Xu Xiaoyan Arrives

After this incident, Gu Yue did not cause any more great stir inside Eastsea Academy. Instead, she cultivated step by step under Wu Zhangkong's guidance. However, she still kept her distance from Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and the others, and she never grew close to anyone.

Yu Nanyuan was the sole exception.

Although Gu Yue had always worn that cold, indifferent look, and in the period that followed she did not take much initiative to talk to Yu Nanyuan, anyone with eyes could see that her attitude toward Yu Nanyuan was rather special.

On the other side, Yu Nanyuan's life in Eastsea Academy also became calm and fulfilling. He attended classes during the day, then practiced Meditation Cultivation at night. On Public Holidays, or occasionally on a few evenings, he returned to the laboratory at home to study knowledge related to Mecha Manufacturing.

When days were fulfilling, time always flew by. More than two months passed in the blink of an eye. Next week would mark the start of the First Round of the Promotion Tournament, initiated by Freshman Class Five as a challenge against Freshman Class Four.

And some time ago, because the Promotion Tournament was drawing near, Ye Yingluo had begun special training for Yu Nanyuan, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng. The content of the special training mainly focused on actual combat and coordination.

One could say Ye Yingluo was keeping an eye on Wu Zhangkong at all times, and she had gathered some information in advance about Freshman Class Five's competing team. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be the trio of Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie were both One Ring Soul Masters, and Tang Wulin's Soul Ring was only a white ten-year Soul Ring. In her eyes, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie did not count as much of a threat. The one worth her attention was that girl named Gu Yue.

A Two-Ring Great Soul Master, and one who possessed two yellow hundred-year Soul Rings. Though this talent was still far inferior to Yu Nanyuan's, she could be considered a genius on the same level as Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng.

However, to Ye Yingluo, Gu Yue's addition to Freshman Class Five's competing team was actually exactly what she wanted. She wanted to see Freshman Class Five's competing team fight their way up, and then, when they were utterly crushed by the team from her class, what kind of wonderful expression would appear on Wu Zhangkong's face.

The three-person team she planned to send out was precisely Yu Nanyuan, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi. Because of the characteristics of Zhang Yangzi's Martial Soul—or more accurately, what he walked was actually a special path that combined Control and Agility Attack. He used powerful Darkness Attribute abilities to control the field, and used the innate speed advantage of a Flying Martial Soul to break the enemy.

Together with Yu Nanyuan as a Control System Battle Soul Master and Wang Jinxi as an Assault System Battle Soul Master, this was almost a perfect three-person combination.

Wei Xiaofeng, who was left over, would serve as the three's substitute. Wei Xiaofeng himself had no objections to this. After all, Yu Nanyuan and the other two were indeed stronger than him, and between Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi, there was also the existence of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

A combination like Yu Nanyuan's three could probably sweep through the entire Middle Division of Eastsea Academy without much of a problem.

It was worth mentioning that Yu Nanyuan's Soul Power Cultivation had broken through its bottleneck again around half a month ago, reaching an astonishing Level Twenty-Seven. And right now, he was only just nine and a half years old. At his Cultivation Speed, when he turned ten, he would inevitably be able to break through to the realm of Three-Ring Soul Venerable.

Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi were also inspired by Yu Nanyuan. After several months of bitter cultivation, the two of them both made breakthroughs in Soul Power Cultivation, each reaching Level Twenty-Two.

As for Wei Xiaofeng, starting from the Two-Ring Great Soul Master realm, the disadvantage in his Martial Soul Quality gradually began to show. His current Cultivation Speed could no longer compare to Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi's, and the gap in the future would only grow larger and larger.

The reason he had previously been able to get one step ahead of Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi in Soul Power Cultivation was entirely because the Soul Spirit he fused with was the same Hundred-Year Azure Shadow Snake as his own Martial Soul. His Martial Soul and Soul Spirit were a perfect match, allowing him to cross the process from one ring to two rings in a very short time.

Eastsea City was located in the eastern part of the continent, slightly toward the north. Though it was near the sea, the four seasons were very distinct. It was now late autumn, and the temperature had clearly dropped by quite a bit.

Today's weather was even gloomier, a gray haze stretching everywhere. Waves of cold autumn wind made the crowns of the tall trees inside Eastsea Academy shake violently. Being inside a classroom with soft lighting, warm and comfortable, one could not help but feel a thick sense of happiness.

A clear bell rang, and Ye Yingluo habitually hugged her lesson plans as she announced the end of class. From the curve of her twisting waist and her light steps, one could tell just how happy she was.

Wu Zhangkong, so what if there is a Two-Ring Great Soul Master on your team?! I have a full three Two-Ring Great Soul Masters on my side!

Three against one. The advantage is mine!

Zhang Yangzi sat right beside Yu Nanyuan and said in a low voice with a wicked grin, "Nanyuan, look at Teacher Ye, all flushed with success. She wouldn't be rushing off to a date, would she?"

After several months of interacting, once they had truly become familiar with each other, Zhang Yangzi directly exposed his original personality.

"Yangzi, from now on, it's better to make fewer remarks about teachers behind their backs." Yu Nanyuan stood up and shook his head. Wei Xiaofeng and Wang Jinxi sat right behind them, and the four had quite clearly become a small group.

Wei Xiaofeng came forward and suggested, "This morning I saw the cafeteria's Grade A Meal window saying that they'll provide Hundred-Year Silver-Patterned Deer meat tonight. It'd be perfect for hotpot to warm us up. And the soup base seems to be Aged Mushroom Soup stewed with all kinds of aged Medicinal Materials."

"Then let's hurry over." Zhang Yangzi also stopped continuing the previous topic and nodded at the same time as Yu Nanyuan. Wang Jinxi remained silent as always, following behind the three of them.

However, just as they walked out of the classroom, Yu Nanyuan suddenly received a call from Xu Xiaoyan. Under the gazes of Zhang Yangzi and the other two, he did not deliberately hide anything and directly answered it.

"Hello, Xiaoyan?"

"If I don't take the initiative to call you, you won't take the initiative to call me, will you?" Xu Xiaoyan's resentful voice came from the Soul Guidance Communicator, and by the end, there was even a faint trace of sobbing in it.

"I'm at the entrance of Eastsea Academy right now. I want you to come find me immediately!"

Zhang Yangzi and the other two stared at Yu Nanyuan in shock, as if they had discovered some earth-shattering secret. It was not just Zhang Yangzi and the other two. The other students of Freshman Class One had not yet left the classroom either, and the gazes of everyone present instantly gathered on Yu Nanyuan.

The expression on Yu Nanyuan's face likewise became extremely colorful. He was simply too familiar with Xu Xiaoyan, so how could he not know that Xu Xiaoyan had just been possessed by her inner drama queen again and was deliberately putting on an act?

However, just as he was about to say something, Xu Xiaoyan on the other side had already hung up the Soul Guidance Communicator.

Meeting the strange gazes of everyone present, Yu Nanyuan took a deep breath and said with a somewhat helpless expression, "I may have to go out for a bit today. You guys go eat first."

"Go on. We all understand." Zhang Yangzi patted Yu Nanyuan on the shoulder with a solemn look on his face.

"What do you understand?" Yu Nanyuan snapped back irritably, then walked straight out of the classroom.

At the same time, a black Soul Guidance Car was parked at the main gate of Eastsea Academy. Xu Xiaoyan sat in the left seat of the back row, looking through the car window toward the Middle Division teaching building, and hung up the Soul Guidance Communicator in her hand with a giggle. She had deliberately waited until not long after the dismissal bell rang before calling Yu Nanyuan.

The weather was gradually turning cold, and today Xu Xiaoyan had changed into a floral long dress that covered both arms. White silk tights of excellent texture set off her perfect leg shape. A pair of smooth pale-blue twin ponytails slid from her fragrant shoulders down to her chest, delicate and adorable.

In the front row of the Soul Guidance Car, aside from the Driver responsible for driving, there was also a young man with a cold and arrogant expression sitting in the front passenger seat. It was precisely Xu Xiaoyan's elder brother, Xu Xiaoyu.

With that Ten Thousand Year Ice Serpent Dragon Soul Bone enhancing his foundation, the seventeen-year-old Xu Xiaoyu had officially broken through to the Four-Ring Soul Elder realm not long ago. In the eastern part of the Sun Moon Federation, which was content to remain in its own corner, he could be considered quite an outstanding genius.

Xu Xiaoyan giggled as she asked Xu Xiaoyu, "Big brother, that girl should have only come into contact with Nanyuan that one time, right?"

"I'm not over at the Middle Division. What I know is only what I just said." Xu Xiaoyu helplessly rubbed his forehead. If Xu Xiaoyan had not kept pestering him with questions about Yu Nanyuan, with his personality, he definitely would not have gossiped behind someone's back.

Xu Xiaoyan rolled her eyes at Xu Xiaoyu and said with a huff, "If I find out you lied to me, I'll tell Dad you bullied me."

"I already said I don't really understand these things." Xu Xiaoyu now had a headache twice over. He truly had no way to deal with this little sister of his.

Just then, Yu Nanyuan walked out from inside Eastsea Academy.

Xu Xiaoyan opened the right-side door of the Soul Guidance Car's back row with a sweet smile, then stretched out her small hand and patted the soft seat.

"Get in!"

Rat Army, charge with the rat one more time!