"That's it." Yan Jue supported his head with one hand and used the other hand to gently stroke the fur of the Burning Wind Fox squatting on the table with his fingertips, from the top of the head to the back, over and over again. The silky touch made him a little addicted.
"Although Ah Qing can't sense the missing body parts, he can regenerate them by eating rocks. Isn't that more convenient than finding the original parts?" He explained to Zhuo Feng how he discovered Ah Qing's skills, then smiled and said, "A few days ago, Zhang Zizhen compensated him with a piece of imperial green jade."
Zhang Zizhen gave Ah Qing a piece of imperial green jade, only the size of an apple, as an apology, and seemed to be strangely proud of having "tricked" this jade from his father. It was unknown what Zhang's father thought of his son, who had betrayed him.
"But Ah Qing's fingertip has been found. He hid the piece of imperial green in his dorm room and didn't eat it. I also asked Ah Qing, and he said the new part of his body is no different from the previous one."
"They're all stone, so of course there's no difference." Zhuo Feng pricked his ears. "If that's the case, shouldn't the Stone Tribe be immortal? How come they only have a lifespan of a thousand years?"
Yan Jue tried to guess in words Zhuo Feng could understand: "Perhaps it's because of the limitations of the laws of nature in that world? They can't constantly increase their strength like in the world of cultivation. Living a thousand years should be considered a long time, right? If it were longer, wouldn't they get bored and find it meaningless?"
Having said this, some thoughts suddenly flashed through his mind, but unfortunately those thoughts were too vague and had no shape, so he didn't take them to heart.
Zhuo Feng nodded, not dwelling on it any further. He looked up at Yan Jue, who was gazing at him tenderly. He curled his tail around the fingers caressing his back and said happily, "By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet, Teacher, on your successful Qi induction. You will surely achieve great things in the future!"
Yan Jue had already left him a message about his visit to the sanatorium, so he wasn't surprised by the change of location after leaving the game. As soon as he emerged, he sensed a change in Yan Jue, but he was distracted by Yan Jue's surprise and his recounting of recent events, so he didn't immediately congratulate him.
"Thank you." Yan Jue thanked him happily, and then said modestly: "I haven't even reached the first level of Qi Refining yet, it's too early to talk about that."
He may have really benefited from the help of the game and his spiritual-friendly temperament, which enabled him to succeed.
And judging by the message Pan Wencheng sent, he was the only one currently practicing who had succeeded. He didn't know about anything else, but Wen Xuyang had a vague feeling of entering a state of meditation yesterday. Although he hadn't seen the spiritual energy yet, he believed that day wasn't far off.
As for Zhang Zizhen, perhaps because he'd practiced a different power system, he still hadn't made any progress. However, after receiving constant scolding and guidance from his family over the phone, he had adjusted his mindset and no longer questioned his life, as he had before, because he couldn't draw in his Qi.
Zhuo Feng suggested: "Teacher, you can practice instead of sleeping. There is more spiritual energy here than in the city, so you can practice faster."
Cultivation is beneficial to the body and mind, and can cleanse the body of negative states. It is much more efficient than using ordinary sleep to relieve physical fatigue and other feelings. The cultivators of Tianchen Continent basically use cultivation instead of sleep.
Yan Jue had already experienced some of the above benefits when he was practicing, but——
"Zhuo Feng, I've been an ordinary person for over twenty years. Sleeping is a habit ingrained in me. I always feel like something's missing when I don't. And I've been consciously extending my nighttime practice time. Maybe I'll completely change that in the future? But now..."
He is just practicing Qi now and is in the stage of widening the meridians and laying the foundation. When practicing, there is no feeling of time passing by at all, only the torment of living day by day like a year.
However, after the training, his body was refreshed, but his spirit felt as if he had been up all night and was really uncomfortable. He could only slowly adjust and adapt.
Yan Jue didn't give Zhuo Feng a chance to persuade him. Before he could finish his words, he changed the subject: "What happened to you in real life? Were you in danger?"
Zhuo Feng shook his head and told the story of the Fox Tribe recognizing him as their young master. Finally, he said confidently, "Teacher, don't worry. Before I reach adulthood, I will definitely be able to firmly control all three tribes."
"Young Master?" Yan Jue was startled, and in the blink of an eye, he thought of many conspiracies and tricks. Hearing Zhuo Feng's confident words, knowing that he was prepared and ambitious, he felt a little relieved.
After thinking for a moment, he said to Zhuo Feng, "They're so many after all, and you're alone, so it's inevitable that you might miss something. Do you want me to help you find some technological gadgets you can use? Those are dead objects without spiritual energy. If you don't use your eyes and spiritual sense to look for them yourself, you probably won't be able to detect the magic weapon, right?"
"Magic weapons can indeed only detect items containing spiritual energy or specific items." Zhuo Feng confirmed Yan Jue's guess, paused, and said, "But don't those things require electricity?"
He hadn't been in Yan Jue's dimension for long, but he had come to understand that technological items couldn't be separated from "electricity" and other knowledge he didn't understand. Their Tianchen Continent didn't have those magical facilities at all, so how could the items still be used there?
What Zhuo Feng didn't know was—
"We have solar energy and wind power. You have both of these things on Tianchen Continent, right? If there are no cultivators, it shouldn't be difficult to create a strong wind."
Zhuo Feng widened his eyes.
Yan Jue waved his hand and said casually: "Don't worry, this little problem can be easily solved. Let's discuss what you need. How about a bug? How about a pinhole camera? You can keep an eye on other people's movements at any time. Or how about hot weapons? Don't you have a storage bag? It's easy to hide. Even if you can't kill them, you can at least buy some time..."
Zhuo Feng's eyes gradually became dull.
"Teacher, who should we kill?"
Noel just happened to appear. Upon hearing this, his eyes changed and he bared his teeth fiercely and said, "Whoever bullied you, Noel will bite him to death!"
Ah Qing also imitated Noel's expression, so fierce! (▼皿▼)
Yan Jue didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This little fish was always a step late and only listened to half of what he said. His warm heart always went to the wrong place. "Is your game over?"
As soon as Zhuo Feng came back, he told her about the games they played in kindergarten, and then he explained what he had just said.
Ah Qing raised his intact hand: "I found it!"
Finding a stone is not difficult, but the difficult part is the process of the two of them searching in the swimming pool, which stirs up the water flow and sweeps the stone around.
Yan Jue patted their heads and whispered that no one was bullying him. After getting Zhuo Feng's consent, he told them about his time in the Fox Tribe. "We are discussing whether Zhuo Feng has anything he can use."
Noel's eyes lit up, and he excitedly joined the discussion. Ah Qing knew very little about the technology in Yan Jue's world, but that didn't stop him from listening with gusto and actively offering some brilliant ideas.
Only Zhuo Feng himself became more and more silent and more and more skeptical about life.
He had no doubt that if the gifts between cubs could be brought into reality, Noel would definitely fill his storage bag with strange items from the continent of Atlantis. Just releasing the fish alone would make a whole group of foxes vomit.
Fortunately not.
Zhuo Feng breathed a sigh of relief. Just as they were discussing whether cannons could actually kill cultivators and demon cultivators, he interrupted them, saying, "Teacher!"
Yan Jue came back to his senses and looked at Zhuo Feng: "Zhuo Feng, is there anything you want?"
"I haven't thought about it yet." Zhuo Feng shook his head: "I remembered that I have a gift for the teacher. Where should the teacher receive it?"
A gift. Yan Jue instinctively wanted to refuse when he heard these two words associated with "absolutely ugly." He swallowed the words with difficulty, then laughed awkwardly and said in a surprised tone, "Really? There's a gift?"
"What is it? Can you describe it to the teacher?"
"It's a monster, very big." He scanned the area of the sanatorium with his spiritual sense. "It can't fit here. Teacher, are you going to the mountains?"
Yan Jue was about to cry, but he couldn't. "Okay, thank you, Zhuo Feng. I'll contact Director Pan and have someone pick us up."
While he was on the phone, Noel leaned over to Zhuo Feng and whispered, "You've found a suitable gift again. I haven't found one yet."
The teacher was trading with his father. Common seafood and sea monsters in Atlantis were basically on the trading list. The rest were useless or did not look to the teacher's liking, so he had not been able to find a suitable gift until now.
Noel didn't know about the trade items. When Yan Jue received them, they were placed behind the warehouse door, and he didn't dare to take a closer look. He only knew that the teacher traded with them. The teacher had seen everything he could give, so giving him more would no longer be a surprise.
Now hearing Zhuo Feng say that he had found it, he felt a little melancholy.
If only the teacher liked beautiful things, there would be many beautiful gems, pearls and works of art in their palace. But unfortunately, the teacher's taste was strange, so he couldn't give them to him.
Zhuo Feng explained, "I heard about it from the Fox Tribe, but I've never seen it in person. This gift was given to me from Teacher 91."
He deliberately made the sound very loud so that Yan Jue, who was on the phone, could hear it, and he wouldn't have to worry about being questioned and suspected for causing a monster to suddenly disappear in the fox tribe.
Ah Qing was confused: "What gifts? Do we have to give them to the teacher?"
Noel took the initiative to start popularizing science, and emphasized his understanding of the expression "giving gifts to people you like and respect is a kind of courtesy". He also recalled the explanations in various books to prove that he was not talking nonsense.
In the end, he pulled Ah Qing to his side, put his hands close to his ears, and whispered seriously that the teacher liked ugly things.
Zhuo Feng sat lazily aside, letting Noel do the explaining.
"Is the teacher nice to us?" Noel asked.
Ah Qing nodded. The teacher had given him so many stones and shown him so many sights he had never seen before. He was the best person he had ever met.
"Then shouldn't we give the teacher some gifts to express our love for him?" Noel had a good reason: "Look, we came to the teacher's world, and everything was prepared by the teacher. We just need to enjoy it and rarely help the teacher. Out of gratitude, shouldn't we also give him a gift and give him a surprise?"
Ah Qing continued to nod: "Yes! I want to give the teacher a gift too."
Noel patted his head with satisfaction: "Aqing is really smart."
Ever since he learned that Ah Qing had no gender, he stopped calling him "brother" and only addressed him by his name. As for the embarrassing incident when he almost misunderstood the teacher's words as a sister, he didn't need to tell anyone about it.
Ah Qing beamed: "Ah Qing is super smart!"
Zhuo Feng couldn't help but laugh, and stepped forward to pat Ah Qing on the head. He rarely met a cub like Ah Qing, whose thoughts were as pure as a newborn.
Noel? After knowing him for a long time, he knew that this little fish had a dark heart, and it was all unconscious. You never know when he might trick you.
After Yan Jue finished his call, he turned around and said to the three cubs, "We're going back to the city. How about I take you out to play then?"
With Zhuofeng around, being invisible is a piece of cake.
"That's right, if a few more cubs come, his shoulders won't be able to accommodate them." Yan Jue thought sweetly and melancholy, perhaps he could offer his head as a gift? Fortunately, he wasn't bald.
Noel cheered, "Great! I've never hung out with a teacher at night before!"
Ah Qing also learned to raise his hands and cheer.
Zhuo Feng expressed his expectations in a reserved manner.
This time when they returned, only Yan Jue and the three cubs were there.
It was the same reason. With the powerful boss Zhuo Feng around, any danger was just a paper tiger in front of him, so he didn't disturb Wen Xuyang and Zhang Zizheng's practice.
Wen Xuyang had been busy during the day for the past two days, only having time to practice at night. The reason for this was the addition of two newbies, Li Huaiqing and Meimei, so aside from Yan Jue's affairs, everything else needed help from him, the one closest to him, to explain things.
He also had to observe their every move and determine their character during the process. This was all standard procedure, and he needed to complete it carefully.
Furthermore, China was about to add another ghost cultivator. Since the sanatorium couldn't accommodate too many people for fear of attracting attention, he would be the intermediary for all related communications. He had already reached the threshold of perceiving spiritual energy through his nightly practice alone, demonstrating his immense perseverance.
They took a helicopter to the military base where the sea monster Arnos was released. After meeting up with Pan Wencheng, Yan Jue and the others talked and laughed as they walked, exchanging trivial matters of the week.
Zhou Taotao, who was finally allowed by Pan Wencheng to take a break from the bitter sea of study, followed behind them, making faces to tease the three on Yan Jue's shoulders.
After not seeing him for a long time, Zhou Taotao had taken on a more composed demeanor, and when he was expressionless, he became even more unpredictable. In general, he was heading in the direction of Pan Wencheng, never to return. However, in front of acquaintances, he remained the same character, not much changed, so Yan Jue didn't feel unfamiliar.
Arriving at the venue, Yan Jue looked at the gate that had once traumatized him, feeling heavy-hearted. Pan Wencheng and Zhou Taotao patted his shoulders in unison and gave him encouraging glances.
Although there was obvious ridicule in that look, it did contain encouragement.
After entering and communicating with Zhuo Feng and 91, Yan Jue received a reminder that there were cubs sending gifts. He was ready to die and prepared himself mentally several times before clicking it.
A few seconds later, an unknown monster appeared in the empty field. It was five meters long and three meters tall, with a pitch-black body, ferocious horns, a head full of eyes and a bloody mouth, and a snake-like object on its body that was constantly twisting and struggling.
Before Yan Jue could catch his breath, he was already scrambling to catch the stones that kept falling from his shoulders.
"Ah Qing, Ah Qing, are you okay?"
Zhuo Feng used his spiritual energy to gather a pile of scattered small stones together and put them in Yan Jue's palm for him to hold. The three people and two cubs all gathered around and looked at the pile of stones in Yan Jue's hand with concern.
Frightened to the point of falling apart, Ah Qing, who had lost his human form, struggled to piece himself together. As soon as he recovered, he hugged Yan Jue's fingers and cried loudly: "Wow - how could it be so ugly!!"
"Teacher, this is so scary."
The author has something to say:
Zhuo Feng: Noel might try to trick you at any time.
Yan Jue nodded frantically with tears in his eyes: "Yes, yes, yes, I really don't like ugly things! I am just a vulgar person who likes gems and pearls!"
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