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Unlike Wutong Academy, Donghai Academy was a pure Soul Master Academy, and it also possessed the qualifications to run both an intermediate academy and an advanced academy.

Although in this era, ordinary people could also gain powerful Combat Power through Soul Tools and mechas, compared with ordinary people without Soul Power, soul masters were born with an absolute advantage. The Mecha Control Major established over at the Donghai Academy Advanced Division even had certain hard requirements for every student's martial soul.

Those who could successfully graduate from the Donghai Academy Advanced Division were all elites without exception. The Advanced Division, which occupied only one-third of Donghai Academy's area, was the true essence of the entire Donghai Academy.

What the Donghai Academy Intermediate Division provided was only six years of compulsory education. As long as one was a soul master and had a Recommendation Letter provided by a Primary Academy in the second- or third-tier cities or towns around Eastsea City, one could smoothly enter the Donghai Academy Intermediate Division to study.

Donghai Academy faced south from the north, its grounds shaded by lush green trees. Directly ahead was a rather ancient-looking bluestone-paved road that led deep into the academy. On both sides were broad roads running horizontally. To ensure the students' safety, Donghai Academy had always forbidden Soul Guidance Cars from driving inside the academy. Once a vehicle entered the academy, it had to follow this broad horizontal road and split off to either side, entering the Underground Parking Lot.

The central bluestone-paved road happened to divide Donghai Academy into the West Campus and the East Campus, belonging respectively to the Advanced Academy Division and the Intermediate Academy Department.

A black Soul Guidance Car continued driving along the passage inside the Underground Parking Lot, heading deeper into Donghai Academy, and Yu Nanyuan sat in the back row of the Soul Guidance Car. According to the agreement between him and Yu Zhen, he would enter the Donghai Academy Intermediate Division to study afterward.

Originally, Xu Xiaoyan had planned to enroll with him, but unfortunately, she had been far too lax in her cultivation over the past few years. During this month-long holiday, she still had not been able to fully consolidate the origin of her Star Staff Martial Soul. Not long ago, Xu Xingwei could only harden his heart and personally take her to the Family Ancestral Land for Closed-Door Cultivation.

Before long, the dimly lit Underground Parking Lot suddenly opened up before them. The Soul Guidance Car had already come to a steady stop in front of an office building.

Yu Zhen's Dean's Office was here. Aside from Yu Zhen, those able to work here were all highly experienced teachers within Donghai Academy. Most of these teachers taught the Advanced Academy Division, and among them were no shortage of true Mecha Masters.

Yu Nanyuan took the Soul Guidance Elevator with practiced ease to the top floor of the building. On this floor, there was only Yu Zhen's Dean's Office.

The spacious office had excellent lighting, and through the floor-to-ceiling windows, one could see the ancient towering trees around it.

Yu Nanyuan pushed open the office door directly and sat down on the sofa opposite Yu Zhen with a smile.

"Grandpa."

"Nanyuan, you're here?" Yu Zhen put down the document in his hand and looked up at Yu Nanyuan with a beaming smile.

"Do you still remember what Grandpa told you about back then?"

"About that Teacher Wu?" Yu Nanyuan interlaced his fingers behind the back of his neck, not feeling particularly surprised by this.

Yu Zhen nodded and said, "That Teacher Wu caused a bit of trouble over at the Advanced Academy Division before, so I just happened to transfer him over to the Intermediate Academy Department."

The smile on Yu Nanyuan's face did not fade. From the memories of his previous life, he knew very clearly what this Teacher Wu had done.

Because he had come into conflict with the Dean of Instruction over at the Advanced Academy Division, this Teacher Wu had directly broken the Dean of Instruction's leg. Yet even so, Donghai Academy had still not been able to harden its heart and expel him. From this, one could also see just how much Donghai Academy valued that Teacher Wu.

Yu Zhen continued, "Teacher Wu comes from that place, and he is also an Inner Court Disciple. Although I don't know why he came to our remote Eastsea City, Nanyuan, if you want to become a Battle Armor Master in the future, then this Teacher Wu should be the teacher most suited to instruct you. Only he possesses that ability. I arranged for Teacher Wu to be in charge of First Grade Class Five. You can go report there afterward."

"Class Five?" Yu Nanyuan blinked in surprise. What surprised him was not that Wu Zhangkong was in charge of teaching First Grade Class Five, but that Yu Zhen had actually deliberately arranged for him to enter Class Five.

Within Donghai Academy, no matter the grade, the further ahead a class was, the higher the quality of its students. First Grade Class Five was undoubtedly the worst New Student class in the Donghai Academy Intermediate Division.

Yu Nanyuan met Yu Zhen's gaze and seemed to quickly understand his grandfather's thoughts. He shook his head calmly.

"Grandpa, there's actually no need to arrange it so deliberately. Just assign me to Class One normally. I believe that with my talent, no matter where I am, this Teacher Wu will notice me."

Yu Zhen sized Yu Nanyuan up, then nodded readily and replied, "All right. Then we'll do it according to your own wishes. I'll have Director Long from the Intermediate Division take you over to report."

"Grandpa, there's no need to trouble Director Long either. I can go over by myself. I hope I can make some friends." Yu Nanyuan stood up from the sofa, his perfect, warm smile leaving no room for criticism.

However, Yu Zhen could not sense the slightest sincerity in Yu Nanyuan's smile. It was a lofty superiority that completely looked down upon those of the same age. But with Yu Nanyuan's talent and strength, all of this seemed so natural.

"All right, Nanyuan, you go first." Yu Zhen waved to Yu Nanyuan. After Yu Nanyuan left, he could not help sighing softly.

"That proud nature, warm on the outside and cold within... I wonder if there's anyone among his peers who can enter your heart the way Xiaoyan has."

He was not optimistic about it.

The Main Teaching Building of the Intermediate Academy Department was a twelve-story building. The higher the grade, the higher the floor it occupied. The New Student first-grade classes would only be assigned to classrooms on the first and second floors.

After completing the Admission Procedures at the Academic Affairs Office, Tang Wulin carried his large bag and went around the teaching building, arriving at the dormitory building behind it.

Although he had encountered some unpleasant things on the way to Donghai Academy, there was also a kind-hearted senior student like Liu Yuxin.

Tang Wulin pressed his lips together and thought silently to himself. Three years had passed, and his height had already exceeded one and a half meters. He looked a little taller than his peers, and with his Natural Strength, a large bag weighing several dozen jin was nothing to him at all.

Just as he was about to walk into the Dormitory Building Entrance, he happened to see a young man in loose gold-and-silver sportswear walking over from beside him.

Tang Wulin had been very pretty since childhood, especially with those large, dark, bright eyes and long, curled lashes that made many girls envious. But standing together with the young man before him, he seemed somewhat overshadowed.

The young man had silver hair and golden eyes. A faint smile always lingered on his exquisite, flawless face, easily making people feel Good Feelings toward him. He was merely standing there quietly, yet it was as if he had instantly become the center of the world.

"Sorry, let me pass."

"S-sorry."

Hearing the young man's voice, Tang Wulin lowered his head shyly and hurriedly shifted aside with the large bag on his back, clearing the space.

"Thank you."

Yu Nanyuan's gaze paused briefly on Tang Wulin. After thanking him, he headed toward the dormitory he had been assigned.

Tang Wulin...