Wang Qiuer

With nothing else to do, Ji Lin sat cross-legged on the bed and began meditating to cultivate.

Three hours later, the dormitory door suddenly opened, and a plainly dressed boy of around eleven or twelve walked in.

He first froze at the sight of the clean, tidy room, then noticed Ji Lin cultivating.

Hearing someone open the door, Ji Lin knew his roommate had arrived. He opened his eyes and saw the boy standing in the doorway, a trace of surprise flashing through his eyes.

Huo Yuhao? He's my roommate? Then what about Wang Dong? He actually wasn't assigned to the same room as Wang Dong? Is that Plane Shield Card really this effective?

Seeing Ji Lin open his eyes and look at him, Huo Yuhao hurriedly greeted him. "Hello, I'm Huo Yuhao. I'm also assigned to this dormitory. Did you clean the room? You really went through a lot of trouble."

"It's nothing, just a small matter. My name is Ji Lin. We'll be roommates from now on, so I hope we can get along well."

Huo Yuhao looked at Ji Lin with some hesitation and confusion. "Ji Lin, I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I feel like we've met somewhere before?"

Ji Lin smiled and said casually, "We have indeed met. We crossed paths once in the Star Dou Great Forest."

Huo Yuhao suddenly understood. So it was that boy he had seen from afar by the river. No wonder Ji Lin had seemed so familiar.

"So it was then. No wonder you looked familiar. I didn't expect you to be a new student at Shrek Academy too, and even my roommate. We really are fated."

"We are. We may have only just met, but I think we'll become friends."

Ji Lin did not dislike Huo Yuhao. On the contrary, he sympathized with him. In the original story, Huo Yuhao, who had been blessed with so many cheats, was ultimately tamed by God King Tang. The Dong'er he spoke of every day became Wu Tong. It was truly too miserable.

Moreover, Ji Lin had taken the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that should have belonged to Huo Yuhao, directly cutting off the foundation of Huo Yuhao's rise. He felt somewhat guilty about it, so he did not mind helping Huo Yuhao. It was just that Huo Yuhao's personality was a little extreme, and Ji Lin did not know what he would become in the future.

As Ji Lin and Huo Yuhao chatted idly,

within the Star Dou Great Forest, beside the Lake of Life, Scarlet King, a three-headed Soul Beast shaped like a lion, was dejectedly reporting something to a man and a woman by the lake.

The man was tall, nearly two meters in height. Dressed in black, he had a stern, imposing face and an air of overwhelming authority.

His long black hair draped over his shoulders, with a single lock of golden hair among it, making for a rather peculiar sight.

The woman, meanwhile, wore a long aqua-green dress. Her skin was fair, her features soft and beautiful, and her figure delicate. She radiated a gentle, kind temperament.

The two were none other than Beast God Di Tian, ranked first among the Ten Great Fierce Beasts, and Jade Swan Bi Ji, ranked fourth.

"What? You're saying the Imperial Beast ran away? She took human form and went into human society?"

Di Tian furrowed his brows deeply, his face filled with confusion.

Di Tian had lived in this world for hundreds of thousands of years. He believed he had long seen through many things, yet he still could not understand why the Imperial Beast would use her one and only chance to take human form to secretly flee to the human world.

The Imperial Beast was inherently a demigod-level existence. It only needed to grow from weakness, and the Heavenly Tribulation that came once every hundred thousand years could not restrain it at all. Only the million-year Heavenly Tribulation posed even a slight threat. If there was any Soul Beast most likely to reach the million-year level in the future, it would not be Di Tian, but the Imperial Beast!

Of course, that giant bug did not count.

As long as the Imperial Beast wanted to live, she could keep on living. Di Tian could not understand why she had taken human form and secretly gone to the human world. Humans were simply too dangerous for her.

The last time she had been captured by humans and used to threaten them had already worried them greatly. Now, she had secretly gone to the human world without telling them.

"There is no need to worry so much, Di Tian. The Imperial Beast's transformation is different from that of other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. Even a Limit Douluo among humans would not be able to tell that the human form of the Imperial Beast is truly a Soul Beast. I think her secret transformation this time is probably related to the human who captured her last time. Let her go. She will return sooner or later. This is her home."

Seeing Di Tian's worried expression, Bi Ji spoke to comfort him.

"I hope so. The Imperial Beast is still too young. Sigh! What is to become of the future of us Soul Beasts?"

Di Tian let out a sigh. When he saw Scarlet King standing there, too afraid to move, his anger flared. He roared, "Get out already! If anything happens to the Imperial Beast, just see how I deal with you."

As for Scarlet King's miserable retreat, that need not be mentioned.

Outside Shrek Academy's eastern city gate, a girl around eleven or twelve years old with long pinkish-blue hair appeared.

The girl was Wang Qiuer, the Imperial Beast in human form. From Ji Lin's memories, Wang Qiuer had seen the countless facets of the human world and witnessed its beauty.

Her tens of thousands of years of life had brought the Imperial Beast too much loneliness. Once she had seen the beauty of the human world, how could she possibly resist that curiosity?

Thus, she used her one and only chance in life to take human form, becoming the most beautiful person in Ji Lin's memories. Even her name was that person's name from Ji Lin's memories: Wang Qiuer.

I could have endured the darkness, if I had never seen the light.

Without Ji Lin's memories, she might have remained in the Star Dou Great Forest for her entire life.

From Ji Lin's memories, she knew that Ji Lin would come to enroll at Shrek Academy this year, so she came to Shrek Academy as well.

Making her way through the crowd, Wang Qiuer arrived at the registration area. Looking at several Outer Court disciples of Shrek Academy, she said, "Hello, I'm here to join Shrek Academy."

A trace of amazement flashed through the eyes of the student in charge of admissions. What a beautiful girl. He said, "All right. First, test your Soul Power, then show us your Recommendation Letter."

As he spoke, he took out a testing crystal ball and handed it to Wang Qiuer. Wang Qiuer accepted it and poured Soul Power into it. The blue crystal ball began to glow, then suddenly exploded, scattering fragments across the ground.

"Th-this is another one with Soul Power above rank thirty. What is going on with this year's new students? Several of them already have Soul Power above rank thirty."

The Outer Court disciple in charge of the test was utterly astonished as he stared at the beautiful Wang Qiuer.

"Is that enough?"

Wang Qiuer frowned and spoke, snapping the stunned Outer Court disciple out of his daze.

"Y-yes. Just hand me your Recommendation Letter, and you can go in to report and register."

Only then did the Outer Court disciple come to his senses and hurriedly respond.

Wang Qiuer then took out her Recommendation Letter and handed it to the Outer Court disciple in charge of testing. From Ji Lin's memories, Wang Qiuer knew that joining Shrek Academy required a Recommendation Letter from the lord of a main city, so before coming, she had spent a large sum to buy one.

After checking the Recommendation Letter and confirming that there were no issues, the disciple arranged for a female Outer Court disciple to take Wang Qiuer to register and report in.

Following behind the female disciple, Wang Qiuer curiously observed Shrek Academy as she listened to the disciple's introduction. Only after completing her registration and paying the tuition did she arrive at the new student dormitories.

Passing the old man lying at the dormitory entrance, she entered the new student dormitory building and went up to the fourth floor.