Caught You (Please Bookmark)

Hearing the voices from inside, Yue Guan led Xu Yuan straight in, pushing the door open.

Calling it a study was an understatement.

Only after entering did Xu Yuan realize that the room was astonishingly large, at least two or three hundred square meters.

The overall decor leaned toward Western European style, with numerous bookshelves lining the room, packed with all kinds of books.

At the center of the room,

stood a broad desk roughly five meters wide. A stunningly beautiful, elegant young woman sat quietly in the chair behind it.

She seemed to be reading some confidential files.

She lounged against one armrest of the large chair, one leg slightly bent and tucked up, while the other rested beneath the chair, her foot hovering a few inches above the floor.

It was clear from this that she was not particularly tall.

Her casual home attire and rather unladylike posture exposed a good half of her lovely figure.

Combined with the way she was sitting, she looked exceptionally alluring.

As Bibi Dong's right-hand man, Yue Guan had long since grown used to this sight. He clasped his hands, eyes fixed on his nose and his mind fixed on his heart.

"Your Majesty, Xu Yuan has arrived!"

At those words,

Bibi Dong paused, turned to look over, and gave Xu Yuan a few appraising glances, a beautiful smile on her face.

"Little guy, come over and let me take a look!"

"..."

Yue Guan remained motionless, his hands still clasped and his head lowered.

As for Xu Yuan, who had been surveying the room, he tilted his head toward Bibi Dong in confusion.

Several question marks practically popped up over his head.

Bibi Dong wore an innocent smile on her lovely face, her eyes narrowed into crescents as she raised a fair arm and beckoned to him.

"What are you afraid of? I'm not going to eat you. Come here!"

"..."

Xu Yuan's lips twitched slightly. He took two steps sideways and moved closer to Yue Guan, only then feeling a little safer.

Damn it, don't act like that. You're scaring me!

As the Pope of Spirit Hall, wasn't the legendary Pope Bibi Dong supposed to have an impeccable image and bearing, wearing the Nine-Curved Purple Gold Crown and carrying herself with the dignity of a mother to the world?

This has to be a fake Pope!

Seeing Xu Yuan like this, Bibi Dong's smile vanished, and her snowy-white leg, which had been curled up on the chair, slowly lowered.

The next moment,

her figure flashed, and Bibi Dong, who had been sitting in the chair, instantly disappeared.

Xu Yuan froze instinctively.

Before he could react, two hands slipped past either side of his ears and pinched his cheeks.

At the same time, a mischievous voice came from behind him.

"Caught you~"

Swallowing with difficulty, Xu Yuan felt his scalp go numb. Why did this feel a little wrong?

"Your Majesty..."

Yue Guan turned away helplessly and looked to the side.

Bibi Dong ignored him entirely. Standing behind Xu Yuan, she kept kneading and pinching his face with both hands, letting out a string of sinister chuckles.

As for Xu Yuan,

he stood stiffly in place, allowing those slightly cool hands to have their way with his face.

He did not dare move. He absolutely did not dare move!

"..."

After kneading his face a few times, Bibi Dong saw that Xu Yuan was still as stiff as a board, offering not even the slightest resistance, and immediately lost interest.

With a cold snort, she withdrew her hands.

Trailing a mature, fragrant breeze, she returned to her enormous chair and sat down again.

"Boring!"

Seeing this, Yue Guan immediately clasped his hands and spoke.

"This is the Innate Full Soul Power genius reported from the Spirit Hall branch in Notting City. His name is Xu Yuan.

I planned to send him to Wuhun Advanced Spirit Master Academy for two years first. What do you think...?"

Bibi Dong considered it for a moment.

"That will do. Jade must be carved to become a vessel. I hope this boy can withstand the tempering. Also, if you have time, you can teach him more."

"I understand!"

Yue Guan answered respectfully.

That had been his intention all along, but given his position, he naturally could not simply handle every matter from the very beginning.

That would inevitably displease his superior.

If a subordinate directly solved every problem and considered everything in advance, then what would the leader be needed for?

With a soft hum,

Bibi Dong picked up another file and began reading it.

"Alright, go."

After clasping his hands in salute once more,

Yue Guan led Xu Yuan out of the study.

"Come on. I'll take you to enroll at Spirit Academy first. Don't go spreading what happened just now, understand?

Normally, Her Majesty is quite serious and decent."

Xu Yuan: "..."

Next,

the two went to Spirit Academy. It was an advanced Soul Master Academy established by Spirit Hall, filled with youths gathered from villages all across the continent.

As the academy's vice principal, Yue Guan naturally made the enrollment process as simple as possible.

Before long, Xu Yuan received his school uniform and dormitory key.

He was assigned to Second-Year Class Six for this year's intake at Spirit Academy.

After taking Xu Yuan around so he could familiarize himself with the place, Yue Guan gave him a detailed set of instructions. Then he handed Xu Yuan ten Gold Soul Coins for meals and hurried away.

Ten Gold Soul Coins.

Back in Notting City, Xu Yuan could eat and drink well for an entire year with that amount, with plenty left over.

But at Spirit Academy, it was only Xu Yuan's meal money for the current month.

And according to Yue Guan, even that would only be enough if he spent frugally.

From now on, aside from the one Gold Soul Coin salary he could collect each month, Yue Guan would provide him with no further support.

If he wanted to live here long-term, he had to rely on his own efforts.

Xu Yuan might possess exceptional talent, but talent was still only talent. It was not enough for Spirit Hall to simply cradle him in its palm.

Moreover, while prices at Spirit Academy were high, there were also many ways to earn rewards.

For example, there were the monthly regular assessments, daily cleaning duties, or Soul Fighting matches in the academy's Soul Fighting Arena.

As long as you had strength, you could live very well here.

The dormitory was a double room.

It was very spacious, measuring a full sixty to seventy square meters.

There was a bathroom, toilet, kitchen, and living room. Though it was called a dormitory, it had everything one could need and was more like a luxury apartment.

There were two bedrooms in the dormitory. Someone already occupied the other one, but its door was locked, so he had no idea who lived there.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Yuan changed into the academy uniform and, following his memories, headed straight for an oval-shaped building.

This was the academy's Training Hall.

It was a place meant to help students familiarize themselves with and develop the uses of their soul skills.

One Silver Soul Coin could get him a private room for one shichen. He could freely destroy anything inside.

Since he had only recently obtained his Spirit Ring, Xu Yuan felt that his first soul skill should have other possible uses.

So he had come to give it a try.

After renting a room from the instructor at the entrance, Xu Yuan clutched the nine Silver Soul Coins he had received in change and pushed open a door nearby.

Just as he was about to enter, a sudden flash of inspiration struck his mind.