Don't mess with that necromancer; his summoned creatures level up on their own!

Not long after Lu Zhixing returned to his bedroom, there was a gentle knock on the door.

Two maids pushed the food cart in, with a large white porcelain plate in the center of the cart.

On the plate is a perfectly pan-fried pork chop, its surface slightly browned.

The cut surface revealed a tender pink color, and a rich aroma of meat instantly filled the entire room, carrying the unique refreshing scent of the wind element.

The little zombie instantly became agitated.

"It's here! I can smell it! It's that scent!"

Lu Zhixing walked to the table and sat down. He glanced at the piece of pork chop and waved to the maid.

"Okay, no need, you can leave."

The maid bowed and withdrew.

The room fell silent.

Lu Zhixing picked up his knife and fork, cut off a small piece, and put it in his mouth.

He originally thought that being cooked to medium-rare would have a strange taste, but to his surprise, it melted in his mouth and had an extremely tender and smooth texture.

The special sauce perfectly neutralizes any slight fishiness, bringing out the wild aroma of the meat.

The energy of the wind element melts in the mouth as you chew, slides down the throat, and spreads through the body like a warm current.

"Hmm...not bad. As expected of our own chef, this cooking is superb."

He put down his knife and fork, before he could even cut a second piece.

The little zombie appeared in front of the table and swallowed the remaining meat on the plate in one gulp.

It swallowed it without even chewing, and then let out a satisfied sigh.

"Ah... power! I feel like my whole body is on fire!"

The little zombie couldn't stay still for a moment.

Its mind was filled with the seven-figure damage of Thor's Heavenly Flash. If it didn't get its revenge, how could it, as the big brother, ever show up in the skill bar again?

It moved its wrist.

"I'm going to level up now. I need to master a single-target skill that's even more powerful than that lousy one!"

It turned its head to look at the little ghost next to it.

"Third brother, just you wait! Tomorrow morning I'll show you what a real nuclear explosion looks like!"

The little ghost sat in the corner of the room, her long, silvery-white hair cascading over her shoulders.

She looked up, a faint smile flashing in her amethyst-like eyes, and nodded.

"Okay... Little You will wait for Big Brother..."

The little zombie froze.

"...What? You're mocking me? Fine! You're so high and mighty! You're so great!"

It rushed out the window with a rage in its eyes, its grayish-blue figure flashing in the night before disappearing into the distance.

Lu Zhixing walked to the window and looked at the receding afterimage, then glanced at Xiao You's gentle and calm face beside him.

"This damn competitive spirit..."

The little vampire also went to the window, looking in the direction where the little zombie disappeared, and couldn't help but complain.

"Does it lack intelligence? Xiao You is clearly so cute, why is it always targeting Xiao You?"

As she spoke, she turned around, hugged the little ghost tightly, and rested her chin on her shoulder.

Xiao You paused for a moment, then blushed slightly, but did not dodge.

Lu Zhixing didn't look at them.

He suddenly remembered something.

I stole two items from Su Youran using the "honor among thieves" technique, and I haven't even looked at them yet.

He reached into his pocket and touched a cold object that had lost all magical energy.

He took it out, but before he could even see it clearly, the thing turned into a cluster of tiny specks of light in his palm and dissipated into the air.

Lu Zhixing was taken aback.

"...Was it a disposable reel? How did it disappear?"

He thought about it and decided, "Never mind, there's still one left."

Then he touched the second one.

Just then, the bedroom door was pushed open.

Song Xiaohe walked in, her face beaming with barely concealed excitement.

"Brother! I got into the Azure Dragon Class too! I can go with you tomorrow!"

Lu Zhixing looked at her.

"Really? That's great!"

He paused.

"However, your score isn't high. In theory, getting into Azure Dragon Academy shouldn't be a problem, but getting into the Azure Dragon Class..."

Song Xiaohe shook the shield in her hand.

"Because of the special nature of my profession and its enormous potential for development, I'm making an exception! And—look!"

She raised the Radiant Shield, its light more solid than before, with a warm silver sheen flowing around its edges.

"It evolved into silver! My brother actually used the Gold of Life to make equipment for me..."

As she spoke, she ran over and hugged Lu Zhixing tightly, burying her face in his shoulder, her voice muffled.

"My brother is so good to me..."

Her warm breath brushed against his neck, her hair brushed against his cheek, and carried a faint floral scent.

She let go of him.

"I'm going to take a shower!"

Song Xiaohe turned and ran out of the room, leaving behind the words "I'll talk to my brother later" and a wisp of fragrance.

The door closed, and the room became quiet.

Lu Zhixing paused for a moment, then looked down at the second item in his hand.

He took it out of his pocket.

The next second, Lu Zhixing's pupils suddenly contracted.

He was holding a neatly folded piece of white cloth in his hand.

The fabric is also printed with an adorable cartoon bear design.

A pair of underwear!

A pair of white underwear with a cartoon bear pattern!

Lu Zhixing's face instantly turned red.

His fingers froze in mid-air, wanting to put the thing down but unsure where to put it; only one thought swirled in his mind:

Why are Su Youran's underwear in my hands? What exactly did the thief with his code of honor exchange for?

He felt his worldview was collapsing.

The little vampire had somehow gotten close, and when he looked down, his blood-red eyes instantly lit up.

"Oh! You really are a perverted lolicon! You even collect other people's underwear! Such cute patterns, it's obviously from a little girl!"

Lu Zhixing turned to look at her.

"No...this..."

The bedroom door was flung open again.

Song Xiaohe rushed in.

"There's one more thing—"

Her words caught in her throat.

She saw Lu Zhixing sitting on the bed, holding a pair of white... underwear with a bear pattern... in his hand.

Lu Zhixing froze.

"Xiao He...it's not what you think..."

Song Xiaohe's gaze shifted from the underwear to Lu Zhixing's face.

She moved her gaze from his face to his underwear, her lips pursing slightly.

"That belongs to someone else...it's not mine..."

Lu Zhixing: "...Huh?"

Song Xiaohe's voice carried an undisguised sadness.

"My brother is seeing someone else..."

After she finished speaking, she turned and ran out, the door closing behind her. Her footsteps faded away down the corridor until they disappeared.

Lu Zhixing sat on the bed, still clutching the underwear in his hand, looking like a frozen sculpture.

He remained silent for a long time before throwing the bear-shaped underwear onto the bed.

"What should we do...? Should we return this to Su Youran?"

He thought again.

"No, we should just destroy this stuff...we'll destroy it tomorrow."

He put it in the bedside table drawer.

"...Let's put it in the cabinet first."

Then he turned off the light and crawled into his warm bed.

"Go to sleep, go to sleep. We have to go to Kyoto tomorrow."

The next morning, Lu Zhixing groggily opened his eyes and habitually stretched.

"Hmm... another beautiful day."

He rubbed his eyes and looked at the career panel.

These past few days, I've developed a habit of checking what kind of trouble the little zombie had caused last night as soon as I wake up.

[Level Display: Lv.20 (78%)]

He nodded in satisfaction.

"Yeah, almost level 21. That's pretty good for grinding monsters in the wild."

His gaze continued downwards, landing on the skill bar, and he suddenly jolted awake.

Two new intermediate-level skills have been added to the wind-element skill bar.

【Nine Heavens Wind Wings (Lv.1): Condenses storm winds into wings, granting flight ability for three minutes. Wind blades can be launched for attacks during flight. Cooldown: 30 minutes.】

【Blade Storm (Lv.1): Unleashes a swirling storm centered on the caster, dealing massive damage to enemies within a 50-meter radius. Cooldown: 30 seconds.】

Lu Zhixing sat up in bed.

"Wow? Not bad, little zombie. One is a flying attack with area-of-effect damage, and the other is a pure area-of-effect clearing skill."

"They have all made up for their shortcomings very well."

He became more and more satisfied as he looked at it, then his gaze fell on the little zombie icon, only to find something was wrong.

The little zombie's status bar reads,

[Feeling withdrawn and emo-like...]

Lu Zhixing looked completely bewildered.

"What's wrong? You're not happy about learning a new skill? Did you lose a fight?"

He opened the battle log from last night.

Your summoned creature, "Little Zombie," is full of ambition and vows to master a single-target skill with an even higher burst damage than "Thor's Heavenly Flash"!

It charged into the jungle, seeking out the strongest single monster for a one-on-one duel!

However, it was unlucky and encountered a flock of flying "demon eagles".

These demonic eagles flew extremely high and were incredibly agile; the "little zombie" couldn't even touch a single feather of them.

[The "little zombie" began to get angry, started to think, and eventually successfully deduced and comprehended the mid-level wind-type skill—Nine Heavens Wind Wings.]

Lu Zhixing touched his chin.

"So that's how this skill came about. Then why is it so emo?"

The "little zombie," now equipped with new skills, is much more agile and successfully killed the flock of demonic eagles!

But it hasn't forgotten its original goal! Its objective is a single-unit nuclear explosion!

It continued its search and finally located a lone "troll"!

The "little zombie" was overjoyed and began experimenting with extreme rotation and compression of the wind element—compress! Compress again! Rotate! Rotate again!

However, after repeated attempts and failures, the limit had been reached.

The troll roared to the sky, summoning a horde of rotting corpses that instantly surrounded the "little zombie."

The "little zombie" was extremely agitated; its initial attempt to compress inwards inadvertently transformed into a large, outward-expanding rotation.

[The "little zombie" is furious! To hell with single-target attacks! Get the hell out of here!]

It unleashed this rotational force, successfully deducing and mastering the mid-level wind-type skill—Blade Storm.

Lu Zhixing sighed.

"Ah... so that's how the second skill came about."

"Instead of compressing inwards, you expand and rotate outwards—you're a genius, little zombie. But aren't these two skills pretty good?"

He frowned and continued reading.

The "little zombie" killed countless monsters all night.

It looked up at the sky, recalling the lightning-streaked Qilin. It knew very well that even with these two new skills, it still couldn't defeat Xiao You.

[The "little zombie" is devastated: Why! Why, despite all my efforts, am I still inferior to it!]

Lu Zhixing sighed.

"Hey, little zombie, you're too competitive. Actually, you're already amazing. You can fly, and you can clear large areas. How versatile are you?"

"Every skill has its strengths."

The little zombie icon remained crouched in the corner, unresponsive.

"Fine, I'll give you some peace and quiet."

Lu Zhixing then pulled out a large pile of skill books and neatly arranged them by the bedside.

"Use all of them!"

Streams of light entered his body, and moments later all his skills were maxed out.

He glanced at the impressive skill list and a sense of security welled up inside him.

"I'm only level 20, and I can fly, tank, attack, and control... With this setup, I shouldn't get bullied in a place like Kyoto, right?"

He got out of bed.

"Let's go! Kyoto!"