Learning Makes Me Dull

The next morning, at dawn.

Xu Bai clapped his hands, having applied fresh Magnet Powder to Di Yi, who had fallen into a deep sleep, before recalling him back into his Beast Taming Space.

Perhaps it was just his imagination, but after only a single night, Di Yi's physique seemed to have grown a size larger, and in some areas, a faint golden fluorescence could be seen shimmering beneath his white fur.

It's only been one application of Magnet Powder and there's already a change. It seems Di Yi's talent is even stronger than I imagined.

Xu Bai muttered to himself, then glanced back at the Blue Silver Grass in the corner.

It was swaying gently in the sunlight, looking quite happy.

What is this little guy thinking about right now?

Xu Bai felt a surge of curiosity and silently activated his telepathy talent.

The next moment, a rather cheerful voice came through:

"The sun comes out, I bask in the sun. The moon comes out, I bask in the moon. La la la, so happy, it's a new day, gotta try hard to keep living, go for it!"

"Though, it would be nice if it rained a little; I'm so thirsty..."

Xu Bai raised an eyebrow slightly. He hadn't expected this Blue Silver Grass to have such a strong will to survive. If it knew that the method he was using to evolve it required it to die eight more times, he wondered what it would think.

He chuckled to himself, scooped a ladle of water from a nearby vat, and walked slowly over to the Blue Silver Grass.

Noticing Xu Bai approaching, the Blue Silver Grass immediately let out a sharp, shrill cry: "Bad guy, why is the bad guy here again? Wuwuwu, he really won't let me go, wuwu, eh..."

Before it could finish, the entire plant froze in place.

Feeling the moisture seeping into its roots, the Blue Silver Grass's tiny leaves were filled with confusion:

"The bad guy is actually here to water me? It seems the bad guy isn't that bad after all. He actually seems like a pretty decent person."

Xu Bai: ????

You silly child, you must have been a college student in your past life, right? Otherwise, how could you think I'm a good person just because I watered you once, even though I already killed you once?

Xu Bai's eyes softened, the kind of look one gives to someone who is a bit slow.

However, the Blue Silver Grass's voice didn't stop: "In exchange for watering me, I won't call you a bad guy anymore. Hmm, what should I call you... Got it! I'll call you 'Bad-Good Guy'!"

Bad-Good... Guy?

Xu Bai's mouth twitched, and he decided to stop trying to understand the thoughts of a plant.

After finishing the watering, he put the wooden ladle back in its place and left without lingering.

He had an extremely important task to attend to today: going to the Spirit Hall to expand his knowledge.

Regardless of what the Spirit Hall was like now, its original founding intentions were good, and some of its policies remained very friendly to low-level spirit masters to this day.

For example, the free spirit awakening, the monthly stipends for spirit masters and grand spirit masters, and the libraries open to all spirit masters for free.

Upon entering the Spirit Hall and presenting his spirit master credentials, Xu Bai was admitted to the library without issue.

The library was quite small, estimated to be about fifty square meters, and consisted of only one floor.

The walls were lined with bookshelves, and a few tables were placed in the center.

Xu Bai took a quick look around and found that the books here regarding spirits and spirit masters were mostly basic common knowledge and biographies of various figures.

There were, however, many books on the habits and characteristics of spirit beasts, which was exactly what he needed right now.

Xu Bai found a book documenting the Green-Red Tiger spirit beast, sat down at a random table, and spent a dull, tedious morning in the library.

"Before I transmigrated, I suffered through nine years of compulsory education, doing nothing but studying every single day. After transmigrating, I still have to read books all day long—how does it feel like nothing has changed at all..."

Xu Bai muttered as he pushed open the gate to his small courtyard.

He first looked at the Blue Silver Grass in the corner, swaying back and forth in the sun like a sunflower; he had no idea what it was so happy about.

"That mindset... I can't even compare."

Xu Bai clicked his tongue and raised his hand to release Di Yi.

Di Yi was already awake. Once out, he shook his body vigorously, though he only managed to shed a small amount of the Magnet Powder.

Perhaps because the special energy within the Magnet Powder had been exhausted, it no longer felt warm and instead made Di Yi feel somewhat uncomfortable.

"I need to apply it once more; I'll wash you clean tonight." Xu Bai smiled gently and walked toward the kitchen, his voice trailing behind him: "For now, let's eat."

Seeing this, Di Yi's eyes lit up. Ignoring the discomfort on his body, he scrambled to follow.

Nothing could stop his determination to eat, not even the pride of a spirit beast.

Thinking back, what kind of bland, watery life had he been living before?

Di Yi felt that even if he hadn't been abandoned by his pack, if a beast tamer had used well-cooked food to lure him into signing a spirit beast contract, he most likely would have agreed.

You say a spirit beast's dignity cannot be trampled upon? That's only because you don't know what it's like to have braised pork melt in your mouth.

Xu Bai, walking ahead, didn't have his telepathy active and naturally wasn't aware of Di Yi's internal monologue. He was currently preoccupied with the thought of cooking more so that Di Yi could eat his fill; he couldn't let all that food go to waste at home.

After lunch, Xu Bai once again applied the Magnet Powder to the well-fed Di Yi.

Watching the little white tiger fall into a deep sleep once more, Xu Bai couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Eat until full then sleep, sleep until full then eat—he couldn't let Diyi be raised into another Gong Baiwan.

That was a guy who could choke even while eating deboned beef; if Diyi really turned out like that, he would be better off contracting that stalk of Blue Silver Grass for peace of mind.

However, after thinking it over carefully, Xu Bai felt it was unlikely.

In the two days they had spent together, Diyi had always shown him a well-behaved side.

But Xu Bai saw it clearly: deep within Diyi's eyes, there was always a hidden layer of hatred and fury.

With that kind of gaze, it was unlikely to evolve into a state of "clear-eyed stupidity" before the emotions pent up in its heart were released.

After putting Diyi back into his Beast Taming Space, Xu Bai watered the Blue Silver Grass in the corner once more.

Although he hadn't activated telepathy, he felt that the Blue Silver Grass seemed much more cheerful after being watered.

"I wonder if this Blue Silver Grass will add another suffix to my title."

Xu Bai chuckled softly, then left the small courtyard and headed toward Spirit Hall.

Living a life between two points, this routine would likely continue until Diyi awakened its racial talent.

Just like that, a week passed by in a flash.

Because his mental power had increased, and also because he was half a transmigrator, Xu Bai learned very quickly. In seven days, he had finished reading all the books on tiger-type spirit beasts in the library, and had even studied plant-type spirit beasts along the way.

This could be considered experiencing the joy of being a top student from his past life.

Returning home, Xu Bai looked at the Blue Silver Grass, which had grown significantly taller in the corner. With a thought, he opened the handbook within his Sea of Divine Consciousness.