After only a few words, the kids' mud fight had already reached a fever pitch.

Hoshino was wearing the new clothes Zhao Xi wanted to sew for her this morning, but now the clothes were covered in mud and other babies' drool, and were all dirty.

He finally gave up meditating, jumped off the futon, and howled, spewing out terrifying black smoke.

The black smoke is the part of the dragon flame that has cooled down; it's no longer hot, but it still looks terrifying.

The puppy's back fur had just grown a layer, and at first glance, it still looked like it had a large bald patch. It barked fearfully and hid under the teacher's desk.

The other cubs were also terrified and ran away with their heads in their hands.

Little Jia transformed back into a pangolin. While escaping, it accidentally stepped on a millet's tail, fell to the ground, rolled into a ball, and tumbled all the way down the mountain.

Shan Shan flew into the sky, shouting noisily, "Hoshino is killing demons!"

Hoshino cupped the potato oil in his palms, threw it like a medicine ball with perfect throwing motion, and yelled, "Go, Pikachu!"

Lin Che asked Zhao Xi, "What is Pikachu?"

Zhao Xi wanted to facepalm: "It's like a small animal from a picture book, a yellow rat that can generate electricity."

That is, I talked to him when we stayed at the inn, and Hoshino actually remembered it.

"Squeak squeak squeak~ Help~ Help~ I'm flying into the sky!" Potato Oil spread its limbs wide, squeaking like a mouse in mid-air, and then crashed into Shan Shan.

A bird and a mouse fell down, about to be smashed into roasted chicken and potato pancakes.

A few waves appeared just in time and caught them.

Mimi peeked her fluffy little bird head out from behind the puppies' long fur: "Hoshino-nii-san, don't hit them! Don't hurt them! Waaah!"

Hoshino clenched his fists and yelled, "They disturbed my enlightenment! They deserved it!"

Meimei: "You can't bake them!"

Hoshino: "I didn't grill it!"

Mei Mei flapped her wings and shouted in a high-pitched voice, "You're breathing fire!"

Hoshino, hands on hips in anger, exclaimed, "I was just blowing smoke!"

Meimei: "The headmistress said that smoked meat is also delicious!"

Zhao Xi thought: "???"

Hoshino: "You guys taste awful! I don't want to eat you! Are you even as good as Suzaku?"

While they were arguing, Lin Che slowly walked back to his desk and sat down on the futon.

The puppy under the desk just wouldn't come out.

The hound was very large; when stretched out, it was taller than Zhao Xixiang.

Lin Che didn't hug it, but instead held Mei Mei, who was hiding in Xiao Ding's fur, in his palm.

Meimei's prototype is a little bird, which was so frightened that its feathers stood on end, and it curled up into a ball of black and green fur in his big palm.

The bird's beak was open, and its eyes were wide open.

This is a stress response.

"..."

Lin Che found it extremely interesting.

There aren't many furry animals in the sea.

His voice was deep, and he asked softly, "Why is a kingfisher painted so black? Hmm?"

"..."

Meimei is still in a daze.

Lin Che wasn't in a hurry to find the answer. He smiled, patted her head, and put her back on the desk.

The open space was a mess; the prayer mats were torn apart, and fluff, cotton, and feathers were scattered everywhere by the mountain wind.

"Alright, get out of class is almost over, everyone come back."

The children were forcibly separated by the water splash, which then pushed them together in front of the open space.

With the prayer cushions gone, they had no choice but to stand.

Hoshino pouted and lowered her head, standing in the center, her little face full of stubbornness.

After all, they were the ones who bullied him first, so he didn't think he had done anything wrong.

To be honest, Lin Che's mask had a trick to deceive him, and he didn't recognize at all that the Master was the Water God who had guided him in his cultivation when he was a child.

He only vaguely felt that the teacher's way of handling things made him feel very comfortable and approachable.

The children all lowered their heads, waiting for the teacher to fly into a rage.

However……

"The first lesson is about to end, and your performance has been acceptable. The Zoo is still very poor, so please don't damage things. This cushion was sewn by the zoo director; if you break it, she'll have to sew a few more."

They all looked up, utterly astonished.

The Master actually said they performed well?

Lin Che understood their confusion and pointed to the sky: "Today is just for you to bask in the sun."

The kids looked at each other, even more confused.

"The ancient gods transformed into all things after their death; their eyes became the sun and moon, and their blood became rivers. Spiritual energy is a subtle substance that exists in all things. Since this world is the product of the gods' death, how can we not understand them?"

The babies all looked up at the blinding sun.

No wonder the teacher didn't say anything when they left the meditation cushion and started playing around.

They had indeed been in the sun all day, and even their clothes were warm from the sun.

"In the Great Wilderness, there is a mountain called Nieyao Yundi. On it grows a Fusang tree, its trunk stretching for three hundred li, its leaves as small as mustard seeds. There is a valley called Wenyuan Valley. Above the Tang Valley grows a Fusang tree, which arrives one day and departs the next, always carried by crows."

“Long, long ago, the sun was not like it is now, but rather ten golden birds. The golden crows would rest under the giant Fusang tree and take turns on duty in the sky. Mortals called a cycle of a golden crow rising in the east and setting in the west a day, which is what you now call a day.”

The babies opened their mouths wide.

No one ever told them these things.

Xiao Jia: "Are there really ten? The sun looks the same every day! No, there should be two now, one for summer and one for winter."

Shan Shan: "Idiot~ There's only one sun left now. I heard the other nine were shot down."

Why?

Shan Shan: "They all came out at once, and the ground was dried up by the sun. People were going to die from the heat, so of course they had to resist!"

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