February 2nd, 4:40 PM.
Zheng Qing, with a grey cloth bag hanging on his waist, quietly slipped into the basement and embarked on the pitch-dark journey back to school.
Of course, this time, he set out alone.
This was his third use of the Clock Portal, and the first time he had done so without the assistance of any other wizard.
To ensure everything went smoothly, Zheng Qing had specially requested Deng Xiaoxian to use the Compound Soup Remedy as a decoy so his parents would take "him" to the train station. Everything had to look reasonable—in fact, he could have chosen a simpler way to leave home, like having his family enter a pleasant dream or casting an Illusion Technique. But every straightforward method came with its own side effects.
However, Zheng Qing didn't want to cause his parents mental weakness or neurological disorders just because he was heading off to school. Therefore, he preferred to exert a bit more effort on this matter.
