Soul Guidance Department

After Tang Wulin found Wang Dong, she first negotiated with Huo Yuhao about switching dorms. As it happened, Huo Yuhao didn't think much of Wang Dong at the moment, and for various other reasons, he immediately stated that if the academy allowed a dorm change, he had no objection to switching.

Then, Tang Wulin and Wang Dong went to the Academic Affairs Office to ask if students were allowed to change dorms, but they received a negative answer, and were told that if the academy discovered students switching dorms privately, they would be subject to certain penalties.

This response completely crushed the sisters' hopes of changing dorms.

Tang Wulin pouted and said, "Sister, look at this! The academy won't let us switch, and if we do it privately and get caught, we'll be punished. I'm afraid I'll be stuck living with Linyuan for the next few years."

Wang Dong said awkwardly, "Don't I have to live with that annoying Huo Yuhao for a few years too?"

"Sister, please distinguish the cause from the effect. You insisted on cross-dressing to enroll at Shrek Academy and dragged me into it—that is the cause. Me living with Linyuan and you living with Huo Yuhao for a few years—that is the effect. Without the cause you planted, where would the effect come from?"

"If I had known, I should have stood my ground and held firm to my attitude. I shouldn't have let you talk me into it and followed you to enroll at Shrek Academy in disguise."

"What if I find a boy I like in the future, and he finds out I cross-dressed to attend Shrek Academy? I would be so embarrassed I'd want to find a crack in the ground to crawl into right then and there!"

Tang Wulin said, feeling quite dejected.

"Oh, Wulin!" Wang Dong said, "That Xia Linyuan seems like a pretty good person, and his relationship with that Gu Yuena seems extraordinary. They must be dating, right?"

"So I think even if he finds out, he probably won't go around talking about it. If you ask him to keep it a secret, no one will ever know that you and I once cross-dressed to enroll at Shrek Academy. You can rest easy."

Listening to Wang Dong's crude and illogical words, Tang Wulin nearly broke down. "Sister, how does your brain work? Look at what you're saying—is that even human language? What do you mean 'they must be dating,' and 'even if he finds out, he probably won't go around talking about it'?"

"Ahem!" Wang Dong cleared her throat awkwardly. "Was I wrong?"

"Wrong! Definitely and certainly, one hundred percent wrong!!!"

After receiving the news that Xia Linyuan had come to enroll at Shrek Academy, Qian Duoduo, who had already been briefed by Xia Yanqing in advance, came looking for him immediately.

On the way as Qian Duoduo led Xia Linyuan toward the Soul Guidance Department campus, the scenery along the road flashed past them rapidly.

Qian Duoduo appeared to be a sturdy man in his fifties, yet there wasn't a single wrinkle on his face. His hair, white as steel needles, gave him a somewhat weathered look.

Qian Duoduo's build was tall and burly, as if carved from marble; he stood at least two point two meters tall, with broad shoulders and a thick back, his muscles incredibly solid.

"Linyuan, I heard from your father that you are interested in Soul Guidance Devices. Is that true?" Even after living for over a hundred years and experiencing all sorts of storms, Qian Duoduo couldn't help but feel a bit excited at this moment.

There was no helping it; in the many years since the two continents collided four thousand years ago, even under the impact of the advanced and powerful Soul Guidance Devices from the Sun Moon Empire, it hadn't been enough to wake up those guys who were content to rest on the laurels accumulated by countless predecessors.

Although he had previously held the same mindset as those guys, after he rolled up his sleeves and started working hard himself, he was slowly awakened by reality.

As the saying goes, even if the world ends, you cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

The decaying Douluo Three Kingdoms, and even the majority of people at Shrek Academy, were still immersed in the grand passion of believing that Martial Soul theory was supreme. They looked down upon, and even rejected, Soul Guidance Devices that had already developed to the point of posing a threat to ordinary Title Douluo.

It was precisely because of such deep-rooted thinking that very few people in the Douluo Three Kingdoms were willing to invest energy into understanding, learning, and studying them.

Since he founded the Soul Guidance Department in the Shrek Academy outer courtyard so many years ago, the number of fresh recruits he could attract each year could be counted on one hand. Among them, many only transferred to the Soul Guidance Department to barely scrape by and learn knowledge related to Soul Guidance Devices because they realized they might not achieve much in Martial Soul cultivation and didn't want to give up the opportunity to gild their resumes at Shrek Academy.

Now that he had finally encountered a student who was interested in Soul Guidance Devices and willing to invest energy into understanding, learning, and studying them, how could Qian Duoduo not be excited? Not to mention that Xia Linyuan's talent in Martial Soul cultivation was one of those one-in-a-million super geniuses. If he had such a genius to lead the way, he believed the Soul Guidance Department would definitely get better and better.

Xia Linyuan smiled slightly. "Interest? I suppose you could call it that. At least it's much more interesting than those dry and tedious Martial Soul theories."

"Hehe, worthy of being the son of Duke Molong, you have an eye for things!" Hearing someone say that Martial Soul knowledge was inferior to Soul Guidance Devices for the first time, Qian Duoduo was instantly overjoyed and happily patted Xia Linyuan on the shoulder.

"I just can't be like the others, content to lie on the laurels accumulated by countless predecessors over so many years."

Xia Linyuan's remark about "not being able to be like the others, content to lie on the laurels accumulated by countless predecessors" went straight to Qian Duoduo's heart. He found Xia Linyuan more and more pleasing to the eye.

Qian Duoduo sighed, "If only others could see things as clearly as you do, how wonderful that would be. Looking at the ugly faces of those who are content to rest on the laurels of their ancestors and even denounce my Soul Guidance Devices as heterodox, I wish I could slap them across the face a few times."

"Vice Dean Qian, you are being too harsh. I think they just lack a suitable opportunity to slowly accept this new thing called Soul Guidance Devices. Once they experience the convenience and new experiences that Soul Guidance Devices bring them, I believe the rise of the Soul Guidance Department will be just around the corner."

"You little fox, you're so young and yet you know exactly how to say things that sound pleasant to the ear. Hehe, but I like it."

"Haha, as long as you are happy."

While they were talking, Qian Duoduo led Xia Linyuan to a massive building labeled "Soul Guidance Device Experimental Zone."

The Soul Guidance Device Experimental Zone was a gray building that covered a very large area. The walls looked extremely thick, and many parts of the surface shimmered with a metallic luster, as if they weren't built solely from brick and stone.

Through the thick walls, one could even hear low, rumbling sounds constantly echoing from within, and Xia Linyuan could feel a slight vibration coming from the ground from time to time.