Dragon Clan: I'm too lazy to talk to you, you're not worthy to listen!

After awakening his bloodline, Chu Zihang could clearly feel that his physical fitness had been greatly improved.

After hearing Ye Jingchen's words, Chu Zihang didn't think much of it and quickly attacked his uncle, aunt, and Lu Mingze. With lightning speed, he struck them on the back three times with a hand chop, knocking them unconscious to the ground.

"Senior Brother Chu, you..." Lu Mingfei looked at Chu Zihang in disbelief. His feelings were complicated. Chu Zihang was more like a respected senior to him.

Although his uncle's family of three didn't care much for Lu Mingfei, they had still spent so many years together and developed a certain bond, even though his aunt had always been jealous of Lu Mingfei's parents for being able to work abroad and live such a glamorous life.

Even though his cousin Lu Mingze was eating up most of his living expenses and living a life of luxury.

Even if the uncle is a parent who lacks assertiveness and is incompetent.

Lu Mingfei couldn't bring himself to hate them, nor could he love them.

That's how unlucky kids are: they're not decisive when they're good, and they're not thorough when they're bad.

Chu Zihang has experienced far more than Lu Mingfei so far, but he has not completely abandoned the emotions he once had as an ordinary person.

Chu Zihang looked at Lu Mingfei and reached out to grab Lu Mingfei's arm. "Lu Mingfei, I know you may find it hard to accept right now, but I can't explain it to you in just a few words. Come with us first and head back to Kassel College. I'll explain it to you slowly on the way."

Kassel College is now Chu Zihang's ultimate goal.

The reason is simple: these were the last words Chu Tianjiao said to Chu Zihang before he disappeared.

Chu Zihang was also eager to unravel the mystery surrounding him.

"No, get my uncle and aunt to the hospital right now!" Lu Mingfei roared at Chu Zihang, unable to understand why Chu Zihang would beat up his own family.

Chu Zihang removed the black cloak from his head and explained to Lu Mingfei, "Lu Mingfei, they're all fine, just a little dizzy. You should just come with us now."

Ye Jingchen watched the two arguing, pursed his lips, took out his phone, and dialed the AI ​​Norma. "Beep beep beep..."

Norma: "Dear Commissioner Ye, hello, I am Norma."

Ye Jingchen said into the phone, "Norma, arrange for a helicopter to come here. I've sent you the coordinates. Also, prepare Lu Mingfei's enrollment information; he's an important new student."

Furthermore, his family has seen things they shouldn't have seen, and they are preparing to brainwash them.

Norma: "Okay, Commissioner Ye, we are contacting the follow-up brainwashing staff."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Jingchen walked up to Lu Mingfei. "Are you leaving or not?"

Faced with Ye Jingchen's tyranny, Lu Mingfei was speechless for a moment. When he saw Ye Jingchen's face, Lu Mingfei remembered the feeling of being whipped in the abandoned train station.

He felt a wave of fear; Lu Mingfei had never been veiled like that before.

Chu Zihang was unusually patient, perhaps feeling that it wasn't right to rush into someone else's home and make a move. "I'm telling you, Mingfei, don't be stubborn. Senior Ye has his reasons for doing this. Kassel College is a good place. You'll understand when you get there. There are many people like us there who can help you resolve many of your confusions."

Lu Mingfei looked at the two people in front of him, his heart filled with mixed feelings. He looked at his uncle, aunt, and cousin lying unconscious on the ground, a hint of hesitation flashing in his eyes. Finally, he gritted his teeth, "Fine, I'll go with you, but you have to make sure they're alright."

Chu Zihang nodded. "Don't worry, they'll be fine."

Ye Jingchen led the two back to the "villa"...

Not long after, the roar of a helicopter grew louder as it approached, its massive rotors whipping up a gust of wind.

The three of them took Lu Mingfei onto the helicopter and flew towards Kassel College.

Inside the cabin sat Ye Jingchen, Norton, Constantine, Xia Mi, Fenrir, Angers...

Angers' gaze was fixed on Lu Mingfei's face. He was most concerned about Lu Mingfei right now, and was a little worried that he might have bet on the wrong person. He also turned his head to look at Ye Jingchen several times. Angers thought to himself: "Ye Jingchen's reputation at Kassel College is at its peak right now."

Although there were deliberate attempts to distract the trainees by using Caesar, it doesn't seem to have been particularly effective.

If I were to exceptionally promote Lu Mingfei to S-rank, people in the academy would inevitably compare him to Ye Jingchen, which would be far too harsh on Lu Mingfei.

"Wait! That's right, I can upgrade Ye Jingchen to SSS rank, that way I can perfectly avoid this topic's anchor point!"

Angers thought of a solution to the problem, and a barely perceptible smile appeared on his lips.

Lu Mingfei sat in the helicopter, gazing at the city receding into the distance outside the window, his heart filled with confusion.

He had no idea what awaited him, or what secrets this so-called Kassel College held.

Seeing Lu Mingfei's preoccupied expression, Chu Zihang said, "Lu Mingfei, do you remember those strange dreams you had before? The kind where huge black shadows moved through the darkness and strange roars echoed in your ears."

Lu Mingfei was taken aback. "How did you know? I do often have dreams like that, and they feel incredibly real."

Chu Zihang took a deep breath. "That's not a dream. It's our subconscious memories as hybrids. We have dragon blood flowing in our veins, which is why we have these special perceptions."

Lu Mingfei's eyes widened. "A hybrid? Dragon blood? What are you talking about? I don't understand at all."

Ye Jingchen picked up the thread, "Simply put, dragons exist in this world, and we are the offspring of humans and dragons, possessing abilities beyond ordinary people, but also bearing certain missions. Kassel College is a place specifically for training us hybrids so that we can fight against dragons."

Lu Mingfei felt his worldview had been greatly shaken. "You guys are kidding me, this is absurd. Aren't dragons just things from myths and legends?"

Chu Zihang looked at Lu Mingfei with a firm gaze, "It's all true. My father, Chu Tianjiao, was also a mixed-race person. Before he disappeared, he told me that I must go to Kassel College. There are answers to our origins there, as well as responsibilities that we must bear."

Lu Mingfei fell silent, unsure how to accept it all. In his mind, the world had always been ordinary and simple; being suddenly told he had such a special identity was simply too much for him to process.

The helicopter flew through the night, and finally, a mysterious and magnificent academy appeared before everyone's eyes.

Valhalla, Norton Hall, student dormitories, Western European-style architecture...

The college's architecture is ancient and unique, exuding a mysterious aura.

The enormous clock tower, the Gothic-style school building, the gloomy library—everything seemed to come from another world.

The three of them led Lu Mingfei off the helicopter. As soon as they landed, a senior student in a neat uniform came up to greet them.

"Welcome to Kassel College, new students. I'm the senior student in charge of welcoming new students," the senior student said with a smile.

Angers patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder, "Let's go, I'll take you to complete the enrollment procedures and arrange your accommodation first."

Lu Mingfei followed them into the academy. Along the way, he saw many students of similar age to himself. They all exuded a unique temperament. Some had a cold expression, while others were full of vigor, but without exception, they all had a mysterious air about them.

After completing the enrollment procedures, Lu Mingfei was taken to his dormitory.

The dormitory is a double room, simply and comfortably furnished. Lu Mingfei's roommate is Fingel, but Fingel is currently out working as a paparazzi and hasn't returned to the dormitory yet.

“This will be your home from now on. Get some rest. There will be an entrance exam tomorrow,” Angers said.

Lu Mingfei nodded. After Chu Zihang and Ye Jingchen left, he collapsed onto the bed, staring at the ceiling, unable to fall asleep for a long time...

Chu Zihang settled down in the dormitory next to Lu Mingfei's. He lay in bed, unable to fall asleep. "I actually got to Kassel College... What should I do now?"

Chen Motong and Xia Mi shared a dormitory room.

Constantine and Norton shared a dormitory room.

Fenrir and Ye Jingchen shared a dormitory room.

After giving Fenrir a few instructions, Ye Jingchen locked the dormitory door behind him.

He came out and glanced at Angers and Jiudeya.

Angers glanced at Aki, "Aki, you can go down now. I have something to say to Ye Jingchen."

"Yes, Principal." Shudeya replied verbally, but didn't move an inch, secretly glancing at Ye Jingchen.

Angers saw this and narrowed his eyes slightly, but he was not angry. He thought to himself, "In such a short time, he was able to shake the beliefs of an executive at Kassel College who had been working there for a year or two. It seems that Ye Jingchen is a leader who is very good at winning people's hearts."

Angers cast an admiring glance at Ye Jingchen, vaguely sensing that he was one step closer to retirement.

Ye Jingchen gave Jiu Deya a wink, and Jiu Deya quickly retreated. As an executive who had already graduated, she didn't have a dormitory spot at Kassel College and could only apply for a spot in the college's apartment...

Angers saw all of this but didn't say anything. "Ye Jingchen, would you like to come to my office for a drink?"

Ye Jingchen: "Okay."

Angers: "Can you keep up? I'll try to slow down."

Ye Jingchen: "No need. I think that if I push my speed to the limit, I can theoretically be faster than the Word of Power: Time Zero."

Angers: "Oh? Hehe, then I'll wait and see."

With a whoosh, Angers was the first to disappear from the spot.

Ye Jingchen followed closely behind.

Angers returned to his office in a flash, a smug smile spreading across his face as he looked at the unlit office.

"Heh, young people are still too young..."

With a clang, Angers switched on the light bulb, but the scene before him made his smile freeze instantly...

Ye Jingchen was already sitting in his office chair, having brewed a cup of tea!

The office's floor-to-ceiling windows reflected the bronze-colored moonlight.

Ripples spread across the bone china teacup in Ye Jingchen's hand, and the tea leaves that had settled at the bottom of the cup formed patterns resembling the Eight Trigrams.

Angers caught a whiff of the sweet, fishy scent from the bottom of the Three Gorges—a sign that the Black King Egg was about to awaken.

“One of the bronze coffins in Valhalla is missing.” Ye Jingchen took a sip of tea, his fingertips tracing the dragon pattern on the rim of the cup. “Or rather… was it replaced?”

Angers unbuttoned his suit cuffs, revealing a bronze wristwatch on his wrist.

The "Fragments of the Ice Sea" engraved on the dial suddenly came to life and began to swim:

"You saw it after all. That exploration in the Arctic Circle three years ago..."

Before the words were even finished, the entire glass curtain wall suddenly shattered.

A fierce wind swept bronze fragments into the room, each shard of glass reflecting a different image:

Chu Tianjiao was burning archives in Bronze City, Norma's core database was flowing with mercury, and Lu Mingfei was pressing an ice crystal die into his pupil.

Ye Jingchen's suit jacket fluttered in the wind.

The teacup between his fingers suddenly melted into liquid bronze, condensing in mid-air into a miniature armillary sphere:

"Zhou Mingrui's alchemical puppets have infiltrated to this extent?"

Angers suddenly erupted.

The folding knife left a trail of bronze light as it sliced ​​through the air, but it was swallowed up by the turbulent flow of time and space the instant it touched the armillary sphere.

He saw his reflection shattered into eight pieces amidst the glass shards, each piece representing a different age—the youngest piece holding a folding knife, stabbing at the black king's egg.

"Don't move." The black vortex in Ye Jingchen's left eye spun counterclockwise. "You're standing on the 'Death Gate' of the Zhou family's Later Heaven Bagua. Someone is plotting against you in the office."

The soles of the Angers shoes felt burning hot.

The wool fibers of the carpet are twisting into bronze branches, the ends of which hang portraits of successive Kassel principals.

When he saw the portrait of Menek Cassel, his pupils contracted sharply—the golden eyes of the man in the painting were oozing a silvery liquid.

“So you had been…” Angers’ voice suddenly caught in his throat.

He saw Ye Jingchen's reflection reassembling on the glass curtain wall, holding in his hand the "Wrath" of the Seven Deadly Sins.

The sudden alarm shattered the silence.

Norma's mechanical voice carried a rare fluctuation:

"Warning! High-energy reaction detected in the core area of ​​Valhalla! Repeat..."

Ye Jingchen suddenly crushed the celestial globe.

The bronze fragments formed a star map in the sky, and the intersection of the star trails was the location of Lu Mingfei's dormitory.

He turned and walked to the broken window, the wind carrying his whispers into Angers' ears:

"The container is in place; it's time for the actors to take the stage."

Inside the dormitory building, Lu Mingfei was staring at the mold spots on the ceiling.

Under the moonlight, those marks looked just like the murals of the Bronze City, with each line slowly writhing.

When he counted to the 108th line, the ice crystal die under the pillow suddenly became hot.

"Brother," the little devil's voice came from deep within the wardrobe, "It's time to practice shooting."

Lu Mingfei sprang up as if he had been electrocuted.

He saw silvery-white liquid seeping from the cracks in the wardrobe door, and the liquid pooled on the ground to form the pattern of the "Dragon Genealogy".

As he trembled as he touched one of the dragon runes, the entire wall suddenly became transparent—in Chu Zihang's room next door, Constantine was pouring molten bronze into the Murasame sword.

"Don't look." A bandaged hand covered his eyes.

Xia Mi's voice carried a strange resonance: "Some truths are like Medusa's eyes..."

Lu Mingfei suddenly trembled violently.

He felt the sound of bronze gears turning in Xia Mi's palm, those gears cutting his memories into fragments.

Before his last wisp of consciousness faded, he heard thirteen booming sounds from the clock tower—one more than the normal chime, carrying the trembling sound of bronze chimes.

Deep within Valhalla, Norton placed his hand on the central coffin.

The surface of the coffin lid was covered with a dense array of alchemical circuits, each node of which was embedded with an ice crystal die.

As the seventh die landed, he heard the sound of chains breaking from the depths of the void—the pulsation of the Black King's Egg awakening in the historical rift.

“Soon.” Norton’s golden eyes reflected the murals of the Bronze City. “Waiting for Lu Mingfei’s blood…”

Constantine tugged at Norton's sleeve. "Brother, is it right for us to work independently of Boss Ye like this?"

A sudden whooshing sound interrupted Constantine's whisper.

The "envy" of the seven deadly sins penetrates the bronze coffin, and the hexagrams of the "Lianshan Yi" wrapped around the blade are reversing the alchemical circuit.

Ye Jingchen's figure emerged from the divination, with the phantom images of eighteen bronze cities floating in the black vortex of his left eye.

"Don't touch what doesn't belong to you," Ye Jingchen's voice resonated like a bronze chime, "unless you want to become Zhou Mingrui's puppet."

Norton's dragon scales instantly covered his entire body.

But when he saw clearly the seal script character "Chu" engraved on the coffin, the lava-like patterns suddenly froze!

That was the mark Chu Tianjiao left on it...