Chapter 31

"You little rascal, you really live up to being a cat. Your nose is so sharp."

Qin Yuyan patted Huan Liuli's little head, and Ye Xiao only then noticed that in the Qin family's courtyard, there was actually a small pond.

Inside, there were quite a few purple-scaled fish.

Ye Xiao had seen in the Star Beast Chronicles that the purple-scaled fish were of the wolf bloodline, grew quickly, and reproduced fast. Adult purple-scaled fish were all sub-transcendent star beasts, skilled in group attacks, with sharp and strong teeth, and the strength to easily tear apart the bones of a star beast of the same level!

However, although the purple-scaled fish were fierce, they also had a special ability: to gather spiritual energy.

Moreover, the purple-scaled fish tasted delicious and were highly nourishing.

Therefore, many martial arts families who had the means would raise some purple-scaled fish at home.

Huan Liuli was almost drooling, fidgeting restlessly in Qin Yuyan's arms.

Qin Yuyan smiled and said,

"You can't, you know. Many of the purple-scaled fish in there are already adults, sub-transcendent star beasts. If you go over, you won't be able to eat them; they'll eat you instead."

Ye Xiao immediately used his mental power to suppress Huan Liuli.

"Hold it in. Didn't I give you a lot to eat at the table just now?"

Huan Liuli responded with mental power.

"Can what you gave me compare to this? These are purple-scaled fish. The taste and nourishment are on a completely different level."

"Would you dare to try one? Do you believe I'll immediately skin you and make a dragon-tiger feast? A grandmaster star beast is even more nourishing than a purple-scaled fish, right?"

Huan Liuli: "..."

Although she was unwilling, she had no choice but to calm down and shrink back into Qin Yuyan's arms.

There was no way around it; when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.

What could she do when she couldn't beat Ye Xiao?

However, her beautiful big eyes started to twinkle, as if she was plotting something.

Qin Yuyan thought her persuasion had worked and happily stroked Huan Liuli's little head.

"What a sensible kitty. How about I take care of you for a few days?"

Huan Liuli's eyes lit up, and she immediately rubbed against Qin Yuyan's chest hard.

"Meow~!"

"Hehe, Ye Xiao, did you see that? Your kitty really likes me."

Ye Xiao sighed. She doesn't like you; she likes your fish.

The two went into the house and headed straight for the third-floor study.

"These are some of my grandfather's books. You should be able to find the cultivation techniques you need. You read the books first, and I'll go change clothes."

Ye Xiao nodded, treasuring the books, and immediately began to study Qin Shenglong's collection.

Surprisingly, most of what Qin Shenglong had were ancient editions.

Although it was just a small room and couldn't compare to a library, most of them were basic cultivation techniques from a single system, unlike the books in the library, which were mostly copies.

Even more surprisingly, there were seven different sword techniques derived from basic sword techniques.

In other words, Ye Xiao could almost gather all the basic sword techniques needed to synthesize the Heaven-Cleaving Sword Technique just by reading in this small room.

Unfortunately, Ye Xiao's Heaven-Cleaving Sword Technique was already synthesized, so most of these sword techniques were useless to him.

However, he did learn a basic fist technique and a basic body-strengthening technique that he didn't have.

Since spiritual energy could enhance cultivation techniques, the power of fist techniques was not inferior to that of swords and knives. However, with the addition of today's technique, Ye Xiao had already gathered seven basic fist techniques, and it still didn't show that they could be synthesized.

It seemed he needed a few more fist techniques.

For body-strengthening techniques, Ye Xiao had only learned three, including today's.

This was a technique that could be both offensive and defensive, relatively conservative, using spiritual energy to temper the body to the point where it could withstand blades and bullets.

Even so, this trip had been quite profitable for him.

Two basic cultivation techniques, one fist technique, and one body-strengthening technique—coming here to read the books was worth it.

When Ye Xiao put the body-strengthening technique back and took out the next book, his face suddenly lit up.

Because the divine soul golden book in his mind had twitched.

This indicated that a cultivation technique could be synthesized.

Currently, the only technique in the golden book that needed to be synthesized was a mental technique.

Ye Xiao immediately opened the book, and sure enough, it was a mental technique for long-distance telepathy, which allowed the projection of mental power to a very distant place.

It was like adding long-range shooting to a bomb, turning it into a missile.

This was a mental technique that Ye Xiao currently did not have!

Soon, Ye Xiao imprinted this technique onto the golden book.

After the golden book obtained it, it immediately began to cultivate.

The progress bar moved slowly, from 1% to 2%...

Ye Xiao estimated it would take until evening to reach the great completion stage, and he could return home to fuse it.

However, at this moment, the door to the library was suddenly opened, and Qin Yuyan, wrapped in a bath towel, ran in with a fragrant breeze.

Her milky white shoulders and long legs dazzled Ye Xiao.

Before he could react, Qin Yuyan grabbed him and ran outside.

"Come with me quickly."

The fragrance of gardenias followed Qin Yuyan as she ran, and in a flash, Ye Xiao was pulled into a room on the second floor and pushed inside.

"You mustn't speak. My grandfather is back. If he finds out I brought a boy home, he'll beat me to death."

After saying that, she quickly closed the door and ran in another direction.

"Yuyan, are you home?"

"Ah! I'm home. I'm going to take a shower and change clothes."

There was no more sound, indicating that Qin Shenglong had sat down in the living room.

Ye Xiao couldn't help but shake his head.

The Qin family's family rules were quite strict.

Both were fourth-year students at the Martial Arts Academy, but while Lu Wanwan was already married, Qin Yuyan didn't dare to bring a boy home.

He glanced around the room and was surprised to find that it was decorated in a particularly cozy style.

A light yellow bed, a yellow and pink quilt with cartoon patterns.

A computer desk, a wardrobe... the overall decoration style was feminine.

On the bedside hung Qin Yuyan's skirt, bra, and panties, as well as a pair of light white stockings.

"Could this be... Qin Yuyan's room?"

As soon as he said that, Huan Liuli plopped down from the windowsill. Her small belly, which was now swollen, looked like she was nine months pregnant.

Qin Shenglong's voice came from downstairs again.

"Yuyan, what was that noise upstairs?"

"Oh, nothing... I dropped my shampoo."

The sound became quiet again. Ye Xiao glared at Huan Liuli with a bad temper and communicated mentally:

"Did you sneak and eat the purple-scaled fish?"