"You big meanie! What's wrong with helping me carry them?"
Na'er was displeased.
Yet she moved faster than anyone, darting over to take the shopping bags from the two burly figures.
Her eyes positively shone.
A moment later, her face fell.
"Don't you like them? We can go buy something else."
Seeing this, the two burly figures hurriedly asked.
Su Xun saw right through her. He curled his lip and revealed the truth:
"She's just disappointed they aren't food."
The two burly figures exchanged looks. Could such a tiny little thing really eat that much?
Leng Yaozhu found that explanation quite reasonable. Covering her face, she gave her instructions as she headed upstairs:
"Your teacher is tired. I'll leave her to you.
All her expenses will come out of your allowance anyway.
You decide what to do."
Su Xun looked helpless, but inwardly, he understood his dear teacher's little scheme.
Upon hearing that the big meanie in front of her would be paying for everything, Na'er immediately figured out who held the reins.
She instantly latched onto Su Xun's leg.
"Brother Xun, Little Na's hungry! Let's go get a late-night snack?"
Night Owl: Huh?
Su Xun rolled his eyes at her.
"We just got back from eating.
Go wash up and change your clothes. Tomorrow, I'll pick a soul spirit for you.
Also, I live over there. Pick whichever room you want on the first floor. Don't go upstairs and disturb Teacher's rest."
Then he turned to the two burly figures.
"Big Sister Bai, Little Sister Bai, thanks for all your help. Go get some rest."
The two burly figures smiled faintly at his words, nodded to Su Xun, and left.
At those words, Na'er's little eyes filled with enormous shock.
What did you just call those hulking figures whose arms are thicker than my waist?
However, Su Xun was in no mood to explain.
He feared that if he stayed even a second longer, this greedy little girl would start tearfully pleading again.
He went straight back to his room and shut the door, giving Na'er no chance to act cute.
He understood that Na'er wasn't hungry. She was simply craving food.
As for "Big Sister Bai and Little Sister Bai"...
They were, naturally, Leng Yaozhu's left and right guardians, Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen.
The older sister, Bai Haoze, possessed the light unicorn martial soul, while the younger sister, Bai Zhicen, possessed the spatial unicorn martial soul.
Their two martial souls could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
In the original timeline, during Shrek's first recruitment after its reconstruction, Spirit Transmission Academy had been established to compete head-on with Shrek.
At that time, the sisters had fought a two-on-two battle against A Ruheng and Sima Jinchi of the Dragon-Slaying Saber.
Su Xun had known their true identities the first time he met them.
But naturally, he had only changed how he addressed them after they revealed their true forms before him during the past fortnight.
After returning to his room...
Su Xun's brows drew together slightly.
Although he had laid everything out clearly for Na'er, his heart was still beating an uncertain drum.
Logically, even if she was an incarnation formed from thirty percent of the peerlessly clever Silver Dragon King's origin...
In essence, she was still equivalent to a soul beast that had begun cultivating as a human.
Based on past experience, someone in that situation could produce her own soul rings.
Naturally, she should have no need for soul spirits either.
But judging by the current situation, many events from the original timeline had already changed.
Since Na'er had been "airdropped" into Shrek City...
The ferocious beasts of Star Dou-or rather, Gu Yue-must have intended to send Na'er into Shrek or the Spirit Pagoda.
In that case, they had probably prepared contingencies concerning soul rings and soul spirits long ago.
Moreover, despite Leng Yaozhu's level of cultivation, her close contact with Na'er, and even personally helping awaken her martial soul, she had detected nothing "inhuman" about her.
That further demonstrated how thoroughly Gu Yue had prepared.
No, I'm overcomplicating things.
Before splitting and sealing her power, it would hardly be strange for the clever Silver Dragon King to conceal both her own aura and her incarnation's.
As for soul spirits...
A soul spirit contract is, in essence, a kind of soul contract.
That's entirely different from whether someone needs to hunt soul beasts to obtain soul rings.
As long as one's spiritual power is strong enough, there's nothing stopping someone from absorbing a few soul spirits purely for "fun," without letting them condense soul rings.
So there probably won't be any mishaps when she contracts a soul spirit.
Having worked out the crux of the matter, Su Xun stopped wasting mental energy on it.
After washing up in his room's private bathroom, he sat cross-legged and began meditating, practicing Soul Regulation.
Over the past fortnight, he had already developed this habit.
Besides, meditation was actually more effective than ordinary sleep.
At first, his legs would go numb, but once he grew accustomed to it, the flow of soul power quickly dispelled that discomfort.
Knock, knock-
Not long after Su Xun entered meditation, someone suddenly knocked on his door.
His brows furrowed slightly. Initially, he intended to ignore it.
But the visitor only knocked with increasing enthusiasm.
Helpless, Su Xun felt he had saddled himself with a little tyrant. Opening the door, he asked:
"Why aren't you resting? What are you doing?"
Then he froze.
Na'er stood outside, her hair soaking wet, already dressed in the clothes Big Bai and Little Bai had bought.
The big toes of her bare feet rubbed together as though wrestling.
Her silver eyes gazed pitifully at Su Xun.
"Big brother. Hair. Wet."
Su Xun opened his mouth, then finally gave a soft sigh. The refusal never left his lips.
He stepped aside and let Na'er into his room.
A brilliant smile immediately blossomed on Na'er's face. Her silver eyes roved sneakily around Su Xun's room, then suddenly lit up as she found her target.
Watching Na'er swiftly open a bag of snacks and stuff them into her mouth as though terrified someone would steal them, Su Xun shook his head helplessly:
"Eat slowly. No one's going to take them. Come sit here. I'll dry your hair."
Reassured by his words, Na'er slowed down and sat in front of him, letting him dry her hair.
All the while, she kept stuffing snacks into her mouth, her cheeks puffed out in a squirrel impression.
A little later, the whirring of the soul-device hair dryer stopped.
Su Xun was just about to urge Na'er to leave when he noticed that she had swallowed an entire bag of snacks in that brief time, then cozily leaned into his arms and fallen asleep.
Helplessly, he picked the little girl up, intending to take her back to her room.
But once outside, he discovered that the gift bags were still in the entryway, and water was still rushing in the shared bathroom.
Only then did Su Xun realize that he seemed to have overestimated the self-care skills of this little girl, who had few memories and had been brought into this unfamiliar place by him and his teacher.
A little guilt rose in his heart. He carried Na'er back into his room, laid her on the bed, and tucked her in.
Then he went to turn off the water in the shared bathroom, only to discover that the water spraying from the showerhead was ice-cold.
Although that temperature was nothing to Na'er, still...
Shaking his head slightly, Su Xun quietly continued cleaning up the "aftermath."
After some thought, he took the gift bags into the room beside his bedroom.
Then he contacted Big Bai and Little Bai to buy brand-new bedding, cushions, and so forth. He personally arranged everything before returning to his room.
In the shadows on the second floor, Leng Yaozhu quietly watched it all, without letting a trace of her aura escape.
Once Su Xun returned to his room, the corner of his mouth twitched.
The little crybaby and ravenous dragon truly had no manners when eating or sleeping. Drool still clung to the corner of her mouth; who knew what delicacy she was dreaming of now?
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