15: Chapter 15 Zhu Zhuqing's Persistence, Xiao Wu's Return

Su Ling didn't expect that after his favorability rating reached over 70, it changed from "quite favorable" to "somewhat like"!

What about the next stage?

Is she going to fall in love with me!

The Cultivate effect from the bound goddess had also increased by ten percent, and Su Ling had already experienced this over the past few days.

Every day, the System would infuse him with a stream of energy to increase his Soul Power.

He could accept this energy daily, or accumulate it to use all at once.

Su Ling's Soul Power had long since reached level 40, so these past few days he had only experienced it once, then stored everything else.

He would wait to accumulate more Cultivate effects before using them all at once; either he could directly level up, or use it when he needed a Breakthrough.

Looking at his two other skills, the probability of "Listen to Advice" had increased slightly, and the other was a passive skill that increased luck.

Luck was a rather mysterious concept, but sometimes it really could bring unexpected gains.

Su Ling and the others followed Flender's instructions to wait nearby, and since the Titan Giant Ape had just been there, the nearby Spirit Beasts had long since been scared away.

"Brother Su, let me see your wounds."

While they were resting, Zhuqing came over to Su Ling's side, offering to tend to his wounds.

"Yeah, yeah, Brother Su, just now because of you I was almost..." Ning Rongrong stopped there, then continued, "But Brother Su, you looked really cool when you saved Zhuqing."

"Is that so?" Su Ling smiled, looked at Ning Rongrong, and continued, "I am honored to be praised by you, Rongrong."

[Ding... Ning Rongrong favorability + 1, obtained white treasure chest * 1]

Huh? It increased with just one sentence?

Zhuqing was crouching beside Su Ling. Dai Mubai walked over, but before he could speak, Zhuqing said, "Brother Su got injured saving me, so I must tend to his wounds myself."

The wound wasn't actually that big, but this gesture was necessary.

Zhuqing appeared cold on the outside, but she was actually the opposite on the inside; sometimes, once she decided on someone, she would do anything for them.

Her favorability toward Su Ling had risen to 75 points; the phrase "somewhat like" actually held some weight.

"Actually, I was coming to save you too, just now, but Su Ling was a bit faster than me," Dai Mubai said with a helpless expression.

"Hmph, if we waited for you, Zhuqing would have been in danger by the time you arrived." Beside them, Ning Rongrong rolled her eyes at Dai Mubai.

During this time, there was nothing going on between Zhuqing and Su Ling; the two of them didn't talk much, yet Dai Mubai couldn't even tolerate that little bit.

Furthermore, Zhuqing had also stated that she didn't like Dai Mubai.

Ning Rongrong couldn't understand why Dai Mubai was always targeting Su Ling; whenever Zhuqing and Su Ling had even the slightest bit of interaction, Dai Mubai would be displeased.

Thus, at this moment, Ning Rongrong was growing to dislike Dai Mubai more and more.

"Yeah, Second Brother Dai, Boss Su saved Zhuqing after all," Oscar, who was nearby, also spoke up.

In his view, if it weren't for Su Ling, Zhuqing might have suffered a serious injury just now. It was just cleaning a wound; was Dai Mubai being too sensitive?

A nameless fire burned in Dai Mubai's heart. He turned back to look at Oscar and said coldly, "Is 'Zhuqing' something you can call her?"

After saying this, Dai Mubai leaped onto a large tree nearby and hid himself.

As a man, Dai Mubai could naturally feel that Su Ling had designs on Zhuqing, but he could do nothing about it.

"Su Ling, you brought this on yourself. I won't hold back anymore, hmph..." Dai Mubai clenched his fists.

Zhuqing was very careful and skilled at cleaning Su Ling's wounds, which aroused Ning Rongrong's curiosity.

"Zhuqing, did you often help others clean their wounds before?" Ning Rongrong asked curiously.

"Hmm, I suppose so." Zhuqing nodded. Could she tell her that she used to clean her own wounds?

Especially during the journey to Shrek Academy; although there were no major injuries, there were constant minor ones along the way. And back in the Star Luo Empire, wasn't it always herself who treated her injuries?

"I see! It would be great if we had a healing-type Support here; for an injury like Brother Su's, one healing Spirit Ability would be enough," Ning Rongrong teased.

Time passed slowly, and by nightfall, Tang San and Flender had still not returned.

Zhao Wuji continued to lead everyone in waiting on the spot; if they went too far, they wouldn't be able to find them or regroup later.

At night, Su Ling sat outside the tent on watch; he was responsible for the first half of the night, and Dai Mubai for the second half.

His gaze fell upon the System's light screen!

White * 12, Yellow * 7, Black treasure chest * 1

"A black treasure chest, what could be inside?"

Su Ling took a deep breath, then muttered in his heart, "System, open the black treasure chest."

[Ding... Opening black treasure chest, congratulations to the host for obtaining high-grade Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue * 3 (no side effects)]

Whale Glue?

And it's Ten-Thousand-Year grade!

This is great stuff for improving physical strength, and it's something he can use right now.

Just at this moment, there was movement in the forest.

A Spirit Beast?

Su Ling immediately stood up and released his Spirit. Just as he was about to wake everyone up, he saw three familiar figures.

Weren't those Flender, Tang San, and Xiao Wu who had gone out?

Xiao Wu was in good condition; it looked like she had already condensed her third spirit ring.

"Dean, Tang San, Xiao Wu, are you okay!" Su Ling asked.

"Thank you for your concern, Brother Su, I'm fine. I don't know why, but the Titan Giant Ape grabbed me for a while and then threw me down. I was quite lucky; later, I encountered a Spirit Beast that was about to die after being caught in the crossfire of the Titan Giant Ape, and I successfully advanced to Spirit Elder," Xiao Wu said with a smile.

"Then congratulations to you," Su Ling said.

"Everyone is already resting, your tents are set up, go get some rest," Su Ling said.

"Mm!" Xiao Wu nodded.

"Brother, you've been looking for me for so long, go get some rest."

Xiao Wu said with a look of concern; during this period, Xiao Wu was indeed very good to Tang San.

Perhaps because of this, the difficulty for Su Ling to increase favorability with Xiao Wu was greater.

Originally, Zhuqing was the most difficult, but after the forced binding, and with her relationship with Dai Mubai deteriorating step by step, the difficulty of gaining favorability from her had decreased quite a bit.

Tang San didn't stand on ceremony and chose to go rest; after all, searching for so long was tiring, and he also needed to recover some Soul Power as soon as possible.

Flender was the same; he also needed to recover Soul Power.

As for Xiao Wu, she stayed outside, prepared to keep watch with Su Ling.

"Brother Su, is everyone okay?" Xiao Wu asked tentatively.

Su Ling said, "Everyone is fine. Perhaps this Titan Giant Ape didn't want to make things difficult for us at all; it was just playing around."

"Ma, maybe so," Xiao Wu said.

Afterward, Su Ling began to chat with Xiao Wu about this and that, continuing until the second half of the night when Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun came to take over the watch.

When they arrived, they discovered Xiao Wu had returned, so Xiao Wu explained it again just as she had told Su Ling earlier.

[Ding... Xiao Wu favorability + 4, obtained white treasure chest * 1, yellow treasure chest * 1]

Huh?

Su Ling, who had just returned to the tent, also heard the System's prompt. He didn't expect to gain so much favorability from Xiao Wu after chatting for over an hour.

This was definitely an unexpected surprise.

Just a while ago, Su Ling was lamenting that Xiao Wu's favorability was hard to increase, but gaining 4 points at once seemed easy after all.

Could it be that his methods and approach toward Xiao Wu were wrong before?