Chapter 68: Team Dance Practice

Half a day passed.

By dinnertime, when the other six returned, they discovered there wasn't a sound coming from Qin Jian and Shui Bing'er's bedroom.

"Huh? What's wrong with them?" Yu Hairou asked, puzzled.

Xue Wu frowned as well: "They wouldn't really have stayed in the bedroom all afternoon, would they?"

"It couldn't really be that they were practicing, could it?" Qiu Ruoshui said.

Gu Qingbo thought for a moment and said: "Probably not, who practices in a bedroom..."

"Then what are they doing?" Shen Liuyu habitually touched her light green hair.

"Let's go take a look and we'll know," Shui Yue'er said.

"I was just waiting for you to say that!"

The others suddenly said in unison.

Then Shui Yue'er was pushed to the very front and arrived on the second floor.

"Hey, hey, hey, why are you pushing me to the front?" Shui Yue'er struggled in a panic.

"Hehe, who told you to be Bing'er's sister! Of course, you should be the one to do this... even if you see something you shouldn't, Bing'er won't really be angry at you..." Qiu Ruoshui said happily.

"You bad guys!"

Shui Yue'er pouted, but still knocked on the door: "Sister? Captain? Are you there?"

Not a sound.

The six of them looked at each other in confusion.

"Yue'er, open the door and take a look..." Xue Wu suddenly said.

Shui Yue'er hesitated slightly, but still reached out her hand.

"Click..."

The door was slowly pushed open.

In the quiet bedroom, a remnant of the setting sun spilled in, casting light onto the soft bed and onto two sleeping faces.

"Huh? They actually fell asleep? And in the same bed..." Shen Liuyu said in a low voice.

The group tiptoed inside and came to Qin Jian's bedside.

They saw that Qin Jian and Shui Bing'er were fully clothed, not even having taken off their shoes, lying on their sides facing each other, with heavy breathing sounds—one large, one small—drifting out.

The group exchanged glances, then retreated in tacit agreement, carefully closing the bedroom door.

"What on earth did they do this afternoon? They seem so tired..."

Finally back in the first-floor hall, the group raised their voices.

Yu Hairou crossed her arms and said: "At least their clothes are still on properly."

"That's true, Bing'er knows her limits," Shen Liuyu said.

At this moment, Xue Wu glanced toward their room and suddenly said: "Let's go eat dinner first, and we'll bring some back for them; otherwise, they'll go hungry if they miss the mealtime."

"Huh? Xue Wu, you're actually concerned about the Captain?" Qiu Ruoshui said, very surprised.

"I'm concerned about Bing'er!"

Xue Wu turned her head away and said: "As for this Captain of ours, it's still a long way off before I'll acknowledge him!"

And so, when Qin Jian and Shui Bing'er woke up from their sleep, they saw the dinner left at the head of the bed.

The two looked at each other and saw the warmth in each other's eyes.

The feeling of being cared for by others is always so good...

"We practiced too hard today..."

Qin Jian got up and stretched: "Let's rest early after we finish dinner. Tomorrow's team training will depend on you."

"Oh..."

Shui Bing'er replied softly.

At this moment, she recalled the scene from the afternoon, and her body felt hot and weak again...

Fortunately, Qin Jian was no longer paying attention to her, but was focused on his dinner.

Although it had cooled down a bit, it didn't affect the taste; the food at Tianshui Academy was comparable to that of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

"Captain..."

Shui Bing'er suddenly thought of something and said: "Don't you need to cultivate? I don't seem to have seen you cultivate soul power at all these past two days."

"I've been cultivating all along..."

Qin Jian looked back and smiled: "Look, I'm already Level 24 now."

"Level 24?!"

Shui Bing'er widened her eyes: "It hasn't been long, and you've already increased by another level?!"

"No, that's not right!"

She suddenly stood up: "The day you first arrived, you were clearly only Level 22!"

Even Yan Zhining hadn't noticed this detail...

"This is my special talent; it's different from how others improve..."

Qin Jian looked at her and said with a smile: "Generally speaking, within a major realm, my first five levels improve very quickly, but the further I go, the harder it gets. If I want to break through a major realm... I have to go through something heart-wrenching..."

Shui Bing'er listened, completely bewildered.

Qin Jian hadn't intended to explain it clearly anyway, otherwise his God Position Nine Trials would fail, and it would cause his own soul power to collapse entirely.

"Alright, just consider me a genius. Overall, if I'm lucky, the improvement can be exceptionally fast..." Qin Jian laughed.

Shui Bing'er could only nod blankly.

How could she know that for Qin Jian, every level of soul power improvement within the Great Soul Master realm relied on her favorability...

The next day.

When Qin Jian and the seven members of the Tianshui Girl Group arrived at the exclusive Mimicry Cultivation Ground, they saw Yan Zhining was already waiting there.

"Today's team training begins, organized by our new Captain."

She led them into the cultivation ground together.

Yet what they did not know was that after they had all gone in, Xiao Jing and several high-level officials opened the light screen once again.

"I want to see what kind of tricks Qin Jian can come up with leading the Tianshui Team..."

Xiao Jing watched the scene before her with an indifferent gaze...

It was still that world of ice and snow.

"Qin Jian, what are you training today? Do you intend to have them spar in pairs to train actual combat ability? Or conduct team drills to train coordination? If so, I might need to activate other states of the Mimicry Cultivation Ground," Yan Zhining asked.

Qin Jian and Shui Bing'er exchanged a glance, then he stepped forward, smiled, and said, "The content of our team's training today is..."

Everyone's eyes looked at him with curiosity.

"Hmm... today we are learning to dance," Qin Jian said casually.

Whoosh...

A gust of cold wind blew, and everyone shivered.

"Qin Jian, you're joking, right?"

Yan Zhining said speechlessly, "Learning to dance can also count as training?"

The others nodded repeatedly as well.

Who knew that Qin Jian would nod very seriously and say, "Instructor Zhineng, the first item of team training I have arranged is indeed learning a team dance."

Yan Zhining looked at him for a few moments, and after confirming he was not joking, she could only rub her forehead and say, "Fine, since I am the one who made you Captain, then it's up to you... It's a good thing no high-level officials are watching today, otherwise I would have to bear the pressure again..."

"Thank you, Instructor Zhineng," Qin Jian thanked her sincerely.

He knew it would actually be quite difficult to really make them train like this, but he had not expected this Instructor Zhineng to trust him so much.

What they did not know was that there was indeed a group of high-level officials watching from the outside, and at this moment, they were already in an uproar.

"Fellow instructors, look, does this Qin Jian look like a Captain at all?"

Xiao Jing couldn't wait to fan the flames: "How can he let the team go learn dancing? Isn't this a waste of time?"

Many high-level instructors nodded repeatedly, very much in agreement.

But a white-haired teacher's words temporarily suppressed their opinions: "Let's keep watching first, don't be too hasty in drawing conclusions..."

(End of chapter)