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Over the past few days, the teachers and students of Jia Nan Academy had been hearing constant bursts of roaring.
The ones letting out these roars were none other than the various Elders of Jia Nan Academy. At first, the faculty and students thought it was just Elder Huo being a bit short-tempered. But later, they discovered that the rest of the Elders were basically acting the same way!
As the days passed, every Elder they encountered basically had a sour look on their face.
A small number of Elders who had not yet been victimized by Xiao Lin and Zi Yan would have their eyes darting around even while walking on the academy roads, staying alert toward anyone who approached them!
Looking at them, it was as if they were guarding against thieves!
In fact, that was exactly the case.
Under the cooperation of the "Pair of Demon Kings," Xiao Lin and Zi Yan, forget those Dou Wang Elders—even the Dou Huang Elders could not escape the doom of being completely plundered!
Zi Yan's ability to shuttle through space combined with Xiao Lin's Heaven Realm soul shielding them from the outside world meant their cooperation never suffered a single mistake.
Sometimes, when Zi Yan felt particularly bold, she even dared to steal medicinal herbs from the Elders' homes right in front of them. Yet, those Elders still remained completely unaware!
Consequently, this led to the recent sight of the Jia Nan Academy faculty and students seeing those Elders looking all jittery and paranoid. They were truly terrified by Zi Yan's recent crazed actions!
In the past, although they chose to turn a blind eye to Zi Yan stealing herbs from their homes under the hint of Grand Elder Su Qian, her actions back then still left tracks to follow.
Especially for the Dou Huang Elders; it was basically impossible for Zi Yan to steal any herbs from their residences. Even some Dou Wang Elders with strong sensory abilities could occasionally discover Zi Yan's tracks.
Furthermore, Zi Yan and these Elders maintained a basic understanding: once her theft was discovered, she would abandon her operation. After all, with Grand Elder Su Qian's silent permission, these thefts were a form of training for her.
However, if she were discovered and still chose to act, that would be robbery. That didn't fit Grand Elder Su Qian's secret intention of tempering Zi Yan. At the same time, with Zi Yan's personality, she wouldn't do such a thing.
However, lately, it was as if Zi Yan had activated a cheat code.
Forget those Dou Wang Elders with strong senses, even the Dou Huang Elders could no longer detect her presence. This left the Jia Nan Academy Elders both marveling at Zi Yan's further improvement in mastering spatial power and feeling distressed over being completely cleaned out.
But regardless, losing some low-grade medicinal herbs to cultivate Zi Yan's further mastery of spatial power was something the Elders were happy to see happen. As for the distress, it only lasted for a moment.
They would naturally find trouble with the students of Jia Nan Academy to vent the frustrations in their hearts. How tragic; Zi Yan causes the trouble, and the Jia Nan Academy students take the fall!
This was also Zi Yan's current status within Jia Nan Academy. It was precisely because she felt the goodwill of the Elders toward her that Zi Yan treated this place as her home and possessed such a lawless personality.
Everything happened for a reason!
Regarding this point, after Xiao Lin accompanied Zi Yan in plundering a portion of the Elders' residences, he had roughly guessed the truth.
"So that's how it is. Every Elder has more or less some medicinal herbs stored in their homes instead of putting them directly into the storage rings they carry. It turns out these herbs were prepared for Zi Yan all along!"
Regarding his guess, although Xiao Lin didn't dare to be one hundred percent certain, he was eighty or ninety percent sure in his heart. After all, if a few Elders liked to keep herbs in their residences, it was understandable.
But if every single Elder did that, it was clearly abnormal!
Putting himself in their shoes, Xiao Lin's storage ring actually contained a portion of medicinal pills and herbs. Although he didn't necessarily need them, when traveling abroad, these pills and herbs were sometimes far more useful than gold coins!
One must know that in the outside world, bartering was much more popular in many places. Things like medicinal pills, herbs, magic cores, Cultivation Techniques, and Dou Techniques were the best trading currencies!
Therefore, usually, despite Jia Nan Academy arranging such a large residence for him, he would never leave any valuable items inside. Comparing that, wasn't it obvious those Elders were acting strangely?
But if these were originally prepared for Zi Yan as a test, then everything became logical.
"That old man Su Qian is actually playing this kind of trick with me?"
At this moment, how could Xiao Lin not know Su Qian's true purpose for handing Zi Yan over to him?
It was nothing more than wanting him to help Zi Yan grow!
After all, Xiao Lin was currently the only "idle" Dou Zong expert in Jia Nan Academy! Asking him to help train Zi Yan—wasn't that the best choice?
As for the so-called "taking care of Zi Yan," it was merely an excuse.
By now, Xiao Lin had figured everything out. However, Xiao Lin wasn't repulsed by this. After all, during this period of forming the "Pair of Demon Kings" with Zi Yan, he had obtained real benefits!
After repeatedly watching Zi Yan's control over spatial power from a close distance, Xiao Lin's current mastery of spatial power had already far surpassed the level of a Three-Star Dou Zong.
In other words, as long as Xiao Lin settled down to cultivate now, he would break through to the level of Dou Qi cultivation corresponding to his spatial mastery without any bottlenecks!
Such a benefit was almost visible to the naked eye for Xiao Lin.
Don't look at how he had been fooling around with Zi Yan lately; this wasn't just training for her, but for himself as well!
"It's just that, this level of training still feels far from enough..."
Looking at Zi Yan not far away, who was stuffing a medicinal herb in her left hand and a pill in her right into her mouth, Xiao Lin couldn't help but whisper.
Thinking of something, Xiao Lin couldn't help but turn his gaze toward Zi Yan. Sensing Xiao Lin's gaze, Zi Yan, who was originally immersed in digesting the spoils of war from this period, raised her small head at the right time.
The eyes of the two met once again.
Seeing this, Zi Yan first blanked for a moment, then somewhat reluctantly handed over a Tier 4 medicinal herb to Xiao Lin.
"Here, Old Man Lin. Looking at you, you probably want to eat too. I'll give you this herb that tastes pretty good!"
As she spoke, Zi Yan's face even showed a pained expression.
However, as Zi Yan's words fell, the corner of Xiao Lin's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
Did Zi Yan really think he was like her, enjoying chewing on raw medicinal herbs?
Xiao Lin was speechless.
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