...
As evening fell and the city lights began to twinkle, the evening began to come on.
After a long day of quiet rest and nourishment with elixirs, Qian Renxue, who had been slumped on the sofa, finally regained her strength, and the soreness and weakness disappeared.
However, as soon as he regained his strength, the first thing this arrogant Crown Prince did was to blush and ruthlessly kick Xuan Hao out of the Crown Prince's residence!
This time, she absolutely dared not leave this great deity behind again.
What a joke!
A man and a woman alone in a room, what if she accidentally arouses this guy's lust again, or... her own unreliable body recalls what happened this morning and gets aroused again.
Wouldn't that mean we'd fall into that incredibly humiliating "death loop" again?!
No! We absolutely cannot continue like this! If this continues, her authority as the Crown Prince will be shattered beyond repair.
Xuan Hao naturally saw through Qian Renxue's awkward little thoughts.
In addition, since he had been away for the past few days, he really needed to go back and check on those girls to avoid making them worry.
So he didn't continue to shamelessly stay here.
He went down the steps, left the Crown Prince's residence, and quickly headed towards the Tian Dou Royal Hotel.
...
As soon as Xuan Hao pushed open the door to the penthouse suite he had booked long-term at the hotel, he saw the lobby brightly lit.
Na'er, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and their group were all sitting neatly on the sofa, clearly having been waiting for him.
Seeing Xuan Hao finally walk in unharmed, the girls immediately swarmed around him like cats smelling fish.
"Well, you've got some nerve! Didn't you say you were just going to appease His Highness the Crown Prince?
How come you've been gone for days and we haven't even seen a trace of you!"
Ning Rongrong put her hands on her hips, sniffed Xuan Hao like a puppy, then looked him up and down with an ambiguous and suspicious gaze, before asking a startling question: "
You two, all alone together... ugh, all alone together, what have you been doing in the Crown Prince's residence these past few days?
You weren't really doing 'that kind of thing,' were you?!"
Ning Rongrong felt her guess made more and more sense as she spoke, but then she frowned and muttered, "But... even if you two are really passionate, you don't have to do it for several days in a row, do you?
Aren't you still deficient in qi and blood?
Are you trying to kill yourself?"
"Smack!"
Hearing these increasingly outrageous and inappropriate words, Xuan Hao raised his hand speechlessly and flicked Ning Rongrong's smooth forehead.
"Ouch!" Ning Rongrong covered her forehead, glaring at him with a wronged expression.
"Can you all stop having all this nonsense and lewd drivel in your heads all day long?"
Xuan Hao sighed wearily and clarified irritably, "I haven't been back for the past few days because I've been staying at the Crown Prince's residence to handle official business and cultivate in seclusion!"
As he spoke, in order to dispel the explicit images in the minds of these young girls, Xuan Hao's expression turned serious.
He closed his eyes, instantly concentrated his mind, and directly activated the soul core that had just begun to take shape deep within his dantian.
"Buzz—!"
With a deep hum, an immense and terrifying suction force suddenly erupted from Xuan Hao's body!
To everyone's astonishment, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the suite and even within a radius of several hundred meters seemed to be under some irresistible and forced summoning.
It actually transformed into a visible stream of light, which, like rivers flowing into the sea, was forcibly drawn in and frantically poured into Xuan Hao's body!
Sensing the domineering and terrifying speed at which this energy was devouring her, Na'er, who had been standing quietly to the side, showed a clear surprise and delight in her clear purple eyes.
"Brother, you...you actually managed to condense the 'Soul Core'?"
Hearing Na'er's exclamation, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and the others were all completely bewildered.
They exchanged glances, their minds filled with questions:
"Soul Core? What's a Soul Core? What's it used for?"
Seeing that no one understood, Na'er smiled slightly and patiently explained the science to everyone.
"The so-called soul core is a profound and dangerous soul power compression technique. Simply put, it is to forcibly compress the originally gaseous or liquid scattered soul power in the body into a constantly rotating energy vortex in the dantian."
Na'er, observing the extraordinary phenomenon of Xuan Hao continuously absorbing spiritual energy, explained softly,
"Once a Soul Core is condensed, a Soul Master can not only increase their total Soul Power reserves, but more terrifyingly, the Soul Core will act like a perpetual motion machine, constantly and automatically absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world.
This means that a Soul Master with a Soul Core will reach a terrifyingly inhuman level in terms of Soul Power recovery speed and sustained combat ability!"
"hiss--!"
After listening to Na'er's easy-to-understand explanation of the science, everyone gasped and stared wide-eyed.
In the common knowledge of the Douluo Continent, the amount and speed of soul power recovery depend entirely on the quality of the martial soul and one's own level.
They had never heard of such a heaven-defying, almost "cheat-like" cultivation method in this world!
"Alright, don't think of this thing as something mystical. I'm just using a trick."
Xuan Hao slowly withdrew the suction force within his body, opened his eyes, looked at the group of girls who were too shocked to speak, and explained with a smile:
"The soul core in my body is currently only an extremely unstable prototype.
In order to make it completely stable and unleash its full power, I need to cultivate to at least the level of a level 90 Title Douluo."
"However, even if it's just a prototype, it's more than enough to deal with the current situation for now."
Xuan Hao stepped forward and gently patted Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong's heads one by one.
His gaze swept over Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and the others, his tone filled with encouragement and expectation:
"So, you all need to work hard from now on.
Once you break through to the level 70 Soul Saint realm, if your physical fitness and mental strength meet my requirements, I can personally help you try to condense your own Soul Core."
"Otherwise... you'll have to suffer through the long grind to reach level 90 Title Douluo before gambling on that minuscule chance of condensing your power.
Do you understand?"
Upon hearing Xuan Hao's promise to help them condense their soul cores after they reached level 70, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others' eyes lit up, and they all nodded to indicate that they understood.
These past few years, following Xuan Hao's side and watching him rise to prominence, a sense of powerlessness, like gazing at the stars, has always weighed heavily on the hearts of these proud and ambitious girls.
They didn't want to be nothing more than pretty but useless ornaments to Xuan Hao.
"Don't rush this. You have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to take cultivation one step at a time."
Xuan Hao waved his hand, bringing the topic back on track, and asked with a frown, "By the way, a few days ago when I was resting, you all rushed in, shouting something like 'Something happened at Shrek Academy'?
What exactly happened?"
"Ah, this..."
Reminded by Xuan Hao, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and the others immediately showed a hint of embarrassment.
They rushed into Xuan Hao's room, only to be met with a bombshell scene:
Xue Qinghe, disheveled, straddling Xuan Hao's waist.
It was utterly shocking! It was like their brains were being violently rubbed into the ground!
After that, their minds were filled with those bizarre and perverse "male-male gossips," and they didn't care about any of the messy things at Shrek Academy anymore.
They had completely forgotten about it!
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