The training hall announced closing ti, and the broadcast system alerted all the students inside that they could leave now.
Su Yunjin lowered her arms in dejection, thinking that although she enrolled in late May just like Yan Yu, he was already so formidable, while she still stumbled through her incantations...
Maybe she really wasn't suited to be a cultivator?
With a sowhat dim expression, she pondered, and Lin Ning, standing beside her, although not displaying much distress on her face, was likely thinking along similar lines.
Not to ntion catching up, we're not even on the sa level, she thought as she looked at her own palm.
The straight-black-haired beauty who had always been first in her class from elentary to high school was encountering the daunting force of a downgrade strike for the first ti.
Seeing the two girls experiencing a collapse of their worldviews, Chen Lingyun laughed even more cheerfully and walked over to hook her arm around Lin Ning's waist, then pinched Su Yunjin's cheek, saying,
"Co on, co on~ Don't look so unhappy. College life is still long, there's plenty of ti to surpass that soone~"
Chen Lingyun's words had struck a chord with Su Yunjin, who felt sowhat embarrassed, while Lin Ning argued,
"It's not because I want to surpass him, it's just because I'm not learning well, that's why..."
"Little Lin Ning is quite a determined girl," Chen Lingyun said with a smile.
"Don't call Little Lin Ning!" Lin Ning protested with embarrassnt and annoyance.
Yan Yu quietly observed from the sidelines, thinking that it was no re coincidence that these three girls were friends in their past lives.
Chen Lingyun, this trashy woman, surely hadn't changed her vile character of toying with others. If it had been a girl who was a little less perceptive, not flipping out on her would have been good enough.
Those who could be friends with her were either gentle-natured young ladies like Su Yunjin or earnest eccentrics like Lin Ning, who always focused on the main issue and didn't sweat the small stuff.
After seeing the three young ladies to the girls' dormitory building, Yan Yu leisurely headed back to his own dorm.
On the first day of enrollnt, he had added three goddess-level friends, and he had confird that his basic skills in combat hadn't deteriorated. Great.
A fulfilling day.
Although he seed to have forgotten sothing, it didn't really matter.
Back at the dorm, he arrived on the second floor just in ti to see several boys chatting in the hallway.
Yan Yu glanced briefly, recognizing only one of the three boys.
In the forr life at Zhendong International Academy, within the first batch of a hundred or so cultivators, only five left a deep impression on him: apart from Chen Lingyun, Su Yunjin, and Lin Ning whom he already knew, there were Qiu Ze and Sun Ziyi.
Sun Ziyi was the late bloor type, truly remarkable not until he acquired the "Formless Sword"; Qiu Ze, on the other hand, stood out much earlier, otherwise Chen Lingyun wouldn't have selected him for the team.
The guy leaning against the wall with a towel over his shoulder was Qiu Ze. He was extroverted and good at socializing, always speaking with a smirk, a typical "fair-weather friend" among the boys. In the past life, he was extrely skilled in the Shifting Technique and Cloud Ascension Technique, which is why Chen Lingyun recruited him for reconnaissance and support roles in her team.
Suddenly, Qiu Ze turned his head, looked at Yan Yu with a smile, and said,
"Hey, you live in 202, right?"
It seed like a casual guess, but it was actually a simple deduction—he had spent the afternoon getting to know all the neighbors on the second floor, and Yan Yu was the only one he hadn't seen because he had been out with Chen Lingyun for dinner and training.
"That's right," Yan Yu nodded, "My na is Yan Yu, and I live in 202."
"Qiu Ze, room 204," Qiu Ze replied with a friendly smile, "We're playing gas and grouping up tonight in the dorm, want to join us?"
"Gaming is out, it's already 11 pm," Yan Yu politely declined.
"Alright, maybe next ti," Qiu Ze said with a smile.
Unlike Chen Lingyun's taunting "You look like an idiot, you know?" smirk, Qiu Ze's smile was ant to seem approachable and harmless, so Yan Yu didn't hold any ill will against him.
After swiping his key card and opening the door to his room, Yan Yu's expression froze instantly. Seizing the mont before anyone else could notice, he quickly shut the door behind him, firmly locking it.
I rembered, I know what I had forgotten...
The Demonic Sect Enchantress, Zhao Yuanzhen, was currently sitting at his desk, one leg propped up, hands crossed over her chest, eyes glaring coldly at him with sinister aggression, apparently, she had been stood up for most of the day and was showing signs of going mad with fury.
Yan Yu instantly felt sowhat guilty, but then he recalled this Demonic Sect Enchantress by nature was extrely malevolent, and was only holding back because she feared the powerful master behind him who, in actuality, didn't exist. Should he show any weakness, she would imdiately sense sothing was amiss, making it troubleso to suppress her later.
Therefore, Yan Yu quickly cast aside any guilt he had forgotten her, stating indifferently:
"I was on a mission from my master. What, you have a problem with that?"
At the ntion of "master's orders," Zhao Yuanzhen instantly deflated, not even daring to mutter a few words of complaint in her heart, only managing to say in a mumbled, aggrieved tone:
"I don't have a problem, but as dual cultivation partners, shouldn't you at least inform before you leave? This is also my first ti joining this sect, I'm unfamiliar with everything around here, and then you weren't even by my side..."
"Ha?" Yan Yu revealed a mockingly baffled smile, "What are you talking about, you are a cultivator!"
In the past life, you were pursued by the authorities, fleeing from Jiangnan all the way to Jiujiang, Jingnan, Bajun, Nanchuan, Nanjiang... running 1800 kiloters along the river, killing and slaughtering countless along the way, were you not domineering and brazen then? Now you tell you're scared in unfamiliar environnts? You must be joking!
A sly and cunning Demonic Sect Enchantress!
"I know..." Zhao Yuanzhen also seed to lack confidence, trying hard to justify herself, "Although I am a cultivator, I am also a woman, isn't it normal to feel fear?"
Starting to play the gender card now, are we?
Yan Yu was not fooled by her seemingly weak deanor, replying coldly with arms crossed:
"Really? I don't believe it."
Zhao Yuanzhen: .........
She didn't continue speaking, just silently lowering her head, her fists clenched tightly between her legs, thinking resentfully:
"...Today, the scoundrel left waiting for half a day, I kept vigil in my room without a bite to eat or drink, only to be ridiculed by him for 'not seeming like a cultivator,' this is a great grudge!"
"If one day I turn the tables and take charge, I'll make sure to tether a dog leash around the scoundrel's neck, so he won't be able to step away from even by half a step!"
Imagining the scoundrel groveling and fawning over her, Zhao Yuanzhen's anger dissipated by a significant amount, and she asked:
"The seals on the puppets are also ready, would you like to take a look?"
"Show ."
Zhao Yuanzhen took out two Silver Pellets, pinched a magic formula, and infused them with True Yuan. The two puppets imdiately grew against the wind, reaching a height of 1.7 ters in seconds, standing slim and graceful, delightfully lovely, they looked exactly like Zhao Yuanzhen, like three identical triplet sisters.
With another pinch of a magic formula, the puppets reverted back into Silver Pellets, spinning nimbly in the palm of her hand.
"Very well," Yan Yu took a Silver Pellet and stored it away solemnly, "This thing isn't easy to test out in the open, better keep it for ergencies."
As for why they couldn't test it openly, Zhao Yuanzhen now had a rough idea: this world had no sectarian disputes, the Imperial jurisdiction was incredibly strict, requiring all techniques and treasures to be registered and their sources explained clearly.
Puppetry was the hallmark of the Qiansi Sect, how could they explain its origin? If they registered it with the authorities today, i Yingxue would co after them tomorrow.
"Of course," Zhao Yuanzhen hesitated for a mont before suddenly saying, "Yan Yu?"
"What?"
"Why don't I just move in with you," Zhao Yuanzhen laid down on his bed, looking at the ceiling, "We have to dual cultivate every evening, always using the Invisibility Technique to co and go, it's quite botherso for ."
"Don't be silly," Yan Yu shook his head, "Haven't you noticed that all the residents here are male cultivators?"
"That's why I can't understand why the residences for male and female cultivators have to be separated, it's absurd," Zhao Yuanzhen comnted, "We are all cultivators, yet still bound by the moral and ethical constraints of the mundane world, what kind of archaic and conservative sect is this!"
"Living together now would be too conspicuous," Yan Yu pondered for a mont before replying, "In a while, when the ti is right, we'll find a place outside to live together."
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