The Generous Lin Qingyao!

Meanwhile, in an elegant women's dorm room.

Lin Qingyao looked at the group messages that had popped up on her terminal, especially Gao Hu's blatant humiliation and threats, and Dongfang Yueming's brief but unyielding reply right beneath them. Her graceful brows knitted slightly.

Gao Hu... he's as crude and vulgar as ever. A flicker of disgust crossed her mind.

But she felt more concern than anything else.

She recalled that she had indeed taken the initiative to exchange a few words with Dongfang Yueming on the first day of school. Given Gao Hu's overbearing, tyrannical nature and his tendency to avenge the slightest grudge, it was very likely that he had taken a dislike to Dongfang Yueming because of it.

Could it be... that this really started because of me? A ripple stirred in Lin Qingyao's heart. She didn't want an innocent freshman, as she saw him, to suffer such an undeserved calamity because of her.

After a moment's thought, Lin Qingyao moved her fingertips and sent Dongfang Yueming a private message:

"I'm aware of the matter with Gao Hu."

"This may have started because I spoke with you. If you find it troublesome, I can step in and make him stop bothering you."

With her status and the Lin Family's influence, getting Gao Hu to back off would be no difficult matter.

Dongfang Yueming had just put away his terminal and was preparing to leave when he received Lin Qingyao's private message.

He couldn't help but pause when he read it, a flicker of surprise crossing his eyes.

He hadn't expected the Lin Family's eldest young miss, who seemed so aloof and dignified and came from such an extraordinary background, to offer of her own accord to deal with the trouble Gao Hu posed for him.

Is it because of those few words we exchanged on the first day? Dongfang Yueming pondered. This young miss has quite a sense of responsibility.

But make him back down? Impossible!

He replied without hesitation: "Thank you for your kind offer, Classmate Lin. But a man's word, once spoken, cannot be caught by a team of four horses. I won't back out of the arena match."

Inside the women's dorm room.

Lin Qingyao looked at Dongfang Yueming's reply and let out a soft, helpless sigh.

"Alas, he's too determined to come out on top..." She shook her head, feeling that Dongfang Yueming was acting on impulse and refusing her help for the sake of so-called "face." In her view, someone in the Skin Tempering Realm challenging someone at Lesser Flesh Refining was like an egg striking a rock.

Just then, an elderly woman standing beside her like a shadow, with a steady aura and sharp eyes, suddenly spoke respectfully:

"Young miss, the family head instructed that your most important task right now is to do everything you can to break through to the Tendon Transformation Realm and prepare for the upcoming family trial. You must not allow these unimportant people and matters to distract you, especially... romantic entanglements."

Though the elderly woman spoke respectfully, the warning in her words was unmistakable.

"I understand, Aunt Fu." Lin Qingyao nodded coolly to show she understood. She naturally knew what mattered most.

Even so, when she thought of Dongfang Yueming's clear, steadfast eyes, her heart stirred slightly.

She sent Dongfang Yueming another message:

"Since you've made up your mind, it wouldn't be proper for me to say more. I'm preparing to enter seclusion soon to break through to the next realm. Before then, if you have any cultivation needs or require any resources, you can tell me. Within my means, I can help you once. Consider it... a little compensation for the trouble I may have brought you."

Dongfang Yueming stared at Lin Qingyao's second message, stunned once again!

Help me once? Meet my needs? He could hardly believe his eyes. This young miss... is she serious?!

This was practically a pie falling from the sky!

With the Lin Family's influence, even a little of what slipped through their fingers would be enough to benefit him endlessly!

Dongfang Yueming's heart began pounding faster despite himself!

A bold idea sprang into his mind: What if... I just ask her for a Bone Forging Realm cultivation technique?!

But no sooner had the thought appeared than he forcibly pushed it down.

No, no! That's too much! He quickly shook his head. Asking for a Bone Tempering method outright would be too abrupt and could arouse suspicion! Besides, a Bone Tempering method is so precious that she might not be willing to give me one, and I could end up ruining everything by trying to be clever.

Eat one bite at a time, walk one step at a time.

He quickly calmed down and replied, his fingers flying:

"Thank you for your kind offer, Classmate Lin! In that case, I'll gladly accept."

"I'm currently in need of a powerful Flesh Refining Method. I wonder if you could..."

When Lin Qingyao received Dongfang Yueming's reply, she paused slightly, surprise and puzzlement flashing in her eyes.

A Flesh Refining Method?

She remembered that Dongfang Yueming was supposed to be a freshman and came from a commoner background. By rights, his most pressing concern should have been how to complete Skin Tempering Entry.

Why would he... ask for a Flesh Refining Method outright?

Could it be... he deliberately asked for this because he thinks a Flesh Refining Method is more precious and valuable than a Skin Tempering method? Lin Qingyao's graceful brows knitted slightly as a guess crossed her mind.

In her view, Dongfang Yueming's request was somewhat overambitious and unrealistic. He hadn't even laid a solid foundation, yet he was already thinking about the realms ahead. Wasn't that putting the cart before the horse?

Alas... She sighed softly in her heart, feeling that although this junior of hers was good-looking and had a fairly tenacious character, he seemed somewhat too eager for quick results in his cultivation.

Still, since she had already promised to help him once, she wouldn't go back on her word.

Besides, a mere Flesh Refining Method really amounted to little to her Lin Family.

She replied: "Yes. This Flesh Refining Method is one of the better ones in my Lin Family's collection, with extraordinary effects. But remember, you must not pass it on to anyone else!"

With that, she began searching through her family's vast cultivation technique library in electronic form, recalling and selecting Flesh Refining Methods suitable for Dongfang Yueming to cultivate and powerful enough in effect.

Soon, she settled on a technique called the "Nine-Turn Coiled Dragon Force." It was renowned for tempering physical strength and cultivating long-lasting qi and blood. Though the cultivation process was quite painful, it built an exceptionally solid foundation and was ideal for laying groundwork.

Without hesitation, she sent Dongfang Yueming an electronic manual of the technique through an encrypted channel.

On Dongfang Yueming's end, an encrypted file arrived almost instantly.

Half believing and half doubting, he opened it.

In an instant, information about the cultivation technique, vast and weighty and seemingly imbued with the power of an ancient dragon, poured into his mind!

"Nine-Turn Coiled Dragon Force"!

Dongfang Yueming's pupils contracted sharply after merely getting a rough sense of the technique's profundity!

This... this Flesh Refining Method was even more profound and powerful than the "Crimson Sun Flesh Refining Method" he had just obtained!

It really was... a top-tier Flesh Refining technique?!

And she had just... sent it straight to him?!