Chapter 33

"Tomorrow we're going to Skysea City," Wu Zhangkong announced.

All the students looked at each other in confusion. Xie Xie was the first to give in to his curiosity. "Are we going there to watch the Skysea Alliance Tournament, Teacher Wu?"

Wu Zhangkong looked at him. "You're participating. Not watching."

When Huang Yu heard those words, he perked up. Skysea City was a pretty central place in the world. Since he was going, he could expand his cult there.

Guang Biao was going to have a field day with that.

As for the tournament itself, Huang Yu didn't hold any interest in it. With his current strength, the only way Huang Yu could even get a decent warm up from someone of his age, was if over ten of them fought him at the same time with perfect coordination.

You could call him cocky, but at this moment, even the boosted Guang Biao would have a chance of losing against him.

Wu Zhangkong continued. "You will all be participating in the three-man team event in the juvenile division. Although there is a five-man team event, we won't be participating in it."

"Why?"

"The school wants to show off your prowess to the investors to assure them that you're worth the money that they're spending. They already know about Huang Yu, but they don't know about the rest of you. Hence, he won't be competing with you in the team event. Instead, he'll participate in the individual event."

It wasn't stated but everyone knew that the academy wanted Huang Yu to show off Huang Yu to everyone else in the individual events.

"You can leave now. Go prepare for tomorrow's trip to Skysea City. All the participants from Eastsea City will be leaving together, so Tang Wulin, you won't have to worry about meeting up with your colleagues from the Blacksmith's Association."

"Yes."

"Class dismissed."

As everyone left the class, Huang Yu tried to approach Gu Yue for a chat. However, for some strange reason, Gu Yue quickly excused herself and walked away when he tried to strike up a conversation.

Huang Yu found this quite confusing, but thought that she might have started that time of the month already, so he knew better than to pry.

Walking back to his dorm, he used the King's Wisdom to create a sound barrier around him before taking out a Spirit Communicator from his spatial ring.

He swiftly dialed a number. A few moments later, a person he was very familiar with picked up the phone.

"My King, what can I do for you?"

"I'll be heading to Skysea City tomorrow. Prepare for an expansion."

"D, did I hear you correct my king? An expansion? I thought you didn't want to expand so soon."

"I changed my mind."

"Very well, my king."

– – – –

Night crept by without a peep. Once the rays of the sun pierced through the horizon, Wu Zhangkong and his five students departed from the academy. Their destination: Eastsea Square located at the city centre.

On their way there, Huang Yu tried to strike up conversations a few times again with Gu Yue. He even tried to give compliments to her. Women love those don't they?

However, she always answered with a few short words, showing her disinterest at the conversation.

This raised Huang Yu's eyebrows. Had he done something wrong? He was pretty sure that even a woman during that time of the month wouldn't act like this.

Hence, Huang Yu asked it. "Gu Yue, did I do something that made you angry?"

"No."

"Then why are you deliberately being so cold?" Huang Yu didn't bother beating around the bush anymore.

Gu Yue's eyes widened slightly in shock. She thought that Huang Yu would keep trying to do conversation before eventually giving up on her. She didn't expect that Huang Yu would just directly confront her about it.

"What do you mean?" she feigned ignorance.

Hearing this, Huang Yu sighed. "Forget it." When a woman acts like this, there was no way of getting through to them. Although he couldn't be considered a woman aficionado, he knew this much.

He couldn't be bothered to keep coaxing a person over and over again. It was just too tiring, and it would make for a toxic relationship.

Huang Yu walked away from her before following Wu Zhangkong. When Gu Yue saw this, she couldn't help but feel a prick in her heart.

'Stupid Huang Yu.' she pouted slightly. She didn't know why she was so angry when Huang Yu didn't continue. Wasn't this what she wanted?

At the Eastsea Square, there was a soul bus. There were a few more people there, most likely the ones from the Blacksmith Association.

After everyone got on the soul bus, they made their way to Skysea City. In the soul bus, everyone noticed that the seating arrangement was a bit strange.

Gu Yue, who usually sat next to Huang Yu, sat next to Xu Xiaoyu this time. This meant that Huang Yu was sitting with one of the people from the Blacksmith Association.

Thoughts ran through everyone of class zero's heads when they saw this, including Wu Zhangkong.

'Did they have a fight?'

Wu Zhangkong felt slight worry that his thoughts were true. Gu Yue was the only person who would interact often with Huang Yu. If they had a conflict, then there was a chance that Huang Yu wouldn't bother with teamwork anymore.

As the soul bus departed the city square, there was an air of awkwardness between the two people in conflict.

– – – –

Eventually, the soul bus arrived at Skysea City. Skysea City had a very different scenery compared to Eastsea City.

Skysea City was situated in an area surrounded by much more mountains than Eastsea City and many mountains were built into the slopes, adding to their high-low appearance. Some skyscrapers even seemed to pierce right through the clouds.

After getting off the soul bus, the students of class zero were taken to a luxurious hotel that was rather special; half of it was within the ocean and each room had a breathtaking view that truly emphasized to all the guests that there were by the ocean.

When Huang Yu realised this, he suddenly shouted. "Yes!"

Everyone turned to look at him with a strange look for shouting like this. Huang Yu ignored them.

Ever since he had woken up in this world, he had been working nonstop to improve himself. This was because he was afraid, hence, he tried to obtain as much power as he could in a short amount of time.

If he truly had a choice, he wouldn't want to work all the time. Who would? However, he didn't have a choice since he wanted to take control of his fate as soon as possible.

Hence, when he saw the beach, he saw it instead as a place he could finally let go of all his stresses.

He had worked hard enough for the past year. A few days of relaxation would not only help him keep his mental sanity and boost his performance.

A person with too much stress couldn't work their best.

They were sent to their rooms before Wu Zhangkong left them to their devices. Huang Yu immediately left the room after being given free reign.

He had wanted to invite Gu Yue when he exited his room, but he shook his head immediately after. She clearly had some sort of problem with him at this moment.

He didn't want to deal with them now. It was his relaxation time!

Nox's expansion could be handled by Guang Biao. He himself wasn't too involved in the initial process of expansion as well anyways.

At the beach, many people there stared at Huang Yu when they saw him in only a speedo. Despite Huang Yu only being 10/11 years old, thanks to his body cultivation, he was tall for his age and had a body filled with well-defined and powerful muscles.

There were definitely a lot of people there who got his age wrong and were ogling him at that moment.

'Heh, pedos.' Huang Yu chuckled inwardly.

Huang Yu placed down a blanket on the sands. From his spatial ring, he took out a few plates of food that had been preserved very well inside.

When the people around saw this, their eyes widened in surprise. The food Huang Yu had retrieved from his spatial ring wasn't just your run-of-the-mill food.

The food he took out was all food that costed in the millions. Guang Biao had given him these plates of food, calling them 'mere junk food for the king'.

Huang Yu started regretting taking the food out a bit. He didn't want people to keep staring at him the whole time. It was plain uncomfortable.

Oh well, it was too late for regrets. Taking out utensils, he began digging in.

Before he could, a person suddenly called out. "Hey! Can I have some of that please?"

Who the hell was so shameless to ask something like this?

Looking up, he saw a fatty also wearing a speedo. He looked to be around the same age as him.

When the fatty was in front of him, he smiled. "My name is Xu Lizhi. Can I have some of your food to eat? They look really good to eat."

Naturally, Huang Yu did what a normal person would do. "Sorry, but no."

He didn't even know this guy. Why would he be willing to let him touch the food in front of him worth a few million?

That would be like giving up an A5 Wagyu steak to someone you didn't even know.

Xu Lizhi's exuberance instantly deflated. With a pitiful face, he begged again. "C'mon, please? I'm really hungry."

"Can't you just go buy your own food? If you're living here, you surely can't be poor."

"Err, your food looks a lot better than what they have on sale."

This guy….

"Sorry, but please leave." Huang Yu said firmly.

As Xu Lizhi was about to beg again, another voice suddenly shouted out coldly, "Xu Lizhi, what are you doing?"

Huang Yu shifted his gaze to the voice to see a girl around his age. She was dressed in green exercise clothes. Her golden hair was combed up into a ponytail accentuating her large, bright, blue eyes framed by long eyelashes. Her skin glistened under the light, tender and white.

The girl rushed over with a stone cold expression on her face.

Xu Lizhi seemed to panic when he saw her. "Ah, sorry Big Sister Xinglan. It's just that I was really starving so I asked this guy for some food."

"Hmph, he's clearly trying to bait you here. He definitely knows who you are and is trying to get in the good graces of the people from Shrek."

Wow, this girl was a bi-

No wait, she's only ten. He shouldn't say this to her.

The fact that they were from Shrek didn't really mean anything to him. Sure, they were known as monstrous talents, but could anyone of them be like him, who had a 7000-year-old spirit ring and could fight against Rank 50+ with a Rank 17 cultivation?

He didn't think so.

Xu Lizhi waved both his hands in front of him. "No Big Sis, you're wrong. He didn't allow me to eat any of it at all!"

Hearing this the girl, Ye Xinglan narrowed her eyes before turning to Huang Yu. "Hoh, why didn't you allow him to eat? You should be honoured to treat a student from Shrek Academy to a meal."

?????????

Wat??????

What was with that sudden 180º shift?

Also, the way she said it… was she also a…

No no no. There was a time and place for messing around with young masters. This was relaxing time.

Huang Yu looked at her with a calm face before saying, "Sorry, but you're really noisy. Can you leave?"

"What?! How dare you treat us like this?! We are students from Shrek Academy!"

Oh God, it's really the young master syndrome in this girl.

Huang Yu let out a loud sigh. You know what, he was going to say it.

He steeled his expression before he said, "Begone–"