Chapter 209

The fact proves that Xiao Lu is not some devil; the first dish she specially prepared to be so disgusting was to break their lower limit; the second dish is obviously much more normal, just a quite ordinary delicacy aside from the price.

Then came the third dish, the fourth dish……

Xiao Lu obviously prepared many dishes for them, and the process of serving dishes never stopped.

Then, Tang Wulin's advantage in appetite became evident; soon Huo Yutong and He Caitou couldn't eat anymore, but Tang Wulin was still far from satisfied.

Xiao Lu and Tang Wulin were also old acquaintances; knowing his appetite, she specially prepared many extra servings for him, and only after Tang Wulin ate several times the ingredients of the other two did he finally feel satisfied.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, their expressions were somewhat languid; seeing this, Xiao Lu raised her eyebrows and said:

"Give you three minutes to digest the absorbed energy, then roll out of this room; after leaving, the third door is your next lesson location—don't dawdle."

Tang Wulin asked curiously:

"Xiao Lu, what will we learn in the next class?"

"I've said it again, you have no right to call me Xiao Lu!"

Xiao Lu was exasperated.

Soon, Tang Wulin and the others knew what they would be learning next.

And this, unlike the Lingyun sea urchin, is another kind of hell in meaning.

Looking at the teacher before him, full-faced with a beard yet with an extraordinarily alluring figure, Tang Wulin felt he could barely control his facial expression.

"Hello, little cuties, I am your makeup teacher, Gao Sheng; from today onward I will teach you cosmetics～"

Listening to Gao Sheng's affected yet exceptionally rough voice, Tang Wulin suddenly felt he would rather go back to eating the Lingyun sea urchin.

At least the Lingyun sea urchin only tortured his sense of taste, whereas Gao Sheng simultaneously tortured his sight and hearing.

Huo Yutong asked with an unpleasant expression:

"Teacher, are you male or female?"

Gao Sheng smiled at her, giving her a flirtatious wink.

"Oh dear, how annoying, don't ask such questions～"

While saying that, he (?) rubbed his face, and a handsome visage appeared before everyone's eyes.

Then Gao Sheng patted his chest, rubbed his buttocks, and after roughly touching the most important parts of his body, she (?) had already transformed into a great beauty.

That great beauty smiled at the crowd.

"Look, am I now a beauty?"

Tang Wulin and the others instinctively nodded.

However, immediately thereafter, in less than five seconds, Gao Sheng turned before their eyes into a muscular hulk, his voice deep as he asked:

"What about now?"

……

Tang Wulin and the others were already unable to speak.

Seeing this, Gao Sheng smiled slightly, then transformed again, returning to his original appearance. "So you see, does my gender matter at all? If I say I'm female, will you believe me? Or if I say I'm male, will you accept it more readily? This kind of thing is utterly irrelevant, okay."

Tang Wulin and the others were speechless.

Gao Sheng smiled and said:

"In short, I am now your teacher for the makeup and disguise class; I will impart my makeup techniques to you wholeheartedly, little cuties, so study hard～"

Looking at Gao Sheng's kind smile, Tang Wulin and the others inexplicably felt like they wanted to cry but had no tears.

Soon, several hours passed.

Tang Wulin and the others who walked out of that room had somewhat vacant gazes.

During those several hours, Gao Sheng completely changed into dozens of appearances, switched through an unknown number of vocal tones, and the switching process was astonishingly fast, with the combinations being extremely arbitrary.

There were those with a cute girl's head but a muscular man's body, the "little girl"; also those with an elderly person's head on a child's body, the "old person"; there were those with a leg-to-body ratio of three to one, the deformed; and there were those with perfect figures, great beauties.

This ever-changing appearance paired with voices that never repeated left them still unable to figure out which form was Gao Sheng's true appearance.

According to Gao Sheng, they only need to learn one session of this makeup class per week, but the assessment must be passed; if they fail, he (?) will use the most outrageous appearance he can imagine, slinging an arm around their shoulders and walking a lap around the academy.

If they really fell to that point, then in the Outer Courtyard they probably couldn't hope to live well.

Fan Yu greeted them like that and sent Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong back to the Sea God's Pavilion.

Their tasks for today were far from over.

And starting from this day, Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong's lives began to become incredibly "full".

Every day was packed with different courses, requiring them to learn all kinds of knowledge, with no time to relax at all.

Theoretical knowledge, soul power cultivation, practical drills—every field must not be neglected.

In this regard, Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong felt extremely hard-pressed yet also extremely fulfilled.

They could feel that several instructors genuinely wished them well and were trying every way to impart what they knew wholeheartedly; all they could do was study with all their might, digest and absorb what they learned, and truly transform it into their own.

During this period, Huo Yutong's learning direction diverged from Tang Wulin's; the academy arranged for Tang Wulin mainly to learn how to distinguish and use soul tools, and nothing else beyond that, but Huo Yutong had to learn to manufacture various kinds of soul tools.

However, she was indeed extraordinarily gifted in this field, even said to be the first genius in Shrek Academy in hundreds of years; being naturally clever and adding great effort, her proficiency in the soul tool field could only be described as advancing by leaps and bounds, even quickly catching up to He Caitou.

Know that she had several fewer years of study than He Caitou, and moreover the gap in soul power was enormous; this rate of progress can be called uncanny.

While she was studying soul tool-related knowledge, Tang Wulin would go to a specialized teacher to learn fighting techniques.

According to Mu En's words, it was that he only knew how to use brute force, fundamentally lacking skillful force, and if this continued he would surely suffer a great loss sooner or later.

Indeed, this is true; after studying fighting techniques with the relevant teachers, both Huo Yutong and the other partners unanimously agreed that Tang Wulin's difficulty level had risen by more than one notch compared to before.

Originally his strength was already describable as excessive; after learning fighting techniques, it was simply like adding wings to a tiger, even surpassing Huo Yutong and becoming the opponent that all his companions least wanted to face.

Although afterward he never again got to face Dai Yaoheng, Wu Ming was still several times pulled in to be their opponent; her strength continued to improve at a visibly observable pace, yet her losses kept increasing, which made this Golden Crow Holy Maiden extremely vexed.

Meanwhile, as the two diligently studied, time trickled by, eventually arriving at the final moment.

(End of chapter)