Chapter 6: School Starts
As Huo Yuhao continued his stable life of cultivating during the day and selling grilled fish at night, the time quickly arrived for the official start of classes for new students at Shrek Academy.
It was almost time for his first class in this World, so Huo Yuhao arrived early at the white first-year teaching building.
After seeing the classroom with the sign for first-year Class One, Huo Yuhao walked in.
Just like in the original timeline, Huo Yuhao was still assigned to first-year Class One with Wang Dong, though he didn't know if it was Tang God King's arrangement.
After entering the classroom, Huo Yuhao found a window seat and continued to meditate, after all, "Time is like water in a sponge; squeeze it and there will always be some."
He might as well take advantage of this time to cultivate more spirit power and become a Shrek grinder.
Slowly, as more and more students entered the classroom, it became a bit noisy, but it remained very quiet around Huo Yuhao.
After all, birds of a feather flock together; those sitting around Huo Yuhao were all grinders who wanted to cultivate for a while during this time, and everyone was quietly cultivating.
Wang Dong, meanwhile, was surrounded by a group of girls, all attracted by her beauty.
She, herself, secretly glanced in Huo Yuhao's direction, gaining a new understanding of his diligence.
At this moment, an old woman dressed in white, with wrinkled skin, white hair, and bright eyes, walked in.
The old woman tapped the blackboard and said, "My name is Teacher Zhou Yi, and I am your class teacher. I don't know how many of you can stay with me until the end, but remember, I want to cultivate monsters, not trash."
Hearing Teacher Zhou Yi's hoarse voice, Huo Yuhao opened his eyes from meditation, considering it his first meeting with this teacher's wife.
"You few are quite good. You know to cultivate diligently now, to avoid being eliminated by me. However, you are still far from meeting my requirements."
Teacher Zhou Yi glanced at Huo Yuhao and the few other students who were cultivating spirit power with him, her attitude softening slightly.
Huo Yuhao was noncommittal about this. Teacher Zhou Yi, as a teacher, definitely had big problems, but she was truly good to Huo Yuhao.
In the original timeline, she turned a blind eye to Huo Yuhao's semi-cheating completion of a hundred laps, gave him a Spirit Bone, and introduced him to Fan Yu, which was considered dutiful.
However, her teaching philosophy, if applied in his previous life, would have been attacked by countless people.
Imagine a student who worked hard to get into a top university, only to be expelled because he was lazy in the first class and didn't complete the teacher's assignment.
That would truly be a big joke. In his previous life, such a teacher would have been directly fired. Of course, teachers in his previous life didn't have such great power.
Just as Huo Yuhao was thinking, Teacher Zhou Yi's first class officially began.
"Those who have fought since enrollment, stand up."
Hearing Teacher Zhou Yi's question, Huo Yuhao, feeling quite helpless, stood up along with Wang Dong.
The students around Huo Yuhao also looked at him with some shock, not expecting that the grinder was also hot-tempered and had gotten into a fight just two days after arriving.
"You're all trash! Haven't you heard that those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre? Except for these two, all of you go run a hundred laps around Shrek Plaza. Those who can't finish will be directly expelled."
Teacher Zhou Yi's shout came, and some timid students shivered in fear.
Just then, a student in the class retorted, "It's not right for you to expel us."
Hearing this, Teacher Zhou Yi's aura surged, and six spirit rings, two yellow, two purple, and two black, appeared.
"Remember, in this class, I am the rule. As your class teacher, I can expel any student."
Huo Yuhao heard this and not only felt no majesty but even a little speechless.
What exactly do you want to do? Arouse the students' rebellious psychology? Are people in this World all so crazy?
Don't think that only Shrek Academy is like this and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy is normal.
In the Continental Spirit Master Academy Tournament, Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy suffered heavy losses, and some students died as a result.
But after the competition, Jing Hongchen said to the leading teacher, "The reason I don't punish you is because you let Xiao see the gap." Such a shocking statement.
So, only your grandson's future matters, and other students' lives don't, is that it?
Is there no law in the Douluo World? Why is everyone acting so wantonly, not even hiding it?
Huo Yuhao thought again, indeed, there really wasn't in this World. How could a Titled Douluo abide by the law?
After all the students had gone out to run laps, Teacher Zhou Yi came to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. Just as she was about to speak, Huo Yuhao spoke first.
"I know what you want to say, Teacher. You don't like infighting, and you want us to run with the other students later, right? I could tell from the way you were staring at us."
"You are indeed very clever. So, what are you waiting for? Go run." Teacher Zhou Yi replied in an unfriendly tone.
Seeing Wang Dong standing by, intending to argue with Teacher Zhou Yi, Huo Yuhao didn't bother to pay attention and went out to run by himself.
Don't be ridiculous. He was a commoner, worrying if the Clear Sky Sect Young Sect Master would be expelled.
Let's put it this way, even Mu En couldn't expel Wang Dong; two god-level fathers were watching from the Clear Sky Sect.
Entering Shrek Plaza and joining the running army, Huo Yuhao didn't know if this overdraft-style running method would help others, but he knew it would definitely help him.
With his Mysterious Heaven Skill spirit power nourishing his body, every time he entered an extreme state, his physical strength would increase slightly.
Therefore, when he wasn't cultivating spirit power these past few days, Huo Yuhao would also run at full speed, pushing his body into an extreme state.
The current running assessment actually benefited from this. Huo Yuhao quickly adjusted his state to the most suitable for running and ran at full speed.
Huo Yuhao's speed was very fast. In less than twenty laps, he caught up with the first-tier students in the class.
Having consumed the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, his physical strength alone was truly not inferior to an ordinary two-ring Spirit Master, and he could even contend with a three-ring Spirit Elder.
Wang Dong also joined the running team when Huo Yuhao reached his fifth lap, and she even tried to surpass Huo Yuhao to prove herself.
But how could she outrun Huo Yuhao, who wasn't afraid of his body exceeding its critical limit and had adapted to the painful sensation of the critical state?
Soon, she was left far behind by Huo Yuhao. The rest of the students in the class also watched in shock as Huo Yuhao ran at full speed, lap after lap, seemingly tireless.
Huo Yuhao didn't know whether his will and perseverance were stronger or weaker than the original Huo Yuhao's, but he knew that he sought more than him, and naturally, he had to be more diligent.
Although he had already run a hundred laps, Huo Yuhao did not stop. The phrase from his previous life that he had grown tired of hearing, here, Huo Yuhao truly understood its meaning.
"Cultivation truly is for myself now." Huo Yuhao sighed inwardly.
After all, his joys and sorrows were now truly tied to cultivation, and he could clearly feel them at all times.
As the last student completed a hundred laps, Teacher Zhou Yi came to the plaza to give a speech.
Huo Yuhao also stopped at this time. He had already lost count of how many laps he had run, but this feeling of giving his all was truly not bad.