The two of them walked side by side, attracting the attention of many students as they exited the academy.
Most of the male students couldn't help but feel envious. If only they could be as close with the goddess Gu Yue Na as this kid was.
Normally, Gu Yue Na carried herself with an air of coldness and aloofness towards the other students. Apart from her studies, she rarely interacted with anyone, making her seem like an unreachable presence.
In the several years she had been at the academy, she had no friends and was always alone, leaving others with the impression that she was untouchable.
Now, seeing her so close with a child, it was no wonder that the students were jealous.
Though she didn't have friends, she still had plenty of suitors. Many self-proclaimed genius youths had confessed to her, but none of them had succeeded—each time, she had only given them one word: "Leave!"
"Beep beep beep..." Gu Yue Na's communicator suddenly rang.
She slowed her steps and took out the communicator to check. It was a call from the academy's dean, Xu Lin. She couldn't help but glance at Yun Ze.
"Dean, is something the matter?" Gu Yue Na answered the call and directly asked what was going on.
A few minutes later, Gu Yue Na relayed what Xu Lin had said to Yun Ze.
"It seems I've caught the attention of the Federation Research Institute," Yun Ze said with a light smile.
Gu Yue Na nodded in agreement. "Although Xu Lin didn't directly say that the important person wants to meet you, there are only a few people he could be referring to."
"Among those few, the one most closely related to the Sun-moon Royal Academy is the dean of the Federation Research Institute."
"I suspect this person will definitely invite you to join the Federation Research Institute, and may even want to take you as a disciple," Gu Yue Na said with a smile.
These were things she had personally experienced, so it was highly likely that the same thing would happen to Yun Ze.
"That's just right. He also wants you to attend the meeting. When the time comes, just cooperate with me and reject everything," Yun Ze said.
"No problem, I'll make sure to cooperate with you," Gu Yue Na cheerfully responded.
The two continued chatting casually and soon arrived at a hotel about a kilometer away from the academy, where they rented two rooms.
Xu Lin had arranged for Yun Ze to have a private dormitory, but Yun Ze had declined, saying it would be more convenient for him to stay off-campus.
Gu Yue Na usually lived in the academy in a three-bedroom apartment, but now she was staying at the hotel just to make it easier for Yun Ze to guide her in cultivating the technique later in the evening.
She hadn't decided yet if she would move off-campus in the future.
Soon after settling in, Gu Yue Na received a call from Leng Yaozhu, her teacher, who had arrived in Mingdu and wanted to meet her.
Gu Yue Na informed Yun Ze and then left the hotel to meet Leng Yaozhu at the agreed location.
Once in the hotel room, Yun Ze first called Bi Ji to have her transfer 130 million Federation coins to Xu Lin.
Bi Ji didn't ask why; she simply followed Yun Ze's instructions and completed the transfer without question.
After the transfer was done, Yun Ze began refining pills.
He had plenty of medicinal materials in his storage ring and a pill furnace as well, making pill refinement very convenient.
For Bi Ji and the others, refining Foundation Building Pills and Breakthrough Pills would be difficult, but for Yun Ze, it was no challenge at all.
He controlled his flame with great precision, ensuring that the temperature remained contained within the pill furnace, without spreading, so the temperature in the rest of the room remained normal.
A large batch of pills only took about half an hour to refine, with a 100% success rate. A hundred round and full Foundation Building Pills were refined in one go. If Bi Ji had seen this, she would definitely have questioned her entire life.
For Yun Ze, refining pills was as easy as drinking water. Only his soul power limited his ability to do this continuously, so after each batch, he needed to rest for about forty minutes before he could start again. By 8 PM, he had already refined 600 pills—half Foundation Building Pills and half Breakthrough Pills—each of top-tier quality, at least twice as potent as the ones Bi Ji had made.
After his soul power was exhausted, Yun Ze practiced two cultivation techniques to restore his soul power, and his recovery speed was incredibly fast thanks to his high-level soul power absorption.
Refining pills also served as a form of practice for him. The process of exhausting and recovering his soul power was a good way to refine his soul, making it more solid and abundant. This kind of training also accelerated the overall increase in his soul power.
After checking the time, Yun Ze didn't continue refining pills. He washed up, changed out of his sweat-soaked clothes, and put on a white robe before heading out.
He grabbed a light meal to satisfy his hunger, then knocked on Gu Yue Na's room door.
After having dinner with Leng Yaozhu, Gu Yue Na returned to the hotel and didn't disturb Yun Ze, waiting for him to come to find her.
In the room, Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na sat cross-legged, facing each other, with their palms touching.
"Don't resist my soul power guidance, just focus on remembering the soul power circulation route," Yun Ze instructed.
"Mm." Gu Yue Na nodded seriously and let go of her guard, allowing Yun Ze's soul power to enter her body.
Yun Ze's soul power circulated within Gu Yue Na's body, and she followed along, moving her soul power in sync with his.
After circulating the soul power for several cycles, Gu Yue Na realized where she had been going wrong in her previous training.
As she focused on memorizing Yun Ze's circulation path and followed it, she was surprised to find that her soul power absorption speed had increased by nearly 30%.
Yun Ze spent over an hour helping Gu Yue Na with her training, then answered some of her questions about the Demon God Technique before leaving.
The next morning, Gu Yue Na and Yun Ze arrived at the academy together.
Gu Yue Na went to her class while Yun Ze headed to the library to read.
He presented the identity card given to him by Dean Xu Lin, and with it, he was granted direct access to the fourth floor of the library.
"Who is that kid? How come he can enter the fourth floor of the library?" The students who were researching in the library were surprised by this scene.
They knew the rules of the library—without the proper permissions, no one could enter the corresponding floors.
The fourth floor was only accessible to core students or high-ranking members of the academy. Could this kid already be a core student?
"Teacher, why was that kid allowed to enter the fourth floor?" A curious student approached the teacher stationed in the fourth-floor library, speaking politely and cautiously, worried about angering the elderly instructor.
The teacher was an old man over sixty, frail and needing a cane to walk. After confirming Yun Ze's identity, he leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep.
"Don't ask questions you shouldn't. Go back to your own books and stop disturbing this old man," the elderly teacher rasped, his voice hoarse.
"Yes." The student immediately responded respectfully and quickly left, not daring to press further.
The old man didn't open his eyes and leisurely rocked his chair, which creaked with a soft sound.
'Tonight's meeting should be related to this child. Only six years old, and at Level 21 soul power… truly unprecedented,' the old man thought to himself.
(End of chapter)