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"Stop touching it. If it gets any bigger, moving around will become inconvenient!"
After her shock, Tang Yue rolled her eyes at Tang Miao.
"It's practically been cultivated close to a 'D' already! And you still touch it every day!"
Hearing this, Tang Miao glanced at Tang Yue and muttered, "You really don't know how lucky you are. If you were an airport, wouldn't you complain about me every day?"
"Hmm?"
Although Tang Miao's voice was very soft, he had not tried to hide it at all, so Tang Yue still heard him clearly.
Feeling the terrifying gaze of a Queen upon him, Tang Miao hurriedly extended his right hand, then pointed at it with his left and said, "It's all this damn hand's fault. I'll definitely teach it a lesson when I have time!"
After giving a soft "ptui," Tang Yue took out a bank card and said, "Keep this hundred and fifty million. With your aptitude, it won't take you long to break through to the Advanced Mage level. This hundred and fifty million will be just right for buying resources."
Tang Miao shook his head and said, "No need. I have a year's qualification to cultivate in the Three-Step Tower. Besides, I entered the Main Campus directly. With the Main Campus's resources and the opportunity to use the Three-Step Tower, breaking through to the Advanced Mage level is only a matter of time."
"Only after your strength improves can I cultivate without worry. Otherwise, every time you go on a mission, I'll be on tenterhooks too."
The last time Tang Yue had been ambushed, Tang Miao had not investigated it carefully. However, if his guess was right, it probably had something to do with him revealing his strength.
But he and Tang Yue were close, and the only people who knew about it were the villagers. They should not have spread the information recklessly. After all, even the Dark Serpent took orders from Tang Miao—who would dare court death?
Suddenly, Tang Miao thought of something! It was the school he had attended when he first enrolled—the Magic High School. Wasn't Principal Zhu from there aware of their relationship?
"Yueyue, do you remember that magic high school I first attended?" Tang Miao sat up and asked.
Tang Yue nodded, then said, "I remember. Wasn't that the school I arranged for you to attend?"
Tang Miao continued, "Are you very familiar with that Principal Zhu?"
"I only came into contact with him once while investigating the Black Vatican's movements. We're not that familiar."
Tang Yue shook her head. Although she had pretended to be all sorts of professionals, working as a teacher at an academy in Bo City had been her first time.
Tang Miao's expression turned grim, and he said coldly, "The Black Vatican set a trap to lure you there this time. If I'm not mistaken, it should be related to my talent being exposed. And the reason they wanted to capture you should also have been me! But nearly everyone who knows about our relationship is from our village. They've guarded the village all year round, so the only suspect right now is this principal!"
Listening to Tang Miao's deduction, Tang Yue suddenly felt that something was wrong too.
Although the Judgment Society captured members of the Black Vatican, it had not been founded specifically to annihilate the Black Vatican.
Besides, members of the Black Vatican generally would not take the initiative to provoke the Judgment Society. It had always been a game of cat and mouse. The reason was that although the Judgment Society hunted the Black Vatican within the country, it had never touched their fundamental interests. Someone like the Blue-Robed Deacon might not even be caught by the Judgment Society once every three or five years!
Yet this time, they had taken the initiative to lure her...
And before that, Tang Miao had just revealed his astonishing talent. After thinking it over for a while, Tang Yue understood. She immediately said, "The only outsider who knows about our relationship really is this Principal Zhu!"
Tang Miao stood up and said, "If I'm not mistaken, that old bastard is probably a member of the Black Vatican too. Go arrest him!"
Tang Yue hesitated. "But with only this, we have no grounds to arrest him... Besides, that Principal Zhu seems to be an Advanced Mage too."
After all, she was a member of the Judgment Society. She still needed to prioritize evidence before taking action.
Wasn't Tang Miao's reason for refusing to join any faction that he disliked troublesome matters like this? However, the other party was an Advanced Mage. Even he might not necessarily be able to take him down in his current state, so he could only say, "Then have your people investigate him. That should be fine, right?"
Of course, the main reason was that this was merely a deduction and had not been confirmed. Otherwise, Tang Miao would have gone home, fetched the snake, and turned that bastard to ash in minutes.
Tang Yue nodded, but it was obvious that this would not be easy!
After all, before revealing themselves, members of the Black Vatican were simply ordinary people. It was not just high school principals—even within some major factions, quite a few members of the Black Vatican were mixed in.
Salang might not have been very strong, but when it came to schemes, she was no worse than those people fighting for power!
"Be careful during this period. Call me immediately if anything happens. Also, take these resources and cultivate. When you awaken your third element, you'd better guide it toward the Summoning Element! When the time comes, I'll take you to find a suitable Contract Pet." Tang Miao remembered that Tang Yue awakened the Summoning Element later, but he was not sure whether it had been her third or fourth element.
However, there should not be any problem with guiding the awakening.
He could make another contract now too, but he really had no idea what to choose for his second Contract Pet...
Tang Yue paused, then nodded. Although she did not know why Tang Miao wanted her to guide her third element toward Summoning, since he had suggested it, she naturally did not want to refuse.
After chatting for a while, Tang Miao prepared to search for information on the computer.
At that moment, intermittent memories suddenly surfaced in his mind. It seemed that the Kirin Jade had activated its power, directly bringing him into his mental space.
Then a beam of light poured into his mind.
"Tianshan... Totem Sacred Beast White Tiger...!?"
"Hiss~..."
After the light finished entering him, he immediately exited his mental space. Even though his mental strength was already extremely powerful, he still emerged looking exhausted and collapsed onto Tang Yue's delicate body. Tang Yue had just been about to get up when Tang Miao suddenly pressed her back onto the small sofa.
"You already said... not today..." Tang Yue thought Tang Miao was acting up again and was about to refuse when she noticed that his head was covered in sweat. She quickly dragged him up and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"Huff~"
Lying in the softness, Tang Miao breathed faintly, then said, "It's nothing. Maybe I cultivated for too long today."
He had not expected the Kirin to come with an information-searching function! But if he could contract a White Tiger, wouldn't that be amazing?
However, he obviously could not tell Tang Yue about this—at least not before he returned. Otherwise, forget whether the contracted White Tiger would be powerful or not; he might not even get the chance to form the contract.
After all, Tianshan was a forbidden zone for humanity!
If the Kirin Jade had not indicated that a White Tiger existed atop Tianshan, he truly would not have entertained the idea at all...
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