Enrolling 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, and your junior brother will be enrolling as well. As his senior sisters, you two need to take good care of him, understand?" Shui Qinghan instructed Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er.

Tianshui Academy—or rather, the vast majority of Soul Master academies on the Douluo Continent—had one term and one vacation each year.

In a school year at Tianshui Academy, classes were only held for ten months, while the remaining two months were vacation.

"Auntie, don't worry. Sister and I will take good care of Junior Brother." Shui Yue'er swallowed the food in her mouth and patted her budding chest in assurance without even wiping the grease from the corner of her mouth.

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

This hormone-filled continent.

To be honest, Jiang Lan found it rather regrettable.

The window for appreciating lolis on the Douluo Continent was simply too short. As soon as they absorbed a soul ring, they skipped straight past the loli stage.

"You silly girl, it'll already be good enough if you don'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's forehead with an amused smile.

Shui Bing'er covered her mouth and giggled, her lovely lake-blue eyes curving into crescents.

"Junior Brother, you look like you're a little unhappy. Don't tell me you don't 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 simply hate going to school." Jiang Lan forced out a smile uglier than crying.

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

Did he really have to go to school?

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

And now, he had to start school all over again.

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

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

Those who failed would not be expelled, but they would still be held back a year.

"Junior Brother, I get you! I hate school too." Shui Yue'er nodded in wholehearted agreement.

"You two really are birds of a feather." 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 wake up the next morning.

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

"Good night, Junior Brother." Shui Bing'er nodded slightly with a smile.

"You too, Junior Brother." Shui Yue'er giggled. After exchanging good nights with Jiang Lan, she entered the room 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 went to find Shui Qingrou and asked, "Qingrou, did you find out anything about what I asked you to look into?"

"I did. There is indeed a cold spring of moderate size in the mountain range near Dragon City." Shui Qingrou nodded.

"Sis, why were you looking into that?" Shui Qingrou asked in confusion.

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

"Hiss... There is actually such a heavenly treasure in this world? Sis, is this real?!" Shui Qingrou cried out in shock.

"I don't know for certain, but there is no harm in trying, is there?" Shui Qinghan said with a faint smile.

"Sis, when are you planning to go investigate it?" Shui Qingrou asked impatiently.

If the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow truly had the effects her sister described, then she too would have a chance to touch the realm of Titled Douluo.

This was a Titled Douluo!

The pinnacle of Soul Masters!

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

But now, she was actually thinking of breaking through to the Titled realm.

"No rush. Let's wait until Bing'er and Lan'er reach level twenty first." Shui Qinghan shook her head.

"Sis, your disciple truly is our lucky star. First Whale Glue, 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 sighed with emotion.

"I'm planning to betroth 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 answered decisively.

"Yue'er object? If we really tell her about this, I think she will be the happiest one." Shui Qinghan smiled.

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

Shui Qinghan shot Shui Qingrou a glance. Who else could she take after?

The next morning.

Knock, knock, knock!

A flurry of urgent knocking startled Jiang Lan awake 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.

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

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

Outside, the two sisters, Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, were standing prettily before his room.

"Junior Brother, why do you care even less about this than I do?" Shui Yue'er mocked with her 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 on Jiang Lan's plate.

"Thank you, Senior Sister Yue'er."

"Hehe." Shui Yue'er narrowed her eyes in a smile, seeming to enjoy the fun of being an older sister.

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

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

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

Students in the elementary class all had soul power below level ten and ranged in age from six to twelve.

If they could not become one-ring Soul Masters before the age of twelve, then they basically had no hope of advancing.

However, the academy would still permit them to graduate and issue them graduation certificates.

If such students were commoners, the academy would also introduce them to relatively easy jobs, allowing them to support themselves while working and cultivating.

Out of consideration for commoner students, if these commoner students with no hope of advancement later cultivated to level ten, they could hire Tianshui Academy teachers to help them hunt soul beasts at a very low price.

Students in the intermediate class had soul power above level ten and below level twenty, and 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 had naturally advanced to the intermediate class.

Incidentally, as long as their soul power met the requirement, students could advance classes at any time without needing to take an exam.

As for advanced-class students, their soul power was above level twenty and below level thirty, and they ranged in age from twelve to twenty-five.

What about Soul Masters above level thirty?

The graduation standard for an advanced Soul Master academy was reaching level thirty and becoming a three-ring Soul Elder.

Students whose soul power exceeded level thirty but remained at the academy either intended to stay at Tianshui Academy as teachers, or wished to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and use their performance there to join a certain faction.