[What if I offered payment?]

Elephant Armor Sect, advanced class.

"Everyone, today marks my 760th day at Elephant Armor Academy."

"To celebrate this memorable occasion, I'm treating everyone to Rotating Hot Pot today."

The moment Wei Fan entered the classroom, he announced this important decision.

"Our dear captain, we still have class later. We don't have time to go to Elephant Armor City."

"Exactly. A round trip to Elephant Armor City takes at least an hour. Add the meal, and it'll definitely interfere with our cultivation."

"Captain, aren't you always urging us to cultivate hard? Going out to eat now really isn't appropriate."

"Next time, definitely!"

"..."

Every student in the advanced class fobbed him off with one excuse or another.

It all boiled down to one thing.

They weren't going!

"No problem. As captain of the Elephant Armor Team, I've already taken that into account."

"Come on, bring in the food!"

Wei Fan waved his hand, and the hot pot restaurant's staff filed into the advanced classroom with ingredients and equipment.

Everyone was dumbfounded!

What the hell? He could actually do that?

He'd brought the whole hot pot restaurant into their advanced class?

Was this fucking Elephant Armor Academy or the Elephant Armor Hot Pot Restaurant?

"Brother Wei Fan, you can't do this."

"This is an academy. This will seriously disrupt everyone's cultivation, and the academy won't approve either."

Huyan Li steeled himself and stepped forward.

"Your grandfather personally approved this."

That left Huyan Li with nothing more to say.

That damned old man!

He always sided with Wei Fan instead of him!

Which of them was his actual grandson-him or Wei Fan?

"Sir, all the ingredients you requested are ready."

"Meat, poultry, eggs, seafood, vegetables, bean products, grains, seasonings..."

"Our humble restaurant has found practically every ingredient available on the market for you."

"..."

A man dressed like a manager spoke respectfully.

"Thank you very much!"

"Here's your payment."

Wei Fan paid the agreed price in Gold Soul Coins.

"Thank you, sir. Enjoy your meal!"

Huyan Li and the others stared at the mountain of food.

They went numb!

Surely they weren't expected to eat all of that?

This was fucking going too far.

"Everyone, what are you standing there for? Dig in!"

This was the solution Wei Fan had come up with yesterday. He didn't know which foods could increase a Soul Bone's age.

But that didn't matter!

He could try them one by one!

Though reluctant, they had no choice. The headmaster of Elephant Armor Academy, Huyan Zhen, had given the order.

Just to keep that freak Wei Fan at Elephant Armor Academy, they were subjected to suffering day after day.

But if Blazing Fire Academy really poached Wei Fan, they would effectively be handing over their hopes of winning the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

They were even less willing to accept that!

So they might as well eat!

"Wei Fan, someone's here to see you!"

A man who looked like a teacher had just reached the doorway.

He froze in disbelief!

Good grief!

Was this the advanced class?

They really lived differently. His beginner class students were working themselves to death cultivating, while these people were actually eating hot pot.

He loved it!

It made him want to come teach the advanced class too.

"Who's here to see me?"

Wei Fan stepped outside to look and froze!

"Sister Yuehua, what brings you here?"

Xue Ke's last visit had been surprising enough. He had never expected Tang Yuehua to come looking for him.

"There's something I'd like to discuss with you."

Tang Yuehua smiled faintly.

"Come on, let's talk over a meal!"

Wei Fan "invited" Tang Yuehua into the advanced classroom.

"I'm here on serious business, not to eat."

Tang Yuehua frowned slightly. She had long heard that Wei Fan loved treating people to meals, but she hadn't expected him to be eating hot pot during class.

This was outrageous!

"Even if it's serious business, we still need to eat first. You've come all this way. I can't let you go back on an empty stomach."

"Don't be shy. Make yourself at home!"

As he spoke, a clean set of tableware was already placed before Tang Yuehua.

Tang Yuehua: "..."

Swept along by Wei Fan's pace, they ate and chatted...

"Sister Yuehua, what exactly did you come to see me about?"

He could rack his brains all he liked and still couldn't figure out why Tang Yuehua had come.

"I... I'd like you to teach me square dance!"

Ever since Wei Fan had performed a square dance in front of Xue Ye, enthusiasm for it within the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had reached a fever pitch.

Many nobles had come to her Moonlight Pavilion specifically to learn square dance, but there was one embarrassing problem.

She didn't know how!

"Huh???"

Wei Fan was bewildered!

He had only danced casually at the Heaven Dou Empire's celebration. He had never imagined it would stir up such a craze.

Now even the mistress of the Moonlight Pavilion wanted him to teach her?

Was this some kind of joke?

"That girl Xue Ke dances pretty well. Why not learn from her?"

Wei Fan really didn't have the time. Ever since he'd obtained the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, he hadn't considered having any further dealings with the Moonlight Pavilion or the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

"You invented square dance. Learning from you would definitely be the most authentic."

"Could you teach me?"

Tang Yuehua looked a little embarrassed. Not long ago, she had looked down on square dance, yet now she stood before Wei Fan, pleading to learn it.

The wheel of fortune really did turn!

"I really don't have time!"

"What if I offered payment?"

"What kind of payment?"

Wei Fan's eyes lit up. If there was payment involved, he could still consider it.

Tang Yuehua gave him a sidelong glance. Though Wei Fan had spent only half a year at the Moonlight Pavilion, visiting just once every ten days or two weeks, she still knew him somewhat.

Before coming, she had anticipated this situation and made preparations.

"A Soul Bone!"

Tang Yuehua offered a trade Wei Fan couldn't refuse.

Above all, this dance was simply too important to her!

At the words "Soul Bone," everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks, their gazes falling on Tang Yuehua's hands.

Had they heard that right?

A Soul Bone in exchange for teaching a dance!

Was this for real?

"Hurry up and take it out. Let me see."

Hearing that it was a Soul Bone shocked Wei Fan too.

Could such a good deal really exist?

He hadn't expected this at all. What an unexpected windfall!

"Here?"

Although Tang Yuehua wasn't a Soul Master, she knew how precious Soul Bones were.

As the saying went, wealth should never be flaunted, much less a Soul Bone.

"What's wrong with doing it here? Is someone going to snatch it?"

Wei Fan glanced indifferently at Huyan Li and the others.

"Absolutely not!"

"Who would ever snatch something belonging to Brother Wei Fan?"

Huyan Li grinned.

He fucking wanted to snatch it, but he'd have to be able to beat Wei Fan first.

That green turtle Feng Xiaotian had been blasted sky-high with a single cannon shot. He had no desire to become the next soul to perish beneath that cannon.

After a brief hesitation, Tang Yuehua took a leg-bone-shaped object emitting an icy blue glow out of her Soul Tool, flashed it before Wei Fan's eyes, then put it back inside.

"Holy shit!"

"It really is a Soul Bone!"

Although it had flashed before their eyes only briefly, the people from Elephant Armor Academy still recognized it.