Chapter 173: Look at My Rongrong

"Squeak, squeak."

When Qin Jian was awakened by the little squirrel's sound, he discovered he was soaking in a wooden tub; it was clearly a Grandmaster-brand medicinal bath.

Then he discovered that his soul power had increased by another level, reaching Level 37; he didn't know which event today had touched Zhu Zhuqing...

And on the cabinet beside the wooden tub, the little squirrel had already built itself a nest and moved in at some point; it had become very familiar with Qin Jian recently.

"Qin Jian, you're awake?"

Tang San's voice came from the large wooden tub opposite; he had clearly woken up even earlier.

The two of them could be considered to have the friendship of having bathed together now, right...

"I wasn't as severely overdrawn as you, so I woke up earlier than you."

Seeing Qin Jian look over, Tang San smiled and said, "Teacher left a note for us to go to the cafeteria to eat as soon as we woke up."

Qin Jian nodded, then changed into clean clothes with him and walked out of the dormitory.

It was already the middle of the night.

When Qin Jian and the other walked into the cafeteria, they saw seven portions of food lined up on the table.

The dinner was very sumptuous, and Qin Jian and Tang San, who had long been so hungry they were about to faint, instantly began to Wind Sweeps the Clouds.

Only after they had eaten their fill did they see the note on the table: "After eating, wash the tableware clean, pour out the water in the tubs in the rooms, clean them, no sleeping allowed, cultivate soul power before dawn, gather at dawn for class."

"This is too ruthless..."

Qin Jian covered his face and sighed.

Others needed to cultivate soul power, but he didn't; compared to cultivating soul power, it would be more effective to sneak into Zhu Zhuqing's room.

"Starving to death, where is the food?"

A figure rushed in from outside in a flurry; she didn't even bother to greet Qin Jian and Tang San, and threw herself directly at the food on the table.

One bun per bite...

"Xiao Wu! Eat slowly! Don't choke!"

Qin Jian knocked on her head without a second word.

Immediately after, Zhu Zhuqing also walked in; she only had time to glance at Qin Jian before sitting down to eat.

Her movements while eating were much more elegant than Xiao Wu's, chewing slowly and swallowing carefully; every movement looked so graceful.

But behind the graceful movements was Speed; if it weren't for watching the food in front of her decreasing rapidly, Qin Jian would find it very hard to believe that she could eat so fast with such slow-looking movements.

"You eat slowly too."

Qin Jian couldn't help but stroke her hair.

"Oh."

Zhu Zhuqing responded coldly and slowly lowered her eating speed.

"By the way, you woke up in a wooden tub too? Are there clothes?" Qin Jian asked suddenly.

Zhu Zhuqing glanced at him, seemingly containing a hint of a smile, though it was unclear: "What are you worried about?"

Xiao Wu, however, stuck out her tongue: "The note left in our dormitory said our clothes were taken off by the women in the village."

Qin Jian weighed Grandmaster's character in his heart and felt it was relatively reliable, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Tang San said: "Oscar and the other two haven't woken up yet; it looks like they are exhausted. Let's go back and cultivate; we don't know what kind of devilish training the teacher will bring us tomorrow."

Qin Jian nodded and intended to go tidy up his own bowl and chopsticks, but his hand was pressed down by Zhu Zhuqing.

"I'll help you wash them."

Her cold and clear voice was very pleasant to hear, and Qin Jian couldn't help but curl his lips.

"Brother, I can help you wash them too." Xiao Wu hurriedly raised her hand.

Qin Jian smiled and said: "No need, but I'll go help you pour out your wooden tubs."

"Yay!"

Xiao Wu clapped her hands repeatedly.

Tang San could only go wash his own bowl...

When Qin Jian finished pouring out the large wooden tub in Zhu Zhuqing's room and stepped into Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu's room, he happened to catch Ning Rongrong waking up.

"Jian... Brother Jian... why did you suddenly come in..."

Having just wiped her body and not yet put on her clothes, Ning Rongrong froze completely.

Qin Jian closed the door behind him, taking in the beautiful scenery, yet his expression remained calm; he was truly a veteran of the romantic field...

"I came to help you handle the wooden tub; this thing is very heavy," he said with a smile.

"Oh... why haven't you turned around yet?!" Ning Rongrong turned to the side and scolded coquettishly.

Qin Jian leaned against the door, arms crossed: "Can't I take a good look at my Rongrong?"

"Pfft, you'd better go look at your Zhuqing!"

The awkwardness passed, and Ning Rongrong finally recovered, immediately scrambling to put on her dress.

Seeing Qin Jian struggling to move the wooden tub, Ning Rongrong suddenly pouted and said: "Brother Jian, your skin is so thick now; is it because you've experienced many girls and are rich in experience?"

"Uh..."

Qin Jian lowered his head, speechless, and could only focus on dealing with the wooden tub.

When he finished everything, Ning Rongrong was still standing there quietly; moonlight shone in, making her look as lovely as an elf under the moonlight.

Seeing Qin Jian's slightly unfocused gaze, Ning Rongrong couldn't help but purse her lips and smile.

She spun around lightly, came to Qin Jian's side with a trace of hair fragrance, then reached out two small hands, grabbed Qin Jian's right hand, and locked her fingers firmly with his.

"Although I can't hold both of your hands, having this one hand of yours, Rongrong is also very satisfied!"

Her words were like a ray of light shining into the bottom of Qin Jian's heart.

The most moving emotion in this world is selfless devotion, and that is exactly what Ning Rongrong is like right now.

The night passed without incident.

Over the following three months, Grandmaster's ruthless devilish training made the seven of them, including Qin Jian, miserable.

Their training was simple: one to two hours of combat every day, with the combat scenarios changing daily and the participants paired up randomly.

Sometimes it was one-on-one, sometimes one-on-two, and there were also two-on-two, or even three-on-three and three-on-four matches.

Every day during the combat, Grandmaster would set special requirements, such as which soul skills were allowed, which were forbidden, and what kinds of restrictions were in place.

After the combat training ended, they would begin physical training; just like on the first day, the use of soul power was strictly forbidden during physical training, and it had to be completed by all seven of them together.

Grandmaster's methods for physical training were endless, the simplest being weighted running, as well as various other methods like weighted mountain climbing.

But regardless of the type of physical training, the goal was always to push them to the limits of what their bodies could endure.

After a period of time, they had all grown accustomed to waking up every night in the medicinal water of the wooden barrels.

The three months of devilish training did not lead to a significant increase in soul power; during this period, only Qin Jian's soul power increased by one level, and that had nothing to do with the training itself, but was thanks to sneaking into the Girls' Dormitory at night...

However, these three months of extreme physical training caused a massive change in their physical constitutions, and each of them developed to be more mature.

After the devilish training concluded, Grandmaster gave Qin Jian and the other six a seven-day break to let them adjust their states.

During the break, the incident where Ma Hongjun was beaten into a pig's head by the Soul Ancestor Bu Le still occurred, so Qin Jian took Xiao Wu and gave that Bu Le a set of Explosive Kill Eight-Stage Throw to vent Ma Hongjun's frustration.

And after the seven days passed, Grandmaster told them the next stage of their training curriculum: seven-person team battles at the Great Spirit Arena.

The Shrek team... was also about to officially debut...

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(End of this chapter)