"Zha'er, you can't..."
Leng Yaozhu had barely opened her mouth when Li Zha cut her off.
"Then what else am I supposed to do? Forget some stranger-even if it were Na'er or you, Teacher, I'd strike without hesitation!"
Li Zha's tone was resolute.
"Not fighting means putting your life in someone else's hands. Only by taking a gamble do you have a chance to win!"
"Na'er, if someone ever takes your senior brother hostage, I'll beat you to death if you hesitate for even a second."
Na'er nodded. "Okay, Senior Brother."
Leng Yaozhu drew a deep breath.
For the first time, she regretted making actual combat the focus of her teaching.
"You two really are a pair of demon pills."
Leng Yaozhu guided the Flying Soul Tool down, landing outside the entrance to the Spirit Pagoda in Eastsea City.
"Deputy Pagoda Master Leng!"
At the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda,
two guards hurried forward to salute.
A steward immediately ran out as well. "Pagoda Master Leng, what brings you here? Do you have any instructions or tasks for us?"
Leng Yaozhu gave a light wave and led Li Zha and Na'er straight inside.
"I need two rooms. Also, no one is to disclose that I'm here."
"Yes! Yes!"
The steward hurriedly nodded and soon arranged the two best suites.
Leng Yaozhu looked at Li Zha. "You two will stay here for now. You can go wherever you like in Eastsea City, but you must return before ten tonight. Understood?"
Li Zha and Na'er nodded.
After saying that, Leng Yaozhu entered one of the rooms. She needed to think things through.
Li Zha was downright bloodthirsty, more evil than an evil soul master.
Leng Yaozhu had little experience with education. All she could do was calm herself down first.
"Let's go!"
By contrast,
Li Zha and Na'er were utterly carefree, taking off at a run toward the exit.
The steward who had received them immediately contacted his people, dispatching staff throughout Eastsea City with orders to ensure Li Zha's safety.
Within Eastsea City,
the Spirit Pagoda even mobilized its Soul Guidance Mecha Squad to patrol and stand guard against any unexpected incidents.
Before Li Zha and Na'er had even set foot in Eastsea City proper, the entire city had undergone massive changes because of them.
"Senior Brother, where's the pot-stewed beef? I want beef!"
If Na'er could apply her memory for food to mecha design blueprints, Leng Yaozhu would probably laugh herself to death with delight.
Li Zha had mentioned pot-stewed beef only once, yet Na'er remembered it perfectly.
"No beef yet. Your senior brother is taking you somewhere first."
Li Zha opened the map and quickly searched for Eastsea Academy's location.
"Huh? Where are we going?"
Na'er was puzzled.
"You'll know when we get there. Come on."
Li Zha pulled Na'er aboard a Soul Guidance Bus, and they quickly set off toward their destination.
Soon,
the two arrived at Eastsea Academy's gates.
"Eastsea Academy? Do you have a friend here, Senior Brother?"
"Yep."
Na'er immediately grew alert. "A boy or a girl?"
"Guess."
Li Zha walked up to the gate and showed his Spirit Pagoda token, explaining that he had come to see a friend. The security guard immediately let him through.
"Come on, Senior Brother, tell me! Is it a boy or a girl?"
Na'er looked around the campus curiously.
"A boy."
"Hehe."
Li Zha and Na'er headed deeper into the campus. After asking a few people, Li Zha soon found Eastsea Class Zero's classroom.
Eastsea Class Zero,
the class Tang Wulin belonged to, was the most exceptional group in Eastsea Academy.
Wu Changkong, a former genius of Shrek Academy, served as its teacher. The entire resources of Eastsea Academy were poured into training its students, with actual combat as the primary focus.
Like Leng Yaozhu,
Wu Changkong was also a typical practitioner of the training style favored in the central and western regions of the Douluo Continent.
The eastern coastal regions mainly preferred looking at numerical stats, while the central and western regions placed more weight on actual combat performance.
Eastsea Class Zero had five students in total, including Tang Wulin, and they could enter the Spirit Ascension Platform once every week.
It was worth noting that,
only a thousand Spirit Ascension Platform slots were available to the public each month, and a single visit cost five hundred thousand Federal Coins.
That alone showed just how much Eastsea Academy invested in training Tang Wulin and the others.
Of course,
compared to someone on Li Zha's level, who could enter the Spirit Ascension Platform whenever he pleased, they were still a long way behind.
It was already evening.
Li Zha led Na'er to a sports field, where three teenagers were approaching with lunch boxes in hand.
The boy on the left had short brown hair, dark green eyes, and a lean build, but carried himself like a young master. He was clearly Xie Xie.
The girl on the right had black hair, black eyes, a slender figure, and a cool, aloof air. She was none other than Gu Yue.
The boy in the middle had short black hair and long eyelashes. A hint of handsomeness was already emerging from his youthful features. Naturally, he was Tang Wulin.
The three were chatting and laughing as they headed toward the dormitory building.
Li Zha stepped into their path and stopped.
"Wulin, is that strength even human? Four thousand kilograms with one hand! Are you a human or a soul beast?"
Xie Xie complained loudly. Having just finished their strength tests, they were thoroughly shocked by Tang Wulin's explosive strength.
"It's not that much."
Tang Wulin rubbed the back of his head with a smile.
Gu Yue, beside him, soon noticed Li Zha and Na'er. The instant she saw Na'er, she stopped.
Na'er did the same.
"Wait, is that Old Yue?!"
Na'er's eyes widened.
She could hardly believe what she was seeing, but the power of the silver dragon king bloodline within her told her that this was fucking Gu Yue!
"Na'er?"
Gu Yue narrowed her eyes slightly.
The next moment, the corners of Gu Yue's lips lifted.
I wore through iron shoes searching in vain, only to find her without lifting a finger.
Di Tian and the others searched for so long without finding Na'er, yet I've run into her right here.
Excellent.
Now I can absorb Na'er and return to my full strength!
Gu Yue was about to act when she suddenly sensed something amiss.
Why did it feel like...
Na'er's bloodline power was a little different from what I expected?
Before Gu Yue could work out what was happening, her gaze shifted to the boy beside Na'er, and her pupils suddenly contracted.
Thump, thump!
Thump, thump!
Thump, thump!
Gu Yue's heart began pounding violently, and the elemental power around her surged on its own.
An inexplicable yet intensely real and immense terror swept over Gu Yue!
In an instant, Gu Yue no longer dared to advance. She stared blankly at Li Zha, who merely smiled at her.
"Gu Yue, what's wrong?"
Tang Wulin was puzzled. Following Gu Yue's gaze, he soon noticed Li Zha and Na'er.
"Huh? Who are they? New transfer students at Eastsea Academy?"
Tang Wulin pondered.
Then, the next moment,
the Golden Dragon Claw on Tang Wulin's right hand sprang out on its own. He began breathing heavily, his chest feeling as though a huge boulder weighed on it, and fine beads of sweat immediately appeared on his forehead.
"Who exactly is this guy?!"
Tang Wulin instinctively looked at the Golden Dragon Claw that had emerged on its own.
This was unlike anything before.
The Golden Dragon King was the power within him that overcame his enemies, suppressing almost all beast martial souls.
But now,
Tang Wulin felt a profound terror coming from the power of his golden dragon king bloodline!
If his martial soul had not been Blue Silver Grass, Tang Wulin felt he might not even have been able to remain standing.
"What's wrong with you two?"
Xie Xie was baffled.
He took two steps forward and came up to Li Zha.
"Wow! What a pretty girl! Are you a new junior student?"
Getting a clear look at Na'er, Xie Xie smiled.
He intended to step forward and greet her, but in the next instant, his martial soul, the Light and Shadow Dragon Dagger, also appeared on its own, circling him with tremulous hums.
"Y-you are?"
Because Xie Xie's martial soul had yet to evolve into the time-space dragon, it was not a fully draconic martial soul, so the pressure he experienced was much weaker.
That was why he had been able to approach Li Zha.
Even so,
as Xie Xie sensed his own martial soul trembling, a trace of gravity filled his heart.
He thought he understood why Tang Wulin and Gu Yue had stopped.
Xie Xie looked at Li Zha.
"What martial soul does this guy have? He's suppressing all three of us by himself?!"
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