Peerless: Auspicious Beast's Star Revival Plan

Chapter 173 Emotional Vision
"All core disciples, stand up." After class, Wang Yan tapped the podium, silencing the noisy Class 1 of the second year.

Seven or eight students suddenly stood up in the classroom.

“Including the core disciples of the Soul Guidance Department, and you too! Wang Rui! Wake up!” Wang Yan glared at the seat in the middle of the back row of the classroom, and Huo Yuqing quickly pulled Wang Rui up.

The usually good-natured Wang Yan had an unfriendly expression: "I'm speaking so loudly in class, and you can still fall asleep. It seems that the title of the class's sleeping god is definitely yours. What did you do during the holidays? You're so sleepy as soon as school starts."

"Oh, Teacher Wang, you flatter me, you flatter me." Wang Rui waved his hand without any sense of guilt.

Sigh, what's so interesting about humans talking about classifying and dealing with spirit beasts? They should be researching how to simplify magic contracts instead.

However, it seems we're getting close to that plot point—the Shrek Seven Devils' chaotic selection tournament.

Wang Yan really couldn't do anything about him, so he simply threw the last piece of chalk at Wang Rui's head as a way of venting his anger. "Alright, core disciples, come with me. You need to take the core disciple assessment. The others will have to wait for Teacher Mu to come and teach the next class."

The group followed Wang Yan directly to the Soul Battle Zone, and the core disciples from other grades also arrived one after another with their respective class teachers.

All the core disciples in the outer academy together number only twenty-four. This is because Shrek Academy's assessment system reduces the number of core disciples the higher the grade. The second-year students have the most core disciples, with a total of eleven.

Huo Yuqing didn't hold Wang Rui's hand at this moment, but the two were very close, their shoulders touching, and she could feel Wang Rui's steady breathing coming through her.

She observed the core disciples from other grades.

Huo Yuqing realized that among all the core disciples of Shrek Academy's outer academies gathered together, only the oldest ones could make her feel a slight sense of threat.

"You've gotten so much stronger, Xiao Qing," Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said lazily in her mind's eye. "These little guys are only at the Soul Master level at best~"

She noticed a familiar face.

Bei Bei, the senior disciple of the Tang Clan.

But he looks extremely disheveled now, with large dark circles under his eyes and a face that is much more haggard than it was a year ago.

After fighting with Tang Ya, Huo Yuqing and the two from the Tang Clan had almost no further contact, so she was somewhat surprised to see Bei Bei's current appearance.

She was curious, so she secretly used her mental detection to investigate Beibei's situation.

When Huo Yuqing's mental energy made contact with Bei Bei, a flash of inspiration occurred to her.

She focused her consciousness on the huge blue vertical eye in her sea of ​​consciousness. The seven colored light spots in the blue-gold pupil of the vertical eye began to rotate violently, and the "chef's manual" left by Rong Nianbing flashed with seven-colored light at the same frequency.

In an instant, everything Huo Yuqing saw underwent a dramatic change.

Everyone within the range of the mental detection was shrouded in a hazy glow, with Beibei's glow being particularly intense.

No, that doesn't mean everyone's color actually changed.

Huo Yuqing calmly experienced the new and strange vision. She seemed to have gained a new sense of perception, independent of the five senses. However, she did not seem to be able to fully get used to this new sense, so she associated it with vision.

She saw that Beibei was radiating intense sadness, anger, and fear, as if she were enveloped in a cold color that represented heavy negative emotions.

The only hint of gentle color, in Huo Yuqing's eyes, was a lingering pinkish-purple—love.

Has something happened to Tang Ya?

She looked away.

It's true that Huo Yuqing dislikes Tang Ya, but if something really happened to Tang Ya, she wouldn't gloat.

With this new ability to see other people's emotions, perhaps she can master the power of the seven emotions more quickly and complete the test of the God of Emotions faster.

If one's mental strength is elevated to another level, mental detection can vaguely sense the emotions of the person being detected, but it is obviously not as detailed as what Huo Yuqing sees through the huge vertical eye in her sea of ​​consciousness, which can directly see the faintest emotions.

Such an ability would be very valuable if it could be used in battle, but she didn't seem to be able to maintain such a direct view of emotions for too long. After only a few seconds, Huo Yuqing felt slightly dizzy.

I just can't help but want to look at Wang Rui beside me.

What is Rui Rui thinking?

This act of spying on Wang Rui's emotions without his consent seems to be a bit, uh, not good?

Huo Yuqing felt guilty for half a second, but... she really wanted to see.

"So this is what humans call double standards, right?" Hyotei said thoughtfully to Tianmeng Bingcan in private. "She didn't hesitate at all when she was looking at that human boy's emotions, so why would she hesitate when looking at her own partner's emotions?" "Humans care a lot about privacy, so this is love, Bingbing," Tianmeng Bingcan said in a sticky voice.

Hyotei wished she didn't have a mouth, so she wouldn't ask unnecessary questions.

Huo Yuqing couldn't resist and turned to Wang Rui.

Wang Rui seemed to be lost in thought; his emotions were subtle yet bright, presenting a stable and peaceful quality in Huo Yuqing's eyes.

The moment she looked at Wang Rui, he noticed something.

A faint hint of doubt flashed across the girl's face as she saw the bright figure beside her, followed by a joy as bright as a pale gold, which even Wang Rui himself might not have noticed, connected with tender love.

Huo Yuqing rarely heard Wang Rui explicitly express his affection, and what she saw at this moment truly stirred her heart.

"What's wrong?" Wang Rui asked in a low voice, somewhat puzzled.

"It's nothing." Huo Yuqing withdrew from her emotional state, paused for a moment, and asked in a very low voice, her tone as usual, "Look over there, over at the upperclassmen, what happened to him?"

Wang Ruis smoothly understood who Huo Yuqing was asking.

He does know what's going on...

In order to reduce Tang Ya's resistance, Feng Ling personally took her back to the Iron Blood Sect to seek revenge.

However, she didn't clean up the mess after the massacre of the Iron Blood Sect, which led to the Shrek Academy's inspection team noticing her, catching up with her, and then destroying the Holy Spirit Sect's stronghold in the Heavenly Soul Empire... Presumably, Bei Bei already knew where Tang Ya was, which is why he reacted this way.

This wasn't exactly a secret he couldn't tell Huo Yuqing, so he grabbed the girl's hand and secretly wrote in her palm: "Tang Ya, evil soul master, defector."

Huo Yuqing's gaze towards Bei Bei instantly turned sympathetic.

Are Beibei and Tang Ya a couple? If the person you like runs away, do you still have to go to school? She put herself in their shoes; if she were in that situation… she'd probably be chasing after Wang Rui by now. Who would want to go to this damn school?

At this moment, the Taotie Douluo, reeking of alcohol and swaying unsteadily, finally arrived, holding his signature chicken leg and wine gourd in his hand, taking a bite every now and then.

The teachers leading the teams from several grades all bowed respectfully to him.

Taotie Douluo led the core students into the Soul Battle Zone, gnawing on chicken legs while explaining the rules of this "Great Melee".

"Listen carefully, the upcoming assessment for you core disciples is very simple. I call it 'Group Free-for-All'."

Although the keyword is an unfamiliar assessment method, its meaning is not difficult to understand from the words themselves.

The core disciples reacted swiftly.

Ning Tian slowed his pace and landed to Huo Yuqing's right. An Wen pulled Wang Dong closer to Wang Rui, and Wang Dong made a gesture to his former teammates. Xiao Xiao nimbly bypassed the crowd and approached them.

Dai Huabin seemed to want to move closer, but after glancing at Zhu Lu, he stopped and didn't move.

"Within this fighting zone, you can fight however you want. There are no rules. Anyone who concedes or is rescued is eliminated. The last seven standing are the winners."

“I’ll deal with those fourth and fifth graders who are at the fourth ring,” Wang Rui said quickly in a low voice, taking on the toughest challenge first. “Anwen, Wang Dong, you two take care of the rest of the third and fourth graders. Ning Tian, ​​you support them. Xiao Xiao, could you please help control those who want to attack Ning Tian? If you have extra capacity, support Wang Dong and Anwen.”

"Huh? No, does that mean we're all supposed to beat up everyone else?" Xiao Xiao, who didn't know much about Wang Rui, widened her eyes.

"I'll count to three, then you can start fighting. One—"

Wang Rui didn't answer Xiao Xiao, but instead grabbed Huo Yuqing's hand and squeezed it hard: "The Netherworld White Tiger is counting on you."

The opportunity to legitimately beat up Dai Lao Er has arrived.

"three!"

Taotie Douluo lightly touched the ground with his toes and quickly jumped out of the arena.

The remaining twenty-odd prodigies all activated their martial souls, their various soul powers surging, and their deep yellow and purple soul rings shimmering with brilliance—the Shrek Seven Devils selection melee has begun!

　The action scenes that the wiggling eel is least good at are about to begin.
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