Can Eating This Really Make Your Body Stronger?

Very soon.

Ning Rongrong swallowed the thousand-year Whale Glue.

She even opened and closed her mouth slightly, glaring at Su Li in dissatisfaction as if to say, "Stop making that sour face! I already ate it!"

The energy within the Whale Glue began surging through the girl's body. She immediately sat cross-legged and began absorbing it.

Su Li did not waste any time either.

After taking it,

he slowly absorbed the energy.

It might not taste good, but it could make him stronger. That made it all worthwhile.

Time slowly passed.

Ning Rongrong opened her eyes, rubbed her stomach, and looked curiously at Su Li, who had long since awakened.

"Hey, can eating this really make you stronger?"

"Of course. Didn't you feel it yourself?"

"That's true... Then does that mean my second soul ring can absorb a thousand-year one?!"

Ning Rongrong happily jumped up. Looking at the stone-faced boy before her, she could not help puffing out her cheeks. "Hey! You're making me look stupid!"

"Jumping around like an idiot!"

Su Li could not hold back a laugh. Looking at her innocent, adorable appearance, he said unhurriedly, "It's fine. Friends who play with idiots are idiots too."

"You!"

The tips of Ning Rongrong's ears reddened. She did not know what to say to him.

Who called themselves an idiot?

"Stupid Su Li! Go be stupid by yourself!"

"This young lady is smart!"

Su Li froze for a moment, stared at Ning Rongrong's adorable face, and asked, "What did you just call me?"

"Stupid Su Li!"

"Say it a few more times?"

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!"

"Mm~"

Su Li nodded in satisfaction and did not argue with her.

Ning Rongrong was stunned. She had insulted him like that, yet this guy...

wasn't angry?

He even seemed to... want more?

How strange.

Holidays always passed quickly.

The two of them returned to Tiandou Royal Academy for class.

Looking at Dugu Yan, who seemed like an NPC, Ning Rongrong helplessly slumped over her desk, completely listless.

She secretly watched the two chatting, her gaze gloomy as her lips kept moving soundlessly.

"Little Li, how about big sister takes you to my home for a visit?"

"My family raises lots of rare soul beasts, and we even have cats that can do backflips~"

Dugu Yan looked at him with tender eyes. Who knew whose desk she had occupied as she sat there.

At the mention of going home,

Ning Rongrong's ears perked right up. She immediately glared fiercely at Dugu Yan, lightly baring her teeth.

As though he sensed something, Su Li calmly looked into her eyes and refused on the spot. "Forget it. The Sect Master won't allow me to go somewhere else without permission."

Hearing his answer, Ning Rongrong smugly raised her brows at Dugu Yan.

Su Li could only sigh helplessly at the sight. Closing his book, he silently headed outside.

The theory class was over. Next came free cultivation time.

The classroom was probably not suitable.

He needed to find somewhere quiet.

Preferably...

somewhere the three of them could do something without anyone else knowing.

"Hey, hey, hey! Wait for me!"

After Ning Rongrong passed Dugu Yan, she shot her a haughty glare before quickly catching up to Su Li.

"Tch, what a food-protective little princess."

"This is troublesome... Just how am I supposed to win Su Li over?"

Dugu Yan sighed helplessly. She felt that Ning Rongrong was far too much of an obstacle.

If that girl left for a while,

then she... might be able to do many things.

Over the past year,

through her contact with Su Li, her cultivation had already reached level 29.

She was only one step away from breaking through to Soul Elder.

Unfortunately,

without Su Li, it would be difficult for her to cultivate so efficiently.

"Forget it, forget it. I'll go find Lingling and bring her along to run into Su Li by chance!"

"She's still young, so she probably can't think that way yet. But in a few more years, she probably won't be able to resist, right?"

Dugu Yan smiled confidently.

She stepped forward and headed outside.

Then she froze, rubbed her eyes, and wondered if she had seen wrong.

Why was there such a pretty blue-haired figure beside Su Li?

That seemed to be... her good sister, didn't it?

"No! What's going on?!"

"Lingling! You can't do this to me!"

Su Li looked at the quiet, cool girl beside him and could not help glancing at her a few times.

Honestly, compared to Dugu Yan's passion, he preferred the quiet type.

Mm...

Mainly because he also liked peace and quiet sometimes.

"Junior Su, why don't I see Rongrong?"

"She's following behind us, I think?"

Su Li turned to look and saw a sneaky girl behind them, doing who knew what.

It felt like she was secretly spying on them?

The corners of Ye Lingling's lips lifted slightly. Her peripheral vision caught Dugu Yan, who was also following behind them, and she unconsciously moved a little closer to Su Li.

A moment later,

Su Li felt as though someone had lightly smacked his head, and his eyes instantly filled with confusion.

Holding a maple leaf in her hand, Ye Lingling smiled softly. "A leaf fell onto Junior Su's head. I helped you take it off."

After speaking,

she tossed the leaf in her hand onto the ground covered in leaves.

Making it impossible to tell what was real and what was not.

Su Li looked up at the rows of maple trees and did not pay it much mind.

He was already used to having his head petted, so his sensitivity had dropped to its lowest point.

Sigh~

They did not even know to pet somewhere else. If this kept up, his head would go bald sooner or later.

Before long,

the two arrived at a courtyard with a small river and a lawn before them.

The environment was excellent.

With her hands behind her back, Ye Lingling hesitated for a moment before asking, "Junior Su, do you know about the flaw in the Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul?"

Su Li was somewhat surprised to hear her bring this up.

But since they were friends, and perhaps because of playing gal games, when he thought of the special CG after completing her route, he felt a faint affection for these girls.

After all!

He had spent 791 hours painstakingly clearing it!

Even after using a cup once, one could grow attached to it.

Not to mention the painstaking experience of winning them over step by step.

"Senior Ye, I did indeed read about the flaw in the Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul in the ancient records of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect."

"And it seems... there may be a way to solve it."

Ye Lingling's expression shifted slightly.

Looking at Su Li's young, immature face, her heartbeat could not help quickening.

In that vague memory,

it was him who had told her the solution.

Then,

he had gone off alone to some unknown place and returned with something that changed their entire lineage...

Ye Lingling wanted it badly, but she did not know whether someone of her status was qualified to ask Su Li to give so much.

If Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan were not around, perhaps she...

Su Li sensed Ye Lingling's emotions changing, from surprise to disappointment, then confusion.

Those eyes that no one else could see through—

he had looked into them countless times with the VR Reality Goggles, so he naturally understood what the girl was thinking.

She did not want to trouble him.

Whatever happened, she instinctively buried it in her heart and dealt with it alone.

"Mm... I have something to do today. I'll trouble Junior Su to explain it to me another day..."

"How about senior sister treats you to a meal tomorrow?"

Bending over to hide herself from the two people secretly spying on them, Ye Lingling gently pinched Su Li's cheek.

Then,

she slowly left as though nothing had happened.