The Louse Swarm's Struggle for Supremacy

Chen Yumo merely shrugged.

He was no fool. When circumstances were against you, calling someone Boss a couple of times would not cost him a pound of flesh. This kind of academy clique was not a formal organization like a sect. What difference did joining make?

Though this little clique would suffer a devastating blow tomorrow...

By his calculations, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had probably already reached the Soul Hunting Forest by now, right?

"By the way, Boss Xiao, when will the academy teach us meditation cultivation?" Chen Yumo suddenly asked.

Seeing how tactful he was, Xiao Chenyu no longer had any desire to put him in his place. At the end of the day, they were only a group of children. At most, they could gang up to bully others, but they had no way of dealing with a slippery eel like Chen Yumo.

He had called him Boss and paid his respects. How could they keep making things difficult for him?

"Freshmen like you will have teachers teach you meditation methods after classes officially begin tomorrow." Xiao Chenyu rubbed his brow, then pulled a small booklet from his robes. "But the meditation methods taught by the academy are usually rather crude. They only let you cultivate, that's all."

"I'll give you this meditation method. It isn't particularly profound either, but it's still a little better than what the academy teaches."

"Thank you, Boss Xiao!" Chen Yumo's eyes lit up. Without another word, he accepted the booklet Xiao Chenyu handed him.

See? The benefits of joining a faction had arrived already.

Not only had he gotten a meditation method ahead of time, it was even better than the common stuff taught by the academy. Boss Xiao was truly righteous!

"What is your Martial Soul? What level are you?" Xiao Chenyu casually asked as they were about to leave.

"My Martial Soul is an Ice Silkworm, and my Innate Soul Power is only level one." Chen Yumo answered frankly.

"An Ice Silkworm..." Upon hearing that, Xiao Chenyu looked at Chen Yumo with a trace of sympathy.

The Ice Silkworm's status among animals was comparable to Blue Silver Grass among plants. The same held true as a human Martial Soul. It was weak among the weak, a trash Martial Soul from the gutter. Even across all of Nuoding Academy, Chen Yumo's Martial Soul was probably the weakest.

Remembering Chen Yumo's tactful behavior just now, Xiao Chenyu patted his shoulder. "Don't worry. Even if your Martial Soul is trash, as long as you call me Boss Xiao, no one at Nuoding Academy will dare bully you!"

"If anyone bullies you, just give them my name, Xiao Chenyu. Let's see who dares refuse to give me face!"

"Boss Xiao rules Nuoding, invincible under heaven!" His lackeys immediately shouted slogans to bolster Xiao Chenyu's prestige.

Damn, they were fired up.

Even Chen Yumo could not resist shouting along with those little brats twice. He was more excited than when he used to watch Boruto.

"Let's go!" Xiao Chenyu threw an arm around Chen Yumo's shoulders and left surrounded by his lackeys. "A few new Work-Study Students enrolled too. Let's take our new brother over there and beat up some country bumpkins for fun!"

"Huh? But I still need to cultiva—" Chen Yumo froze on the spot.

Damn, I became a bully?

"Cultivate my ass. With your talent, missing cultivation for a little while makes no difference. Move it!" Xiao Chenyu directly cut him off, then dragged and shoved Chen Yumo away along with his lackeys.

"But my Martial Soul is the trash Ice Silkworm, and my Soul Power is only level one. I can't beat them!" Chen Yumo protested.

"Boss Xiao, you can't make an agility-attack Soul Master take damage while having a support-type Soul Master dive the back line, can you?"

I'm weak, while they have combat Martial Souls. They're incredibly strong. I'm no match for them!

"That's true..." Xiao Chenyu stopped and fell into thought.

"Fine, then. Since you can't fight, just follow behind us and watch. Don't worry. Even if you have no combat ability, you're still one of us. We won't exclude you!"

"Loyalty!" Chen Yumo raised both hands with tears streaming down his face, then began hopping in place.

Boss Xiao's kindness could never be repaid!

Xiao Chenyu's other lackeys were dumbfounded. On one hand, they wondered why Boss Xiao's newest subordinate was such a shameless flatterer. On the other, they did not slow down at all. Following Chen Yumo's lead, they surrounded Xiao Chenyu and began charging around wildly.

"Loyalty!"

It made Xiao Chenyu a little embarrassed.

Yet after that little farce, Chen Yumo's status within the clique noticeably rose again. Coupled with the fact that he was the youngest and weakest among them, he directly became the shared "sickly little brother" of this band of schoolyard bullies.

Then, under the lead of Xiao Chenyu, the male louse, the louse swarm marched grandly toward the Work-Study Student dormitory area, ready to fight another louse swarm for supremacy.

At Nuoding Academy, only noble young masters were the real masters!

Like a husky that had infiltrated a wolf pack, Chen Yumo craftily positioned everyone in front of himself, exposing only his eyes as he watched in secret.

After arriving, Xiao Chenyu revealed another side of himself as a noble young master.

When dealing with Work-Study Students, he was nowhere near as patient and friendly as he had been with self-funded students like Chen Yumo. He leaped forward and kicked open the door to Seven Dorm. Before he even saw anyone inside, he began shouting arrogantly:

"Wang Sheng! Your Grandpa Xiao is here! Why aren't you coming out to take your beating?"

The huge bang of the door being kicked open startled Wang Sheng and the others, who had been gathered together boasting in Seven Dorm. The Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Rogue Rabbit had almost thought her identity had been exposed and that a Titled Douluo had come to chop off her Spicy Rabbit Head.

But when she saw that the group at the door was only a bunch of little brats, the tiny bit of panic in Xiao Wu's heart instantly turned into humiliation and fury.

She was a mighty Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, yet she had been frightened by a bunch of damned human hatchlings!

"You stupid bastard! Don't you know Seven Dorm is under Sister Xiao Wu's protection now? How dare you come to Seven Dorm looking for trouble?" Xiao Wu shoved Wang Sheng aside, leaped out, and pointed at Xiao Chenyu as she cursed furiously.

When she and Tang San had joined Seven Dorm yesterday, Wang Sheng had already explained that they chose a dorm leader so they could unite and keep noble students like Xiao Chenyu from bullying them.

At the time, Wang Sheng had even shown them the bruises beneath his clothes.

To be honest, Xiao Wu had not been interested in such things.

It was nothing more than children playing around. Compared to the life-or-death law of the jungle among Soul Beasts in the forest, this sort of conflict without any threat to life was hardly worth mentioning.

What interested her was fighting.

As a rabbit by nature, she had never been one to sit still. Furthermore, after taking human form, she needed greater exposure to human aura in order to quickly pass through the initial growth period of her transformation.

As for whether Xiao Wu had any other childish thoughts in her heart, such as becoming Sister Xiao Wu of all Nuoding Academy and making everyone obey her and treat her with utmost respect...

Absolutely not. And even if she did, she would never admit it.

After all, she had "important business" in the human world.