Enrollment at Tianshui Academy

That night.

To celebrate Shui Yue'er becoming a Soul Master, Shui Qinghan prepared an exceptionally lavish dinner.

"Bing'er, Yue'er, the academy officially starts tomorrow. Your junior brother will be enrolling too. As his senior sisters, you two need to take good care of him, understand?" Shui Qinghan instructed as she looked at Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er.

Tianshui Academy—or rather, most Soul Master Academies on Douluo Continent—had one term and one break each year.

A school year at Tianshui Academy consisted of only ten months of classes, with the remaining two months being vacation.

"Auntie, don't worry. My sister and I will take good care of our junior brother." Shui Yue'er swallowed the food in her mouth and patted her budding chest in assurance, not even wiping the grease from the corner of her lips.

After absorbing her first Soul Ring, Shui Yue'er had grown quite a bit taller. She was already about the same height as Jiang Lan and looked nothing like a six-year-old girl—more like an eleven- or twelve-year-old.

Hormone Continent, indeed.

To be honest, Jiang Lan found that rather regrettable.

The window for appreciating lolis on Douluo Continent was far too short. Once they absorbed a Soul Ring, they skipped straight past the loli stage.

"You silly girl, it'd already be good enough if you didn't need your junior brother to take care of you, and you still want to take care of someone else?" Shui Qingrou poked Shui Yue'er between the brows with an amused smile.

Shui Bing'er covered her mouth and giggled. Her lake-blue eyes curved into crescents, making her look utterly adorable.

"Junior brother, you seem a little unhappy. Don't you want to go to school with us?" Shui Bing'er noticed Jiang Lan's low spirits and could not help asking with concern.

"How could that be? I just simply hate going to school." Jiang Lan forced out a smile uglier than crying.

Damn it, he had already transmigrated to another world, and he still had to go to school!

Did he really have to attend school?

Nineteen years—from kindergarten to university, he had spent a full nineteen years in school!

And now, he had to start all over again.

Damn it, school and exams were still fucking chasing him!

At the beginning and end of every school year, Tianshui Academy assessed its students.

Those who failed would not be expelled, but they would still have to repeat the year.

"Junior brother, I get you! I hate school too." Shui Yue'er said with wholehearted agreement.

"You two really are cut from the same cloth." Shui Bing'er helplessly pressed a hand to her forehead and let out a soft sigh.

After dinner, Shui Qinghan told the three of them to bathe and sleep early so they would not be unable to get up the next morning.

"Senior Sister Bing'er, Senior Sister Yue'er, good night. Sweet dreams." Jiang Lan bid the two good night.

"Good night, junior brother." Shui Bing'er nodded slightly and smiled.

"You too, junior brother." Shui Yue'er giggled. After exchanging good nights with Jiang Lan, she entered the room together with Shui Bing'er.

As biological sisters, the two of them naturally slept together.

After watching Jiang Lan and the others return to their rooms, Shui Qinghan sought out Shui Qingrou and asked,

"Qingrou, did you find out anything about what I asked you to investigate?"

"I did. There really is a Cold Spring of moderate size in the mountain range near Dragon City." Shui Qingrou nodded.

"Big sister, why were you asking about that?" Shui Qingrou asked, somewhat puzzled.

Shui Qinghan did not hide anything and briefly recounted the matter of the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow.

"Gasp—there's actually such a heavenly treasure in this world? Big sister, is this true?!" Shui Qingrou cried out.

"I'm not sure, but there's no harm in trying, is there?" Shui Qinghan said with a calm smile.

"Big sister, when are you planning to go take a look?" Shui Qingrou asked eagerly.

If the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow truly had the effects her sister described, then she too might have a chance to reach the realm of a Title Rank.

A Titled Douluo!

The pinnacle of Soul Masters!

In the past, her greatest wish had merely been to break through the bottleneck of Soul Sage and become an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo.

But now, she was actually thinking of breaking through to Title Rank.

"No rush. We'll wait until Bing'er and Lan'er have cultivated to Level Twenty." Shui Qinghan shook her head.

"Big sister, your disciple truly is our lucky star. First Whale Rubber, and now the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow. We sisters haven't even done anything, yet he's already about to carry us to greatness." Shui Qingrou said with deep feeling.

"I'm thinking of betrothing Bing'er and Yue'er to Lan'er, making us even closer through marriage. What do you think?" Shui Qinghan asked tentatively.

"As long as Yue'er doesn't object, I support it." Shui Qingrou replied decisively.

"Yue'er object? If we really told her about this, I think she'd be the happiest one." Shui Qinghan laughed.

"That child... I wonder who she takes after." Shui Qingrou sighed.

Shui Qinghan glanced at Shui Qingrou. Who else could she take after?

The next morning.

Knock, knock, knock!

A burst of urgent knocking woke Jiang Lan from his dreams.

"Junior brother, get up already! If you don't get up, you'll be late for school." Shui Yue'er's voice came from outside the door.

Jiang Lan sat up groggily and glanced at the clock hanging on the wall. It was not even eight in the morning.

Damn it, why did another world have eight a.m. classes too?!

"Senior Sister Yue'er, wait a moment. I'll be right out." Jiang Lan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his resentment toward eight a.m. classes. He quickly got up and dressed before opening the door and walking out.

When he opened the door, the Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er sisters were standing prettily outside.

"Junior brother, how are you even less concerned about this than I am?" Shui Yue'er teased, hands on her hips.

"Junior brother, I've already prepared hot water for you. You can use it directly." Shui Bing'er said gently.

"Thank you, Senior Sister Bing'er. I'll go wash up first." Jiang Lan thanked her and hurried into the bathroom.

After washing up, Jiang Lan went to the dining room and began eating breakfast.

"Junior brother, try this. It's delicious." Shui Yue'er placed some food onto Jiang Lan's plate.

"Thank you, Senior Sister Yue'er."

"Hehe." Shui Yue'er smiled with narrowed eyes, seemingly enjoying the fun of being an older sister.

After breakfast, the Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er sisters took Jiang Lan to the academy's teaching building.

Tianshui Academy combined elementary, intermediate, and advanced Soul Master education. The entire academy had only three classes.

They were the elementary class, intermediate class, and advanced class.

Students in the elementary class had Soul Power below Level Ten and ranged in age from six to twelve.

If they could not become a one-ring Soul Master before turning twelve, then they basically had no hope of advancing.

However, the academy would still allow them to graduate and issue them a graduation certificate.

If a commoner student had no hope of advancing, the academy would also introduce her to some relatively easy jobs, allowing her to support herself while working and cultivating.

Out of consideration for commoner students, if these commoner students with no hope of advancing later cultivated to Level Ten, they could hire Tianshui Academy teachers at an extremely low price to help them hunt Soul Beasts.

As for intermediate-class students, their Soul Power was above Level Ten but below Level Twenty, and they ranged in age from six to eighteen.

Shui Bing'er was an intermediate-class student. Shui Yue'er had originally been in the elementary class, but now that she had become a one-ring Soul Master, she naturally advanced to the intermediate class.

Incidentally, as long as a student's Soul Power met the requirement, she could advance classes at any time without taking an exam.

Students in the advanced class had Soul Power above Level Twenty but below Level Thirty, and ranged in age from twelve to twenty-five.

As for Soul Masters above Level Thirty?

The graduation requirement for an advanced Soul Master Academy was to reach Level Thirty Soul Power and become a Three-Ring Soul Elder.

Students whose Soul Power exceeded Level Thirty but still remained at the academy either planned to stay at Tianshui Academy as teachers, or wanted to participate in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and use their performance there to join a faction.