Since Xu Qing was the first to arrive at the dorm, there was no one to help him.
After letting out a deep sigh.
Time to start cleaning!
Xu Qing worked quickly, and before long, the entire dorm room was spotless.
Then his gaze swept over the two bunk beds, and he ultimately chose the upper bunk farther inside.
After taking the bedding he had prepared out of his storage space, Xu Qing began making his bed.
Once the bed was made, Xu Qing got off it and down onto the floor.
"What's this?"
Xu Qing soon noticed something drawn on the bed board when he looked up from the lower bunk.
Is this a map?
It looks like a map of Eastsea Academy, too.
Good grief, who was bored enough to draw a map on a bed board? Uh, underneath it, to be precise.
What's this string?
Xu Qing gave it a curious tug, and a long strip of paper immediately came into view.
Written across it in big letters were the words "You're welcome."
Xu Qing: ...
I really ought to thank you!
Still, Xu Qing took a moment to memorize it. With his current memory, he easily committed the map to memory, then left the dorm to find Gu Yuena.
He had only waited a short while at the girls' dorm before Gu Yuena came down.
"Nana, how's your dorm?"
"Pretty good!"
"Right, how many people share your room?"
"Just me. Is there a problem?"
Damn! Sure enough, girls get special treatment no matter which world it is.
"We have four to a room!" Xu Qing sighed. "Come on, Nana. Let's walk around the school and get familiar with the academy."
"Okay!" As she spoke, Gu Yuena took Xu Qing's hand of her own accord.
The two began strolling around the academy.
As time passed, more and more students appeared around the academy.
Afterward, the two said their goodbyes and returned to their respective dorms.
Xu Qing had just reached the entrance to the boys' dorm building when alarm bells suddenly rang in his mind, his instincts catching a sudden trace of danger.
Before he could think, his body had already reacted, unleashing a fierce punch into the empty space to his right!
Bang!
A dull crash erupted, and an enormous dark figure was instantly sent flying by his punch, slamming heavily into the wall on the right. The figure slid down the wall to the floor and then lay motionless.
Xu Qing froze briefly, then hurried forward.
That thing I punched away looked like a person!
It really is! He isn't dead, is he?
And why did this guy suddenly come flying down out of nowhere?
Xu Qing hurried over to check him and breathed a small sigh of relief only after finding that he had merely passed out.
As long as he's not dead!
I'll take him back first.
He reached out, hoisted the boy straight onto his shoulder, and headed toward the dorm.
Every new student who passed along the way gaped at the sight, their faces full of astonishment.
Good grief, how did you manage to hoist someone that big onto your shoulder?
Once inside the dorm building, Xu Qing keenly sensed what seemed to be a disturbance on the second floor.
Wait!
This plot seems so familiar!
Could this guy on my shoulder be the one from the original story?
With that thought, Xu Qing handed the boy over to the dorm supervisor, then went up to the second floor with him.
Before they even reached the door to Room 205, another dark figure suddenly flew backward out of it, this time embedding himself directly in the corridor wall.
Holy crap!
"What's going on?"
Just then, the dorm supervisor in front of Xu Qing spoke in a deep, powerful voice.
As the dorm supervisor strode into Room 205, students from the surrounding rooms poked their heads out, looking over curiously.
Xu Qing followed him into the room and immediately spotted Tang Wulin, whose eyes were red.
"Hello, Wulin."
Tang Wulin paused slightly at the sight of Xu Qing. "Xu Qing, it's you."
Xu Qing nodded. "How are you?"
Tang Wulin shook his head gently. "I'm fine."
But Xu Qing was still a little worried. His gaze shifted to the boy embedded in the wall, and he sighed before stepping forward to check his injuries.
To his surprise, the boy showed no appreciation at all, raising his hand to slap away Xu Qing's outstretched hand.
Seeing this, Xu Qing stopped interfering, withdrew his hand, and stood to one side.
Ten minutes later.
Inside the academic affairs office of Eastsea Academy's intermediate division, the atmosphere was so oppressive it was suffocating.
Long Hengxu looked sternly at the five boys lined up before him.
His expression softened slightly as his gaze passed over Xu Qing, but the moment it landed on the other four, his face darkened again.
"Tell me, how exactly did this conflict start?" Long Hengxu asked gravely.
Zhou Changxi, Yun Xiao, Tang Wulin, and the aloof boy who had refused Xu Qing's help all stood silently in the line, not daring to speak.
Seeing this, Xu Qing spoke up for Tang Wulin. "Director Long, I know Tang Wulin. I believe he wouldn't hit anyone for no reason."
Seeing Xu Qing stand up for him, Tang Wulin took a deep breath and stepped forward, giving a clear and complete account of the dorm room conflict.
After hearing the whole story, Long Hengxu's gaze turned thoroughly grim, and he looked coldly at Zhou Changxi and Yun Xiao.
"Is that what happened? A country bumpkin, was it?"
Under Long Hengxu's imposing questioning, the pressure on the two doubled. Not daring to lie, they could only nod in acknowledgment with ugly expressions.
The aloof boy standing to one side twitched the corner of his mouth, inwardly speechless.
So I was just unlucky today and happened to walk straight into the line of fire, huh!
Although today's conflict had not started over bedding as it had in the original story, Zhou Changxi's overbearing, unreasonable nature had not changed. He had started targeting Tang Wulin as soon as Tang Wulin arrived at the dorm, and in the end, the original story played out.
After learning the truth, Long Hengxu delivered a relatively fair judgment, with punishments largely consistent with those in the original story.
Zhou Changxi, Yun Xiao, and the aloof boy were punished by being placed in Class Five.
Although Tang Wulin had acted in self-defense, the fight had damaged the dorm room's walls, door, windows, and beds, so he had to pay the full repair costs.
As for Xu Qing, who had not participated in the fight at all and had even offered help, he naturally bore no blame.
Once the ruling was over, the four walked out of the academic affairs office with Xu Qing in silence.
None of them looked particularly happy, especially Tang Wulin, whose brow was filled with dejection.
He had only just enrolled and had yet to adjust to anything, only to be saddled with a fine out of nowhere. He could hardly help feeling a little depressed.
However, as they were leaving, Long Hengxu gave Xu Qing a long, meaningful look.
A rank-twenty-three Soul Grandmaster, and his Martial Soul is Blue Silver Grass, known as a trash Martial Soul. He really is an, uh... oddball, a monster.
After Xu Qing registered, his information had reached Long Hengxu. After all, with two geniuses arriving at the academy at once, he had to know about them in advance.
He had been stunned when he first saw Xu Qing's information, too, but after thinking for a moment, he had convinced himself.
In his view, Xu Qing's Blue Silver Grass had probably evolved just like that little fellow's, awakening a trace of kingly bloodline.
Otherwise, there was simply no explaining it.
This also spared Xu Qing the trouble of finding an excuse himself.
And that boy named Tang Wulin is also a Blue Silver Grass Soul Master. Does everyone with Blue Silver Grass cultivate this quickly now?
As for Xie Xie, Long Hengxu had done that deliberately. It was merely a matter of balance, and besides, it was that man's class. With him there, nothing could possibly go wrong.
The mere thought of that man gave Long Hengxu a headache, and he let out a deep sigh.