Classic Plot Returns

Wang Jinxi only glanced at Zhou Changxi, still remaining silent.

Wei Xiaofeng sensed the faint Soul Power Fluctuation inside Zhou Changxi and curled his lip in disdain.

Before long, a violent commotion came from Dorm 205 again. A furious, grief-stricken roar rang out, the sound nearly spreading through the entire corridor.

"Why are you city people so rotten?!"

Another figure flew out backward like a cannonball. However, he did not smash through the window and fall from the second floor like Zhou Changxi. Instead, he flew out through the doorway, and with a thunderous boom, his entire body was embedded in the wall of the corridor outside the second floor.

His eyes rolled back, his head lolled to the side, and he lost consciousness on the spot.

Tang Wulin walked out of the wrecked dorm room, gasping for breath in great gulps, his eyes bloodshot.

Yu Nanyuan raised his head and looked at Tang Wulin. In fact, the moment he had heard that roar earlier, he had recognized it as Tang Wulin's voice. The way things were developing seemed no different from his memories of his previous life. The one who had just crashed into the wall and passed out should be Xie Xie.

When he saw Yu Nanyuan, the red light in Tang Wulin's eyes receded a little.

Among city people, there were bastards like those two fellows, but there were also polite and kind people.

His father had taught him that ever since he was little. He could not condemn an entire group because of one person.

The commotion at the Dormitory Building was truly too great. Very soon, teachers from Donghai Academy Intermediate Division rushed over.

"What's going on? What are you doing?"

Ten minutes later, Tang Wulin, Zhou Changxi, Xie Xie, who had been involved in the fight, along with Yun Xiao from the same dorm, were all called to the office by Long Hengxu, the Dean of Instruction of the Intermediate Division. A round of scolding and punishment was bound to be unavoidable.

As for Yu Nanyuan, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng, the four of them went to the cafeteria of Donghai Academy Intermediate Division. The cafeteria was beside the Main Teaching Building, not far from the Dormitory Building. It was a small three-story building. Like the teaching building and the dormitory building, it was divided by floor for the six grades of the Intermediate Division to dine in.

First and Second Year ate on the first floor.

The cafeteria had three windows in total, providing three levels of food: Grade A, Grade B, and Grade C. Grade C Meals were all free and supplied without limit, but they were only ordinary food and could not provide any nourishing effect on a Soul Master's body.

Grade B Meals and Grade A Meals both had to be paid for. The highest-level Grade A Meal cost one thousand Federal currency per serving. With the purchasing power of one thousand Federal currency, it was enough to cover the monthly living expenses of an ordinary family of three.

However, Yu Nanyuan and the other three were all masters who were not short of money, so they went straight to the Grade A window and each got a plate of food.

Though it looked no different from ordinary food, every ingredient in a Grade A Meal had an origin, and its nutrition was far richer. Today's special was a kind of stewed beef, made from a type of captive Soul Beast called the Brute Bull.

The four found a place and sat around together. Wei Xiaofeng picked up a piece of Brute Bull meat, put it in his mouth, and chewed. He could not help widening his eyes.

"This doesn't seem like ordinary ten-year Brute Bull meat."

The Brute Bull was a very common captive Soul Beast. It was huge, and its yield of meat and milk were both very high. Wei Xiaofeng had eaten Brute Bull meat before, but its texture and nourishing effect were clearly inferior to this bowl from the Grade A Meal window.

"This can't be the meat of a Hundred-Year Brute Bull, can it? Isn't the academy's price of one thousand Federal currency for a Grade A Meal a little low?"

"The academy probably never intended to make money from this at all. It might even be losing money on it," Zhang Yangzi said thoughtfully. "Xiaofeng, no matter what, Donghai Academy is one of the top two academies in our Skysea Alliance. It isn't as bad as you think."

After experiencing all this, Wei Xiaofeng's impression of Donghai Academy immediately changed quite a bit, and the arrogance in his heart was somewhat restrained. However, he still could not help making a rather harsh complaint.

"It's just that the quality of the students isn't much. That guy just now looked like he had only just broken through to the Soul Master realm, and the other two couldn't even beat him. You can imagine what these people's strength is like. Even if they weren't punished by the academy, people like that only deserve to be assigned to that garbage heap, Class Five."

Wang Jinxi, rarely, cut in. "I heard the academy is paying special attention to this year's new students. The one responsible for teaching our Class One seems to be a female teacher named Ye Yingluo. She's not even thirty years old, but she's already a Soul King-level powerhouse."

With their talent, being placed in Class One during class assignment was a foregone conclusion.

"Soul King?!" Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng both cried out in surprise. In the Eastern Part of the Sun Moon Federation, where Soul Masters' overall strength was relatively weak, even advanced academies rarely had teachers with Soul King cultivation. Let alone someone teaching new students like them.

Zhang Yangzi seemed to think of something and asked Yu Nanyuan, who had not spoken all this time, "Yu Nanyuan, you're a local of Eastsea City. Have you heard anything about this Teacher Ye?"

Yu Nanyuan set down the utensils in his hands and looked at Zhang Yangzi and the other two with a smile.

"I've heard a little. This Teacher Ye only recently broke through to the Soul King realm. She is indeed a genuine Soul King-level powerhouse. Also, she once applied to that place, but in the end, she wasn't admitted."

"Shrek Academy?!" Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng exchanged glances, then cried out word by word in shock.

The three's cries of surprise did not attract the attention of anyone else in the cafeteria, because the originally quiet cafeteria had already become noisy.

In a corner of the cafeteria, several rings of people had gathered inside and out.

"How can this guy eat so much? How many is that?"

"It's already forty-five. After eating so many buns, why hasn't his stomach grown at all? What a freak."

"He's about to break the record."

"..."

Seeing that they had eaten about enough, Yu Nanyuan and the other three stood up, carried their trays, and put them in the recycling area. When they left the cafeteria, they happened to pass by that corner.

Sure enough, the one standing in the center of the crowd and eating with great relish was Tang Wulin.

Their eyes met, and Tang Wulin also saw Yu Nanyuan. He was slightly stunned.

Yu Nanyuan nodded politely and walked out of the cafeteria together with Zhang Yangzi and the others.

Wei Xiaofeng, however, let out a somewhat sarcastic sneer.

"What a rice bucket."

All in all, Yu Nanyuan got along fairly harmoniously with the three dormmates. Everyone was of the same age, and that night they talked at length in the dorm. The atmosphere was quite pleasant.

Only Wei Xiaofeng occasionally showed some sense of superiority and arrogance, but Yu Nanyuan simply smiled it off each time.

Just like that, it was not until early the next morning that the Opening Ceremony officially began.

The Opening Ceremony was held in the huge plaza at the center of Donghai Academy. Only at this time would the Intermediate Division and the Advanced Division gather together, and the two sides were clearly separated.

Each grade in the Intermediate Division had around a hundred people. The six grades added together amounted to seven or eight hundred people. Yet the Advanced Division had fewer than two hundred people in total, and they were divided into three grades. From this, it could be seen just how strict the requirements were to advance from the Intermediate Division to the Advanced Division.

Yu Zhen, the Dean of Donghai Academy, personally went up to speak. It was all ceremonial talk, mainly a display of empty rhetoric.

Fortunately, he was only going through the motions. After giving a brief speech, he had the Deans of Instruction of the Intermediate Division and Advanced Division begin the work of assigning new students to classes.

The new students of the Advanced Division went to the Advanced Division's side for class assignment. Those left in the plaza were all new students of the Intermediate Division.

Long Hengxu said with a solemn expression, "According to the custom of Donghai Academy, the more outstanding a student is, the more likely they are to be assigned to a class with an earlier number. Of course, this is not absolute. I hope the classes ranked later will work hard to catch up. To that end, the academy will hold a special Promotion Tournament three months from now. We will speak of the Promotion Tournament later. Class assignment begins now. There are one hundred and eight new students this year, divided into five classes. Those whose names I call, step forward and enter Class One."

"Yu Nanyuan, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, Wei Xiaofeng, Lei Ge..."

"..."

"The final Freshman Class Five. Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhou Changxi, Yun Xiao..."