Xu Qingtong spent a day strolling around the Academy with Du Siwen. As a result, everyone who knew him learned that he had a beautiful fiancée-and that she was a tigress!
Xu Qingtong regretted it endlessly. He should never have brought his senior sister to the Academy! Now his towering image had come crashing down in the students' minds!
The days that followed were both peaceful and warm for Xu Qingtong. After his regularly scheduled lessons each month, he devoted his remaining time to cultivation and studying the Puppet Art.
Occasionally, he also accompanied Du Siwen to the Martial Arts Society to listen to the martial arts instructors' lectures.
He had only meant to keep his senior sister company, but unexpectedly, the Academy truly was a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. The martial arts instructors had profound insights into cultivation, and Xu Qingtong found their lectures greatly enlightening!
Half a year later, Xu Qingtong had mastered most of the Han Clan Mechanism Art and could already skillfully craft Foundation Establishment Realm Puppet Guards.
He then applied to the Sect Master for the assignment of teaching the Puppet Art as well.
He wanted to teach the Puppet Art for two reasons. First, he still owed the Sect Master thirty thousand merit and wanted to repay it sooner. Second, he had discovered that his artifact refining and talisman crafting skills improved very quickly while he taught the students, far faster than when he cultivated alone!
When Shen Haotian heard that Xu Qingtong wanted to teach the Puppet Art, he was naturally delighted and readily agreed.
Things turned out just as Xu Qingtong had expected: while teaching the Puppet Art, his own skills improved noticeably again.
Xu Qingtong gradually grew fond of this feeling. If he had no other ties holding