Experiencing Life as Young Master Xiao

Experience Life, Young Master Xiao

The next day, Mingdu, Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.

Although it had been nearly half a month since the start of the semester, the academy's recruitment for transfer students had not yet ceased. Due to the relatively favorable conditions and abundant resources, the threshold of this academy seemed to be on the verge of being trampled flat during every annual recruitment period.

However, there was a time limit regardless, and today was the final day for transfer student applications. Anyone who arrived later than this might find themselves unable to keep up with the courses that were about to begin.

At this moment, as the morning sun rose, the staff at the admissions office were all in high spirits, actively facing their final workday of the period. Only one person looked listless, standing out like a crane in a flock of chickens.

I don't know what Grandpa is thinking.

The silver-haired, heterochromatic-eyed youth slumped over the admissions desk, looking like a giant Persian cat from a distance. The teacher beside him gave a tactful reminder: "Young Master Xiao, students are already arriving. Please mind your image."

"Oh." The youth addressed as Young Master Xiao responded casually, sat up slightly with great reluctance, and propped his head up with one arm, as if his head would fall off the moment he let go. His blue and green eyes scanned the first student to arrive for registration with a certain arrogance, but he looked away after only a moment.

"Nothing special." He let out a long, languid sigh. "I don't understand the point of Grandpa making me participate in the admissions work. Is any one of these people worth my attention?"

Anyone who didn't know him would surely think these words were too arrogant, especially since he was just a child himself. But if they knew this person's name was Xiao Hongchen, it wouldn't be strange at all.

Who was Xiao Hongchen? He was the grandson of the current Mingde Hall master, a fourteen-year-old with the cultivation of a near-five-ring Soul King, and a bona fide Level 4.5 Soul Engineer. According to the teachers' estimates, before the start of this year's All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, he should be able to truly reach five-ring cultivation, at which point he would be promoted to a Level 5 Soul Engineer.

In front of him, these students who had just reached the admissions standards were truly not worth looking at.

"So sleepy." He tapped his head. "I want to go buy a soda."

"No!" The teacher beside him immediately barked, but he didn't dare to scold him too harshly, caught in a difficult position. "The Hall Master gave us instructions; you must work properly today and cannot leave your post."

These past few days, this little ancestor had truly given the teachers quite a headache. Before the admissions began, Mingde Hall Master Jing Hongchen had specifically stuffed Xiao Hongchen in with them, letting them take this little brat to experience what work felt like.

Everyone knew the intention: with Xiao Hongchen's talent, he was destined to be the successor of Mingde Hall. Hall Master Hongchen likely wanted to train him in advance, letting his vision extend beyond the confines of the school.

However, few children his age could sit still, and Xiao Hongchen could only be well-behaved when cultivating or crafting Soul Tools. Being stuffed here to work, he didn't want to stay for even a second.

Xiao Hongchen was feeling depressed as he slumped back into his seat, using a gaze as stagnant as a pool of dead water to scan the students coming to register one by one. Suddenly, his eyes brightened slightly, and he looked up at the person currently introducing himself.

"Wang Dong, Level 32 Agility-type Battle Soul Elder, Martial Soul is Radiant Goddess Butterfly."

Upon hearing this introduction, the eyes of the teachers beside him were even brighter than Xiao Hongchen's. A Level 32 Soul Master with such a powerful Martial Soul actually coming to apply for a Soul Engineer academy! This kind of student had already reached the level where the school would formulate a separate training plan.

But Xiao Hongchen withdrew his gaze. "Wang Dong, is it?" He recited the name. "It's alright, I suppose. Hmm? The next one seems alright too."

The golden-haired girl standing behind stepped forward: "Chi Qiu, Level 38 Assault-type Battle Soul Elder, Martial Soul Golden Dragon."

As soon as the girl finished speaking, the entire admissions office was in an uproar. Two Soul Elders in a row!

However, Xiao Hongchen remained in the same posture, barely moving in his chair. But in his heart, he had already noted these two names.

After this girl passed, the person behind her was a black-haired youth in plain clothes.

"Huo Yuhao, Level 25 Control-type Battle Soul Master, Martial Soul is Spirit Eye... and Ice Jade Scorpion."

As the last few words fell from Huo Yuhao's slightly hesitant lips, the eyes of the teachers in the admissions office were already somewhat dull. When they heard "Twin Martial Souls," they all suspected they were having auditory hallucinations or dreaming.

Given the Sun Moon Empire's meager research into Martial Souls, they didn't even know that an Ice Jade Scorpion was necessarily Ultimate Ice. But the Sun Moon Empire hadn't seen many Twin Martial Souls in the entire nation!

And right now, a child possessing Twin Martial Souls was standing in front of them.

These three in a row... they were all little monsters.

Just as the teachers were still in shock, Xiao Hongchen, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, suddenly spoke up:

"What was it... Huo Yuhao, right?"

"Yes." Huo Yuhao nodded at him. However, Huo Yuhao was also somewhat surprised at this moment; the silver-haired youth in front of him was clearly of a similar age. Yet, the other party was already sitting at a workstation and even asking him questions in a deliberately old-fashioned tone.

"That Spirit Eye Martial Soul of yours," Xiao Hongchen said, "is it a spiritual attribute?"

"Yes." Huo Yuhao nodded again. "Are you familiar with it?"

Although the other party was his peer, Huo Yuhao chose to use an honorific for the sake of caution in this setting.

"I guessed." Xiao Hongchen's tone seemed as lazy as ever, but his heterochromatic eyes had swept away their drowsiness and were now full of spirit. "Spirit Eye, related to the eyes, a Body Martial Soul, and so close to the brain—the probability of it being spiritual-type is high."

Then, he hooked his index finger and tapped his knuckle lightly on the table: "If you don't mind, show me your soul skill? Just don't use too much force; my Sea of Consciousness is very precious. This is the brain of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's number one genius."

Huo Yuhao smiled slightly. To be honest, he actually liked this kind of interaction.

"No problem. The soul skill I want to demonstrate won't hurt anyone, but it's better than hurting someone."

As he spoke, a white ring flashed beneath his feet, and Spiritual Detection Sharing was activated.

As a Level 4.5 Soul Engineer, Xiao Hongchen had a certain level of spiritual cultivation himself. When the sharing arrived, he subconsciously resisted for a moment, but quickly let the other party proceed.

When the other teachers saw the two white rings rise beneath Huo Yuhao's feet, they felt more or less regretful, thinking that this little guy with Twin Martial Souls had ruined his future. However, the Sun Moon Empire was not short on medicine to improve cultivation; for a student with Twin Martial Souls, even if he had two white rings, they would force-feed him until he reached the Soul Saint realm.

But only Xiao Hongchen, who was connected to the Spiritual Detection Sharing, opened his mouth slightly, looking around in disbelief at his surroundings, which had completely changed in his eyes. After a while, he slowly spat out a few words: "You, are acceptable."

"So, I passed?" Huo Yuhao asked.

"Of course." Xiao Hongchen quickly returned to his irreverent self. "If I, Xiao Hongchen, want a student to pass, who else could stop them? Fine, from now on I'm your senior. Work hard; you've been gifted by the heavens when it comes to Soul Tools."

"Really?" Huo Yuhao's eyes flickered slightly. He was genuinely very interested in Soul Tools.

"Why aren't you going to get your room card, map, and uniform yet? Don't just stand there like a fool; there are still people waiting to be interviewed behind you." Xiao Hongchen waved his hand toward the enrollment line behind him.

"Right, going now. Thank you, Senior."

Watching Huo Yuhao's back as he caught up with Wang Dong and Chi Qiu and disappeared into the crowd, Xiao Hongchen returned to his seat, but all the remaining students had completely lost their luster in his eyes.

"Wang Dong, Chi Qiu, Huo Yuhao." He repeated these names in his heart once more, then said to the teacher beside him: "I'm leaving for a moment to go have a word with Grandpa."

The final member of the protagonist group I wanted to write has finally made a grand entrance--

The original ending for Xiao Hongchen made me very uncomfortable, so I've made quite a few arrangements for him in this work.