Chapter 392: Master Chen and Master Ning

May 9th, Monday, sunny.

I had to move my cultivation time from the evening to the morning today, and I suddenly feel so unaccustomed to it.

Because of this, the day feels very busy—

After waking up early, I have to spend almost the entire morning cultivating. In the afternoon, I have to go check on the internship, and even if I don't go, there is a pile of trivial matters to attend to. At night, I have to painstakingly help Qingqing cultivate, so the time gaps I can use to research the automatic defense of the Tracer Technique are very few and fragmented. Added to other trifles, the whole day is filled up in a scattered way; it really gives me a headache.

Tonight, in order to help Qingqing cultivate, I sacrificed my precious golden evening time again and gave her a two-hour massage. It really wore me out.

……

May 13th, Friday, cloudy.

The weather in Yujing is so strange this year. It's already the fifth lunar month, yet it's still alternating between cold and hot. It was clearly over thirty degrees a few days ago, and it hasn't even rained, yet the temperature has suddenly dropped back to twenty degrees. It's truly strange.

Still helping Qingqing with massages to assist her cultivation.

……

May 15th, Sunday, light rain.

Qingqing seems to have gotten addicted to the massages; she asks me to massage her every day.

This gives me an ominous premonition—

Am I going to be massaging her for the rest of my life? Is a Cultivator's life a bit too long?

……

May 20th, Friday, overcast.

I still didn't go to the internship base today. In the afternoon, I stayed home to research the automatic defense of the Tracer Technique. Every day at this time, Qingqing sits behind me watching. She looks like she really wants to disturb me but is afraid of doing so. Hahaha, thinking about it like that, I find it so cute.

At the same time, perhaps because I've been thinking about it often these past few days, I actually dreamed of the implementation logic for the Tracer Technique's automatic defense last night, and it was quite logical.

It seems I sorted out my thoughts from the day while I was dreaming.

What is a genius? What is diligence?

Doing research even in one's dreams—who can compare to this?

Still massaging……

I feel like my skills are getting better and better. After I graduate, I could consider working at a massage parlor. I wonder who earns more, me or the guy next door who delivers food.

……

May 22nd, Sunday, sunny.

The temperature has risen back to over thirty degrees. Annoying.

The automatic defense of the Tracer Technique has finally made progress.

Once I finish it, I'll take it to compare with the research of Teacher Shi Qian and the others. We can freeload off each other, combine our findings, and learn from each other's strengths to make up for our weaknesses. I reckon it will be usable then.

At the same time, today is also the last day of the internship.

Tomorrow is the final inspection of results, so I have to go over there.

The morning cultivation routine I just formed is going to be disrupted again.

Qingqing's cultivation for this stage hasn't ended yet.

I suspect she is doing it on purp...

Chen Shu's pen tip landed here. Before he could finish writing the word, he suddenly turned around and looked behind him.

Qingqing had arrived behind him at some point. She was lowering her eyelids, glancing at him expressionlessly. It wasn't until he looked toward her that she withdrew her gaze, walked silently to the bed nearby, sat down, and continued to glance at him:

"Come give me a massage."

"……"

Chen Shu had no choice but to put down his pen and close his diary.

A moment later.

Ning Qing was lying on the bed, and Chen Shu was straddling her, sitting almost on her buttocks. The touch was so soft, and his hands were massaging her shoulders and back.

"Is it comfortable?"

"It's okay."

"Is the pressure right?"

"It's okay."

"Do you want it a bit harder?"

"Up to you."

"Alright, boss."

Chen Shu sighed inwardly, but remained professional on the surface.

A good massage therapist pays attention to verbal interaction with the guest.

While patting her back, Chen Shu asked: "Boss, have you noticed that my skills are getting better day by day?"

"Mm."

"Boss, you are so cold."

"I noticed."

"Since my skills are so good, and it's already been half a month, haven't you finished cultivating your Sense of Body yet?"

"……"

"Boss, you aren't deliberately dragging it out because you enjoy the comfort but don't want to be... enjoyed by me, are you?"

"……"

Not a word now?

Chen Shu felt something was wrong—

According to her previous experience cultivating the Emotion and Desire Dao, unless it was a stage she really didn't resonate with or found difficult to comprehend, such as "Surprise," which required a large amount of time to accumulate feelings, other stages—with such high-intensity, high-density, and profound feelings—would usually be finished in ten to fifteen days.

The more Chen Shu thought about it, the more wrong it felt, so he couldn't help but lean down and bite her ear: "Boss, where did your virtue of honesty go?"

"Do not be disrespectful to your boss."

"I don't respect dishonest people."

"?"

"Except for myself!"

"...... You said it was a reminder for the last day, and I haven't nodded or agreed yet," Ning Qing said after a silence, "Even if I had agreed, I only agreed to remind you on the last day, but it isn't the last day yet."

"Then how much longer do you have to cultivate?"

"......"

"Look! You don't even dare to say 'I don't know'!"

After Chen Shu finished speaking, he secretly peeked at her. She tilted her head, pressing her right cheek against the pillow, facing him with her side profile. As soon as she opened her mouth, he immediately followed up: "If it takes a long time, it will be a while, and if it takes a short time, it will be quick..."

Eh? Only his own voice?

Ning Qing pursed her lips and said lightly: "I anticipated your anticipation."

"You are so annoying."

"You're the one who's annoying."

"You're just stalling on purpose."

"......"

"Look, you've stopped talking; you aren't even willing to lie to me once."

"......"

"Tomorrow, no matter what, I have to eat you."

"......"

"Fine, you've tacitly agreed."

"......"

"Accept your fate! Big White Rabbit!"

"Lewd."

"Tch!"

Chen Shu pulled his hand back, flopped down, and lay on her back, pressed tightly against her, whispering in her ear: "Boss, the time is up; now it's your turn to give me a massage, Boss."

"......"

"Click~"

Chen Shu turned off most of the lights in the bedroom, leaving only one bedside lamp on as usual, dimmed to the lowest setting, to look after her face.

Ning Qing pursed her lips, feeling helpless inside, but she didn't refuse. She wanted to call him lewd one more time, but in the end, she let it go.

After all, between a couple, this was the most normal of trivial matters.

Thus, the two swapped roles.

The former massage worker rose up to become the boss.

Only, compared to Master Chen's exquisite massage technique, Master Ning's skill seemed very singular, focusing only on one area.

May 23rd, the last day of the internship.

Today there was only one thing.

That was the review of results.

In the past half-month, under the guidance of the lecturer, every group had produced a Spell result.

Because this internship was quite commercially oriented, mainly catering to students who did not intend to follow the ancient Cultivator path after graduation so they could find jobs, or students who weren't single-mindedly pursuing the ancient Cultivator path and could work to make money while walking the ancient Cultivator path—after all, Cultivators have to eat too—the Spell results produced by each group were all civil-use Spells close to the market.

And because the development time was very short and everyone's experience wasn't seasoned enough, most of the results were relatively simple.

The group Chen Shu was in designed a cooling Spell. Because they had Song Rentou, a Spirit Sect genius currently pushing for the Fifth Stage, as the main force, plus Chen Shu helping to solve two difficult key points in between buying milk tea, ice cream, and snacks every day, this Spell was sufficiently excellent; the technology used was new and mature, the structure was perfect and elegant, the performance was powerful, the energy consumption was low, and it could completely be taken out for commercial use.

With slight modifications and adjustments, it could be used for refrigeration in refrigerators or air conditioners.

It could also be learned by Cultivators themselves. It was just that civil-use Spells had their limitations; it could not freeze objects instantly, so it could only be used to lower the overall temperature of a room or certain Storage Spaces to achieve a cooling or refrigerated effect, and it lacked intuitive lethality.

The review process was also simple; each group had a presenter who made a presentation, and the presenters went on stage one by one to explain, demonstrating the Spell structure and effects.

Then the lecturer would grade everyone from below.

The presenter for Chen Shu's group was naturally the class monitor.

The class monitor was very eloquent, which could earn extra points.

Added to that perfect and elegant Spell structure, the lecturer nodded repeatedly while watching. He asked a few questions in the middle, and the class monitor answered them with ease; for the parts he couldn't answer, he frankly stated that this part was not his responsibility and immediately asked others to help answer. This was as it should be; not only did it not deduct points, but it actually deepened the other students' impression on the instructor.

"Our group's Spell result demonstration is finished. Next, I will introduce our group members and our respective divisions of labor," the monitor said. "Responsible for the core Rune Group design are: Song Rentou, Chen Shu."

Song Rentou raised his hand to signal.

Chen Shu blinked his eyes.

He even got mixed in as a core Rune Group designer?

Immediately, he saw the monitor and Song Rentou both cast their gazes toward him, so he also raised his hand to signal.

The lecturer looked back and silently graded them.

"Energy supply Rune Group design: Zhong Miao.

"Auxiliary function Rune Group design: Luo You, Jiang Youyu.

"Spell testing, presentation production, presenter, group leader: Wang Weixin."

Good grief, one listen and you know who was just there to make up the numbers.

The lecturer glanced at the class monitor; in view of the fact that his presentation was indeed done beautifully and his delivery was also great, plus this Spell was indeed done very well, he still lowered his head and gave the class monitor a high score.

Next was the group of Junior Sister Guan Bingxiang, who is also from the Spirit Sect; her design concept this time was excellent, being an Air Purification Technique modified from an Ancient Spell, which can cause dust and tiny particles in the air to fall to the ground.

Near noon, the internship ended.

The class monitor took the group members to eat lunch at a clay pot restaurant outside the base, and then the students boarded a bus and returned to school.

Chen Shu, however, still flew back to the small courtyard.