001 Cassell Academy, Handsome Youth Yu Bai

Douluo Continent was a world where strength reigned supreme!

Here, only the strong were the focus of everyone's attention! They shared a single title: "Soul Masters"!

The strength of a Soul Master was determined by their Soul Power and Martial Soul!

Keling City lay within the Heaven Dou Empire, near its capital—Heaven Dou City—and sat between Heaven Dou City and Sunset Forest!

Perhaps due to its location, countless Soul Masters passed through Keling City nearly every day on their way to Sunset Forest to hunt Soul Rings. This made the city only slightly less prosperous than the capital, Heaven Dou City. As such, Keling City was also home to a Soul Master Academy with considerable renown even within the Heaven Dou Empire—Cassell Academy!

At that moment, inside Freshman Class Two of Cassell Academy.

"...As everyone knows, when hunting Soul Rings, aside from the age of the Soul Ring, the most important factor is the type of Martial Soul a Soul Master possesses. Only by choosing a Soul Beast's Soul Ring compatible with one's own Martial Soul can one maximize its unique characteristics..."

On the podium, a beautiful female teacher with a sexy figure, around thirty years old, pointed at the blackboard as she lectured earnestly. Most of the students below listened to her lesson with serious expressions.

At a window seat in the back row, a silver-haired boy of around twelve was sound asleep with his head on his desk.

His wispy bangs hung down, partially concealing his brows and eyes. Fine, nearly invisible down could even be seen on his fair, smooth face, marking the boyishness he had yet to outgrow.

The near-noon sunlight streamed through the window and shone on the boy's silver hair, lending the entire classroom a little extra brightness and warmth.

On the boy's desk, the shadow cast by the sunlit window gradually shortened. Then, suddenly—

"Ring, ring, ring..."

The dismissal bell abruptly rang!

The next moment, the eyes half-hidden beneath the sleeping boy's bangs flew open. He instantly sat upright, terror written across his handsome face as cold sweat beaded on his forehead. He gulped down fresh air in great breaths!

"Whew..." "Whew..." "Whew..."

Beside him, a chubby boy wearing glasses seemed entirely used to his deskmate's strange behavior. Calmly, he pulled a bag of snacks made from some unknown Soul Beast's Meat Jerky from beneath his desk, expertly tore it open, and took out a piece. Chewing as he turned to look at the boy beside him, he coolly teased,

"You're awake, Little Bai!"

"Come to think of it, I really am jealous of you. There are only morning cultural classes and afternoon practical cultivation classes every day, but ever since school started a month ago, you've slept through every single cultural class. The teachers don't even bother you. Is this the privilege enjoyed by a genius with Level Nine Innate Soul Power, who's only eleven—almost twelve—and already has Level Twenty-Seven Soul Power?!"

"Damn it! I'm so jealous!"

"Sigh! Who told me to be an ordinary Food-type Soul Master? My Soul Power is only Level Twenty-One..."

Yu Bai, whose terrified expression had not fully faded, heard the familiar and irritating chatter beside him and instinctively laughed as he cursed,

"Shut up, you chatterbox fatty!"

The moment the words left his mouth, Yu Bai finally got a clear look at the scene before him. The expression on his handsome face stiffened at once, his eyes filled with confusion as he unconsciously muttered,

"Where... is this?"

"Didn't I see a little girl fall into a river and jump in to save her? How did I..."

The chubby boy beside him, who was biting into a strip of Meat Jerky, was unsurprised by Yu Bai's muttering. He cast Yu Bai a disdainful glance before perfunctorily replying,

"Yes, yes, yes! You were saving a little girl!"

"For thirty days straight, every morning, you've been saving little girls who fell into the water in your dreams. Say,"

As he spoke, the chubby boy, Shi Zheng, turned toward him. His fat face wore a lecherous gleam in the tiny eyes nearly squeezed shut by his cheeks as he looked at Yu Bai and asked in a low voice,

"Was that little girl extremely, extremely pretty?!"

"Otherwise, there's no way you'd spend an entire month saving her in your dreams!"

As he said this, the smile on Shi Zheng's chubby face became even more sleazy!

Hearing Shi Zheng's voice, Yu Bai was still confused and had just been about to ask a question when countless unfamiliar yet familiar memories suddenly surfaced in his mind!

After quickly digesting all those memories, Yu Bai finally understood. He had been reborn into the world of the novel Douluo Continent, which he had read in his previous life. It had begun a month ago, but only now had all his memories from his past life fully returned!

Thinking of how lucky he was to be reborn into the world of romance... Douluo Continent, a world he knew so well, Yu Bai recalled the dazzling Soul Skills and miraculous Martial Souls he had seen while reading the novel and watching the anime in his previous life. He could not be bothered to slowly sort through the unfamiliar memories of the nearly twelve years since his rebirth, and immediately examined his Martial Soul and Soul Power!

"My Martial Soul is actually a Tool Martial Soul—the Everlasting Sword! And my Innate Soul Power is Level Nine!"

"More importantly, I'm not even twelve yet, but I'm already a Level Twenty-Seven Soul Grandmaster with a four-hundred-year yellow first Soul Ring and a seven-hundred-year yellow second Soul Ring!"

"With talent like this, becoming a god isn't some unattainable dream!"

At the thought that he could become a god in this world, a light called ambition suddenly burst from the bright, spirited eyes on Yu Bai's youthful face!

Although he had often mocked this world's power scale online in his previous life, now that he was truly living in this world, Yu Bai only wanted to shout, "This is awesome!"

After all, low power scale or not, it offered immortality!

"...Hey! Hey!"

"What are you spacing out for?! You're drooling!"

"Wake up!"

Just as Yu Bai was imagining the wonderful life he would have after becoming a god, a burst of shouting suddenly rang in his ear!

Snapping back to his senses, Yu Bai instinctively turned his head and focused in the direction of the voice. What entered his sight was a fat, round face less than five centimeters from his own!

"Who the hell are you?!"

Startled, Yu Bai swiftly scooted backward while raising a hand. With a smack, he planted it directly on the fat face before him and shoved it away.

Shi Zheng was briefly dumbfounded by Yu Bai's sudden action. Once he recovered, he pulled Yu Bai's hand off his face and stared speechlessly at his childhood friend and best buddy. Then he snarled,

"Little Bai! Did sleeping scramble your brain?! You don't even recognize your most respected Lord Fatty, Shi Zheng, anymore?! Want Lord Fatty to get you a piece of Refreshing Meat Jerky to wake you up?!"