"Class Monitor, Vice Monitor! My name is Nanmen Yun'er, I'm very happy to become your teammate!"
The girl was dressed in a pink top and a slit pink skirt, with a confident smile on her face.
It had been half a month since the last gathering, and the members of Class Nine's team had been finalized.
In the original timeline, Ning Tian and Wu Feng's teammate was none other than Nanmen Yun'er, but now she had become Huo Yuhao and Hua Huo's teammate.
Mu Jin had initially wanted to place either Ning Tian or Wu Feng into Hua Huo's team, but the relationship between Ning Tian and Wu Feng forced her to abandon this idea.
Among the class, the one with relatively high strength was this Nanmen Yun'er, so she naturally became the teammate of these two troublemakers.
Hua Huo and Huo Yuhao exchanged glances, then looked at Nanmen Yun'er.
"Hello, Yun'er."
"Hello."
Huo Yuhao nodded, silently mourning for Nanmen Yun'er.
Teaming up with these two, really?
Nanmen Yun'er didn't think too much of it. Seeing Huo Yuhao and Hua Huo being so "enthusiastic" put her mind at ease.
She had thought that the Class Monitor and Vice Monitor would be more exclusive, but she never expected to be able to fit in so easily!
"This is great!"
"This is great!"
Hua Huo and Nanmen Yun'er murmured the same words, but the meanings behind them were different.
"Class Monitor, Vice Monitor, should we spar to get used to each other?"
Nanmen Yun'er tilted her head, looking adorable as she asked Hua Huo and Huo Yuhao.
The freshman assessment was very important to her. Under the leadership of these two "pressure monsters," it would be hard for her to showcase her own value.
But she didn't regret teaming up with Hua Huo and Huo Yuhao. After all, she had fought hard against many classmates to earn this spot!
"Fighting? Getting used to each other?"
"Hey, Yun'er, actually, there's no need for all that trouble."
"When the time comes, Yuhao will take care of one, I'll take care of another, and you can handle the last one."
"No need for any practice."
Fighting requires practice?
Isn't it just instinct?
Hearing this, Nanmen Yun'er's mouth slightly opened, but she hesitated to speak.
That might be true, but what if she couldn't handle the last one...
"Yun'er, don't overthink it. When the time comes, you can pick your opponent first!"
Hua Huo patted Nanmen Yun'er on the shoulder, speaking nonchalantly.
"Alright, then."
With these two around, there shouldn't be any issues, right?
"Then... what should we do during this time?"
Nanmen Yun'er asked, puzzled. In her view, geniuses like Hua Huo and Huo Yuhao should be training rigorously, right?
If she could learn a thing or two from them, it would be a great opportunity for her.
"Play! Shrek City is quite big. We've been here for a month and still haven't explored it all."
"???"
Nanmen Yun'er was dumbfounded, utterly confused.
"Eh? Play?"
"Yeah, if you don't enjoy yourself while you're young, you won't be able to when you're old!"
"But..."
"Shouldn't we be training hard while we're young?"
Nanmen Yun'er's common sense was being challenged. Something about Hua Huo's words felt off.
"If hard work was all it took, what would we geniuses be for?"
Hua Huo pouted, speaking bluntly.
"???"
"That... makes sense..."
Being able to enter Shrek Academy and rank among the top freshmen, Nanmen Yun'er could be considered a genius.
But compared to Hua Huo and Huo Yuhao, she seemed to have no advantage at all!
She was a genius among geniuses, but these two were monsters among monsters.
Being a genius was just the baseline to meet them...
Thinking this, Nanmen Yun'er shook her head. She could never compare to these two.
They could go out and have fun, but she couldn't!
"Class Monitor, Vice Monitor, you two go ahead and have fun. I... I'll go back to the dorm and train."
Nanmen Yun'er said with a bitter expression, feeling somewhat dejected.
She still had some self-awareness and wasn't completely fooled by Hua Huo.
"Why so glum, young lady?"
Huo Yuhao crossed his arms and continued, "Life is short, and we all return to dust in the end! Even a Limit Douluo only lives for three hundred years."
"Without becoming a god, we are but ants!"
"The Douluo Continent is filled with geniuses, like fish in a river. But how many have ascended to immortality, or become gods?"
"The path ahead is severed. If we cannot break these chains, why not enjoy life to the fullest and experience the world's myriad wonders? At least then, our time here won't be wasted."
Hearing this, Nanmen Yun'er was stunned, her mind buzzing.
The Vice Monitor's words... were filled with negativity!
But what he said wasn't without reason.
The purpose of cultivation was to pursue that elusive immortality.
But ever since the Sea God and others ascended ten thousand years ago, no one on the Douluo Continent, no matter how talented, had become a god.
Nanmen Yun'er didn't know that the Limit Douluo of ten thousand years ago were also known as Supreme Douluo.
Their lifespans reached a thousand years!
But now, Limit Douluo could only live for three hundred years, just a bit longer than some long-lived mortals.
Even if Limit Douluo mastered the path of godhood through faith, their lifespans weren't enough to gather the necessary faith to ascend to godhood.
With the gods not passing down their thrones, the path to godhood through faith was severed. For humans, becoming a god was nearly impossible!
Ten thousand years later, the master of the Sea God Pavilion created the "Demigod Position," but it wasn't true godhood. Most importantly, the God Realm had been swept away by a spatial storm, no longer under the watch of "that person."
Though the Demon Empress attained a divine body, it was the result of twenty thousand years of planning, and in the end, it became another's gain.
Huo Yuhao's words were heartfelt truths.
But how could a young girl like Nanmen Yun'er understand?
Breaking chains, severed paths, she couldn't comprehend any of it.
Suddenly, Nanmen Yun'er seemed to remember something and asked Huo Yuhao, "Vice Monitor, are you saying that even geniuses like you and the Class Monitor can't become gods?"
Though young, the discussions within the class were anything but small.
Everyone was speculating whether geniuses like Hua Huo and Huo Yuhao could break the ten-thousand-year curse of no one becoming a god!
After all, the two of them were too dazzling. Reaching Title Douluo was as easy as lifting a hand, but becoming a god was the real goal.
Huo Yuhao and Hua Huo exchanged glances, their eyelids twitching in mild annoyance.
Become gods?
If they were to become gods, it would be as Aeon (star God). The gods of the Douluo Continent...
They were pitifully weak!
Even with the combined power of all the gods in the God Realm, they couldn't stop a spatial storm. How weak was that?
The Hunter's arrows could travel through time to chase their targets. A single arrow could obliterate the Douluo universe...
"Ah, yes, yes..."
Hua Huo and Huo Yuhao nodded with strange expressions.
The gods of the Douluo Continent weren't worth becoming.
"How can this be..."
Nanmen Yun'er lowered her head in disappointment, murmuring to herself.
She had thought she would have teammates who could become gods...
"Wait... that's not right!"
Nanmen Yun'er looked at Hua Huo in confusion. Hua Huo's identity was peculiar; she knew a lot about the God Realm.
As Hua Huo's classmates, they weren't fools!