Douluo Continent: I, an evil soul master, work nine-to-five in the Tang Sect.

Chapter 21: The Iron-Pulling Strongman.

"Dragon God Douluo, Mu En..."

Looking at the elderly man reclining in the chair, basking in the sun, Luo Chen felt a chill run down his spine. Before his mind could even react, his martial spirit had already instinctively hidden itself.

Even without using his life detection ability, he could still sense through the feedback from his own martial soul what kind of terrifying energy was contained within the seemingly kind old man in front of him!

The Dragon God Douluo was enough to intimidate the entire Soul Master world in his early years with just this title. He not only reached the terrifying realm of the Limit Douluo at level ninety-nine, but also possessed three 100,000-year Soul Rings!

Even now, decades later, his strength still stands at the pinnacle of Soul Masters, far surpassing even Xuanzi, a level 98 Super Douluo.

Faced with this terrifying being, Luo Chen didn't even dare to breathe loudly. Fortunately, he remembered that he was now a student of Shrek Academy, so the other party had no reason to attack him, and he gradually relaxed.

After Luo Chen's tense expression returned to calm, Huo Yuhao, standing beside him, asked with a puzzled look:

"Brother Luo, why are you always so easily startled? This isn't the first or second time. Could it be that something went wrong with your cultivation?"

"What the hell? You're the one who messed up. I'm just incredibly powerful, I can't stand not trembling a bit."

Hearing Huo Yuhao's strange words, Luo Chen couldn't help but smile and respond, but his gaze remained fixed on the old man.

As Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao approached the old man, the old man, who had been comfortably basking in the sun, seemed to sense something and opened his eyes with some difficulty, looking at Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao in front of him.

"Hello, sir/madam, we are newly enrolled freshmen here to move into our dorms. This is our freshman badge..."

Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao, who were standing in front of the old man, bowed to him very respectfully and then handed him their freshman badges and dormitory keys.

The old man glanced at them briefly before returning the badge and key to Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"Dormitory 108 is on the first floor, on the left, and dormitory 208 is on the second floor, on the left. You two little ones, remember not to go up to the fourth floor. That's the girls' dormitory. You can't go up there. If you're caught, you'll be expelled."

As he spoke, the old man seemed to sense something. A golden light flashed in his eyes as he looked at Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao, but it was not obvious under the sunlight. After waving to the two of them, he closed his eyes again.

"Yes, thank you, grandpa!"

After thanking the old man, Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao walked straight towards the open dormitory door.

After Luo Chen and Huo Yuhao entered the dormitory, the old man, reclining comfortably in his chair and basking in the sun, smiled and muttered:

"Two interesting little guys, quite novel."

……

Inside the dormitory, after exchanging a few words with Huo Yuhao, Luo Chen went up to the second floor and headed towards his room, number 208. He encountered quite a few freshmen along the way, but they were all just passersby and did not attract his attention.

But when he got close to the door, he found that his dormitory door was open, and in addition to some dust coming out, there were also occasional metallic clanging sounds.

Seeing this, Luo Chen realized that his roommate had already arrived at the dormitory ahead of him. Since all freshmen lived in double rooms, Luo Chen couldn't wait to see what kind of person his future roommate would be.

So he simply took a step, pushed open the half-closed door, and walked into the room. But when he looked into the room, he was dumbfounded.

In the middle of the two wooden beds, a burly man with a very strong build but an unusually honest and simple-minded appearance was straining to carry three round iron plates, each as thick as his palm, on his shoulder and walking backward with some effort.

Looking in the direction they were moving, there were more than a dozen round iron plates of the same size neatly stacked in the corner of the room. Each piece had a silvery metallic luster and weighed no less than forty pounds, even if you were to estimate the weight!

Watching the burly man in front of me place the three round iron plates, each weighing at least a hundred pounds, that he was carrying on his shoulder onto these round iron plates, producing a crisp sound.

Standing dumbfounded at the doorway, Luo Chen finally understood what had caused the metallic clanging sound from the corridor earlier. He couldn't help but twitch his lips and sigh:

"They brought barbell plates even though it's only the beginning of the semester. They're really skilled. They're only at the first level of cultivation, yet they have such formidable strength. Their martial spirit must be extraordinary..."

In just a short while, Luo Chen had already roughly figured out what kind of personality his roommate had. His obsession with body training, to the point that he had even brought barbell plates, showed that he was a training fanatic just like himself!

However, Luo Chen is more focused on practical combat. The method of using brute force to achieve miracles and overcome all techniques is not suitable for him. After all, his martial soul is a scythe. Physical strength is secondary; combat tactics and skills are the most important.

Moreover, even though Luo Chen hadn't deliberately trained his physique much, his physical abilities had been steadily improving through constant battles with soul beasts.

His physical abilities are now on par with those of a three-ring Soul Master of the Power Attack type; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to confront a thousand-year-old Soul Beast head-on.

Upon seeing the burly man in front of him, who seemed to be about to continue moving the unfinished iron sheet, the helpful Luo Chen naturally wouldn't let this opportunity to show off pass by.

He strode forward in two strides, effortlessly lifting the remaining pieces of iron from the ground under the burly man's visibly dazed gaze. Then, with a light touch of his foot, his figure transformed into a phantom.

Like a ghost, it instantly moved to the corner of the room and gently placed a stack of rather heavy, round iron plates on top of a neatly stacked pile of iron plates in the corner of the room.

After finishing all this, Luo Chen dusted off his hands, then used his blood-red eyes to examine the burly man in front of him, who was still in a malfunctioning state, with great interest, and greeted him with a smile:

"Hello, my future classmate and roommate, my name is Luo Chen. It's nice to meet you, and I hope we can get along well!"

However, after regaining his senses, the burly man blinked and spoke haltingly to Luo Chen:

"You, me..."

"It's nothing, no need to thank me. We're all in the same class, why be so polite about such a small thing?"

Luo Chen assumed the man wanted to thank him and smiled in response. However, the burly man's next words made his smile freeze:

"I... I meant to say, I originally planned to move those metal sheets off the ground..."

"..."

(End of this chapter)