The sunlight during the break slanted through the glass window and spilled onto the desk. Kong Xuan rested his chin on one hand, his eyes slightly closed.
However, his right thumb rhythmically tapped the desktop, a habitual movement when he was deducing spear moves.
"Brother Xuan!"
Xu Wei's voice suddenly rang in his ear, stopping Kong Xuan's finger in mid-air just as he was about to tap.
"Someone's looking for you outside!"
Kong Xuan opened his eyes, his golden pupils looking at Xu Wei: "Who is it?"
Xu Wei shook his head: "I don't know her either, but she's a very pretty girl, not much older than us."
Kong Ling, who had been napping on the desk, suddenly sat up straight at the sound, her gaze flickering twice as she looked at Xu Wei.
Kong Xuan frowned, his gaze directed towards the classroom door.
Through a tiny gap in his line of sight, a slender figure appeared.
His frown relaxed, and his eyes wavered left and right, as if he was thinking about something.
A moment later, he got up and walked outside.
After leaving her seat, Kong Ling also stood up.
But instead of following her brother, she went up to Xu Wei, with a 'threatening' expression: "What did the person looking for my brother look like? What did she say?"
Xu Wei didn't understand why Kong Ling was reacting so strongly, but under her dangerous gaze, he honestly replied: "She sounds like a senior student. She just said she was looking for Brother Xuan."
"Senior student?"
"Very pretty?"
Xu Wei's mind conjured the pretty face that had appeared before him not long ago: "She's very pretty, with red hair, blue eyes, and very fair skin—"
While Xu Wei was still describing the person with his limited vocabulary in the classroom, Kong Xuan had already walked out of the classroom and arrived in front of her.
Although it was his first time seeing her, with such a highly distinctive hair color, Kong Xuan had already guessed her identity.
Dream Red Dust!
Mirror Red Dust, the Dean's granddaughter, a talented young girl in the Academy.
Kong Xuan just didn't know why this girl, who currently had no connection with him, would suddenly come looking for him.
Thanks to her age advantage, Dream Red Dust could still look down on Kong Xuan slightly.
Despite her calm demeanor on the surface, Dream Red Dust was screaming internally.
"Golden pupils are too handsome!"
"He's still young now, looks so cute."
"In a few more years, he'll definitely be more handsome than my older brother!"
While Dream Red Dust was letting her thoughts run wild, Kong Xuan spoke: "Miss Hongchen is looking for me?"
Dream Red Dust was stunned, not expecting Kong Xuan, this 'little shota', to address her in such a way.
The address "Miss Hongchen" was too formal.
But looking at Kong Xuan's serious expression, she didn't feel offended at all; instead, she found it quite interesting.
So after a moment of stunned, Dream Red Dust smiled and asked: "You know me?"
Kong Xuan just nodded, without offering further explanation.
Although Dream Red Dust had been infatuated for a while, she hadn't forgotten the purpose of her visit.
Her expression turned serious, and she said: "Actually, to be precise, it's not me looking for you, but my brother looking for you."
"Laughing Red Dust?"
That name appeared in Kong Xuan's mind.
Dream Red Dust then said: "He's outside. Do you want to go see him?"
Although he didn't know the purpose of these two siblings, since he had already left the classroom, Kong Xuan naturally wouldn't go back directly without clarifying things.
However, Kong Xuan still couldn't help but ask: "Why didn't he come directly to find me?"
Dream Red Dust's ice-blue eyes blinked, and she smiled: "This isn't exactly the place to talk, is it?"
The truth was, Laughing Red Dust had originally planned to come directly to find Kong Xuan, but he was stopped by his sister, who volunteered to take on the task.
When Kong Xuan followed Dream Red Dust out of the teaching building, he thought the so-called "place to talk" would at least be a quiet room, but he didn't expect it to be right outside the teaching building!
Across the road, directly opposite the teaching building, Laughing Red Dust was leaning against a tree, seemingly having deliberately struck a pose, looking both melancholic and mysterious.
When people are speechless, they are truly speechless.
Despite clearly seeing their appearance, Laughing Red Dust's gaze remained fixed on the distance.
Only when the two crossed the road and came beside him did Laughing Red Dust slowly retract his gaze and look at Kong Xuan.
Kong Xuan was truly at a loss for words, only feeling that the ten-year-old Laughing Red Dust had some potential to be a comedian.
And he clearly wasn't playing it cool properly!
"You're looking for me?"
Kong Xuan's direct question disrupted the mysterious atmosphere Laughing Red Dust believed he had created.
Laughing Red Dust crossed his arms and said indifferently: "Meng should have already introduced our identities to you—"
He completely ignored his sister who was frantically winking at him, and continued to speak to himself.
Seeing her older brother like this, Dream Red Dust was so embarrassed she wanted to dig a hole and hide.
She stepped forward and tugged at Laughing Red Dust's sleeve: "Brother! I didn't even need to introduce us, Kong Xuan already knows us."
"Hmm?"
Laughing Red Dust turned his head to look at his sister, his expression instantly changing.
When he turned his gaze back to Kong Xuan, his body, which had been leaning against the tree, had straightened up, and his crossed arms had been lowered.
"Cough!"
He lightly coughed, easing the awkwardness.
Laughing Red Dust's demeanor became much more normal, and he said: "I came this time to invite you to participate in the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition four years from now."
Kong Xuan was also a little surprised to hear this, not expecting that the other party's purpose in finding him was this.
The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition, a competition that had lasted for tens of thousands of years, Kong Xuan naturally knew about it.
"Four years from now, I'll only be twelve, and as far as I know, the entry requirement for this competition is Spirit Masters under twenty years old."
"Isn't it too early to invite me now?"
Facing Kong Xuan's question, Laughing Red Dust said boldly: "For ordinary people, it's indeed too early, but you're different!"
"Being a Second Ring and able to defeat a Fourth Ring Soul Engineer now, I believe that in four years, your strength will not be inferior to those inner court students of Shrek Academy!"
Laughing Red Dust seemed to have great confidence in Kong Xuan's future strength, and his only enemies in his eyes were Shrek. It must be said that Laughing Red Dust's words at this moment truly gave one the feeling of geniuses appreciating each other.
And his sweeping gesture made it seem as if Shrek's inner court students were nothing special!
Laughing Red Dust was indeed a genius, but Kong Xuan knew that in the original storyline, he eventually paid a heavy price for his pride.
"Don't the participants need to be selected? Even if you're the Dean's grandson, you can't just directly confirm it, can you?"
Laughing Red Dust smiled: "Geniuses naturally have their own selection methods."
Kong Xuan asked: "It seems you've already decided to take one of the spots?"
"That's right!" Laughing Red Dust said confidently: "In four years, I will definitely advance to Spirit King, and combined with my talent in Soul Engineering, becoming a main team member will be more than enough. By then, even against Shrek's Spirit Emperor, I'll have the power to fight!"
Four years later, Laughing Red Dust did indeed advance to Spirit King, and when he participated in the competition, he was indeed arrogant and cool.
But in the end, he was beaten into self-doubt by the incomplete Shrek team; one could only say he was a fated supporting character.
However, Kong Xuan remembered that the reason Laughing Red Dust was able to advance to Spirit King at fourteen was entirely due to drug use.
He wondered if Laughing Red Dust's current Spirit Elder cultivation was also forcibly boosted by drugs.
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