She reached out and handed over a slightly smaller jade bottle.
"What is this?" Lin Yuan was a bit surprised.
"Oh, don't worry about what it is."
Xiao Wu's gaze flickered, not daring to look into Lin Yuan's eyes.
"This is... well, a good thing I picked up by chance. It's said to be of some help in cultivating mental force."
"Since you treated me to candied haws and took me out to play yesterday, this young lady will reward you with some!"
Lin Yuan took the jade bottle and opened the stopper.
A clear, faint fragrance instantly wafted into his nose. Just one whiff made his originally stinging Sea of Consciousness feel much cooler!
"This is..."
Lin Yuan's pupils shrank slightly. This aura was definitely a top-tier tonic for mental force!
Moreover, he had long noticed the extra ring on Xiao Wu's left hand.
It seemed the rewards the System gave this girl last night were quite generous.
"Ten-thousand-year level medicinal liquid?"
Lin Yuan looked at the emerald-green liquid in the bottle; there was a full half-bottle.
This girl actually shared half with him?
In an instant, a warm current flowed through Lin Yuan's heart.
Truth be told.
This feeling of being supported by a "rich woman" was actually quite nice.
Although this "rich woman's" support was a bit meager.
At the same time, he mentally flipped the bird at that dog System and complained:
"System, look at Xiao Wu!"
"Giving medicine to improve mental force to others but not to me, the host, right?"
"I even have to rely on my wife... ahem, rely on a friend for relief. Aren't you ashamed?"
System: [Hehe, living off a woman while acting tough—do you think you're in the right? If it really doesn't work, return the mental cultivation technique to me, and I'll give you the medicinal liquid?]
Lin Yuan didn't act pretentious. He put away the jade bottle and looked at Xiao Wu seriously:
"Thanks."
"This thing is very important to me."
"If you want to eat candied haws in the future, you'll have as many as you want."
Xiao Wu gave a tsundere snort:
"Who cares about your candied haws... I want to eat at the most expensive restaurant in Nuoding City!"
"No problem, I'll arrange it!"
...In the afternoon.
The originally peaceful Nuoding Academy suddenly became as lively as a boiling pot.
Wang Sheng came running into Dormitory Seven, panting heavily with a flushed face, his eyes sparkling with the fire of gossip.
"Boss! Boss!"
"They're back! They're back!"
Lin Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed refining the medicinal liquid, opened his eyes and said, "Who's back? Why such a fuss?"
"Who else! Of course it's that Grandmaster and Tang San!"
Wang Sheng swallowed and gestured excitedly:
"You guys didn't see the scene; it was too miserable!"
"That Grandmaster was carried in on a stretcher by several teachers!"
"He was lying face down on the stretcher, his butt... his butt was swollen like a giant millstone! His pants were even torn open!"
"I heard he insisted on showing off in the Spirit Hunting Forest, and ended up getting bitten on the butt by a Spirit Beast and severely poisoned!"
"If the poison hadn't been neutralized in time, the Grandmaster probably wouldn't have made it back to the academy."
"Hahaha!"
The surrounding Work-Study Students burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"This is the Grandmaster? That's it? Doesn't he know his own strength is lacking? And he took Tang San to the Spirit Hunting Forest alone? Isn't that just seeking death?"
Xiao Wu sat on the edge of the bed, swinging her legs. Hearing this, she couldn't help but look at Lin Yuan.
So everything Lin Yuan said was true!
The diary just said yesterday that Yu Xiaogang would get bitten on the butt, and today he really came back with a swollen butt!
[Ding, Xiao Wu's trust in the host's diary content has reached over 60%; an additional reward will be granted.]
[This reward will be issued in five days in the form of a first-time guaranteed critical hit.]
However, at this moment, Tang San had already returned to Dormitory Seven.
The others in Dormitory Seven immediately stopped laughing.
Yu Xiaogang was, after all, Tang San's teacher, and since they had returned safely, it meant Tang San had now obtained his first spirit ring.
He was now an official one-ring Spirit Master!
This was not someone they, mere Spirit Scholars, could provoke.
Right then, coincidentally, Wang Sheng, wanting to liven up the atmosphere, asked Tang San curiously, "Tang San, what kind of spirit ring did you get this time? Can you tell us?"
"You have no idea, those noble students in the academy, led by Xiao Chenyu, keep making trouble for us."
"Now that we Work-Study Students have three one-ring Spirit Masters among us, Xiao Chenyu probably won't dare to cause trouble anymore!"
Tang San nodded calmly, his gaze drifting toward Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu before he extended his right hand.
The next moment, his Blue Silver Grass Spirit appeared in his right hand.
However, because he had absorbed the Datura Snake's spirit ring, his Blue Silver Grass had undergone a massive change.
The leaves had become a bit larger, and most importantly, there were black spots on them, which clearly looked poisonous.
And his spirit ring also slowly floated up.
"Holy crap! Tang San! Your first spirit ring is actually a yellow hundred-year spirit ring!"
Tang San nodded and said, "Yes, my first spirit ring comes from a four-hundred-year Datura Snake. The Spirit Ability is Binding."
Wang Sheng swallowed hard. "You should register at the Spirit Hall when you have time. You can check what level your spirit power is now, and after becoming a Spirit Master, you can receive a subsidy of one gold coin every month."
Tang San nodded indifferently, but the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
"Hmm, congratulations on getting a Binding Spirit Ability."
Lin Yuan said flatly.
Then he resumed his Cultivation, and Xiao Wu beside him did the same.
After all, she had already learned from Lin Yuan's diary what kind of Spirit Ability Tang San would get, so there was no sense of novelty at all.
She even felt that this Spirit Ability wasn't that great, not even as good as her first Spirit Ability, Waist Bow.
Instantly increasing her waist strength by 100% and toughness by 50%; after spirit power level ten, the amplification effect increases by an additional 1% for every level gained. This was the foundation for her to perform the Instant Kill Eight Stage Drop.
Tang San had originally felt a bit self-satisfied, but when he saw that the two Geniuses he held in high regard seemed completely uninterested in his Spirit Ability, he suddenly felt a strange sensation in his heart.
This caused him to frown slightly.
But before he could think further, he left Dormitory Seven. He needed to find a blacksmith job in the city.
This was not just to earn money, but also to practice the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Method his father had taught him, and to prepare for making the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
And while he was at it, to register at the Spirit Hall.
Soon, five days passed.
This day was the seventh day since Lin Yuan and the girls had obtained the diary.
Apart from the first two days when Lin Yuan leaked some things about the original work, the remaining five days were a return to daily life.
After all, a diary is for recording what happens in a day, so during these few days, he wrote about his own Cultivation, what Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were doing, and his interactions with Xiao Wu in the diary.
This way, others wouldn't suspect that he actually knew they possessed diary instances, and the content he wrote would be more believable!
And Lin Yuan, having waited for five days, finally sensed a stir...