How Did You Get So Big!

After learning the whole story, a gratified smile appeared on Zhou Yi's gentle, beautiful face.

Sure enough, making Jiang Ming class monitor really did let him serve as a leader!

Jiang Ming, however, did not care much about the example he had set. Aside from being slightly surprised at first, he spent the rest of the time seriously running laps.

Three hundred laps—he still had to run faster. If he missed lunch at the Canteen, he would be taking a huge loss!

An hour passed, and Jiang Ming had already run over a hundred laps. At this point, most of the people behind him could still hold on.

An hour and a half passed. Two hundred laps. Many people could no longer keep up.

And at that moment, Jiang Ming, who was trying to get to lunch as soon as possible, actually began to speed up!

This nearly made Chen Zifeng, who had already been barely keeping up, lose his breath from a stitch. He could not keep up—this time, he really could not keep up!

Very soon, the three hundred laps were finished. He checked the time: it was already past one.

And so, Jiang Ming simply waved and greeted Chen Zifeng and the other classmates, then turned and ran toward the Canteen without the slightest hesitation.

By now, most of the people who had been running laps after Jiang Ming had already given up, while the small number who stubbornly kept at it were so exhausted that they had collapsed on the ground, without the slightest desire to move.

At the Canteen, Jiang Ming ordered twice his usual amount for this meal, startling the cafeteria auntie serving the food.

And when Jiang Ming took out a dining table and truly ate every basin of food clean, the entire Canteen fell silent.

After eating and drinking his fill, Jiang Ming saw the students in the Canteen casting astonished looks at him, but he did not feel embarrassed in the slightest. Instead, when he looked at those students standing while eating, his brows furrowed slightly.

It seemed Mu En really did not manage this side of things. This Canteen still had not even installed dining tables.

In that case...

Jiang Ming's eyes lit up. After finishing his meal, he ran straight to Shrek City, had people make dozens of dining tables and chairs, delivered them to the Canteen through a Storage Soul Tool, and arranged them one by one.

A line of words was carved onto each of these dining tables.

"Please insert coins consciously when using the dining table. One Copper Coin per use, dear."

Perhaps feeling that this was too stern, Jiang Ming specially added the word "dear" at the end and even drew a cute little picture.

And while Jiang Ming was taking bold and decisive action to provide his dear classmates with convenient living conditions so they would not have to stand while eating, the Canteen staff also came out and tried to stop him.

But Jiang Ming stated that this was a measure to make things convenient for his classmates, and also said that he had already reported it to the school leaders, who had tacitly approved it.

At first, the Canteen staff did not believe such words, but Jiang Ming's status as a Core Disciple was right there, and they could not ignore it either.

And so, these dozens of sets of tables and chairs were temporarily placed there.

As for whether anyone would use them...

Believe it or not, there really were!

When Jiang Ming finished eating, he saw that all the dozens of sets of tables and chairs he had arranged were filled with people!

The students sat around the tables in groups of twos and threes, several basins of dishes placed on the tabletops, drinks set at the corners, chatting away in full swing.

As for the other students who had not managed to grab a seat, some tried to find familiar faces among the dozens of tables so they could join in, while others held their lunch boxes and secretly decided that they had to come earlier next time to grab a spot!

The notice at the Canteen entrance said food could not be taken out, but it did not say they could not eat at the dining tables inside the Canteen. Jiang Ming had tested it before, and the Canteen staff had not stopped him either.

Walking into the Canteen and looking at the already heavy net bags at the corners of each table, Jiang Ming was very satisfied.

By rough estimate, these dozens of dining tables could bring him several Gold Soul Coins every day, perhaps even over a dozen Gold Soul Coins in profit.

Although to him now, this was nothing more than small change, once accumulated day by day, it would still be a considerable income!

Of course, someone also had to handle the work of cleaning the tables and collecting money. For this, Jiang Ming specifically sought out the Canteen staff to cooperate.

As for whether there would be anyone who used the tables without paying, or even someone who stole the money...

Jiang Ming did not think that was a problem.

After all, even if the students of Shrek Academy could not all be called rich or noble, at the very least, with the subsidies from the academy and the various nations for Soul Masters, they would not be so poor as to do something like this.

Of course, even if someone did do it, it did not matter. Stealing money was not exactly honorable.

If someone caught them, not only would their reputation be ruined, the academy's punishment would also be enough for them to suffer.

After finishing dinner, Jiang Ming returned to the dormitory and began preparing to meditate and cultivate.

Meanwhile, on the other side, looking at the Canteen that now had dozens of extra tables, the director of the Shrek Logistics Department had several black lines appear on his face.

Of course the reason the Canteen had no tables and chairs was not because he had failed to notice—it was deliberate!

Without tables and chairs, the amount of time students spent gossiping in the Canteen could be reduced, increasing the efficiency of meals.

Otherwise, a huge institution like Shrek Academy would not be so poor that it could not even afford to provide tables and chairs for the Canteen.

The director of the logistics department was just about to remove the tables and chairs, but when he thought of Jiang Ming's special status, he still gave up on the idea.

He just could not quite understand it. As that person's disciple, did he still need to earn this bit of pocket money?

Inside the first-year dormitory, Jiang Ming released his Martial Soul, and the Book of Spirits floated into the air.

Dai Yueheng, who slept in the bed opposite him, had taken leave and gone home because something had come up in his family, so Jiang Ming was the only one left in the entire dormitory.

And as Jiang Ming released the Book of Spirits Martial Soul, four soul rings—one black and three purple—appeared around him.

At the same time, an enormous bright-yellow figure shot straight out of the Book of Spirits!

Jiang Ming had been meditating with his eyes closed when he sensed something was wrong. He immediately opened his eyes, only to see a bright-yellow figure half as tall as a person sitting beside him.

The figure was humanoid, dressed in golden-yellow robes. Its face was fair, and its body carried a dense Aura of Light. Faintly, he could even hear the subtle sound of a dragon's cry.

And his only black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring was hovering behind this figure.

The other three purple Thousand-Year Soul Rings still had the three little sprites hovering above them as they cultivated. Only the Light Spirit was gone.

"You're... the Light Spirit?!"

Jiang Ming asked tentatively.

Although the half-person-tall figure before him was vastly different in size from the previous Light Sprite, its outline still faintly resembled the Light Sprite's appearance.

Hearing Jiang Ming's voice, the bright-yellow figure sitting beside him nodded.

The next moment, a crisp, childish voice rang out in Jiang Ming's Sea of Consciousness.

"Yes, Master."

Jiang Ming's eyes widened, somewhat unable to believe it.

The Light Sprite from before had looked so adorable, such a tiny little thing. How had it suddenly become so big? And it seemed to be developing more and more in a human-like direction.

Could this be a mutation that occurred after the Soul Ring broke through to ten thousand years?

All sorts of possibilities ran through Jiang Ming's mind, but he simply couldn't understand this situation himself.

So Jiang Ming looked at the half-person-tall Light Spirit before him and asked in a low voice, "How did you become so big?"