Cold Sister Bestows Treasure!

Watching Leng Yaozhu's figure recede, Shen Ming gasped for air.

He feared this direct superior of his to an extreme degree.

He plopped onto the ground, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and only then managed to stand up. He glanced at the two open boxes, each containing a ten-thousand-year spirit herb.

The box on the left held a Dragon Blood Fruit. This fruit was specifically used for those with dragon-type martial souls, or more accurately, those possessing the bloodline of a dragon-type martial soul; the effects were excellent.

Shen Ming swept a glance at this ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Fruit and knew it wasn't for Li Ang. Calmly, he pushed the box toward Na'er, then opened the second one.

Inside the second box lay an earth-colored spirit fruit.

Shen Ming recognized this one as well; it was an Earth Spirit Fruit, a type of elemental spirit fruit.

Soul masters who had mastered the earth element would benefit from absorbing it, but most importantly, this ten-thousand-year spirit herb provided a massive boost to cultivation speed.

"Not bad, we hit the jackpot this time! I was just wondering how I'd go about finding you some powerful spirit herbs or fruits. I can manage to scrounge up thousand-year herbs, but ten-thousand-year ones are truly impossible to come by."

"Now that we have this ten-thousand-year Earth Spirit Fruit, it will be a huge help to your cultivation speed."

As he spoke, Shen Ming coughed, stood up to wipe the sweat from his brow, and tossed the box containing the Earth Spirit Fruit directly to Li Ang.

Li Ang caught the box and looked at the dark yellow spirit fruit inside, a hint of joy appearing in his eyes.

He had really struck gold this time; this ten-thousand-year spirit fruit would last him at least half a year.

Furthermore, he could use this fruit as a foundation, injecting the essence energy from Douluo Planet that he contained within himself into it, allowing it to be recycled continuously.

In this way, the spirit fruit could be used for a long time and could even serve as a container for storing the essence energy of Douluo Planet.

For Li Ang, this solved yet another problem.

Seeing Li Ang's excitement, Shen Ming handed the other box to Na'er, who accepted it calmly.

A trace of curiosity flickered in the young girl's eyes as she swept her gaze over Shen Ming before landing on Li Ang.

Her expression was strange, filled with an indescribable feeling.

Na'er frowned slightly, not understanding why she felt something toward the boy in front of her.

It wasn't affection, nor was it a sense of loss, but rather a bizarre desire to investigate.

However, because she had no memories at all, Na'er simply lowered her head and kept the spirit fruit for herself.

"Alright, you're Na'er, right? I'll take you to your room now. Then, you two can go to school together. I'll arrange your transfer application right away."

Shen Ming spoke casually; arranging a transfer to East Sea Elementary Academy was no difficulty for him at all.

Having the two children stay was a good thing for him. He quickly had Ming Yue arrange a room for Na'er, located right across from his own.

Afterward, Shen Ming returned to his room.

Li Ang was currently completely uninterested in interacting with Na'er.

After all, his body was at risk of exploding, and he still had the dead Tang Hao looming over him.

These two points remained his biggest problems, and he had to resolve them first.

As for romance, while he did appreciate beauty, he didn't place much weight on it.

Of course, the main issue was that his soul was that of an adult; he truly couldn't muster any interest in the six-year-old Na'er, or rather, Gu Yuena.

The night passed slowly.

Early the next morning, the two began going to school together.

The days that followed were much more mundane, consisting of the usual school routine.

Xie Xie returned five days later. His expression was grim, but he forced himself to sit to the side without saying a word.

Li Ang didn't take the initiative to speak to the suddenly cold Xie Xie.

He had already guessed the problem; it was highly likely that his mother had passed away during those few days.

But Li Ang had no way to help; he possessed no recovery-type abilities and couldn't save someone who was terminally ill.

As the days passed, Li Ang's life gradually stabilized.

He spent his mornings studying in class, his afternoons in the Spirit Ascension Platform to improve himself, or at the Blacksmith Association following Mu Chen to learn smithing.

At night, he followed his teacher to learn the technique of Concealment, which was equivalent to further tempering his tendons and bones.

According to Uncle Li, it would take at least three to four years to complete.

The quality of the muscle developed would be vastly improved, and from the outside, there would be no obvious muscle definition.

This improvement was immense; it was equivalent to increasing the density and quality of the muscles themselves without causing any negative impact.

This was why many people looked average or even frail, yet possessed terrifying, explosive power.

In this routine, day after day, three years passed in the blink of an eye.

Three years later, on the 12th floor of the Spirit Pagoda.

This was where spirit souls were kept.

Li Ang stood there, quietly selecting a spirit soul.

He hadn't raised his little black dog to the ten-thousand-year level during this time, but the age of the little black dog's spirit soul had reached between 7,000 and 8,000 years.

After three years of cultivation, his strength had barely reached the third ring, and he had come here primarily to select his second soul spirit.

Following three years of research, screening, and even self-directed cultivation and growth, Shen Ming had finally chosen a soul spirit known as the Crystal Butterfly.

This was no ordinary soul spirit, but a new type created through hybridization techniques and genetic bloodline modification.

Li Ang had spent nearly a year cultivating this single soul spirit alone, just to ensure the two bloodlines were perfectly fused.

The Crystal Butterfly possessed a trait that was both incredibly strong and remarkably weak.

Li Ang named this trait Metal Fusion; it allowed the creature to merge directly with metal and begin consuming it to grow.

This was also a growth-type soul spirit, specifically crafted by Li Ang because his own abilities included metal purification.

When the time came, he could provide the Crystal Butterfly with pure metallic materials to accelerate its growth, allowing it to skip the lowest growth phase and enter a new stage.

As for this century-old Crystal Butterfly, the trait Li Ang had selected for it was quite simple.