like this happen? Quickly eat, and we can go seewhether we can release a fusion skill once we’re done. But do you know how afusion skill is activated?”

Speechless, Huo Yuhao said, “How would I know? Doesn’t it just naturally cometo you?”

Their two small eyes couldn’t help but expose a trace of speechlessness and abitter smile. Right, although the teachers did talk about fusion skills intheir lectures, it was an ability that belonged to only an extremely smallnumber of the population, so their teachers had just glanced over it, and neverexplained how it could be activated. After all, the number of people who couldtruly release a fusion skill was truly too small.

Wang Dong said, “Whatever, we’ll go try it out tonight. If that doesn’t work,we’ll go find Teacher Zhou and see whether she knows of any ways we can goabout this.”

“Yup.” While answering, Huo Yuhao kept crying out to the Skydream Iceworm inhis mind. He believed that the Skydream Iceworm, with his million years ofexperience, would definitely know the answer to this question.

“Idiot, why are you disturbing me over a small matter like this? Just dowhatever you did last night! You idiot.” The Skydream Iceworm seemed to be juston the verge of sleeping, so it was very unhappy when Huo Yuhao woke it up.After mumbling for a bit, it disappeared again.

Just do whatever we did last night? After thinking blankly for a moment, hequickly understood what the Skydream Iceworm meant. Hugging?

After speeding through dinner, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong quickly left thecollege with an excited and curious feeling in their hearts. Huo Yuhao hadn’tsold any roasted fishes today, so as the two left through the academy’sentrance, they bumped into many regulars who started to complain. Apologizingprofusely was the only thing he could do, and he used the excuse of preparingfor the ranking tournament to make his way through the crowd.

“We should speed up.” Wang Dong softly shouted out, and once his feet touchedthe ground, he suddenly sped up, causing his body to fly out like an arrow thathad left a bow.

If this had been three months ago, Huo Yuhao might not even have been able tosee his shadow, but his three months of bitter training wasn’t wasted on HuoYuhao. After exerting strength in his legs, Huo Yuhao’s speed similarly soared,and although he didn’t look as graceful as Wang Dong, he absolutely wasn’tslow. He rushed towards Wang Dong, and whenever he landed, he would leave afootprint in the ground

The explosiveness from his muscles flowed endlessly to his legs, and the flowof his internal soul power unceasingly replenished his lost physical strength.

The evening air was very relaxing and refreshing, and the two of themcurrently felt like they were travelling in the wind. Without the constraintsof the chainmail, the refreshing feeling all over their bodies allowed theirspeeds to reach their maximum levels.

In the end, Wang Dong’s foundation was still much better than Huo Yuhao’s, andthus he quickly widened the distance between them. When this distance exceeded300 meters, he slowed down and waited for Huo Yuhao to catch up.

“Okay. As a control system soul master who doesn’t specialise in front linecombat, your speed is still passable.” Wang Dong spoke with a haughty air as helooked at Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao chuckled. “We’re almost there. Let’s go into the forest.”

“Okay.” Wang Dong nodded. After the two made sure there was no one aroundthem, they simultaneously ran into the forest by the roadside. They onlystopped after they were several hundred metres into the forest.

“Let’s do it here. How are we gonna try it out?” Wang Dong asked.

Huo Yuhao replied, “Let’s first test the recovery speed of our Haodong Power.”He raised his hands as he spoke.

Wang Dong then joined his hands with Huo Yuhao’s. After their practice in theafternoon, they were extremely familiar with the circulation of the HaodongPower. Just as they predicted, the Haodong Power they generated after fusingtheir soul powers increased the recovery speed of their physical strength, aswell as their soul power, by a certain amount. However, this increase wasn’t assignificant when compared to the increase in their cultivation speeds.

“It’s ordinary! However, it has its uses.” After a brief moment, Wang Dongfully replenished his lost physical strength.

Huo Yuhao nodded before spreading his arms wide. “Come.”

Wang Dong was stunned. His gaze towards Huo Yuhao immediately turned vigilant.“What’re you doing?”

Huo Yuhao replied in a very natural manner, “Let’s hug!”

“You…” Wang Dong’s expression immediately changed. His face turned greenbefore paling. “Huo Yuhao, I never thought you’d be someone like this. Do youactually think that I won’t beat you to the point where you can’t even takecare of yourself?”

Huo Yuhao didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry. “What’re you eventhinking about? You idiot, have you forgotten how we caused the martial soulfusion in the first place? Since we can already fuse our soul powers now, thesimplest way for us to activate our fusion is to repeat what happenedyesterday!”

Only then did Wang Dong understand what he had meant. He was immediatelyembarrassed to the point where his face turned bright red. Although it wasalready quite dark, Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes were able to clearly see thingseven if it was midnight; naturally, he saw Wang Dong’s reaction clearly.

“You didn’t even explain anything before you asked me to hug you. Are youpurposely trying to embarrass me?” Wang Dong used his anger to disguise hisembarrassment and awkwardness.

Speechless, Huo Yuhao replied, “I didn’t know that your thoughts were thisunhealthy. We’re both guys, so what can we even do? Hurry up. Let’s get thisdone early so we can continue cultivating later.”

Wang Dong hesitated for a moment. “We’re outside the city now, are you surethat we won’t just fall asleep like yesterday?”

Huo Yuhao speechlessly replied, “It won’t. Today’s situation is different fromyesterday’s. Why are you acting so overly careful like a woman? I’m going tostart now.” As he spoke, he quickly took a step forward and hugged Wang Dong ina single movement.

Wang Dong’s body stiffened. In the instant he was hugged by Huo Yuhao, he felthis mind go somewhat blank. Huo Yuhao’s body was slightly sweaty due to hisprevious sprint, causing the faint smell of sweat to assault Wang Dong’s nose.

Wang Dong’s body was very soft, so hugging him was still as comfortable aslast night. However, the current Huo Yuhao didn’t have any thoughts of enjoyingthis feeling. In the instant he hugged Wang Dong, he immediately circulated hisown soul power, activating his Spirit Eyes; in that same instant, Wang Dongcame to his senses as well.

The large area of contact between the two of them caused the soul powerswithin their bodies to be quickly converted into Haodong Power. Huo Yuhao’seyes were especially bright due to the dim evening, and a faint golden lightflickered within them.After a brief moment of sluggishness, Wang Dong hurriedly activated hismartial soul.

In that instant, a strange feeling came over the two of them. As they huggedeach other, their released martial souls felt completely different to the soulskills they’d activated with the previous assistance of the Haodong Power.

Right as Wang Dong’s ice-blue wings unfurled, both of their minds blanked outbriefly.