The Refined Goddess Whose Looks Had Declined

After Feng Xiaotian and Shui Yue'er exchanged a few words, the people around them all wore strange, knowing smiles. Shui Yue'er, however, was innocent in certain respects and didn't understand.

Only Xue Wu, standing nearby, called out, "Yue'er, come back quickly."

Shui Yue'er was a little puzzled, but since Xue Wu had called her, she turned and smiled at Feng Xiaotian before immediately returning to Skywater Academy's group.

"Sister Xue Wu, what did you call me for?" Shui Yue'er asked, puzzled.

Xue Wu smiled. "Nothing. I just wanted you to come back to your own group."

As for Feng Xiaotian, how could he not know what his teammates were laughing at?

After all, what he had just said was rather easy to misunderstand, and Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er had both been in his room. It would be hard to explain anyway, and he didn't want to explain.

What occupied Feng Xiaotian's mind now was how to spend today's allowance of two million Simp Coins. He couldn't let each day's allowance go to waste.

Of course, the best recipients at present were still the goddesses of Skywater Academy.

But it wasn't ideal for him to always be the one going out of his way to please them. Wouldn't it be perfect if the goddesses took the initiative to approach him?

But on the thousand-meter journey back to their lodgings, the two academies' groups kept a certain distance apart and had no further contact.

Even so, Feng Xiaotian could sense that quite a few of Skywater Academy's goddesses glanced at him from time to time.

Feng Xiaotian sighed inwardly. Goddesses, you need to take the initiative too. Only if you do will we have a story together.

Unfortunately, even after Feng Xiaotian returned and waited until the afternoon, no goddess took the initiative to seek him out.

This idea clearly wouldn't work. Perhaps Feng Xiaotian wasn't charming enough yet to make the goddesses pursue him.

As it turned out, not every transmigrator could arrive in another world, give his mighty frame a shake, and have goddesses throw themselves into his arms. After all, the goddesses weren't stupid.

All the more so in the Douluo World. Although it could be considered a feudal society, many Soul Masters-or rather, most Soul Masters-were monogamous.

How should he put it?

If you married an ordinary person, that was a different matter. With your lofty status, you could have three wives and four concubines, and no one could say anything against you.

But if you married a female Soul Master whose strength wasn't far from your own, you would have to think twice before taking a second wife.

Unless you were all truly in love and none of you minded, or unless the gap in your strength was truly enormous. But most powerful Soul Masters' standards rose along with their strength, and they wouldn't spare an ordinary female Soul Master a glance.

Moreover, the teachers at Feng Xiaotian's Godwind Academy, including his parents, were all monogamous!

The exception Feng Xiaotian knew of at present was Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er's parents, since the two sisters had the same father but different mothers.

After dinner, Feng Xiaotian decided to take the initiative after all. If he didn't go out now, the day would be over.

Here at Blazing Fire Academy, aside from the goddesses of Skywater Academy and Huo Wu, there were still a few ordinary goddesses. Feng Xiaotian decided to go out and try his luck. If nothing else worked, he could only come back and turn to the girls from Skywater Academy to settle the matter.

Leaving the courtyard, Feng Xiaotian walked alone onto Blazing Fire Academy's campus.

It was already evening, and not many people were walking around the academy.

But Feng Xiaotian's Godwind Academy uniform, combined with his performance during the day, still drew quite a few people's attention. Some even approached him to strike up a conversation, but without exception, none of them were goddesses.

As he walked, the system continuously scanned for goddesses nearby.

The system's detection range was five hundred meters. Perhaps Feng Xiaotian had come out a little late, because the few goddesses it detected were all gathered in the dormitories.

Was he supposed to barge into the goddesses' dormitories?

Feng Xiaotian shook his head and carefully searched his memories of Blazing Fire Academy. After all, his predecessor had visited the academy so many times that there ought to be some information he could use.

But most of his predecessor's memories of visiting Blazing Fire Academy were of Huo Wu. There was very little other information.

Yet just as Feng Xiaotian thought of Huo Wu, a memory left him somewhat puzzled.

Inside the courtyard where Huo Wu lived, there seemed to be another small courtyard with beautiful surroundings. Feng Xiaotian had once suggested to Huo Wu that they go inside for a walk.

But Huo Wu had said it was a forbidden area of Blazing Fire Academy. Yet he had seen Huo Lie, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang all go inside.

Could Huo Wu's mother live in there?

He would go take a look. The system could detect anything within five hundred meters anyway. What if he came across Huo Wu's mother?

Huo Wu was so beautiful already. Surely her mother couldn't be much worse.

Following the route in his memories, Feng Xiaotian soon arrived outside the small courtyard where Huo Wu lived. However, the gate leading into the other courtyard was inside the courtyard where Huo Wu's family lived.

But how could that stop Feng Xiaotian?

If I don't use the front gate, can't I go around and climb over the wall?

Before taking action, however, Feng Xiaotian decided to use the system to scan the place first. If it didn't detect a goddess inside, he would drop it.

"System, start scanning for goddesses within five hundred meters!"

[System scanning...]

[Huo Wu...]

[System scanning...]

[Huo Ying, looks 80, charm 96, temperament 97, overall 91, age 43. Looks have declined severely!]

[Ding... Congratulations to the host on detecting an Exquisite Goddess for the first time. However, the goddess has been afflicted by fire poison, damaging her looks. She is currently an ordinary goddess!]

Was this an accident or a pleasant surprise? Feng Xiaotian had only come to try his luck and hadn't held out much hope.

Yet unexpectedly, he had found a former Exquisite Goddess just like that. Her looks had declined, however, and even with her looks down to 80, her overall score across all three attributes had remained at 91. One could imagine how beautiful she had been at her peak.

But none of that mattered. As long as he restored her looks, wouldn't she be the perfect goddess from whom he could make withdrawals at any time?

The system imposed restrictions on improving looks or raising the overall score across the three attributes.

Even if he directly used medicine or other means to increase a goddess's three attributes, the system wouldn't recognize it. It was like cosmetic surgery.

Could someone who had undergone surgery be the same as someone naturally beautiful?

Feng Xiaotian could improve other people's looks, and even if he raised them to an apparent 96 or above, the system would still only recognize their original three attributes.

Helping a goddess restore her looks, however, was allowed. And since he would be doing it by removing fire poison, it would definitely work, and he could spend even more Simp Coins.

"Huo Ying? That's the same name as Huo Wu's Martial Soul. Could Huo Wu have inherited her Martial Soul from her? Is she Huo Wu's mother? But if she's Huo Wu's mother, then raising her favorability... wouldn't that...?"

Feng Xiaotian hardly dared think further. If he raised both mother and daughter's favorability above 80, wouldn't that cause problems?

"Well... so what if she's Huo Wu's mother? I'm here to help my future mother-in-law! As long as I exercise some restraint and stop spending on her once her favorability reaches a certain level, it'll be fine."

Having thought it through, Feng Xiaotian looked around the courtyard and found a suitable spot.

He leaped up, and as he passed over the wall into the courtyard, he distinctly felt himself pass through a layer of special energy. Could there be a formation inside the courtyard?

At the same moment Feng Xiaotian climbed over the wall, a veiled woman in the center of the courtyard immediately looked up in his direction. Her bright eyes seemed capable of seeing through anything. She frowned slightly and murmured, "Isn't that Feng Xiaotian, the one who's always pestering Wu'er?"

(End of chapter)