After the assessment, Zhu Lanling continued to reside at the Rose Gold Hotel.
As a parent, it was inconvenient for her to stay here any longer.
However, Nangong Lingyun and the other two, although they had not yet joined the academy, were still eagerly arranged accommodation by Zhao Wuji.
There was a shortage of everything else here, but there were plenty of wooden houses.
The night passed without incident. Early the next morning, Nangong Lingyun invited the two beauties to tour the academy grounds.
After walking for a short while, under someone's precise guidance,
the three of them discovered a man and a woman arguing not far ahead.
Both parties were quite young.
The girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with unremarkable looks, but exuded an obvious youthful aura, specifically... very large.
Her clothing was very simple, suggesting she was a child from a peasant family.
The boy arguing with her was a bit younger, twelve or thirteen years old,
not very tall, but already quite round, with a big belly and a head like a ball, his beady eyes making people want to laugh.
At this moment, the two had reached the climax of their argument.
The girl looked at the little fatty with a face full of fear,
"Ma Hongjun, don't come looking for me again. I won't continue being with you."
The little fatty suppressed his anger, "Cuihua, haven't I been good to you? Why do you have to break up?"
The two became more and more agitated as they spoke.
After being given a friend card, Ma Hongjun instantly became enraged and grabbed her on the spot, demanding "one more time."
Nangong Lingyun, familiar with the original plot, did nothing.
He just silently watched the chivalrous Dai Mubai jump out to uphold justice, pinning the pervert to the ground and giving him a good beating.
Watching Dai Mubai, who hadn't realized his fiancée was giving him a death glare from the side, describe Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Spirit as a barnyard chicken when introducing him, and mock him for needing to rely on that to release his pent-up energy,
he was ruthlessly exposed:
"If I were like you and Little Ao, with a bitch face, able to date multiple girlfriends at the same time, why would I be in this state?
Don't think I don't know you go on three dates a day, dating different girls and bringing Oscar along for multiplayer games."
"Oh? Isn't Dai the Young Master always shamelessly proud of this, bragging to others about how great his life is?
Saying he's always been invincible among women, the so-called beautiful girl killer?
What's wrong today? Did you reform or take the wrong medicine?"
Watching Little Cat, who was originally enjoying the show, suddenly have a drastic change in expression, staring at Dai Mubai with anger, hatred, and killing intent all surging.
His mood was instantly joyful beyond compare.
The reason Nangong Lingyun came to this Shrek Academy for a "visit" was,
besides wanting to scam San Zi and Da Shi again, to quickly max out Zhu Zhuqing's favorability and take this tempting Little Cat home.
Dai Mubai's performance these past two days has been perfect.
In addition, if he could hook up with that Innate Full Soul Power Sausage, it wouldn't be a bad thing either.
When it comes to the real geniuses in Douluo One, besides Qian Renxue, who was granted level twenty spirit power by the gods, only this one counts.
Soon, the group arrived at the cafeteria, where Tang San was already eating with Oscar.
Nangong Lingyun looked at the steamed buns, thin porridge, and pickles on the table, and his brows furrowed instantly.
The novel only wrote that Shrek Academy's food was meager, without describing the specific food content. He originally thought there would be at least a few eggs.
After all, they lived in a village, and these things should be convenient.
But there wasn't even a trace of meat or oil.
Poor in academics, rich in martial arts, making cultivators drink only white porridge, Flender was really capable of doing it.
He immediately asked in disbelief:
"Is this what you usually eat?"
Dai Mubai smiled awkwardly, "It's indeed a bit meager, but it's enough to fill our stomachs."
"I mean, do you only eat like this today, or is it always like this?"
"The academy's financial situation isn't very good, so there's no other way. Besides, everyone has already accepted and gotten used to it."
"Awesome!"
Hearing this answer, Nangong Lingyun immediately laughed out loud.
Perhaps the novel set it up this way to shape Flender's stingy personality, portraying it as a joke.
However, once a similar plot appears in reality, if someone really makes you drink white porridge and eat pickles every day, it's not something to laugh about.
He frowned and said:
"You can always afford eggs, right? You're at the height of your youth, the time when spirit power increases the fastest. It's too outrageous to hinder your Cultivation progress for the sake of this little bit of money."
As soon as he said this, Oscar, who was burying his head in gobbling up steamed buns, suddenly looked up.
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's expressions also changed instantly, and they hurriedly asked:
"What do you mean by hindering Cultivation progress?"
"You don't know?"
Nangong Lingyun first looked surprised, then explained:
"The essence of Cultivation is actually converting external things into your own energy and storing it.
The same goes for the development of the body; muscles don't come from nowhere.
If an ordinary person only drinks white porridge and doesn't consume any meat, their body will develop problems within half a month.
Because rice and meat provide completely different main nutrients for you, and both are indispensable for the human body.
Spirit Masters can Devour the energy of heaven and earth and won't feel anything unusual, but doing so is completely not worth it.
You must know that the demand for nutrition and energy for growth and development will not decrease just because you eat less or eat poorly.
High-intensity training will greatly increase this demand. My food intake is at least five or six times that of ordinary Spirit Masters.
When the body cannot meet the supply through external nourishment, it can only make up for it from other places, which is slowing down the growth rate of spirit power.
However, for cultivators, growth before the age of twenty-five is extremely crucial, determining the ultimate height a Spirit Master can reach thereafter.
Because once this age is exceeded, the body's energy and development will be completely fixed, and after the age of forty, it will begin to decline.
Many barriers, if not crossed before this, may be difficult to overcome in this lifetime.
Any Spirit Master family, academy, or Sect with a little bit of resources will provide a lot of other resources to assist, such as medicinal baths and Spirit Beast meat, not to mention food."
As Nangong Lingyun spoke, Ma Hongjun and Oscar's faces instantly became extremely ugly,
only Dai Mubai looked relieved.
Among the three students, Fatty and Little Ao mostly ate in the cafeteria,
while he often went to Soto City to date girls and freeload.
The air was silent for a while, and Nangong Lingyun said:
"How about this, let's go to Soto City to eat today. Anyway, it's not far, and I'll treat."
"But class is about to start,"
Ma Hongjun asked, but Nangong Lingyun had already walked out of the cafeteria first.
"Just push it on me. I'll explain it to Flender."