The hotel owner rummaged under the counter.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up. He stood up abruptly.
"Let me show you some color!"
Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu were ready to activate their Martial Souls at any moment. Even Ye Fan was prepared to protect Xiao Wu.
The hotel owner, holding something in his hand, strode towards Ye Fan.
He threw his hand open, revealing a red card.
"What color is this?"
The three of them looked at each other, puzzled.
Xiao Wu couldn't help but ask, "Red?"
"That's right, red."
"Alright, the color check is done."
"I won't keep you three from checking in."
The hotel owner immediately retreated back to the counter.
They really gave me a taste of their colors, Ye Fan chuckled inwardly. As expected of the system, it wouldn't make a mistake.
Zhu Zhuqing hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to go upstairs and stay. Since the issue here was resolved, there was no need to change locations.
New places often bring new trouble.
Ye Fan and Xiao Wu followed Zhu Zhuqing's footsteps as they slowly went upstairs.
Zhu Zhuqing walked to her room's door,
and suddenly turned her head, her gaze icily fixed on Ye Fan.
"Why are you following me?"
Her first thought was that Ye Fan and the hotel owner were in cahoots,
both after her with ill intentions.
"Who's following you,"
"Get lost."
Ye Fan rolled his eyes. He stepped forward and casually pushed Zhu Zhuqing to the side, entering the adjacent room.
Xiao Wu also hmphed and followed him inside.
"Slap!"
The sound of the door closing echoed.
Zhu Zhuqing stared blankly at the door of the next room. After a long while, she finally entered her own room.
Back inside,
Ye Fan immediately began to cultivate quietly, while Xiao Wu hugged Ye Fan and slept.
Late at night,
As Ye Fan was in the middle of his cultivation,
there was a knock on his door.
Ye Fan frowned and pushed Xiao Wu to the side. "Who is it?"
There was no response. Ye Fan casually summoned a few protective plants just in case, before opening the door.
The one knocking on his door was none other than Zhu Zhuqing, a forced smile on her face.
"What is it?"
"I wanted to thank you properly, about what happened today..."
"No need,"
The door slammed shut.
Zhu Zhuqing was caught in a mental struggle for half the night. Finally, she mustered the courage to knock on the door to thank him and apologize for her previous doubts.
But before she could finish, the door closed.
She was stunned.
It was the first time in her life she'd encountered someone like this.
In the end, she didn't dare knock again. She turned around and went back into the room.
Lying on the bed, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
The inner conflict was immense.
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless one.
The next morning, Ye Fan and Xiao Wu left the hotel they'd stayed in for two days. They exited Soto City through the south gate and headed towards their destination.
"Brother Fan, do you know where Shrek Academy is?"
After leaving Soto City, they followed the road south. On both sides of the official road,
there were vast fields of farmland. Soto City's reputation as the breadbasket of the Barack Kingdom wasn't for nothing.
However, besides the large fields, as far as the eye could see,
there wasn't any building that looked like an academy.
"Let's just walk slowly. We'll see it eventually,"
Ye Fan smiled and didn't say anything more.
Following the path through the fields, a small village soon appeared before their eyes.
At the entrance of the village, there was a dilapidated wooden archway.
On it, the words "Shrek Academy" were written in large, tattered characters.
In front of these five characters, there was a green emblem that looked like the head of a humanoid monster.
At the entrance of the village, there was an antique table that looked very old. Behind the table sat an old man in his sixties. The old man sat behind the table, handling the registration work for the long queue.
Ye Fan thought to himself, This should be Soul Emperor Li Yusong.
Xiao Wu frowned and said, "Brother Fan, this is the Shrek Academy you were talking about? It's a bit too run-down, isn't it?"
"It's not even a third of the size of Notting Academy."
But seeing that Ye Fan didn't seem to want to leave, Xiao Wu immediately changed her tone. "If it's too run-down, I won't go. But if it's in this kind of shape, I have to see what's going on."
The line of over a hundred people seemed long, but the registration process was surprisingly quick.
Ye Fan scanned the line and spotted Tang San in the middle.
A young man approached the table to register.
Li Yusong said lazily, "The registration fee is ten Gold Soul Coins. Just put them in that box."
The young man's accompanying father hurriedly took out ten Gold Soul Coins and placed them in a box made of several wooden boards.
"Hold out your hand."
The young man did as he was told, extending his hand to Li Yusong. Li Yusong pinched the young man's hand a couple of times and then shook his head at him.
"You don't meet the age requirement. You can leave."
His father quickly put on a smile, saying, "Teacher, my son just had his thirteenth birthday. Could you perhaps make an exception?"
Li Yusong said with some impatience, "Don't hold up those behind you. Don't you know the academy's rules? We only accept children under the age of thirteen."
"Anyone over thirteen will not be accepted. You can leave."
The young man's father hesitated for a moment. "Then our registration fee..."
Li Yusong said without any politeness, "Once registered, there are no refunds."
The young man's father couldn't help but get angry.
"What a terrible academy you have! You're clearly just trying to swindle us!"
"Give us back the registration fee!"
Li Yusong lazily called out, "Mubai, handle this."
Beside him, a figure suddenly sprang up from the ground. "If you want your registration fee back, beat me, and I'll refund it in full."
This person was Dai Mubai. Because he had been sitting to the side, blocked by the crowd, Ye Fan hadn't seen him.
Different from when Ye Fan saw him that day, the expression on his face was somewhat helpless.
Three soul rings, two yellow and one purple, pulsed beneath his feet. A pressure fell upon the person who wanted to get their registration fee back. "If you can beat me, I'll refund the entire registration fee!"
"Damn it!"
The father and son duo left those words and quickly ran away.
With this happening, the queue that had been forming instantly thinned out by more than half, and it was soon Tang San's turn.
Dai Mubai finally saw Tang San at this moment, a smile appeared on his cold face. He nodded to them, then pointed at the old man, spreading his hands, making a helpless expression.
After the battle, Dai Mubai naturally knew Tang San's purpose. Dai Mubai still very much hoped that Tang San could enter the academy; it would be much easier to spar with him in the future.
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