Xue Chen seemed to have had a very long dream. In it, he seemed to have shivered.
Slowly opening his eyes, Xue Chen discovered that, at some point, he had ended up lying on the sofa in Xian Lin'er's office.
"You're awake!"
Xian Lin'er's cool voice rang out, and Xue Chen instinctively looked toward its source.
Xian Lin'er was sitting behind her desk, her face devoid of its usual warmth toward him. There even seemed to be a trace of anger.
"Teacher."
Not understanding what was going on, Xue Chen rose from the sofa and bowed to Xian Lin'er.
"How do you feel now?"
Xian Lin'er looked Xue Chen up and down, her tone stiff and cold.
"I feel great!"
Clenching his fists, Xue Chen felt as though every inch of his muscles brimmed with explosive strength. Calling it a complete transformation would not have been an exaggeration.
After all, once he had absorbed the Snow Empress's Soul Ring and Soul Bone, Xue Chen's physical strength had already surpassed that of every Soul Master at his level by a cliff-like margin.
Yet after swallowing the hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King whale rubber, he still felt completely transformed, which alone showed how formidable that whale rubber was.
"Yes. With your current physique, absorbing the Soul Ring of a ten-thousand-year soul beast wouldn't be a problem, provided we leave Soul Shock out of the equation."
Xian Lin'er's slender fingers tapped rhythmically against the desk, one beat after another.
The entire dean's office suddenly fell silent.
After a long while, Xian Lin'er finally spoke.
"Do... do you remember what happened while you were refining the whale rubber?"
"Huh?"
Confusion appeared on Xue Chen's face. He tilted his head and thought for a moment, but still shook his head.
"I don't remember."
Xian Lin'er said nothing, but her narrow eyes remained fixed on his.
At that, Xue Chen drew his head back. After hesitating for a moment, he cautiously asked:
"Teacher, did something happen while I was absorbing the whale rubber?"
Xue Chen truly wasn't pretending. He genuinely had no recollection at all.
"You..."
Xian Lin'er's chest heaved violently twice before she waved him away in irritation.
"I have nothing else for you. Go back to class."
"Yes, Teacher."
Although Xue Chen was somewhat bewildered, he still nodded.
Bowing slightly to Xian Lin'er, Xue Chen slowly withdrew from the Soul Tool Department dean's office.
"Come to think of it, why is there a strange smell in Teacher's office?"
Standing outside the office door, Xue Chen paused briefly, then shrugged indifferently.
"Maybe it's the fragrance left after refining the whale rubber?"
"But Teacher didn't say when she'd take me to the Star Dou Great Forest... She's in a strange mood right now. I'd better not go looking for trouble."
Whatever the case, refining the ten ten-thousand-year whale glue was something worth celebrating.
After muttering a few words to himself, Xue Chen laced his hands behind his head and left the Soul Tool Department's office building, humming a tune.
Listening to the footsteps outside grow more distant until they vanished entirely, Xian Lin'er finally revealed an irrepressible look of shame and anger on her lovely face.
"Bastard!"
She forcefully wiped her lips twice, as though trying to wipe away something filthy.
But no matter how she wiped them, that peculiar smell kept lingering around her lips.
As she continued wiping, Xian Lin'er's movements gradually slowed.
After a moment's hesitation, Xian Lin'er suddenly licked her lips, as though possessed.
"Mmph!"
When she realized what she was doing, Xian Lin'er's face instantly felt as though it were burning. Even her delicate collarbones turned red.
"Xian Lin'er, what on earth are you doing?"
Remembering the heat that had sprayed across her chest, Xian Lin'er couldn't help covering her face, while also secretly pressing her thighs together.
She could still suppress the jumble of thoughts in her mind.
But the instinctive reactions of this long-neglected body were not something she could fully control.
Naturally, Xue Chen knew nothing of the complicated, unfathomable feelings of a woman so ripe she could drip.
After leaving the Soul Tool Department's office building, he strolled leisurely back to the freshmen's dormitory.
Quite a few students from other classes in the freshmen's dormitory had witnessed him suppressing the entire Class Nine on the field with his one-ring strength.
Their gazes all locked onto him. In particular, the burning looks from some of the girls made Xue Chen feel somewhat physically uncomfortable.
Quickening his pace, Xue Chen hurried to his room.
Without giving it much thought, Xue Chen simply pushed open the dormitory door.
What greeted him was Wang Dong standing beside the bed, along with the clothes in her hands that she was about to put on.
Of course, none of that mattered. What mattered most was the fair skin that could almost rival Xue Chen's.
Holding her clothes, Wang Dong simply stared blankly at Xue Chen.
"Well, um, why don't you put your clothes on first?"
Giving a dry cough, Xue Chen smiled rather sheepishly.
"You won't let me go shirtless in the room, but you're going shirtless yourself... Isn't that a bit of a double standard?"
This was a first for Xue Chen.
The first time he had ever seen someone actually change color.
Startled back to her senses by Xue Chen's words, the skin of Wang Dong's upper body turned scarlet at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Ah!"
A shrill, almost explosive scream suddenly burst from Wang Dong's mouth, making even Xue Chen cover his ears.
"We're all good brothers here. Is that really necessary?"
Xue Chen couldn't help saying.
"Brothers, my ass!"
Covering her chest with her right hand, Wang Dong instantly condensed a pitch-black light into a huge hammer in her left.
"Go die!"
Wang Dong's face was so red that her expression was impossible to make out, and she furiously swung the Clear Sky Hammer at Xue Chen's face.
"Whoa, damn! You're serious?"
Caught completely off guard, Xue Chen could only raise his arms in front of himself.
Seeing this, Wang Dong hesitated slightly amid her shame and anger, but the Clear Sky Hammer still landed on Xue Chen's arms.
Thud!
With a dull impact, Xue Chen once again smashed through the freshmen's dormitory railing and flew straight out.
Thud!
With another dull impact, Xue Chen once again landed on the ground covered in Blue Silver Grass outside the freshmen's dormitory.
"Good thing she held back, or she'd definitely have broken my left arm."
Lying on the ground, feeling the occasional aching numbness in his left arm, Xue Chen couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth.
This one-third little princess was nothing but an undeveloped washboard. You couldn't even tell she was a girl!
"Young man, what are you up to this time?"
Just as Xue Chen was grumbling inwardly, an aged voice suddenly sounded beside him.
"School's only been in session a few days, and this is already your second time falling out of the dormitory building, isn't it?"
"I forgot to tell you: every time you break a railing, you'll have to pay for it out of your own pocket."