9 Chapter 9 Rayne's Concerns, And Xiao Wu.
[Ding! The quest has been completed.]
[Distributing the reward…]
[Ding! Congratulations for getting a 1000-year-old Trunk Soul Bone of Titan Giant Ape.]
As he heard the system notification in his mind and a brand new soul bone in his Gate of Ashburn, Rayne smiled lightly.
"Didn't trigger the critical reward… I guess Gate of Ashburn's luck bonus doesn't apply to system rewards…"
Rayne mused to himself and walked away from the place, intending to look for the living quarters of work-study students.
His goal is to check up on the heroine of the first part of Douluo Dalu, Xiao Wu.
While Rayne himself doesn't have much interest in her compared to most of the other female characters in the series…
Xiao Wu does have the reputation of being one of the easiest heroines to conquer in the early part of the story, with courtesy to many fanfics.
Of course, Rayne doesn't believe that a soul beast with a cultivation on 100,000-years could be naïve enough to fall in love with a human so easily. But there's nothing wrong with verifying. After all, despite her rather unlikable personality, Xiao Wu is without a doubt, a stunning beauty matching her heroine status.
Who knows, with proper guidance, even that personality problem might not be that big of a deal.
Of course he's not going to flirt with Xiao Wu or anything like that. She's just a six-year-old child now for God's sake. Not to mention, if she is already in Tang Hao's sight, it would be very risky for the current him to behave ambiguously with Xiao Wu.
After asking for directions from a passing by teacher, Rayne arrived at the living quarters of work-study students, or rather commonly known as the civilian students' living quarters.
But things here were quite mind blowing for Rayne.
Looking at the first-year dormitory in front of him, Rayne was speechless for a while.
The reason being…
Rayne saw a huge dormitory filled with beds, maybe thirty to forty beds.
Except for the work-study students, where students from all grades live together, the others all live in one dormitory per grade.
There are not that many students in Nuoding academy. There is only one class for each grade, with about forty or fifty people in each class.
Rayne really wanted to curse at the person who decided such a messy academy accommodation system.
Rayne didn't really have any objection to arranging so many people in a large dormitory. It was a somewhat efficient move as well.
But…
You should at least differentiate between boys and girls, right?
In a beginner/junior spirit master academy, students have to go through six years of mandatory education. The dormitory accommodation remains the same for six years.
Forget about the first and second grade students, the boys and girls in the fifth and sixth grades are actually arranged in the same dormitory from what Rayne just learned.
The teachers of this academy simply don't take young teenager's impulses towards the opposite sex seriously!
Refer to Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai for examples. Even Oscar was said to have had many girlfriends in the past. When the shrek academy plot started, how old was he? Fourteen?
You know, in a fantasy world like that of Douluo Continent, because of the miraculous traits of soul power, physical development of most people is exaggeratedly fast compared to that of earth, especially spirit masters with soul power. A good example of this case would be Zhu Zhuqing! Her three sizes at the age of twelve would put most adult women on earth to shame.
After snapping out of his stupor, Rayne looked through the dormitories and arrived at Room no.7.
Strangely enough, unlike the other dormitory rooms, this one had its door closed.
But Rayne could tell that there were people inside, with courtesy to his Six Eyes martial soul.
Speaking of Six Eyes, he can't seem to deactivate it, despite it being a martial soul now. Although it does not consume any soul power or stamina, he is already starting to feel a bit of headache.
With the Six eyes, he is receiving too much information at once that his currently immature brain cannot keep up, even with his significantly high spiritual power. The perception of his Six Eyes martial soul is simply astounding. He can clearly see all the energy in the surrounding and even distinguish the natural attributes and traits of these energies.
For now, Rayne decided to test his current limit on how long he can sustain his Six Eyes without using a blind fold.
Knock knock-
Slightly rubbing his forehead to relieve his headache, Rayne knocked on the door of room no.7.
After waiting for a minute, there was no response from within the room.
Rayne can feel that the people are aware of his presence, but for some reason, they refuse to open the door. Even, one of the people inside was quite close to the door.
Puzzled, Rayne tried to push the door. Surprisingly, the door was pushed open.
Whoosh-
Suddenly, a fist punched towards Rayne without any warning.
To this, Rayne didn't show any panic and simply tilted his head a bit, effortlessly avoiding the blow.
As he dodged the punch, Rayne got a good look at the assailant.
The young man had a rather pale brown hair with black eyes. He looked to be about ten years old, and couldn't be considered handsome, but he wasn't particularly ugly either.
This young man had a surprised expression on his face. It seems he didn't expect Rayne to dodge his punch so easily.
Regardless, the young man pushed forward and punched again at Rayne.
Rayne slightly raised his eyebrows at this young man's aggressive action.
Rayne easily deflected the direction of the punch with a clever use of his palm. At the same time, he used his other palm to push back the young man with a soft yet firm push.
Bang-
The young man took a few steps back with unstable lower body and fell to the ground.
"Boss!"
A group of young men ranging from the age of six to eleven, cried out after seeing the young man being pushed to the ground by Rayne.
Rayne has mastered more that ten different kinds of martial arts to a very high level in his past life, which included both hard and soft stytes. Dealing with this young man in front of him was effortless for him.
"Why do you attack me? I don't think I've offended you before?" Rayne asked in doubt at the aggressive actions of this young man.
At the same time, Rayne had a guess as to who this young man was, after listening to the other group of boys in the dormitory room.
The young man stood up with some embarrassment on his face.
"I am Wang Sheng, the boss of room no.7. It is the rule of this dormitory for newcomers to fight. Whoever wins will be the boss." The young man, or Wang Sheng said with a serious look. His fighting intent was quite evident on his face.
Wang Sheng, a supporting character from the early stages of Douluo part one original story. The reason for Rayne to remember him is that, this guy has a lot of appearances in almost all Douluo fanfics. It's kind of hard to forget him.
"Uh… Look man, I'm not a newcomer, nor am I a freshman of this academy. You are picking a fight with the wrong guy. I simply came here to look for someone." Rayne spread his arms and said helplessly.
"Wha-?!" Wang Sheng looked stunned after hearing Rayne's words. But he wasn't going to back down after being embarrassed by the blue-eyed white haired boy in front of him.
"Wang Sheng, martial soul Tiger, rank 9 spirit apprentice! Since we have already started the fight, we'll see through it to the end!" Wang Sheng said with fighting intent and exclaimed..
"Martial soul, possession!"
Wang Sheng shouted in an angry tone, and a yellow halo of dim light suddenly appeared on his body.
A tiger-like roar came from his mouth, and his attributes such as strength and speed were greatly improved! With the Six Eyes, Rayne could clearly perceive the changes in Wang Sheng and was quite surprised. This was the first time for him to witness such a thing in both of his lifetimes.
"Go get him, boss!"
"Beat him down!"
"Let him know not to mess with us!"
Seeing the transformation of Wang Sheng, the other boys were clamoring a lot, much to Rayne's annoyance. He was being dragged into this unnecessary nonsense.
As far as he is concerned, even with this martial soul possession, this Wang Sheng is no match for him. The gap in strength is too great. Even if there are a dozen of Wang Sheng, it still won't faze him. Not to mention, this guy is not enough for him to use Infinity as well.
Wang Sheng swiftly jumped in front of Rayne and punched at his face.
With few foot movement, Rayne easily avoided the punch with a disinterested look on his face.
"I'm not really interested in bullying a kid." Rayne muttered under his breath as he dodged all of Wang Sheng's flurry of attacks. And he still had a bored expression.
Suddenly, Wang Sheng's arm was grabbed by Rayne and felt a huge force lifting him off his feet.
"Ah!"
In Wang Sheng's exclamation, he was directly thrown over the shoulder by Rayne and thrown to the ground!
Rayne didn't want to hurt the young man badly, so he put his foot on the back of his head before Wang Sheng was slammed onto the floor.
"Did you not understand what I said before? I'm not interested in such children's squabbles. So just leave me be." Rayne turned Wang Sheng over and pinched his wrist to his back, restraining him to the floor, and said calmly.
"I… lost…" Wang Sheng said in a depressed tone, and Rayne let go off him.
Even though he knew that Xiao Wu was not present here, the moment Wang Sheng picked a fight with him. Rayne was still somewhat disappointed after scanning through the people in the dormitory, and not finding the figure he was searching for.
Ignoring the other people in the dormitory, Rayne clicked his tongue and left the dormitory.
Rayne was going to the academy's library to read, and that was the only place in this backwater academy, that had a certain appeal to him. At least until his mother comes back to pick him up.
According to Rayne's estimate, there is still about a month before his mother comes to visit him.
While he really wants to cultivate soul power, he can't really do as he pleases now because of Tang Hao's presence in the academy.
When he cultivates Records of Primordial Evil' technique, the energy disturbance caused will definitely be detected by Tang Hao. The amount of energy absorbed from the surroundings by this technique is rather outrageous.
Precisely because of his caution of Tang Hao, Rayne even refrained himself from showing off Infinity.
Infinity is an overpowered skill and is also considered a self-created soul skill of the highest grade.
If someone like Tang Hao, who clearly knows the immense value of self-created skills, spot him using Infinity… who knows what sort of actions he will take towards Rayne.
While feeling somewhat humiliated at having to restrain himself like this. Rayne made a mental note to steal the seedling of Blue Silver Empress and the 100,000-year-old soul bone, as soon as he is able to use Space-Time Transportation of Kāma martial soul.
Call him petty, but it's simply because he is lusting after the beautiful Ah Yin.
On the way to the library, Rayne saw a cute little girl in pink dress walking towards him. She was jumping up and down, seeming to be in a good mood. The little girl looks about five or six years old, petite in stature, delicate and cute in appearance, with a pink face and long hair tied neatly into a very special scorpion tail.
When he caught sight of this little girl, a name came to his mind.
Xiao Wu!
