Drinking Luckin Coffee, What a Beautiful Thing

"That's the smell."

As she drank the fragrant, sweet Raw Coconut Latte, Ma Xiaotao suddenly felt that even the taste of first love could not be much more than this.

"Hm?"

Right after she swallowed the last mouthful of Raw Coconut Latte coffee in the cup...

A scorching aura began burning in Ma Xiaotao's chest, then gradually spread through her entire body.

Ma Xiaotao: Oh no. The evil fire is acting up at a time like this!

Thinking that the ice cubes in the cup could ease the symptoms, Ma Xiaotao no longer cared about appearances at all. She flipped open the lid and poured every last ice cube inside straight into her mouth in one go.

"Hot..."

Unlike before, this "evil fire eruption" made Ma Xiaotao feel as if her whole body was about to burst into flames.

However, from Bai Ran's perspective...

Aside from this senior sister Ma Xiaotao's face turning bright red, there were no flames burning on her body.

If it really had been an evil fire eruption, Haji Bai would have grabbed his bucket and run long ago.

How could he possibly still be standing there, completely unmoved?

Come to think of it, no one had yet drunk out the hidden effect of Luckin Raw Coconut Latte. Could this senior sister Ma Xiaotao's current condition be her hitting the jackpot?

The evolution of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's bloodline had happened after Bai Ran was thrown out of the Star Dou Great Forest by Di Tian, so he knew nothing about it.

"Oi, senior sister, are you all right?"

Since he was unsure, Bai Ran still did not dare move closer. At the same time, he held a cup of Luckin Iced Americano in each hand, ready to splash them over her the moment anything went wrong.

"I... I'm fine."

Ma Xiaotao's voice carried a bit more weakness now, but it still could not hide her joy.

Just now, Ma Xiaotao had discovered in surprise that the evil fire inside her body seemed to have vanished.

To put it simply, after drinking the Luckin Raw Coconut Latte, the impurities originally in her Phoenix Flame had been squeezed out like "blackheads" by some mysterious power.

If you said Ma Xiaotao was lucky, she had not drawn the "bloodline enhancement" ability among the Raw Coconut Latte's hidden effects.

If you said Ma Xiaotao was unlucky, the Raw Coconut Latte's hidden effect of "expelling impurities from the body" just so happened to suit her current situation best.

Evaluation: both fragrant and foul, then.

At this moment, Ma Xiaotao completely stopped caring about her disheveled appearance and hurried toward the dean's office, wanting to find her teacher and confirm whether the evil fire was truly gone.

Inside the dean's office.

Over the past few days, Yan Shaozhe had been so busy his head was spinning. Therefore, when he saw someone kick the door open without even giving notice, Yan Shaozhe completely blew up. "Rush, rush, rush! All you people know is rushing me! This dean is so busy I don't even have time to eat!"

Yan Shaozhe had just finished roaring when he saw a woman in red walk in with her fists clenched.

"Oh, so it's Xiaotao."

Seeing who it was, Yan Shaozhe rubbed his hands together, giving a live demonstration of what it meant to "change faces without spending a bean."

"What brings you to my office? Did your teacher's wife need me for something?

"Ah, Xiaotao, tell your teacher's wife that I'll go back as soon as I finish dealing with all this."

"Teacher, I'm the one who needs you."

"Oh? Xiaotao, what do you need your teacher for? Did you spend this month's allowance already and come to squeeze some coins out of me?

"Xiaotao, your teacher's wife has been keeping a close eye on me lately. These one thousand Gold Soul Coins are the last of my private stash."

As Yan Shaozhe spoke, he took a Gold Soul Coin card out of the drawer as if he were a thief.

Yan Shaozhe: Henpecked? What henpecked? I call this respect for my wife.

"Teacher, you should keep your private savings for yourself. I came to you for something else."

Seeing this, Ma Xiaotao covered her forehead.

Her teacher was clearly almost a hundred years old, so why did he still feel like a child?

Certain old monsters who had lived for a very long time said: Among Title Douluo, being in your nineties only counted as being a loli.

"What else is there?"

Aside from Cai Mei'er asking Xiaotao to come call him, or Xiaotao running out of money, Yan Shaozhe could not think of anything else.

As for guiding Ma Xiaotao in cultivation and the like?

Although he was her teacher, after so many years as master and disciple, he had basically already taught her everything he could. As for what remained untaught, either Ma Xiaotao's soul power level had not reached the requirement, or it was unsuitable for her to learn.

As for hunting soul rings?

Xiaotao had only broken through to rank sixty not long ago. Who broke through from Soul Emperor to Soul Saint in just a few months? Besides, this girl still had to endure the torment of the evil fire, and her cultivation speed was already far worse than before.

"Teacher, please take a look quickly. Has my evil fire disappeared?"

"Hiss... You don't have a fever. Why are you talking nonsense in broad daylight?"

Faced with Ma Xiaotao's request, Yan Shaozhe instead placed a hand on her forehead.

If a soul master with a powerful fire-attribute martial soul really could run a fever and burn her brain muddled, Yan Shaozhe would be able to laugh at that joke for a whole year.

"Teacher, I'm serious!"

"All right, all right, I believe you. Go back and cultivate properly. Don't come bother your teacher while I'm working."

What Yan Shaozhe had to deal with was all work related to the Freshman Competition from the past few days.

Originally, this work should have been handled jointly by the dean and vice dean. Unfortunately, his wife, the vice dean, had gone home early, so the heavy burden had all fallen on Yan Shaozhe alone.

"Teacher, just help me confirm it, okay? Please?"

No matter what kind of girl she was, she could still act spoiled, even the fiery-tempered Ma Xiaotao.

Seeing this, Yan Shaozhe helplessly placed a hand on Ma Xiaotao's shoulder and circulated his soul power to begin examining the condition inside her body.

If he had not checked, he would not have known; once he did, he was shocked.

The impurities originally contained within Ma Xiaotao's martial soul had basically vanished.

If this was not an illusion...

Then that also meant Ma Xiaotao's martial soul was no longer an Evil Fire Phoenix, but had become a Fire Phoenix containing Ultimate Fire.

"Xiaotao, what is going on?"

The shock of the scene before him was no less than if his teacher Mu En had said he wanted to pass the position of Sea God Pavilion Master to him.

"I'm not too sure either. Maybe my martial soul evolved on its own."

"Bullshit! What kind of damn thing the Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul is—do you think your teacher wouldn't know? Could it be, Xiaotao, that you..."

Yan Shaozhe suddenly revealed a small, meaningful expression.

In the end, the child had grown up. A grown daughter could not be kept at home.

When she had not found someone, he hoped she would hurry up and find one. But when she really did, the little cotton-padded jacket he had raised for so many years was suddenly being worn by another man, and in the end, it still felt a little unpleasant.

"Teacher, what are you thinking?"

"Nothing. Who is that man? Is he an inner courtyard disciple? If that really won't do, an outer courtyard disciple is fine too.

"It can't be some old man, can it?"

"Teacher, what are you muttering about?"

Ma Xiaotao rubbed her head, somewhat suspicious: were she and her teacher even on the same chat channel?

Ma Xiaotao did not tell Yan Shaozhe about the effects of Luckin Coffee.

In truth, Ma Xiaotao did not know why this had happened either.

Leaving the process aside, the result was good anyway.

Ma Xiaotao: Drinking Luckin Coffee really was such a wonderful thing.

(My little phone is so fun. Only three updates today; four tomorrow!)