Dormitory 304

Just as Lu Yuan was about to say something else, Tang Ya, whose thoughts tended to jump around, seemed to think of another topic and said to Jiang Nannan, "Oh, right, Nannan. A new jewelry shop recently opened on the street outside the Outer Court gates. Want to go take a look with me?"

"Um... I'd better not." Although she had not encountered the fate she faced in the original story, some of Jiang Nannan's underlying traits remained much the same—thrifty and frugal. To put it another way, she was a little stingy and rather fond of money.

"Come on, come on." As her best friend, how could Tang Ya not know what Jiang Nannan was thinking? "We're just browsing, not buying anything!"

"Besides, Xiao Yuan's already grown up, and his cultivation is about to surpass ours. Why would he need you around for something as minor as moving dorms? Maybe he'll get along with his new roommate more comfortably if you, his big sister, aren't there!"

"That's right, Sister Nannan. It's fine. I can handle it on my own." Seeing Jiang Nannan's hesitant expression, Lu Yuan smiled as well.

At the end of the day, Jiang Nannan was only a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl. What girl her age did not love looking beautiful?

"Alright, Xiao Yuan. Then Xiaoya and I will go have a look. If anything happens, come find us anytime." Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, Jiang Nannan ultimately could not resist the temptation of new jewelry and chose to go shopping with Tang Ya.

After watching Jiang Nannan and the others leave, Lu Yuan dragged his luggage toward the dormitory area.

All he could say was that, at this point in The Ultimate Douluo, joining the Tang Sect was undoubtedly an extremely poor-value choice.

The current Tang Sect had had its cultivation techniques castrated by Tang Buddha, and its sect influence had completely withered away. Its hidden weapons, once the source of its fame, had also thoroughly exited the stage of history after Tang Buddha secretly removed the hidden weapon and poison sections from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, compounded by the impact of Soul Tools.

Even more mind-numbing was that Tang San's success ten thousand years ago had driven Tang Sect disciples to obsessively pursue the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, as well as Man Faced Demon Spiders and Mandala Snakes for Soul Rings. They had even established a rule that only those with the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul could become successors.

This was undoubtedly Buddha's fault as well. Tang San's success ten thousand years ago had relied on the protagonist's string of opportunities, along with the Twin Martial Souls of the Blue Silver Emperor and Clear Sky Hammer. Yet by the present day, many of his deeds had been concealed, while the tale of someone awakening the trash Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass and ultimately becoming a god had been enshrined by the people of the continent as an eternal standard.

Under the curse of this Nine-Turn Glory Gu, every generation of Tang Sect successors had sought to replicate Tang San's Soul Ring configuration. As a result, after ten thousand years, their Martial Souls had not even undergone stable evolution through inheritance. After all, if they had evolved Blue Silver Grass into the Blue Silver King, the Tang Sect would not have ended up in such a miserable state.

At the same time, this fanatical worship of Blue Silver Grass and their ancestor Tang San drove the Tang Sect's four great affiliated clans—Strength, Agility, Break, and Defense—away from the main sect. This eventually led to the Tang Sect's present collapse, ending with even its sect grounds being forcibly seized.

Tang Ya of the original timeline appeared lively and generous, but she was actually sensitive and delicate. It was precisely under the pressure of the sect, and as the gap between her and those around her grew by the day, that she eventually fell into darkness.

Hopefully, this spirited girl would have a good ending in this life.

After silently offering Tang Ya his blessing, Lu Yuan had already arrived at the freshman dormitory area of the Shrek Outer Court.

"Old man, could you tell me how to get to freshman dormitory 304?"

At the dormitory entrance, an elderly man in gray lay leisurely in a rocking chair, basking in the sun. His whole body was hunched over, and the wrinkles on his face looked plentiful enough to crush a fly. He exuded the air of an old man at death's door.

He was none other than Mu En, the Dragon God Douluo, one of humanity's three great Ultimate Douluo.

During his youth, his spine had been broken in a battle with Du Bisou, the previous sect master of the Body Sect. Later, the baleful aura of the Dragon Pill had continuously eroded him, turning Mu En, the Dragon God Douluo who had once shaken the world, into the frail, aging old man who could not straighten his back even in a wheelchair.

His physical injuries had also made him the weakest among the current three Ultimate Douluo.

However, as an absolute ruthless figure who had broken free from the influence of Douluo Continent's Ten-Turn Love Gu and Nine-Turn Glory Gu in his twilight years, Lu Yuan believed that with Mu En's current strength, if he were willing, he could absolutely march to the Holy Spirit Cult's doorstep like a Great Sage in his old age wielding an Imperial Weapon, paying with his life to severely wound—or even take down—an Ultimate Douluo.

It was precisely because he had reached his twilight years that Mu En especially liked to sit beneath the freshman dormitories and bask in the sun, using the vitality unique to young people to wash away the stale old-man smell clinging to this old fossil.

And today, a young man had arrived at the Shrek Outer Court. His vitality seemed particularly vigorous.

Mu En opened his clouded eyes and studied the young man before him.

In Mu En's vision, Lu Yuan seemed like the favored child of the light elements. Countless light elements that ordinary people found difficult to perceive sang and danced around him, as though he himself were a tiny sun.

Such pure light aura. Though it is still rather weak, in terms of purity alone, it already surpasses my Radiant Saint Dragon and Shaozhe's Radiant Phoenix.

Could it be—Ultimate Light?

Though curious, Mu En was in no hurry to investigate Lu Yuan's specific Martial Soul. More than two hundred years of life had given him sufficient patience. During Lu Yuan's coming academy life, he could wait for the surprises Lu Yuan would bring him while further observing his character.

"Go up to the third floor. It's the fourth room on the right. Starting from the fourth floor are the girls' dormitories. Boys aren't allowed in. If you're caught, you'll be severely punished."

"Thanks, old man."

After thanking Mu En, Lu Yuan arrived at his dormitory.

Shrek's dormitories closely resembled the old campus buildings of those long-established universities from Lu Yuan's previous life: aged dormitory blocks, shared bathrooms, and outdated mixed-gender dorms.

When he pushed open the door, a thick smell of dust rushed at him. The room was simply furnished, with two beds and a Soul Tool lamp.

Actually, this wasn't too bad. He could barely accept it.

When he had nothing to do in his previous life, Lu Yuan, a veteran browser of online forums, had read posts from lore enthusiasts and historical researchers in Douluo Continent forums. Through their rigorous research, the wonderful academy life of hundreds of Shrek Outer Court students fighting over toilets and standing to eat because there were no seats in the cafeteria had been reconstructed.

Because of that, Lu Yuan had already set his expectations extremely low. When he found that the dormitory even had a Soul Tool lamp, he was actually a little pleasantly surprised.

Sure enough, as long as you lowered your standards a little, nothing was impossible to accept. Life could even be full of surprises.

After quickly cleaning the dormitory, Lu Yuan found that his luck was quite good. Apparently, because the number of male students in his class was odd, he could have an entire double room to himself.

Sitting on the bed, Lu Yuan sorted through the information he currently had and began planning his future path.