Work-Study Student Trouble

Master looked at Xiao Xian, a stiff, awkward smile appearing on his rigid face.

"Have you rested enough? Did you have any questions about this morning's reading?"

"Yes..."

"..."

The sunlight streaming in through the window had slowly shifted by quite a large angle.

"Teacher, I'll go back and cultivate first."

He had learned more or less enough theoretical knowledge for today.

Xiao Xian bade Master farewell, pushed open the door, and headed downstairs.

The place he had just been staying in was Master's dormitory, located in a corner of the sixth floor of Nuoding Academy's dormitory building.

Nuoding Academy's dormitory building only had six floors.

The lower three floors contained seven large dormitories for the students. They housed students from first through sixth grade, along with one mixed Work-Study Student dormitory.

The upper three floors belonged to the teachers.

Xiao Xian lived in Second Dormitory, in a corner of the first floor.

Before long.

Xiao Xian returned to the first floor and pushed open the dormitory door.

The dormitory was large, roughly three hundred square meters, with fifty beds inside. Only forty of them had bedding laid out.

"Boss Xiao!"

"Boss Xiao! You're back!"

Quite a few students were already in the dormitory. There were both boys and girls, all around seven or eight years old. Some were playing around, while others were arranging their beds and luggage.

When they saw Xiao Xian enter, they all greeted him warmly.

"Mm, hello." After responding politely, Xiao Xian walked toward his own bed, the first one beside the entrance.

Today was the day returning students came back to school, while the new school year had yet to begin.

It was already getting late, and nearly all the students had arrived.

After getting onto his bed, Xiao Xian bunched up his blanket and immediately began meditating to cultivate.

The other students noticed this and instinctively quieted their movements. After reminding one another, their conversations also became much softer.

Anyone who could afford Nuoding Academy's considerable tuition had some family means. Even if they were only seven- or eight-year-old children, they had picked up quite a few things from their surroundings.

Not to mention that Xiao Xian was Boss Xiao of the entire academy, the strongest Spirit Master among the students.

They still had to give him that much respect.

Xiao Xian calmed his breathing and focused his mind. Once he was ready.

He silently called out in his heart, "Xiao Jue, come back!"

Buzz!

On the roof of the dormitory building, a Purple-haired Big Dog that had been squinting as it meditated instantly turned into a streak of purple light and shot downward, disappearing.

Right after that.

Purple light flashed inside the dormitory, and Xiao Xian immediately felt a tiny additional wisp of Soul Power within him, an extremely minute wisp.

"After breaking through to Spirit Master, cultivation speed really has slowed down a lot."

After simply circulating his Soul Power through several cycles according to the Meditation Method, Xiao Xian slowly opened his eyes.

Originally, he should have taken advantage of the momentum and begun today's meditation, continuing until dinner.

However, outside the dormitory.

A burst of noisy commotion had been going on without stopping, even growing louder and louder.

Xiao Xian frowned slightly and looked toward the door.

"Boss Xiao, Xiao Chenyu and those Work-Study Students from Seventh Dormitory are clashing again!" Seeing Xiao Xian's movement, a student quietly reminded him.

"Then let's go take a look." Xiao Xian's gaze toward the door turned calm as his heart stirred.

Not far outside the door was Seventh Dormitory.

It was the dormitory exclusively for Work-Study Students. The environment was rather poor, with students of all grades mixed together rather than living with students of the same grade like the other dormitories.

At that moment, in front of Seventh Dormitory, seven or eight rather tall upper-grade students had formed a circle around several Work-Study Students. They wore malicious grins as they shoved them around.

The leader wore a disdainful, contemptuous expression and hit the hardest. It looked like he was pushing them, but he was actually using his fists.

"Xiao Chenyu."

Standing at the entrance to Second Dormitory, Xiao Xian stared at them calmly.

Hearing a somewhat familiar voice, the upper-grade student with the contemptuous expression instinctively turned around and met Xiao Xian's indifferent gaze.

"B-Boss Xiao?" Xiao Chenyu looked somewhat startled, then immediately turned and shouted in a low voice, "Why aren't you stopping?!"

Yet before he could remind them, the students behind him had already stopped.

Every one of them lowered their heads, fear visible on their faces.

More than a month after Xiao Xian obtained his Spirit Ring last semester, word reached Xiao Chenyu, who brought a group of people to make Xiao Xian his lackey.

At the time, "Boss Xiao" had not been Xiao Xian. But after that day, it became Xiao Xian.

Because everyone who had come to cause trouble for him, including Xiao Chenyu, had been thoroughly beaten up by him and Xiao Jue.

More than once.

"You should know the rules."

Xiao Xian waved his hand and drove them away.

He then looked at the few Work-Study Students who had been surrounded, especially the rather burly one among them. He had been shielding the others behind him and had tried to resist several times.

"Wang Sheng, if something like this happens again, just call someone to find me."

Gratitude appeared on Wang Sheng's face. "Yes! Sorry to trouble you, Boss Xiao!"

Xiao Xian glanced at Wang Sheng's arm, where several bruises had formed. "Do you have a water container? One with water in it."

"Yes!" Without asking what it was for, Wang Sheng immediately returned to the dormitory and brought out a leather Water Skin. It was bulging, apparently more than half full.

"Come out, Xiao Jue." Xiao Xian brought his hands together before his chest, then swiftly lowered them. A wave of Soul Power rippled from his body.

A pale purple glow of Soul Power also emerged from his palms.

On the ground.

A pale purple big dog suddenly appeared.

A Yellow Halo rose beneath Xiao Xian's feet, circling back and forth.

"Wow—!"

Quite a few nearby students had been secretly watching what was happening.

When they saw the yellow Spirit Ring on Xiao Xian's body, they all cried out softly.

"Go, Xiao Jue."

At Xiao Xian's calm command, the Yellow Halo on his body flashed and drifted directly onto Xiao Jue.

Xiao Jue let out a low growl, opened its mouth wide, aimed at the Water Skin in Wang Sheng's hand, and sprayed out a warm glow like Sunlight.

Wang Sheng only felt the Water Skin in his hand rapidly grow hot.

With a wave of Xiao Xian's hand, Xiao Jue turned into purple light and merged back into his body.

"Use this water to rub your injuries. They'll heal faster."

Wang Sheng's face was blank for a moment, but it instantly turned to delight.

"Thank you, Boss Xiao!"

Xiao Xian waved his hand, glanced around, and said, "Everyone, disperse."

Then he returned to the dormitory and continued cultivating.

His First Spirit Ring came from a four-hundred-year-old Sunlight Blood Dragon Vine.

It was a relatively rare plant spirit beast, mutated from a Sunlight Blood Vine that had once absorbed dragon blood. The dragon blood it contained was no weaker than that of a Sub-dragon spirit beast, perhaps even stronger.

This Sunlight Blood Dragon Vine could release tiny, peculiar Sunlight Spores, incomparably warm, just like actual sunlight.

The Sunlight Blood Dragon Vine could control these Sunlight Spores to greatly intensify the Soul Power activity of Spirit Masters or spirit beasts.

It could also throw their Soul Power into utter chaos.

Quite a few Spirit Masters and spirit beasts had their Soul Power activity intensified too greatly, causing their Soul Power to circulate too quickly and chaotically.

They directly exploded to death.

It was one of the Sunlight Blood Dragon Vine's famous attack methods.

Naturally, Xiao Xian's First Spirit Ring was not that overpowered.

When he released his First Soul Skill, Sunlight, it shone directly upon himself. At most, it could double his Soul Power activity and cause slight disorder in his Soul Power, lasting roughly half an hour.

For every level his Soul Power increased, its activity would rise by another one percent.

This was a Soul Skill he had carefully selected.

After all, his talent was too poor, and his cultivation speed too slow.

The sturdy Sunlight Blood Dragon Vine itself comprehensively improved Xiao Jue's physical strength.

Combined with the Soul Skill that increased Soul Power activity, although it had the minor side effect of disrupting his Soul Power, he had lived two lives and possessed powerful Spiritual Power. With some effort, he could suppress it.

In that way, the remaining Soul Power activity could greatly improve his cultivation speed.

And so-called "Sunlight" was actually just a different kind of Sunlight Spore released through Xiao Jue, so it could naturally cling to external objects as well.

Under his control, Wang Sheng's Water Skin had been coated with a small amount of Sunlight Spores.

It would not greatly increase his Soul Power activity, but when applied to injuries, speeding up their recovery was no problem.

Moreover.

The Sunlight Spores were fundamentally formed from his Soul Power... His control over them was no weaker than that of the Sunlight Blood Dragon Vine.

Naturally, they had other uses...

"The opening ceremony is the day after tomorrow. If I've counted correctly, Tang San should be arriving at school tomorrow, right?"

"My talent is too poor. My cultivation speed is still too slow. The Mysterious Heaven Skill..."

Xiao Xian sat cross-legged on his bed, his eyes half-open and half-closed.