Working-student dormitory.
Tang San looked at Xiao Wu’s bed in the corner.
Xiao Wu’s small pink bundle was still there, bringing him a slight sense of comfort.
Even if Meng Chen flirted with Xiao Wu in class, so what?
Xiao Wu, just like him, was only a working student and could only live in the working-student dormitory.
She still had to come back to sleep.
Proximity yields first access; he had an advantage Meng Chen lacked.
“Sister Xiao Wu!”
Wang Sheng’s shout attracted Tang San’s attention.
Tang San turned his head to look outside the door, seeing Xiao Wu’s return, and joy flashed in his eyes.
He just knew it; Xiao Wu would definitely come back.
However, the moment his joy bubbled up, it was snuffed out by Meng Chen, who was following right behind Xiao Wu.
“Why is this guy following Xiao Wu as well?”
A trace of displeasure welled up in the depths of Tang San’s eyes, and he mentally cursed Meng Chen, thinking he was truly like a ghost lingering on.
Seeing Xiao Wu return, the working students in the dormitory all successively called her Sister Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu slightly raised her head, very much enjoying the feeling of being an older sister.
“Xiao Wu, you are back.”
Tang San stepped forward to greet her, originally expecting to receive an enthusiastic response from Xiao Wu, but Xiao Wu merely nodded, walked over to her bed, and picked up her small pink bundle.
Seeing Xiao Wu take away the bundle, Tang San grew somewhat anxious and reached out to grab the other corner of the bundle.
“Tang San, what are you doing!”
Seeing that Tang San was trying to snatch her things, a trace of anger surfaced on Xiao Wu’s small face, and she raised her leg to kick directly at Tang San.
Tang San dodged aside and also let go of the bundle.
Seeing this scene, Meng Chen also stepped forward and stood in front of Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu tightly guarded her bundle, looking at Tang San vigilantly.
Seeing that Xiao Wu had misunderstood, Tang San hurriedly explained, “I, Xiao Wu, I did not mean to.
I just wanted to ask where you are going with your luggage?”
“Where Xiao Wu goes has nothing to do with you.”
Before Xiao Wu could speak, Meng Chen retorted first, coldly staring at Tang San.
Xiao Wu nodded in agreement, “That is right, where I go has nothing to do with you!”
Seeing Meng Chen and Xiao Wu acting in such a synchronized manner, Tang San’s mental defense somewhat shattered, and he said anxiously,
“How does it not concern me?
Xiao Wu, you are the boss of Dorm Seven.
If you leave, what will happen to our Dorm Seven?”
“That is right, Sister Xiao Wu, where are you going?”
“Sister Xiao Wu, you are not going to move dormitories, are you?”
“Sister Xiao Wu…”
Tang San’s words resonated with the other working students, and they all began to ask where Xiao Wu was going.
Seeing that her underlings were all asking, Xiao Wu did not hide it either.
“Mm, I am indeed moving dormitories.
After all, I am a girl, and living together with so many boys like you is not appropriate.”
“However, since you all call me Sister Xiao Wu, Sister Xiao Wu will not ignore you.
If you encounter trouble in the academy or are bullied by anyone, you can come find Sister Xiao Wu, and Sister Xiao Wu will beat them back for you!”
After Wang Sheng and the others thought about it for a moment, they felt that what Xiao Wu said made sense.
The adults in the village had also said that once boys grew up, they could no longer sleep in the same room as girls.
Before leaving, Xiao Wu gave Tang San one final glance—not out of reluctance to part, but out of alienation and vigilance.
She seriously suspected that Tang San was the one Meng Chen called a pedophile.
Tang San stood in place, once again watching Xiao Wu leave following Meng Chen, yet he could do nothing.
Even more incompetent than an incompetent husband.
“Meng Chen!
Do not think you have won just like this.
Just wait, once I obtain my first Soul Ring, I will take Xiao Wu back!”
Tang San gritted his teeth, the flames of anger burning in his eyes and incinerating his rationality, forcing the words out one by one from between his teeth.
…
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month passed.
Meng Chen adapted to the life at Notting Academy.
During the day, he attended classes and casually fed Xiao Wu.
At night, he meditated to Cultivate and accumulated Soul Power.
Although his cultivation was still stuck at rank ten, the Soul Power accumulated through Cultivate was all stored up, and it would be automatically released once he achieved a Breakthrough.
It was another day off.
The dormitory door was knocked on, and Meng Chen opened it.
Xiao Wu’s petite figure came into view, wearing a white dress he had bought for her, with white short socks on her calves, as playful and cute as ever.
“A-Chen, today is a day off, why did you not call me to go out and play?”
Xiao Wu pouted her lips, with some Life Qi, her rabbit ears standing straight up.
Seeing this, Meng Chen pinched Xiao Wu’s puffed-up cheeks and gently explained,
“Do not have Life Qi, it is not that I was not looking for you to play, it is that I have something to do today and need to go on a long trip, which might take several days.”
“A long trip?
A-Chen, what are you going to do?” Hearing this, Xiao Wu hurriedly asked further.
Meng Chen: “You also know that I am Innate full Soul Power, and as soon as my Martial Soul Awakens I can obtain my first Soul Ring.
My teacher sent me a letter yesterday saying she wants me to ask for leave today and go hunting for Martial Souls with her to help me obtain my first Soul Ring.”
“A teacher, A-Chen, you have a teacher?” Xiao Wu was startled.
Meng Chen nodded, “Mm, a teacher I acknowledged before enrolling.”
“All right then, A-Chen, go and return early.”
Xiao Wu wasn’t too disappointed.
Just right, she could also take advantage of this opportunity to condense her first Soul Ring.
Reaching out to stroke Xiao Wu’s head once more, Meng Chen watched her leave.
Afterwards, Meng Chen found Director Su and asked for ten days of leave.
Director Su asked what he was going to do, and Meng Chen said he was hunting for his first Soul Ring.
Director Su did not ask any further and directly approved the leave.
Leaving Notting Academy, Meng Chen did not rush to go to Star Dou Great Forest, but instead returned to Xiahe Village.
Seeing Meng Chen return, Grandpa Village Chief was both surprised and delighted.
“Child Chen, why have you come back?”
“Grandpa Village Chief, I asked the academy for ten days of leave.
My teacher is going to take me to hunt Martial Souls, and once I acquire my first Soul Ring, I will be a Soul Master in the future.”
Meng Chen explained softly.
Upon hearing that Meng Chen was going to become a Soul Master, the old village chief was overjoyed, hurriedly calling his daughter-in-law to slaughter a chicken and inviting Meng Chen to have a meal at his house.
While eating, Meng Chen talked about the interesting events at the academy, making the old village chief laugh heartily, his eyes filled with gratification.
After finishing the meal, Meng Chen returned to his little home, and the figure of Ye Xishui appeared.
“Little fellow, I did not find the Soul Bone you wanted, but I managed to get a piece of ten-thousand-year whale gum.”
Hearing this, Meng Chen was somewhat surprised, “You did not find the Soul Bone?”
Ye Xishui slightly nodded, “Mm, that back mountain of Holy Soul Village that you mentioned has no waterfall, nor does it have a Soul Bone.”
Meng Chen fell silent.
After recalling the original work, he cursed inwardly.
“F*ck!
Fanfiction has deceived me!”
Meng Chen only then remembered that in the original work, there was no mention at all of the back mountain of Holy Soul Village hiding the Blue Silver Emperor and her Soul Bone.
The true location of the Blue Silver Emperor was among a range of mountains.
Tang San had cultivated there for two years before going to the Blue Silver Forest.
After completing the Awakening of the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline, he then went to Slaughter City.
Whatever nonsense about the Blue Silver Emperor being hidden in the back mountain of Holy Soul Village was completely made up by fanfiction writers!
“If it is not there, then so be it.”
Meng Chen felt it was a bit of a pity, but did not care too much—it was just a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone.
Immediately after, Ye Xishui took out that piece of ten-thousand-year whale gum.
Ye Xishui: “Let us begin.”
Meng Chen nodded.
A ball of blazing golden flames ignited in Ye Xishui’s palm, first wrapping around a piece of whale gum.
Under the scorching of the Phoenix flames, the whale gum gradually underwent changes.
Gradually, a strange fragrance emitted from the whale gum.
The fragrance was extremely rich, yet it condensed without dispersing, merely lingering within a range of about one meter in diameter around Ye Xishui’s hand.
A faint golden brilliance began to emanate from the whale gum, turning it into a strange dark golden color.
And as the heat increased, it also began to turn into a soft colloidal substance.
Upon entering the mouth, the whale gum had a thick fishy smell, but very quickly, the fishy smell would turn into a warm current flowing into the abdomen.
Not only that, after entering the abdomen, this whale gum would instead echo a faint fragrance exhaled from the nostrils; this sensation was truly somewhat wonderful.
Just after eating the first piece of whale gum, Meng Chen felt his chest and abdomen warm up.
The comforting warmth gradually turned into a scorching heat, and Meng Chen only felt rolling warm currents continuously flowing through his limbs and bones.
Soon, sweat began to overflow from his body, as if slowly expelling the Impurities within his body.
In a short while, the large piece of whale gum had all been eaten by Meng Chen.
Meng Chen’s skin flushed red, and even his sweat was a faint reddish-brown, quickly dyeing his entire set of clothes dark red.
Although reddish-brown sweat was flowing out, at this moment the vigor of Meng Chen’s blood and Qi was even more exuberant than that of an adult…