Xiao Chenyu's Troubles

"Wang Sheng, come here!"

Xiao Wu turned her head and called out to Wang Sheng, who had just come out of the teaching building and was about to do his work-study assignment.

"Coming, Sister Xiao Wu, what's up? And Boss Zhou is here too." Wang Sheng hurriedly ran over.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask you, do I look like someone who acts like a bully at the Nuoding Academy?" Xiao Wu's eyes were sharp. "Tell the truth."

"This···"

Wang Sheng was drenched in cold sweat.

Acting arrogantly and domineeringly...

Actually, it's not quite true, but in her free time, Xiao Wu would indeed go out and have fun with the Noble Student for no apparent reason.

"Never mind, I already know." Seeing Wang Sheng's attitude, Xiao Wu already knew what kind of image she had in Wang Sheng's eyes.

"Then I'll go clean up." Wang Sheng immediately ran off, not daring to linger beside Xiao Wu any longer.

Am I that scary?

Xiao Wu was a little angry. She looked around and saw Xiao Chenyu. She called out, "Hey, Xiao Chenyu, come here and practice with Sister Xiao Wu."

If you're in a bad mood but can't really confront Zhou Qing, then you'll have to find someone else to vent your anger on.

Xiao Chenyu, this guy is the best choice.

"Sister Xiao Wu."

Xiao Chenyu walked over quickly, his face full of worry, but he still managed an awkward smile. "Well, I admit defeat."

Masochistic tendencies...

He doesn't!

"Enough with the nonsense. Sister Xiao Wu is in a good mood today and is going to give you some pointers. Be grateful!" After saying that, Xiao Wu didn't give Xiao Chenyu a chance to refuse and kicked him in the face.

Snap!

Xiao Chenyu flew backward and landed in a flower bed more than ten meters away, with a large shoe print on his face, tears and snot streaming down his face.

"Hmm~ I feel much better now." Xiao Wu stretched and said to Zhou Qing, preparing to go to the Nuoding Guild to accept a quest and earn Gold Soul Coin...

"They even claimed they weren't acting arrogantly or domineeringly..."

Zhou Qing shook his head inwardly, but did not try to persuade her further. After all, he was not Xiao Wu's guardian, and now, in this four-person team formed because of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Romantina, the last person to join, seemed to be more trustworthy than Xiao Wu.

Fortunately, Xiao Wu wasn't wearing high heels, otherwise Xiao Chenyu would have been disfigured, or even seriously injured!

Reaching the flowerbed, Zhou Qing helped Xiao Chenyu, whose face was full of sorrow, to his feet and asked, "A real man shouldn't cry. Consider this punishment for how you used to bully ordinary students and work-study students."

Xiao Chenyu wiped the shoe print off his face, touched the broken skin, winced in pain, and hissed, "Is that how you comfort someone?"

"Please, we're not even friends, we're barely acquaintances. You should be grateful that I helped you," Zhou Qing said, mimicking Xiao Wu's tone, before turning around and saying, "I'm leaving."

"Etc!"

Xiao Chenyu called out to him.

"What's up?"

Zhou Qing stopped, and without turning his head, asked, "If you want me to tell Xiao Wu not to hit you anymore, I can only say I'll try my best... Besides, that's how the Soul Master World is—might makes right, and I can't change that..."

"It's not about that. I'm graduating next semester, so even if she wanted to, she wouldn't have the chance." Xiao Chenyu shook his head and brought up another matter, "You know about the rumors circulating in the city about my father, right?"

"Know."

Zhou Qing turned around, returned to the flower bed, sat down, and gestured for Xiao Chenyu not to stand either. "I heard that your father orchestrated the whole Soul Bone, tricking all the Soul Master who came to Nuoding City for the auction, and then bought it himself, which led to someone launching a night raid on the Xiao Manor."

"Do you think the Soul Bone Auction was really orchestrated by my father?" Xiao Chenyu knew Zhou Qing's maturity and stared intently at him, trying to figure out the truth.

"That's not important anymore." Zhou Qing didn't want to analyze his father's personality in front of Xiao Chenyu; that would be too tactless.

Moreover—

Now Xiao Chenyu has suppressed his previous arrogance and no longer dares to bully other students...

Last time, Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu went to the Xiao Manor to guide Xiao Chenyu and helped capture an undercover Soul Master had infiltrated the manor. They could be considered to have done the Xiao Manor a small favor...

From both a moral and logical standpoint, there's no need to make the relationship with Xiao Chenyu too strained.

"Yes, that's not important anymore. What's important is that because the Soul Bone is still in Nuoding City, the news is spreading to more and more distant cities, and more and more Soul Master will come here." Xiao Chenyu's expression was extremely serious.

This made Zhou Qing look at him with new respect.

but--

"My dad has already told me that once this turmoil subsides, he can accumulate the qualifications for a higher promotion..."

"However, I do not agree."

"The more Soul Master gather in a city, the greater the turmoil they cause, and the less safe I am as the son of the city lord... If Soul Master dare to attack my father at home, then there must be many Soul Master secretly watching me."

"I'm afraid I won't live to see my father's relocation, so much so that I'm afraid to go home now."

It's obvious!

Xiao Chenyu wasn't mature; he was afraid of suddenly disappearing.

After all, before the Soul Bone Auction, a Soul Master dared to tempt him, using her beauty to enter the Xiao Manor in order to plot for the Soul Bone first!

Although the fact that he slept with a Soul Power was close to that of Soul Grandmaster at the age of twelve was something he could brag about for the rest of his life, Xiao Chenyu was really afraid of whether he would encounter a similar Soul Master in the future!

He can't trust any pretty girl anymore!

They didn't even dare to get close!

As for the fact that the primary Soul Master Academy is safer than the Xiao Manor...

Some people might dare to trespass into the Xiao Manor, but absolutely no one would dare to trespass into a legitimate Soul Master Academy, because if something happens, the Spirit Hall will also get involved.

The Spirit Hall cannot proactively intervene or investigate the matter of a Soul Master trespassing into the Xiao Manor, as that would interfere with the power and affairs of the Heaven Dou Empire, the Fasinuo Province, and the city lord of Nuoding City, and would be subject to criticism and attacks. Therefore, they can only provide Human Dao support.

However, it is different for the Soul Master Academy with formal teaching qualifications. They are registered with both the Heaven Dou (Star Luo Empire) and the Spirit Hall. If anyone dares to offend them, the Spirit Hall has the right to directly intervene. There is even a chance that all the Spirit Hall Branch, sub-halls, and main halls across the continent will issue warrants for the offender's arrest.

No normal Soul Master would tolerate another adult Soul Master secretly harming a Soul Master Academy student.

The same applies to the Spirit Hall.

Because the vast majority of the Spirit Hall's grassroots Soul Master come from commoner Soul Master Academy Commoner Soul Master, and most of the commoner students who graduate from various primary and intermediate Soul Master Academy have already been regarded as potential reserve members by the Spirit Hall.

Advanced Academy, huh...?

Students who can enroll are either nobles or have established Soul Master families. In short, it is very difficult for most commoners to get in.

Furthermore, if something happens within the Advanced Academy, the teachers and students will try their best to prevent the Spirit Hall from getting involved.

"So what's the point of telling me all this?"

Zhou Qing tilted his head. "I can't solve your personal problems. Besides, you live in the academy, so you don't need to worry about Life safety in the short term. Shouldn't you be concerned about your future stepmother?"

"Speaking of my stepmother... no! She wasn't even officially married to my dad, so what kind of stepmother is she? Besides, she's already gone..."