"Jiang Nan Nan," Shi Yu saw Jiang Nannan at the agreed-upon place and waved at her with a smile.
"Shi Yu," Jiang Nannan ran over with a smile, slightly surprised to see another person, and even more surprised that this person was Senior Apprentice Sister Zhang Lexuan.
"It's like this, Senior Apprentice Sister had some free time and enthusiastically wanted to guide our combat," Shi Yu explained.
"Senior Apprentice Sister, are you alright?" Jiang Nannan couldn't help but ask with concern, seeing Zhang Lexuan's weak appearance.
"I'm fine," Zhang Lexuan shook her head, not intending to explain her encounter to Jiang Nannan in detail.
Jiang Nannan cast a questioning look towards Shi Yu, and Shi Yu didn't say much either.
They went to the place where they had fought several times before, and Zhang Lexuan sat nearby watching.
After the battle began, Shi Yu kept trying to find opportunities to attack Jiang Nannan, and compared to the beginning, his chances of success were greater.
As the number of battles increased, his use of Space abilities became more proficient, and his attack methods increased.
The pressure Jiang Nannan faced from Shi Yu was increasing day by day; he was no longer as easy to deal with as in the beginning.
Zhang Lexuan watched carefully from the side; despite already having Soul Douluo cultivation, she still spotted many mistakes from both sides.
The older Jiang Nannan actually made slightly more mistakes than Shi Yu.
Their battle lasted for nearly half an hour; they were both panting heavily, and their Soul Power consumption was quite high.
However, neither was seriously injured; they were sparring, and they sparred every day, so naturally, they wouldn't aim to injure each other.
After stopping, both leaned towards Zhang Lexuan, who very seriously pointed out some of their problems.
Shi Yu nodded from time to time, and upon careful reflection, felt that what Zhang Lexuan said made sense.
Jiang Nannan also felt greatly benefited, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, 'As expected of the Inner Courtyard Senior Apprentice Sister, her insights into combat are more professional than many Outer Courtyard Teachers.'
It's worth mentioning that most Outer Courtyard Teachers at Shrek Academy have cultivation at the Soul Emperor or Soul Saint level, with very few at the Soul Douluo level.
In the Inner Courtyard, the general cultivation level of those Teachers is at the Soul Douluo level, and there are also those at the Title Douluo level.
Many of the Sea God Pavilion elders at Shrek Academy would serve as part-time Teachers during their free time to instruct Inner Courtyard disciples.
Such a large number of Title Douluo Teachers can probably only be enjoyed at Shrek Academy in this world.
"See you again, Jiang Nan Nan," Shi Yu waved goodbye to Jiang Nannan and helped Zhang Lexuan return to the Inner Courtyard.
The topic of conversation on the way was about their previous battle, and they didn't stop talking until they reached their residence. Shi Yu, still feeling he hadn't had enough, said goodbye to Zhang Lexuan and returned to his own room.
Every day thereafter, Zhang Lexuan would watch from the side when Shi Yu and Jiang Nannan sparred.
After their battle ended, she would point out some problems and offer her suggestions for improvement.
Zhang Lexuan was very responsible and professional; the problems she pointed out were often spot-on.
With her watching from the side, pointing out problems and offering suggestions for improvement, Shi Yu felt like he was getting twice the results with half the effort.
That is, after each spar with Jiang Nannan, he would gain one or two times more than before.
Reading books, sparring, and cultivating, Shi Yu lived a very fulfilling life during this relatively short holiday.
A week later, he once again contributed a volume of blood the thickness and length of a middle finger and obtained the second Blood Nourishing Flower.
Losing this amount of blood actually didn't have much impact on him; he could recover it within a day or two through the Blood Nourishing Flower and those highly nutritious meals.
However, for Zhang Lexuan, this was no small favor. If it weren't for Shi Yu's blood helping with the treatment, her injuries might not have improved.
Even if they did improve, she might not have been able to recover to her previous state.
If her cultivation became difficult to advance even an inch in the future, she didn't dare to imagine how uncomfortable she would be.
It was precisely because she thought of that terrifying consequence that she was extremely grateful to Shi Yu.
It was just that Shi Yu didn't know Zhang Lexuan was thinking so much internally.
If he knew, he might even feel embarrassed. In reality, his blood only sped up her recovery and indeed helped her save a lot on the medicinal materials needed for recovery.
But to say that she would have difficulty recovering without his blood helping, that wouldn't be the case.
As for the result, she would still recover; his blood wouldn't play a decisive role.
The day before the start of the new semester, Shi Yu came to a Soul Guidance Device workshop.
The workshop was filled with numerous tools and had a metallic smell.
Shi Yu found this place both strange and familiar; strange because it was his first time here.
Familiar because he had seen many tools in books; upon seeing a tool, relevant information would automatically appear in his mind, as if he had activated automatic recognition.
"If this is your first time with practical Soul Guidance Device work, let's start with the simplest task: polishing components," this workshop belonged to an Inner Courtyard Senior, and he stayed by Shi Yu's side, intending to guide him.
"Okay," Shi Yu was very cooperative and operated according to the other party's guidance.
This Senior was introduced to him by Zhang Lexuan; because of Zhang Lexuan, the Inner Courtyard Senior was very polite to him and guided him very attentively.
Shi Yu began working on polishing components; this component was one of the beginner-level Soul Guidance Device components, with the lowest polishing difficulty.
However, this was relative; for some who only understood Soul Guidance Devices theoretically and had little practical experience, the difficulty of polishing this was still quite high.
Shi Yu himself had learned about polishing this component from books, so he didn't find it difficult to operate in practice.
It only took a few minutes to polish the component.
"Have you had contact with this before?" The Inner Courtyard Senior named Wang Yuan asked in surprise.
"No, this is the first time," Shi Yu said truthfully.
"Try polishing this component again," Wang Yuan took out a component drawing and also brought over a partially processed component for Shi Yu to polish.
Shi Yu operated carefully and still polished this component to a state where it could be used to make a Soul Guidance Device within a few minutes.
"You're good at this," Wang Yuan couldn't help but praise.
He let Shi Yu try to polish all the components for this beginner-level Soul Guidance Device; if he wanted, he could also try to make it.
Shi Yu was thinking the same thing and enthusiastically polished the components. After polishing all seven components, he began attempting to engrave the Soul Guidance arrays.
He used a beginner-level engraving knife and engraved beginner-level Soul Guidance arrays, which were relatively simple.
This simplicity was also relative; for a Soul Guidance apprentice like Shi Yu who hadn't yet reached a rank, it was still difficult.
Shi Yu was a little excited the first time he engraved a Soul Guidance array, but his hand was very steady, and he was very careful.
He had long since memorized these beginner-level Soul Guidance arrays thoroughly, so engraving them now was very smooth.
Over an hour later, Shi Yu had finished engraving the Soul Guidance arrays on all components and moved on to the second-to-last step, assembly.
Engraving the appropriate Soul Guidance arrays on each component was definitely the most difficult part of the manufacturing process.
Once this step was completed, the assembly became relatively simple, and it was successfully assembled smoothly.