"Teacher Su, this is the performance roster for this Named Disciple assessment. I've placed it on your desk."
"Mm, alright."
At the Peach Garden campus, Bibi Dong entered the Dean's office behind the school hall, carrying a file bag.
Su Ran was currently perusing books related to the geographical records of Douluo Continent, but the records were not clear. For example, information about the Far North and Sea God Island was very rudimentary, less detailed than the information in Su Ran's own mind. The geographical locations were also only approximate, with significant discrepancies in reality.
It was not easy to find a Trial Grounds for the Disciple's assessment.
"Teacher Su is truly dedicated, putting so much effort into these students. Are you looking through these atlases to find a Trial Grounds similar to Slaughter City for the Disciples?"
Bibi Dong approached, guessing Su Ran's intention.
Su Ran nodded:
"You could say that. As a teacher, these students are like my own children. The effort I put in is worth it."
"Furthermore, the spirit power of these Core Disciples has reached level fifty or sixty. This is a crucial juncture, especially for the seventh spirit ring."
"Many Spirit Masters believe that the seventh spirit ring is a fixed Spirit Ability—Spirit Avatar—and therefore doesn't require special selection of the spirit ring; any spirit ring of a suitable age can be hunted.
In reality, the seventh Spirit Ability is the most important Spirit Ability, even surpassing the importance of ordinary eighth and ninth Spirit Abilities."
Children…
Hearing Su Ran's previous words, Bibi Dong's eyes immediately dimmed considerably. Yes, Teacher Su was already very busy taking care of these Disciples.
Bibi Dong still curved her lips into a smile and asked:
"Spirit Avatar is indeed very important, but this claim that it's more important than even the ninth spirit ring is the first I've heard. Does Teacher Su have any insights?"
"You are the Supreme Pontiff of the Supreme Pontiff Palace, well-informed and knowledgeable. You should be able to notice a problem: many Spirit Masters experience huge side effects after unleashing their Spirit Avatar. Some even enter a weakened state for several days or more than ten days, unable to use Spirit Abilities again. However, some Spirit Masters can recover from the side effects within a few hours and return to their Peak state."
Looking at Su Ran's exquisitely handsome face, Bibi Dong was momentarily stunned and immediately fell into a state of contemplation due to Su Ran:
"That is indeed the case. Therefore, there is a relatively large debate in the Spirit Master's world about the effectiveness of the Spirit Avatar Spirit Ability. More commonly, it is believed to be related to the quality of the Spirit itself. Does Teacher Su believe that the side effects of Spirit Avatar are not inherent to the Spirit, but rather a problem caused by the spirit ring?"
"The logic of that theory is too poor. The quality of a Spirit only indicates the Spirit Master's talent; what does it have to do with the side effects of Spirit Avatar?"
Su Ran enthusiastically explained to Bibi Dong:
"It is the attribute and strength of the spirit ring that determine the strength and side effects of the Spirit Avatar. The higher the age of the spirit ring, the stronger the effect of the Spirit Avatar. The closer and more suitable the spirit ring's attribute is to the Spirit Master's attribute, the smaller the side effects it brings. Conversely, if the spirit ring's attribute is incompatible with the Spirit Master's, and the Spirit Master cannot suppress this conflicting attribute, then it will bring huge side effects to him."
"For example, Bing'er's Spirit is the Ice Phoenix. If I were to choose a fire-attribute Spirit Beast as her seventh spirit ring, then once she uses her seventh Spirit Ability, the fire-attribute spirit power contained within the spirit ring would also invade her body, causing her to enter a relatively long period of fatigue after using Spirit Avatar."
"Unless Bing'er can Cultivate a fire-attribute Cultivation Technique, allowing her body to simultaneously accommodate two conflicting attributes of energy."
Su Ran used his student, Shui Bing'er, as an example for Bibi Dong.
This made Bibi Dong suddenly enlightened, "So that's it! So the suitability of the spirit ring is the most important consideration for the seventh spirit ring?!"
No wonder the effects and side effects brought by her two Spirit Avatars were different.
After a moment's thought, Bibi Dong looked at Su Ran with an expression of admiration mixed with envy:
"These girls, to have a teacher like you, Teacher Su, it truly is their honor."
"No, having Teacher Su here is also Douluo Continent's fortune. I believe that if Teacher Su continues to teach and continue his research, the entire Spirit Master's world will undergo earth-shattering changes."
Upon hearing this, Su Ran became a bit shy. In truth, he hadn't thought so much initially; he had simply progressed step by step, and before he knew it, the academy had developed into what it was. His theories on the development of Spirits and Spirit Master Cultivation had also become increasingly refined.
Perhaps not entirely correct, but at least far more accurate than the various haphazard theories currently circulating on the continent.
"I don't intend to change the Spirit Master's world in any particular way. It's just that these things might make these students better, and that makes them worth exploring."
"I also believe that we will all become better."
Saying this, Su Ran looked at Bibi Dong and added another sentence.
Although what happened in Taoyou Pavilion was an accident.
But Su Ran felt that since it had happened, perhaps it was destined, and it was best to let nature take its course. He was also slowly letting go of his previous prejudices against Bibi Dong.
"Good… good."
Bibi Dong felt the sincerity and youthful innocence in Su Ran's eyes, and her exquisitely beautiful face couldn't help but flush slightly. It was unlikely any woman could remain unmoved by Teacher Su's words.
She even wished she could throw herself into his arms right now and do something naughty again!
No, three times! Ten times!
But she couldn't.
…
As night fell, the night breeze from the Peach blossom forest swept through Taoyou Pavilion upstairs in Peach Garden Academy.
Bibi Dong sat by the window of the pavilion, grooming herself in front of a mirror.
Before her lay the vast Peach blossom forest, bathed in moonlight.
In the distance, someone was practicing, and faint wolf howls echoed: "Awoo~ Awoo~", like a hungry wolf hunting.
Over a month had passed, and Bibi Dong had been living in this pavilion that she would never forget, experiencing the happiest days of her life in decades.
Su Ran had been very kind to her, specially preparing medicines for nourishing bones and Spirits for her to take. In just one month, the side effects from the stripping of her torso bone's power had significantly lessened, and he had even given her a new torso bone.
Although this torso bone wasn't a hundred-thousand-year one, it was still a fifty-thousand-year one, and there was also a bottle of bone-nourishing liquid that could promote Spirit Bone Fusion and evolution.
It was said that the torso bone Ning Rongrong had originally absorbed was terrifyingly low in age, only over two thousand years. However, because it was very suitable, Teacher Su had allowed her to absorb it. Using this bone-nourishing liquid, it had evolved into a ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone within two or three years, and its age had now reached the strength of thirty thousand years.
A medicine that could quickly increase the age of a Spirit Bone was absolutely priceless in the Spirit Master's world.
These things were etched in her heart.
Pushing open the window behind her, her gaze crossed the pond pavilion to Su Ran's residence.
Bibi Dong sighed softly, left a letter on the inkstone, and descended the pavilion with a very light step.
Relying on the Peach blossom teacher's token, she avoided the students' residences and moved unhindered. In a few minutes, she reached outside the academy, touched her inconspicuous lower abdomen, and looked back at the magnificent scenery of Peach Garden Academy, murmuring:
"Teacher Su, although I haven't been at the academy for long, I can feel your affection for this academy and its students."
"I don't want to make things difficult for you. We are leaving."
"I hope you can focus on teaching, fulfill your ideals and research. I… we will always wait for you."
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