Chapter 4: Dorm 7

"Newly arrived working students?"

On Tang San's face was a slight good intentioned smile, "Hello, I am a working student from Holy Spirit village."

"Me too," she said.

"I am called Wang Sheng, my spirit is a future war tiger battle spirit. Also the head of this place. Boy, what's your name? What's your spirit?"

"I'm Tang San, spirit is blue silver grass."

"I'm Liang Xue'er, my spirit is a phoenix." she said.

"Blue silver grass spirit? Since when could a blue silver grass spirit cultivate? And a phoenix, good!"

Wang Sheng appeared absolutely startled, the kids in the dormitory all broke out in raucous laughter , looking at Tang San as if he was an idiot though to Liang Xue'er he had a smile.

Tang San was still smiling, "Please let me in, ok?"

Liang Xue'er smiled, "Please let us in," her voice was laced with Charmspeak.

Wang Sheng did not comprehend Tang San's words but smiled at Liang Xue'er, "Little Third, I'm the boss here, hereafter you listen to me, got it? Liang Xue'er, let me welcome you to Dorm 7."

The smile on Tang San's face gradually disappeared, "My name is Tang San, not little Third."

"Be nice," Liang Xue'er said, hoping they would.

If the seniors called him little San she would beat them up, or if it was a good intentioned form of address it was also no matter, but the so called boss before her eyes obviously meant it to be a show of strength towards her.

Wang Sheng raised his hands to push at Tang San's shoulders, pushing him back several steps.

"I command you to stop fighting!" Liang Xue'er raised her voice, now completely using Charmspeak.

They stopped fighting but Wang Shen said, "I'm calling you little Third, so what? Not satisfied?"

Tang San smiled, lightly shaking his head, placing the school uniform in his hands on a bed to the side, while Wang Sheng was somewhat bewildered at why ever for. Suddenly, Tang San vanished from in front of him.

Liang Xue'er tuned out for the fight since she already knew the winner. Tang San was going to win anyways so she used the time to have a talk with Life.

'System? Is it possible to have a talk with life?'

'Host, it is possible though it depends on her highness if she wants to talk to you or not. Do you want me to ask you?'

'Yes'

'Her highness has agreed, consciousness moving right now.'

Liang Xue'er's eyes widened, she tried to stop the system but it was too late, she felt a slipping sensation then the world of Douluo Dalu disappear then, she was in the temple again.

Life was standing in the hall, seemingly waiting for her, "Hello, looks like you got a pretty good life now."

"I'm here to talk about my powers," said Liang Xue'er.

"What's the rush?" asked Life.

"We got to finish this talk before Tang San finishes his fight. "said Liang Xue'er, hurriedly.

"Fine, what do you want me to explain?" asked Life.

"Why does my spirit allow me to control ice when I possess it?" asked Liang Xue'er, carefully. She had been thinking about it for a long time.

"Your spirit, the Heavenly Variant Snow Fire Phoenix is above a god spirit, therefore it is much more powerful than the other," Life paused, "Oh, and your garden will be given to you by the time you reach level 30."

Liang Xue'er nodded.

"The fight is ending, bye," Life once again waved her hand.

Liang Xue'er was ready for the sensation.

"Therefore, you wanted to give me a show of strength?"

Wang Sheng's face blushed, showing a rather simple and honest smiling expression,

"It was you who gave us a show of strength in return. However, you truly are ferocious. You should only just be six years old, right."

Tang San nodded.

"Ok, now the fight has ended, can we, err you know," Liang Xue'er was a bit dizzy, but shook it off, gesturing at the beds.

Wang Sheng pulled back a student in front of the bed, and impolitely sat down by Tang San's side.

"Tang San, you beat me, therefore you are now room seven's boss."

Tang San hurriedly shook his hands, and said, "I've come to study."

Wang Sheng sternly said, "These are the rules, the strongest fist is the boss. You think being boss is good? I'm not being humble with you. Look."

Speaking, he pulled back the two sleeves of his school uniform.

Tang San was shocked at what he saw: on his both arms were no less than seven or eight blue-green and purple bruises.

Wang Sheng said with a wry smile, "This is just since arriving yesterday. Us working students all come from poor households, so the other dormitory students constantly bully us from room seven. The acting dormitory boss must stand up for the younger brothers. I earnestly wish to pass on this duty to you."

The other students all nodded, looking at Tang San, faces showing a faint hopeful light.

Tang San hurriedly said, "There's still Xue'er, she can beat me in a fight any day."

"Really" asked Wang Shen, his eyes looked at Liang Xue'er.

Liang Xue'er gave a wave before saying, "Nice of you to finally notice I'm here too."

"You have to fight her too boss," said Wang Shen to Tang San.

"Then I give up," said Tang San.

"Bu-" said Wang Shen.

"No buts, she is the boss now," said Tang San.

The door opened.

"Hello everyone, I'm called Xiao Wu, Wu of dancing."

Wang Sheng pushed Liang Xue'er from behind, hinting that he could not destroy the dormitory customs.

"Hello, I am Liang Xue'er," said Liang Xue'er, putting her stuff in someone's arms, she walked over to Xiao Wu.

"I'm this place's room senior, you called my name on the line. May I ask, what is your spirit?"

Xiao Wu blinked, and said with a smile:

"My spirit is rabbit. A very lovely sort of little white rabbit. Yours?"

When she smiled up, her face showed two lovely little dimples, indescribably touching.

"Mine's a phoenix," said Liang Xue'er. Then she noticed that Xiao Wu wasn't like the other spirit master, she was a Spirit Beast, her eyes widened, a 100,000 year old spirit beast! But she still stayed put, Xiao Wu looks nice, she will decide later, "It's like this: our room seven has a rule that newly arrived working students must at once show their spirit's actual strength. To sum it up, we need to have a friendly fight."

"You're certain?"

Liang Xue'er nodded, and said, "I'm certain."

Xiao Wu set the school uniform she held to one side, on her face showed a bit of excitement,

"Fine, then come."

Without even waiting for her to respond, her right leg had already bent and risen, the lower leg popping up in a flash, kicking straight for her chin. It would appear not to have much strength, but it was extraordinarily fast.

Liang Xue'er's Valkyrie reflexes very faster than Xiao Wu's by a lot however, when I say a lot, I mean a lot, a lot. Liang Xue'er danced out of the way. Xiao Wu leap at her and landed on Liang Xue'er's arm, Liang Xue'er grabbed Xiao Wu's arms and flung her to the bed.

Xiao Wu plopped up and said, obviously not believing she can't beat Liang Xue'er, "Again!"

This happened 3 times without stop, finally Wang Shen stepped in, "The winner is clear, Liang Xue'er!"

Xiao Wu stopped and stuck out her tongue at Wang Shen and ran up to Liang Xue'er, "Liang Xue'er, what is your spirit power rank? Just now I sensed your strength was very powerful."

Liang Xue'er lied, "Innate full," she didn't anyone to know about her Innate 20 level spirit power just yet.

"Innate full spirit power?"

The students immediately cried out.

"Tang San also has it, I'm pretty sure Xiao Wu has it too," said Liang Xue'er.

Xiao Wu blinked, muttering some sentence.

"Ok, us working students are actually responsible for sweeping clean the academy, our teacher is responsible for arranging specific jobs. The academy altogether has six grades, every grade has a class. You boss and Tang San are newly arrived, and should be first grade students. The rest of us are at least third graders, I have this year become a sixth grader. At the academy every day we attend class in the morning, then cultivate individually in the afternoon. In the morning there are generally two classes, one class is cultural knowledge, one class is spirit lore. Us working students for the most part have work in the afternoon, thereby earning income for meals." Wang Shen told them.

Wang Sheng gave the other students a simple introduction. Among these working students, the best inborn spirit was Wang Sheng: not only was it a beast spirit, in combat effectiveness it was still the strongest king of beasts. His spirit power was already ninth rank, when it again rose a rank he could at graduation join a group to hunt and kill spirit beasts, thereby obtaining a spirit ring to promote his title.

At this time, a thirty year old teacher entered from outside, "The new students have arrived? Stand up a moment."

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Liang Xue'er simultaneously rose from their beds.

This teacher had an ordinary appearance, pale green hair, hands carrying bedding,

"Where is Tang San?"

Tang San hurriedly stepped forward.

The teacher said, "I'm Mo Hen, you can call me teacher Mo. Tang San, this bedding is a gift from Grandmaster."

Tang San took the bedding. Although the quilt facing was gorgeous, a clear and fresh smell came to the nostrils. In it was still a pillow.

Mo Hen said, "You three are first year working students, so from now on, you are responsible for sweeping the garden south of the sports ground. Every day you'll get ten copper spirit coins, but remember, you must clean every day. Especially junk must be properly sorted out neatly, otherwise your wages may be deducted. If you seem like delinquents, the academy can expel you. Have you understood clearly?"

Liang Xue'er, Tang San, and Xiao Wu nodded.

"Tomorrow is the opening ceremony. The day after tomorrow the regular classes begin. The first year classes are on the first floor of the main school building, so the day after tomorrow you will punctually go to class. Starting from the day after tomorrow, you will start carrying out the regular work. We may do non-scheduled spot checks. Well, take a rest first. Wang Sheng, you're the oldest here, so tell them about the rules."

"Bedding? This seems to be a problem."

Xiao Wu looked blankly at the bedding in Tang San's hands, in her eyes appeared a somewhat embarrassed look.

Liang Xue'er nodded, "Sure is."

Working students are all children from poor backgrounds, but more sensible than noble descendants, a few clever students immediately shouted, "Boss, for the time being use my mattress, I'll put half my quilt over the divider."

Another student said, "Boss, then use my mattress. I brought a cotton-padded mattress I can manage to use."

"Don't worry, I have my own bedding," said Liang Xue'er, gently shaking her head, "And call me Xue'er, boss sounds old."

Xiao Wu skipped over, "Can I borrow a bedding?"

Liang Xue'er sighed, "If you must." She took out her bedding and put it on the nearest bed. She sat down, it was hard and uncomfortable, frowning, she asked, "Why is there no mattress?"

Wang Shen replied, "Us poor people could only manage with a bedding, not all of us can afford a mattress."

Liang Xue'er thought about it and finally drew a rune on the bed. The rune glowed blue before sinking into the hard bed and after a few seconds, a mattress appeared. The mattress was silk and it gave off a refreshing smell.

Xiao Wu's eyes widened, with a yelp, she jumped onto her mattress and started rolling around, "Ah! Ah, it's so soft! And it smells so good."

The other people in Dorm 7 was staring at it in shock, they were very poor and never ever seen silk. Their eyes were filled with envy.

"Do you have another one? If you do, can I borrow it?" asked Xiao Wu, still rolling and jumping on the mattress.

Liang Xue'er sighed, this spirit beast seems friendly enough, "Fine." She did the same thing to the next bed, Xiao Wu jumped over to the next bed.

Wang Sheng said, "We should eat lunch. Xiao Wu, Tang San, Xue'er, let's leave."

Hearing about food, Xiao Wu immediately leapt up, and excitedly said, "Great. What's good to eat?"

Wang Sheng and the other working students looked at each other in dismay, and said with a forced smile, "What good can we working students get to eat? At the dining hall you can just buy any cheap meal gathered there."

Tang San shook his head, saying, "You leave, I won't go."

"No matter. Like this, for these two days consider your food expenses on me. Tang San, hereafter everyone together are dormitory companions, so let's go. In the worst case until you have money just ask me again."

"No."

Everyone in the dorm stopped at once.

"As boss, I cannot let you do that, I will pay," said Liang Xue'er.

Wang Shen started to protest, but Liang Xue'er raised a hand to stop him. "Ok. Lets go then."

Right now, the sports ground was already bustling; one could see quite a few academy uniform wearing students going in the direction of the school building. Clearly, all of them were going to eat.

Nuoding primary spirit master academy's dining hall was very large, large enough to hold six grades in addition to teachers, altogether more than three hundred diners. Right now, there was already a crowd lined up by the dining hall serving window. The dining hall was altogether divided into two floors, and the first floor hall alone had three hundred seats.

"Isn't this that Wang Sheng's group of apparitions of poverty?"

Just as they entered the dining hall, a discordant voice reached them.

Liang Xue'er looked questioningly in the direction the voice came from, only seeing a group of senior students standing on the staircase between the first and second floor, looking down at them from their higher position.

The speaker was a handsome and spirited, probably eleven or twelve years old male student, his eyes revealing a concentrated disdain, wagging a finger in the direction of Wang Sheng.

"Poverty apparitions are just poverty apparitions, probably always unable to eat on the second floor."

On the way to the dining hall, Wang Sheng already told Liang Xue'er how the room seven boss and working students must act in public, and Liang Xue'er readily agreed. Right now meeting someone provoking her, immediately her temper rose up.

"The second floor is a place where you can independently order dishes. Very expensive, we really can't go up to eat."

"Hmp! Lets go up to the second floor, don't worry, I have money," said Liang Xue'er walking to the stairs.

Wang Sheng sheltered her behind him. When he now walked away, those students on the staircase naturally caught sight of her appearance, and the speaking student's eyes immediately brightened.

"A beautiful little loli, ah, it's a pity she's a working student. Wang Sheng, I your father will go eat now, so I'll let you off this time."

Speaking, he was followed by a crowd of people up the stairs to the second floor.

Liang Xue'er's fist clenched, she did not like people that are like that.

Just then, Tang San saw a familiar person, and hurriedly walked up,

"Teacher, you have also come to eat?"

It was exactly Grandmaster who arrived. Nodding in his direction, he said, "Are the things you got about right?"

"Xiao San," she called, "We are heading up, you coming?"

"Soon!"

Once Tang San joined them again, they were at the second floor.

A waiter headed towards them, "Do you have money?" she asked.

Liang Xue'er drew a 'rich' symbol behind her back and a pouch of gold coins fell into them. She held out one coin, "We do."

"Alright then, please order." The waiter bowed and walked away.