"Pah, pah, pah! You're the one who's sick!"
Wang Dong snapped.
"Haven't you heard what happened in our class?"
"I have. You got a new homeroom teacher. What does that have to do with you? Didn't you lose our match? Aren't you supposed to keep your head down whenever you see me now?"
Lu Yu took out a copy of the Compendium of Soul Skills (Shrek Academy Statistical Edition) he had borrowed from the library and leafed through it carefully.
"Hmph, none of that counts anymore. To tell you the truth, you nearly got expelled by that old hag for not coming yesterday afternoon. If I hadn't revealed my connection to the Clear Sky Sect, you'd already have packed your things and left the academy."
"Now listen here. I'm moving into the dorm tonight, so get my bed ready first."
That one sentence from Wang Dong crowd-controlled Lu Yu for five seconds.
When he returned to the dorm yesterday, he had seen Mu En summon Wang Yan to uphold justice for the students. How had it suddenly become Wang Dong's accomplishment?
Was it because he had concealed his identity, while Wang Dong happened to confront Zhou Yi at the critical moment, earning her the lion's share of the credit?
That was actually... pretty nice.
Since everyone assumed that, Zhou Yi surely assumed the same. In other words, not only had he successfully achieved his goal of replacing the homeroom teacher, he had also dumped all of Zhou Yi's hatred onto Wang Dong. Even if Zhou Yi's mysterious high-ranking husband wanted to stir up trouble, Wang Dong would be his first target.
It was just that, to outsiders, he now owed Wang Dong a favor.
"Fiiine, we'll forget the agreement about the match. But these two beside me have already claimed your bed. If you want it back, you'll have to ask whether they agree."
Hearing this, Wang Dong glanced at Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao beside Lu Yu, and her imagination immediately ran wild.
"Y-you... you shameless people!"
Her face flushed as she pointed at the three of them, unable to squeeze out another word for a long while.
"Aren't you the shameless one? I'm very curious why a Light Goddess Butterfly like you insists on sharing a room with me." Lu Yu deliberately stressed one particular syllable.
Wang Dong felt her face burning red, her toes squirming inside her shoes, so embarrassed she could have clawed out a three-bedroom apartment with them.
Suddenly, a flash of golden-blue light flickered deep in her eyes.
"Fine. You two, come outside with me. Whoever wins gets that bed."
Suddenly agitated, Wang Dong pointed at the two girls, then turned and walked out of the classroom.
Lu Yu naturally noticed that abnormality. That golden-blue light was clearly Tang San's handiwork.
What's going on? Does Tang San want to send his own daughter into the boys' dorm that badly?
Although he did not know what Tang San meant by this, Lu Yu obviously could not let him have his way.
"Xiao Xiao, you go."
"Got it." Xiao Xiao agreed, then walked over to Huo Yutong. "I'm going to fight for our bed, so your dual cultivation slot tomorrow belongs to me."
Without waiting for Huo Yutong to agree, she skipped outside.
"Remember to meet her head-on. Crush her from the front with sheer strength in one go."
With things having reached this point, Lu Yu decided to put his plan to add Soul Rings to Wang Dong's Clear Sky Hammer into action.
As for whether Xiao Xiao might lose to Wang Dong?
Lu Yu only hoped Wang Dong could let Xiao Xiao have her fill.
Although only a day had passed, through Lu Yu's true "hand-over-hand" instruction by controlling her soul, Xiao Xiao had already learned the Improved Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron's first Soul Skill, Cauldron's Tremor: Triangle Kill.
Furthermore, last night Lu Yu had released the Gold of Life's vitality to give both Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao a boost to their Spiritual Power and bodies.
Strengthening their Spiritual Power was simple and brutal. Just as when Lu Yu had fused with the Gold of Life, he drove the Blade of Life's Watch into their brains to tear apart their Seas of Consciousness, then repaired them with the Gold of Life's vitality.
Huo Yutong's Spiritual Power had increased almost threefold, while Xiao Xiao's, which she had barely cultivated to begin with, had increased a full sixfold.
Strengthening their bodies was not as brutal as strengthening their Spiritual Power, and naturally took much longer. He simply poured Life Force into them, filling them until they were on the verge of overflowing.
As for whether this would exhaust the Gold of Life...
Please, don't make Lord Gold of Life laugh. Even the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million years of vitality added up to only a teardrop-sized amount. Even if he poured it into those two for a hundred years, he would not use up that single drop.
Now Xiao Xiao's body already possessed the strength of a Soul Elder's. As long as Wang Dong could not create distance, she would be no match for Xiao Xiao even with a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
Ten minutes later, Xiao Xiao came walking up, followed by a dejected Wang Dong who looked as though she had nothing left to live for.
"How can even a One-Ring Soul Grandmaster beat me now? Am I really that bad?" Wang Dong's eyes were lifeless, and her body was covered in bruises.
"Is the Light Goddess Butterfly just not very good? Maybe I should switch to cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer."
Wang Dong recalled her fight with Xiao Xiao just now. That absurdly powerful cauldron could neither be stopped nor overpowered. Getting close meant being crowd-controlled, and keeping her distance? She could not get any distance at all. Xiao Xiao had charged straight at her the moment the fight began. Naturally, Wang Dong had not been afraid to meet her head-on, and then... then she could no longer pull away.
Xiao Xiao had kept slamming those three cauldrons into her. Whenever she used her first Soul Skill, Xiao Xiao merged the cauldrons into one to tank it head-on.
Whenever she used her second Soul Skill, Xiao Xiao split the cauldron into three and released Cauldron's Tremor in successive waves, crowd-controlling her Soul Skill right out of existence.
"If I had the Clear Sky Hammer, I'd definitely smash that huge cauldron of hers to pieces."
"But it seems twin martial souls can't be cultivated at the same time..."
A flicker of temptation to switch to cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer arose in Wang Dong's heart.
"Aaah, this is so annoying! There's still the Freshman Tournament in three months. I'll train hard and definitely beat those two then."
At the thought of the tedium of cultivation, Wang Dong's expression grew even more miserable. Ever since birth, she had eaten all kinds of heavenly treasures until her stomach went weak. She could no longer remember the last time she had cultivated.
"Hmph, I'll write to Eldest Father and Second Father right now and have them send me all those secret medicines they've treasured. I'll definitely beat those two with my own ability."
Back in the classroom, Wang Dong fantasized about how fortunes would reverse in three months, and before long she was slumped over her desk, drooling.
The new teacher, Wang Yan, knew she was a Tian family member backed by the Clear Sky Sect and did not dare wake her.
The whole morning passed just like that.
Lu Yu headed toward Freshman Class Nine alone.
As soon as he reached the doorway, he saw Ning Tian standing there.
"Young Sect Master Ning Tian, waiting for me in person? I'm truly overwhelmed by the honor."
"You jest, Grandmaster Lu. Our Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect places the utmost importance on honoring agreements. Since we agreed to it, of course we must deliver. According to your request last night, there are six Mystic Water Pills and five Soul Ascension Pills in total, as well as the cultivation manual for the Heart Separation Control Method you added just this morning, with my personal cultivation insights included."
Ning Tian handed over the two porcelain bottles and a book.
"It's a pity there are only these few kinds of pills on the market that increase Soul Power without side effects. Your Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect should have other types of pills too, right? I wonder if you could sell me some."
Lu Yu offered her a Storage Ring containing the funds to purchase the pills.
Ning Tian waved away the Storage Ring and produced another two porcelain bottles.
"There's no need for the money. The Soul Ring Grandmaster Lu introduced to our sect is already worth enough to cover these pills."
"As for the other pills Grandmaster Lu mentioned, the major top-tier sects naturally do possess some pills that increase Soul Power without side effects."
"Besides the Mystic Water Pill, which raises your level by one at the Soul Grandmaster stage and can be taken twice, and the Soul Ascension Pill, which raises your level by one at the Soul Elder stage, two at the Soul Grandmaster stage, and three at the Soul Master stage, our Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect also has the Seven Treasures Pill, which raises your level by one at the Soul Grandmaster stage, and the Nine Treasures Pill, which raises your level by one at the Soul Ancestor stage."
"It's just that these pills are produced in extremely small quantities, barely enough for the sect's core members. They normally don't circulate on the market, so they aren't something money can buy."
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