Chapter 154: Super Little Rich Girl

Having finished today's cultivation, Li Luo bathed, changed into clean clothes, and gazed at the tall, handsome youth in the mirror, watching absent-mindedly for several minutes.

But after a few minutes, when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help sighing sorrowfully.

"A pretty face with empty pockets." Li Luo's expression was complicated — by "goods," he meant spiritual water wonders.

It had been over twenty days since he entered the Sacred Profound Star Academy, and the batch of spiritual water wonders he'd brought with him had long been used up. Because of that, he hadn't refined any spiritual water wonders for two days now, which left Li Luo, who had already formed the habit, feeling rather uncomfortable.

This batch of spiritual water wonders had mainly been used to upgrade his second phase, the "Wood-Earth Phase," and the results were quite good — it had already been raised from fourth-grade to fifth-grade.

However, his first phase, the "Water-Light Phase," was still stuck at sixth-grade, and there was still quite a distance to go on the road to seventh-grade.

The main reason for this was the steep price of sixth-grade spiritual water wonders. Although Jiang Jiang Qinge had guaranteed a continuous supply, the quantity still couldn't quite keep up with Li Luo's refining speed.

Li Luo was helpless about it but could only understand. After all, he knew the situation of Lu Lan Mansion. Although sales at the Xiyang House headquarters had recently begun to rise thanks to the "Mi Fa Source Water" he provided, the scale of Xiyang House was what it was — it couldn't possibly explode into growth overnight.

In the end, he could only take it slow.

"I'll have to bear with it for now."

Li Luo shook his head bitterly, then turned and walked out of his room.

He went straight to the second basement level — this was a spiritual water wonders refining room, where Mentor Xi Chan would normally come during her free time to guide him and Bai Bai Mengmeng in their phase-refining arts.

Outside the spacious refining room was a crystal mirror; standing here, one could clearly see everything inside. When Li Luo arrived, he saw Mentor Xi Chan with her hands in her pockets, gazing into the refining room.

He also stopped and looked.

He saw a petite, delicate figure hunched over the refining platform inside the room. Before her were countless bottles and jars, and she was performing a dazzling series of operations — constantly extracting and fusing various glowing liquids in complex ways.

After a moment, she turned around and began recording on a whiteboard behind her.

By now, that board was already covered in dense research data.

Li Luo stared at Bai Bai Mengmeng's figure, a look of surprise and doubt rising in his eyes, because the aura she gave off now was completely different from her usual shy, timid self — her little face calm, undisturbed, giving off an air of extreme composure.

"Is that Bai Bai Mengmeng?" Li Luo couldn't help asking.

Mentor Xi Chan, who had also been watching Bai Bai Mengmeng's every move, smiled at Li Luo's surprised question and said, "Mm, more accurately, it's Bai Bai Mengmeng in her 'Dream' state."

"What do you mean?" Li Luo was a bit bewildered.

"This is what's unique about Bai Bai Mengmeng. Her 'Water Nightmare Butterfly Phase' possesses the ability to induce hallucinations, and somehow, she found an alternative path and applied this ability to herself."

"So right now, she's actually in a kind of dream world she created herself."

"In this dream state, she possesses astonishing research ability. Research difficulties that are normally hard to crack become much easier in this state." Mentor Xi Chan said with a light laugh.

Li Luo was shocked. He stared dumbfounded at the calm-faced Bai Bai Mengmeng inside the refining room — meaning, right now, she was actually... sleepwalking?

Doing research while sleepwalking?!

You can even play it like this?!

"Over the years, Bai Bai Mengmeng has developed no fewer than ten spiritual water wonder formulas. Although they're all below fourth-grade formulas, the best among them has even reached four-star." Mentor Xi Chan said.

Li Luo was even more shocked.

Spiritual water wonder formulas were divided into five star ratings, and four-star was absolutely top-tier among them.

One had to know that at their Xiyang House, up to now, their flagship product was only a three-star formula. Xiyang House hadn't been stingy with R&D investment either, but in the end, they still hadn't developed a single four-star formula. Yet now, the achievements of this pure, beautiful girl right before his eyes had completely crushed Xiyang House's R&D department into dust.

It was no exaggeration to say that just the formulas Bai Bai Mengmeng had developed, if put up for sale, would absolutely be worth an astonishing figure of over ten million gold.

This was truly a low-profile super little rich girl!

Her value alone was probably worth the entire Xiyang House.

Mentor Xi Chan looked at the stunned Li Luo and smiled. "Otherwise, why do you think the Phase-Refining Academy is so covetous of Bai Bai Mengmeng? Over the past half month or so, quite a few mentors from that side have come looking for me."

Li Luo wiped away the tears sliding down from the corner of his mouth, his gaze so burning hot it seemed as if it could melt the crystal glass in front of him. He stared at the girl inside the refining room — now this was a real treasure.

If he could trick her — no, invite her — to Xiyang House, then her R&D ability combined with his Mi Fa Source Water, wouldn't that just take off directly?

Of course, if he could also invite Mentor Xi Chan to take charge, then Xiyang House would surely break into the top ten spiritual water wonder houses of the Great Xia.

By then, with a hundred thousand gold flowing in daily, not to mention raising the Water-Light Phase to seventh-grade, even if there were two more, he could raise them straight to eighth-grade to start!

Li Luo trembled with excitement at the thought of that scene.

"Although I don't know what you're thinking, your appearance is making me a little uncomfortable, so if you don't rein it in, I'm going to kick you out." Mentor Xi Chan warned, looking at the trembling Li Luo.

Li Luo stopped trembling instantly upon hearing that.

"You'd better not go scheming against her. Although Bai Mengmeng is very innocent, her sister and the Bai family behind her are no pushovers. If you trick her, you'll suffer for it." Mentor Xi Chan saw right through Li Luo's restless scheming with her sharp eyes.

Li Luo was instantly indignant. "Mentor, those words of yours really underestimate me, Li Luo."

"I simply want to have a friendly exchange of phase-refining arts with Bai Mengmeng. As captain, caring for and looking after my team members is also my duty!"

Mentor Xi Chan ignored his nonsense, shifted her tone, and said, "There's something else I need to tell you. This month's exam will have an extra reward — do you know what it is?"

Li Luo looked over in confusion.

"The Twelve Brocade Exercises." Mentor Xi Chan said lightly.

Li Luo opened his mouth, then couldn't help bursting into tears. "Mentor, I didn't expect you'd do this much for me. I'm truly moved."

Mentor Xi Chan had only mentioned the matter of the "Twelve Brocade Exercises" to him a couple of days ago. Li Luo had originally been agonizing over the price of several thousand points, but who could have imagined that in the blink of an eye, this item had become the reward for this month's exam — wasn't this an opportunity tailor-made for him?

Besides Mentor Xi Chan, who else would be this good to him?

Facing Li Luo's moved gaze, Mentor Xi Chan shook her head and said, "This wasn't my doing. It was Shen Shen Jinxiao who proposed it, and the points for the Twelve Brocade Exercises came out of his own pocket, as an extra reward for the monthly exam."

Li Luo's expression instantly froze, his eyes full of shock and doubt.

Shen Shen Jinxiao did it?

Did this old fool have a conscience awakening, or did he take the wrong medicine?