Chapter 34: Chapter 34: The Outsider Superpower User
Evening.
[Chen Lan, come to the principal’s office for a moment.]
Looking at the message on his phone, Chen Lan scratched his head in confusion.
Why would Yan Yu ask him to go to the principal’s office?
After thinking for a moment, he replied, "On my way."
With that, he disappeared.
Meanwhile, in the principal’s office.
Just as Yan Yu saw Chen Lan’s message, she heard a knock on the door.
"Principal Yan."
"Come in," Yan Yu called out.
Chen Lan pushed open the door and walked straight to the chair in front of Yan Yu’s desk, sat down, and said with a calm smile, "Principal Yan, what did you need me for?"
Seeing Chen Lan’s familiar demeanor, Yan Yu laughed, "You’re different from the others; you’re much more relaxed."
Chen Lan said nothing, just smiled and nodded.
"Actually, the reason I called you isn’t very important. I’ve already heard that you led a team out today to hunt Demon Beasts, not only ensuring that no one got hurt, but also helping several people advance multiple levels."
"From now on, your position is elevated, and you can lead five classes. I’ll arrange for the people tomorrow."
Hearing this, Chen Lan was momentarily stunned, but he didn’t have much concept of these people.
Even if ten thousand people came, he’d just let Luo Tao take charge while he sat aside playing on his phone.
"Whatever," Chen Lan replied.
"There’s also some good news. Elixirs are about to materialize, and the sect is almost here. When the time comes, we will negotiate with the sect. Once we master these aspects of alchemy, we’ll be able to give you elixirs as a salary."
"Hmm," Chen Lan replied calmly.
"Why don’t you have any reaction at all?" Yan Yu asked, puzzled.
She was beyond thrilled when she learned that the sect was about to materialize.
The materialization of the sect signifies the true beginning of an era where everyone can cultivate immortality.
Everyone will have the opportunity to learn alchemy, artifact refining, arrays, talismans, and various cultivation techniques, sword techniques, and so on.
The number of ordinary people will significantly decrease, which is a wonderful thing.
Even as someone at the Mahayana stage, she was so excited, yet Chen Lan remained so calm?
As if he had just heard something irrelevant — how can he be so composed?
"Actually, I’m very happy," Chen Lan said, flashing a token smile, then asked calmly, "Can I leave now?"
"Hmm." Yan Yu responded, somewhat dazed.
Without another word, Chen Lan stood up and turned to leave.
Before he left, Yan Yu used her Divine Sense to probe Chen Lan once more, finding the same result.
"Why, his realm is clearly Nascent Soul, yet why do I get the impression of deep unfathomability from him?" Yan Yu was very puzzled.
She had inspected once a long time ago, and the result was Nascent Soul.
But Chen Lan’s demeanor of being profoundly mysterious, an aura of a transcendental superior, left her baffled.
Is he truly a hidden expert, or is he just pretending?
This left Yan Yu deeply puzzled.
...
Chen Lan returned to the dormitory, and as soon as he opened the door, he heard Luo Tao call out to him:
"Lao Chen, want to go grab a drink? Some students invited us for drinks."
"Sure, let’s go," Chen Lan said with a smile.
He remembered his first encounter with alcohol; it was just after arriving at university and being dragged out by three bastards for drinks.
He ended up dead drunk, and it was those three who carried him back.
Afterward, the three declared they’d never take him drinking again — he was too much of a lightweight.
"I thought you’d be too scared to go. I still recall the scene of you drunkenly hugging the trash can and crying," Luo Tao thought of something and laughed.
"Alright, alright, I’m not the same person as before. You can’t drink me under the table now."
"Okay, let’s head out. They’re already there."
"Alright, just give me the location."
"..."
With a swish, Chen Lan grabbed Luo Tao and they disappeared.
...
Qin City, Night Comes Bar.
Chen Lan and Luo Tao appeared out of thin air.
"Still can’t get used to this ’Shrinking Earth into Inches’ power," Luo Tao said with a wry smile, shaking his head.
"It’s fine; with practice, you’ll get used to it soon enough. You’ll be learning it yourself soon," Chen Lan smiled, lifting his head to look at the bar.
This was the closest bar to Qin City University; they had come here on the night of the first day of freshman year.
It’s a combination of a bar and a KTV, with the bar below and KTV above.
"Let’s go, they’re already in the private room," Luo Tao took the lead and started walking.
The two walked in, and Chen Lan surveyed the surroundings.
The lighting was dim, a female DJ was shaking her attractive body on stage, and the audience below was cheering with raised arms, with beauties dancing provocatively on the tables.
Unexpectedly, in this era of games materializing, these bars have become even more lively.
Chen Lan could tell that 80% of the people present were cultivators.
But their levels weren’t high, the highest being at the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Eh, there’s a superpower user.
Chen Lan looked toward a blond man sitting at a table, his pupils were blue, a foreigner.
He emanated the same energy waves as the superpower users Chen Lan had encountered before.
The girl next to him also had energy ripples, but this girl seemed odd.
Huaxia had many superpower users, which he knew, seeing them every day.
Yet these superpower users were very low-key, almost never demonstrating their superpowers, living an ordinary life every day.
After observing for two days, he didn’t bother to watch their lives anymore, just casually glancing every now and then.
"Let’s go," Luo Tao turned back to Chen Lan and spoke.
"Hmm," Chen Lan nodded and went upstairs.
The two reached the private room, pushed the door open, and were greeted by a sight of over twenty men and women, some young, some middle-aged, but none were old.
"Teacher Chen is here!"
"Teacher Chen, Captain Luo, come sit."
"Wuhu, been waiting for you a while, we won’t leave sober tonight."
"Alright, let’s get hyped!"
The crowd cheered as they ushered Chen Lan and Luo Tao to the center seats.
Luo Tao has a presence that scares most people.
He kicked things off by selecting a song about brotherhood and insisted on singing a duet with Chen Lan.
Hearing this, Chen Lan’s lips twitched, wishing he could whack this embarrassing "good buddy" who couldn’t help dragging him into his shameful antics.
In the end, Chen Lan half-heartedly sang a few lines and let Luo Tao continue alone.
But the guy didn’t mind at all, asking everyone to join in, and later even picked a love song, inviting a girl from the group to sing with him.
Plenty of young female university students were present, and they all seemed interested in Luo Tao, who was at the Foundation Establishment Stage and not bad-looking.
The main reason was that Chen Lan seemed very hard to approach, sitting there looking handsome and eye-catching.
Yet his aura was too aloof, giving them the feeling that they would be rejected if they tried to approach him.
So the girls were deterred from starting a conversation.
...
About an hour later, a classmate mentioned needing to go out to buy some barbecue for late-night snacks.
The rest didn’t think much of it and continued singing.
Ten minutes later, when Luo Tao turned to ask Chen Lan to sing a song, he realized Chen Lan was gone!
"Huh, he was just here. When did he leave?"
Luo Tao scratched his head, utterly baffled.