Soul Land 3: Legend Of The Jade Emperor

Watching Yun Ming fly off, Huang Yu sighed. He shifted his gaze to Gu Yue before looking at her with a soft, yet strange look in his eyes.

The reason for this was because of what he felt during the spirit fusion with Gu Yue. He had clearly felt the strength of her bloodline. Yet, when they fused, her bloodline was forced to completely submit to his, so the spirit fusion attack was at 100% compatibility.

The situation was truly bizarre, but it was just like that.

Knowing this, he hypothesised that his bloodline was somewhat special when it came to spirit fusions. If it did the same thing during every spirit fusion, then he could theoretically do it with whoever he wanted to at a compatibility rate of 100%.

Putting aside those thoughts for now, Huang Yu began pouring some vital energy into Gu Yue to wake her up. With her current cultivation, a spirit fusion attack of the calibre they had unleashed previously was far to taxing.

If he hadn't shouldered around 70% of the burden, it may have turned her into a complete husk of a human.

He sighed again. "Gu Yue, why did you have to attempt something so dangerous?" he whispered softly to her.

Unfortunately, she wasn't able to hear this since she was unconscious.

"GU YUE/BIG SIS GU YUE!!"

Several sudden shouts sounded out from behind him. Turning around, he was met with the frantic faces of Tang Wulin, Xu Xiaoyan and Xie Xie.

Tang Wulin ran up to Huang Yu who was holding Gu Yue in his arms. With gritted teeth, he rasped out, "What happened to her Huang Yu?"

The three other students from class zero hadn't managed to see what had happened just now. The battle may have taken many words to describe, but it all happened in a flash.

They had been knocked back due to Elder Cai's sudden burst of power as well. Hence, they took some time to get back up.

"Gu Yue, are you alright?" Tang Wulin asked hurriedly as he rushed over to her.

Gu Yue coughed a few times before looking up. "Thanks for the concern, I'm fine Wulin." she said half-heartedly before looking around to search for Huang Yu.

Noticing this, Tang Wulin let out a wry smile before stepping back to give her space.

When Gu Yue found Huang Yu, she asked in a slightly hoarse voice, "Huang Yu, are you hurt?"

This girl…

Huang Yu let out a wry smile of his own. "I'm fine. But you're such an idiot you know?"

Gu Yue flinched as Huang Yu's words made their way into her ears.

Hearing Huang Yu's spiteful words towards Gu Yue, Tang Wulin began getting angry. Opening his mouth to shout out at Huang Yu, he deftly closed it again when Huang Yu spoke his next words.

"What you did was extremely reckless. You could have died from that, you know? The situation wasn't serious to the point where you had to do something like that."

Gu Yue looked down, not daring to look Huang Yu in the eyes. "I'm sorry. I just wanted to help…"

A sigh emerged from Huang Yu's lips before he closed his eyes. Opening them again, he approached Gu Yue before pulling her into a hug, causing a high-pitched squeak to come out of her mouth.

A burning blush appeared on Gu Yue's face. She wanted to say something, but each and every word she wanted to say was stuck in her throat. In the end, she decided not to resist and melted into the hug.

Tang Wulin, seeing this, couldn't help but clench his fists slightly. He took deep breaths, trying to keep the Golden Dragon King blood essence in his body from rampaging.

"Thank you for that. But next time, please don't do something like that again. I don't want you getting hurt." Huang Yu whispered gently into her ear.

"Mm." That was the only thing Gu Yue could reply with at the moment. Her brain had been so scrambled from Huang Yu's actions that she couldn't think straight.

However, she really couldn't help but feel that Huang Yu was really warm.

When he finally let her go, for some reason, Gu Yue felt a sense of not wanting to let go. Nonetheless, she didn't voice it out.

"Are we still leaving Shrek?" she suddenly blurted out. Saying those words, she wanted to curse herself. She had just ruined a perfectly splendid moment with those words.

Huang Yu gave a smile. "Nah. The Sea God Pavillion Master came just now and said that he would give Elder Cai a suitable punishment for her actions. He said he'd also compensate us."

"Ok." she smiled back at him.

*Cough Cough*

The two of them turned to see Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan looking at them.

Xie Xie began, "Well since the two of you aren't leaving anymore…"

"... can we go do the next trials now?" Xu Xiaoyan ended for him.

""Sure."" Huang Yu and Gu Yue said in unison.

– – – –

For the fifth trial, because Elder Cai was unconscious, all the students of class zero got a free pass for that.

For the sixth trial, it was a trial about eating. This was Tang Wulin's specialty, hence, he absolutely demolished this stage of the trial by himself.

Huang Yu could have eaten more, but he chose not to. The buns they had provided were very bland and he didn't want to eat too much of them.

The seventh trial was a bunch of physical exercises. Gu Yue still hadn't completely recovered from what happened previously, so Huang Yu decided to help her out with it.

For the eighth trial, things got a bit more interesting. Shrek Academy had set up ten students to pick from and the one you chose was the one you would fight in the test.

Victory wasn't a necessity to pass, but did anyone expect anything less from Huang Yu and the others?

Huang Yu originally wasn't interested in this, but he got intrigued when he saw the one standing in the second position among all the students of Shrek Academy there.

It seemed to be a boy whom Huang Yu had chosen. However, he knew better.

The one he had chosen…

...was a reverse trap!

You thought it was a boy, but it was Yuanen Yehui all along!

As for how he knew that? He could still clearly feel the distinct dark energy flowing inside her. WIth that, he could recognise her no matter what she looked like as long as he was near enough.

Xu Xiaoyan won with a mischievous combination of her acting and special abilities. She stood no chance in a straight up battle against her opponent so she played dirty to win.

Gu Yue completely decimated her opponent, despite not being in her best condition. Her control over the elements were so great that it swiftly overwhelmed her opponent.

In the end, it was Huang Yu's turn. When he was on the stage facing the crossdressing Yuanen, her eyes widened imperceptibly seeing him.

"Hi. It's been a while since we met." Huang Yu greeted.

"I'm sorry, but I don't recognise you." Yuanen replied coldly. However, in her mind, she was absolutely shocked. She didn't expect that the VVIP whom she thought was a pretty swell guy would appear in the Shrek Academy entrance exams and recognise her too!

Huang Yu laughed before scratching the back of his head. "Ah, don't worry. I don't judge on your preferences. I'm a very open person."

A tick mark appeared on Yuanen's head when she heard this. As the signal for the match to start was given, she charged at Huang Yu, her third spirit ring, a thousand year one, lighting up as she did so.

Her body instantly swelled up, her clothes bursting apart, leaving only insanely elastic undėrġȧrmėnts.

Brown hair then covered her body. After this, she no longer looked like a human, much more like an ape.

He didn't particularly care for it, but he could see why others would.

Despite all this, Huang Yu wasn't going to go easy on her. Before she could react, Huang Yu was already in front of her.

[Acupuncture Artery Block]

With several swift but forceful pokes at several pressure points throughout Yuanen's body, she suddenly felt as if she had completely lost control of her entire body.

Her martial spirit deftly unsummoned itself before she was left lying on the ground unable to move.

"Stop! It's Huang Yu's win!."

With those words spoken, Huang Yu went and unblocked the arteries in her body. At that, she felt her mobility return as she stood up.

He gave her a quick goodbye before running back to his team. As he did so, she couldn't help but look at his back with shock. She was the strongest student of the second years at Shrek Academy, yet Huang Yu had taken her out so easily.

'Does he come from a clan?' she thought? However, she shook her head and rid herself of those thoughts. She was curious, but she didn't want to dig too much into it.

– – – –

For the ninth trial, Shen Yi took the students of class zero into a small room. Throughout the entire time she had been guiding them, she couldn't help but keep thinking about Huang Yu's actions.

'He had actually threatened the Sea God Pavillion Master like that…' she thought in horror. She didn't like him much, but she had to admit that she didn't want to be on the receiving end of his wrath.

How much had Huang Yu taken from the academy? His ask was an insane amount.

It would take several years of Elder Cai's salary just to pay back the amount they had lost as a result of her actions. If she chose to only take a part of her monthly salary for each payment, then Elder Cai may be paying for over twenty years!

If Huang Yu had known this, then he would have definitely felt that this was a great end for someone who had tried to incur debt onto others.

She would be in crippling debt herself.

Inside the small room, Shen Yi suddenly spoke. "Your goal for the ninth trial is to survive. I believe you've all been inside a spirit ascension platform before. It's something similar to that. The spirit beasts inside this one are real and if you kill one, you can get a spirit ring. Prepare to enter."

With that, the students of class zero entered the simulation.

– – – –

In a flash, the entirety of class zero found themselves in a lush forest. They walked around for a few hours, taking breaks here and there.

Eventually, when the sun was about to set, a sudden loud roar caused the surroundings to rumble.

Turning their heads to the location the roar came from, all of them stiffened up.

In front of them, were two beasts. One was a 10000+ year old Duskgold Dreadclaw Bear. With such a cultivation, normal 100000+ year old beasts would be ripped into shreds by it. However, it wasn't the true threat here.

The other beast that had arrived was. It was a lion with golden fur and had a third eye on its forehead, not much unlike the one on Huang Yu's. It seemed to contain an aura of majesty as it stared down at them.

What was it? Simple. A 10000+ year old Three-eyed Golden Lion..

And both of the beasts looked absolutely starving as they looked at Huang Yu.

Seeing them here, Huang Yu felt his left eye twitched. He sighed before raising a hand.

This caught the attention of all the people accompanying him. Before anyone else could do anything…

Huang Yu just snapped his fingers.

(Alternate Chapter Title: I am Inevitable)