The Arrogant Demon Pill Young Lady Won't Dream of the Succubus God

Xia Yuan stopped mid-sentence as soon as the words left his lips.

He had almost slipped into the wrong script.

"My name is Xia Yuan. You can call me by my name."

"If you only came over here to find that out, now you know. You can leave."

Upon hearing Xia Yuan's words, Ning Rongrong's smile widened. "So, you're the one training them..."

"I think your side looks more fun. Why don't you let me join?"

Xia Yuan glanced at her and delivered a blunt refusal: "I don't take in drama queens."

"Drama queen? What's that?" Ning Rongrong looked puzzled, though she clearly sensed the rejection in his tone.

Nearby, Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan exchanged a look and let out a collective, inexplicable sigh of relief.

"Are you saying... you're rejecting me?" The smile on Ning Rongrong's face faded.

Xia Yuan replied, "If you don't understand plain speech, I can consider using even more direct language."

"Whatever is going on between you and Qin Ming has nothing to do with me, but this isn't a place you can just waltz into whenever you please."

"Then tell me, what do I have to do for you to let me join?" Ning Rongrong asked immediately.

Xia Yuan looked her straight in the eyes. "If you train under me, you must listen to my instructions."

"A pampered young lady like you is used to bullying others. When would you ever be one to listen?"

"I..." Ning Rongrong choked on her words, but quickly recovered.

"If your training is unreasonable or you're just trying to punish me on purpose, why should I listen?"

"Have I done that yet?" Xia Yuan countered.

Ning Rongrong said, "You haven't yet, but who knows if you'll end up like that Qin Ming?"

"Since you have that concern, shouldn't you be staying even further away from us?" Xia Yuan settled the matter with a final word.

"I don't want our normal training sessions turned into a chaotic mess because of you."

He didn't want to waste his energy bickering with this little demon, so shutting her out was the best approach.

"Fine! Then I'll listen to you!" Ning Rongrong put a hand on her hip, tilted her chin up, and struck a pose that said, I'm doing you a favor.

Shi Mo remained silent, while Yu Feng glanced stealthily at Xia Yuan, feeling utterly bewildered.

He had noticed long ago that both Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan seemed to treat Xia Yuan with an unusual attitude.

Especially after the first day, they had become even more intimate.

And here was a direct descendant of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, someone who dared to defy the education committee and Instructor Qin Ming, now claiming she would obey Xia Yuan's orders.

What was Xia Yuan, some kind of succubus? Did everyone just fall for him?

Xia Yuan hadn't expected Ning Rongrong, who had just been complaining about why Qin Ming had any right to manage her, to actually agree to this requirement.

"Then go explain it to the education committee. Come back only after they agree."

"What? I have to get their permission too?" Ning Rongrong was stunned. "Can't you just make the decision yourself?"

Xia Yuan replied, "Putting you under Qin Ming's guidance was the choice of the three committee members."

"As long as the committee agrees to let you transfer to my team, I'll train you."

"Just you wait, I'm going to find them right now!" Ning Rongrong hurried off.

"Xia Yuan, are you really going to train her?" Dugu Yan asked.

"If she can actually make the committee change their minds."

But Xia Yuan knew the root of this matter likely didn't lie with the three committee members, but with Ning Fengzhi.

It didn't take a genius to figure out that Ning Rongrong's admission into Heaven Dou Royal Academy had certainly been sanctioned by Ning Fengzhi.

The fact that the three committee members had handed her over to Qin Ming right from the start might have been their own choice, but it was just as likely to have been Ning Fengzhi's.

If it was Ning Fengzhi's choice, the three committee members would inevitably have to report this to him, leaving the final decision in his hands.

If it was just the committee's own choice...

Then he'd just take her in!

He wasn't forcing himself to accommodate Ning Rongrong; if she really acted like a drama queen, he would just kick her out.

Xia Yuan had no interest in using the tactics the Shrek Academy used in the original story to gaslight her.

That was something Flender did to ensure Ning Rongrong stayed at Shrek Academy.

He didn't need any such assurance.

Whether Ning Rongrong came or not didn't change anything.

It was just one extra person to teach.

If Ning Rongrong was the type to fish for three days and dry nets for two, it would simply mean she wasn't meant to be here.

Xia Yuan looked back at Shi Mo and explained the key points of the first stage of training he intended to teach him.

In this world, there was a profession that soul masters did not value.

That was the blacksmith.

It was only through the hidden weapons Tang San brought with him that the blacksmith trade began to improve.

Furthermore, the Clear Sky Sect's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer was revered by blacksmiths as a legendary forging technique.

The training method Xia Yuan devised for Shi Mo was to leverage the greatest characteristic of his Black Tortoise martial soul.

He would treat the Black Tortoise's defense as a piece of raw iron, tempering it repeatedly until the impurities were hammered out.

Of course, this did not mean he would literally strike Shi Mo with a hammer.

Instead, while the natural environment could still exert an effect on soul masters, he would use that environment as the hammer to strike Shi Mo, the "raw iron."

This was why Xia Yuan wanted Shi Mo to first experience the new mimicry training environment.

The same applied to Yu Feng.

His Wind Bell Bird martial soul did not possess an advantage in terms of attack power.

The training method Xia Yuan gave him was to have him feel the "wind" and become a part of it, rather than resisting it.

Only with this first stage of wind-sensing training could the subsequent steps build upon one another until the final goal was reached.

Doing this was not a waste of precious early-stage cultivation time; on the contrary, it would allow them to thoroughly perceive their own states, thereby achieving twice the result with half the effort during their cultivation.

Xia Yuan expected these training sessions to take two to three months.

He would decide when to begin the next phase based on the results of their training at that time.

As for Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, he had planned methods for them as well.

As for Xia Yuan himself, he did not need to go through such trouble.

The first thing he needed to do was borrow the venom of Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent to stimulate the medicinal power hidden within his body.

What he needed to develop now was not his martial soul, but the abilities of his domain.

After Xia Yuan finished outlining the training tasks for the next three months to the group, Ning Rongrong returned.

Her expression was somewhat poor, and Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan exchanged a glance, both sensing what the other was thinking.

Ning Rongrong must have been rejected!

That would be wonderful!

However, the reality was not what they had imagined.

"Xia Yuan, the education committee has agreed. Can you take me to train now?"

Xia Yuan:?

"Are you sure the committee agreed? Why didn't they ask me to go back and discuss it?"

Hearing this, Ning Rongrong pouted, and only after a long pause did she say:

"They said they need to consult my father's opinion. Until he sends a reply, I can train with you first."

That explained it.

It also meant that Ning Fengzhi had indeed deliberately sought out Qin Ming.