Everyone returned to Shrek Academy.
Yu Xiaogang stood at the academy gate and clapped his hands to get everyone's attention.
"All right, we're here."
"The plan for the next month is simple: train. Train like mad."
"You spent a month fighting at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena and gained plenty of experience, but you haven't had time to digest it."
"This month, chew over everything you learned and make it your own."
The others answered and went their separate ways.
Yu Xiaogang stood beside the Training Ground and called Ye Lin and Yu Tianheng over.
He looked from Ye Lin to Yu Tianheng. "You two will share a room. Tian Heng just arrived, so Ye Lin, show him around."
Ye Lin nodded. Yu Tianheng said nothing more, and the two headed toward the dormitories, one behind the other.
From that night on, Yu Xiaogang barely went out.
He shut himself inside his small courtyard with the doors and windows closed. Each day, he emerged only at dawn and dusk to fetch water and food before retreating inside again.
Flender glanced in while passing by once. Yu Xiaogang sat cross-legged on his bed, a faint white mist hanging around him. Luo Sanpao lay on his knees with his eyes closed too, an almost imperceptible glow moving across his round body.
Flender did not disturb him. He quietly pulled the door shut.
He did a quick calculation. Xiaogang's Soul Power should be close to level fifty.
He was only level twenty-nine when he came to find me six years ago. Now he's about to become a Soul King.
At this rate, he might catch up with me in just a few years.
Flender shook his head, adjusted his glasses, and walked away.
Ye Lin and Yu Tianheng shared a dorm room.
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