Enrollment Registration

Early the next morning, Old Jack took Xiao Lin and Tang San to Notting City.

In the borrowed carriage, Xiao Lin reassured Tang San.

Because Tang Hao had not left Tang San much money, Tang San still felt somewhat embarrassed about going to Notting City to enroll.

"Little San, don't worry. The village may only have one free slot, but you and Xiao Lin are the same."

"Each of you takes up half a free slot. In other words, you only need to pay half the tuition."

Sitting in the carriage with a horsewhip in hand, Old Jack spoke leisurely.

"But I don't have enough money even for half the tuition."

Tang San had long been used to hardship and simply did not have that much money. He had even forgotten Xiao Lin telling him that his father was the Clear Sky Douluo.

How could a Titled Douluo possibly have no money?

"Little San, what are you afraid of? At worst, I'll lend it to you first."

Xiao Lin secretly shook his head. He had not expected Tang San to actually be willing to pay to attend school after being taught by him.

??

Why did that sound a little wrong?

Paying to attend school was perfectly normal.

"Little San, don't talk nonsense. If you don't go to school, your father will have held you back."

"He never raised you properly when you were little. Look how skinny you are. It'd be better if you grew up looking like Xiao Lin."

"And besides, enroll first. I'll pay the tuition for you. When your father comes back, I'll have him forge a few more pieces of iron to earn it back."

Old Jack truly treated Tang San no differently. In his eyes, Tang San and Xiao Lin were both from Holy Soul Village, so they had to receive an education.

"Yes, Grandfather."

A trace of emotion flashed through Tang San's eyes. In the end, he agreed and went with Xiao Lin and the others to enroll.

Two and a half hours later, the three of them finally arrived at Notting City (the author enlarged the map from the original work; it originally took only half a day to walk there, but now they took a carriage for two and a half hours. The scale was probably enlarged by more than three times).

Because Notting City lay on the border of the Heaven Dou Empire, its walls were exceptionally thick despite the city not being very large.

This left Tang San, who was entering a city for the first time, somewhat amazed.

But after remembering that even ordinary people in this world could awaken Soul Spirits, he quickly accepted it.

After being inspected alongside the passing pedestrians, Xiao Lin and the other two entered Notting City.

Then, under Xiao Lin's guidance, the three arrived at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy in the western part of Notting City.

"Notting Academy!"

Tang San could not help calling out the academy's name as he looked at the iron gate forged from refined iron.

"Alright, this is the place. This time, Grandfather only brought Little San here to familiarize himself with the route and enroll him while we're at it."

Old Jack gazed at the academy before him, thoroughly satisfied.

From now on, the hopes of all Holy Soul Village would study at this towering academy.

However, just as Xiao Lin's group arrived at the academy entrance, a young man stopped them with a look of utter disdain.

"What are you doing? Who let you in?"

The Gatekeeper Youth looked down on Old Jack and Tang San immensely. Their clothes were nothing special in Holy Soul Village—in fact, they were rather presentable—but in Notting City, they looked like country bumpkins.

If not for Xiao Lin's rather stylish clothing, along with the fact that the three had arrived by carriage, the Gatekeeper Youth would likely have driven them away already.

Xiao Lin smiled. Just as he was about to summon his Horned Dragon Staff to teach the gatekeeper a lesson, Old Jack stopped him.

Old Jack stepped forward with an ingratiating smile. "This little brother, we're from Holy Soul Village. One of them has a slot to become a Work-Study Student, while the other has come to pay for enrollment."

"Could you tell us what procedures we need?"

"Hmph, can a phoenix really come out of a chicken coop? If you don't have talent, you'd better go back early, lest you waste both money and time."

The Gatekeeper Youth frowned and spoke in a mocking, sarcastic tone.

He himself was an ordinary person and had been bullied by Soul Masters before. Now that he saw people with the potential to become Soul Masters, he naturally wanted to bully them.

If he could make Xiao Lin and the others lose their chance to become Soul Masters because of this, he would be happy for an entire year.

"Come to think of it, the academy hasn't had a Work-Study Student in years. You wouldn't happen to be impostors, would you?"

Just as the Gatekeeper Youth was about to drive Xiao Lin's group away, Xiao Lin could no longer hold himself back.

A silver-white Horned Dragon Staff instantly appeared in Xiao Lin's hand, and its heavy aura made even the surrounding air stagnate.

"What? What kind of Soul Spirit is this?"

As the Gatekeeper Youth stared at the Horned Dragon Staff before him, cold sweat burst out like rain.

"Horned Dragon Staff Soul. What are you going to do about it?"

Xiao Lin looked coldly at the Gatekeeper Youth. The Horned Dragon Staff instantly lengthened, pressing directly against the young man's throat.

"Im... Imprisoning Dragon Staff?"

The Gatekeeper Youth was completely dumbfounded. What kind of Martial Soul was the Imprisoning Dragon Staff?

Could there really be a dragon inside that staff?

The Gatekeeper Youth stood there in a daze for a moment before his expression instantly turned fawning. He nodded and bowed to Xiao Lin. "You two genius Soul Masters, please come in."

Tang San could hardly believe the Gatekeeper Youth's behavior.

What was going on?

"Humph!"

Xiao Lin snorted coldly and took the lead, bringing Old Jack and Tang San into Notting Academy.

"Tang San, let me tell you, that guy is the kind of petty villain who bullies the weak and fears the strong. As long as you show your strength, people like him will grovel before you."

"If he acted like that toward a Soul Master outside, he would have died who knew how many times already."

"Utterly shameless."

Xiao Lin despised such petty villains the most, and he also tried to let Tang San encounter people like them.

After all, there was an even more shameless petty villain in this academy.

"Mm."

Tang San nodded, accepting Xiao Lin's words.

He did not think there was anything wrong with them. In fact, if he had been the one to act, that gatekeeper would indeed have been on the path to death.

Leaving aside anything else, Xiao Lin and the others were destined to become Soul Masters. For an ordinary person to dare treat Soul Masters this way was itself a sign that he did not know his place.

Blocking Xiao Lin and the others' path forward was even more unforgivable; someone who obstructed another's path could have their entire family killed.

Besides, Old Jack was already so old. If anything had happened and he had fallen, he might have had to spend the rest of his life bedridden.

Tang San felt that the gatekeeper truly deserved to die, and he had always thought so. Brother Lin was still too kind.

In the future, I'll handle the people Brother Lin refuses to kill. Tang San felt as though he had worried himself sick.

Although the current Tang San had been taught by Xiao Lin not to act rashly, his understanding of the path to death remained unchanged from before.

In the blink of an eye, the three had registered at the academy and paid their tuition. Once Notting Academy opened two months later, Xiao Lin and Tang San would become students there.

After Xiao Lin and Tang San left Notting Academy, Yu Xiaogang arrived at the principal's Office.

As usual, he was searching for a genius who could verify his theories.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, Yu Xiaogang spotted two geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power on a Work-Study Student enrollment list.

"This... my... my theory can be verified."

Yu Xiaogang's blood surged as his face flushed crimson. His eyes stared fixedly at the profiles of the two geniuses before him.

"Xiao Lin, Innate Full Soul Power, Horned Dragon Staff Soul, a top-tier Weapon Soul that may even surpass the Clear Sky Hammer."

"Tang San, Innate Full Soul Power, Blue Silver Grass Soul, an exceptionally Trash Spirit. He must possess Twin Martial Souls, a genius no weaker than Xiao Lin."

"Heaven is helping me! Heaven is helping me!"

"Hahahaha!"

For a time, Yu Xiaogang's crazed laughter echoed through the principal's Office of Notting Academy.