Meanwhile.
Dormitory 105.
"You're in this dorm too?"
Tang Wulin raised his hand to knock, but before his knuckles hit the wood, the door swung open. A face filled with surprise appeared before him.
"Huh?"
"You're... Xie Xie?"
Recognizing the boy standing in the doorway, a flicker of realization crossed Tang Wulin's mind, and a smile broke out on his face as he greeted him.
Wasn't this boy right in front of him Xie Xie, the son of his father's friend, Uncle Xie Tianhai?
"It's Xie Xie, not Xie Xie..."
Xie Xie's expression hitched, and he said helplessly.
"Ah, right, right..."
Tang Wulin replied thoughtfully with a bright grin.
"I never expected you'd be in this dorm too."
"Yeah..."
Surprise was written all over Xie Xie's face as well. Dorm assignments were completely random, so running into each other like this was quite a coincidence. He just wondered where Tang Wulin's older brother, Tang Luochuan, had ended up...
"I forgot some things and need to go grab them from my family. You go on in first."
"See you in a bit."
After all, this was the son of his father's friend, and they had met once before, so Xie Xie's attitude toward him wasn't overly cold.
"Hurry back, then."
Tang Wulin nodded earnestly, pulled his luggage out from his Soul Tool, and walked straight into the dorm.
"Hello everyone, I'm the new guy."
He said with a gentle smile.
"Hello."
This was a boy wearing glasses and a blue top who was currently looking at Tang Wulin and smiling.
"My name is Yun Xiao, and my Martial Soul is an Astrolabe. This is my neighbor over here, Zhou Changxi, whose Martial Soul is a Mighty Gorilla."
As he spoke, Yun Xiao gestured toward the other roommate—a short-haired, chubby boy.
"My name is Tang Wulin."
"My Martial Soul is Blue Silver Grass."
Looking at the two of them, Tang Wulin said slowly.
Leaving the latter aside for the moment, the former looked like he would be a very easy roommate to get along with!
"Blue..."
"Blue Silver Grass?"
Hearing this, both of them visibly froze. Blue Silver Grass? The most useless Martial Soul in the entire world... Blue Silver Grass?
For a moment, disbelief washed over Yun Xiao's face, while Zhou Changxi let out a look of outright disdain.
"New guy."
"Clean up the place."
Zhou Changxi raised his chin to look at Tang Wulin, his expression cold and completely devoid of politeness.
"Huh?"
Tang Wulin was momentarily stunned at the words.
However, he wasn't looking at the other boy, but rather casting a glance at the less-than-stellar environment around the room.
"It really is quite dirty."
A moment later, not dwelling on it too much, he picked up a nearby broom and immediately prepared to start cleaning.
Mom and Dad had said that getting along well with your roommates was very important.
While that didn't necessarily mean doing all the chores, since he was sharing a room with Xie Xie anyway, sweeping up a bit was no big deal. With that thought, he began cleaning without the slightest psychological burden.
Before long, the trash in the room had been cleared away entirely, but the other boy's nitpicking showed no signs of stopping.
"Zhou Changxi, what are you doing?"
With a calm expression, Tang Wulin—who was in the middle of mopping the floor—frowned as he watched the other boy step directly onto a spot he had just finished cleaning.
That exact spot...
He had literally just cleaned it.
"Oh, my bad."
Zhou Changxi replied indifferently, and then, right under Tang Wulin's gaze, he stomped heavily on the floor again.
"Zhou Changxi, you're crossing a line."
"What are you acting all high and mighty for?"
By this point, Yun Xiao had already frowned, looking toward Zhou Changxi with irrepressible anger.
He and Zhou Changxi used to be classmates, but even so, that didn't give the guy the right to bully a new roommate!
"What do you know?"
"I just can't stand the look of that guy. He looks like a little girl, and didn't you see? I told him to do it and he just went and did it..."
"He's a total pushover, the easiest kind to bully."
"Look at that—I told him to clean and he cleaned, I tell him to do anything and he just does it."
Zhou Changxi said with a sneer of contempt.
He had pulled this kind of bullying routine many times before.
Besides, he found this roommate deeply unpleasing to the eye. Why did a guy have to be this pretty? He looked like a total sissy.
And his Martial Soul was the utterly useless Blue Silver Grass, Heh... If it were any other Martial Soul, he might worry about things blowing up in his face, but with the guy standing right here? Absolutely impossible.
Mere Blue Silver Grass—what kind of waves could it possibly make?
"You..."
Astonishment painted Yun Xiao's face, leaving him momentarily speechless. To actually say things like that right to the person's face took some nerve!
"..."
Tang Wulin fell silent.
The two of them hadn't lowered their voices at all, so he had heard every single word clearly. Slowly, he shifted his gaze toward Zhou Changxi, and the broom in his hand slipped down unheeded.
Good people are often taken advantage of. He could choose to be kind, but he would never allow himself to be the one who gets bullied. Never.
"What are you staring at?"
"Go finish cleaning, pushover."
Noticing his gaze, Zhou Changxi immediately put on a menacing look and spoke coldly. As he spoke, he even flexed his muscles—though there weren't many to speak of.
"Do you really think..."
"I'm that easy to bully?"
Tang Wulin looked straight at him, his voice cold.
"Well, obviously."
"People like you are made to be bullied."
Hearing this, Zhou Changxi let out a cold laugh.
"Kid, around here, I'm the boss."
"My word is law!"
As he spoke, a surge of Soul Power surged through his entire body. In an instant, he transformed into a small white-furred monkey, a single white Soul Ring shining brightly around him.
This was his Martial Soul, the Mighty Gorilla.
Even though his cultivation was only at level eleven, relying on his superior physical stats, dealing with some nobody who possessed a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul would be child's play!
"Mere Blue Silver Grass."
"So what if I'm pushing you around?"
"..."
Tang Wulin gave him a long, deep look.
Watching the other boy transform into an almost battle-ready state just to pick a fight with him, Tang Wulin smiled and shook his head. There was no helping it now.
"My brother once said, 'If others don't cross me, I won't cross them.'"
"But if you're really going to abandon all reason..."
Tang Wulin sighed, a cold edge surfacing in his eyes.
"Then I'll just have to reason with you instead."
The next moment, a hammer bearing the characters for "Reason" was gripped tightly in his hand.
"Aah—"
"..."
"Huh?"
Right at that moment.
Xie Xie walked back into the dorm. Just as he pushed the door open, Zhou Changxi's figure was sent flying backward through the air, leaving him completely dumbfounded.
In just this short span of time—
What on earth had happened?!
"???"
He glanced at Yun Xiao, who was still standing frozen in shock, feeling a bit lost, and then looked over at Tang Wulin, who was holding the hammer. A wave of bewilderment washed over him.
"What..."
"What just happened here?"
Xie Xie paused for a moment and asked bluntly.
"Nothing much..."
Tang Wulin shook his head nonchalantly, putting his hammer away with a warm, friendly smile on his face.
"I just reasoned things out with him."