Tang Wulin: Why Are You City Folk So Mean?!

"Hmph, you cheapskate..."

Mu Xi pouted, looking a little unhappy.

Su Chen: ...

Su Chen regretted it. If he'd known, he wouldn't have shown off his Mecha today.

Mu Xi hadn't brought it up in ages, but today she suddenly wanted a Mecha. It was obvious she'd seen the price of his Yellow-Rank Mecha.

"Junior, you should keep a lower profile from now on~"

Ouyang Zixin burst out laughing, looking rather gleeful.

When they arrived, they'd seen Su Chen's flashy Mecha, which had made countless students nearby green with envy.

Mu Xi was competitive by nature. Seeing Su Chen with a Mecha, she'd naturally want one too.

"It's not like that, Senior. You can't drive a Mecha inside the city, and the academy won't let you drive one either. If you really want to try one, you can borrow mine for now..."

Su Chen gently took Mu Xi's little hand and hurried to soothe her.

Girls needed to be coaxed.

As long as it didn't touch his bottom line or principles, Su Chen was naturally willing to indulge Mu Xi.

If he managed to make her happy, maybe she'd even let him hold her while they slept tonight.

The last time he'd slept with Mu Xi had been just last week. Su Chen kind of missed how she felt...

He rarely had any use for his Mecha anyway. It would just gather dust, so letting him use it to coax a girl was better than letting it sit around. Besides, Mu Xi would get bored of it after a few days.

"Really?"

Mu Xi's face immediately brightened.

"Of course."

Su Chen gently took Mu Xi's little hand and placed the Storage Soul Tool for the Mecha right in her palm.

A Mecha wasn't something just anyone could afford to use.

The Storage Soul Tool for this Mecha alone was incredibly expensive, worth almost half the Mecha itself.

"Hmph, that's more like it. Let's go~"

Mu Xi's lips curled up slightly. She took Su Chen's hand and led him outside, looking quite happy.

Ouyang Zixin walked alongside them, smiling.

She liked Su Chen too, of course, but she wouldn't compete with Mu Xi for him. After all, when it came to background and talent, she was far inferior to Mu Xi.

She was already happy just to spend time with Su Chen.

What was more, Su Chen had even given her Battle Armor and often took her and Mu Xi to the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Her first Soul Spirit had already evolved to nine hundred years, and both her Hundred-Year Soul Rings had reached nine hundred years too. Unfortunately, her spiritual power was a little lacking, so for now she couldn't evolve her Soul Spirit to a thousand years.

Mu Xi, on the other hand, had evolved her Soul Spirit to a thousand years. In other words, both her Soul Rings had reached a thousand years, causing quite a stir at the academy and giving her the chance to show off big time.

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

A pretty senior student had guided Tang Wulin through the enrollment process and brought him to his dormitory.

Just as expected, Tang Wulin was bullied by his roommate, Zhou Changxi, as soon as he arrived.

Then Zhou Changxi was thoroughly pummeled by Tang Wulin.

Xie Xie happened to barge in and saw Tang Wulin bullying his roommate. He sprang into action in the name of justice and took Tang Wulin down.

"Why are you city folk so mean!!"

Tang Wulin went completely berserk and punched Xie Xie so hard that he was embedded in the wall, with no way to pry him out.

Without Na'er as the fuse, things might have been different, but as the child of destiny, he was born to be targeted. That was fate.

The Academic Affairs Office, Long Hengxu's office.

Long Hengxu looked at Tang Wulin and the others, his expression rather grim.

"Getting into a fight on the very first day. You've got some nerve."

Long Hengxu spoke coldly.

"Director, it had nothing to do with me! They were the ones fighting..."

Yun Xiao said aggrievedly, then recounted what had happened.

"Fine, fine. Zhou Changxi, you've got guts, bullying your roommate on the first day of school. Get over to Class Five."

"Xie Xie, your talent could have gotten you into Class One, but you attacked a fellow student without knowing what really happened. You're going to Class Five too."

Long Hengxu then turned to Tang Wulin. "You were acting in self-defense, but your Martial Soul is only Blue Silver Grass. Class Five is the only suitable place for you."

"Yun Xiao, you saw your classmates fighting and didn't stop them. Class Five for you too!"

In just a few words, Long Hengxu assigned all of them to their classes.

"I..."

Yun Xiao was a little unwilling, but there was nothing he could do.

The others lowered their heads, not daring to say a word.

Tang Wulin didn't mind. As long as he wasn't punished, it didn't matter which class he was in.

"The academy is full of powerful people. Your studies come first. Don't go around causing trouble just because you think you're strong. All right, go back. Don't be late for the opening ceremony tomorrow."

Long Hengxu waved them away.

"Honestly, getting into trouble with that little bit of strength. That kid Su Chen is much more reassuring: strong, but neither arrogant nor restless. That's the academy's future."

Long Hengxu took a sip of tea and sighed to himself.

"Those two boys who left last seem decent. Put them in my class." Just then, a tall, upright figure suddenly strode into the office.

"Wu Zhangkong!! Do you have no manners? Can't you knock before coming into the office?!"

Long Hengxu nearly fell out of his chair in fright. He pointed at Wu Zhangkong and cursed him out.

He was genuinely a little afraid of Wu Zhangkong now. Wu Zhangkong hadn't gone hard on him during their last spar, but he'd still beaten him black and blue.

Everyone from Shrek was crazy. They didn't reason with anyone; they just threw fists. They were simply impossible to deal with!

"Sorry, that was my fault. I'll do better next time."

Wu Zhangkong apologized sincerely.

Long Hengxu: ...

"That Xie Xie has decent talent, but Tang Wulin only has Blue Silver Grass as his Martial Soul. Why do you want him?"

Long Hengxu frowned.

"That's none of your concern. Since I've taken over Class One, I'll give every student my all." Wu Zhangkong spoke earnestly.

"Fine, fine... You can have them..."

Hearing this, Long Hengxu waved his hand and agreed.

For one thing, he couldn't beat Wu Zhangkong and was afraid the man would force him into another spar.

For another, he trusted Wu Zhangkong's teaching ability.

After all, Wu Zhangkong had come from the legendary Shrek. His combat strength and teaching ability were undoubtedly the best in the whole academy.

If he really could train a batch of geniuses for the academy, that would be a huge win.

"Thank you. The next time I hit you, I'll try to go easy."

Wu Zhangkong bowed in apology once more.

Long Hengxu: ...

Evening.

Su Chen and Mu Xi returned from outside the academy.

Ouyang Zixin had gone for a run, so she'd left ahead of them.

Of course, Su Chen knew Ouyang Zixin was giving him and Mu Xi a chance to be alone together.

"Senior Zixin is always so considerate," Su Chen sighed to himself.

Whenever Mu Xi was around, Ouyang Zixin never competed or fought over him. She didn't even get jealous.

How could anyone not like a senior student like that?

"I'm going back to the dormitory. See you tomorrow."

At the fork in the path, Mu Xi let go of Su Chen's hand and prepared to say goodbye.

"Senior, don't go! You said you'd stay at my place tonight. My villa is huge—there's plenty of room for two~"

Su Chen hurriedly took hold of Mu Xi.

He'd spent half the day accompanying Mu Xi shopping and eating. He was definitely going to get something out of it; otherwise, all that effort would've been for nothing.