“Crazy… crazy… has this kid completely lost it…”
Vermilion Bird Mentor staggered back in disbelief, then finally fled from my side like avoiding a plague god.
All of this was too absurd, too incomprehensible for her.
But Senior Shen Shui still came as usual, sent by the Vermilion Bird Mentor to comfort me.
We sat facing each other in the school’s small cafeteria, and I politely asked Senior Shen Shui for a milk tea.
“You want to learn the Long Tail Technique from me?” Senior Shen Shui asked listlessly.
She was expecting some consolation… but it turned out I just wanted to teach a little brat how to grow a tail. Boring.
“Yeah! I want to have nine beautiful and magnificent tails like yours, Senior Sister!”
“That depends on your talent,” Senior Shen Shui yawned and took a sip of her milk tea. “Because my Immortal Spirit is the Heart Moon Fox, as long as I strengthen the Immortal Spirit’s power, these tails naturally grow… Your Immortal Spirit isn’t a fox, so trying to forcibly grow tails is very difficult.”
“But it’s not hopeless, right?”
“Hm… you need to receive the Blessing of the Heart Moon Fox, then follow the Potion Formula to take the stimulating potion.”
“Blessing of the Heart Moon Fox? What does that do?”
“It plants a seed, causing the recipient to grow the characteristics of the Heart Moon Fox… In plain words: it turns someone into a fox-eared beauty.”
“??!!”
“I can help you with the Blessing of the Heart Moon Fox.”
“Yay~!”
A white light merged into my body, quickly flowing to the area near my tailbone.
I had received the Blessing of the Heart Moon Fox!!
“Anything else? If not, I’ll be going now.”
“Thanks, Senior Sister! I’ll come find you if I have questions!”
“Don’t come unless it’s important, Senior Sister is very busy.” Senior Shen Shui lazily lifted her milk tea and left.
I then entered the Academy Coin shop and switched to full shopping mode.
Buying Potion Formulas, buying ingredients, refining potions, cooling them down, ton ton ton~
Then, quietly waiting for my tail to sprout.
It was a long process.
It might take days, or even months.
In the afternoon, while waiting, an unexpected visitor arrived at the dorm.
Joanna Lancelot.
She still arrogantly rode a dragon and jumped in through the window.
“If I were you, I’d run,” Joanna said bluntly.
“You found out?”
“I was supposed to represent the Lancelot Family to sign the herb trade Contract with you, but who would have thought you’d go crazy and self-destruct. What’s with this big illness? If you want to make money, just make money, why do you care how others live? Now, good luck opening any shop.”
“I’m happy about that.”
“The Lancelot Family is willing to offer you protection, letting all your shops open normally outside Donghuang. With the Lancelot Family’s help, the Immortal Spirit Association of Donghuang can’t reach that far.”
“No thanks. If I open, I open them all. If not, none.”
“Stubborn,” Joanna pouted, “I like it.”
“Don’t like it, I have a master.”
“Tsk, you could open a harem… I could turn into a little dragon girl…”
“No, pure love.”
“+.” Joanna swore.
But she was straightforward and not shy about romantic matters. After saying that, she chatted with me as if we were brothers:
“Seriously, what do you plan to do? Are you really going to end your life early and vanish from this land?”
“Of course not.”
“But what else can you do?”
“No more talking, I’ll scare you if I say it.”
“Say it, I’m not scared.”
“You really want to hear?”
“Yeah!”
“Step one, identify who’s behind stirring up this mess. I need to know the enemy.
Step two, kill all those fools.”
“……”
This plan stunned Joanna for three seconds.
Then she said, “You’ll probably have to massacre half the Immortal Spirit Association.”
“Yeah, and step three, run for President of the Immortal Spirit Association.”
“Run for President? The Donghuang District Immortal Spirit Association doesn’t have elections…”
“If I hold a knife to the President’s neck, it does.”
Three seconds later.
“Crazy… crazy… this kid’s completely lost it…”
Joanna stepped back in disbelief, then fled from my side like avoiding a plague god.
I found Cluru.
Before I could say anything, Cluru anxiously clung to me, checking me over from head to toe.
“Are you alright?” Her ethereal voice was full of concern.
“I’m fine… How did you find out?”
“You used my Account to livestream, dummy. I got a Ban Notification.”
I suddenly felt guilty. “Sorry for dragging you into this mess.”
“What are you going to do now?” Cluru asked.
That was the third time today I’d heard that question.
Obviously, everyone thought I was really cornered this time.
I pulled Cluru to a corner and said, “Destroy the world.”
“Alright, I’ll help you.” Cluru answered without hesitation.
I laughed and cried at the same time. “No, didn’t you want to ask me first? If I really wanted to blow up the solar system, you’d help me? Shouldn’t you stop the villain like a hero?”
“We’re allies. We advance and retreat together.” Cluru replied immediately.
This girl…
This feeling…
Even an Immortal Lord wouldn’t be able to handle it.
Having an ally in this world who stands with you even if you want to destroy the world—that’s probably the happiest thing there is.
So all my luck must have been saved just to meet this girl.
“No need to really destroy it. We’ll just get revenge as usual, deal with the rot inside the Mu Family and Immortal Spirit Association, then do some purging and restructuring, so our little shop can open smoothly.”
“Okay.” Cluru nodded.
She just looked at me, waiting for orders.
“Let’s go into retreat.”
“Okay.”
“Let’s cultivate straight to the Jindan Stage. Once at Jindan Stage, we basically dominate.”
“Okay.”
“But to break through Jindan Stage perfectly, I need to refine some Dan Medicine first. These are harder to make than before. I have to concentrate fully while refining, and during that time, I can’t protect myself. I’ll need someone to guard me. Will you be my bodyguard?”
“Okay.”
“I already gathered the ingredients earlier, so let’s get started.”
“Mm.”
The school was the safest place, so I chose to refine Kirin Enhancement, Immortal Robe with Full Patterns here.
Fingertips snapped, summoning Lightning Fire, Heaven and Earth as the Furnace.
As always, this caused a celestial phenomenon. In the clear sky, rainbow Divine Light appeared.
It was as if a bridge stretched across the Milky Way’s jade stars, linking the Celestial Realm and the Heavenly Mortal Boundary.
Still in Tianhai City, Daoist Shen Xiao, who hadn’t left yet, saw this and dropped his rice bowl with a slap.
“The Great Dao manifests, Heaven Gate Opening—what kind of Daoist is about to Shatter the Void? No, if it’s Shattering the Void, where’s the Heavenly Tribulation? Where’s the Divine Light? If it’s not Shattering the Void… then what? Why is there such a terrifying Ascension-like phenomenon?”
I closed my eyes and began to use Divine Sense to sense the subtle changes in the materials.
Just a small scene.
Just refining Dan Medicine.