Let's Live Together

This kid might be small, but he sure was sly! Mujin grabbed Huo Yuhao as he burrowed recklessly into her chest, her face flushing as she casually tossed him away.

"Teacher Mujin, I passed the entrance assessment." Huo Yuhao immediately scrambled back up and reported shamelessly.

"Ahem." Mujin coughed irritably, then shifted her attention to Wu Feng and Ning Tian beside him. "I didn't expect this year's new students to include an heir of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Looks like I've found a treasure."

"Hello, Teacher." Ning Tian took the lead in bowing to Mujin, and Wu Feng promptly followed suit.

"Mhm. Remember to register for my class when you enroll—Class Nine, Year One." Mujin took out three sets of academy uniforms from her Storage Soul Tool and distributed them to Huo Yuhao and the other two, not forgetting to remind them.

"Teacher, does the class number have anything to do with its overall level of strength?" Wu Feng tilted her head. Though she looked rather slow-witted, she had raised the most crucial question.

Only Huo Yuhao, standing from a god's-eye view, knew that three months later, they would face their first assessment since entering Shrek Academy. Only by passing would they officially become first-year students and truly become members of Shrek Academy.

In the end, the new students who passed the assessment would be organized into four classes, and only then would the ranking genuinely be based on each class's overall strength. At that time, the teacher of the team that won the freshman assessment championship would rise in status and become the homeroom teacher of Class One, Year One.

"Alive, I'm Teacher Mujin's student; dead, I'm Teacher Mujin's ghost. Even as a ghost, I'll be a dashing one. I'm going to Freshman Class Nine!" Huo Yuhao immediately put on a tragic expression as though he were heroically marching to his death, making Mujin want nothing more than to kick this shameless bastard flying. However, considering that he would probably get even more excited, Mujin ultimately restrained herself from lifting her leg.

Unlike Wu Feng, who looked down on Huo Yuhao's behavior, Ning Tian understood very well that someone like Huo Yuhao never acted without profit. He might seem carefree and silly, but in the end, one would discover that he was the biggest winner.

So, all in.

"Teacher Mujin, I'm also willing to join Class Nine." Ning Tian spoke respectfully.

Seeing that Ning Tian had joined the class as well, Wu Feng could only follow along.

This girl was rather interesting. Not bad! Meeting Ning Tian's scrutinizing gaze, Huo Yuhao could not help praising her inwardly.

New students who passed the entrance assessment could be taken away on the spot by active faculty members to complete their enrollment procedures, or they could be left for the academy to assign at random. In the original plot, Huo Yuhao had been assigned to Class One, where Zhou Yi was.

Since boys and girls had to live separately, Huo Yuhao headed to the dormitory building alone.

After paying ten Gold Soul Coins, he received his badge and dormitory key. Looking at the freshman badge number, which was completely different from the one in his memories, Huo Yuhao relaxed. This time, he definitely would not be sharing a room with Tang Buddha's cross-dressing daughter again.

Passing between the white freshman teaching building and the yellow buildings for second- and third-year students, Huo Yuhao spotted the dormitory building. The dormitory building covered an enormous area. Though it was a single structure, it bore four colors: white, yellow, purple, and black. They clearly represented the residential areas for students of the different grades corresponding to the four teaching buildings. It stood six stories tall.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the entrance to the white section, where an elderly man sat. The old man wore a gray cloth robe, and the wrinkles on his face were deep enough to crush more than ten flies at once. His eyes were muddy, his eyelids drooped, and he looked like a man in the twilight of his years. The sunlight between the buildings happened to fall over him, and the reclining chair he lay half-sprawled in looked quite comfortable.

Huo Yuhao remembered this old man very clearly. He was the current Sea God Pavilion Master of Shrek Academy, Dragon God Douluo Mu En, one of the few Limit Douluo in the world and an absolute top-tier powerhouse.

Dragon God Douluo... wasn't he afraid of sharing a title with that future Dragon God? Oh, right. That one didn't have the word Douluo in his title.

Huo Yuhao stepped forward and respectfully said, "Hello, Grandpa. I'm a new student here to move into the dormitory. Do you need to inspect my freshman badge?"

Huo Yuhao still greatly admired Dragon God Douluo Mu En. The old man was one of the few truly insightful people in Shrek. He had foresight, and in his final years, he had taught Huo Yuhao with utmost dedication. Even after his fall, his remaining fragment of a soul had still chosen to burn away everything, providing the most crucial help when Huo Yuhao condensed his Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core.

The old man seemed to see through the admiration deep in Huo Yuhao's eyes. His half-closed eyes shifted slightly as he extended his trembling right hand. His voice was somewhat hoarse and low. "Bring me your badge and dormitory key."

Huo Yuhao hurriedly handed them over.

The old man waved them before his eyes, then returned them to him. "Go on. Dormitory Sixty-Six is the ninth room on the right on the first floor. The fourth floor and above are the girls' dormitories. Boys are not allowed up there. If you're caught, you'll be expelled."

"Thank you." Huo Yuhao bowed to the old man once more before entering the dormitory building.

The old man maintained his original posture and muttered, "So this is the Holy Son Xiaoyao spoke of? He doesn't seem like the vicious and evil person I imagined."

While he spoke, several more freshmen passed through the area. They clearly did not notice the old man beside the entrance and walked straight inside. The old man did not stop them, merely sitting there drowsily.

Following Mu En's directions, Huo Yuhao quickly found his dormitory. The student dormitory was a corridor-style building, with dormitory doors lining both sides of a long hallway, each marked with a number. The interior was visibly somewhat old, and it was impossible to tell how many years it had been in use. There was a communal bathroom at each end of the corridor.

Damn it, this is worse than my middle school dormitory back when I was studying. Huo Yuhao grumbled inwardly. He unlocked the door, and a cloud of somewhat foul air rushed out. Huo Yuhao quickly stepped aside, waited a while, then held his breath and rushed in to open the window. This room had been unoccupied for at least a month. Everything was covered in a layer of dust...

Huo Yuhao instantly lost all desire to move in. It was not that he was too lazy to clean; he was simply dissatisfied with Shrek's attitude toward its freshmen.

Young masters and misses from wealthy families, even descendants of royalty, came here with money to enroll, and this was the awful living environment they were given?

You could say the academy promoted thrift and simplicity, or that it was tempering the students' willpower, but what was the meaning of the student dormitories of the continent's number one academy being this filthy? Huo Yuhao refused to believe that the entire Shrek Academy could not find a few water-element Soul Masters to handle cleaning.

Filled with resentment, Huo Yuhao exhaled several breaths of stale air and stormed out of the dormitory building. He happened to run into Ning Tian and the other two, who looked equally displeased.

"What a coincidence. Getting used to the place?" Huo Yuhao walked over with a cheeky grin and greeted them.

"It's unlivable! This dump is filthy as hell. I even found something left behind by a female student from the previous year under the bed..." Wu Feng immediately began cursing, but Ning Tian covered her mouth before she could finish, saving her from utterly ruining her image.

Beside Ning Tian and Wu Feng stood another girl with delicate, gentle features. She formed a stark contrast to Wu Feng at Ning Tian's side. Her light green hair cascaded down her back, while her dark green eyes radiated gentleness. Her frail, delicate air made people instinctively want to cherish her.

Mm, this was probably that supporting character, Nanmen Yun'er—the Agility Attack Soul Master with the Jade Green Bird martial soul who would be written out in only a few chapters. This made Huo Yuhao think of a type of soul beast from the later Douluo Series that terrified countless Soul Masters and even soul beasts—the Emerald Demon Bird.

If Nanmen Yun'er had managed to ride even a little of the protagonist group's halo, then in theory, her martial soul could have undergone a Secondary Awakening into an Emerald Demon Bird.

The Emerald Demon Bird was one of the most vicious avian soul beasts. It moved like lightning, its speed far surpassing the speed of sound, and it grew by sucking the brain marrow of all kinds of living creatures. It was the most terrifying killer of an era.

Nanmen Yun'er's assigned dormitory was even worse. Even its bedboard had somehow shattered. Who knew what the previous year's freshmen had done in there?

"The new school year doesn't officially begin until three days from now. Let's go buy a house in Shrek City." Ning Tian gave a light cough and was the first to make the suggestion, immediately drawing a chorus of agreement.

As the young sect master of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, what she lacked least was Gold Soul Coins. Nanmen Yun'er did not seem to come from an ordinary family either. Even Huo Yuhao, when leaving the Holy Spirit Cult, had shamelessly asked Zhongli Wu for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins. Of course, how the Holy Spirit Cult had acquired that money was none of his concern.

The four left the academy and entered Shrek City. Unexpectedly, no matter how much money Ning Tian offered, the Shrek City authorities prohibited outsiders from buying houses within the city.

Left with no choice, the four could only look for a place to rent.

And this happened to be the period when all the young Soul Masters across the continent who met the requirements came to Shrek to register for the entrance assessment. Forget children their own age—even accompanying parents and sect elders needed places to stay. Rental housing of every sort was packed to capacity.

It was not until evening that the four barely managed to find a double room in a remote building within the city.

Huo Yuhao's expression turned strange. Was there really such a good thing?

"Ahem, Huo Yuhao, how about you suffer a little and stay at the academy for a few days first? The three of us can squeeze in here." They had split up to search, and Huo Yuhao had been the first to find this rental using Spiritual Detection. Ning Tian felt rather embarrassed saying this.

"No! I exhausted my Spiritual Power to find this place!" Even if he were beaten to death, Huo Yuhao would not go back to stay at the academy. His face immediately reddened as though he had suffered an enormous injustice, though no one knew whether he had thought of something that made him blush like that.

"Why don't the four of us make do together for now?" Nanmen Yun'er was the most easygoing of them. She also felt awkward about making Huo Yuhao turn around and head back to the academy.

"Exactly. We're still young. What are you afraid of?" Huo Yuhao craned his neck, his tone making it clear there was no room for negotiation.

Even Wu Feng, who always defended Ning Tian, could not say much. She had a fiery temper and had spent the entire day charging around the city. She was exhausted, and there was no way she would return to the academy now.

Ning Tian was a Support Soul Master, so her stamina was even worse.

"Let's live together!" Huo Yuhao grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth.

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