Three Dances' Absolute Love, Yuan En Yehui Appears!

The hazy morning light quietly slipped through the floor-to-ceiling windows, leaving scattered patches of light across the dining table.

The sandwich lay quietly on a jade-like plate. Its toasted golden edges curled slightly upward, giving off a faint wheat fragrance, while the serrated cut revealed layer upon layer of filling within.

The yogurt sauce made from Snow Sheep milk was crystal-clear in texture, entwined with fresh, vibrant greens. Slices of fruit tomato with a sweet-and-tart fragrance filled the gaps alongside richly scented ham slices, their deep patterns concealing a century's worth of energy.

White mist clouded the transparent glass. Every drop of the delicate hot milk could awaken a diner's taste buds.

"That should do it." Looking at his masterpiece, Nan Liujing nodded in satisfaction. After eating Mu Ye's cooking for so long, he had definitely learned something.

"You made this sandwich?"

A gentle, graceful voice came from behind him. Nan Liujing instinctively turned around, only to see Leng Yaozhu standing there in a silk nightgown.

It was still a conservative style, but the nightgown was clearly rather thin, outlining the mature beauty's stunningly curvaceous figure. Her vivid red hair was pinned up, with several escaped strands hanging behind her ears and accentuating her moonlight-smooth neck.

Clearly, in Leng Yaozhu's eyes, Nan Liujing was still a child, so she did not care how much of an impact appearing like this might have.

Nan Liujing slightly averted his gaze. "I made two portions. Teacher, give it a try."

Leng Yaozhu became interested. At her level of cultivation, she did not need to eat at all.

"Then I really should try it."

Her pale jade hand picked up the fragrant sandwich. Under Nan Liujing's expectant gaze, she parted her red lips and took a gentle bite.

Yet after chewing only a few times, her entire body froze. Her wine-red pupils took on a dreamy, unfocused quality, as though she had fallen into some special state.

Nan Liujing was somewhat puzzled.

No matter how delicious the sandwich was, it should not have this effect, right?

Besides, as a Spirit Pagoda Vice Tower Master, could she possibly have lacked fine food in this world?

Leng Yaozhu seemed to have forgotten Nan Liujing existed. After taking a bite, she stared at the missing corner of the sandwich for a long time without speaking.

Nan Liujing asked softly, "Did I make it badly?"

"No." Leng Yaozhu reacted quickly. She shook her head, her tone carrying both melancholy and the delight of recovering something once lost. "Can you make Teacher a sandwich every day from now on?"

Nan Liujing glanced at the Black Cloth Bracelet around her snow-white wrist. He understood something and smiled. "Of course, no problem."

Leng Yaozhu smiled. "You should eat too. Afterward, I'll take you to your cultivation site."

"Yes."

Leng Yaozhu resumed savoring the sandwich. With every bite, she seemed to be recalling something.

Nan Liujing did not know that, in his teacher's memories, there had once been a girl with extraordinary cultivation talent but no ability whatsoever in daily life. She had always stubbornly tried to make her own food, then used her older sister as a test subject. The thing she made most often was sandwiches.

From being nearly inedible at first to being devoured ravenously later on. But from a certain day onward, no familiar girl had ever again let her sister taste the food she made. After half a century apart, that flavor seemed to have reunited with her.

The fifty-fifth floor of the Spirit Pagoda.

Leng Yaozhu brought Nan Liujing to a rather special place. The moment he entered, he saw many Gaming Pods like those described in online game novels.

Inside the spacious room were more than a dozen staff members dressed in white. Perhaps because it was still early, all the "Gaming Pods" remained inactive.

"Vice Pagoda Master." The leading staff member walked over and greeted her respectfully.

Leng Yaozhu smiled faintly. "Prepare a Law Chamber."

"Yes." The man immediately went to make arrangements.

Leng Yaozhu said to Nan Liujing, "The Law Chamber connects to a Virtual World, similar to a Mimic Cultivation Environment. In a moment, you will enter a very special environment. While enduring it, you must also carefully comprehend it."

After giving him those simple instructions, Leng Yaozhu had Nan Liujing choose a Law Chamber and lie down inside.

As the chamber door closed, threads of energy flowed into it, and Nan Liujing's consciousness instantly shifted.

"Rumble!"

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself facing an unknown waterfall of unimaginable height.

The water seemed to pour down from the Milky Way, crashing madly against the bottom. Brilliant sprays exploded outward as waves of wind rose from the water's surface, stirring ripples. The impact was so powerful that even Nan Liujing could barely keep his footing.

Inside the room, Leng Yaozhu stood with her arms folded over her chest, calmly watching Nan Liujing observe the waterfall on the screen.

The Unbending Staff Technique created by the Qian Gu Family through the Dragon Subduing Staff Martial Soul emphasized one word: breaking!

Using the Profound Meaning of Breaking to shatter Plane Law and then make it one's own—thus was the Unbending Staff Technique, which had shaken the world, born.

The Unbending Staff Technique was like defying heaven and earth. The resistance and pressure encountered during the process were extremely terrifying. Moreover, if a user wished to break the laws, they first had to comprehend them. Otherwise, how could they speak of breaking them?

The Law Chamber had been established by the Qian Gu Family despite overwhelming opposition, though that had been a thousand years ago. As times changed, any outstanding genius who joined the Spirit Pagoda received one opportunity per week to come here and gain Law Comprehension under different environmental conditions.

Even Leng Yaozhu herself had spent a long time comprehending laws inside a volcano constantly erupting with magma. That was also one reason her True Phoenix Fire was so powerful.

Nan Liujing's Dragon Subduing Staff Martial Soul was not the Evil Vanquishing Dragon Soul and did not possess unyielding determination. However, the lightning corresponding to the Thunder Dragon Soul was tyrannical and upright. I make you submit when I strike you, rather than letting you suppress me and force me to endure pressure.

Having Nan Liujing experience the Law Chamber had been Qiangu Qingfeng's idea. The goal was for Nan Liujing to build a solid foundation now, so that in the future, he could use the Unbending Staff Technique to create a staff technique belonging to the Thunder Dragon Soul.

"What dense wind and water elements."

His gaze swept over the gusts brushing across the water. Nan Liujing seemed to sense something. With the Plane Imprint's help, he was highly familiar with his initial experiences of all kinds of elements.

He was still nearly a hundred meters from the base of the waterfall. Once he released his Mental Power, he could sense that every ten meters forward raised the elemental intensity by an entire level, while the impact grew even stronger.

Nan Liujing took a deep breath and resolutely walked forward.

The Plane Imprint was like an unshakable foundation. It guaranteed your lower limit, but not your upper limit. A person's future still had to be walked by themselves.

The difficulty of the first step exceeded Nan Liujing's expectations. The wind element was like an exclusionary wall, constantly squeezing him backward, while the water element was like a bad kid secretly elbowing him, occasionally striking his face or body.

Nan Liujing did not charge forward blindly. Instead, after stopping, he relaxed his entire body and spread his hands, allowing the wind and rain to wash over him.

It was as if he had turned himself into part of nature, experiencing every part of his body being struck by the elements.

The wind's lightness, its rampage, its flow; in contrast, the water's gentleness, tyranny, and balance of softness and strength.

This sight noticeably eased Leng Yaozhu's willow eyebrows, and a hint of interest appeared in her wine-red pupils.

To be honest, she had accepted this disciple mostly because of the benefits Qiangu Qingfeng had proposed.

But now, this child had truly piqued her interest.

Night fell.

A massive city wall separated Shrek's inner city from the outer city.

The lovely silver-haired girl stood beneath the city wall, carrying the temperament of a green lotus, pure and unworldly. Smiling with her eyes, she watched the young man walking toward her.

"Have you eaten?" Nan Liujing walked up and habitually rubbed Na'er's head.

Na'er narrowed her eyes slightly. Like a kitten, she took the initiative to link her arm through her older brother's.

"Not yet. I was waiting to eat with you."

"Order whatever you want later. I'll treat." Nan Liujing said fondly.

Just as he had guessed, Na'er had successfully awakened her Martial Soul. It was still the Silver Dragon Spear. As before, she joined Shrek Academy and even rapidly became Yun Ming's disciple.

He had no idea how Bi Ji had done it, but she had actually concealed it from Yun Ming's senses.

"Two senior students, I'm taking my brother into the Inner City. There shouldn't be a problem, right?"

The city wall that had been used ten thousand years ago to resist the Beast Tide's invasion had now become the dividing line between the academy and the outer city. Students wearing dark green uniforms stood guard there.

"Of course there's no problem. Junior female student, would you like a guidebook? It might make sightseeing easier." After taking the identity card Na'er handed over, the eyes of the two boys who looked fourteen or fifteen suddenly lit up.

They had seen Na'er standing under the city wall for a while, apparently waiting for someone. So when they saw a young punk approach and act especially close to her, they had immediately wanted to roar, "Let go of that junior female student!" But they had not expected him to be the girl's older brother.

What punk? He was clearly a handsome guy!

"No, thank you." Na'er declined politely.

After receiving permission, the two entered the ancient Inner City together.

Compared to the outer city, the entire Inner City was especially quiet. The streets were broad and paved with blue bricks. The visible architecture all leaned toward ancient styles, and there were even wooden buildings.

Warm yellow lights dispersed the darkness, leaving hazy shadows over the ground and surrounding vegetation.

Many Shared Bicycles were parked along the roadside for convenient scanning and riding. After all, during the Ancient Era, the Inner City had housed several million permanent residents. It was simply too large.

The wheels rolled across the ground. There were almost no gaps between the blue bricks, so there was no danger of splashing through deep puddles and soaking shoes and trouser cuffs.

The gentle night breeze brushed across the girl's hair hanging near her ears, like moonlight flowing through the darkness.

Neither Nan Liujing nor Na'er spoke. They simply enjoyed the tranquility in comfort.

Occasionally, someone inside a building heard the wheels rolling and poked their head out to look, but all they could see was a flash of silver disappearing in an instant.

"There are quite a lot of people here."

As they rode, the siblings arrived at a brightly lit street. Many young people moved about nearby, along with ordinary residents who had received the academy's permission to live in the Inner City.

Nan Liujing swept his gaze over the many storefronts. "Na'er, what do you want to eat?"

Na'er was indeed a little hungry. She blinked and tried hard to lock onto tonight's target.

A milk tea shop called "Three Dances' Absolute Love" caught her attention because it had the most customers and was very lively.

"Brother, how about we get something to drink first?"

"Sure."

Nan Liujing was not picky. He followed Na'er's gaze, and his expression froze.

"Three Dances' Absolute Love... Drinking that won't turn us into Love Brains, will it?"

After parking their Shared Bicycles, the two charged toward the milk tea shop.

There really were many customers inside, mainly students wearing the dark green uniforms of the Shrek Outer Court. Servers constantly moved through the shop, delivering the drinks customers had ordered.

Oddly enough, the milk tea shop even had a resident singer. She was not exactly top-tier, but her voice suited the shop's atmosphere perfectly.

Na'er eagerly pulled Nan Liujing over to choose drinks.

One look at the prices made her stare. Even the cheapest lemonade cost five hundred Federation Coins. If Little Snow were here, she would slaughter them all.

However, that high price was only for students. They could also use Contribution Points, exchanged at a ratio of one to one hundred.

Na'er had trouble choosing and was still hesitating. Nan Liujing casually picked a lemonade, then looked around.

No wonder this shop did such good business. The servers were all pretty girls. Although they did not wear schoolgirl uniforms, they wore matching black skirts and white vests. It was not revealing, yet had a distinctive charm.

As he watched, one of the servers caught Nan Liujing's attention.

Her skin was extremely pale, and paired with her dark red short hair, the contrast made her look as though she had just recovered from a serious illness. It invisibly added a sense of frailty. Yet among all these girls, she was also the prettiest. Only her eyes were hollow, like those of a machine without any emotion.

A name suddenly leaped into his mind.

Yuan En Yehui!

In terms of age, Yuan En Yehui was only a little over a year older than him. She had merely enrolled early, so in the Original Timeline, she was one grade above Tang Wulin and the others.

Nan Liujing's gaze slightly moved as he began carefully recalling memories from his past life.

Yuan En Yehui had probably left home at around eight years old and been sent to Shrek Academy. It had all originated from her mother's Fallen Angel Martial Soul going berserk. After losing control, her mother had summoned the Demon Gate, from which countless demons emerged, causing tremendous destruction to the Yuanen Family and killing thirty-seven people.

Later, Yuan En Yehui's mother blamed herself and chose suicide. Her father had also attempted suicide to follow his wife, but Yuan En Yehui's grandfather, Yuanen Zhentian, and Yun Ming had joined forces to stop and seal him.

After that, everyone in the Yuanen Family seemed as though they had no mouths. Aside from sending her to Shrek Academy, they never gave her an explanation, leaving Yuan En Yehui to hate them for years until the misunderstanding was finally resolved later.

Just as Nan Liujing was thinking this, Yuan En Yehui's expression suddenly tightened. After delivering the drink in her hands, she hurried to the counter and found the manager wearing a nameplate on her chest.

The two exchanged a few brief words. Yuan En Yehui almost immediately turned around and left the milk tea shop. Through the glass window, Nan Liujing soon could not even see her back anymore.

Nan Liujing frowned. With his Mental Power, it was not difficult to sense that Yuan En Yehui's mental fluctuations were abnormal at this moment.

But the Original Timeline had not provided much description of her at this age, so he could not guess the exact reason.

"Brother."

A cool touch landed on his arm. Nan Liujing quickly returned to his senses, only to see Na'er tilting her head and obediently holding up the packed lemonade.

Nan Liujing smiled and accepted it, suppressing the doubts in his heart. This was Shrek Academy, after all. Nothing could happen to Yuan En Yehui.

Na'er linked her arm through his. Though still young, she already showed hints of the peerless beauty she would become, drawing many students to steal glances at her.

Under the envious gazes of the male students, Nan Liujing chose a hotpot restaurant similar to the beef hotpot of Guangdong from his past life.

If the people around them had initially been amazed by the girl's beauty, then by the end of the meal, when the stack of plates stood taller than two adults, the other diners' amazement turned into terror.

"That hit the spot!"

As she put down her plate, Na'er licked her rosy lips, utterly satisfied.

She might not have inherited astonishing wisdom, but having an extraordinary appetite was pretty good too.

Being able to eat was a blessing!

Yuan En Yehui's age setting had several versions in the original work. I used the setting where she was a little over a year older than the male protagonist.

In fact, the setting for Yuan En Yehui entering Shrek conflicted between the early and later portions of the original work. The early part said she entered at twelve, stayed for three years, and was fifteen. But later, Yuanen Tianzhen revealed within the Yuanen Family that when she was seven, the family suffered a great disaster because of the Demon Plane incident, and not long afterward, she was sent to Shrek.