After laying out the ground rules, Wen Xiancheng took the three girls to the little restaurant nearby for something to eat.
After dinner, they each tidied their rooms, showered, and went to bed.
This was Wen Xiancheng's first time living under the same roof as so many girls.
Listening to them walking back and forth or humming little tunes, Wen Xiancheng felt rather strange.
He thought back to his life before he transmigrated.
Back then, never mind living under the same roof as so many girls-he could count on his fingers how many times he spoke to girls in an entire year.
Wen Xiancheng could not help feeling a little wistful.
Was this a benefit of having this body?
That thought brought him back to this body's original owner.
And to the murderer who had poisoned its original owner.
Who exactly had wanted to kill this body's original owner?
Almost a month and a half had passed since he transmigrated, yet he still had not found a single lead.
With no leads to follow, Wen Xiancheng stopped dwelling on it and began practicing Illusion Arts instead.
Meanwhile, after practicing Illusion Arts for a while, the Mouse Clone took ten little mice to steal medicinal herbs from the Royal Academy's Medicinal Herb Garden.
The herbs they stole this time were still the main ingredients for Spirit-Gathering Powder.
Both Wen Xiancheng and the Mouse Clone now relied on Spirit-Gathering Powder for their daily cultivation.
The Mouse Clone's cultivation was rising steadily, with tangible progress.
By comparison, Wen Xiancheng's cultivation advanced more slowly.
By eight the next morning, the Mouse Clone had stopped stealing herbs.
After eating their biscuits, the ten little mice lay down to sleep on the table in the corner of Wen Xiancheng's room.
The Mouse Clone, meanwhile, coated its body with a solution of Spirit-Gathering Powder and began cultivating.
Xiao Xiao crouched beside the ten little mice, watching their movements without budging.
Wen Xiancheng left Xiao Xiao and the Mouse Clone to watch the house, while he took Xue Ruigao, Cui Qianqian, and Xue Ning to the teachers' quarters Noble Primary School had prepared for them.
The place was already piled high with textbooks commissioned by Noble Primary School.
Wen Xiancheng explained the requirements for the biology lesson to Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning, then began teaching Xue Ruigao how to practice basic Illusion Arts.
Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning began designing the biology lesson according to those requirements off to the side.
Listening to Wen Xiancheng's explanation to Xue Ruigao, Xue Ning asked with a puzzled look, "Why does what Wen Xiancheng is explaining sound so familiar?"
Cui Qianqian smiled and shook her head. "Don't worry about what he's doing."
Cui Qianqian had previously been quite puzzled that Wen Xiancheng actually knew Illusion Arts.
As far as she knew, Professor Liu Lanzhi was the only person in the entire Yue Kingdom offering a course in Illusion Arts.
She had wondered why a personal disciple of Zhang Lu, the head of Iceheart Hall, was practicing Illusion Arts.
Now that she had heard Wen Xiancheng explain to Xue Ruigao how to practice Illusion Arts, she understood.
He had secretly learned them from her!
Much of what he was explaining matched the contents of her notebook.
A faint happiness stirred in Cui Qianqian's heart.
At the very least, in some respects, this showed that Wen Xiancheng really had been paying attention to her all along.
What interested her even more was that she had no idea how Wen Xiancheng knew so much about her information.
For one thing, her notebook never left her side. How had he read it and used it to practice Illusion Arts?
Despite her curiosity, however, Cui Qianqian did not ask.
Secretly learning someone else's teachings had a rather poor reputation in this world.
She feared that if she asked, Wen Xiancheng would stop secretly learning from her.
Her gaze swept over Xue Ruigao, who sat opposite Wen Xiancheng, and Cui Qianqian sighed inwardly.
She was a little envious of Xue Ruigao.
Only a pretty girl deserved a boy like Wen Xiancheng.
A misshapen melon or cracked date like her was only fit to spend her whole life alone.
Over the next month, Wen Xiancheng, Xue Ruigao, Cui Qianqian, and Xue Ning traveled between Noble Primary School and their lodgings every day.
During that time, Cui Qianqian worked in quite a few tips on practicing Illusion Arts, while Wen Xiancheng listened from the side, utterly enthralled.
A month later, Wen Xiancheng finally broke through the advanced Martial Apprentice level and became a junior Martial Warrior.
His control over Illusion Arts had also improved considerably.
Watching how Cui Qianqian handled Illusion Arts every day, Wen Xiancheng felt as though he had experienced a profound awakening, gaining considerable insight into the logic underlying the existence of plants and animals.
Now, he could even join Cui Qianqian and Xue Ning in designing and creating the setting for the biology lesson.
As for the Mouse Clone, its cultivation had also successfully broken through to first-tier, third-stage.
Demon Beasts had nine cultivation tiers, with the first being the weakest and the ninth the highest. Each tier was further divided into three minor stages.
Generally speaking, once Demon Beasts reached the eighth tier, they could take human form.
The Mouse Clone had taken only a little over a month to become a first-tier, third-stage Demon Beast, confirming their earlier conclusion: its cultivation potential was far greater than Wen Xiancheng's.
Seven more days passed, and the setting for the biology lesson was successfully completed!
Afterward, he contacted Principal Zhang of Noble Primary School and invited Chen Yixin to come assess the lesson's setting.
In a luxurious room at the Five-Star Hotel in the Imperial City, Principal Zhang looked around with a broad smile.
The room was no longer a room. It had become a vast grassland.
Across the grassland, all manner of plants grew, flowers bloomed, and wild beasts roamed.
Had he not known this was an illusion, he would have thought he had truly arrived on a vast grassland.
A moment later, Chen Yixin took a deep breath and closed the book.
All the illusions vanished.
Chen Yixin glanced at Wen Xiancheng, Xue Ruigao, Cui Qianqian, and Xue Ning, who were seated beside Principal Zhang, then told the principal, "No problems. It certainly meets my requirements. If we use this lesson setting for the autumn classroom demonstration, I'm ninety percent sure it'll pass."
Principal Zhang clapped his hands. "Good! Excellent!"
Turning to the four of them, Principal Zhang said, "You youngsters are simply incredible! Keep up the good work and get those autumn textbooks ready. From now on, we'll leave all the orders Noble Primary School needs to you!"
Wen Xiancheng thanked him gratefully.
After returning from the Five-Star Hotel, Wen Xiancheng gave the three girls a day off.
With Xue Ruigao as their guide, the four of them took a long tour around the Imperial City.
They kept exploring until eight that evening before getting ready to head home.
The four arrived at a bus stop, intending to take the bus back.
A chorus of startled cries rang out.
Then they saw a luxurious car pull up beside them.
Cui Qianqian's face was filled with unease.
Looking at Wen Xiancheng, Xue Ruigao, and Xue Ning, Cui Qianqian stammered, "Um, I need to take a few days off. I have to go home."
Wen Xiancheng and Xue Ruigao were both a little surprised.
Was this Cui Qianqian's family car?
Then they recalled what Xue Ning had said before-that Cui Qianqian was the daughter of Cui Shang, the richest man in Daicheng-and understanding dawned on them.
Such a luxurious car certainly suited Cui Qianqian's status.
The car door opened, and a young woman in an immaculate suit stepped out. She walked straight up to Cui Qianqian and bowed before saying, "Second Miss, the master has learned what you've been doing. He sent me to take you and your friends home so he can meet you."
(End of chapter)
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