Mu En Was Moved

"Brother, I want to give it a try."

That flash of gray made Huo Yuhao steel his resolve.

Liu Yuan did not press him further.

He merely met Huo Yuhao's gaze with eyes as still as an Ancient Well, as though he wished to see through to Huo Yuhao's heart.

"Have you really made up your mind?"

"I have!"

Huo Yuhao broke into a smile.

"Learning to make Soul Tools will definitely help you, Brother, right? If that's the case, I'm more than willing to learn!"

This kid...

With a helpless chuckle in his heart, Liu Yuan patted his shoulder. As soon as he opened his mouth, saying, "You don't need to force yourself..."

Before he could finish, Liu Yuan felt that he was being both hypocritical and self-righteous. At once, he swallowed the rest of his words.

Yet Huo Yuhao did not mind in the slightest.

"No! I'm not forcing myself at all!"

Those words came straight from Huo Yuhao's heart.

In his eyes, he already owed Brother Liu Yuan and his family his life, something he should have spent the rest of his days repaying.

Who would have thought that Brother Liu Yuan's family would treat him so well? Not only did they give him cultivation resources and cultivation techniques, they even treated him as family.

But what about him?

He had no ability whatsoever to repay them.

To put it bluntly, he was just freeloading.

Now that he had an opportunity, how could he possibly give it up? It was wonderful that he could finally be of help!

"Good, good, good!"

Huo Yuhao's heartfelt words greatly gratified Liu Yuan. He had not chosen the wrong sworn brother! It had been worth it!

Xiao Xiao, who had been excitedly watching from the sidelines: "..."

Wow... what deep brotherly affection! If only I had a sibling like that!

I'm so jealous!

"Yuhao, I really envy you." As they walked toward the white teaching building, Xiao Xiao walked beside Huo Yuhao and deliberately lowered her voice.

"Huh? What do you envy about me?"

Huo Yuhao scratched his head in confusion. He could not think of anything about himself worth envying.

No money, no strength...

Xiao Xiao immediately became unhappy when she heard that.

Listen to yourself...

"Of course I envy you for having a brother like him!"

Then Xiao Xiao shot Huo Yuhao a glance that clearly said, "You don't know how lucky you are."

Yet it instantly earned Huo Yuhao's agreement. "Hehe... that really is something worth envying..."

Liu Yuan, walking ahead of them: "..."

Forget it. He would just pretend he had not heard them.

Before long, the three arrived in front of the white teaching building. After paying their tuition, they received their dormitory keys, two sets of school uniforms, and white badges that served as proof of identity.

Next, Liu Yuan brought Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to the notice board to see who their homeroom teacher would be.

"Freshman Class Five, Tian Ning."

Hm, a homeroom teacher he did not know.

Thus, Liu Yuan did not pay it much more attention and turned his gaze toward the other notices.

By now, Shrek Academy had completed enrollment for four classes. Therefore, the notices listed the names of the students in Freshman Classes One through Four.

Liu Yuan did not care about the other three classes. The only one he cared about was Freshman Class One.

It still had Zhou Yi as its homeroom teacher. He scanned the names of the new students one by one before finally stopping at the name "Wang Dong." It was no different from the original timeline.

"Very good."

Liu Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

Just then, Huo Yuhao called out,

"Brother, let's go to the dormitories."

"All right, let's go."

Having gotten the answer he wanted, Liu Yuan did not bother with the keys, uniforms, and the like. He stuffed them all into his storage ring and headed for the dormitory building with the others.

Shrek Academy's dormitory building covered an enormous area. Although there was only one building, it could accommodate every student. He did not know whether that counted as an advantage.

But one thing was certain:

Men and women lived in the same dormitory building, with the first through third floors belonging to boys and the fourth through sixth floors belonging to girls.

That arrangement was unquestionably a disadvantage.

"Ah!!!"

As an unmarried young lady, Xiao Xiao blushed furiously with embarrassment when she learned this!

"Isn't this arrangement far too unreasonable?"

The other junior Soul Master Academies and intermediate Soul Master Academies all had multiple dormitory buildings, and boys and girls did not live together. So why did Shrek Academy...

The academy should not be short on money, right?

Still, Xiao Xiao only dared complain inwardly.

After all, she noticed an elderly man sitting at the entrance of the white building.

He wore a gray cloth robe, his face was lined with ravine-like wrinkles, his eyes were dim and lifeless, and his entire body gave off the air of someone in the twilight of his years.

However, Xiao Xiao would not underestimate him. Her father had told her that Shrek never kept useless people around.

So, when she saw Huo Yuhao preparing to step forward and ask something, she instinctively wanted to stop him.

It would be bad if he offended the old man.

Yet Liu Yuan stopped her.

"Xiao Xiao, let Yuhao go."

He withdrew his gaze from Mu En. "An old man won't hold it against children."

In truth, ever since entering the dormitory area, the Light Bloodline within him, strengthened by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, had vaguely sensed the power of light within Mu En. Not only was its quantity vast and its quality extraordinary, it even carried a feeling of sharing the same origin.

Of course, that was hardly surprising.

After all, the Light Bloodline he possessed came from the ancestor of the Light Bloodline within Mu En.

Just then, Huo Yuhao returned after asking Mu En, the "dorm supervisor," about the locations of three different dormitories while holding three keys. He sincerely thanked him in the end.

"Thank you, Grandpa."

"Ah, you're welcome." After accepting Huo Yuhao's bow of thanks, Mu En turned his cloudy eyes toward Liu Yuan and studied him from the corner of his eye.

At first glance, it seemed harmless. But upon looking closer, he was shocked!

Powerful wood, life, and light attributes. Of them, the wood attribute was nearing the ultimate level, with a sixty percent chance of transformation. The light attribute came next; it was only inferior to the wood attribute and also had a forty percent chance of transformation. Finally came the life attribute... though its chance of transformation was pitifully low, its innate uniqueness alone made it an existence in a class of its own.

Mu En could not help but wonder:

Could this child's Martial Soul be the Golden Tree? No matter how he looked at it, the two were simply too compatible!

Combined with his already impressive cultivation talent...

His cloudy eyes gradually began to shine.

Perhaps, before his soul returned to the Golden Ancient Tree, he could find a suitable successor for Shrek Academy.

There was no helping it. Among Shrek Academy's current generation, and even the generation after that, aside from Zhang Lexuan being somewhat decent, there was not a single one capable of carrying the burden. There were scarcely even any reliable ones.

He was tempted!

Elsewhere,

Liu Yuan had no idea that Mu En had taken an interest in him.

Of course, even if he knew, he would welcome it. After all, his purpose in coming here was the Golden Ancient Tree.

But at this moment, Liu Yuan was learning from Huo Yuhao that his dormitory was Room 108.