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— Chapter 320 —
"How was your class, Brother?" asked Xiao Yixian while putting nicely cooked steak of rank 5 Golden-Blooded Taurus Beast.
Gu Xun'er doesn't want to lose to Xiao Yixian's momentum and placed a massive crimson prawn on his plate as well with a smile, "Yuan, I got this rare Crimson King Prawn imported from the north sea, not only it taste deliciously sweet, but it also can help your unique physique to saturate with more of its ancient power."
Han Yuan smiled at both girls, "Thanks, Yixian, Xun'er."
"Delicious!" He exclaimed after eating the steak and the prawn.
Meanwhile, Zi Yan was drooling like a waterfall watching Han Yuan eat.
While the little dragon girl has a tacit understanding with elders in the Inner Court, and can pick as many medicinal herbs as she wants secretly due to Su Qian's protection that doesn't mean she can eat luxuriously every day.
Let alone the Rank 5 Golden-Blooded Taurus Beast, which is difficult to kill as it was living in a group and possesses peak Rank 6 Magical Beast's strength as a whole, the Crimson King Prawn can't be bought with money because it lives in the deep sea.
Unless one is a Dou Ancestor who is skilled in wielding 'Spatial Power' to explore deep sea and catch this prawn themselves, one could only dream of eating one.
But what kind of Dou Ancestor Expert is free enough to catch Crimson King Prawn for others to eat.
They would rather cultivate themselves than doing that.
Yet, seeing the Crimson King Prawn also made Zi Yan remember a distant yet fond memory. Back then, when Zi Yan was still a really young dragon and hadn't eaten the Transformation Grass, her father always brought her around to explore and enjoy delicious food.
A long time ago, Zi Yan could enjoy all kinds of deep sea seafoods, but now that was only a lingering memory at the back of her mind.
Recalling those memories couldn't help but make her cry a little.
"Zi Yan, why are you crying?" Qing Lin panicked because her good friend suddenly became like this.
Zi Yan was stunned, "Eh, I'm crying? Ah, these are tears… No wonder my mouth tastes salty."
Han Yuan, Xiao Yixian, and Gu Xun'er stared at Zi Yan blankly and then glanced at each other before sharing the food with the little dragon girl.
"All these for me?" Zi Yan asked in awe. The amount wasn't much, but the gesture really touched her heart.
"Just eat, a little girl like you need to eat a lot to grow!" Han Yuan commented casually.
Usually, Zi Yan would have been mad if Han Yuan called her like that, but she wasn't for some reason.
"Mm." She hummed in response.
Then, she smiled a little and wolfed down the food, "So yummy!"
Han Yuan shook his head helplessly at this little dragon girl. "Alright, you two should eat, too." He said to Xiao Yixian and Gu Xun'er.
"I can pick the food myself."
Xiao Yixian giggled and teased, "Fine, my brother is all independent now, he doesn't need my help at all..."
Gu Xun'er had a similar look, "Yeah, we just want to spoil you a little."
Han Yuan ignored these shameless girls and ate until he was full.
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After eating to the fullest, Zi Yan patted her slightly bulging tummy and remembered her intentions of coming here.
She opened her mouth and said, "Han Yuan, you're pretty strong, right?"
"What kind of question is that?" Han Yuan responded with a confused expression.
Zi Yan stuck out her tongue and explained her plan, "Anyway, there is a pretty strong ape in the Inner Court, and he guarded a cliff wall."
"I smelled a good treasure in that cave wall."
"Help me hold the ape back for a while, and I will get the treasure for us."
Han Yuan rubbed his chin slowly, trying to recall anything ape-related to the Jia Nan Academy arc in the original story, then something hit him.
The only strong ape he could think of in this setting is the Snow Demon Sky Ape, a powerful Rank 5 Magical Beast, who guarded a cave with Core Quenching Body Milk.
Core Quenching Body Milk is an earthly product that needs hundreds, if not thousands of years to mature, which can strengthen one's body significantly once refined.
Not only that, refining this earthly product will also make one's foundation stronger, thus making breaking through easier.
Han Yuan actually doesn't need this Core Quenching Body Milk because he has many small pieces of Life Golds to always strengthen his body with pure life force.
The girls naturally could use the same method as him, but that doesn't mean Core Quenching Body Milk is useless because he might be able to refine it with other materials, and create a more powerful body refining medicine.
"Alright, we will go in an hour," Han Yuan said to Zi Yan calmly. "Prepare the usual safe router."
"Hehe, you got it!" Zi Yan responded while patting her chest. After that, she left with a gust of wind.
On the other side, Xiao Yixian, Gu Xun'er, and Qing Lin wondered what kind of shenanigans they were going to do.
"Um, Brother, you're not going to be in trouble, right?" Qing Lin asked worriedly.
Han Yuan chuckled, "Me? Trouble? Don't worry, I am going to be fine."
"No one is going to catch either me or Zi Yan anyway."
"Let's hope so…" Xiao Yixian muttered.
"Yeah." Gu Xun'er nodded slowly.
Han Yuan rolled his eyes, "Enough about me, what about you guys then? I heard you have been doing great in your classes."
"Boring classes, that is." Xiao Yixian replied indifferently. "The things that Outer Court's Professor taught is something you already taught me when we were young."
"I have already mastered them all."
Gu Xun'er giggled, "While that's true, don't you have more time to laze around now, Yixian?"
"Damn, how dare you expose me like that, girl!" Xiao Yixian pounced on Gu Xun'er and tickled her.
Han Yuan glanced at Qing Lin and asked, "What about you, Qing Lin, did you make any new friends?"
Qing Lin nodded seriously, "Mm, Qing Lin got so many new friends in the class, but the girls asked me about you too much, and the boys… They like to flex their muscles around for some reason."
"Qing Lin doesn't understand them."
Han Yuan doesn't know whether he should be mad or laugh at Qing Lin's reply.
Everyone used to be a kid, and Han Yuan knew why those boys in Qing Lin's class liked to flex around.
Unfortunately, with him around as her role model, they had no chance of catching her attention.
"Alright, go cultivate your dou technique in your room," Han Yuan reached for Qing Lin's head and patted her gently. "I will give you a gift tonight."
"Really?!" Qing Lin's eyes lit up in excitement.
"Yes " Han Yuan smiled in response.
After hearing this reply, Qing Lin hurriedly sprinted to her dormhouse and started meditating in her room.
There is an energy gathering array inside Qing Lin's room, which Han Yuan made for her and other girls, so they could cultivate without worry of lacking energy of heaven and earth.
"As for you two…" Han Yuan chuckled at Xiao Yixian and Gu Xun'er who stopped tickling each other.
"Be good girls, and watch the houses for me."
"Eh, only that? What about the gift? Qing Lin got one, and I don't?" Xiao Yixian complained with a pout.
"Hey, it is… We don't! Why am I not included as well, huh?" Gu Xun'er glared at Xiao Yixian.
Han Yuan chuckled, "You two do have a point…"
"Well, then, what about this?"
Han Yuan leaned forward and gave Xiao Yixian and Gu Xun'er a kiss each on their pretty red lips, catching them off guard.
After that, he waved his hand and left with a grin. "I'll be back soon."
Xiao Yixian and Gu Xun'er blushed. They glanced at each other before shouting indignantly, "Ah, that is unfair!"
"We want more!!!"