Chapter 158: Puffing

Wang Yan also stopped laughing with great difficulty and said, "Alright, stop. That's enough. Caitou, what're the effects of your food-type martial soul?"

He Caitou snorted coldly, crossing his arms and didn't respond.

Wang Yan laughed and said, "Fine. I promise that no one will laugh at you, but you can't blame us either. Your soul incantation was just too strange, we couldn't help but laugh! Anyway, you should tell us. It might be important when fighting our enemies tomorrow."

Huo Yuhao nodded at Wang Yan, "Senior brother Caitou's martial soul is extremely useful teacher Wang. In fact, it was also because of his martial soul that we managed to win against Ma Xiaotao and her group easily."

"Wait, I remember! Didn't Tang Ya have something in her hand when she executed her mass Bind soul skill that entrapped us?" Ling Louchen said with a frown.

Tang Yang slowly nodded, she was still feeling a bit embarrassed because of Bei Bei's joke. With that in mind, she smacked him on his head once more and Xu Sanshi took that opportunity to stuff the cigar into his mouth.

It wasn't everyday he gets to smoke after all, especially since it's safe as it is a martial soul and not made out of tobacco that can cause health problems.

"Oh?" Wang Yan raised an eyebrow questioningly at He Caitou.

He Caitou rubbed his bald head and replied, "The one I used just now was my first soul skill. It's called Mind Stimulating Thick Cigar. Each cigar can stay lit for around twenty minutes."

"When smoked, it will strengthen both the user's mind and spiritual power. This type of soul skill is rather fitting for someone like Yuhao. If he smokes the cigar, I can assure that his spiritual-type soul skills will experience an amplification of at least 10%."

After hearing his explanation, all the smiling people in the room looked at each other in shock.

Even Huo Yuhao didn't know about this. All he knew was that He Caitou can make a cigar that help boost them and he didn't elaborate further in his soul skills. Now that he thought about it, what was the cigar that Tang Ya had used?

"It can strengthen spiritual-type soul skills? And it can amplify his skills by at least 10%?" Wang Ya asked.

He Caitou nodded and said, "Yes. Isn't it quite normal for food-type soul masters? However, in the end, we are not as good as auxiliary-type soul masters. Junior Tian here has soul skills that have an astonishing level of amplification."

Ning Tian interjected, looking astonished. "Yes, but I need to continuously consume soul power to maintain the effect. On the other hand, you don't have to expend any additional soul power after creating the cigar, do you? And on top of that, food-type soul skills require the least amount of soul power. As if that wasn't enough, won't your soul skill also get stronger as your cultivation progresses?" Her face twitched, as she recalled about something important.

Don't tell he's something like my other ancestor, the Food God Douluo!

He Caitou thought about it for a bit and said, "....That's true. My consumption of soul power isn't high. However, since I usually use most of my soul power on soul tools, I have never paid much attention to this useless amplification skill. The main use of my soul rings is to increase the rank of my soul power, and between my four soul skills, the only one I use regularly is the first one. And that's only because it has the ability to increase my accuracy when using soul tools. Since the other three aren't of any use to me, all I have is a vague idea about their effects."

"...."

Wang Yan looked at the crowd and asked in a grave tone, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Ling Louchen nodded, sighing, "It seems the Martial Soul Department has missed out on a very talented food-type soul master."

Wang Yan nodded in agreement. "Exactly."

"Ah?" He Caitou was bewildered, "Are you talking about me?"

Wang Yan went on to tell him about the first generation Shrek Monsters, the first food-type soul master among them, and how crucial he was and now He Caitou was the same to the team.

Ning Tian even added in about how important food-type soul masters were in the army and when he said that his cigars lasts for two days, both Wang Yan and Ning Tian scolded/comforted him about how amazing he was and that he was probably the best food-type soul master in this generation!

At this moment, He Caitou had the feeling that the Heavens were laughing at him. His brain went blank, and he didn't know what to say.

He Caitou scratched his head and said, "Is it really that impressive? The effects of my other soul skills might be even better."

Wang Yan slammed the table and got up. "What are you waiting for? Quickly, tell us about your other three soul skills. Let's see what bomb you're going to drop this time."

At that moment, Wu Feng whispered to Ning Tian, "Is this alright? He's going to take your place as the support person of the group."

Ning Tian rolled her eyes, "Oh please. Unlike some people, I know how to share the spotlight. Plus, having two strong support members is better than one. Especially if his skills complement mine."

"Think about it. Right now I can enhance strength and agility by 40%, if his cigars stacks with mine by at least 10%, that's a 50% increase in either strength and agility! With us two supports, we probably won't even need Huo Yuhao to sweep the whole competition."

A look of excitement flashed across Wu Feng's eyes, "That's true! At least 50% increase of strength and agility, damn, I wonder if I can knock out a Soul Ancestor with a punch with that much support."

Ning Tian smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes for a moment.

Although auxiliary-type soul masters could amplify abilities to a larger degree, the amplification wouldn't last for too long. For a long drawn out team battle, a food-type soul master would surely be more useful than an auxiliary-type one. Despite the auxiliary-type soul master's short-term advantage, among tool soul masters, both of them had their strong points.

'I need to get stronger,' Ning Tian clenched her hands, glancing towards Huo Yuhao. 'I want to protect him, to stand by his side.'

"This daddy has a large cigar!"

"This daddy has a long cigar!"

"This daddy has a thin cigar!"

Amidst everyone's violently twitching faces, He Caitou activated all three of his soul skills, causing three cigars to immediately appear in his hand. The form and the color were the same as the first cigar. However, all of them differed in size.

Wang Yan offered them to everyone and asked them to try them.

Everyone exchanged a look with one another and reluctantly took one cigar, they lit each one up and started inhaling them.

Cough* Cough* Cough*

There were, of course, some people who hadn't smoked a cigar in their life so most of them started to involuntarily cough.

"Oh, wow." Huo Yuhao muttered. At that moment, he suddenly felt his spiritual sea shudder slightly. Immediately afterwards, an indescribable sense of relaxation spread throughout his body. When it did, his Sharingan actually lit up for a moment.

This feeling was unexpectedly elation. To his astonishment, Huo Yuhao discovered that his spiritual power hadn't just been strengthened by a mere 10%. Currently, his spiritual power was at least 15% stronger than usual.

The sudden increase of his spiritual power caught a certain worm, now human, attention.

"Damn, how relaxing~ J-Just what is this feeling?" Skydream groggily said, waking up from his makeshift hammock.

At that moment, Huo Yuhao subconsciously inhaled another puff from the cigar.

"Ooooooh~ It feels so wonderful! It feels like all the pores on my body have opened up! This feels to great. What sort of soul skill is this!?"

Ice Empress' cold voice sounded, "Does a large bug like you even have any pores? No, wait, scratch that."

"You're human right now, both of us are, because the assimilation of our powers to Huo Yuhao had accelerated faster than we initially expected..." she was sitting in a meditation posture on a bed of ice.

"Bing'er, don't you think that this feeling is extremely comfortable too?" Skydream giggled, infatuated. "This sensation has a great nourishing effect on our souls. There truly isn't anything more relaxing. It's even more relaxing than sleeping!"

The Ice Empress snorted. "Besides eating, all you do is sleep. Do you even know how to do anything besides those two things? I'm too lazy to even care about you."

She rolled her eyes and turned her head, "However, Yuhao, this sort of thing truly is quite beneficial for you. I suggest that you use it as often as you can over a long period of time. It'll help improve your level of control over your spiritual power."

The facts proved that He Caitou's cigars had much better effects than what he'd said earlier.

Huo Yuhao had felt a large increase in the strength of his spiritual power, the others started exclaiming the amount of enhancement they got.

The other cigars were as follows of He Caitou's 2nd to 4th soul skills: Strength Amplifying Large Cigar gave 15-20% increase of strength, Defense Amplifying Long Cigar gave 15-20% increase of strength, and Soul Power Amplifying Thin Cigar boosts one's soul power by 15-20%.

'Damn, if I had known about this sooner, I would've had senior brother Caitou provided me some beforehand. Hm. Strawberry flavor,' Huo Yuhao let out a puff of smoke. He wasn't too worried about getting addicted to the cigars, he was a strong-willed person and a spiritual-type soul master as well.

Spiritual-type soul masters were the last people to worry about when it came to addiction.

Wang Yan took a deep breath, exhaling a puff of Soul Power Amplifying Thin Cigar. "Alright, back to our previous conversation; the upcoming matches."

"In accordance with your cultivations and the understanding that I have of each you, I've divided you into some simple groups. There's no need to mention the team fight; Yuhao will simply command you with his Spiritual Detection secretly on the side, but the commands will be left to whoever you vote to lead."

"If we draw the 1v1 elimination fight, you'll start by going up based on your age, from the oldest to youngest, with the exception of Ning Tian, since she's a auxiliary-type soul master, as well as Huo Yuhao since, well, he's simply too strong."

"The 1v1 elimination fight isn't just fought by a single person. On the contrary, the loser of the fight steps down, while the winner continues fighting. This goes on until all seven members of a team have been completely defeated."

"Because of this, you must be wary of enemy soul engineers. If we draw a 1v1 fight, I'll do as much as I can to create the best lineup possible based on their abilities. You all will just have to do your best."

"The last mode of combat is the 2-2-3 fight. Normally, two 2v2 matches will be held before the 3v3 match. If we win both 2v2s, we won't even need to fight the third match. Because of that, I've tentatively put Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan on one team, and Xu Sanshi and Caitou on the other team for the two teams that will go out in the 2v2 matches. Wang Dong, Wu Feng and Xiao Xiao work extremely well together, so they'll be the participants for the 3v3 match."

"While Tang Ya and Ning Tian will stand by as switches when we go against some troublesome opponents, you two are our trump cards alongside with Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Louchen, and Xi Xi."

No one had much complaint, except for Xu Sanshi. "Teacher Wang, why didn't you put Jiang Nannan and me in a team together? The two of us know each other well, thus we'll definitely work well together as a team."

Jiang Nannan eyes twitched. "Who's the one that's familiar with you? Stop trying to worm your way into being intimate with me!"

Wang Yan snapped, "This is a competition! Not a place for you two to start flirting to each other."

"The reason that I've placed you all together like I have is because your abilities are much more compatible with Caitou's; your focus is on defense, while his is on attack. As for Jiang Nannan, her quick-wittedness is better suited when combined with Bei Bei's strong attacks. If she were to team up with you, I'm afraid that she wouldn't even be able to exhibit thirty percent of her true strength."

Jiang Nannan nodded fiercely, "Teacher Wang is wise."

Xu Sanshi pouted and didn't press the matter further, although his expression clearly showed his disappointment.

Wang Yan continued, "The basic arrangements will thus be like this. Now then, the most favorable styles of competition for us are actually the 1v1 and 2-2-3 fights. On the other hand, team battles will be the easiest for us to reveal flaws to our opponents in."

"I have to emphasis this point once: Do not use all of your strength unless it is absolutely necessary. While Ma Xiaotao, Ling Louchen, and Xi Xi can because this is their first and last time participating, you guys can still participate in the next one."

Ma Xiaotao and the other two smiled at them, all three nodding softly.

"Lastly, I want to make this clear, be careful of soul engineers and their soul tools. All of you have seen what happened to the Duke, the exact situation might not happen to you all here but it is important to remain vigilant." Wang Yan firmly reminded them to be careful.

"We have to do everything in our power to emerge victorious and ensure that we uphold the academy's glory. When the time comes, I'll be commanding you guys on the field. I hope that you guys can carry out my commands at that time."

"Yes, sir!"

Wang Yan finally stood up and said, "Make sure to get some rest tonight everyone; you all need to ensure that you're in peak condition for tomorrow. None of you are allowed to leave tonight. Dismissed."

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