Roommates

Na'er's departure truly made Xu Xiaoyan cry her heart out. Fortunately, Na'er mentioned in her letter that she would come back for Xu Xiaoyan after awakening her martial soul. That gave the little girl something to look forward to and eased much of her sorrow.

But Yun Chen knew very well that after Na'er left, she might never return. The hope in Xu Xiaoyan's heart would gradually be worn away by waiting. He had no idea what would happen when they met again.

Early in the morning, Yun Chen, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xu Xiaoyu were driven to Eastsea Academy by the butler. Today was the first day of school, and new students arrived with their luggage to begin a brand-new campus life.

The intermediate division dormitories at Eastsea Academy housed four students per room. By the time Yun Chen dragged his luggage into the dorm, his roommates had long since arrived. The three had already picked their beds. Seeing Yun Chen enter, they warmly greeted him. "You're the last one in our dorm? Let's get acquainted. I'm Zhang Yangzi, and my martial soul is the Dark Phantom Eagle."

"Hello, I'm Yun Chen. My martial soul is a Body Martial Soul." Yun Chen set down his luggage as he replied.

"A Body Martial Soul? Which part?" another person beside him asked curiously. "Oh, I'm Wei Xiaofeng. My martial soul is the Clear Shadow Snake, and I'm a two-ringed Soul Grandmaster."

"Hello." Yun Chen replied first, then summoned his martial soul. A crystal condensed from blood floated above his palm. "My martial soul is my own blood."

In this day and age, Body Martial Souls were no longer as rare or difficult to identify as they had been in ancient times. However, ordinary Body Martial Souls were usually hands, feet, eyes, noses, or other organs. A martial soul like Yun Chen's, one made of blood, was something they had never heard of before.

"That's quite a peculiar martial soul. We'll be roommates from now on. If anyone bullies you at school, I'll stand up for you!" Wei Xiaofeng declared proudly.

He had an arrogant personality. At nine years old, he already possessed a cultivation of level twenty-three and considered himself a genius. As he spoke, he naturally placed himself in a superior position.

Yun Chen merely smiled casually. Although he had failed to reach his original goal of level thirty before enrollment, his Soul Power Level was now nearly level twenty-nine, at level twenty-eight. He should have been the strongest among this year's freshmen.

Afterward, Yun Chen also got acquainted with Wang Jinxi. He was somewhat taciturn, but communication was not a problem once one got to know him.

As the sun set, Zhang Yangzi suggested after they had finished unpacking, "We're more or less done here. Want to go to the cafeteria for dinner?"

"You go ahead. I need to pick up my little sister," Yun Chen said.

"You and your sister enrolled together? Then bring her along. We'll take care of your sister, won't we?" Zhang Yangzi said with a grin. "I can even treat everyone to this meal!"

Yun Chen did not refuse, and the four left the dorm together. But as they passed one of the rooms, a figure suddenly smashed through the door and flew out, startling all four of them.

"Damn, did they start fighting?" Zhang Yangzi loved a spectacle, so he poked his head out and looked into the dorm with the broken door.

Wei Xiaofeng was interested too and moved over for a look.

At that moment, two people were confronting each other inside the dorm, while another was huddled beside a bed, trembling.

Wei Xiaofeng and Zhang Yangzi exchanged glances, then looked at the chubby boy lying unconscious in the hallway. "That was ruthless. Looks like he's pretty strong."

"Yeah, though I don't think he measures up to Jin Xi. Still, he's impressive."

As he passed the doorway, Yun Chen glanced inside as well. When he saw the two figures still facing off, he guessed their identities.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie's several clashes had been the trigger that first activated his Golden Dragon King Bloodline. It was precisely because the Golden Dragon King Bloodline had an increasingly profound impact on his body that he had qualified to catch Wu Zhangkong's attention. Otherwise, with Blue Silver Grass alone, even if he was Tang San's son and possessed the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul inheritance, he would likely have been buried among the masses in this era.

However, Yun Chen had read quite a few analyses in his previous life claiming that Tang Wulin should have possessed the Clear Sky Hammer inheritance. It was simply completely suppressed by the Golden Dragon King Bloodline and had failed to awaken.

But in Yun Chen's view, the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul's disadvantages were even more pronounced under the current combat system of Battle Armor Masters. Even if Tang Wulin possessed the Clear Sky Hammer, it could not possibly have the same deterrent power it had twenty thousand years ago.

Seeing Yun Chen and Wang Jinxi preparing to leave, Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng followed them. After they left, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie began fighting again. This time, however, their struggle did not last long before the arriving dean of students, Long Hengxu, stopped them.

Yun Chen knew exactly how things would be handled afterward. Everyone would be demoted, talent or no talent, and all of them would be thrown into Class Five of the first year.

In this regard, Long Hengxu had inadvertently helped Tang Wulin. If the teacher guiding him had not been Wu Zhangkong, then with his Blue Silver Grass martial soul, he would absolutely have been treated like a complete nobody. Forget about performing outstandingly in the Class Promotion Tournament and being selected for Class Zero of the first year.

After picking up Xu Xiaoyan, the group of five went to the cafeteria. Xu Xiaoyan's soft and timid nature made Zhang Yangzi and the other two afraid to speak too loudly, lest they frighten the little girl. Zhang Yangzi generously bought everyone a premium meal, leaving Xu Xiaoyan with a favorable impression of him.

The next day.

Yun Chen sat in the first-year Class One classroom, listening to Ye Yingluo's opening remarks from the podium, already feeling drowsy.

He did not know how much time had passed. Just as Yun Chen was about to collapse onto his desk and fall asleep, the student seated behind him suddenly poked him. "It's your turn to introduce yourself."

Coming back to his senses, Yun Chen stood with a smile and slowly began introducing himself under Ye Yingluo's somewhat unfriendly gaze.

On the podium, Ye Yingluo was in a very bad mood. She had carefully prepared her opening remarks, yet this little brat had nearly fallen asleep listening to them? That displeased her greatly, almost one-tenth as much as being ignored by Wu Zhangkong.

Just as she was considering whether to make things a little difficult for Yun Chen, a wave of startled cries suddenly rang out in the first-year Class One classroom.

"Y-you just said your Soul Power Level was what?" Ye Yingluo asked in astonishment.

"Level twenty-eight. What about it?" Yun Chen asked back.

Hearing that confirmation, Ye Yingluo was genuinely shocked. The students' files had been delivered to her as soon as the classes were assigned, but Yun Chen's Soul Power Level had not been listed in those records. They only stated that he was a two-ringed Soul Grandmaster. Yet level twenty-eight was truly frightening. Yun Chen was only nine years old!