Which meant.....
Most of the time, she had to endure it alone.
Yan Shaozhe explained the situation quietly.
Su Wen nodded.
Looks like the second soul beast had to be found in the Extreme North.
"Xiao Wen…"
Ma Xiaotao slowly opened her eyes. When she saw him, surprise and embarrassment flickered across her gaze.
She instinctively tried to sit up, unwilling to let him see her in such a frail state.
Su Wen gently pressed her shoulder, guiding her back down.
"Sister Xiaotao," he said after a long silence. "Get some proper rest."
"Teacher!"
"Teacher!"
Ma Xiaotao's cheeks flushed red as she shot an angry glare at Yan Shaozhe, who was chuckling to himself nearby.
"You're actually using your own disciple as bait—do you have any shame?"
Yan Shaozhe laughed shamelessly.
"What bait? Mutual goodwill. Don't make it sound so ugly.
Besides, Xiaotao, you really struck gold this time. Saving him was also saving yourself."
"What do you mean?" she froze.
"Do you believe me if I say his next soul beast will be ice-type?" Yan Shaozhe grinned.
One Year and Two Months Later
Su Wen had become thoroughly familiar with the Inner Court.
His daily routine was simple:
Cultivate → eat at Aunt Lu's house → cultivate → dinner.
Lu Xiaoxiao truly lived up to her title as Shrek Academy's number one nutritionist. Her meals were delicious, filling, and never repetitive.
Even Zhang Yi envied the blatant favoritism—after all, Inner Court students normally had to pay for their meals.
And they weren't cheap.
Just Su Wen's daily intake alone was worth over a thousand gold soul coins.
His height had increased from 1.3 meters to 1.5 meters, barely reaching Ma Xiaotao's chest—though she herself had grown to 1.79 meters.
His strength, meanwhile, had climbed from Rank 15 to Rank 20.
Yesterday, when he broke through that bottleneck, the second Poké Ball appeared.
Yellow.
A hundred-year tier.
Su Wen stared at the yellow Poké Ball floating in his Sea of Consciousness beside Gale's white one, deep in thought.
After he reached Rank 20, Gale's white Poké Ball had also changed—half white, half yellow.
Which confirmed his hypothesis.
Once he captured his second soul beast and reached Rank 21, Gale's Poké Ball would likely turn fully yellow, officially entering the hundred-year soul beast stage.
Though the interface displayed levels, those levels were automatically converted into soul-beast year tiers
White.
Yellow.
Purple.
Black.
Red.
[Wind Baboon]
Level: 20
Strength: 10.4 (+2.0)
Speed: 13.4 (+2.4)
Endurance: 10.4 (+1.4)
Defense: 13.1 (+5.1)
Skill: Wind Blade (Normal)
Attribute: Wind (Normal) (Pending Refresh)
Potential: 8 (Top Grade)
Next Evolution: Storm Baboon
Gale's stats had increased evenly.
The main numbers represented base attributes, while the bracketed values came from dietary reinforcement—you are what you eat.
Eating heavily armored soul beasts increased defense.
Eating agile ones increased speed.
The higher the soul beast's cultivation, the greater the stat gain.
After consuming meat from a five-thousand-year Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear, Gale's strength and defense both increased by 0.1.
Overall, Gale's combat power had risen by nearly 1.5 times.
"Mm…"
A lazy female voice drifted through the room.
Su Wen's mouth twitched.
He glanced helplessly toward the bed.
Ma Xiaotao had claimed his bed again, stretching languidly.
Her bare feet peeked out from under the blanket, toes tightening as she extended, followed by the smooth line of her long, pale legs.
She sat up, red hair draped over one shoulder, rubbing her eyes with a drowsy, almost foolish charm.
"Sleep with me a bit longer."
Seeing Su Wen, she instinctively hooked a leg around him, pulling the cross-legged boy straight into her embrace.
"You've already slept an entire day…"
Su Wen sighed expressionlessly, smothered by softness.
"But my evil fire flared up the day before yesterday," she said pitifully.
Su Wen: "…"
As time passed, Ma Xiaotao had grown increasingly dependent on him.
Around others, she was still fiery and explosive—but with him, she had turned into a clingy, delicate beauty.
Which made sense.
The Extreme North Plan was overdue.
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