"Third Brother, isn't this Peach Garden Academy? Why did you bring me here?"
"Shh, Xiao Wu, speak softly. Based on my observations, the recent Spirit Beast cries probably came from Peach Garden Academy.
We can use this opportunity to observe how the students of Peach Garden Academy train, so we can discover their weaknesses and help Boss Dai and Fatty defeat them in the future."
"Oh, so Third Brother, you came to peek. Third Brother, you're so skilled at climbing walls."
"Shh, this is called knowing yourself and your enemy to win every battle, not peeking."
"Flying over eaves and scaling walls is just a small trick. If you want to learn, I can teach you later."
"Come, Xiao Wu."
Outside the walls of Peach Garden Academy, seeing Tang San skillfully flying over eaves and scaling walls, finding a blind spot on a rooftop to lurk and observe the scene inside Peach Garden Academy, Xiao Wu realized that Tang San had brought her here to peek into the situation of Peach Garden Academy.
The two sat on the outer eaves of Peach Garden Academy's utility room, starlight faintly scattered, and Tang San began to carefully observe the academy's layout.
He chose his position well, able to see most of Peach Garden Academy, and it was a distance from the inner courtyard where Su Ran was, making it less likely to be detected.
Such skill in choosing a peeking spot showed that he was not a first-time offender.
"The campus environment of Peach Garden Academy is indeed beautiful. Our Shrek can't compare to this place. peach blossoms abound, red maples sway, and starlight twinkles. It's truly romantic. Unfortunately, they are our opponents."
"Xiao Wu, look, this Peach Garden Academy is roughly divided into three main parts: front, middle, and inner. The front courtyard is the school gate and the small entrance plaza. I think only Wang Sheng usually moves around there.
The middle courtyard seems to be a training ground, set with some iron stakes and silver threads, which should all be used for training. My guess was indeed correct; the teaching methods of the teachers at this Peach Garden Academy should be quite novel.
The environment of the inner courtyard is even more leisurely, with gardens, ponds, and elegant tea pavilions. It seems that Teacher Su Ran of Peach Garden Academy is indeed quite leisurely and refined in his usual life."
"Xiao Wu, look quickly, no wonder Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing are progressing so rapidly. Even at night, they are cultivating."
Suddenly, Tang San focused his gaze, pointing towards the direction of the academy's female dormitory.
The rooftop of Peach Garden Academy's female dormitory building had several skylights, made with wooden grates. When the weather was good, they would open the skylights and sit cross-legged inside, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon.
Three faint glows of different colors lingered in mid-air above the dormitory building. Xiao Wu might not quite understand what they were, but Tang San, who also cultivated Mysterious Heaven Skill and purified his body with the essence of the sun and moon, understood very well that those were the students of Peach Garden Academy cultivating.
Following Tang San's direction, Xiao Wu also noticed the anomaly in that dormitory building. It didn't look like ordinary Spirit Master cultivation.
"Xiao Wu, from now on, we'll observe their situation here. I refuse to believe we can't find flaws in their cultivation methods."
Xiao Wu glanced at the serious-faced Tang San and clutched her satchel tightly:
"Um, Third Brother, actually, I was planning to..."
"Roar—"
Just as Xiao Wu was hesitating whether to bid farewell to Tang San and go find the Immortal in her heart, a tiger's roar faintly echoed again.
Xiao Wu couldn't help but look in the direction of the sound, only to see two faintly trembling, bound Spirit Beast figures hidden beneath two lush peach trees between the front courtyard plaza and the training ground of Peach Garden Academy.
Because the peach trees swayed, the area where they were appeared blurry, and their full appearance couldn't be seen, making them difficult to spot at night.
"The Spirit Beast roars indeed came from Peach Garden Academy. These two are ferocious and violent Spirit Beasts, probably brought back by Su Ran from the Star Dou Great Forest."
"Tsk, he's good to his students, actually bringing Spirit Beasts back to the academy from five hundred miles away to raise them for the convenience of his students to hunt, and they are all rare Spirit Beasts."
A hint of purple appeared in Tang San's eyes, allowing him to see clearly the movements at night.
It was definitely false to say he wasn't envious.
After all, he had never received such treatment. When he hunted his first spirit ring, he followed Grandmaster into the forest and spent a great deal of effort to help kill a Datura Snake. How could there be such a good thing as delivery to your doorstep?
"Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu?! Where are you!"
After Tang San gently clicked his tongue, he realized that Xiao Wu beside him had disappeared.
The purple glow in his eyes intensified, and with Purple Demon Eye activated, he finally caught Xiao Wu's figure in the dim light.
Xiao Wu was climbing along the eaves, moving towards the edge, finding a better position, and staring intently at the Spirit Beasts under the two peach trees.
Xiao Wu's eyes at this moment were extremely complex, as if she had fallen into some riddle.
Those two Spirit Beasts... they looked so familiar.
Had she seen them somewhere before?
Yes, she had seen them. They were the two Spirit Beasts that the Immortal, who had appeared so fleetingly, had taken away that day in the Star Dou Great Forest. Whether it was their species, Bloodline, or size, they were almost identical!
How could there be such a coincidence in the world?
Why did these two Spirit Beasts appear in Peach Garden Academy?
What on earth was going on?
Could it be that the person she saw was in Peach Garden Academy?
Then why had he never shown his face?
In Xiao Wu's mind, that sentence echoed again:
"Lower your head and pinch the sides of your nose with your hands."
Xiao Wu recalled that the peach blossom Spring teacher at Peach Garden Academy, who never showed his face and always wore a mask, had only appeared a few times to stand up for his students. His figure, his voice, seemed to overlap with that Immortal at this moment.
"Could it be him!"
The man she saw in the Star Dou Great Forest back then, could he be Teacher Su Ran of Peach Garden Academy?!
Xiao Wu's eyes widened, and she froze in place, somewhat unable to believe it. She felt as if she were dreaming, standing there like a statue, motionless, dumbfounded.
Are you saying that I clearly had the chance to take an Immortal as my teacher, but I missed such a good opportunity and entered Shrek?
Are you saying that the incomparably handsome and peerless man I fell in love with at first sight in the Star Dou Great Forest is a teacher from an opposing academy?
Ah—
Xiao Wu felt like dying.
But if she could choose how to die, she would rather clarify the truth and die on the bed of that peerless man.
The flowing water dries up, and there is no regret in death.
"..."
"Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu?"
"Xiao Wu, what were you about to say just now?"
"Are you interested in these two Spirit Beasts?"
Tang San called her several times before Xiao Wu slowly came back to her senses, quickly calming herself down, but her wildly beating heart had already betrayed her.
Xiao Wu hugged her bag tightly; she wasn't leaving:
"Third Brother, from now on, I want to observe the situation at Peach Garden Academy every day. Can you help me?"
"Every day? Yes, but... Xiao Wu, why..."
Tang San was a bit puzzled why Xiao Wu seemed completely different after seeing those two Spirit Beasts, as if she had come alive and was very excited.
Ever since going to the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu had become very strange.
"As long as it's fine! You'll know the reason later, and then Third Brother, you'll definitely be amazed!"
"Third Brother, if I find the person I like, the one I want to be with forever, will you support me and bless me?"
"Ah???"
"Xiao Wu, what about me?"
"You're Third Brother, I consider you my most trustworthy older brother."
"Xiao Wu, you—"
Tang San looked at Xiao Wu with complex eyes: "Xiao Wu, do you think your savior is in Peach Garden Academy?"