Yu Beibei and Tang Ya!

After dinner, Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan returned to the Freshman Teaching Building.

They went to the notice board outside the teaching building and found the freshman class information. Each freshman class held one hundred students, and four classes were already full. Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan had enrolled only today, barely securing the last three spots and being assigned to Freshman Class 4.

At present, the fifth freshman class already had ninety-two students. With three days still remaining before enrollment ended, Zhu Ziyang estimated that this year's freshmen would likely be divided into six to eight classes.

"Beibei, Beibei, I'm in Class 4!" At that moment, a lively young girl's voice rang out beside them, sounding delighted.

Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan were both drawn by the cheerful voice and could not help looking over. They saw a pretty young girl with an oval face, phoenix eyes, and a single ponytail, her demeanor brimming with liveliness and joy.

"I saw it. Sigh, what a pity. I ended up in Class 5. I was so close!" Beside the young girl stood a handsome youth about Zhu Ziyang's height, slender and upright, with short dark-blue hair, an elegant bearing, and an easygoing smile. He looked at the young girl indulgently, his tone carrying a trace of regret.

"It's fine. Class 4 and Class 5 won't be far apart," the young girl said with a smile, comforting him.

Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan paid no attention to the pair and left the teaching building directly.

"It's still early. How about we take a look around the city?" Zhu Ziyang suggested.

"Forget it. I should go back and cultivate," Jiang Nannan said after thinking for a moment, sounding somewhat dejected. "Brother, you're already level 35. If I don't work even harder, I really won't be able to keep up with you."

"All right!" Hearing Jiang Nannan's words, Zhu Ziyang understood the young girl's feelings. He could not help feeling powerless; at present, he had no better way to help her. He could only comfortingly stroke her soft hair and say, "Don't push yourself too hard. I'm here for you!"

"Mm!" Jiang Nannan answered softly, her smile blooming like spring flowers.

Thus, Zhu Ziyang escorted Jiang Nannan back to the Dormitory before heading alone toward Shrek City.

When Shrek Academy students wanted to enter Shrek City, they generally chose the north gate for no other reason than that the distance from the east gate to the north gate was short enough.

Faced with this situation, Zhu Ziyang could not help criticizing Shrek City's architects. Their skills were definitely terrible!

Shrek Academy and Shrek City were clearly one whole. Opening a gate in Shrek Academy's western wall would clearly shorten the route by a considerable amount, yet Shrek Academy's western wall was perfectly smooth and unbroken. Zhu Ziyang truly had no energy left to criticize it.

It took nearly twenty minutes before Zhu Ziyang entered the city through the Shrek City North Gate.

He wandered aimlessly through the city, his gaze moving between the shops on either side. The bustling atmosphere of the night market left him somewhat dazed; it was no less lively than Heaven Dou City.

After wandering for a while, Zhu Ziyang suddenly found it rather dull. First, aimless wandering was boring, and second, his meager finances gave him no urge to buy anything.

Zhu Ziyang could not help sighing. Though he had nearly one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins given to him by his parents, that money might allow him to eat and drink in Shrek City, but it definitely could not buy resources useful for a soul master's cultivation.

Finding overlooked treasures was something best treated as a joke. Did he really think every merchant was an idiot?

With little interest left, Zhu Ziyang returned to the academy.

When he returned to the Dormitory, no new occupants had moved in. This made Zhu Ziyang realize something: perhaps he would not have a roommate. Freshman Class 4 was already full, and if no one had appeared by now, then no one would be coming.

Zhu Ziyang was rather pleased by this.

He smiled, then began cultivating.

The next day, six in the morning.

Zhu Ziyang woke as usual.

Looking at the empty bed across from him, he confirmed that he would not have a roommate.

He quickly finished washing up, left his Dormitory, and arrived at the entrance to the Dormitory building.

The morning air was remarkably fresh. Before the Dormitory building entrance, the old man was still lying comfortably in his wooden chair, an peaceful expression on his face as his body rose and fell faintly.

Zhu Ziyang politely waved at the old man, then walked to the other side of the entrance, leaned against the wall, took out a book, and waited quietly.

Naturally, he was waiting for Jiang Nannan. Although both of their strengths had improved greatly, they had retained their habit of morning runs. To ensure that the exercise remained effective, they both ran with weights.

About five minutes later, a youth with short dark-blue hair emerged from the Dormitory building corridor and reached the entrance. He first greeted the old man. Aside from Zhu Ziyang, he was the second freshman to do so. Then he too walked to the side of the entrance, his gaze fixed on the Dormitory building stairs.

Clearly, he was waiting for someone as well.

Zhu Ziyang found the blue-haired youth somewhat familiar. Narrowing his eyes, he instantly remembered him. Wasn't this the youth from the pair they had encountered at the teaching building notice board last night?

A roguish smile hung on the blue-haired youth's face, and his hands rested leisurely behind his head. Noticing Zhu Ziyang, he walked over and said, "Hello, I'm Yu Beibei from Freshman Class 5. Have we met somewhere before?"

Yu Beibei?

Zhu Ziyang's heart stirred, though a faint smile remained on his face as he replied, "Hello. Zhu Ziyang, Freshman Class 4."

"Oh!" Yu Beibei immediately understood upon hearing that. "I remember now. We met at the notice board last night."

Zhu Ziyang smiled and nodded, though his eyes concealed deep thought.

Yu Beibei should be a character from The Unrivaled Tang Sect, right? Among the fragmented book memories from his previous life, Yu Beibei had appeared as many as three times among the dozen or so mentioned characters.

This was becoming more and more interesting!

"Are you waiting for the girl who was with you yesterday?" Yu Beibei did not notice Zhu Ziyang's gaze and continued asking.

"Aren't you too?" Zhu Ziyang countered.

"Hehe, that's right." Yu Beibei smiled somewhat sheepishly and said, "I'm waiting for my childhood sweetheart. Come to think of it, you two are even in the same class. What a coincidence."

"It really is quite a coincidence," Zhu Ziyang said.

The two chatted idly, and a measure of friendship gradually formed between them.

A few minutes later.

Jiang Nannan came downstairs, accompanied by a delicate young girl with a black ponytail. She was none other than the young girl who had been with Yu Beibei the previous night.

"Brother Ziyang." Upon seeing Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan smiled and waved.

The young girl who had come down with her also waved and called out, "Beibei."

Clearly, they had both found the people they were waiting for. They simply had not expected the two young girls to come down together, and they even seemed to already know each other.

The two beautiful young girls walked up to them.

"Brother, this is my roommate and also my classmate. Her name is Tang Ya," Jiang Nannan introduced to Zhu Ziyang.

"Hello, I'm Tang Ya, the Sect Master of the Tang Sect!" Tang Ya studied Zhu Ziyang with curious eyes and spoke with a smile, a faint pride on her pretty face.

"Hello, I'm Zhu Ziyang." Zhu Ziyang returned her smile, though a strange glint flashed deep within his eyes.

Tang Ya? Heh, another character from the book.

The Tang Sect? That was truly a famous name.

The continent's number one sect, once illustrious enough to influence the continent's entire situation, had now fallen so far that it let an eleven- or twelve-year-old little girl serve as its sect master?

Zhu Ziyang could only say that it deserved it.

"Nannan, well, this is Beibei. He's the Tang Sect's senior disciple!" Tang Ya did not notice the strange look in Zhu Ziyang's eyes. Instead, she pulled Yu Beibei over from the side and introduced him to Jiang Nannan.

"Hello, I'm Jiang Nannan," Jiang Nannan said with a smile.

"Hello, I'm Yu Beibei from Freshman Class 5," Yu Beibei replied.

"Shall we go eat?" Tang Ya asked.

"Not yet. I'm going for a morning run with Brother. We'll eat after we finish," Jiang Nannan declined.

"A morning run? I don't want to run on an empty stomach." Tang Ya's face fell as she said, "Then Beibei and I will go eat first."

"Mm, all right." Jiang Nannan smiled and nodded.

The two young girls made the decision just like that, without even considering asking the two youths for their opinions.

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