Peerless: I Became Huo Yuhao's Dark Personality

Chapter 117 Orange's Little Thoughts, Si Wumingkun (Two Chapters Combined)

"Isn't that Senior Xiao and Senior Meng? And who's that person next to them?"

"Damn it! How dare he chat and laugh with Senior Meng like that!"

"Your information is far too outdated. That's Dean Guan's disciple, Huo Yumiao."

"Dean Guan, are you referring to the newly appointed Dean Guan?"

"Nonsense, does the academy have other deans?"

……

Such comments spread among the surrounding students. Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had always been prominent figures in the academy, and they were used to such attention.

Huo Yumiao ignored them and the three of them walked out of the academy gate while talking.

"Ju Zi, thank goodness you reminded me. That guy is actually Dean Guan's disciple. If I had really clashed with him, I would definitely have been expelled. What bad luck! Luckily, he didn't look this way."

In the distance, Keke, who had just finished lunch early at the academy cafeteria and was on her way to the experimental area, said to Ju Zi with lingering fear. She had always kept her distance from these powerful and influential students.

There was a member of the royal family in their grade named Wang Shaojie. She had personally witnessed several ordinary students who had offended Wang Shaojie being expelled from school not long afterward, and they had always avoided these children of the powerful and wealthy.

Unexpectedly, she was so unlucky this time that she got into a fight with a disciple of a level nine soul master. If Ju Zi hadn't stopped her from going to the disciplinary team in time, she would have been in real trouble if she had offended them.

The thought of possibly being expelled from school made Keke feel a little scared. With her talent, it would be no problem for her to break through to the Soul King level and become a Level 5 Soul Master with the help of pills, and it was not impossible for her to become a Soul Emperor.

If she left the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, without these free resources, she would have to work tirelessly every day to make soul tools and sell them to buy resources, given her own abilities.

She is currently only a level four Soul Master, which is considered quite strong by the percentage of Soul Masters. However, in Mingdu, she would still be a nobody. But a level six Soul Master is a different story.

Once you become a Level 6 Soul Master, you'll be a pillar of the Sun Moon Empire, holding a respectable position in Mingdu, and becoming a prominent figure in medium-sized cities.

Keke had made up his mind that he would avoid Huo Yumiao until he graduated from the academy.

"Master Guan's disciple, it seems to be really feasible..." Ju Zi ignored Ke Ke and murmured to herself, seemingly lost in thought.

"Orange? Orange!" Keke called out when she saw that Orange hadn't spoken.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Orange was startled awake and looked at Keke with a somewhat bewildered expression.

"What are you thinking about so seriously? I've called you so many times and you haven't responded."

Seeing Keke's curious expression, Ju Zi quickly made up an excuse to brush it off. Of course, she couldn't say what was on her mind. "Don't say so much. There are still several experiments to do today."

"Rumeng Pavilion isn't far from the academy. We don't need to take a car; we can walk there directly." Meng Hongchen said, her hands behind her back, looking quite lively.

"A vehicle? What kind of vehicle?" Huo Yumiao was stunned. Could it be that Mingdu had actually already developed a soul-guided vehicle?

"A carriage, you know, the kind of carriage that noble young masters and ladies ride in when they go out. Haven't you ever ridden in one?" Meng Hongchen asked, though she found it a little strange.

Okay, Huo Yumiao overestimated it; the technology tree is still as crooked as ever.

"No, I've always used a flying soul tool. Are the horses on those carriages all soul beasts?"

"Not entirely. Soul beasts are born with an untamed and wild nature that is difficult to subdue. They are basically impossible to tame. Even if a soul master catches them and tries to raise them by force, it will be useless."

Every captured soul beast dies quickly; some starve themselves, while others commit suicide.

Xiao Hongchen's words piqued Huo Yumiao's curiosity: "Soul beasts can commit suicide?"

"Yes, they will attack their own vulnerable parts by biting their own bodies and using their innate soul skills. If their bodies are restrained by a soul master, they will choose to starve themselves."

To raise a soul beast, one must start nurturing it from its cub stage, but this cannot completely extinguish its wild nature, which can easily be re-excited by the environment.

It is common for many spirit beasts in the arena to change their temperament drastically and attack their keeper after their first kill. However, these spirit beasts will not choose to commit suicide and will still accept the spirit master's feeding.

Therefore, after their first hunt, the spirit beasts in the arena are fed via spirit tools and are no longer cared for by keeper.

Huo Yumiao listened with great interest. No wonder Gong Changlong of Shrek Academy turned pale when a hundred-year-old soul beast died, and his mentality exploded when a thousand-year-old soul beast died.

Soul beasts can only be raised, not captured. The resources required to raise a cub into a hundred-year or even thousand-year soul beast are terrifying, since it is impossible to actually spend hundreds of years. The only way to quickly improve one's cultivation is to take pills.

"Most of the horses pulling the carriages were hybrids of spirit beasts and ordinary horses, and there were many different kinds."

With so many princes and nobles in the capital, who were not short of money, horse traders would naturally crossbreed all kinds of horses to cater to their tastes.

Currently, the most popular breed is called the Unicorn Flame-Treading Beast. This breed is a superior breed developed through generations of breeding and has both unicorn and flame horse bloodlines.

The One-Horned Flame-Treading Horse is infertile and can only be obtained through crossbreeding. It is extremely expensive; an adult One-Horned Flame-Treading Horse will cost no less than one million Gold Soul Coins.

The three of them had reached a crossroads. As Xiao Hongchen was speaking, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to the road on the left, "Look, that's the Unicorn Flame-Treading Horse."

Following the direction Xiao Hongchen pointed, Huo Yumiao saw a carriage. The carriage was made entirely of precious silver sandalwood and platinum carvings, and it gleamed luxuriously in the sunlight.

The sides of the carriage are inlaid with intricate vine patterns, and each carving is plated with pure gold, outlining a majestic eagle soaring in the sky.

The roof of the carriage is elegantly curved, with the four corners slightly upturned, and delicate silver bells hanging from it, making a crisp and melodious sound with the gait of the horses.

The edges of the car windows on both sides are wrapped with silver thread, and white snow velvet curtains hang down from the inside, making it both beautiful and luxurious.

The carriage was pulled by four silver-white horses, each nearly two zhang tall at the shoulder, with their bodies covered in smooth, silver-white fur.

A single, white-gold spiral horn, as if carved from crystal, adorns its forehead; its eyes, like those cast from pure gold, exude an extraordinary majesty. Most peculiar are the deep red flames clinging to its hooves, leaving faint fire marks on the ground with each step. Judging solely from its appearance, this Flame-Treading Horse with a single horn is simply top-tier.

"This is... someone from the Siwu family?" Meng Hongchen's expression changed slightly, and her brows furrowed as if she had remembered something bad.

At the same time, the curtain on the left side of the carriage was slowly pulled open and closed, so that Huo Yumiao and the other two could not see the faces of the people inside from their positions.

"What's wrong?" Huo Yumiao asked, puzzled, after hearing Meng Hongchen's clearly unfriendly tone.

"Si Wu Mingkun, the third son of the Si Wu family patriarch, has always been pursuing his dream." Xiao Hongchen's tone was filled with disgust.

"It seems you all dislike him. Is it because of his lifestyle?" The disgust of the Hongchen siblings was written all over their faces. Huo Yumiao would have to be blind to see it.

Huo Yumiao asked curiously, "For the two of them to show such expressions, there must be something wrong with their character."

"His father is the dean of Mingdu Soul Master Academy. Relying on this relationship, he is the local prince of Mingdu Soul Master Academy and has had affairs with many female students."

Moreover, he's a good-for-nothing. He's seventeen years old and has wasted countless pills, yet he's still only a Soul Master." Xiao Hongchen's eyes revealed undisguised contempt.

Huo Yumiao was somewhat surprised upon hearing this, not because of the other party's reputation or conduct, but because of the extent of his lack of talent. Even Xiao Hongchen used the word "quite a lot" to describe it, which meant that Si Wumingkun must have taken an outrageous amount of drugs.

The fact that someone has taken so many pills and is still only a Soul Master reflects their lack of talent. However, it's rare for someone from a powerful family to have poor talent. Besides, there are plenty of pills that can enhance talent in the second season of the Douluo Continent, which is 10,000 years later.

"His talent is that poor? With his status, he should be able to get the Profound Water Pill easily, right?"

Hearing Huo Yumiao's words, Meng Hongchen snorted, "Si Wumingkun has taken a lot of pills to enhance his talent, but they are of no use at all. It seems that there is a problem with his body and he cannot absorb them."

Chief Siwu only had this one son, whom he doted on immensely, turning a blind eye to many things he did.

"The dean of Mingdu Soul Master Academy should be a level nine Soul Master, right?" Huo Yumiao suddenly realized something and her expression turned astonished.

He certainly knew about Mingdu Soul Master Academy. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was the number one academy after Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. The dean of such an academy was almost always a level nine soul master.

A level nine Soul Master and his seventeen-year-old son—isn't that age gap a bit exaggerated? It should be at least a hundred years apart. And what about Si Wumingkun's mother…?

"That's right. The patriarch of the Siwu family is named Siwu Yuan, a level nine soul master, and he is over 150 years old. Siwu Mingkun's mother is no more than 40 years old."

Xiao Hongchen clearly understood Huo Yumiao's astonishment and considerately explained it to her.

"Actually, there's another interesting saying in the circle: Si Wuyuan broke through to the ninth level of Soul Master not long after Si Wumingkun was born. He felt that this was good luck brought to him by his son, Si Wumingkun."

Furthermore, since Si Wumingkun is his only son, that's why he dotes on him so much. However, considering Si Wumingkun's remarkably poor talent, the prevailing opinion in the circle is:

"Si Wuyuan gave birth to Si Wumingkun as a form of detoxification. I wonder if his doting on Si Wumingkun is related to this." Meng Hongchen's eyes darted around as she whispered.

“That makes sense. By the way, who is more powerful, my teacher or Si Wuyuan?” Huo Yumiao nodded with a sigh, then a strange thought suddenly flashed through her mind.

This plot seems familiar: a good-for-nothing playboy pursuing a genius girl. What if Si Wumingkun gets off the carriage later? Will he end up playing the role of an overpowered protagonist?

"Of course it's Elder Guan. There are differences even among level nine soul masters. Elder Kong, Elder Ye, and Elder Guan are all level nine soul masters at the forefront of the empire. Si Wuyuan can't compare to Elder Guan. Why are you asking this?"

Although Xiao Hongchen was puzzled as to why Huo Yumiao asked such a question, he still explained it as if it were perfectly natural.

"Nothing, I was just suddenly curious," Huo Yumiao said casually. He just mentioned it on a whim.

The carriage suddenly sped up and quickly blocked the way for everyone. Huo Yumiao was a little surprised. Could it really be Si Wumingkun? How could he have encountered such a small chance?
The carriage curtain was slowly lifted, and a man slowly stepped out. The man was nearly six feet tall, with long black hair draped over his shoulders. Although he was not handsome, he was quite dignified.

The man had a gentle smile on his lips, giving him a refined air. He glanced at the three of them, and when he saw Huo Yumiao, he paused for a moment, but quickly recovered.

"Ah Meng, it's been a long time. It's been almost a month since we last saw each other, ever since you went to Xingluo City to participate in the competition."

You even won the championship as a representative this time, that's amazing! I should have gone to see you fight, you must have been so strong and beautiful.”

After the man finished speaking, Huo Yumiao was almost 100% certain that the person in front of her was Si Wumingkun. Xiao Hongchen, who was standing to the side, became a little tense after hearing the man's words, and looked at Meng Hongchen with a hint of sympathy.

"Don't call me that, Si Wumingkun. We're not that close." Meng Hongchen looked at Si Wumingkun coldly, her delicate face full of impatience.

"Ah Meng, you're still the same as before, smiling. Congratulations on winning the championship."

As Si Wumingkun finished speaking, Xiao Hongchen kept his eyes down, seemingly oblivious to everything.

Despite being treated with what could be described as an insult by Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, Si Wumingkun maintained a gentle smile on his face, without the slightest anger or other emotion, which surprised Huo Yumiao.

"May I ask who this young man is?" Si Wumingkun looked at Huo Yumiao with kindness, but Huo Yumiao did not sense any goodwill in his eyes, and even felt a hint of scrutiny.

This is a unique perception of spirit-type soul masters. Emotional fluctuations are closely related to spiritual power, and spirit-type soul masters, who are naturally extremely sensitive to spiritual power, are even more perceptive in this regard.

"Don't talk to him, let's go." Before Huo Yumiao could speak, Meng Hongchen took the lead, holding Xiao Hongchen's hand with her left hand and Huo Yumiao's hand with her right hand, and walked around the carriage in another direction.

Si Wumingkun stood still, making no move, just silently watching... staring at the departing Meng Hongchen and Huo Yumiao.

Once the three had completely disappeared from sight, the smile on his face slowly faded, and his eyes became eerie. He opened his palm, revealing a voice transmission device lying quietly in his hand.

"Give me all the information about that person."

Si Wumingkun's voice rang out, carrying a chilling coldness. A hint of savagery flashed in his eyes, but then suddenly became extremely gentle in the next second.

"Ameng, you are mine, you will always be mine, and you will only ever be mine."

(End of this chapter)