29: Chapter 28 Research Scholars

Because Jiang Nannan still had to go back for classes in the morning, the two of them did not stay long.

Rising from Lin Yan's embrace, Jiang Nannan blushed and tidied up her collar, which had been messed up by someone.

"Brother, then I'll be leaving first. I'll come find you again tonight, and by then I'll take you for a good stroll around Shrek City."

Seeing the jade beauty looking as intoxicating as if having drunk fine wine, with tender affection in her brows and eyes, Lin Yan also rose smoothly, a gentle smile lingering in the depths of his eyes: "Alright, I'll listen to my Nannan in everything."

Jiang Nannan's jade face carried a hint of shyness, and in a softly reproachful yet coy voice, she said: "You person ~, who belongs to your family!"

Lin Yan reached out to catch that tender, smooth, and slender hand, looking at the charming and naive jade beauty at this moment, and said clearly: "Alright, alright, alright, then I belong to our Nannan's family, that should be fine, right."

Hearing this, beneath Jiang Nannan's two curved willow-leaf eyebrows, her autumn-water bright eyes rippled with emotion, and her gentle voice carried an imperceptible hint of joy and playfulness: "Bad guy, I'm not talking to you anymore, I really have to go."

Though her lips said she was leaving, Jiang Nannan's feet didn't move an inch, and those pretty eyes seemed as though they could speak, gazing at Lin Yan with autumn ripples in her eyes.

Seeing this, Lin Yan smoothly stepped forward and pulled her back into his arms.

Seeing the beauty's red lips and white teeth, her two peach-like lips growing even more vermilion, her collarbone as exquisite as jade, possessing a beauty that could topple states, Lin Yan lowered his head once more to capture that trace of alluring crimson, plundering the sweetness.

Jiang Nannan slowly closed her bright eyes, her dense eyelashes concealing a cluster of bashfulness, her hands resting on Lin Yan's shoulders as she gently responded.

After a long while, their lips parted...

Jiang Nannan seemed to have sensed the abnormality on someone's body, her gaze shifting somewhat, and she softly said: "Brother, I really have to go."

A youthful body sure is full of vigor!

Lin Yan suppressed the palpitation in his heart, nodded, and said in a warm voice: "Go on quickly, I'm also going to go take a look at the Spirit Fight Arena."

"Mhm mhm!"

Jiang Nannan bashfully tugged at the slightly wrinkled skirt at her chest, and then walked towards the door with much reluctance, until her figure completely vanished from Lin Yan's line of sight.

...

By the time Lin Yan arrived at the Spirit Fight Zone, the person fighting on the stage right at this moment happened to be Wang Donger.

Seeing her dazzling blue wings instantly spread and open from her back after her Spirit avatar possession, her body was also covered with a strange halo intertwined with blue and purple.

The whole person at this moment seemed to have truly become a Fairy of butterflies descended to the mortal world, but unfortunately, this butterfly Fairy at this moment seemed a bit... irritable...?

On the stage, Wang Donger went all out with full firepower, swiftly and fiercely eliminating her opponent in no time.

Lin Yan slowly walked to the side of Teacher Wang Yan, who was full of excitement at the moment, and then clearly saw him holding a pen to record rapidly while muttering to himself: "Radiant Goddess Butterfly! So this is the legendary Radiant Goddess Butterfly that only appears on extremely beautiful people!"

Seeing this, Lin Yan couldn't help but sigh with emotion; if possible, he really wanted to drag "Gangzi" from Douluo I over and let him see what a true scholar was!

Compared to "Gangzi's" scientific research attitude of doing research on one hand while entangling himself with women on the other, someone like Teacher Wang Yan, who had nothing in his eyes except knowledge, was a true research scholar!

What? You're asking if Lin Yan's scientific research attitude is upright?

Um, haha!

Lin Yan had something to say about this, he had never admitted to being a research scholar, haha!

He was just an ordinary person with cheats!

Without disturbing Teacher Wang Yan, who was wholeheartedly devoted to recording and organizing the students' Spirit characteristics, Lin Yan quietly stood beside him and watched with considerable interest.

Although the battles on the field looked somewhat like pecking among rookie chickens in Lin Yan's eyes, the students who could enter Shrek basically had no weak Spirits.

On-site observation and understanding of these various Spirits was also a form of cultivation for Lin Yan; perhaps the bit-by-bit experiences accumulated today would become the catalyst for his inspiration to burst forth on some future day.

Furthermore, watching and thinking more while diverging his thinking was also beneficial for the Prajna Heart Lamp in his Sea of Consciousness, collecting these thoughts that should have flashed by and vanished, transforming them into lamp oil and storing them up for future days.

After another group of students finished their competition and exited the stage, the rather petite and exquisite Xiao Xiao stepped onto the arena.

As for her opponent at this moment, the Spirit was a Beast Spirit called the Swift Thunder Wolf, with a Soul Power at rank 23, which was one rank higher than Xiao Xiao's rank 22.

Originally, the battle between the two could be considered evenly matched and hard to tell apart, but once Xiao Xiao employed her second Spirit—the Nine Phoenixes Coming Flute, she directly locked in her victory.

What was worth mentioning was that at this moment, Xiao Xiao's second Spirit, the Nine Phoenixes Coming Flute, had not yet had any spirit rings attached to it.

Viewed this way, the reason why she subsequently chose to hastily attach a mere hundred-year spirit ring to her second Spirit within three months in the original work seemed to be another sin created by Teacher Zhou Yi.

However, fortunately, Teacher Zhou Yi had long since rolled off God knows where, and there were people on site who knew how to appreciate good things.

Seeing this at present, after witnessing Xiao Xiao use two Spirits at the same time with his own eyes, Teacher Wang Yan was slightly startled at first, and then quickly cried out in shock: "How is that possible?! Utilizing two Spirits at the same time?!!"

Although twin spirits were rare, Shrek had vast resources and a great family business, so Teacher Wang Yan had seen them before.

But twin spirits that could simultaneously urge two Spirits at the same time—that truly went somewhat beyond Teacher Wang Yan's cognitive scope.

You must know that due to the mutual repulsion between Spirits, even with twin spirits, a Spirit Master could generally only utilize one Spirit at a time, and wanting to use another Spirit required switching.

However, where there is a general rule, there are exceptions.

Xiao Xiao's situation was an extremely special example; because the degree of compatibility between her two Spirits was extremely high and their repulsion was extremely minimal, it enabled her to synchronize the actuation of two Spirits.

Disregarding Teacher Wang Yan, who was lost in thought at the moment, the battle in the arena continued.

As time slowly passed and the final match came to an end, the official and deputy monitors of Freshman Class 1 were also born.

They were precisely Wang Donger and Xiao Xiao. As for Lao Huo?

Because Lao Huo's cheat had only just arrived not long ago, although his performance was considered stunning, he still didn't secure the position of monitor like in the original work.

After several rousing and exhilarating battles, Wang Donger's previously unhappy mood had already eased somewhat.

But when she came up from the stage and walked beside Lin Yan, her nose catching the faint lingering fragrance belonging to Jiang Nannan that hovered around him, her beautiful mood instantly became unbeautiful again.

However, looking at Lin Yan, who maintained a calm expression just like usual, Wang Donger opened her mouth, and realizing she didn't have any stance to ask about anything, she could only silently press down the trace of tartness surging in her heart.

After all the students came up in full, Teacher Wang Yan also temporarily suppressed his heart full of unresolved doubts.

But from the gaze he cast toward Xiao Xiao from time to time, it was clear that he definitely still had his mind on this matter.

Lin Yan took all of this in, and understood it in his heart.

It seemed that this time, with Teacher Wang Yan replacing Teacher Zhou Yi, Xiao Xiao probably wouldn't repeat the same mistakes as in the original work and waste her own talent in vain.

Xiao Xiao's path in the original work definitely went astray; originally, her pair of simultaneously usable twin spirits—with the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron focusing on strong attack and the Nine Phoenixes Coming Flute focusing on the control system—matched together could directly produce an effect of 1+1 greater than 2.

But for some unknown reason, she instead developed both Spirits towards the control system, causing the advantage of her unique twin spirits to be greatly discounted.

Afterwards, Teacher Wang Yan combined the combat details recorded just moments before to guide everyone on the shortcomings and deficiencies exposed during combat.

After a round of reviews, this morning simply passed by like this.