Lake Tour Harvest

"By the way, are there many Starfire Judgement Envoys?"

Leng Qing shook her head. "I don't know. Everything about Judgement Envoys is something only they themselves might know. We're only responsible for recruitment."

"All right. Then if I choose Starfire Judgement, do I need to fill out any forms?" Bai Mo shrugged, made his decision, then asked.

Leng Qing shook her head. "The backup information you have at the Hunter's Association is already enough."

"The observation period won't have you do anything. Focus on improving your strength." Leng Qing thought for a moment, then asked again:

"Have you used that Wind Crystal yet?"

Bai Mo nodded and told her about contracting the Wind Spirit.

"I used it. I contracted an Infant Stage Wind Spirit with Monarch bloodline, but it's comprehending and giving birth to its Companion Wind right now, so I can't summon it for the time being."

"Then your magic element...?" Leng Qing asked. Lingling, who had been silent at the side the whole time, also turned her gaze over then, clearly very curious about this as well.

With a soft smile, Bai Mo reached out, and a thin layer of wind breath coiled around his palm.

"I really did gain an extra Wind Element."

"What a freak!" Lingling clicked her tongue, then said, "There should be limitations, right?"

Bai Mo turned his head and gave her a calm glance, thinking, You haven't seen anything even freakier yet. But aloud, he answered her.

"There are. For example, I also need to control Star Dust to cast magic, and I can't rely on cultivation to raise my Wind Element cultivation..."

They were not outsiders, and Lingling would also be a teammate in the future, so Bai Mo explained the differences between his Wind Element and a normally awakened Wind Element.

"All in all, there's no downside for you, but there are still plenty of questions. For example, can your Wind Element fuse with a Wind Seed? Can it accept blessings? Is the total amount of magic energy different from an ordinary Wind Element?"

After listening, Lingling summarized, "I suggest you find some time to test it. But even if it isn't ideal, it's still better than not having it. Just focus on nurturing your Summoned Beast. I'll keep an eye out for information on elemental lifeforms with high bloodline grades for you."

"Okay." Bai Mo nodded, knowing she was referring to his Contracted Beast when he reached Intermediate Level.

After sitting for a while longer at Qingtian Hunter's Association, Bai Mo went back.

He still had to meditate and cultivate every day, roam the Other Dimension, and train his Mental Power.

However, he still had not sensed the bottleneck for the third level of Mental Power, and he did not know when he would be able to break through to the Mid-Realm.

But the moment he thought about how it had not even been a year since he reached the third level, he stopped feeling anxious.

The lotuses in Pearl Institute's lake were blooming brilliantly. From a distance, it looked like a dazzling garden on the water.

Within the garden, lotus leaves swayed, ripples spread, and a small boat floated quietly.

The weather in July was very hot, but sitting in the boat at the center of the lake, wisps of coolness lingered around them.

Bai Mo opened his eyes, ending his brief meditation. He had indeed felt his Mental Power rise a little.

So he looked at Ding Yumian, who sat opposite him and had also finished meditating, sitting quietly as she occasionally stirred the lotus leaves and lake water with her hand, and asked:

"How did you know meditating at this time could slightly improve Mental Power?"

"You taught me." Ding Yumian leisurely stirred the water with her hand. Water splashed up, landed on the lotus leaf beside them, and turned into a string of water droplets.

Bai Mo admired this beautiful picture for two seconds before saying in confusion again:

"I taught you again? How come I don't know about it!"

"Going to eat all kinds of delicacies, seeing all kinds of beautiful scenery, observing all kinds of people, watching cute little animals do all sorts of strange things, and experiencing things you've never experienced before.

"Part of it was something I learned from you asking me out to have fun, and part of it was something I learned from looking at your Moments. Wasn't that you teaching me?"

A faint smile rose on Ding Yumian's face, and she spoke softly and unhurriedly.

The confusion on Bai Mo's face deepened. "What do those things have to do with this?"

"When we see something stunning, surprising, beautiful, moving, or something we've never experienced before, our emotions will inevitably fluctuate.

"But meditation requires Calm Heart. If you can enter meditation at that moment, then it becomes a process of restraining your emotions, a confrontation and breakthrough against yourself."

After admiring the expression on Bai Mo's face for a moment, Ding Yumian, as if she had long known he would ask this, slowly explained her own insights.

"And if you complete that breakthrough and confrontation, it will naturally help the growth of Mental Power."

After a slight pause, noticing that Bai Mo's brows still had not relaxed, she said leisurely:

"This is my understanding. There may be deeper reasons, but that isn't something I know."

Hearing this, Bai Mo finally understood, and secretly thought, Now I have another perfectly legitimate excuse to go out and have fun in the future.

In the next thought, he realized that since Ding Yumian could bring him here, she should have been here before, so he asked again, "Then how can you still meditate here again? If you could bring me here, doesn't that mean you've already been here before?"

"Last time, I was alone, and all I saw were the lotus flowers. This time, you're among the lotus flowers too. It's a different scenery, so naturally it feels different." Ding Yumian looked at him and said it directly.

"Tsk, tsk." Bai Mo clicked his tongue, his expression unreadable, and said, "Classmate Ding, you're good."

"Average."

"Then does this count as dual cultivation for us?!"

Ding Yumian: ...

"Fine, I'm not." With her staring at him so faintly and intently, Bai Mo kept feeling like she knew what he was thinking, so he spread his hands and changed the subject. "How about we go traveling?"

"No." Ding Yumian shook her head. "I still can't leave Modu right now."

"Mm, all right. But how about we meet once every day?" Bai Mo said, gazing at her face with a completely serious expression.

"Every time I see you, I'm stunned by your aura and your looks, especially your eyes. They're prettier than the stars. Wouldn't that let me experience that feeling of a Mind Wave every day?!"

The smile on Ding Yumian's face seemed to deepen a little. She carefully observed Bai Mo's expression, guessing what he was thinking right now. How did this person say such mushy things with such a straight face?

The teasing in those eyes on his face showed that he was doing it on purpose! He wanted to make her shy.

Also, he might genuinely think she suited his tastes and wanted to look at her more.

Shy? She was a little, true, but she hid it very well. Ding Yumian had no intention of letting him notice and satisfying his wicked little amusement.

"Are you confessing to me?"

"No. I'm just telling the truth. You know, I'm an honest person."

Ding Yumian did not comment either way and only nodded lightly.

"Sure, if your Mental Power doesn't increase, then—"

"Then forget it. I was talking nonsense." Before she could finish her threat, Bai Mo directly admitted defeat.

Yet Ding Yumian somehow felt a little annoyed. It was not as if she had said she would refuse. With a curl of her finger, a fish leaped out of the previously calm lake.

The fish's tail swung through the air, flinging off a spray of scattered silver droplets that just happened to land all over Bai Mo's face.

Wiping his face, Bai Mo looked at the fish as it returned to the water, fell silent for a moment, then looked at Ding Yumian again and said pointedly, "The fish in this lake are too mischievous. They're all idiots, don't you think?"

"They're quite cute."

Looking at Ding Yumian's translucent-looking face beneath the sunlight, and the slight playfulness in the curve of her lips, Bai Mo chose to believe those words.

Damn it, she must have secretly used Mind Element magic on me!

Bai Mo found himself a reasonable excuse to cover up the fact that he had been seduced by beauty, then said, "By the way, are you really not taking part in the Magic Competition?"

"No. I can't beat you."

"You're right." Bai Mo nodded in full agreement. Ding Yumian could not be bothered with him. This was not the first time she had seen this person's narcissism.

Seeing that Ding Yumian was not speaking, Bai Mo did not feel like saying anything else either, so they admired the stretches of green leaves and red flowers together, as well as the fish that appeared and disappeared beneath the surface of the water.

Without using the oars, Bai Mo drove the wind, pushing the boat leisurely through the lotus leaves and flowers. Rippling green waves spread out, and the graceful stems and leaves swayed.

A cool breeze drifted over.

The girl sitting quietly at the bow had her hair swaying with the wind as well, her gaze moving over the clear water, lotus flowers, lotus leaves, and the boy before her.

She also quietly let him look at her. The atmosphere was harmonious and peaceful, and before they knew it, dusk had arrived.

The boat was rented. If they did not return it soon, the owners would be getting off work.

"Let's go." Bai Mo brought the boat to a stop at the small dock.

"Okay." Ding Yumian stood and got off the boat with him.

Setting out a trash can—throw in all your unused tickets at the end of the month~