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"And yet you say that Jin Lin is competitive, but you yourself stubbornly refuse to admit defeat and keep fighting. Now that you've lost and feel bad, all you know to do is go to your aunt?"

Last night, Su Yan and Jin Lin, two stubborn guys, played Pai Gow non-stop without rest. The odds were 40/60, and all forty-odd jars of spiritual spring water ended up in their stomachs.

A jar has a volume of about one hu, or about twenty liters.

They were really stubborn, drinking until they were stuffed, so stuffed that they leaned on the windowsill and spouted water to water the flowers. If their master, Jinlin, hadn't come to tell them it was time to set off, the two of them probably could have drunk all the spiritual spring water and then spouted it out.

Jin Lin's situation was not much different from Su Yan's; both of them went out with a belly that looked like they were four months pregnant, supporting their backs.

"vomit"

Seeing that her aunt not only showed no sympathy for her but also made sarcastic remarks, Su Yan was about to speak when, due to the sudden turn, a stream of spiritual spring water surged from her stomach to her throat. Su Yan's fox-like face puffed up, and she quickly came to her senses and faced the door, spitting out a stream of water.

"Auntie is in pain, both her upper and lower body are uncomfortable. If I had known that drinking the spiritual spring would be so harmful, I would have preferred to drink alcohol."

"Haha, your aunt will help you to the backyard, find a pot and let you lie on it, so you can vomit up all the spiritual spring in your belly."

With a helpless expression, the aunt picked up Su Yan and walked around from outside Ruchun Garden to the backyard to arrange a row of spiritual springs for Su Yan.

………………

On the celestial ship that departed from the main city of Xia Yu.

"vomit"

Jin Lin had just come out of the toilet when she leaned over the railing of the fairy boat and vomited up mouthfuls of water. She hadn't eaten a single grain of rice, but her belly was swollen and round, so much so that even the sash of her white dress couldn't be held tight, as if she were pregnant.

Jin Lin was a bit smarter than Su Yan. He knew to use his weight to squeeze his abdomen while lying on the railing of the immortal boat to help him expel the water from his belly, but neither of them felt very comfortable.

The spiritual spring water is cold and yin in nature. Even if the two of them ingested several hundred liters in a short period of time, they wouldn't be able to refine it. The spiritual spring water would basically just swirl around once and then be expelled.

They expelled all their spiritual energy, but the coldness remained in their bodies, making them both extremely uncomfortable.

"We were so close to winning!"

Jin Lin emptied the spiritual spring from his belly, raised his hand to wipe the water stains from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and looked at the bow of the ship, where his master was steering the immortal boat northeastward.

"Hahaha"

Jin Lin's master, Chang Gengxing, chuckled and asked without turning around, "Did you have a good time on your trip to Xia Yu?"

The atmosphere in the Eastern State is different from that in the Central State. Because it is not adjacent to the gathering places of various ethnic groups and does not have abundant cultivation resources, it is a large unified state with particularly strong agriculture and animal husbandry. It has a peaceful atmosphere that other states do not have, and the Xia Yu people are also friendly.

Coming here from the eastern states is like a holiday for Chang Gengxing.

"I feel a little resentful, Master." Jin Lin recalled his few days of travel in Xia Yuli, pondered for a moment, and then spoke out his most direct feelings.

She was never inferior to anyone in her life, and used the Black Scale Sword to slay countless demons, but she lost only this one time.

She could have postponed her departure, but since her master had come to speak in person, it meant that the sect must have assigned her a mission.

Jin Lin dared not postpone the mission. Falling Star City was located at the border between the human and demon races, and all the missions were related to the demon beasts wreaking havoc on human territory. Every minute or second of delay could result in major casualties or economic losses.

"Feeling resentful? Then remember this for now and win it back next time!" said Chang Gengxing.

A cultivator should maintain an upward and competitive spirit, use reason to outrun everyone else, live on, and have the last laugh.

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 159 Xia Yu Academy

As the celestial ships of the various powers sailed away, the Xia Yu New Year Festival came to a temporary end, and the lives of the subjects and common people returned to normal.

However, Ruchun Garden, where Su Yan lives, did not resume work and production along with the wave of resumption of work. Her aunt is teaching Jiao Nanwu, Xiaobai, and Lao Jin how to be managers.

Next, Su Yan will go to the Imperial Academy for a spring outing. Su Yan's trip to the academy to study means that her aunt will not need to take care of Su Qing's cubs for the time being, and she can free up her hands to start preparing for breaking through to the realm of a terrestrial immortal.

She borrowed one million catties of spirit stones from Su Yan, which was enough for her to achieve the rank of Earth Immortal.

Therefore, if Chun Yuan needed a temporary manager to handle the events that occurred while Aunt was in seclusion, Su Yan would have been a good option, but since he had to go to school, he naturally couldn't spare the time to help with the accounts.

………………

One morning.

"Su Yan!"

Jiao Nanwu raised her hand and knocked on Su Yan's dormitory door, asking, "Have you finished your seclusion? Today is your first day going to the academy for the spring outing. If you don't go out soon, you might be late."

Since submitting his enrollment application to the Ministry of Personnel, Su Yan has been in seclusion after returning to the brothel, diligently refining the red jade hairpin sword given to him by Princess Wuxi. Four days have passed, and today is the time for Su Yan to report to the Imperial Academy.

"Okay, okay, it'll be ready soon."

Su Yan awoke from his meditation, glanced at the Crimson Jade Hairpin Sword floating before him, and the crimson eye in the center of the sword's guard moved its gaze toward Su Yan, who was about to refine him and make him his slave:

“tui—”

After a brief silence, Su Yan said, "I don't have time to deal with you right now. Let's talk after I return from the academy! I don't want to use the methods of refining spiritual artifacts from the southern states to deal with you."

After saying that, Su Yan raised his hand and stroked in front of him, putting the red jade hairpin sword back into his storage ring.

"Was the ritual successfully completed?"

Jiao Nanwu, who had been waiting at the dormitory entrance, saw Su Yan come out of the dormitory and asked Su Yan about the contracted spirit artifact with a face full of curiosity.

"It's neither a proper spiritual artifact nor entirely a demonic artifact. To refine the hairpin sword, I might need to use some of the techniques my mother taught me," Su Yan said, shaking his head with a frustrated expression.

The Red Jade Hairpin Sword is different from the spirit of a magical weapon, which can be persuaded or conquered through charm. It is also different from the spirit of a demonic weapon, which is violent and requires hard power to subdue.

Faced with Su Yan's invitation to refine the sword, the Red Jade Hairpin Sword would always say only one thing: "No male foxes."

This lewd sword refuses to communicate with male creatures!

The Crimson Jade Hairpin Sword declared that it would forever remain loyal to the Emperor of No Life, or to a female nine-tailed fox, and in short, would reject any male fox!

"Spirit artifacts have genders!?"

After listening to Su Yan recount his experience, Jiao Nanwu asked in astonishment, "Then does that mean you'll never be able to master the Crimson Jade Hairpin Sword through the blood sacrifice method?"

"No, it's just that I might need to use some methods that my mother taught me." A strange expression appeared on Su Yan's face: "If it weren't so stubborn, I wouldn't have wanted to come to this point. It's still arguing with me. As for what method to use, we'll talk about it later!"

There's nothing a pile of cow dung can't solve when dealing with unruly, unclaimed magical artifacts.

If it continues to be stubborn, it will sink into the cesspool along with the sword hilt.

The magical artifacts in the ancestral home in the southern state, after being diligently trained by Su Yan's mother, are more obedient than dogs. They dare not go west when pointed east, and if asked to perform a lewd dance, they would absolutely not perform a ballroom dance to appease their master.

Su Yan believed in her mother's methods. She said that using cow dung to deal with disobedient unclaimed spirits must have some underlying logic that even she herself didn't know.

"Did you bring the booklets, charcoal pencils, and rations?"

Aunt, Hua Yu, and Mei'er were all in the main hall, waiting for Su Yan to come out of his dormitory. They planned to escort Su Yan to the gate of the imperial city together and show off their strength a little.

Those who can enter the academy are all from wealthy families. If Su Yan doesn't show some of his abilities, wouldn't he become a pageboy?

"The booklets and charcoal pencils are kept in the storage ring, and some snacks and spring water have also been prepared."

Su Yan transformed into a fox and jumped onto the table, then hopped directly into her aunt's arms, looking utterly dejected.

"Why do monks need to study?"

“Because of your low level of education, you wouldn’t recognize even divine weapons and rare treasures if they fell into your hands.” Aunt answered Su Yan’s question: “Although my mental arithmetic skills are terrible, I still studied at the ‘Bai Ze Private School’ in the City of Ten Thousand Demons for more than nine years.”

"I spent two years studying music, chess, calligraphy, and painting; two years studying poetry, flowers, tea, and wine; four years studying herbal medicine; and one year studying painting and makeup."

When Hua Yu saw Su Yan looking at her, she thought for a moment and then told him about the classes she had taken at the Wanhua Valley Academy.

Regardless of the sect or faction, any sect that is even slightly legitimate has its own academy. Aside from following their master to cultivate, disciples spend most of their time studying in the academy. However, since Wanhua Valley is a fairy sect, it has more courses for women.

In general, the schools and academies of sects teach things like geography, medicine making, history, and martial arts.

Major sects also offer courses in alchemy, weapon crafting, and formations.

"I've been to school too!"

When Mei'er saw Su Yan looking at her, her face lit up with joy as if she were showing off a treasure. She said, "Mei'er once studied at the Lianyou Sect Academy, mainly studying the relationship between the physical body and soul of living beings, as well as pharmacology."

Su Yan's eyelids twitched slightly as she looked at Jiao Nanwu.

"Huh? I also studied at the Endless Sea Academy. I understand both the demon and human languages, and I also know more than twenty other languages, as well as repair, weaving, and childcare," Jiao Nanwu said earnestly.

The Merfolk are engaged in trade, so they naturally study languages ​​and production-related subjects. Otherwise, how could they build underwater stations in the underground water system?

The elders around Su Yan were not self-taught; they were all formally trained cultivators from established schools. Even the seemingly most unreliable Princess Wuxi graduated with top marks from Xia Yu Academy.

Needless to say, the talented women in the brothels, without specialized training in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, would never be assigned to the brothels.

Su Yan, who seems to know a little about everything, is actually a vagrant who has never read a book in his life.

He learned to read from his mother. After Su Yan learned to read, he treated the books on the bookshelf as novels about gods, ghosts and monsters, and learned some rather strange knowledge.

"So, I'm the only one who hasn't been to school?" Su Yan looked around incredulously.

"Isn't it because you're still young?" Auntie comforted Su Yan with a strange expression. "Whether you study or not doesn't really matter. Look at me, after nine years of private school, apart from the commonly used characters, I've forgotten everything else I learned from my teacher."

"As long as one's cultivation level is high, one day one will be able to burn memorial paper for one's teacher at the grave of the private school."

Burning newspapers on a grave? You think you can fool the ghosts? Su Yan, the fox, fell silent. He originally thought that his education level was high enough, but he didn't expect that he just hadn't touched on other people's professional fields.

Even the seemingly dull-witted Samena Mist is fluent in over twenty foreign languages ​​and is skilled in architecture, textiles, and childcare.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 160 Oh no, I've boarded Grand Tutor Jin's pirate ship! (Third chapter, bonus for monthly votes)

"woooooo"

After learning about everyone's knowledge, Su Yan, who had always thought of herself as one of the best among her peers in terms of knowledge, felt deeply discouraged.

Nanwu was one thing, but I never expected that Qin Yuan Bee Queen, who seemed like a lovesick woman, was actually a cultured person, and one who specialized in genetics and the soul.

Su Yan couldn't help but recall the beautiful, lustrous queen bees he had seen when he was cultivating in the Western Mountains. They were all stunningly beautiful and had incredibly hot figures.

Could it be that the Queen Bee of Qinyuan did something?

………………

"We'll only take you this far. You'll have to walk the rest of the way to the academy yourself."

After showing his academy token, Su Yan arrived inside the imperial city. His aunt looked at the hundred steps leading to the academy, placed him on the bluestone bricks, and said, "The academy is an organization managed by Grand Tutor Jin. Don't cause trouble. If other students bully you, don't be afraid. Fight them back, or ask someone to send a message to your aunt. Your aunt will beat up their parents!"

In the absence of the immortal, Auntie's ruthless bandit aura immediately came into play.