Nuoding Academy.
Xiao Qu was bewildered.
She was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Maggot who had taken human form. This was her first time leaving the Star Dou Great Forest where she lived, and she had wandered along in a daze until she unwittingly reached a remote little city on the edge of Fasinuo Province.
To learn more about the human world, she wandered around the little city, listening to the bustle of its streets.
"Hey, little girl, are you a student at Nuoding Academy? I heard today is the start of the school year."
A middle-aged man asked her curiously.
"What is Nuoding Academy?" Xiao Qu was puzzled.
She had always dwelled in the Corpse-Bone Rot Pool in the Core Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.
It was one of the filthiest places in the entire forest. She had almost never encountered humans there; only Soul Beasts that occasionally strayed into it would meet her. Human Soul Masters almost never went there, fleeing as soon as they smelled the putrid stench outside.
"You don't even know what an academy is? It's a place where children your age go to learn. Haven't you gone to school?" The man frowned.
Xiao Qu fell silent for a moment. Somehow, she felt that Nuoding Academy was very important to her, so she hurriedly asked, "Where is this place you mentioned?"
Hearing this, the man immediately pointed her toward Nuoding Academy.
"Thank you." Xiao Qu said goodbye to the man and headed toward Nuoding Academy.
Still in a daze, she actually managed to find Nuoding Academy, but the gatekeeper told her that she could not enter to enroll without a certificate issued by the Eternal Church.
Just then, Deacon Zhang Chong of Nuoding City's Eternal Church happened to pass by the academy. Seeing what was