Teacher Zhou Yi Must Have Her Reasons for Making You Do This!

Xiao Xiao did not slow her pace in the slightest.

Her petite frame moved with surprising speed as her short legs churned rapidly.

Upon reaching the dormitory building, she sent word for them to come down.

Before long, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong emerged from the building.

A trace of confusion lingered on Huo Yuhao's face; clearly, he did not understand why Xiao Xiao had suddenly called them out.

Wang Dong walked beside Huo Yuhao, though the expression on her face was far less pleasant.

The corners of her mouth were slightly downturned, and her eyes betrayed an impatience at being disturbed.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiao Xiao was their teammate, she would have turned around and left already.

Even so, her tone was hardly polite.

"Xiao Xiao, what is it? We still need to cultivate." Wang Dong crossed her arms.

Huo Yuhao stood beside Wang Dong.

Although he didn't wear a sour expression like Wang Dong, his speech was noticeably faster than usual.

He appeared quite impatient as well.

"Xiao Xiao, if you have something to say, make it quick. We don't have much time."

It wasn't that he had any issue with Xiao Xiao, but rather that their next match was against Dai Huabin.

A person from the White Tiger Duke Mansion.

He had to seize every available moment to cultivate; he absolutely could not lose to anyone from that family.

Perhaps it was because Ning Tian and Wu Feng had already withdrawn from Shrek Academy.

They had run into Dai Huabin's team ahead of schedule, even before encountering Xie Huanyue.

Xiao Xiao looked at the two people before her.

Suddenly, she lost confidence in what she was about to say.

She pressed her lips together, thought for a moment, and decided to speak anyway.

They were, after all, partners who had fought side-by-side for so long.

She would not betray them so easily, nor would she betray Shrek Academy.

Deep down, she also wanted to know the answer.

Xiao Xiao's face was full of conflict, but just as Wang Dong was about to lose her patience, she finally spoke.

"Teacher Zhou Yi told me to add a soul ring to my second martial soul to assist in our upcoming battles."

"I don't know if I should do it."

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong exchanged a glance.

Without a second thought, they spoke in unison.

"Since Teacher Zhou Yi said so, why don't you just do as she says?"

"Is such a trivial matter really worth asking us about?"

Huo Yuhao's tone was matter-of-fact.

With Sky Dream Ice Worm in a deep slumber, he currently had no way to learn about the nature of twin martial souls.

Back when he was at the White Tiger Duke Mansion, the knowledge he could access regarding soul masters was pitifully scarce.

He hadn't been at Shrek Academy for long, either.

Now, caught up in the freshman assessment, he had never learned the theoretical knowledge concerning twin martial souls.

Teacher Zhou Yi was such an impressive person; surely her words held merit.

In Huo Yuhao's eyes, Zhou Yi was the perfect teacher.

Whatever the teacher said, the student simply had to follow.

Wang Dong didn't know if she was truly too lazy to care or if she simply didn't take the matter seriously.

Regardless, it was a request from Zhou Yi, so what did it have to do with her?

She waved her hand, her tone casual.

"Alright, alright. To make a special trip just for this? Go on, go on."

Xiao Xiao stood frozen in place.

She looked at the two people before her, the light in her eyes dimming bit by bit.

If she hadn't met Gu An, and hadn't heard those words from a stranger, she certainly wouldn't have found any issue with this.

Teacher Zhou Yi said it, and the class monitor and Wang Dong agreed, so she would just do it.

However.

She had just been shown concern by someone she didn't even know.

Yet the people she considered her partners, those who had fought side-by-side with her for so long, hadn't even bothered to ask a single extra question.

The contrast was so stark that she found it hard to accept.

Xiao Xiao pressed her lips together, summoning the courage to try asking one more time.

"Do you... do you know what the consequences will be if I attach a century-old spirit ring to my second martial soul?"

Huo Yuhao, who had already turned to leave, paused at her words and looked back.

His expression was clearly puzzled, with a hint of displeasure.

"Xiao Xiao, Teacher Zhou Yi told you to go, so you should just go."

"The elimination tournament is tomorrow; we really don't have any time left."

"Wang Dong and I still need to go back and cultivate."

Wang Dong chimed in from the side.

"Exactly, exactly. Hurry up and go, don't dawdle."

With that, the two turned and walked toward the dormitory building together.

Wang Dong walked in front with Huo Yuhao beside him, and their backs soon disappeared into the dormitory entrance.

Only Xiao Xiao was left standing there alone.

The wind blew by, carrying the evening chill, a desolate sensation.

Xiao Xiao stared blankly in the direction they had left.

She felt as if she had grown a red nose.

She was nothing but a clown.

Unnamable emotions surged in her heart, her eyes began to heat up, and her vision blurred.

At that moment, a sentence echoed in her mind once more.

"After you graduate, do you think your team will be stuck together all day? In the end, won't you all be on your own?"

"Therefore, being strong yourself is the only true strength."

"Any action that uses your future as a gamble is foolish."

She blinked hard.

Large tears rolled from her eyes, sliding down her cheeks to gather on her chin before dripping onto the collar of her shirt.

She raised her hand and wiped her face messily with the back of her hand.

"Gu An... was right!"

She turned and walked toward the academy gate without a word.

She didn't understand.

They had fought side-by-side for so long and won so many matches together.

Why were they not even as good as a stranger?

Why was a stranger willing to stop and care for her, while her own partners weren't even willing to listen to one more sentence?

Everything that person said was right.

She, Xiao Xiao, was the one who shouldn't be there.

They were lovey-dovey, a pair.

The Radiant Goddess Butterfly was a martial soul that only females could awaken.

Wang Dong was a girl.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were the ones who belonged together.

Only she, a fool, hadn't even known such basic common knowledge and had stupidly tried to tag along.

She was just a foil, a foil that no one cared about.

Xiao Xiao walked out of the gates of Shrek Academy and hurried along the street.

Tear tracks remained unwashed on her face.

She found Gu An near the street from before.

Gu An and Leng Yaozhu were sitting by a window in a teahouse.

Seeing Xiao Xiao run over with red-rimmed eyes, Gu An set down his teacup.

Xiao Xiao walked up to him, opened her mouth, but before she could speak, the tears fell again.

"Wuuuuuu----"

She threw herself into Gu An's arms and began to sob uncontrollably.

Gu An wore a helpless expression; although he was indeed handsome, she didn't have to be such a fangirl about it.

It was unclear what the two had discussed afterward, but Xiao Xiao walked out of the teahouse with her emotions calmed.

She headed straight toward the city gates of Shrek City.

She was going home.

Her home was in a small town near Shrek City.

Gu An stood at the entrance of the teahouse, watching Xiao Xiao's back disappear at the end of the street.

Leng Yaozhu walked up beside him and glanced down at him.

"Did you get what you wanted?"

Gu An looked at her, speechless. "The way you say that makes it sound like I was sowing discord."

"I am saving a young girl from going astray!"

"One must not take the wrong path!"

The next day.

Shrek Academy, the venue for the elimination tournament.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong stood in the waiting area beside the Soul Fighting Platform, both of their expressions grim.

Wang Dong stood on his tiptoes, craning his neck to peer toward the entrance while muttering incessantly.

"Where is Xiao Xiao? Why hasn't Xiao Xiao arrived yet?"

Huo Yuhao's brows furrowed, his face looking rather unpleasant.

Xiao Xiao was late today; the elimination tournament was about to begin, and there wasn't even a shadow of her.

Wang Dong turned his head to look at Huo Yuhao.

"Didn't she say yesterday that she was going to add a soul ring to her second martial soul? Even if she went to obtain a soul ring, she should have been back by now."

Huo Yuhao did not speak, merely shaking his head.

He had a bad premonition in his heart.

Zhou Yi stood behind the two with her hands clasped behind her back, her expression so gloomy it could drip water.

The veins on her forehead throbbed slightly.

Her class, her team, at the critical juncture just before the start of the elimination tournament.

They were missing a person.

"Damn it! Xiao Xiao! If you don't have a good explanation when you return..."