Reincarnated as a Tabby Cat: Daily Life with the School Beauty Empress

Chapter 43 Ten-Day Transformation

In the days that followed, Su Qianxue and Murong Hui's lives were summed up in three words: practice, eat, and sleep.

We arrived at the training ground at six in the morning and practiced running, sparring, and physical conditioning until noon.

In the afternoon, everyone went to their respective cultivation rooms. Su Qianxue immersed herself in the Light-element cultivation room, studying the "Mingxi Heart Sutra," while Murong Hui worked tirelessly on the third level of the Phoenix Burning Heaven Technique in the Fire-element cultivation room. After returning home in the evening, they still had to consolidate their knowledge and review the day's training content.

Murong Qingfeng's teaching style can be summarized in eight words: ruthless, cold-blooded, yet smiling.

She laughed as she made the two of them run 20,000 meters. She laughed as she made them do push-ups in a room with 50 times gravity. She laughed as she made them fight each other until they couldn't stand up anymore, then handed them recovery potions and said, "Ten minutes rest, next round."

Murong Hui cried on the third day. She squatted in a corner of the training ground and cried, then wiped her face and stood up to continue training.

Su Qianxue didn't cry. But on the fourth night, when she returned to her dormitory, she took Yichen off her shoulder and put him on the bed. She then lay face down on the pillow and didn't move for five minutes.

Yichen leaned over and poked the back of her head with his paw.

"Meow?"

[Girl, are you alright?]

Su Qianxue mumbled a single word from under the pillow: "I'm exhausted, let me lie down for a while."

Yichen wisely withdrew, waited a while, and when she wasn't paying attention, he slowly scooted over, rested his head against her neck, and lay there quietly.

After a long time, Su Qianxue turned over, placed her hand on Yichen's back, and stroked it intermittently.

"Tired. But it's worth it."

"Meow."

[Ding! Warmth value +80.]

Yichen himself was also busy.

Murong Qingfeng said that if the beast tamer and the contracted beast cultivate the same elements, they can complement each other.

The faster Su Qianxue cultivates, the more spiritual energy she receives through the contract. Similarly, Yi Chen's increased strength will conversely enhance Su Qianxue's cultivation.

After Su Qianxue switched to the Light Element, an unexpected change occurred.

The element of light resonated with Yichen's spiritual core.

Whenever Su Qianxue guided the flow of spiritual energy in the cultivation room, Yi Chen could feel a warm, golden energy flowing through the contract chain, even if he was squatting outside the training ground basking in the sun.

This energy was not much, but it was extremely pure and was directly absorbed by his spiritual core.

On the fifth day, Yi Chen's strength broke through from the peak of the fourth rank to the fifth rank.

This speed startled Murong Qingfeng. She personally examined Yichen's spirit core status, remained silent for a while, then said, "As expected, it's the Light element," and left.

tenth day.

Su Qianxue has already mastered the basics of the Light-based cultivation technique, and can now condense a ball of light spiritual energy in her palm. Although its power is still far less than her previous ice-based moves, her progress is frighteningly fast. Teacher Qingfeng said it would take three months, but at this rate, it won't even take two months.

And Yichen, sixth rank.

In ten days, he rose two levels from the peak of the fourth rank to the sixth rank.

Speed, strength, and defense all surged.

He tried the Foshan Shadowless Claw, and the spatial cracks torn by the claw marks increased from three to seven, the length doubled, and the dissipation time was slower, indicating that the energy density of each claw had made a qualitative leap.

The gravity field has also been improved. Previously, 100x was the limit, but now it can be increased to a maximum of 120x.

The only thing that bothered him was that it was still only the size of a palm and looked harmless.

Well, being small has its advantages. It's easy to be held, it's comfortable to be held, and it warms you up faster.

Speaking of warmth points, the accumulation over these ten days is more considerable than he expected.

Daily interactions with Su Qianxue yield a stable output: being pulled out of bed by Su Qianxue in the morning and thrown onto the sink increases warmth value by dozens.

At lunchtime, Su Qianxue would serve him food, adding a few dozen yuan. Sleeping next to her at night added a couple hundred yuan. All these little things added up to at least three or four hundred yuan a day.

In addition, during training breaks, Murong Hui and Murong Qingfeng would occasionally touch or hug each other.

Murong Hui's contributions were stable, ranging from two or three hundred to over a thousand yuan per day.

Murong Qingfeng was even more powerful. As long as Yichen snuggled into her arms and performed his kneading skills, she could easily get two or three hundred yuan.

Over the course of ten days, the warmth value increased from 15,000 to 23,000.

We are still 27,000 short of the 50,000 evolution threshold.

[The speed is acceptable, but not fast enough. We need to find a way to develop more sources of warmth.]

Yi Chen, with his tail coiled up, squatted by the training field, watching Su Qianxue and Murong Hui practice on the field, his mind racing with various plans.

[Su Qianxue's output has basically stabilized; significant increases will depend on "unlocking new scenes," but new scenes aren't available every day. The Murong sisters have also nearly reached their daily output cap.]

We need to develop new customers.

He licked his paws.

[For example—Does Teacher Qingfeng have any other friends? Or are there any large social events in the academy? Why not have Cat Lord be the mascot, let a bunch of people take turns petting him, wouldn't that boost his warmth level?]

[Wait, the system says warmth points are only awarded for "the affection of the owner's friends." Does it work if a stranger touches me?]

He brought up the system panel and examined it.

[Conditions for gaining warmth points: Interacting with the owner; interacting with people close to the owner. The higher the level of closeness, the more warmth points are gained.]

[As expected, strangers won't do. It has to be someone close to Su Qianxue.]

"So, the only ones we can use right now are Murong Hui and Murong Qingfeng. Are there any others? Classmates? Principal Li Kaishan? Qin Yong?"

He thought about it and realized that Qin Yong's relationship with Su Qianxue didn't seem to qualify him. Principal Li Kaishan—letting a cat knead in his lap? The image was too beautiful to contemplate.

[Alright, let's focus on maintaining the existing channels first. Steady and reliable, I'm not in a rush.]

He rested his chin on his front paws and squinted as he continued to sunbathe.

Life went on like this.

Training, cultivating, eating, sleeping, and accumulating warmth points.

The relationship between Su Qianxue and Murong Hui also rapidly improved during the intense training.

After all, they got beaten up together every day, uh, trained together, were exhausted together, drank recovery potions together, and were punished by Teacher Qingfeng to run laps together. This kind of camaraderie was built faster than anything else.

The two went from being polite and distant at the beginning to being able to lean on each other and chat during training breaks.

Although Su Qianxue wasn't good at speaking sweet words, whenever Murong Hui was physically exhausted, she would quietly hand her a bottle of recovery potion, the kind with the cap already unscrewed.

Yichen saw this and stored the warmth points in the system.

Long live friendship!

Before we knew it, it was evening of the eleventh day.

The training ended a little earlier than usual. Murong Qingfeng had to go out unexpectedly in the afternoon, leaving the two of them to practice on their own before returning home.

Su Qianxue stayed in the Light-elemental cultivation room for an extra hour, and it was already dark when she came out. Murong Hui was waiting for her at the door, carrying two insulated bags.

"I had dinner delivered, I'm too lazy to go to the cafeteria. Want to eat at your place?"

Su Qianxue did not refuse.

The two walked back to Su Qianxue's apartment. Yichen leaned on Su Qianxue's shoulder, his nose twitching, the aroma wafting from the insulated bag making his salivary glands tingle.