"Today, we announce the new list of Core Disciples: Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Xue Wu."
"Their Spirit evaluation scores are 91, 81, and 84, respectively. The scores for other Named Disciples are all between 70-80, which you can check yourselves. The comprehensive test scores for school rules and Spirit knowledge are 83, 88, and 86, respectively. The scores for other Named Disciples are all between 79-90, which you can check yourselves."
"Congratulations to you all for achieving excellent results in the Named Disciple promotion assessment, especially the two new students, Qian Renxue and Hu Liena. It's commendable that you managed to catch up from behind."
Accustomed to having the Supreme Pontiff Auxiliary Teacher assist with teaching, Su Ran suddenly returned to teaching alone and felt a bit lost. He personally announced the promotion slots for the Named Disciples.
Upon hearing the exam results, Hu Liena breathed a sigh of relief, greatly surprised. To be honest, her pressure was immense, and her tireless studying had paid off.
In fact, for Spirit Masters like them, memorizing static things like Spirit knowledge and school rules wasn't difficult. The challenge lay in understanding and integrating them, which was crucial for achieving high scores.
What Hu Liena didn't expect was that her Spirit evaluation wasn't outstanding; it was even lower than Xue Wu, a support system Spirit Master. Instead, she scored higher on the school rules test.
It seems everyone doesn't follow the school rules very well!
After announcing the promotion results for the Named Disciples and comforting the other Named Disciples, Su Ran took Hu Liena for private tutoring, teaching her the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Dao Law and Soul Capture.
He also included a special Spirit Bone for her to Cultivate with—an external Spirit Bone: the Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Hill Blinking Tail Bone.
It was only then that Hu Liena learned that Teacher Bibi Dong had already left the academy. While delighted to receive the Cultivation Technique and Spirit Bone, she was also somewhat surprised.
Given her teacher's personality, would she really choose to leave without saying goodbye?
This was somewhat beyond Hu Liena's expectations.
Unlike Qian Renxue, she was actually happy that Teacher Bibi Dong served at Peach Garden Academy.
Of course, she was only happy about her taking the position, as Teacher Bibi Dong had always treated her well before, pouring the Supreme Pontiff Palace's Cultivation resources into her.
Especially after learning the Peach Garden Academy's school rules, a very important point among them was: one should know how to repay kindness.
While she was grateful, seeing the subtle ambiguity between the two teachers, she was no better off than Qian Renxue. She wished she could rush forward and replace Teacher Bibi Dong, directly push Teacher Su down, and use her Charm bones to 'clamp' him to death!
The use of the Heavenly Fox Charm Bone taught by her teacher: Charm the wicked, judge the truth, and mete out justice.
Hu Liena's desired use for the Charm Bone: Seduce Peach Blossom Teacher with countless enchanting postures, making him unable to resist, intoxicating him, and making him feel so blissful he couldn't leave her.
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After imparting the Cultivation Technique to Hu Liena in the Peach blossom Learning Forest, the melancholic Teacher Su intended to return to the schoolhouse to research and create a new Soul Nurturing Fluid for Xiao Wu's mother.
Xiao Wu's mother's current state was more like that of a newborn, similar to the Spirit Souls of later generations.
Spirit Souls, like spirit tools, were a key research direction for Su Ran. If he could explore Spirit Souls and form a complete mass-production spirit ring system, then the Disciples of the academy would no longer need to hunt for spirit rings outside.
This had both pros and cons for the students. The advantage was easier access to spirit rings, while the disadvantage was a significant impact on strength due to the lack of life-or-death combat experience in hunting Spirit Beasts.
This was also an area where Su Ran needed to continuously draw experience and make improvements.
However, just as he was walking out of the Peach blossom Forest, Su Ran heard the distant sounds of students playing:
"Ah? Senior Brother Wang Sheng is actually such a person?"
"Who would have thought, who would have thought, that Senior Brother Wang Sheng would secretly do something big!"
"Senior Brother Wang Sheng truly lives up to his reputation as the legendary Senior Brother! He's always one step ahead in everything!"
"Wait, I just said that a while ago, Senior Brother Wang Sheng had a big battle with the Star Luo powerhouses who came to hunt Junior Sisters Zhu Yun and Zhu Yu, and he suffered no small injuries. But after it was over, he didn't recuperate at the academy; he just disappeared. So it turns out he had other Junior Sisters comforting him, tsk tsk tsk!"
At this moment, Su Ran also approached, feeling a bit confused, and asked with a focused gaze:
"Why aren't you Cultivating properly? What are you all gathered here for? Do you have something to say?"
"No, no, we don't have anything to say, but Senior Brother Wang Sheng does."
Mu Yunteng, Shui Yueer, and the other girls pointed at Wang Sheng, their eyes filled with both the excitement of gossip and envy. They also wished for a sweet and beautiful love story.
"Oh? Saint, what is it? Tell your teacher."
Upon hearing that it was Wang Sheng who had something to say, Su Ran became a little interested.
One should know that among all the students, the one who caused Su Ran the least worry was not Ning Rongrong nor Qian Renxue, but this initial Named Disciple, Wang Sheng.
He usually almost never did anything out of line and was the most obedient to the school rules.
Even when Cultivating, he wouldn't ask for guidance outside of class time. Instead, he would consult his teacher all at once during class, take good notes, and after class, he would practice his punches while carefully pondering his teacher's words to improve himself. He almost never made any extra requests to Su Ran.
With so many Senior Sisters watching, Wang Sheng awkwardly scratched his head, his square face revealing a shy expression for a tough man:
"Teacher, I made a mistake."
"What mistake?"
Su Ran was stunned for a moment. If Shui Yueer or Xiao Wu had come to him to admit a mistake, Su Ran would have been somewhat nervous, as it probably wouldn't be a small matter. Could this kid Wang Sheng actually have something going on?
"I... I fell in love. I'm sorry, Teacher, but I also don't want to let down the girl's feelings..."
Wang Sheng said with shame.
Upon hearing this, Teacher Su Ran smiled casually and said with ease:
"You rascal, you scared your teacher. I thought you had made some big mistake! Isn't it just falling in love? It's human nature, the love between a man and a woman is inherent to humanity. What is there to be sorry to me for? As long as you are true to yourself and to that girl, that's all that matters."
"But if that's the case, I won't be able to concentrate on my punching. I'm afraid it will delay my Cultivation." Wang Sheng was conflicted; he truly loved practicing punches too much.
"Women will only slow down your punching speed, right? You rascal."
Su Ran's expression became serious, and he slapped Wang Sheng on the forehead:
"If there's mutual affection and everything is suitable, then don't leave any regrets. Being happy in body and mind is equally important for Cultivation."
"Tell your teacher, who are you with? Is it Meng Yiran? Or Yanzi?"
Su Ran's gaze swept over the figures of several female Core Disciples as he asked.
"Teacher, what are you saying?!"
"Don't spread rumors about us!"
"Teacher, you... sigh, don't you know who we truly like? You... I don't want to talk to you anymore!"
Dugu Yan, Shui Bing'er, and the others had come to watch the show, but upon hearing their teacher shift the focus to them, their smiles instantly vanished. They all stomped their feet, looking at Teacher Su Ran with resentful expressions, their mouths pouting in a huff.
"Teacher, of course it's not the Senior Sisters from the academy. How could I be worthy of such excellent Senior Sisters..."
Wang Sheng said foolishly:
"It's a farm girl from a nearby village named Xuancao. I met her when I usually went out to buy ingredients for the academy's meals. One time, she encountered two hooligans disturbing her while she was planting vegetables, and I stepped in to help her. We gradually became familiar with each other."
"Later, when Teacher wasn't around, people from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan came to cause trouble, and I suffered a minor injury. She was very concerned about me and would always ask about my injury whenever I went to buy vegetables, helping me apply medicine. Slowly, we fell in love..."
"Wow~"
Upon hearing this, the female students nearby had stars in their eyes, looking at their teacher with longing:
They also wanted to fall in love slowly like that! How wonderful and blissful!
Su Ran also nodded and said:
"This is a good thing. Actually, you foolish boy are already over twenty years old, and falling in love is very normal. You don't need to report to me, just do your part and try not to delay your Cultivation too much because of love, understand?"
Upon hearing this, the eyes of the surrounding girls became distant: We're almost twenty too, Teacher, why don't you fall in love with us?
Our needs are stronger than Senior Brother Wang Sheng, this punching maniac!
...
Wang Sheng scratched his head and chuckled: "I understand, but I'll only feel at ease after reporting to Teacher. Also... if Teacher agrees, I might officially get engaged to Xuancao next month."
"Teacher, don't worry, with a relationship, I won't neglect my Cultivation. I will put in one hundred and twenty percent effort to improve!"
"It's just that, Teacher is like a father to me. When I get married, I... I want to ask Teacher to be my wedding officiant. Of course, if Teacher is busy..."
"Good."
Su Ran did not decline in the slightest and immediately nodded. This kid, he's progressing faster than himself, sigh:
"Not only will your teacher officiate your wedding, but since the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan injured you back then, your teacher will personally go to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to demand some medical expenses to serve as your betrothal gift."
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