Yan Jue agreed to Zhuo Feng's request. He had no way of disagreeing.
Zhuo Feng was delighted. According to him, their master-disciple relationship shouldn't just be a lip service; it needed a ceremony to be formally considered a discipleship.
Yan Jue stopped him and did not agree.
"It doesn't matter if it's formal or not, as long as we acknowledge our master-disciple relationship. All that's just empty talk. Besides, I still haven't figured out what I can teach you, and I'd feel guilty if I had a too formal apprenticeship ceremony. When I have something to teach you one day, we can make up for it."
Yan Jue's words were sincere. He knew Zhuo Feng's decision to become his disciple wasn't about finding a mentor to teach him, but rather about using this relationship to draw them closer. Zhuo Feng had always been an insecure little fox, terrified of loss. Perhaps only with a formal connection would he find some peace of mind.
Yan Jue was happy to pamper him, but not more. He was penniless, and if he had even one aspect that could make him a real teacher to Zhuo Feng, he wouldn't feel so guilty, but he didn't have that, so he could only shirk the solemn and formal ceremony of becoming a disciple and only acknowledge their identities.
He also stopped Zhuo Feng from changing his address to "Master" and continued to let him call him Teacher.
The title of "Master" is both childish and serious. It is fine in movies and TV shows, and it is also reasonable in Zhuo Feng's world. However, as a young man who grew up in a new era, he feels extremely embarrassed when he hears it in real life, and he can't help but dig his toes into the ground.
The teacher is very nice and friendly, and the meaning is pretty good.
Zhuo Feng had no objection.
The two of them had secretly done something big, and naturally they couldn't hide it from the other kid in the kindergarten. When Noel came online, they explained the whole thing to him. After much persuasion, Yan Jue promised to give out a lot of snacks and agreed to several requests, and finally stopped Noel, who wanted to join in the fun and also want to become his apprentice.
The situations of Noel and Zhuo Feng are completely different. With many choices to make, Yan Jue still wants Noel to gain more experience and grow in his world, meet more people, and choose the one that suits him best as his master, rather than hanging himself on this ordinary little tree in another world.
It's good that he continues to be his life teacher.
After the matter of becoming a disciple was finalized and made public, Zhuo Feng's favorability reached the maximum.
Yan Jue should be happy to welcome the new cub and open the Scorching Wind World Mall. However, in reality, the spiritual energy revival has just begun, and everything requires points, so he can't focus all his attention on the new cub.
If we don't release it, what should we do if the new cub finds out that he is treated differently from the two old cubs when he chats with them and feels that he is being treated differently?
Moreover, he had to start practicing the new technique as soon as he got it, so that he could better protect himself in the future world full of monsters and demons. It would not be safe to always rely on others.
He was uncertain when he would be able to draw the Qi into his body, and how much time it would take. Adding to that the need to gain points, he had even less time.
But he couldn't just leave the cub alone forever. He'd already asked Zhuo Feng out of curiosity. He'd already logged into the game during the three days after the game update, and it wasn't like he'd thought, where he'd exploited the system to capture the cub.
Yan Jue felt that his head was a little bald, so he went to find Pan Wencheng.
"That's easy." Pan Wencheng pondered for a moment, then offered him an idea: "Why don't you just be honest about your current situation and bring all three of your children back to reality? There are so many entertainment facilities in reality, and it would be fun for them to go out with you to earn points. At worst, they can go on other 'adventures' together while you practice."
"The yard is so big, they can go to the military headquarters or the laboratory. Let them play freely and they will definitely be obsessed with you."
Yan Jue: ...Is this how you use the phrase "乐不思蜀"?
However, Pan Wencheng's words made him suddenly enlightened, and all the things he was worried about were no longer a problem.
After making the decision, he told Zhuo Feng and Noel about the arrival of the new cub and set the pick-up time for the next morning.
Why not today? Because after Zhuo Feng's favorability reached 100, the game took five minutes to update. When Zhuo Feng entered the kindergarten again, he had changed from a three-tailed fox to a nine-tailed fox.
With six more tails, Zhuofeng needs time to adapt.
After consoling Noel with the teacher, Zhuo Feng received a notice from Teacher 91 about his class. Upon arriving, he discovered it was the last class. In other words, after class, he could return to reality.
Caught off guard by the news, Zhuo Feng was momentarily stunned. When he first arrived, all he could think about was leaving. After just over a month, he'd already grown accustomed to the place and the company of his teacher and Noel. Now that he could return to reality, he felt as if he'd been transported to another world.
Looking back on these days, he was undoubtedly happier and more satisfied than he had been in the past forty years. He knew that after the joy, he should cheer up and deal with those unpleasant things.
Thinking of the people and things in Tianchen Continent, Zhuo Feng snorted coldly, and focused on the class without thinking too much.
The class is over.
After Teacher 91 said he would send him back to reality, Zhuo Feng's eyes turned white. The heavy feeling of his soul falling into his body had not yet dissipated when he was overwhelmed by severe pain.
He was all too familiar with this kind of pain. In the two days since he'd swallowed the Purple Blood Dew and awakened, he'd already felt all sorts of pain. It was just that after living in peace for so long, his pain tolerance seemed to have decreased, and even the slightest bit of pain nearly brought him to his knees.
His eyes darkened, and Zhuo Feng gritted his teeth, curling up his body and leaving deep scratches in the cave. It was just a little pain, he would definitely get through it!
It seemed like a long time had passed, but it also seemed like only a moment. When the pain disappeared, he was still trembling slightly out of habit. Every part of his body had long lost sensation. He lay on the ground, gasping for breath.
Invisibly, with every breath he took, spiritual energy was absorbed into him, repairing his damaged body. By the time he was able to move again, there was no trace of damage to his body, either externally or internally, yet his body continued to absorb spiritual energy with unwavering thirst.
Zhuo Feng exclaimed and quickly looked inward, then was pleasantly surprised to find that his strength in all aspects had increased, and even his tails had increased by six.
He became the legendary nine-tailed fox!
His strength increased hundreds of times, and every little disturbance in the world was infinitely magnified in his perception. Zhuo Feng laughed loudly and happily released his spiritual sense to circle outside.
This was the cave where he first regained consciousness, and it was also a replica of the kindergarten dormitory. After escaping from the Qingfeng Sect, he subconsciously returned here.
At that time, he was determined to die, and he wanted to die in the demon clan's territory, in his hometown, rather than in the land of those ugly and evil people. In the end, he didn't die, and he became stronger due to fate.
I don’t know how much time has passed now, Zhuo Feng thought, and withdrew his spiritual sense.
Without the distracting thoughts that had plagued him when he released his consciousness, Zhuo Feng froze as he retracted his consciousness past the restriction at the cave entrance. He slowly opened his eyes and circled the cave for a long time, exploring it inch by inch. Suddenly, a few tears welled up in his eyes, and then more and more, wetting the hair on his cheeks.
He felt the breath of blood on the restriction.
When he was young and incompetent, he simply believed the cave's restrictions were drawn by his parents to protect him, and that they had lured the enemy away for their own safety and perished somewhere unknown. Now that his cultivation had increased, he realized that the burial place of his parents, which he had always sought, was now both far away and close at hand.
Pressing his cheek against the cave wall, Zhuo Feng secretly said sorry in his heart, and leaned most of his body against it affectionately.
Sorry it took me so long to discover you guys.
After a long while, when the sky outside the cave suddenly changed for unknown reasons, Zhuo Feng reluctantly moved away. He looked at the cave entrance and saw a dark sky with flashes of lightning. He wondered who was about to undergo a tribulation.
You must never join in the fun when undergoing a tribulation, otherwise the thunder will strike you indiscriminately. This is common sense in the world of cultivation. No matter how reluctant Zhuo Feng was, he could only use his spiritual energy to quickly escape to a distance.
After flying for a while, he discovered that this calamity cloud was following him.
Startled, Zhuo Feng quickly checked his realm and slammed on the brakes, finding an open space to stop. After his successful awakening, his body had been absorbing spiritual energy to repair itself. This was the outer reaches of the demon world, where spiritual energy was thin, so the amount absorbed each time was small. He didn't take it seriously, believing it would stop on its own once it had absorbed enough.
As a result, he didn't stop at all and broke through to the Demon Pill Stage painlessly.
As expected, it’s a nine-tailed fox.
After forty-nine thunderbolts struck, a large pit suddenly appeared on the flat open ground. The ground inside and outside the pit was burnt and white smoke was rising.
The monsters nearby poked their heads out tremblingly, and while breathing a sigh of relief, they secretly ran towards the direction where the unknown monster was undergoing the tribulation, maintaining a safe enough distance, and rubbing against the pressure of the big monster in the pit to rub against the spiritual rain after the thunder.
Who knew which demon had such good fortune? This spiritual rain wasn't something you could just get. Aside from the extremely lucky darlings of Heaven, other people and demons didn't have such a good deal. After being struck by lightning, who wouldn't still stubbornly swallow healing pills while covered in charcoal?
Unlike the spiritual rain, once the rain stops, the people who are undergoing the tribulation will be clean and clear as if nothing happened.
The fair and clean Zhuo Feng was looking at his own two palms in confusion.
It is common sense that monsters in the demon pill stage will transform after overcoming the tribulation, but the question is, why did he turn into a child?
This is not at all what he thought.
"Wow, Zhuofeng, you have more tails." Noel returned to the kindergarten and his eyes widened when he saw Zhuofeng's appearance.
"One, two, three... nine! Teacher, he has nine tails!"
Yan Jue also enlarged the screen and carefully observed the changes in Zhuo Feng.
In kindergarten, his size remained unchanged, except for Zhuo Feng's tail, which stood upright like a fan, squeezing together. When he crouched, his tail seemed twice as wide as his body, and the slightest movement would result in a fight. Furthermore, Zhuo Feng had a golden teardrop-shaped mark between his eyebrows, which complemented his golden pupils beautifully.
"Congratulations to Zhuo Feng for a successful breakthrough." Yan Jue also briefed Nor about Zhuo Feng's changes, and then joined him in cheering for Zhuo Feng.
Noel's hands were red from clapping. He blew on them quietly and stretched out his hands towards the scorching wind in the swimming pool: "Brother, let me touch you, just once!"
Zhuo Feng calmly accepted the teacher and Noel's congratulations, but inside he was actually a little proud. After hearing Noel's words, he walked towards them.
Before he could take a step, he fell to the ground with a thud.
Zhuo Feng: ...What happened?
Yan Jue covered his mouth and laughed.
His worries came true. When Zhuo Feng was still a three-tailed fox, he had been worried about whether the other's tail would be too heavy. Now it had nine tails, and just as he had imagined, Zhuo Feng, who was not yet used to it, was really pushed back by the weight of the nine tails.
"Zhuo Feng, you are a nine-tailed fox now." He emphasized the word nine-tailed.
Zhuo Feng froze, then silently straightened after realizing what was happening, tentatively and cautiously stretching his legs. Ever since his awakening, he'd been flying, and even after entering kindergarten, he simply stayed put. Unable to adapt to the changes in his body, he made a fool of himself in front of the teacher and Noel.
It was said that monsters have a very good understanding of their own original forms, and are adept at fighting and other things, right?
Oh, he changed halfway, that's okay.
Yet, even with all his caution, Zhuo Feng didn't let the two people beside him dispel the impression that he couldn't walk. He was focused on his back, forgetting his legs, and with a sudden turn, he fell sideways. He landed right in front of Noel, and Xiaoyu happily buried his upper body in his tailbone.
Yan Jue comforted him: "Don't worry, take your time, you just can't adapt well."
Don't think he didn't hear the smile in the teacher's voice. Zhuo Feng pursed his lips, feeling embarrassed for a moment. Then, anger welled up in his heart, and with the thought of playing a prank, he suddenly transformed back into human form.
"Wow!"
"Wow!"
Yan Jue and Nuoer held their cheeks and exclaimed in unison.
The white-haired nine-tailed fox disappeared, and in its place was a serious-looking little boy with three heads, a chubby face, a bun, and a white wide-sleeved robe.
"Change, change, become a human!" Noel held his face with both hands, looking at the people by the pool and unable to speak clearly.
Yan Jue immediately enlarged the screen and took screenshots like crazy. A serious little boy with a puffy face! Adorable!
"I am a demon, and I will become a human."
Very satisfied with the result of his prank, Zhuo Feng walked to the edge of the pool and squatted down. He stretched out his hand and retaliated, rubbing Noel's little face frantically.
When he was still a fox, this little fish rubbed his ears countless times. Now that he has hands, he must rub it back.
Noel begged for help incoherently: "Teacher, teacher, my younger brother bullied me..."
Yan Jue's eyebrows curved, and he reached out and tapped Zhuo Feng's head: "Okay, stop bullying Nuoer."
He was very pleased that Zhuo Feng could become cheerful and "childish".
"Yes, teacher." Zhuo Feng stopped obediently, but Noel took advantage of the opportunity and pulled him into the swimming pool.
Yan Jue was not worried at all. He did not forget that Zhuo Feng was a demon with water spiritual roots and was as strong as Noel in water.
The two cubs played and quarreled, and soon they were holding hands in the water, loving each other. Yan Jue spoke at the right time to tell them that a new cub was coming.
To give Zhuo Feng some time to adapt to his body, Yan Jue asked them if they wanted to come to reality, but was rejected by both cubs.
Zhuo Feng: "Teacher, I have to go back to reality and seize the time to consolidate my realm." And practice walking at the same time.
Noel: "I have to go back to accompany my father and mother, so that I can stay in the kindergarten longer tomorrow!"
Empty-nest father Yan Jue could only wave goodbye to them.
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