Her experience mostly came from the chemistry she developed with Fu Qin, which left Ning Rongrong dazzled and blushing, yet filled with curiosity and anticipation.
Fu Qin sat to the side, looking at the two charming and lovely young girls before him, feeling both amused and helpless.
As the person involved, he actually had no say at all and was simply being "shared" by the two of them.
One could only say it was truly worthy of the Intelligence Reduction Halo; for intelligence to drop to this level was truly unparalleled.
...
Suotuo City's mornings were always filled with a bit of bustle.
Meanwhile, at the Shrek Academy training grounds, the Shrek students were already complaining incessantly.
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, with his short-cropped hair and wearing a long gown, took in every movement of Fu Qin, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others.
The six-month "Devil Training" began amidst these daily rigorous requirements.
Fu Qin never neglected the Grandmaster's training, but he also had his own plans.
While others were still putting all their effort into completing tasks like weight-bearing runs and spirit power pressure resistance, he could always finish the day's special training early thanks to his focus and efficient execution, which far exceeded those of his peers.
Whenever this happened, he would tuck the copy of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record he had borrowed from Tang San into his clothes and hurry back to his room, closing the door to immerse himself in another World of his own.
Initially, Fu Qin's thoughts were entirely on "Mechanical Puppets."
That was an obsession he had replicated from his memories before transmigrating; those exquisite Puppets that could fight autonomously in the World of under one person World view were something he yearned for immensely.
He had tried to outline prototypes using ordinary metals he had collected, wanting to inject spirit power into a drive core, but every attempt ended in failure.
Either the metal lacked sufficient toughness and shattered under the impact of spirit power, or the core structure was too complex to be completed with his current spirit power intensity and craftsmanship level.
After half a month of continuous setbacks, Fu Qin had to face reality.
With his current abilities, refining Mechanical Puppets was still premature.
Fu Qin, knowing when to cut his losses, turned his attention to the pharmacological knowledge recorded in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
Fu Qin knew very well that the pharmacological System of the World where Tang San lived in his previous life had a surprising compatibility with the characteristics of spiritual herbs on the Douluo Continent.
Whether it was the compatibility of medicinal properties or the extraction techniques, they could be directly applied with slight modifications.
This undoubtedly opened a new door for him.
The path of alchemy was destined to be full of trial and error, but the God-level Luck buff on him ensured that he would gain something from every attempt.
The first time he refined a Mind-Concentrating Potion, which could temporarily increase mental force, it should have failed due to the medicinal properties evaporating from uncontrolled heat, but a cool breeze happened to blow in through the window, providing just the right cooling effect.
When searching for the Shadow Flowers needed to refine an Antidote, he thought he would have to go deep into the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, but he unexpectedly found stock of excellent quality in the black market of Suotuo City.
With the precise guidance of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and the support of his Luck, Fu Qin's alchemy skills advanced by leaps and bounds. From initially only being able to refine low-grade Stamina Recovery Agents, he gradually became able to stably produce mid-grade Spirit Power Amplification Medicines, Mind-Calming Pills, and even rare Antidotes.
The successful refining of potions soon brought Fu Qin immense wealth.
Through Dean Flender's connections, he supplied the potions to several reputable chambers of commerce in Suotuo City. With the advantage of medicinal effects far exceeding similar products, he quickly broke into the market.
Low-grade recovery agents were in short supply, and mid-grade potions were even more sought after by nobles and Spirit Masters. In just three short months, Fu Qin's pockets were bulging.
This also caused him to suddenly become a somewhat famous "Mysterious Alchemist" in Suotuo City.
With the support of wealth, Fu Qin began to collect various scarce resources.
He traveled through all the markets and black markets of Suotuo City; as long as it was a rare spiritual herb or a special metal and the price was reasonable, he would accept them all.
Flender and Zhao Wuji took even better care of this "sensible and talented" Disciple.
In the territory of Suotuo City, with the protection of two Spirit Saint-level powerhouses, Fu Qin's path to collecting resources was unimpeded. Within half a year, his storage spirit tool was already filled with various hundred-year and even thousand-year spiritual herbs and a very large quantity of rare metals.
Even more surprising was the Breakthrough in spirit power. The process of refining medicine was itself a precise control and tempering of spirit power. Coupled with Fu Qin's relentless cultivation after completing the Grandmaster's special training every day, the cultivation efficiency bonus brought by God-level Luck was even more effective.
Half a year ago, he was still a Level 35 Spirit Elder.
And on the day the half-year special training was about to end, as he circulated his spirit power in the small courtyard, the spirit power in his body suddenly broke through the Bottleneck like a surging river, stopping steadily at Level 39!
This progress shocked everyone.
One must know that Dai Mubai, as the oldest student among the Shrek Seven Devils, still remained at Level 39.
With the astonishing speed of four levels in half a year, Fu Qin not only far exceeded the students of the same class but also directly caught up with Dai Mubai, becoming one of the students with the highest spirit power level in Shrek Academy.
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Inside the room, Fu Qin was collecting the potions he had just refined.
Fu Qin's fingertip swiped across the System panel, a playful smile appearing in his eyes.
Ning Rongrong's favorability was a glaring bright red, abruptly breaking through the 1,000-point mark; it was unreserved obsession and indulgence.
Xiao Wu's was even more exaggerated; the value of 2,000 points had long since exceeded the maximum limit. Every line revealed a bone-deep dependence, as if he were her entire World.
Even Zhu Zhuqing, who was usually as cold as frost, had her favorability steadily stop at 300 points, breaking the initial distance and adding a bit of inexplicable heat.
During this half-year, Fu Qin had devoted himself to cultivation and alchemy. Sometimes, to overcome a high-grade potion or to push through a spirit power Bottleneck, he would rarely find time to be intimate with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong for three to five days.
But the more they were apart, the more intense the two's feelings for him became.
In the small courtyard late at night, the initial youthful testing was long gone. After Fu Qin's bold development, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong had already reached a Soul-level understanding with him.
With just a look from him, a slight tremble of a fingertip, or a low, husky murmur, the two could instantly grasp his meaning, strike the most compatible pose, and wrap around his fatigue with the gentlest response.
That kind of wordless blending caused the bond between the three of them to grow wildly like vines, tightly Binding and inseparable.
He walked out of the room.
Fu Qin's gaze fell on Zhu Zhuqing, who was cultivating alone in the corner.
Since her favorability broke through 300 points, he had keenly captured her changes.
The way she looked at him was no longer the cold distance of the past, but had more of a flickering heat, occasionally revealing a trace of hard-to-detect envy and yearning, as if she were suppressing some surging emotion.
"Zhuqing! I beg you! Please do Spirit Fusion Skill training with me once!"
Dai Mubai disregarded his status and almost knelt before Zhu Zhuqing, his once-proud Evil Eyes full of humility and pleading.
"Only our Hell White Tiger can defeat Dai Weisi in the future and seize the throne of the Star Luo Empire! I know I was wrong before, but for our future, I need you to give me a chance!"
The old injury in his abdomen was still throbbing with pain, but compared to the shattering of his dream of becoming the Emperor of the Star Luo Empire, this bit of pain was not worth mentioning at all.