Reborn as Huo Yuhao, but also in Battle Through the Heavens

Chapter 74 His Change

The two fighters on the stage unleashed their fighting spirit and unleashed their deadly moves.

"Stop!" Judging that the two students in the sparring session were at their limit, the referee, who had been waiting intently, immediately intervened. Two round water spheres, each as tall as a person, enveloped them, neutralizing their deadly attacks.

The referee's fighting skills should also have a healing effect, as the pale faces of the two students who were wrapped up have become much rosier.

The water balloon dissipated. With a clang, the weapons of the two trainees fell to the ground simultaneously. They no longer had the energy to maintain their composure and lay quietly in a lump of mush, too exhausted even to cry out in pain.

The referee changed his hand seals, and after a moment, a hazy blue light gathered in his hands, turning into two beams of light that entered the students' bodies.

The crisscrossing wounds on the two trainees' bodies stopped bleeding instantly and began to heal slowly.

"This battle was exciting, but there are still some minor issues." After the two students calmed down, the referee stopped releasing their fighting techniques and began to help them summarize the problems that arose during the sparring session.

"After your opponent used their fighting technique for the second time, their aura faltered for a moment, and their defense faltered. You had the full potential to seize that opportunity, but unfortunately, you hesitated..."

The gentle, instructive voices spread out, reaching Huo Yuhao's ears. Huo Yuhao stared at them intently for a long time, seemingly forgetting that Yan Hao was waiting for his answer.

Yan Hao didn't urge him, sitting silently next to Huo Yuhao as they listened to the referee's debriefing. He displayed a patience completely at odds with his outward appearance.

This continued until the practical training course for Class 1 of the Mystic Rank was about to end.

"Indeed..." Huo Yuhao finally spoke, "There should be a chance..."

Lost in thought, Huo Yuhao didn't notice Yan Hao's dark face revealing an ugly smile as he forcefully slapped Huo Yuhao's back with a large hand.

Snapped!

"Cough cough cough!" Huo Yuhao's words were interrupted, and he almost choked on his saliva. He coughed violently several times before he could catch his breath.

"Haha, Lao Huo, let's get together after this is over. Lao Lin's cooking is really good..." Yan Hao didn't pay attention to these details and hugged Huo Yuhao's neck tightly, as if they were old friends.

"The class monitor cooks? Doesn't our college have a cafeteria? Or does he work part-time at the cafeteria?" Huo Yuhao struggled to pry Yan Hao's black hand away.

"Ugh! Don't even mention it." Yan Hao's face immediately fell when the cafeteria was mentioned: "The food in the cafeteria is absolutely awful. If it weren't for the academy forcing everyone to eat that medicinal cuisine every week, I believe even a mouse wouldn't want to come within a hundred meters of it."

"Medicinal cuisine?" Huo Yuhao asked with interest. "What are its effects? What ingredients are used?"

"It can nourish qi and blood, but I don't know what it contains."

"Mandatory requirement..." Huo Yuhao frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "What price?"

"What did you say?" Yan Hao was taken aback, somewhat confused.

"I mean, how much is one serving?"

"What are you thinking? The academy isn't a business; why would it charge money!"

"Huh?" Huo Yuhao looked completely bewildered. "The medicinal cuisine isn't charged, so what is?"

"The cafeteria food is all free." Just then, Lin Xiuya walked over and explained to Huo Yuhao in a calm voice, "The medicinal herb used is Blood Bone Flower, which is one of the medicinal herbs that the academy cultivates in large quantities, so it doesn't cost much and is enough to provide for all the outer academy students."

At this moment, Little Fairy Doctor quietly appeared and poked Huo Yuhao's arm: "Brother Yuhao, your experience is not useful. I just asked Senior Sister Han Yue, and there aren't many places to spend money at Canaan Academy."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

He suddenly pointed at the two students who were being helped off the stage: "What about renting the battle arena privately? That doesn't cost any money either?"

"Of course not."

"This is with teachers providing full support, and there's post-battle therapy and debriefing!"

"Why do you think we need to pay, Huo?" Lin Xiuya asked, looking puzzled.

"Then what does the academy rely on to maintain itself... is it tuition fees?" Huo Yuhao asked urgently, pressing on relentlessly.

"I guess so." Lin Xiuya recalled the academy's system: "Students like us who entered through normal examinations are completely free, while those who lack talent but come from extremely wealthy families have to pay a large sum of tuition every year in order to study at the academy."

"So...that's how it is!" Huo Yuhao was filled with a somber mood. Shrek Academy's Soul Battle Zone didn't offer replays; referees charged fees, treatments were charged, and students were forced to use it or they wouldn't be allowed to advance to the next level. Even simply renting the space cost ten gold soul coins per session. Even spectating was charged...

"What's wrong with him?" Yan Hao was a little confused, but he quickly put those questions aside and rubbed his stomach vigorously. "Let's not talk about this, I'm starving! Old Lin, let's have a welcome dinner for Old Huo today, I've already hunted..."

"Let's call it a day. I need to take Huo and Xiao Yixian to arrange their dorms. I also have some things to discuss with the vice dean afterward."

After saying that, Lin Xiuya waved his hand, signaling Huo Yuhao and Little Fairy Doctor to follow.

The atmosphere was somewhat oppressive due to the low-pressure aura emanating from Huo Yuhao. Lin Xiuya had intended to start a conversation, but upon seeing Huo Yuhao's expression, he didn't know how to begin. He could only silently lead them to the logistics department.

"Brother Yuhao." Little Fairy Doctor could roughly guess why Huo Yuhao was upset, and comforted him through mental sharing: "Your academy only charges a little money, it's a small matter."

"For many students from disadvantaged families, that's no small matter."

The stark contrast between the two academies' systems was like a sharp blade, reopening wounds that Huo Yuhao had long ignored.

It turns out I had also turned a blind eye to these problems within the academy. Huo Yuhao asked himself: Hadn't he also struggled to make ends meet back then, and had he also felt indignant about not getting opportunities despite giving his all?

The embarrassment of not being able to afford food in the cafeteria due to lack of money, the humiliation of striving to win the freshman assessment but still not being able to obtain the status of a core disciple... one after another, long-forgotten scenes flashed through Huo Yuhao's mind.

When exactly... Huo Yuhao clenched his fist, his knuckles turning white from the excessive force.

Although the filter of the past has not completely shattered, the shadows hidden beneath that glamorous exterior are now laid bare before Huo Yuhao's eyes.

Lin Xiuya, who was walking ahead of Huo Yuhao and Xiao Yixian, felt a sense of unease for some reason, but he couldn't figure out the source of this strange feeling no matter how hard he thought about it.

Therefore, after Lin Xiuya brought Huo Yuhao and the other person to the logistics department, he made an excuse to leave.

Putting his thoughts aside for the moment, Huo Yuhao said to the teacher in the logistics department, "Teacher, we are new students who enrolled today, and we haven't been assigned dormitories yet."

"Oh? You're only arriving now?" The logistics staff member scratched his head and flipped through the roster beside him: "Name, which freshman advisor's class?"

"Huo Yuhao and Xiao Yixian are in Class One of the Xuan Rank."

"Class One of the Profound Rank? Freshmen?" The staff member was stunned for a few seconds, muttering these words repeatedly. Instead of directly questioning them, he flipped through the roster and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, they really are freshmen from Class One of the Profound Rank!"

After finding the names, the staff member checked them off on the roster, then took out two keys from the drawer and handed them to Huo Yuhao and Xiao Yixian.

"Boys, one building, room 401; Girls, one building, room 501."