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"Xiao Xiao, I haven't seen you for more than two years. You've grown a lot taller."
"You too, Wang Dong. I haven't seen you for a while. You've become taller and more handsome now... I never thought we'd meet again."
At the border between the Sun-Moon Empire and the Tianhun Empire, Young Master Wang Dong welcomed the most beautiful day of her life—
When she woke up on the soft silk bed in the reception area of a five-star hotel, she saw the most important target of her trip, Xiao Xiao, standing outside the door, looking at her with affectionate and longing eyes.
A huge surprise spread through his mind. Young Master Wang Dong jumped up from the bed, changed his pajamas into tight clothes, gave Xiao Xiao a big hug, and held Xiao Xiao's hand to reminisce about the past.
A lot has changed in the past two years, especially Xiao Xiao, who is in a critical period of growth and development. She is no longer the petite girl who was scared to tears by Xu Tianxi's threats.
And Wang Dong… was also quite well-developed, with soft facial lines outlining an incredibly handsome face. He was a fair-skinned young man, and as he held Xiao Xiao's hand, he had a rather demure air about him…
At least in the eyes of Ling Luochen who was outside the door, this was a genuine scumbag. After more than two years, when he saw Xiao Xiao, he couldn't wait to grab her hands and put them on his face. At first glance, he was a lustful pig's hoof.
You have to learn from Xu Sanshi. Although the young master of Xuanming Sect hangs out with Jiang Nannan every day, he really protects her with his life. As for you...tsk tsk.
"Xiao Xiao has been dependent on me and Senior Sister for the past two years. As her senior sister, I have to keep a close eye on her. Wang Dong is the Young Master of the Haotian Sect. It's hard to say whether he's truly in love with her, otherwise he would have come to rescue Xiao Xiao long ago."
Ling Luochen subconsciously regarded herself as Xiao Xiao's older sister and elder, and was planning in her mind to prepare a test for Wang Dong, who was more than two years late.
You are the young master of the Clear Sky Sect, and our Xiao Xiao also has twin martial souls. Both of his martial souls are not inferior to the Clear Sky Hammer. The future is bright, and the Sun-Moon Empire is training him with all its strength. Not to mention the Extreme Douluo, you can definitely expect to become a level 98 Super Douluo.
Thinking of this, Ling Luochen perked up and glanced at Wang Dong's cultivation. His eyes were surprised for a moment, and a hint of disgust flashed across them.
"It's been more than two years, how come this guy looks like he just recently broke through to the Soul Sect level? He was already a Soul Master during the competition, and he's still not as good as Xiao Xiao."
When Xiao Xiao was imprisoned in the first competition, his cultivation level was close to that of a Soul Master. For more than two years, he received special care from Xu Tianxi and Jing Hongchen. He was supplied with all kinds of rare treasures without measure, and his daily cultivation was taught by Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen.
Xu Sanshi would occasionally take Jiang Nannan with him to take care of him, and at the same time find out if Xiao Xiao had any tendency to defect.
After killing Qian Duoduo and Lin Huiqun, Xu Tianxi divided the captured soul bones among them. One of the ten thousand year soul bones was given to Xiao Xiao as encouragement for her to break through to the Soul Master level.
It's a bit like coaxing a child.
Not long ago, Xu Tianxi killed Xian Lin'er and picked out a piece of the best soul bone for Xiao Xiao, aiming to make no waste at all and use Shrek's resources to train the talents he got from Shrek.
With the huge amount of resources poured in, more than two years later, Xiao Xiao had become a Soul Master, and his soul power was just two levels higher than Wang Dong's.
In this comparison, Wang Dong, the lazy dog, seems to be so useless.
With the abundant resources of the Haotian Sect and Shrek, you're still inferior to Xiao Xiao from the Sun Moon Empire? Have you been living a life of debauchery for the past two years?
Ling Luochen silently labeled Wang Dong in his heart as "not serious about cultivation, suspected of being fond of philandering and delaying cultivation". He planned to talk to Zhang Lexuan after returning and ask Zhang Lexuan to supervise Wang Dong, the guy who grabbed his hand right away.
Wang Dong naturally didn't know that she was labeled as miserable because of her laziness in cultivation, and because she forgot to take into account that she was a man, she gave Ling Luochen a very bad first impression.
The joy of meeting her good friend for the first time gave her endless words to talk about, and she confided in Xiao Xiao. Xiao Xiao, with a slightly blushing cheek, responded casually, and it was almost a question-and-answer session.
"Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao, have you been doing well these past two years? Have you been wronged?"
"No, no, the treatment I received in the Sun-Moon Empire was quite good. I had a dormitory and an apartment. The conditions were much better than those in Shrek. The teachers here didn't force me to learn soul guides. I could cultivate completely from the heart."
Xiao Xiao compared the luxurious apartment she had been accustomed to living in for the past two years with Shrek's old and shabby ten-square-meter double dormitory. Her eyes twitched and she didn't want to mention it anymore.
After collecting their registration fees and tuition fees, no one knows how much money Shrek has embezzled. They can't even build a dormitory building, let alone a cafeteria. The dishes served to the core disciples are far inferior.
After entering the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy, Xiao Xiao was naturally selected into the Practical Control Department, which generally only required students to be able to use soul guides and attend classes.
However, twin soul master geniuses were too rare, and it was rare to see one in the Sun-Moon Empire in the past hundred years, so Xiao Xiao was completely allowed to let herself go.
As for the so-called teaching tasks, they were completely non-existent, and there was no nonsense of glory to brainwash people. Instead, Xiao Xiao was assigned two older students as study partners.
Of course, they are all female students.
The only requirement for Xiao Xiao is to punch in and sign in at the fighting arena, participate in the daily combat training of the practical control department, fully learn the desperate fighting spirit of Chief Ji Juechen, treat all the masters in the academy as targets to challenge, and develop strong strength in actual combat.
Actual combat was no big deal for Xiao Xiao. At first, she even thought that challenging someone to a fight and being sent to the Academic Affairs Office for confinement if someone forcibly caused a fight on campus were too civilized.
People say that the Sun-Moon Empire is completely different from the original Three Kingdoms. Xiao Xiao roughly understood what the difference was. It was indeed the gap in civilization.
Think about that damn old woman Zhou Yi in Shrek Academy who forced them to run a hundred laps just because they didn't fight at the start of the school term, and expelled them from the academy if they didn't finish the required number of laps. Tsk tsk, there's no comparison.
"I'm glad you didn't suffer any injustice here. Do you have any money on you? The Sun and Moon Empire didn't take your wallet, right?" Wang Dong asked.
"I'm quite wealthy. Until a few months ago, the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy gave me a monthly stipend of 1,000 gold soul coins. After I achieved the Soul Sect breakthrough, they gave me quite a bit of money. If I need anything else, I can even apply for an interest-free student loan."
Xiao Xiao calculated her own account. She should have a deposit of nearly 100,000 gold soul coins, right?
"Eh? Then why did they stop it for you? Is it because you are a Soul Sect member that they won't pay you?" Wang Dong frowned.
Xiao Xiao's expression changed slightly, and she replied faintly, "Because the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy was destroyed by Shrek's terrorist attack, it's still being rebuilt, so they can't take care of us for the time being."
"However, during this period, we have been placed in the Mingdu City Hotel. The academy said that once the academy is rebuilt, various subsidies will be gradually replenished."
Shrek in the groove is useless!
Wang Dong's face changed, and he cursed the hateful Shrek in his heart. He patted his chest and said, "Xiao Xiao, you must know that this matter has nothing to do with me. I am firmly against Shrek's reckless behavior, which caused so many students to die tragically and be captured."
"I know about this, and I definitely won't blame you." Xiao Xiao smiled.
"That's good. By the way, where are your parents? I remember you have a family..." Wang Dong asked again.
"They were brought here a long time ago. They arranged jobs for my parents nearby. My father is now a security guard, and my mother works part-time in the cafeteria. Apart from sometimes missing home, the salary and benefits are pretty good."
When Xiao Xiao said this, she couldn't help but sigh that the arrangements made by the people of the Sun and Moon Empire were very comprehensive and too humanitarian, to the point that it was beyond imagination.
In the past, she was a genius with twin martial spirits in Shrek, but she still had to be subjected to daily PUA in the academy. Although there was nothing wrong with treating everyone equally, Kong Tianxi told her that in order to cultivate geniuses, one must insist on differentiation.
A thousand-mile horse needs to eat better and finer food to show its difference from a slow horse. A genius with twin martial souls should be treated preferentially in the early stages so that he can unleash his greater potential in the later stages.
Is there a problem with this? I don't think so.
Xu Tianxi completely refuted Shrek's philosophy. Xiao Xiao thought about it carefully and found that there was no problem. Recently, even her senior sister Zhang Lexuan had been advising her to give up her thoughts on Shrek.
Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan also often came to persuade her to adapt to the environment. Maybe when she cultivated to become a Soul Emperor or Soul Saint and possessed considerable strength, she would be able to travel the continent by herself?
After thinking for a while, Xiao Xiao pursed her lips and said:
"Wang Dong, if you're here on behalf of Shrek to persuade me to go back, I think you'd better not say it. I'm afraid that Senior Sister and the academy will misunderstand."
Wang Dong immediately became anxious, tightly grasped Xiao Xiao's hand, and shook it, saying:
"That's absolutely impossible! I've already severed all ties with Shrek. It doesn't seem like there's any particular favor between us, but I've severed all ties! I came here to find you!"