The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Creak~
The door was gently pushed open, and Ning Rongrong tiptoed sideways into the room. Seeing Gu Yang still cultivating cross-legged on the bed, she could not help smiling before turning around and quietly shutting the door.
Having closed the door, Ning Rongrong had only just turned around when she jumped in fright. Several bone spikes were pointed straight at her.
"Ah!!! Gu Yang, what are you doing?!"
Gu Yang looked at Ning Rongrong expressionlessly.
"What am I doing? I should be asking what you're trying to do. This is my room! What are you sneaking in here for?"
"Oh, come on, I needed to talk to you!"
"Even if you do, you don't have to act like this, as though you're doing something that can't bear the light of day. If I can't stop in time next time, watch out for those bone spikes slashing your face."
As he spoke, Gu Yang retracted the bone spikes aimed at Ning Rongrong into his body.
Ning Rongrong stuck out her tongue, then quickly adopted a mysterious air again. "Gu Yang, I know somewhere really fun. Want to go?"
"No. I need to cultivate so I can get my Sixth Soul Ring as soon as possible."
"Your sixth... Could you stop making me feel so inadequate? That place I mentioned is really fun. I heard it's an academy, and I heard it's even more interesting than Heaven Dou Royal Academy."
"You heard? Who told you?"
Seeing Gu Yang ask, Ning Rongrong looked rather pleased with herself. "I overheard my dad talking about it with the sect elders. Hehe, the best part is that none of them even noticed me eavesdropping. Well? Pretty impressive, right?"
Gu Yang: "..."
Gu Yang realized he did not even know what to say. A Soul Master who had not even reached the level of a rank-thirty Soul Elder, and she thought they would not notice her eavesdropping?
A brain is a wonderful thing.
Maybe hers hasn't grown in yet.
"Come on, Gu Yang, let's go together. Don't you like cultivating and want to get stronger? Since even Dad said that academy is better than Heaven Dou Royal Academy, our strength will naturally improve faster if we go."
Gu Yang naturally wanted to refuse. Faster, my ass.
But Ning Fengzhi had, after all, mobilized the sect's forces to help him hunt down the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Since this was something they had agreed upon, Gu Yang could hardly refuse again.
He could only pretend to take an interest. "Is that true? Then I suppose I could go take a look."
"Huh? Really? You're agreeing to go?"
Ning Rongrong thought she had misheard him and visibly froze for a moment, as though she had never seen Gu Yang so agreeable.
But since Gu Yang had agreed, Ning Rongrong immediately continued, "Then hurry up and pack your things. We're leaving in half an hour!"
And so, after some simple packing.
Under Ning Rongrong's "meticulous planning," Gu Yang and Ning Rongrong secretly slipped out of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, with "a scare but no danger."
When they reached the foot of the mountain, Ning Rongrong could not help cheering.
"Haha, we really escaped! Nobody noticed us!"
Hearing Ning Rongrong's words, Gu Yang could not help pressing a hand to his forehead.
Within his perception, at least twenty Soul Masters were following behind them, including those hidden in the shadows.
This? Escaping without being noticed?
Words failed him.
"But our sect's defenses are far too weak. If an enemy launched a sneak attack, wouldn't we have no time even to react? We'd definitely suffer a devastating blow. When I come back next time, I'll have to strengthen the sect's defenses," Ning Rongrong continued.
Still, Ning Rongrong's prediction was rather accurate. When faced with Spirit Hall's Soul Hunting Operation, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had indeed failed to react in time and suffered grievous losses.
"Gu Yang, check whether any Soul Masters are chasing after us."
"...No."
"Hehe, good. Then let's keep going. Our destination is the Balak Kingdom!"
The Balak Kingdom.
Suotuo City.
A young man dressed in luxurious fitted clothes was driving a carriage slowly into the city.
His resolute features, tinged with a hint of wickedness, drew sidelong glances from the young women in the city.
Gu Yang remained indifferent to it all.
In fact, it was not just Bone Douluo. Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo had also said that he had changed.
His bearing had changed, taking on a touch of wicked charm.
All of this had been caused by the Evil God Pearl, which was subtly changing him.
At first, they had worried whether this change would harm Gu Yang.
Later, when they found nothing harmful about it, they gradually relaxed.
Just then, the carriage curtain was lifted, revealing Ning Rongrong's cute little face. Seeing that they had arrived in Suotuo City, she finally managed a faint smile in her eyes.
The journey from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to Suotuo City had taken a full three days.
Ning Rongrong's initial enthusiasm had long since been all but worn away.
People were all like that.
When they first went out to have fun, they were brimming with enthusiasm, but after two hours of driving, their spirits flagged.
All the more so with a carriage-the jolting became quite torturous after sitting in one for too long.
There was no melodramatic plot, much less an unexpected encounter at the Rose Hotel. After asking where Shrek Academy was, Gu Yang and Ning Rongrong headed straight there.
Soon, the two arrived at Shrek Academy's entrance.
Looking at the dilapidated gate before her, Ning Rongrong was not disappointed in the slightest. Instead, she grew even more interested.
This made Gu Yang rather curious about just what Ning Fengzhi had said to arouse Ning Rongrong's curiosity so much.
Originally, Gu Yang had thought the two of them would simply leave the sect and head to Shrek Academy.
Who would have thought Ning Fengzhi would arrange things like this, with the two successfully avoiding every guard and secretly running away from the sect?
The key was that the person being manipulated still had not figured it out and remained full of delight.
It had to be said that Ning Fengzhi truly knew how to scheme.
Since the two had arrived rather late, a long line had already formed ahead of them.
Glancing at the long line before him, Gu Yang was just about to search for a few familiar figures when he suddenly sensed something and looked in a certain direction within the village.
Only after finding nothing did he turn back in disappointment.
"It should be those two. As expected of a prodigy from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect-such keen perception."
In the direction Gu Yang had sensed earlier, inside a village house, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties and wore square, black-framed glasses was watching them from afar.
Turning his attention back to the line, Gu Yang soon matched each of the figures to their identities.
Xiao Wu wore a pink dress, and she truly gave off the cute, lively air of a little girl next door. But whenever he thought of her actual age, Gu Yang still could not help shuddering.
Although everyone had different tastes, Gu Yang still could not quite understand this sort of love story between a human and an animal.
After Xiao Wu came Nai Zhu in leather clothes. The moment he saw Nai Zhu, Gu Yang made sure to glance at Ning Rongrong again.
Your twelve years old and her twelve years old really aren't the same.