"Sit cross-legged and hold out your hands. I'll help you sense spiritual power now."
"Okay."
Xiao Xiao obediently sat down as Huo Yuhao instructed, pressing her palms against his and letting him guide her in sensing the spiritual power drifting between heaven and earth.
Xiao Xiao was indeed very talented. After only a short while, she faintly sensed tiny ripples rising around her.
"I think I can feel it!"
Huo Yuhao nodded. "Good. Now try absorbing it, just as you would Soul Power."
As she absorbed the spiritual power little by little, Xiao Xiao opened her eyes, feeling a comfort unlike anything she had experienced before.
Although she had not absorbed much, her senses were already considerably sharper, and even her mind was much clearer than before.
"That's amazing! So this is what you practice every day, class monitor!"
Meeting Xiao Xiao's admiring gaze, Huo Yuhao felt a little embarrassed. "Mostly, it's because I don't have any spiritual cultivation techniques, so I can only figure it out myself. Haha."
With Xiao Xiao repeatedly asking him to stay, the two continued cultivating until the afternoon.
"Class monitor, can I ask you something?"
"Sure. What is it?"
Xiao Xiao wiped the fine sweat from her temples, hesitated, then suddenly asked in a quiet voice, "Um, class monitor, is there a girl you like right now?"
Startled, Huo Yuhao looked at Xiao Xiao in disbelief. He had never expected her to ask that so directly.
Blushing, Xiao Xiao deliberately avoided his gaze and lowered her head slightly. "N-no, I just wanted to ask. Because it seems like I'm the only girl around you right now, right? Someone as capable as you should have several girls surrounding him, shouldn't he?"
That was one way of putting it...
Huo Yuhao suddenly thought about the