"Huh?"
Xue Chen abruptly turned toward the voice and saw a woman with a graceful figure standing beneath the moonlight.
Bright moonlight spilled down from her shoulders, as though draping her in a thin veil.
Her long black hair was unbound, cascading down her back all the way to her firm, perky buttocks.
Her exquisite face seemed to carry a touch of melancholy resentment.
"Senior Luochen."
Xue Chen gave the newcomer a sheepish smile, yet for some reason, he suddenly felt as though he had been caught cheating in bed.
"Long time no see."
After greeting Ling Luochеn stiffly, Xue Chen had no idea what else to say.
"Yes, long time no see."
Ling Luochеn slowly walked up beside Xue Chen, her cool eyes gazing steadily into his.
"It's been so long, and you never thought to come see me."
Her gaze left Xue Chen feeling inexplicably guilty, and he could only look away first.
Rubbing his head, Xue Chen gave a wry laugh.
"I'm only an Outer Court student at Shrek Academy. How could I freely enter the Inner Court to visit you, Sister Xue?"
At this point, Xue Chen suddenly realized something and immediately grew confident.
"Besides, ever since I entered Shrek Academy, haven't you stayed away from me too, Senior?"
"Little Chen, you're right."
Ling Luochеn neither argued nor explained why. Instead, she stepped forward and took both his hands.
"It's been so long since we cultivated together. Come to my place."
Without waiting for Xue Chen to answer, she pulled him toward her dormitory.
"Senior, I don't want to cultivate today!"
"Senior, let me go back to the Outer Court!"
"Senior, let go of me first! This is the Inner Court. We should mind how this looks!"
Like Ma Xiaotao's dormitory, Ling Luochеn's was a small, separate courtyard.
Unlike Ma Xiaotao's, however, the clothes hanging outside Ling Luochеn's courtyard were all white.
Noticing Xue Chen's gaze, Ling Luochеn's lips curled slightly. Then she grabbed his collar and pulled him in front of her.
Looking at the beautiful face inches away and feeling Ling Luochеn's breath against his face, Xue Chen flushed slightly.
"S-Senior, what are you doing?"
Ling Luochеn was naturally extremely beautiful. Having just helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire, Xue Chen could not help comparing the two.
Unlike the seductive allure hidden within Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, Ling Luochеn possessed a completely opposite, cool aloofness.
Yet in front of Xue Chen, that cool aloofness would turn into a strikingly contrasting oh-ho-ho-ho.
"Little Chen, what were you looking at just now?"
Ling Luochеn brushed a finger across the sharply defined tip of Xue Chen's nose and asked softly.
"I... I wasn't looking at anything!"
Xue Chen shook his head repeatedly.
"Not being honest!"
Smiling, Ling Luochеn tapped the space between Xue Chen's brows, then forcibly dragged him into her room.
"Senior, if we're cultivating, let's just cultivate properly. Why are you taking your clothes off?"
"Taking off your own clothes is one thing, but why are you taking mine off too?"
"Senior, stop, stop... my trousers are falling down!"
This repeated occurrence proved that relationships between men and women on the Love Continent really were very open.
Now Xue Chen could understand why God King Tang had put a chastity lock on his daughter.
The wind could enter, the rain could enter, but Huo Yuhao could not.
God King Tang truly possessed great wisdom!
Being put through such an ordeal by two older big sisters in succession left Xue Chen yawning constantly in class the next day.
"All right, I finished saying everything necessary yesterday. Today, we're doing practical combat training!"
Inside Class Nine's classroom, Mu Jin surveyed the class, his gaze lingering briefly on the dark circles beneath Xue Chen's eyes before he clapped his hands and spoke.
"Yes!"
Hearing this, the students of Class Nine could not help cheering with excitement.
For Soul Masters, practical combat experience was far more important than theoretical knowledge learned in a classroom.
Besides, by nature, these children, barely in their early teens, preferred being outdoors to sitting in a classroom.
Shrek Academy occupied an enormous area, and the freshmen's training ground was naturally sizable too, large enough to accommodate over a thousand people training at once.
Thus, besides Mu Jin's Class Nine, Zhou Yi's Class One was also on the training ground.
"Nobody fall behind!"
"Those at the back, pick up the pace! In a fight to the death, would your opponent show mercy just because you're support-type or control-type Soul Masters?"
"My class only needs students who complete my tasks. Anyone who fails should have the sense to get the hell out of my class!"
"You have time to whisper to each other, but no strength to run?"
"If anyone whispers again, I'll expel them immediately!"
Zhou Yi's aged face was dark, and her harsh reprimands rang clearly across the entire training ground.
Xue Chen glanced at Class One's students racing around the training ground and immediately spotted Wang Dong at the head of the group.
At that moment, Wang Dong looked as though she had nothing left to live for, and sweat had soaked through her clothes.
To Xue Chen's surprise, Huo Yuhao, whom he had severely injured only yesterday, was also among them.
Unlike Wang Dong, however, Huo Yuhao trailed at the very back, his swaying gait making him look ready to foam at the mouth.
"Zhou Yi is a complete lunatic. She's still using training methods from ten thousand years ago!"
Watching Class One's students being worked until they hovered between ecstasy and death, Xue Chen felt a chill run through his entire body.
He was also thankful he had not chosen Zhou Yi's class.
"Why doesn't she have Shrek Academy use the Tang Sect's Hidden Weapons from ten thousand years ago to fight the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers?"
As though something had occurred to him, Xue Chen suddenly narrowed his eyes.
"Damn it, every freshman class should have the same number of students. How has Class One lost a dozen people after just one day?"
"She expels all the students with ordinary talent. No fucking wonder the classes Zhou Yi teaches have such high assessment pass rates!"
Shaking his head, Xue Chen's face showed a trace of disgust.
Could a piece of shit who arbitrarily stripped students of their right to an education really be called a teacher?
An outstanding, distinguished teacher of Shrek Academy, no less?
"Xue Chen, stop watching."
At some point, Mu Jin had walked up behind Xue Chen, his gaze likewise resting on Class One's students, who were running around the training ground until they vomited blood.
"Zhou Yi has always trained her students this way. By the time the freshman assessment comes around, her class will have at most sixty percent of its students left."
Sighing softly, Mu Jin could not help feeling secretly pleased.
No matter what, the only freshman in the entire academy with an Ultimate Attribute was in his class.
Even if Zhou Yi trained every other student in her class until they were ruined, none of them would ever compare to Xue Chen from his class.
Against ordinary Martial Souls, an Ultimate Attribute Martial Soul was simply a dimensionality-reduction strike!