"Dean Gu, you've been running to the academy's laboratories quite frequently these past two days!"
In the villa district of Tiannan Martial Academy, Liu Daimei had returned and was holding a teacup. A silvery-white spoon stirred the blood-red drink. It was Blood Tea brewed from a spirit medicine called Blood Essence Fruit, a specialty of the outskirts of Hangcheng. Blood Essence Fruit could replenish and temper one's qi and blood, and was extremely valuable. Ordinary cultivators could not afford even a single fruit, yet Liu Daimei used them directly to brew tea.
"Well, I'm only making a tiny contribution to the academy!"
Gu Sheng caught Liu Daimei's little foot as she reached it toward him and gently removed her shoe and sock. "Mei-jie, it's been so many days since we last met. I've missed you terribly."
"Get lost!"
Liu Daimei lightly pushed Gu Sheng with her foot and rolled her eyes at him. "As if I don't know you. You're a scumbag who forgets the old as soon as he gets someone new. I think you've been having too much fun to think of anything else, haven't you? You've been running to the laboratory every day. Explain Wu Mengchen's cultivation progress!"
"This..."
Gu Sheng wiped away nonexistent sweat, feeling somewhat awkward. What explanation could he give? Whether that had happened or not, there was no way to hide it from people who had achieved something in cultivation.
During this period, the cultivation progress of Wu Mengchen, Le Erya, and Lin Qinghe had been impossible to conceal. It was not merely rising by leaps and bounds—they were practically taking off like rockets. They had already reached the threshold of breaking through to the Fourth Star Level innate realm, leaving many people utterly dumbfounded.
All of this originated from Gu Sheng's previous