bioinnovel Chapter 131: Building up good karma...
Chapter 131: Building up good karma...
Lan Zhiyuan's athletes' lounge.
After Lin Feiyan left, only Xue Youyou and Meng Yanqing remained in the large lounge. The air suddenly became quiet, with a faint, almost frozen, anticipation floating in the air.
Meng Yanqing raised her wet eyes and gazed pleadingly at Xue Youyou, her eyes filled with a pitiful pleas. The look of desperately grasping at a last straw would soften anyone's heart.
A way to quickly become stronger...
Xue Youyou certainly wanted to respond to her request. Ultimately, she had never really been able to handle Meng Yanqing like this. But when it came to this question, the answers she could give were nothing more than the same old, tired phrases.
"Under normal circumstances, the only way for a pet to rapidly increase its combat power within a day is through evolution, right?"
After speaking, Xue Youyou paused for a moment, as if weighing the weight of her words. After a brief pause, she added, "Or, why don't you try to master the Return to Sheath technique within a day?"
"The Thousand-Leaf Immortal Lotus itself should be of much better quality than the Crimson Hellfire Spear. If you also master the Return to Sheath technique... you should still have a fighting chance."
Upon hearing Xue Youyou's honest and almost cruel answer, Meng Yanqing's already pitiful little face gradually turned despair.
She paused for two seconds, as if summoning her last bit of courage, and cautiously asked, clinging to her deepest, most humble hope, "Really... there's no way to become stronger with mugwort?"
Xue Youyou: "...Unfortunately, I think it's not possible."
These words ruthlessly shattered the last glimmer of hope in Meng Yanqing's heart.
In that instant, the last remaining light in the girl's eyes dimmed.
Meng Yanqing finally realized that there are no shortcuts.
After all, even the knowledgeable and almost omniscient Xue Youyou said so, so it probably really is impossible. This final verdict from authority is heavier than any denial.
However, despair only lingered in her eyes for a moment. The next second, as if she had made some kind of solemn decision, Meng Yanqing raised her head, her voice filled with a resolute determination.
"Then my wish is—Yuyu, please teach me how to return to my sheath within a single day!"
She took a deep breath, as if reciting some epic battle cry: "Youyou, if you're a genius, prove it to me!"
Faced with Meng Yanqing's blatant provocation, Xue Youyou didn't even flinch, and mercilessly poured cold water on her: "It feels like only the legendary divine beast 'Time,' which can use a day as a year and control the power of time, can save you."
These words were almost bluntly offensive. Meng Yanqing was taken aback, then her face flushed with indignation as she protested, "It's clearly because Youyou didn't teach me the real stuff, otherwise I would have learned it long ago!"
These words almost made Xue Youyou laugh in anger.
You can't even learn the basic version, yet you dare to boast about learning the advanced version?
It was completely unexpected that the blame would be placed on her.
Seeing Meng Yanqing's eyes, which were both defiant and resentful, Xue Youyou was determined to make her admit defeat and recognize that she was just a nobody.
Xue Youyou slowly squatted down, bringing her line of sight to Meng Yanqing's. Then, she stretched out her hands and unceremoniously pinched Meng Yanqing's aggrieved little face, pulling it to both sides, a meaningful smile playing on her lips.
"Okay, then I'll teach you exactly what you want."
"If you still can't learn it, you might as well change your ID to 'The Unparalleled Stupid Pig of Lanzhiyuan'. Dare to take it?"
Lan Zhiyuan's unparalleled idiot!?
Meng Yanqing's beautiful eyes widened suddenly.
The thought of walking around the academy with such an ID in the future sent a phantom pain through her stomach, as if it were being squeezed tightly by a hand.
But when she looked up and met Xue Youyou's disdainful gaze, which seemed to look at her like a nobody and was filled with the thought that "that's all you've got," the defiant flame in her chest suddenly flared up.
She gritted her teeth and retorted, each word deliberate and deliberate: "How arrogant! Fine, I'll take it! Who's afraid of who!"
"I'm not sleeping tonight, you have to teach me as soon as you get back!"
After listening, Xue Youyou's eyes flashed with a fleeting, triumphant smile: "Then let's wait and see."
She was truly at her wit's end. As for Meng Yanqing, this lazy dog who revealed her true colors as soon as the environment became comfortable, she couldn't think of any other way to spur her on except through verbal humiliation.
Having spent a long time with Meng Yanqing, Xue Youyou knew her well and was very clear about her recent training status—she spent all her time in meditation training.
It's not that meditation training is useless. Xue Youyou herself also engages in meditation training, simulating battles in her mind against various types of pets with different skill combinations, and deducing the strategies that should be adopted. This kind of training can even be considered necessary; it is one of the basic skills of a beast tamer.
The problem is, Meng Yanqing meditated for two hours but only fought for two minutes. That just doesn't make sense.
If Xue Youyou were her biological mother, she would have picked her up and beaten her long ago.
Moreover, in Xue Youyou's vision for the future, to advance to the level of an emperor, she must find seven ultimate-level pet beasts to support her. The Thousand-Leaf Immortal-Slaying Lotus, she absolutely has to make up one of those spots.
And that day is not far off.
If the Yuki-onna of the Goddess of the Moon can evolve directly to her ultimate form with the help of the level-up elixir, then that would almost certainly be her next plan.
The only thing that worries Xue Youyou now is that the Yuki-onna of the Divine Era is currently growing almost freely. She is following a completely new evolutionary path that no predecessor has ever trodden, with no existing data to copy and no notes from predecessors to refer to; every step is unknown.
Xue Youyou always felt that the Divine Era Snow Woman wouldn't be able to evolve to the next stage so smoothly.
In fact, this problem was already clear to everyone the moment Yuki-onna evolved into the Yuki-onna of the Age of Gods. But now, it has finally become an insurmountable hurdle that must be faced head-on.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this fear that Xue Youyou didn't excitedly use the level-up elixir immediately after obtaining it and leaving the Ten Thousand Beasts Tower. She leisurely strolled around the rest area first, saying that she wanted to fulfill one wish each for Lin Feiyan and Meng Yanqing.
The reason for all of this is that she was hesitant and her body was unconsciously trying to increase the probability of success in the next crucial step by doing some mystical things to accumulate good karma.
Of course, if you don't do much good work normally and only start trying to accumulate good karma at a critical moment, isn't it a bit too late...? That's another issue worth discussing.
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And so, Xue Youyou and Meng Yanqing returned to the courtyard of Lanzhi Courtyard.
After letting everyone know they were safe, the two of them went into the virtual battle pod one after the other and opened a two-person training room.
The special training journey has officially begun.
This time, Xue Youyou personally took charge, teaching Meng Yanqingyue the improved version of the Return to Sheath technique step by step.
Strictly speaking, this was the first time Xue Youyou had personally taught Meng Yanqing Guicha. Before this, she had always been taught Guanghan Zhan.
Perhaps it's because the Guanghan Slash is, after all, just a sword. No matter how accurately it's described or how detailed it's expressed, it can't teach Meng Yanqing as effectively as Xue Youyou, who is also a beast tamer.
Many personal insights gained during cultivation that can only be understood intuitively and cannot be expressed in words are precisely what Guanghan Zhan, as a pet beast, could never convey.
Rather, Xue Youyou, who was able to quickly master the techniques under Guanghan Zhan's ambiguous and self-righteous teaching, is the true genius.
Xue Youyou's "feeding-style" teaching method earned Meng Yanqing's heartfelt five-star praise.
"I feel... Youyou, your teaching is much, much better than Guanghan Zhan's~"
As the saying goes, a true teaching can be conveyed in a single sentence, while a false teaching can fill an entire book.
After Xue Youyou pointed out many crucial points in just a few words, Meng Yanqing truly felt a sense of sudden enlightenment. That kind of clarity and understanding was worth more than years of repeated, arduous practice and independent exploration and summarization.
Xue Youyou accepted Meng Yanqing's praise with a clear conscience: "Of course. It's just a pet beast, what does it know about returning to its sheath? As long as it can crawl into the sheath and then crawl out again, that's enough. Unlike us beast tamers, we have to consider so many things..."
This conversation reached Xue Youyou's pet space, causing Guanghan Zhan, who was lying paralyzed inside, to roll its eyes. Although a sword doesn't actually roll its eyes, Xue Youyou could clearly feel Guanghan Zhan's blade wriggle strangely; the angle and the arc were definitely an indication that it was rolling its eyes.
After Xue Youyou's four-hour "mouth-feeding" infant-level instruction, Meng Yanqing finally felt that she had grasped some of the tricks. She took the initiative to ask Xue Youyou to let her practice alone for a while longer.
"Master, please rest for a while and let your disciple think about it on his own."
Meng Yanqing said this respectfully.
Xue Youyou nodded upon seeing this. To be honest, she was also a little tired. Teaching others was truly more exhausting than learning herself. If it weren't for her image, she would have collapsed onto the ground like a starfish if no one else was around.
"Come on, you unparalleled idiot of Lan Zhiyuan..."
After casually tossing down this genuinely joking remark, Xue Youyou didn't give Meng Yanqing a chance to retort. She turned around decisively and flew to the other end of the virtual training space.
Now that things have come to this, what must be faced will ultimately have to be faced.
Will her Yuki-onna from the Age of Gods be able to successfully evolve into her ultimate form?
Instead of deliberately avoiding Meng Yanqing and opening a new training space, she directly summoned the Divine Snow Woman on the spot.
boom--!
Standing over three thousand meters tall, like a god descending to earth, and radiating an incomparably chilling aura, it made its grand entrance with unparalleled power, leaving Meng Yanqing speechless with shock.