Nuoding Academy
Time slowly passed.
Both Shen Yichen in reality and "Xiao Yan" under Shen Yichen's pen had settled into a quiet stretch of life.
By day, Shen Yichen teased Bei Bei. At night, he cuddled with Sister Lexuan. Occasionally, he went wild in Shrek City with Sister Xiaotao, and so the days passed.
When he got really bored, he could always tease Du Busi in the group chat.
Who on earth had invented Du Busi?
Two sentences were enough to make him seethe for ages. Once Du Busi got worked up, Shen Yichen would hide in a corner and lurk.
As soon as Shen Yichen spoke again, Du Busi would come over for another chat.
Shen Yichen understood Du Busi's intentions, too. Wasn't it just that Du Busi saw he had a clean record and was firmly opposed to Tang San, so he wanted to recruit him?
But was the Great Sage Equal to Heaven someone who could be recruited?
Shen Yichen only had to put a little of the playing-hard-to-get skill he had learned from the little fairies in his previous life to use, and Du Busi came trotting over.
Of everyone in the group chat, Huo Yun'er saw things most clearly.
She knew exactly what game the Great Sage Equal to Heaven was playing, but... she couldn't say it, and she didn't dare tell Du Busi.
If she opened her mouth and said, "Sect Master, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven is playing with you like a dog," Du Busi might just slap her into a wall in a fit of rage.
Besides...
What if the sect master really did succeed by licking up to him?
Wouldn't that give Yuhao another source of support?
But... could the Great Sage Equal to Heaven be a girl?
No wonder Huo Yun'er was suspicious. Even Zhang Lexuan, who shared a bed and pillow with Shen Yichen at night, had begun looking at him strangely.
The little fellow was so well-behaved and adorable in front of her. How was it that once he entered the group chat, one mischievous idea followed another?
In the group chat, was he putting on a mask or taking one off?
Still, seeing Shen Yichen like this actually put Zhang Lexuan at ease.
Judging by personality alone, most people would have a hard time connecting the Great Sage Equal to Heaven with Shen Yichen.
Though his daily life was quiet, Shen Yichen still lived it to the fullest!
An exciting life meant slacking off in cultivation.
All day long, Shen Yichen simply threw up his hands and lay flat.
He meditated for only one hour a day...
If Zhang Lexuan hadn't personally supervised his cultivation at night, he wouldn't even have wanted to cultivate for that one hour.
Though he slacked off in cultivation, his knowledge kept growing.
Whenever Shen Yichen had nothing to do, he buried himself in the Sea God Pavilion Library.
He didn't read to broaden his horizons, but to better fabricate the Diary!
People didn't mind the effort when they dared to do bad things. To make the Diary he fabricated more believable, he could even become so absorbed that he sat in the library reading all day without eating or drinking.
That was also why Mu En hadn't forced him, even though he was slacking off in cultivation.
Children all liked to play.
Let him play. Once he was around twelve and entered the Shrek Outer Court, the pressure would make him work harder without anyone having to tell him.
However...
Today, Shen Yichen stood by Sea God Lake, his back to the water and his chin raised toward the sky.
His quiet daily life was ending today!
Because today was the day Xiao Yan and God King Tang enrolled at Nuoding Academy!
Shen Yichen wasn't entirely sure whether the date was right.
He vaguely remembered that Nuoding Academy's term began a month after the Martial Soul Awakening.
Grandmaster was officially stepping onto the stage of history!
Today,
Shen Yichen had deliberately skipped reading at the library and found an auspicious spot in the Shrek Outer Court instead.
Two hundred meters ahead of Shrek Academy's main gate stood several enormous statues.
There were ten statues in all.
The three standing in front were the Golden Iron Triangle.
The seven behind them were the First-Generation Shrek Seven Devils.
The auspicious spot Shen Yichen had mentioned was the top of the Yu Xiaogang Statue's head!
With a single extension of the Aolai Staff, Shen Yichen easily stepped onto Yu Xiaogang's head.
Who among ordinary people would dare sit here? Before their butt had even settled, someone could slap a damning label on them and crush them to death.
But was Shen Yichen an ordinary person? The privileges of a Shrek Celestial Dragon needed no explanation.
He sat down cross-legged and prepared to write today's Diary entry.
[My quiet daily life is finally about to end!]
For the past few days, the Diary had been full of trivial matters.
So many people had merely given it a cursory glance. When there was nothing important, they couldn't be bothered to watch a little brat complain about the daily necessities of life ten thousand years ago.
Watching the Great Sage Equal to Heaven tease Du Busi in the group chat was more entertaining than reading that.
But today, the very first sentence instantly piqued the readers' interest.
[The one-month deadline has arrived. Welcome back, Dragon King!]
[At six years old, I can finally go to school at Nuoding Academy.]
[Along with Brother San, I was led by Grandpa Old Jack onto the road to study away from home.]
[I just don't know whether Tang Hao is drinking his life away at home right now or secretly escorting Brother San.]
[I suppose he's probably still drinking his life away at home.]
[After all, when Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang takes Brother San to hunt for a Soul Ring tomorrow and they encounter a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake, Tang Hao doesn't show up.]
[The only time I can be sure Tang Hao left Holy Soul Village was when Tang San graduated from Nuoding Academy and went to study at Shrek Academy.]
[Six years from now, while Tang Hao is away, I'll be taking the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone!]
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!
Even Du Busi's eyes flashed with a trace of greed.
Ten thousand years later, though Soul Bones were plentiful, Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones were still exceedingly rare treasures.
His Body Sect had offended everyone in the Star Dou Great Forest in its quest to obtain Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones. From now on, it would be difficult for humans to hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts...
[We're here, we're here!]
[This carriage was pretty fast! It's just that the lousy road was terribly uneven, and the carriage's suspension wasn't good either. It was far too bumpy...]
[Holy Soul Village may be a small village and Nuoding City may not be a large city, but a Soul Master Academy is a city's showpiece, and this one was built well enough.]
[It wasn't as extravagant as a palace, but every blade of grass and every tree still gave off an air of luxury.]
[No wonder a gatekeeper who wasn't even a Soul Master dared to demand bribes and make things difficult for people at the entrance.]
["Can a golden phoenix really come out of a grass nest? Can someone from a little village actually have Soul Power? The academy hasn't had work-study students for years. You aren't impostors, are you?"]
[He was serious about picking a fight.]
[Even after glancing at the Soul Master Certificate issued by Spirit Hall and knowing they couldn't be lying.]
[But... if I don't bully him just because the two of them are geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power, how am I any different from a good-for-nothing who only knows how to bully the weak?!]
[Very good. I acknowledge the purity of your bullying intent!]
[Judging by Brother San's expression, he's probably already decided to kill him and is silently reciting, You have found a way to die, right?]
[To be fair, you really can't blame Tang San for this. Carry a sharp weapon, and killing intent arises of itself. In this era, Tang San's decisiveness and ruthlessness might be better suited to survival.]
[Even I feel like crushing that gatekeeper's bones and scattering his ashes. But... I'm a modern person who received nine years of compulsory education, after all. I can beat him up without the slightest hesitation, even beat him half to death.]
[But killing someone...]