Xin walked to Ye Lingling's side. Although his tone was light, he was already checking her physical condition.
Ye Lingling said with emotion: "No, Teacher Xin is clearly stronger than Grandmaster and Teacher Fu combined, but even though Grandmaster provoked you like that, Teacher Xin not only didn't overpower him with force but also accepted his challenge and was willing to let us leave safely. This shows that Teacher Xin is a man of principles, not someone petty, calculating, or cunning."
"You girl, you certainly know how to talk."
Xin finally showed a faint smile. Who doesn't like to hear praise?
"This girl has inhaled a lot of poisonous fog. Under normal circumstances, she probably wouldn't survive a day. Fortunately, the Nine Heart Sea棠 can save her life. She finally made it back here alive, Little Six, use your poison body to help her guide the toxins out of her body, and her life will be saved."
Xin turned to Dugu Yan and said.
Dugu Yan nodded, emitting purple-black spirit power fluctuations. A colorful snake lotus bloomed in her snake eyes, and four-colored Meridians, composed of white, yellow, purple, and purple-black, appeared in her palm.
This was the Three Flowers, Four Colors of the Minor Achievement Calamity Poison Art, indicating that she could already begin to transform her Blue Phosphor Serpent body into a Calamity Poison Body.
This Calamity Poison Art could digest all toxins within the body and slowly convert them into her spirit power. In layman's terms, she could level up by slowly consuming poison.
Once the Calamity Poison Art reached Major Achievement, releasing the Poison of Misfortune would instantly turn an area of several kilometers into a doomsday disaster zone, with withered vegetation and extinguished life.
Just as Dugu Yan was detoxifying Ye Lingling, Ye Lingling, holding onto her last bit of strength, looked weakly at Xin.
"Teacher Xin... Teacher Xin, I still remember, over a year ago, at the Soto City Great Spirit Arena, you told me that you could help me solve my Spirit inheritance problem, and that if I was willing, I could come to your academy anytime. Was that true? Does it still count now?"
"My words, as long as they haven't been retracted, all count."
Xin said lightly.
As the toxins in her body gradually improved, the purple-black blood rings on Ye Lingling's snow-white skin slowly disappeared. She held Dugu Yan's hands, her eyes filled with gratitude: "Dugu Yan, thank you."
"Teacher Xin, a year ago, I was blind and failed to make the right choice."
"If you don't mind, I am willing to become your disciple, to revere you like my own father, and to Cultivate with you."
Ye Lingling's eyes sparkled, slightly tearful.
She had no father since birth, so a father held an extremely high position in her heart, and it was also her greatest sincerity: revering her teacher as a father.
"Teacher Xin~"
Another one wants to be a disciple, and a beautiful girl at that! Ning Rongrong stood to the side, looking a bit pitiful. She was standing in the garden, while a disciple came from the poison.
Oh well, oh well. Fortunately, this Ye Lingling is sensible. She said she would revere Teacher Xin as her own father. She surely wouldn't compete with Zhuqing and Meng Yiran for Teacher Xin's affection, right?
She wouldn't possibly think, 'Daddy, harder?'
No, no, she wouldn't.
Ning Rongrong breathed a sigh of relief at this thought.
"Very well, you've come at a good time. Since you are someone I chose a year ago, it's not too late to become a disciple now. Take this cherry blossom token, and you will be the seventh student of my Heart of Fire Academy."
A cherry blossom token flew from Xin's fingertip, landing right in front of Ye Lingling.
As for the fact that Ye Lingling hadn't come to become a disciple for a year, Xin didn't mind. After all, he had only casually mentioned accepting a disciple back then. For a single-line Spirit Genius like Ye Lingling, who inherited it for generations, it would be abnormal if she casually left her original academy to become his disciple just because of someone else's words.
People teaching people about things may not succeed in a lifetime.
But things teaching people, one time is enough.
Clutching the cherry blossom token, Ye Lingling bowed her head to Xin:
"Ye Lingling, greets Teacher Xin!"
[Accept Disciple Ye Lingling.]
[Age: 16 years old]
[Aptitude Rank: S+]
[Spirit: Nine Heart Sea]
[spirit power: Rank 38]