Thank You, Xie Xie

Huo Yuhao followed the enrollment handbook to find his Dormitory Building. He glanced at Gu Yuena, who had also been walking beside him with a handbook the whole way, then looked around.

It stood in a quiet corner of the campus, surrounded by tall trees, the atmosphere secluded and peaceful. The Dormitory Building's exterior was simple and elegant, its walls mainly a soft beige, paired with dark-brown wooden window frames.

Even though it was clearly the first day of school, there were no other students near this dormitory besides the two of them. Evidently, for now, they were the building's only two tenants.

This was a Single Dormitory, or rather, a teachers' dormitory, not the four-person dormitory building where most students lived.

Gu Yuena blinked, tilted her head toward Huo Yuhao, and asked, "Special treatment for us?"

"No. At least, not entirely." Huo Yuhao shook his head. "Someone else will probably move into this Dormitory Building later. We just reserved rooms in advance."

It was probably something similar to Class Zero in the original work. Yu Zhen likely wanted to concentrate resources on nurturing a few exceptionally talented students. The two of them had simply enjoyed all kinds of preferential treatment first because of their talent and backgrounds, and the Single Dormitory before them was one of those benefits.

Hearing this, Gu Yuena glanced at her handbook. "Mine is 202. See you later?"

"...I'm 201. Right next to you."

After Huo Yuhao said that, he walked toward the Dormitory Building. Gu Yuena paused, then followed after him too.

So they were neighbors... Well, with only two people, how else could the rooms be arranged?

The first floor was the Meditation Room, along with supporting testing rooms. Only from the second floor up were there rooms meant for living.

Standing outside his room, Huo Yuhao opened the door and carefully looked around.

The dorm room had a reasonable layout and good lighting. Through the window, he could see the lush green scenery of the campus outside. The room was simply furnished, with a broad desk placed before the window, a bookshelf against the wall, and the bed beside it.

Naturally, it could not compare to the residence the Spirit Pagoda had arranged for him, but compared to when he had infiltrated various academies to study ten thousand years ago, the conditions were much better.

Huo Yuhao walked over to the bookshelf, took out the various books he had prepared from his Storage Ring, picked out some less important ones, and placed them on it one by one.

Next, he took out some daily necessities and Civilian Soul Tools he had prepared in advance.

After spending some time arranging everything, Huo Yuhao changed into Eastsea Academy's uniform and read for a while. Just then, there was a knock on the door outside his room.

When Huo Yuhao opened the door, Gu Yuena stood there, looking up at him with bright, piercing eyes, and said, "Do you want to go take a look at the cafeteria together? This is my first time in a place like an academy."

Huo Yuhao looked at Gu Yuena, who had changed into a school uniform and seemed to have truly come to experience academy life, and felt complicated.

Ever since entering the academy, she seemed to have forgotten both of their identities, interacting with him purely as a fellow student... Although this was indeed more relaxed, it still felt a little strange.

Come to think of it, according to Teacher Hua, Heavenly Phoenix Douluo had brought Gu Yuena here at first to avoid all the disturbances at headquarters. Setting aside the possibility that she had come to investigate his identity, this person seemed to have truly come here... to study?

Your Excellency Silver Dragon King, you've already joined the Spirit Pagoda. Is it really all right not to do proper work and come attend ordinary school?

Thinking this, Huo Yuhao nodded. "All right."

At present, there were actually no irreconcilable contradictions between the Star Dou Great Forest and humanity. Ever since ten thousand years ago, the area of the Star Dou Great Forest had never shrunk, worlds apart from the original work where only a core region remained. Gu Yuena actually had no need to walk the path of the "Myriad Beast Platform" that would end humanity.

It was just that Gu Yuena's strength made it hard for him to relax, and he always wanted to keep a few more cards in reserve just in case. But when they interacted normally, maintaining an ordinary attitude would be enough.

And when Gu Yuena saw Huo Yuhao agree, she secretly let out a sigh of relief.

It seemed she had not misunderstood. This God King was indeed enjoying this stretch of life and planned to live as an ordinary soul master.

Even in the future, he would probably rise to prominence as a Spirit Pagoda Core Disciple and fight against the Abyss Plane. Unless necessary, he would not reveal his true side.

In that case, ordinary interaction and drawing closer to him would be enough. She could not rush.

On the way to the cafeteria, Huo Yuhao saw two boys walking toward them. When he heard their conversation, his expression shifted slightly.

"Thank you, Xie Xie. If you hadn't stepped in to stop us from fighting back in the dormitory, I might have smashed even more things and had to pay even more money. When I have money, I'll treat you to a meal," Tang Wulin said gratefully to the boy beside him.

"Treat me to a meal? I'm afraid you'll eat me too. I've never seen anyone who can eat as much as you. You took eighty big meat buns just now, didn't you? No wonder you're so strong... Also, if you're thanking me, then thank me. Don't add my name. It sounds weird!"

Xie Xie gave Tang Wulin a cold look.

Tang Wulin smiled and said, "Okay, thanks."

"I told you, stop calling my name all the time!"

"..." Tang Wulin looked at Xie Xie rather speechlessly. The latter also reacted, his cold expression vanishing as he awkwardly looked away, secretly annoyed.

He had said this name was bad. Sooner or later, he had to change it!!!

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie...

Huo Yuhao glanced at the calm Gu Yuena, then quickly withdrew his gaze.

Tang Wulin stopped looking at Xie Xie and turned his head forward, just in time to see two classmates.

Both of their appearances could only be called ordinary, at most described as delicate, yet each had a unique air about them.

"Hello," Tang Wulin Who Won't Be a Scapegoat greeted them naturally.

Although he had encountered unpleasant things today too, and had even broken some of the academy's property and needed to pay compensation, a classmate had helped him, and the academy teacher had also been very reasonable, willing to give him time to pay.

Overall, Tang Wulin felt that there were bad people in the city, but even more of them were good people!

"Hello."

Huo Yuhao smiled faintly. Gu Yuena nodded coldly, counting it as a greeting, and brushed past them.

One did not hit a smiling face. Xie Xie had been about to greet them too, but when he saw Gu Yuena's expression, his movement paused, and he curled his lip. "So cold. Her talent's probably pretty good. Wonder which class she'll be assigned to."

"Huh? Classes?" Tang Wulin froze. "What do you mean?"

"This school divides classes by talent. I'm definitely going to be in Class One. As for you..."

Thinking of the spatial Soul Tool from the Spirit Pagoda that Tang Wulin had, Xie Xie said somewhat uncertainly, "We'll see tomorrow. I don't know either."

"Oh." Tang Wulin looked downcast.

His talent was poor, after all... Hopefully, he could be placed in a good class.

After they had gone farther away, Gu Yuena saw Huo Yuhao withdraw his gaze from Tang Wulin and suddenly asked through transmission, "Sir, is the God Core on him?"

Sound Transmission into Line was impossible for an ordinary Soul Grandmaster, but for her, it was no trouble.

Huo Yuhao wasn't surprised and gave a slight nod.

The reason he had looked toward Gu Yuena earlier was to deliberately remind her. Since they were restraining each other, it was naturally best to let both sides know of the other's existence, lest this one get tricked.

Seeing him nod, Gu Yuena's brows knitted tightly.

From her earlier conversation with Huo Yuhao, she had learned that the Golden Dragon King still had a God Core remaining, and that the person beside her even knew where it was but had not gone to take it.

What did that mean? It meant the God Core was on Douluo Continent, perhaps even in the area near Eastsea City.

She had not sensed the Golden Dragon King's bloodline from Tang Wulin just now, but the conversation between Tang Wulin and the other boy—his strange appetite and great strength—combined with Huo Yuhao inexplicably looking toward her, had led her to make that connection, so she asked.

And who could seal the Golden Dragon King God Core into the body of an ordinary person?

It could only be one of the Five Great God Kings of the Divine Realm!