Chapter 35: First Meeting with Dugu Yan

Zhou Huan likewise saw the gazes of those guards.

However, Zhou Huan took an enrollment notice out from his Storage Soul Guidance Device, then shook it toward those guards.

The gold-stamped characters on the enrollment notice were clearly visible to those guards; once they saw the enrollment notice clearly, they withdrew their gazes one after another and no longer paid attention to Zhou Huan.

By now, the school term had already begun for three months; this youth holding an enrollment notice must be a child from some noble family who had not been recruited by the academy.

Only now, through the maneuvering of his family, had he obtained this enrollment notice.

Zhou Huan walked into the academy gate holding the enrollment notice; a guard came before Zhou Huan, holding a book, and asked Zhou Huan, "Name, background."

"Heng Zhou, accepting the recommendation of His Highness the Crown Prince to come to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to study." Zhou Huan stated his pseudonym and the identity Qian Renxue had arranged for him.

After the guard finished registering the information, Zhou Huan entered the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

After entering the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, Zhou Huan followed the instructions on the enrollment notice, first going to the academy's academic affairs office to handle the procedures and obtain his dormitory and class.

According to what Zhou Huan knew, the teaching method of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy focused on combining theoretical instruction with practice, emphasizing the cultivation of the students' practical combat abilities.

The academy divided students into three levels based on their soul power: Tianwei Level, Tianzhi Level, and Heaven Dou Level.

Among them, Tianwei Level students have soul power below level 25 and mainly study basic theoretical knowledge; Tianzhi Level students have soul power between level 25 and 30 and begin to encounter practical combat training; while Heaven Dou Level students (above level 30) undergo more advanced tactical training.

Zhou Huan and the now eleven-year-old Dugu Yan were both Tianzhi Level students and were arranged into the same class.

Zhou Huan followed the guidance of the academic affairs office and arrived at his class—the Tianzhi Class.

At this time, not many people had arrived in the class yet, and after Zhou Huan walked in, he did not attract the attention of others.

Zhou Huan casually found a seat and sat down, then began to wait slowly.

Very quickly, the number of people in the class began to increase; after only a dozen minutes, the students of the Tianzhi Class had all arrived in the classroom.

After the students of the Tianzhi Class were all present, some students noticed Zhou Huan's existence, and under the students' chatter, very quickly, all the students discovered Zhou Huan.

Looking at the unfamiliar Zhou Huan, these students began to whisper, one after another guessing Zhou Huan's identity.

Zhou Huan completely ignored these whispering students and turned his gaze toward his target this time—Dugu Yan.

She had unprecedented short purple hair, wore the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy uniform, and possessed a kind of eerie charm; a pair of eyes tinged with green revealed a sense of strangeness.

Dugu Yan sat in the front row of the class; besides one girl, there was no one else around her.

Zhou Huan could not help but look at the girl sitting beside Dugu Yan.

The girl had a head of blue hair that hung down like a waterfall, the color of her pupils was the same as her hair, her eyes were clear and bottomless, devoid of the world's impurities, and her figure was slender and slim; even wearing the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy uniform could not hide the girl's proud charm.

"This hair color, this age, she should be the Nine Heart Begonia Spirit Master from the original work—Ye Lingling. Judging by her aura, she should only be a level 26 two-ring Great Soul Master right now," Zhou Huan thought to himself.

Zhou Huan's gaze did not hide anything, so naturally, others saw that Zhou Huan was looking at Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.

In an instant, the students in the Tianzhi Class began to boil over.

"This guy actually wants to snatch a woman from Yu Tianheng?"

"Is this guy planning to marry into the Ye Family? Looking at Ye Lingling like that."

The conversation, which had been relatively restrained, was now completely unmasked; these voices reached the ears of the two parties involved, also causing the two beauties to turn their heads to look in Zhou Huan's direction, wanting to observe him.

The relationship between Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling was still quite good; in order to solve the problem of the Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison, Dugu Bo had searched for no telling how many people, and Ye Lingling's grandfather, Ye Zhiqian, was one of them.

Moreover, Dugu Yan often needed to detoxify, and the Ye Family's Nine Heart Begonia was naturally the first choice; Dugu Bo often brought Dugu Yan to the Ye Family to detoxify.

Through this back and forth, Dugu Yan became familiar with Ye Lingling, and the two naturally became good friends.

The two turned their heads together and looked at Zhou Huan, who was sitting not far away.

Zhou Huan was also wearing the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy uniform; after years of cultivation, even though Zhou Huan was only nine years old, his face was very delicate.

He could be described as having sword-like brows and star-like eyes, with a nose like a hanging gall; his eyes faintly revealed a sharp light, and his body, due to years of exercise, was already not inferior to an eleven or twelve-year-old youth.

If looking solely at appearance, even if Zhou Huan was not as handsome as Pan An, he was still of the top tier.

However, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were not women from ordinary families; one was the only granddaughter of a Title Douluo, and the other was the granddaughter of the continent's strongest Healing System Soul Master.

The handsome men they had seen were truly not few in number; although Zhou Huan's appearance was not bad, it was not the best, so it could not attract them.

After the two looked for a while, they withdrew their gazes and no longer paid attention to Zhou Huan.

As for those rumors, the two did not bother with them; the more one responded to these rumors, the crazier they became.

Zhou Huan also felt the gazes of Dugu Yan and her companion, but he did not care.

Just as the noise in the class was growing, the classroom door was pushed open with a bang.

A sturdy woman walked into the classroom, and the noise in the entire classroom instantly vanished.

"I only came a little late, and you are already making such a racket; how will you be able to learn knowledge well in the future? If there is a next time, all of you get out," the sturdy woman shouted loudly at the students in the classroom.

Listening to these familiar words, Zhou Huan could not help but wonder if this teacher was also a transmigrator.

However, seeing the students around him acting as if they didn't see it, he knew that this teacher probably said these words often, and these people no longer cared.

Zhou Huan therefore set his mind at ease; the female teacher soon stopped, then came to the podium, opened a book, and prepared to lecture these people.

However, just as the woman opened the book and scanned it casually, she realized something was wrong.

After looking carefully, she saw Zhou Huan, this stranger.

The female teacher frowned and said to Zhou Huan, "This little friend, which class are you a student of? Why haven't I seen you before?"

Zhou Huan stood up and said to the female teacher, "Hello, Teacher. I am a transfer student who just reported today."

As Zhou Huan spoke, he picked up a certificate issued by the academic affairs office and handed it to the female teacher.

The female teacher walked down, took the certificate, looked at it, confirmed that the seal and class were correct, then nodded and said, "Oh, indeed a transfer student for this class. You are called Zhou Huan, right? What level is your soul power?"

The female teacher subconsciously asked according to the rules, then thought that this was just a transfer student who might not have high cultivation and was arranged into this class by relying on his family's power.

Zhou Huan replied, "Level 37 soul power, three-ring Battle Soul Venerable."