Shrek Academy, freshman registration area.
It was the enrollment season, and the freshman teaching building was bustling with people.
The freshmen who had just passed the examination were lining up, waiting to complete their enrollment procedures.
The students in charge of registration sat behind long tables, verifying information while handing out dormitory keys.
For third and fourth-year students, this was an easy job to earn academic credits.
For the academy, this was free labor—a win-win situation.
Lu Ren strolled into the teaching building with one hand in his pocket, walking at a leisurely pace.
His black school uniform was exceptionally eye-catching, and the surrounding freshmen and lower-year students glanced at him, consciously making way.
This was a sixth-year senior; he was not to be trifled with.
Lu Ren did not stand on ceremony; he walked straight to the side of the freshman registration line, pretending to check the registration status while his gaze actually scanned the crowd.
Then, he saw that person.
In the middle of the line, a youth with an exceptionally outstanding appearance was waiting.
With neat powder-blue short hair, fair skin, and a pair of large, equally powder-blue eyes, their features were exquisitely beyond belief.
They wore a simple, fitted outfit, and although they tried hard to keep a straight face, that air of arrogance could not be hidden.
Wang Dong.
Or rather, Wang Donger.
The corners of Lu Ren’s mouth curled up slightly.
Better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early.
“Name?” The senior in charge of registration didn’t even look up, his pen scratching across the register.
“Wang Dong.” A clear voice rang out, and the senior in charge of registration subconsciously looked up.
Then he froze.
This youth, wasn’t he just too good-looking?
A boy looking like this?
He couldn’t help but ask: “Why does a boy like you look so good?”
Wang Dong frowned, his tone carrying obvious impatience: “That doesn’t seem to have anything to do with you, senior.”
The senior gave an awkward smile, lowered his head to flip through the register, and found the corresponding key: “This is the key to dormitory 108.”
Before he finished speaking, a hand reached out from the side and snatched the key away.
The senior was stunned and looked up.
A youth in a black school uniform stood in front of the table, holding the key between his fingertips and spinning it nonchalantly.
That face was very handsome, but its owner’s eyes were exceptionally clear, and he was looking at him with a half-smile right now.
Black school uniform…
Is he a sixth-year student?
Wang Dong was stunned.
The student in charge of registration immediately stood up, his tone becoming a bit more respectful: “Se-Senior!”
Lu Ren ignored him, his gaze falling on Wang Dong, looking him up and down.
“I say, junior.” He spoke, his tone lazy, “Are you really so careless?
Putting a girl into the boys’ dormitory?”
“I recall that the fourth floor and above of the freshman building are for the girls’ dormitory, right?
Why did you put her on the first floor?”
As soon as these words were spoken, the surroundings instantly went quiet.
Wang Dong’s face drained of color at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A flash of panic flickered in those powder-blue eyes, but it was quickly suppressed by her.
How is that possible?
Was I seen through?
The senior in charge of registration was also bewildered, stammering: “Se-Senior, but isn’t he a bo…”
Lu Ren rolled his eyes, his tone carrying obvious disdain, interrupting what he was saying: “Please, can you have some common sense?
You’re a student of Shrek, yet you don’t even know the most basic Spirit knowledge?”
He pointed at Wang Dong, his voice not loud, but clear enough for the people around to hear: “The Radiant Goddess Butterfly Spirit has never had a male possessor in the history of the continent.”
“The Spirit’s name is literally Goddess Butterfly; are you telling me that’s a Spirit a male would have?”
The senior’s mouth hung open in an O-shape.
Lu Ren continued his onslaught, simultaneously tearing away Wang Dong’s disguise in public: “And her Soul Power fluctuations—sense them for yourself.
They are delicate and gentle, lacking the rigid trajectory unique to male Spirit Masters, and instead carry the flexibility of a female Spirit Master.”
“If you still can’t tell, have you returned everything you learned over these years to your teachers?”
Whispers began to arise from the surrounding crowd.
“So she is a girl?
No wonder she looks so good…”
“Is the Radiant Goddess Butterfly really exclusive to females?
I think I’ve seen that in a book…”
Wang Dong’s face flushed red, half from shame and half from anger.
She stared fixedly at Lu Ren, her voice trembling: “You’re talking nonsense!
I am clearly a boy, what right do you have to slander me?”
“Slander?” Lu Ren sneered, his gaze deliberately falling on Wang Dong’s intentionally bound chest, his tone drawn out: “You’ve bound this way too obviously, haven’t you?
To pretend to be a boy, you forcibly flattened yourself; aren’t you tired?”
Wang Dong’s body stiffened.
She subconsciously wanted to cover her chest, but she forcibly held back, only gripping the hem of her clothes tightly, her knuckles turning white.
Having grown up, no one had ever dared to speak to her like this!
She was the young Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect, doted on by her Big Dad and Second Dad, and the entire Clear Sky Sect treated her as the apple of their eye.
Now, for the first time leaving home, for the first time suffering such grievances…
The senior in charge of registration was completely panicked, looking at Wang Dong and then at Lu Ren: “Se-Senior, if this is true, it violates school rules!
Falsifying identity for enrollment…”
“Exactly.” Lu Ren threw the key back onto the table, crossing his arms, “The first rule of Shrek is that fraud is strictly prohibited.”
“This student Wang Dong, oh, or rather, student Wang Donger, don’t you think it would be a pity if you were given a disciplinary record or even expelled?”
Wang Donger bit her lower lip, her eyes slightly reddening, secretly thinking to herself, how on earth did he know my name and true identity?
But her arrogance remained: “You have no evidence!
Based solely on the Spirit and Soul Power fluctuations, you cannot prove that I am a girl!”
“Want evidence?” Lu Ren raised an eyebrow.
He took a step forward.
The distance between the two instantly closed to less than half a meter.
Lu Ren leaned over slightly, leaned close to Wang Donger’s ear, and lowered his voice, so only the two of them could hear: “Do you want me to verify your identity right now?
For example, by tearing off your clothes directly and letting everyone see whether you are a boy or a girl?”
“I believe the eyes of the masses are sharp; that would also save a lot of trouble, wouldn’t you say?”
“This junior…
no, junior sister, you don’t want things to develop to that extent, do you?”
Wang Donger’s pupils contracted sharply.
She took a sudden step back, her powder-blue eyes filled with shame, indignation, and killing intent: “How dare you!”
“What is there to dare not?” Lu Ren straightened up, hands in his pockets, his tone returning to a languid state, “I am a sixth-year senior responsible for supervising the order of freshman enrollment.
Encountering a student with a suspicious identity and verifying it is reasonable and proper, right?”
“This is all for Shrek Academy!”
Lu Ren’s face feigned a look of fanaticism, while in reality, he was satisfied with his acting skills, though he also felt a bit like vomiting.
But he still turned his head to look at the senior in charge of registration, his tone instantly turning cold: “What are you still standing there for?
Hurry up and change her to a girls’ dormitory key, and report it to the Academic Affairs Office so the teachers can handle it.
Otherwise, if a real problem arises, can you bear the responsibility?”
The senior gave a start, nodding repeatedly: “Yes, yes, yes!
I’ll change it right now!”
He scrambled to dig out a new key and handed it to Wang Dong: “Student, Wa-Wang Dong, this is the key to girls’ dormitory 402, on the fourth floor.”
He paused, muttering under his breath: “Having said that, with you pulling this stunt, if something goes wrong, wouldn’t I be the one to suffer as well…”
Wang Donger did not take the key.
She just stared fixedly at Lu Ren, her voice carrying a trace of trembling, yet still stubborn: “What is your name?
I’ve remembered you!”
Lu Ren laughed.
He met that gaze, his eyes full of provocation: “My name is not important.
What’s important is…”
He leaned over slightly, enunciating every word: “In the future at Shrek, play fewer of these little tricks.
If I catch you pretending to be a boy to deceive people again, it won’t be as simple as just changing dormitories.”
Upon hearing him say this, Wang Donger was furious and couldn’t help but shout angrily: “Cut the dump!
Tell me your name!”
“If I don’t tell you, what can you do to me?” Lu Ren couldn’t help but laugh out loud, then four spirit rings rose from beneath his feet, erupting with the Soul Power fluctuations belonging to a Spirit Ancestor, “Hit me?
Do you have the ability to do that?”
Purple, Purple, Black, Black!
Four-Ring Soul Ancestor!
Everyone couldn’t help but gasp when they saw Lu Ren’s spirit rings, which surpassed the optimal configuration.
Wang Donger, seeing this scene, was also very shocked.
Realizing that she couldn’t possibly be his opponent, she took a deep breath, then stared fiercely at Lu Ren, as if she had already carved his appearance into her heart.
Then, forcing back her tears, she snatched the key and turned to walk out.
Her back was straight, yet it could not hide that trace of embarrassment.
The surrounding whispers gradually subsided, and the freshmen’s eyes were filled with awe when they looked at Lu Ren.
This sixth-year senior was not only powerful, but his insight was also too sharp, wasn’t it?
The senior in charge of registration also let out a sigh of relief, looking at Lu Ren gratefully: “Thank you for the reminder, senior!
It was really dangerous just now; if she had really been allowed to live in the boys’ dormitory, the subsequent trouble would have been huge!”
“A small matter.” Lu Ren withdrew his Soul Power, waved his hand, and turned to leave, contentedly absorbing the negative energy generated by Wang Donger, which was Cursed Energy.
If he absorbed a bit more, he should not be far from increasing his Soul Power by another level.
Walking out of the freshman teaching building, Lu Ren held his hands behind his head, the smile on the corners of his mouth unable to be suppressed.
Wang Donger’s identity as a girl had been exposed by him in public, so now she certainly couldn’t approach Huo Yuhao as a “good brother” anymore.
There was already a gap in status and position between the two; one was the little princess of the Clear Sky Sect, the other a wandering orphan.
Without the day-to-day life of sharing a dormitory, what intersection could they possibly have?
That classic plot of “brotherly love” mixed with ambiguity from the original work was now completely gone.
Lu Ren was looking forward to seeing how the plot at Shrek would develop next.
What he looked forward to even more was, above the Divine Realm, how would that Sea God, Tang San, react when he discovered that his daughter hadn’t made contact with Huo Yuhao?
Forced correction?
Or forcing his daughter to make contact with Huo Yuhao?
Lu Ren looked up at the sky; it was clear and cloudless, with nothing unusual.
But who knows.
“What a pity.” He withdrew his gaze and muttered, “I won’t be able to witness what happens next with my own eyes; I don’t have time to watch the show here.”
Electrolux was already in his hands, and the mines that needed to be planted on Shrek’s side had been planted.
Next, it was time to go to the Sun Moon Empire.
… Divine Realm.
In a palace surrounded by clouds and mist, a blue-haired youth suddenly opened his eyes.
He frowned, his gaze seemingly piercing through the endless Void Realm, falling upon a certain place in the Lower Realm.
“Strange, I feel like there has been a change.”
He muttered to himself, then immediately pinched a hand seal to calculate, his tone carrying a trace of confusion.
“What variable has appeared on Wutong’s side?”
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