Chapter 270: Fuli Master

"In short, handle it yourself! That fox has a trait that makes him dislike evil beasts—give him an address, and he'll start a fight by tomorrow."

Jin Qianbao rubbed his chin, still feeling a faint ache in his lower jaw.

If the Fuli Master's traits really are as described in the file...

Then the spiritual beasts in the Qinling Mountains are in for a treat.

A massive, task-free, non-working guardian-level spiritual beast with nothing to do but stroll through Qinling? Perfect peace!

"Since that's settled, I'm heading back to eat."

After sitting for a while in the Qinling Panda Conservation Area and finishing his instructions, Jin Qianbao had no intention of staying—he leapt up, stepped on the rocks beside the stream, and vanished into the reserve.

Back on campus, Jin Qianbao sniffed the air and sprinted toward the cafeteria.

Although the New Xue Academy was under lockdown due to student holidays, only the lecture halls and dormitories were sealed; the research buildings and experimental fields remained open.

Professors from the New Xue Academy and researchers from the Changancheng Spirit Grain Industry all used the university's experimental equipment for their studies.

The equipment here wasn't comparable to what ordinary municipal institutes had.

When built, it was constructed to provincial research institute standards.

Since the university's research building never stopped operating, the small kitchen on the third floor of the cafeteria didn't shut down either.

Sniffing Wang Qiqi's scent, Jin Qianbao slipped effortlessly into the third-floor cafeteria.

"Wang Qi! Get me two lamb thighs. If the kitchen hasn't prepared any, send someone to borrow them from across the street—the dumpling shop can lend some."

Jin Qianbao pushed open the door, sniffing the aroma, and barked sharply into the private room.

"Holy shit! A leopard!"

He Ying, inside the room, nearly had her soul fly out of her body at the sight of the massive, burly Jin Qianbao barging in.

"It's fine, it's fine."

Wang Qiqi quickly stood up, holding He Ying back, and explained: "This fat leopard is the mascot of the neighboring Animal Academy. Oh no—correction—it's the ancestral patriarch of the neighboring academy, the critically endangered North China Leopard."

"I know it well. It doesn't bite people—it just likes to eat Class Two protected animals."

The North China Leopard's menu, also known as the "Northeast Cuisine Menu."

Anything on this menu is guaranteed at least Class Three; Class One and Two are normal.

After calming He Ying, Wang Qiqi grabbed Jin Qianbao by the nape of the neck and plopped it down beside her seat.

"Mmm—"

Seeing Jin Qianbao return, An Sheng glanced over and swept his eyes toward the base of its tail.

"What are you looking at? Even though I do find strong males like you attractive, our species are different—forced mating won't produce offspring. It's meaningless."

Jin Qianbao seemed to sense something, turning to look at the Fuli Master squatting on the chair, and spoke with a hint of regret.

"You know biological classification?"

An Sheng's face showed surprise—he couldn't believe such words came from Jin Qianbao's mouth.

"I went to university, even if I never earned a degree—I graduated from the New Xue Academy as an audit student," Jin Qianbao shrugged. "What about you? Where'd you graduate?"

"...", An Sheng's lips twitched slightly—he never expected that after becoming a fox, he'd still face academic discrimination.

"I, An, hold a Master's in Tea Cultivation and Breeding, and Tea Biochemistry, from Jiule Tea Academy," An Sheng said, face darkening as he made up a famous tea academy name.

In his past life, he'd graduated from a diploma mill business school—the diploma was as watery as a humid southern spring.

"Huh?"

Jin Qianbao stared at the Fuli Master in astonishment.

Jin Qianbao wasn't lying to An Sheng—it really had spent five years studying at the New Xue Academy.

At eighteen, Wang Qiqi had just gotten her license and taken her father's car out for a night drive in the mountains.

She hit the two-year-old Jin Qianbao and sent it to the hospital.

After experiencing high-end human medicine, Jin Qianbao couldn't forget it—so it returned, smashed Wang Qiqi's car, and rode on her back.

Because of Jin Qianbao, Wang Qiqi—who was supposed to study environmental science in Northeast China—ended up staying in Chang'an to finish her environmental science degree at the New Xue Academy.

And naturally, Jin Qianbao enrolled too.

This was Jin Qianbao's first time seeing a spiritual beast complete advanced academic studies.

But...

Fuli's major seemed kinda watered down—tea cultivation and breeding, tea biochemistry? It sounded weird.

Like Gui's snail rice noodle major, Shancheng's crayfish major, or spicy strip major.

"By the way, I just visited the dominant spiritual beast of the New Xue Academy campus and told it about you. If you run into trouble at school, go to the back mountain and find a beige panda who calls itself Fat Cat."

"It's got connections and channels within a hundred li."

Jin Qianbao didn't dwell on Fuli Master's academic credentials—it introduced him to the panda instead.

"If you need anything, you can go to it—or use it to contact us."

"Why go through it to contact you?" An Sheng looked at Jin Qianbao oddly. "Can't I just WeChat Wang Qiqi? Isn't the triple-fold phone supposed to have global satellite communication?"

As he spoke, An Sheng pulled a triple-fold phone from his bag.

When Lin Ying had given Fuli Master the phone, she hadn't considered anything else—her only concern was being able to reach Fuli Master anytime, anywhere, so she picked the one with the strongest signal.

"Huh?"

Seeing Fuli Master pull out a phone—and the screen unfold to the size of a small tablet—Jin Qianbao froze, then turned sharply to Wang Qiqi.

Wang Qiqi: "..."

Sis, chill out—you don't know your own strength? Foldable screens are soft—don't even think about it.

Just stay home and watch the projector.

Your tablet? I had the Logistics New Xue Team hand-craft it for you, upgraded with a larger screen.

………

The campus tour ended amid Wang Qiqi and Jin Qianbao's argument over the phone.

After a brief lunch break,

the guide switched from Wang Qiqi to He Ying, and they headed straight for the Dàyàn Temple district in Changancheng.

But before visiting the temple, He Ying spent about ten minutes leading everyone to Changancheng University of Political Science and Law to tour the free-entry tomb of Zhang Tang.

At the university, they visited the ancestral patriarch of jurisprudence.

Chang'an was just too much. An Sheng's fox face maintained a polite smile—rarely did he refrain from complaining about the tomb's bad luck, or perhaps he'd temporarily lost the ability to speak.

When they arrived at the Dàyàn district,

An Sheng saw the temple—and his wish list inside his mind flickered brightly.

"Aha!"

"New resource point refreshed!"

Sensing the glow in his mind, An Sheng's fox face curled into a sly grin as he sighed inwardly.

Fuli Master is ready for super evolution!

Qinling's spiritual beast buddies—ready to fly?

(End of Chapter)