Jade Is Kirin!

Dean Xiao's mouth twitched. While it was a fact, he suddenly felt hesitant to admit it now... Tang Miao's expression gave him the feeling of a shady merchant!

"Uh..."

After a moment of hesitation, Dean Xiao still nodded, admitting, "That's right, I was indeed afraid you'd be snatched away by another academy."

Tang Miao immediately brightened up and then said, "What's the big deal! Just give me some of your rare items and let me cultivate in the Three-Step Tower for another month. I won't go anywhere else, I'll just hang around here with you."

"Cough cough..."

Dean Xiao choked and coughed when he heard that.

Dean Xiao: Listen to this... Is this something a person would say?

Seeing Dean Xiao's reaction, Tang Miao said with disdain, "I say, Dean Xiao, is it really that serious? It's not like you're giving me a huge sum of money~"

Dean Xiao looked at Tang Miao with a dark line across his forehead, feeling helpless. "Everyone's opportunity to enter the Three-Step Tower is limited to seven days each time... I can agree to give you seven days each month. For a period of one year... However, once your cultivation reaches the high-tier, the Three-Step Tower won't be of much use anymore."

Then, Dean Xiao took out some Magic Tools and said, "As for the rare items you mentioned, I do have some Magic Tools here."

Looking at the Magic Tools before him and the promise he had just made, Tang Miao was stunned.

He wasn't the type to take advantage of someone's predicament. How could he do this?

Besides, these Magic Tools wouldn't be of much use to him. He already had materials saved from the Mystic Snake's shed skin. He could create a perfect armored Magic Tool in minutes!

"Dean Xiao, you're making me feel so embarrassed. I don't need the Magic Tools. However, I'd like to ask if you have anything related to Totems here?"

Tang Miao knew there was a feather here. Although he wasn't sure if the feather could be useful to his Jade, since it was left by a Totem Beast, it definitely wasn't trash.

Dean Xiao put the Magic Tools back and was stunned for a moment before saying, "Oh? You know about Totems too!?"

Tang Miao smiled and said, "My clan, the Tangs, are all Totem guardians, so of course, we know about Totems."

"There is indeed one item that seems to be related to Totems," Dean Xiao nodded, then said, "Follow me."

Tang Miao then followed Dean Xiao out of the office and all the way to the Three-Step Tower. Tang Miao pretended to be confused and asked, "Dean Xiao, what is this place?"

"This is the Three-Step Tower."

Dean Xiao responded, then led Tang Miao inside, heading straight towards another space.

Pushing open a heavy restrictive door, Tang Miao suddenly found himself in a place filled with numerous bookshelves and ancient artifacts. It resembled a museum, yet it was more solemn, even carrying a pressure that made one's breathing involuntarily slow and lighten. The displayed items possessed a certain aura!

Tang Miao licked his lips and said, "Dean Xiao, you're not being fair! You have such a good storage place, and you only gave me some of your lesser goods?"

Dean Xiao's mouth twitched slightly. After a pause, he said, "These are all high-tier Magic Tools, you can't use them yet..."

His words didn't seem to have any flaws...

Tang Miao shrugged and looked around. However, there was no one here today. It seemed the guards had gone elsewhere to attend some meeting.

Dean Xiao led Tang Miao towards the area where items related to Totems were stored. A brilliantly colored feather was displayed in a glass cabinet, appearing before their eyes. Although it was just one feather, it was as large as a fan. When its downy parts were spread open, clear patterns could be seen on it.

At the same time, Tang Miao felt the Jade within his body tremble, as if it wanted something...

Tang Miao thought, It seems it's really useful...

Dean Xiao took out the feather and handed it to Tang Miao, saying, "This is the item related to Totems. However, after so many years, no one has been able to research anything from it."

Tang Miao seemed a bit disappointed. "It's just a feather..."

"Mm."

Dean Xiao nodded and added, "This was left by someone, but it's not very useful. If you're pursuing Totems, then I'll give it to you."

After they came out, Dean Xiao said, "You can go up and cultivate now. This is the Three-Step Tower. The Three-Step Tower..."

Dean Xiao briefly explained, and Tang Miao nodded. He then headed upwards, while Dean Xiao smiled with satisfaction.

In his opinion, Tang Miao had gained a lot, but he himself had definitely not lost anything!

And similarly, Tang Miao felt the same way...

As Tang Miao stepped onto the Three-Step Tower, he took out the feather. Then, a piece of Jade materialized in his hand. It was the Jade related to his various magic elements.

The moment the Jade appeared, the feather instantly transformed into energy and poured into it...

After a moment, a beam of light entered Tang Miao's mind... Then, a creature that resembled a dragon from his past life, yet possessed four limbs, suddenly appeared in his mind.

Although he had never seen this creature before, a voice appeared in his heart: "Kirin..."

This voice wasn't from anyone, nor was it from the "Kirin." It was simply because it looked almost identical to the pictures of Kirins he had seen in his past life... and the descriptions he had heard!

And while Tang Miao was in a daze, around the Kirin, welcome appeared. An Azure Dragon emerged from the east, a White Tiger emerged from the west, a Vermilion Bird emerged from the south, and a Black Tortoise emerged from the north!

The four divine beasts seemed to be guarding it. After circling a few times, illusory figures appeared beside the four divine beasts.

The number of Totem Beasts was almost unimaginable...

And for some reason, their names even surfaced in his mind...

"Ya Zi, Chao Feng... Xi Qu, Ma Fu, Fei, Yong He... Kun Peng, Fei Lian... and so on."

These were the mythical beasts of his past life, now Totem Beasts!

After digesting these, a scene suddenly appeared before Tang Miao. It was the Totem Beasts guarding humanity, and humanity awakening Magic to destroy them... Then the Kirin led the Totem Beast clan to retreat to the distance, intending to live in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests. However, upon reaching Kunlun Mountain, the natural enemies of the Totem Beasts, the Four Fierce Beasts—the Taotie, Chaos, Qiong Qi, and Tao Wu—joined forces with some Totem Beasts dissatisfied with humanity and launched a surprise attack... The Kirin thus perished.

After this battle, the Totem Beasts scattered. Some became Demons and reproduced, while others continued to choose to protect humanity... After the Four Divine Beasts nurtured another batch of Totem Beasts, they also passed away one after another... Of course, their passing was not without value, as it exchanged for some corresponding protection. For example, the Azure Dragon's role was immense.

When the images in his mind ended, the familiar Kunlun Mountain, which is now the Demon Country, possessed the other half of the Kirin Jade.

Then the influence instantly dissipated, and the light directly poured into Tang Miao's body.

The light seemed to carry a thick energy. The moment he opened his eyes, he realized that the energy from the light had directly propelled his Summoning system to Intermediate Level!

PS: Fanfiction, after all, needs some innovation. Although I love writing harem novels, fighting monsters is also quite exhilarating, isn't it?