Living Off a Woman

Awesome!

That had been such an exhilarating cultivation session!

Brilliant morning light draped a dreamy sheen over his black hair. The weather was as bright as ever today, just like An Zhen's mood.

Other than when he had first awakened his martial soul, it had been a long time since he had felt himself improving this quickly.

First Soul Skill, Reflection.

An illusory world descended here, overlapping with reality and altering it.

Soul Power appeared from nothing, and his meridians suddenly expanded by a tiny margin.

Level 24 Soul Grandmaster.

He had used the energy stored within the Virtual World. This was usually how An Zhen cultivated. After all, it was a small world; its current insignificance was only in comparison to the Douluo Plane. Besides, this world still had to obey the law of conservation of energy. How could a level 23 An Zhen possibly manifest a level 24 An Zhen?

"At this rate, reaching level thirty-something by the end of the semester won't be difficult."

Daughter of Destiny.

When the Daughter of Destiny was inside his Virtual World, there was not even the slightest rejection from the world.

Unbelievable.

The problem that had troubled An Zhen for so long had actually been solved just like that.

He felt like a man living off a woman: a small company, the Virtual World, feeding on the resources of a big company, the Douluo Plane. A stranger using someone else's money would definitely not be accepted, even if it was only a negligible amount—it was still theirs. But now, the small company had won over the big company's precious daughter, Huo Yutong, and become its live-in son-in-law.

What a strange metaphor.

Whatever. No matter what, the result was good.

He got dressed.

After leaving his dorm room, An Zhen knocked on the door of Dorm 108.

After a while.

A sleepy little cutie, fully dressed, opened the dorm door.

"Big Brother An Zhen..."

The loli looked at the boy resentfully.

Cultivating in the dream was fast, but after waking up, she felt as if she had stayed up all night. Worse, her cultivation had not improved at all.

"Didn't I come to raise Xiao Yutong's cultivation?"

An Zhen affectionately reached out and gently pinched the loli's soft cheek.

"You can't."

Huo Yutong shook her head, but when his fingertips touched her soft cheek, she gave up struggling. Her large, watery eyes seemed to conceal a timid little deer.

A Golden Yellow Soul Ring emerged.

First Soul Skill, Reflection.

The night's exhaustion suddenly vanished, as if she had gotten a full night's sleep. Energy that had appeared from nowhere flowed through her body. Though the power had appeared out of thin air, it now felt as though she had painstakingly cultivated it herself. It circulated without the slightest discomfort, perfectly natural.

Not bad.

An Zhen gently pinched the loli's cheek.

At this point, Huo Yutong was at her most vulnerable and helpless, from now into the future. A child without a home needed someone to rely on. That was why Huo Yuhao in the original story had helped the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy so much—because he had truly regarded that place as his home.

Since that was the case, why couldn't I be Huo Yutong's support?

"Holy shit!"

A somewhat adorable big worm raised its head from the golden sea. "Xiao Yutong, what happened? How did you suddenly get so much stronger?"

Sorry, Sister Tianmeng, but I promised Big Brother An Zhen I wouldn't tell anyone. The loli, letting the boy pinch her cheek, spoke in her heart.

She had promised Big Brother An Zhen last night.

First, she could not tell anyone that Big Brother An Zhen's martial soul could let people enter it with their consciousness.

Second, when the two of them were alone, she had to use her original voice.

"But I'm not a person."

The big worm grumbled, looking outside through Huo Yutong's perspective. "Xiao Yutong, when did you two become so close? And when did you get secrets?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was a little dumbfounded.

It was like a daughter who had been obedient and sensible yesterday, who had never even dated, suddenly brought a man home today and said, "This is my husband."

No, what exactly had happened last night?!

Had she slept for several days straight?

"Let's eat first. We'll have to see whether there are any teachers at the Academic Affairs Office later about changing dorms."

After washing up, the two headed for the cafeteria.

At the entrance of the white cafeteria, An Zhen directly tucked the petite loli under one arm, then quickly put her down.

"Let's go."

The handsome young man blinked and spoke with an innocent expression. "To apologize for what I just did to classmate Huo Yutong, I'll treat you to breakfast."

A teasing voice sounded beside the loli, whose fright had yet to fade. "Xiao Yutong wouldn't want me to hold her in my arms in public, would she?"

"Mm."

The loli puffed out her cheeks.

Why was Big Brother An Zhen being so mean?

In the end, Huo Yutong was "lured" into the purple cafeteria for fourth- and fifth-year students.

Under An Zhen's threat to lift her up and spin her around, the little loli had no choice but to open her cherry-red mouth.

"Eat more."

An Zhen placed a Soul Beast fried egg onto the loli's plate.

"A good body is the foundation of cultivation."

"Thank you, Big Brother An Zhen."

The loli buried her head and ate.

She could not repay Big Brother An Zhen's kindness now. She could only silently remember it in her heart. In the future, she would definitely be able to help him.

"Phew~"

Her little belly was round, and Huo Yutong leaned back in her chair with a satisfied expression. She had never imagined breakfast could leave her this full. Even the flatbread was so fragrant and soft. This was something she had never dared to dream of before.

"Since you're full, go back and rest for a while. The teachers at the Academic Affairs Office probably won't start work until nine or ten."

An Zhen drank from a cup of iced beverage.

"Mm." The loli nodded obediently.

As for Huo Yutong's job, An Zhen felt they could open a milk tea shop. Examples from his past life showed just how devastating this stuff could be to teenage boys and girls, and they could add some pricier ingredients to raise the price. Most powerful martial souls in this world came from bloodline inheritance; beneficial mutations were ultimately rare. Shrek Academy itself was an aristocratic academy, and most of its students were not short on this little bit of money.

How much money could grilled fish make?

It was time to give this other world a shock from technology and ruthless tricks.

If I make even a slight move, Shrek Academy's average body weight will rise by quite a bit.

They returned to the dorms.

Huo Yutong's dorm door was open.

"Looks like Xiao Yutong's roommate has arrived."

"Who are you?"

A young man walked out of the dorm.

Fair skin, dreamy pink-blue hair, and beneath curved willow-leaf brows were large, watery eyes as dreamlike as her hair, like jewels lost in the mortal world by a god.

A very handsome boy.

"An Zhen. New student. I live next door. Soul Grandmaster. My martial soul is World."

"Wang Dong. New student. Soul Grandmaster. My martial soul is the Light Goddess Butterfly." The young man introduced herself proudly. But a martial soul called World? Could a world become someone's martial soul?

"Light Goddess Butterfly..."

An Zhen murmured softly, and the look in his eyes toward Wang Dong grew increasingly strange.

"What kind of look is that?!"

The handsome youth spoke displeasedly.

"Go into the dorm first."

Before Wang Dong could say anything, An Zhen directly pushed Huo Yutong inside and shut the door.

Though simple, the dorm had excellent soundproofing.

"Xiao Yutong, it looks like you won't need to change dorms this time."

Huo Yutong:?

Wang Dong looked at the other boy in the room. "You're my roommate?"

"Seeing as you cleaned the dorm so well—"

"Is dressing up as a boy to attend school really that popular these days? What a shame. The old man said that dressing up as a girl to enter the girls' dorm would get you expelled."

"Y-you-you!"

A fair finger pointed at An Zhen. The young woman was so agitated that she could not speak for a moment. "You're the girl!"

The blush on her face—who knew whether it came from embarrassment at having her identity exposed or anger from humiliation? If An Zhen had not read the original story, he might truly have mistaken it for anger at being insulted.

"The Light Goddess Butterfly."

An Zhen had already made up an excuse. "I saw it before in a tattered ancient book in the city lord's library when I was bored. It was very beautiful, so I remembered it clearly. This kind of Soul Beast may already be extinct, but as a martial soul, because of its characteristics, it can only appear in beautiful women."

The city lord's residence might not necessarily have had that ancient book, but the information really had been recorded in some books.

"Your disguise is very good, but it seems you didn't know this. Still, apart from people who happened to come across it or those who have deeply researched martial souls, probably no one knows."