Eastsea City
The extended black sedan slowly came to a stop.
Two figures stepped out.
One tall, one small.
The older one was a young man in his twenties, with a lazy expression and an unhurried composure that suggested everything was under his control.
His handsome features, coupled with the obviously expensive sedan behind him, instantly drew countless infatuated gazes.
Many of the nearby girls looked at him with eager, flirtatious eyes, clearly tempted to make a move.
Standing beside the young man was a girl just over nine years old.
Though she was not breathtakingly stunning, the more one looked at her, the more pleasing she became.
She possessed the refined bearing of a quiet orchid, which naturally inspired affection, yet the aloof expression on her face kept people at a distance.
The two were none other than Leng Hanyuan and Gu Yue, who had arrived in Eastsea City.
"Looks like you're quite popular."
Noticing the covert and unabashed gazes coming from all directions, Gu Yue remarked faintly.
Leng Hanyuan did not feel embarrassed at all and flashed a bright smile.
"As I should be."
Gu Yue rolled her eyes.
She admitted that, by human standards of beauty, Leng Hanyuan had indeed nearly reached the limit.
But couldn't he be at least a little modest?
To that, Leng Hanyuan said:
"Sorry, I have no obligation to be modest."
"This is Eastsea Academy, then." Leng Hanyuan glanced at the academy gates before him.
Above the gates, the four imposing words "Eastsea Academy" were inscribed.
"Come on. Let's go see the subject of the wager you made with that human personality of yours."
"Mm." Gu Yue nodded slightly.
However, her objective had already changed from what it had initially been.
On the way here, Leng Hanyuan's "casual" remarks had given Gu Yue a hint.
If she wanted to prove that human emotions were false and merge with Na'er without any weakness in her heart, she did not need Tang Wulin to fall in love with her at all.
She only needed to create certain opportunities and use other matters to make Tang Wulin reveal the inherent flaws of human emotions.
The two headed toward Eastsea Academy's gates.
When the elderly security guard in the booth beside the gates saw the unfamiliar Leng Hanyuan and Gu Yue, he instinctively wanted to stop them.
He wanted to ask about their identities and purpose.
However...
A strange glint flashed through Leng Hanyuan's eyes.
The old guard stiffened. His movement of rising to his feet stopped, and he sat back down.
By then, Leng Hanyuan and Gu Yue had already entered Eastsea Academy.
Looking at the empty gates, the old guard scratched his head in confusion.
What had he been about to do?
He could not remember.
It seemed he really was getting old and muddle-headed!
Shaking his head, the old man settled back into his seat in the security booth, leaned against the backrest, and took a light sip of goji berry tea from his thermos.
How relaxing~
Sure enough, being a security guard was the right path in life!
He had practically wasted half his life taking detours before this!
Leng Hanyuan and Gu Yue had now entered Eastsea Academy.
Even though Gu Yue had yet to recover her strength, she had noticed the small trick Leng Hanyuan had used.
She was not surprised.
With her insight, she could naturally tell that it was merely a minor application of spiritual power.
Leng Hanyuan's spiritual power had likely already reached the Divine Origin Realm.
Silently influencing an insignificant old security guard was effortless for him.
"This Soul Master Academy ten thousand years later has truly changed beyond recognition."
Leng Hanyuan surveyed the scenes within Eastsea Academy with great interest.
The changes brought by ten thousand years of time were once more made tangible before him.
Although he had merely lain in an Ice Coffin for ten thousand years, it felt as though he had traveled through time once again.
"Mm-hm!"
"This little academy doesn't seem much worse than the Sun Moon Royal Academy you attended back then. It even has plenty of strange new things."
Two tiny figures invisible to everyone else floated above Leng Hanyuan's shoulder, voicing their agreement.
Those two small figures were none other than chibi versions of the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow.
Whenever he had nothing to do, Leng Hanyuan would let them come out in this manner to get some fresh air.
Although they could sense changes in the outside world while remaining in his sea of consciousness,
the feeling was certainly different from truly being outside.
There was no need to worry about causing too much trouble either.
With Leng Hanyuan's Divine Origin Realm spiritual power, as long as he wished it, the spiritual forms of the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow would be difficult for others to notice.
Only Limit Douluo like Sky-Propping Douluo Yun Ming or Qiangu Dongfang could detect them.
But a tiny place like Eastsea Academy clearly did not have anyone at the level of a Limit Douluo.
"Excuse me..."
"Are you a senior student?"
A lovely figure approached.
The girl was quite pretty.
Her features were delicate, and her large eyes shimmered like autumn waters.
Two blushes had appeared on her small face.
An unusual light shone in her eyes as she looked at Leng Hanyuan.
Leng Hanyuan was no stranger to that look.
Back when he had been at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy ten thousand years ago, Meng Hongchen had looked at him that way.
It seemed the girl before him had mistaken him for an upperclassman at Eastsea Academy and come over to strike up a conversation.
Gu Yue rolled her eyes beside him.
Sure enough, someone had put it into practice.
"Sorry, little sister. I'm not a student of this academy. I'm just here for a look around."
Leng Hanyuan replied with a soft laugh.
"Is that so..."
The girl was somewhat disappointed, but she quickly regained her spirit.
She clenched her fists, seemingly encouraging herself.
Then she gathered her courage and spoke again:
"My name is Ouyang Zixin. May I have your contact information?"
After saying those words, Ouyang Zixin seemed to have exhausted every ounce of strength in her body, and she nearly went limp.
The blush on her face deepened, as though blood might drip from it at any moment.
Her heart pounded wildly in her chest, thumping as if it were about to leap out.
As the school beauty of the fifth grade,
she was usually the one being pursued by others.
She had never taken the initiative to ask anyone for their contact information.
This question had already used up all her courage.
Ouyang Zixin?
Leng Hanyuan did not feel much about the girl's proactive approach.
He had grown used to it back in his student days ten thousand years ago.
But the name made the corner of his eye twitch slightly.
If he remembered correctly, wasn't she Tang Wulin's white moonlight senior from the original story?
Well, well. Tang Wulin's white moonlight senior had come to flirt with him on her own initiative?
Ouyang Zixin did not know what Leng Hanyuan was thinking.
When she sensed his gaze, she lowered her already bowed head even further.
A moment later, Leng Hanyuan's voice reached her.
"You can."
"Ah?"
Ouyang Zixin did not react at first.
Not until Leng Hanyuan spoke again.
"Your Communication Soul Device."
Only then did she hurriedly take her Communication Soul Device from her pocket.
After tapping it a few times, Leng Hanyuan returned the Communication Soul Device to her.
He waved, then continued walking ahead with Gu Yue.
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