9: Chapter 9 Enrollment

Hearing the student who handed over the crystal ball cry out in shock, Lin Yan, who was already drawing a lot of attention, instantly became the focus of the entire crowd, with all eyes firmly locked onto him.

Lin Yan scanned the slightly shocked faces of the people before him and looked at the female teacher with a smile, asking, "Teacher, I should be considered to have passed the test, right?"

Hearing Lin Yan's words, the female teacher snapped back to reality, rolled her eyes at him, and teased, "If even a Spirit Elder like you didn't pass, then hardly anyone else would pass either."

"Here is your admission certificate. Keep it safe and don't lose it."

As they spoke, the female teacher deftly processed his admission information and handed the certificate to Lin Yan.

Right after, the decisive female teacher waved her hand, saying, "Alright, go inside and register now. If you stand here any longer, the city gate is going to be blocked."

Hearing this, Lin Yan glanced at the crowd still squeezing toward him, said "Thank you" with a smile, and turned to walk into the academy.

Although Lin Yan had left, the discussions about him at the city gate didn't stop in the slightest. It wouldn't take long for information about him to spread far and wide.

Lin Yan didn't care about any of this. Or rather, he had never intended to keep a low profile when enrolling in Shrek Academy.

After all, if you want to pull in investments, you have to show your value first!

That's right. The main reason Lin Yan enrolled in Shrek was to attract investments and find sponsors.

In the end, his Lin Family only held a Viscount title with limited foundation. After so many years of consumption, it could barely offer him any real help anymore.

In fact, the reason they were able to support his cultivation for nearly six years was that the entire Family's resources were tilted toward him unconditionally and fully.

The main branch of the Lin Family had very few members. After his parents passed away, Lin Yan had no siblings, making him the undisputed heir of the Lin Family.

Furthermore, with the Lin Family's strongest person, Uncle Lin, supporting and assisting him with all his heart, any branch members with ulterior motives didn't dare to step out of line.

Ever since he broke through the mystery of the womb and successfully awakened his Spirit, he had not only inherited the Lin Family's Legacy Spirit—Flame—but also gradually displayed a level of maturity and wisdom far beyond ordinary people.

This made Uncle Lin feel even more reassured, gradually putting all the resources in the manor at his full disposal.

It was precisely because of this that he was able to smoothly cultivate according to his plan and reach his current level.

Equipped with resources and deeply understanding that strength reigns supreme, Lin Yan spared no effort in his cultivation.

Right after his Spirit awakened, he immediately sent people to travel to major auction houses across the continent and spent a heavy fortune to buy three Mysterious Water Pills.

These three Mysterious Water Pills lived up to expectations, cleansing his marrow and improving his Aptitude, allowing him to successfully break through from Innate Level 5 Soul Power to a Spirit Master in just one year.

However, after obtaining his first Spirit Ability, his consumption of resources began to skyrocket. The reason was that his first Spirit Ability—Flame Mantra—could devour unique flames and beast flames to evolve his Spirit.

But unique flames were difficult to find, so he could only shift his goal toward relatively easier-to-obtain beast flames.

To extract Origin beast flames from Spirit Beasts possessing them, one had to refine the Spirit Beast's Physical Body and Soul together.

To save time, increase efficiency, and avoid delaying his cultivation progress, Lin Yan had to spend massive amounts of gold coins sending people to the Star Dou Great Forest to continuously capture live Spirit Beasts for him.

Added to all the various precious herbs and resources consumed for body tempering over the past six years, accumulating day by day, in short: the Lin Family was out of money now!

Therefore, in order not to delay his cultivation, he could only come out and "sell himself" to pull in investments.

Weighing all options, although Shrek Academy had its fair share of problems, it was still the best choice for current Lin Yan.

Because of this, on this special day, the loyal Shrek Academy welcomed its future great master!

As for the concern that he wouldn't be valued by Shrek Academy?

What a joke!

Unless all the higher-ups at Shrek were undercover agents for the Holy Spirit Cult, if someone with his current talent and clean background wasn't valued, it would only prove that those pavilion elders of Shrek were literal toilet buckets wearing hats—shit for brains!

Afterward, Lin Yan smoothly completed the registration process, received two sets of freshman uniforms and a white freshman badge, and also learned his dormitory number and assigned class.

Class 1, Teacher Zhou Yi?!

Quite interesting. He had registered so late and thought he'd be assigned to another class, but unexpectedly it was Class 1!

But it didn't matter. A mere Teacher Zhou Yi—did he really need to avoid her edge?

What's more, on second thought, Lin Yan realized this might not be a bad opportunity!

It was time to give these Douluo locals a little heavenly-demon-style shock!

Passing through the corridor between the white freshman teaching building and the yellow second-and-third-year teaching building, Lin Yan quickly arrived in front of the outer court dormitory building.

This dormitory building covered a massive area and stood six stories high. Although it was a single building, it featured four colors: white, yellow, purple, and black, clearly representing the living areas for students of different grades.

Lin Yan walked to the entrance of the white freshman dormitory building and saw an extremely old man sitting by the door.

The old man wore plain gray clothes, with deep, dense wrinkles like gullies across his face. His eyes were dim, and his eyelids hung half-closed, giving him the appearance of someone in the twilight of his life.

Sunlight streaming between the buildings happened to spill over him as he lay semi-reclined on a lounger, looking exceedingly cozy and comfortable.

Looking at the old man, Lin Yan couldn't help but feel a sense of "fantasy turning into reality": This person must be one of Shrek Academy's famous check-in spots, "the old man in front of the dorm building—Elder Mu En."

Although he knew the old man's identity, Lin Yan didn't engage in excessive pleasantries. He greeted him briefly and walked straight into the dorm building.

But right after Lin Yan stepped into the building, Elder Mu En's murky eyes cracked open slightly. Looking in the direction Lin Yan had gone, he murmured to himself.

"Level 32 Soul Power, what an intensely scorching and domineering aura! I wonder if he has reached that Domain?"

The first-year dormitories were on the first floor. Lin Yan followed the room numbers and quickly found his room.

The dormitory was a typical tube-shaped building with a long corridor lined with rooms on both sides, each with a number on the door. The facilities inside were quite old, clearly having been used for many years, with a shared restroom at each end of the hallway.

Lin Yan used his key to unlock Room 120. What met his eyes was a tiny room, barely ten square meters in area.

Two single beds took up most of the room. Besides those, there was only a single table and two sheet-metal wardrobes, with a lonely lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. A layer of dust covered everything in the dorm, clearly uncleaned for a long time.

"Huh? Didn't they say a roommate was already assigned to this dorm this morning? Judging by how it looks, he hasn't been here at all?"

Just as Lin Yan was feeling surprised, two youths walked out of Room 119 next door—one fat and one skinny, both sporting exaggerated Smart hairstyles.

The two walked straight to Lin Yan's doorway. The skinny youth, thin as a hemp stalk, spoke up first in a casual tone, "Brother, are you my other roommate?"

Lin Yan glanced at this distinctively mismatched pair, then looked at their non-mainstream Smart hairstyles, replying with amusement, "Yes."

Immediately after, Little Fatty leaned forward and asked point-blank, "Brother, what does your Family do?"

Lin Yan raised his eyes to glance at him and replied in a flat tone, "Why, do you have business with me?"