Aornia

"Xiao Yu, do you want to go to school?"

Facing Qian Renxue's question, Su Yu felt somewhat confused. "School?"

According to Su Yu's previous guess, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family would keep him hidden away. Unless he was obtaining a soul ring, he must never show his face before achieving success in his cultivation.

"Previously, it was announced to the outside world that your Innate Soul Power was only rank nine, but that also brings another problem—if you are treated too generously, it's practically a dead giveaway."

Hearing this, Su Yu also reacted, which was why Dugu Bo had noticed him so quickly.

"Alright, I'll listen to Brother Xue. Which academy does Brother Xue want me to go to?"

Seeing Su Yu be so reliant on her, Qian Renxue smiled slightly. "Naturally, it's Heaven Dou Royal Academy."

Su Yu showed a puzzled expression and pursued the question, "Heaven Dou Royal Academy? Isn't that an advanced soul master academy?"

Qian Renxue smiled and shook her head, explaining, "The one outside the city is indeed an advanced soul master academy, but there is also a branch inside the city, though the number of people there is small."

"For nobles, they have systematic plans for their family's inherited martial souls. Therefore, those young noble children receive their education within their family estates, and only enter the academy when they are older."

"To them, Heaven Dou Royal Academy is more like a social venue, much like Moonlight Pavilion."

Su Yu nodded thoughtfully. "Understood. Then when will I go to school?"

"Tomorrow. I'll arrange for someone to take you there tomorrow. Rest assured, I'll arrange for guards to protect you in secret."

With that, Qian Renxue took a gorgeously styled ring from her bosom and said, "This is a storage soul tool. The internal space is ten cubic meters, and inside are some daily necessities, as well as some gold soul coins. If there is anything you want, you can go buy it yourself, and come find me when you run out."

Su Yu wore a look of joy and took the ring. "Thank you, Brother Xue."

The next day, led by a certain guard surnamed She, Su Yu arrived at the primary campus of Heaven Dou Royal Academy and officially became one of its students.

And the first thing he did upon joining the academy was to ask about Dugu Yan's whereabouts.

Just as he expected, as Dugu Bo's granddaughter, Dugu Yan could be considered a prominent figure in the academy.

Unfortunately, this prominent figure had already graduated and headed to the advanced campus outside the city.

"Sigh~"

Su Yu slumped over his desk, emitting a decadent aura from head to toe.

"Why are you sighing? Do you hate school, too?"

Speaking was a girl sitting next to Su Yu.

She had long blonde hair and rare blood-red eyes.

Su Yu blinked his own golden eyes and asked curiously, "Why did you say 'too'?"

The little girl said defensively and righteously, "Because I hate school! My older brothers and sisters didn't have to go to school so early; only me... And my talent isn't good either, my cultivation speed has always been very slow..."

Seeing the little girl become somewhat dejected, Su Yu hurriedly spoke up, trying to divert her attention. "If they could, who would want to come to school so early? Right, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Su Yu, what's yours?"

The little girl broke free from her dejection and revealed a bright smile. "My name is Aornia, I'm the daughter of Marquis Full Moon."

Su Yu's mouth fell open, and a sense of bewilderment arose in his heart.

At that moment, he only felt as though the heavens were playing an extremely malicious joke on him.

To put it without exaggeration, even if everything before Su Yu's eyes turned into bubbles right now and a man wearing a monocle appeared, he wouldn't feel surprised at all.

His heart contracted violently, pumping blood back to his brain to help it regain its reason.

He swallowed hard, his voice raspy as he spoke, "Pardon me for asking, but your martial soul... wouldn't happen to be the moon, or something similar, would it?"

Aornia tilted her head in slight confusion, then put on a matter-of-fact attitude and said, "I'm the daughter of Marquis Full Moon, so of course my martial soul is the full moon."

"However..." Saying this, Aornia grew a bit dispirited. "My martial soul underwent a malicious mutation, turning into a red moon, and inside the moon there is also a black human figure..."

Slap!

Su Yu raised a hand and slapped his own forehead, his face wearing an expression between laughing and crying.

"Good heavens, you must be playing with me!"

Thinking back to his past life, he was neither a person of great evil nor had he done anything that violated heavenly principles.

How could he run into such an outrageous thing?

Never mind a suspected reincarnated Qian Renxue.

Now, even the Vampire Clan queen next door had popped out!

And even his own awakened martial soul was that damned Brass Book!

"Right, your first soul skill is..."

Halfway through his sentence, Su Yu closed his mouth.

He suddenly remembered that the specific effects of soul skills needed to be kept secret.

Yet Aornia did not raise her guard; instead, she became even more despondent. "My martial soul underwent a malicious mutation, and after cultivating for three years I still haven't been able to obtain my first soul ring..."

Su Yu opened his mouth, then comforted her, "It's fine. You probably belong to that type of person who builds up slowly to achieve great things."

"Although the cultivation results of the first three years aren't ideal, after that, your cultivation speed will definitely pick up!"

Little asteroids lit up in Aornia's eyes as she pursued, "Really? You feel that way too?"

"Really, I'm not lying to you... Uh, why did you say 'too' this time?"

"Hehe~" Aornia smiled somewhat smugly. "Actually, a month ago I noticed that my cultivation speed had gotten much faster..."

Hearing this, the corners of Su Yu's mouth twitched. He suspected he was being set up by someone, and he had concrete evidence...

Su Yu rubbed his chin. The Blood Moon martial soul with a human black shadow inside... Not following the Apothecary Pathway would simply be a waste!

As for the malicious mutation, plus low Innate Soul Power?

Heh, could any lowness be lower than Yu Xiaogang's half-rank of soul power?

Pigs could fly after eating the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma, let alone the Vampire Clan!

"Heh heh, it's rare to run into such an interesting matter. Whether it's so-called coincidence or a damned prank, just go to hell!"

Looking at the Su Yu in front of her, Aornia was somewhat dazed—how come this person's expression kept changing back and forth? And he was saying inexplicable things with his mouth? Could he actually be a lunatic?!

"Right, what is your current soul power level?"

"I broke through to rank nine a month ago, and on top of that, my cultivation speed has gotten much faster. I'm confident I'll break through to rank ten within three months!"

Looking at Aornia, who clenched her fists and pumped herself up, Su Yu smiled and muttered, "Three months, huh... Fine! Then I'll hole up in the library these three months and definitely help you pick the most suitable target soul beast."

Thinking of the name of Sequence One of the Apothecary Pathway, Su Yu immediately expressed that he was about to experience the joy of raising a character!

Looking at the motivated Su Yu, Aornia badly wanted to say that her family had long since found a fixed soul skill combination.

So as not to dampen the spirits of this new classmate, Aornia ultimately chose to keep her mouth shut.