7: Chapter 7 Tang San's Lies, Dai Mubai Declares Sovereignty

After more than an hour, having eaten and drunk their fill, Tang San deliberately let Su Ling and the others leave first. Even Xiao Wu did not stay behind, leaving him alone to settle the bill.

It just took a bit too long to settle the bill. About the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he came out, and surprisingly, Dai Mubai came out with him.

"Brother, why did it take so long?" Xiao Wu asked, somewhat reproachfully as she walked up to Tang San.

Tang San said, "I ran into Dai Mubai when you all were leaving. He was handling some matters here, so I was delayed for a bit."

Dai Mubai said, "I drank a bit too much just now. Don't misunderstand, I didn't do anything. Those two women just helped me upstairs, and when I woke up and came down, I ran into Tang San."

"Is that so?" Xiao Wu looked Dai Mubai up and down, appearing somewhat unconvinced.

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Tang San," Dai Mubai said, looking at Tang San.

Tang San immediately nodded and said, "Yes, that's right. We misunderstood Dai Mubai just now. Those two girls have nothing to do with him."

Tang San lied without even blushing or losing his breath. But beggars can't be choosers; if Dai Mubai hadn't appeared to help him cover the dozens of gold coins just now, he would have been in trouble today.

Originally, he had wanted to use his Hidden Weapons to pay, but who knew the restaurant manager wouldn't accept such things and only recognized gold coins.

Fortunately, Dai Mubai appeared in time and helped him cover the dozens of gold coins.

So, he had mentioned that they had seen him with two women when they arrived to eat, and in turn, Dai Mubai had asked him to help tell this lie.

At this moment, Xiao Wu believed Tang San, with the kind of unconditional trust. She said, "Since that's the case, then we misunderstood you."

Dai Mubai glanced at Su Ling. Zhu Zhuqing was actually standing close to Su Ling's side. An inexplicable anger welled up inside him, and he seemed to have made a certain decision.

Dai Mubai walked straight to Zhu Zhuqing and said, "Everyone, there is something I shouldn't have kept from you all. Actually, Zhuqing and I grew up together. Zhuqing is my fiancée."

Saying this was undoubtedly an act of claiming ownership; Zhu Zhuqing was his, and no one else should have any inappropriate thoughts.

A man's intuition told him that the threat Su Ling posed to him was too great.

"What?"

"Zhuqing is actually your fiancée?"

Everyone looked at the two in astonishment. Dai Mubai continued, "With such a beautiful fiancée as Zhuqing, how could I possibly have eyes for other women? You all agree, right? Those others simply cannot compare to Zhuqing."

Dai Mubai walked straight to Zhu Zhuqing's side, wanting to take her hand, but Zhu Zhuqing stepped back and said coldly, "I have no relationship with you."

"Zhuqing, I know you are still angry with me. This is all a misunderstanding. Please believe me," Dai Mubai said with a sincere expression.

"I don't want to talk to you. You make me feel sick," Zhu Zhuqing responded coldly.

She didn't want to pay any attention to Dai Mubai at all. She had seen everything with her own eyes just now and had heard what Dai Mubai said himself; there was no faking that.

Seeing that Zhu Zhuqing ignored him, Dai Mubai went to Su Ling, seemingly attributing all this resentment to Su Ling.

"Su Ling, Zhuqing is my fiancée. You had better stay away from her."

Su Ling smiled, thinking that Dai Mubai was still somewhat flustered, and his words sounded rather childish.

"Is that so? Then how far away must I stay to be considered 'staying away'?"

Dai Mubai said, "You... leave..."

Dai Mubai realized the following words didn't sound right either. "Hmph, in any case, Zhuqing is my fiancée. You just shouldn't have any inappropriate thoughts."

After speaking, Dai Mubai went to Zhu Zhuqing's side and began to apologize, talking as they walked.

Su Ling and the others didn't stop him, just followed behind as they returned to the academy.

The more Dai Mubai desperately apologized and tried to explain, the more Zhu Zhuqing loathed him.

In fact, for Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai was a prince of the Star Luo Empire, a prince who was to become an emperor. It wasn't that she couldn't accept him having other women.

After all, the Hell Civet clan were nobles of the Star Luo Empire, and they had been taught about such things from a young age; she wasn't particularly repulsed by it.

Although Zhu Zhuqing had a trace of disgust for Dai Mubai's behavior, that was not the focus of her disappointment and loathing toward him.

The focus was on Dai Mubai's current degradation and cowardice.

So, no matter how Dai Mubai explained, he never touched upon the point Zhu Zhuqing wanted; saying anything more was just a waste of effort.

At night, Su Ling returned to his room.

Regarding the entanglement between Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai, he didn't need to do anything deliberately; he just needed to farm favorability.

As long as the favorability reached a certain level, wouldn't the goddess be his?

There was no need to do anything unfavorable to farming favorability.

Moreover, besides farming the goddess's favorability, he needed to accelerate the improvement of his own Soul Power.

There were still three treasure chests left, two yellow and one purple.

"System, open the purple treasure chest," Su Ling said in a low voice.

[Ding... Congratulations to the Host for opening the purple treasure chest. You have obtained the movement technique: Carefree Travel.]

A movement technique?

Looking at the two yellow treasure chests on the System, Su Ling didn't rush to open them.

He first took out the other book, the Five Elements Breathing Technique, and began to flip through it.

The Five Elements Breathing Technique could absorb the Five Elements Qi from the world into the body to Cultivate.

And his method of Cultivation was to follow the path of evolving the Five Elements Battle Bow, so the Five Elements Breathing Technique was just right for him to Cultivate.

Sitting cross-legged, Su Ling began to Cultivate according to what was written in the book.

The first step to getting Five Elements Qi into the body was to allow the Five Elements Qi to reach a certain balance within the body. However, because he had absorbed three spirit rings of different attributes...

Water, Wood, and Fire attributes, with the Water attribute occupying the majority, the three attributes had not reached a balance. This was also the reason why his predecessor had failed to absorb the spirit rings.

To achieve balance, he had to replenish the other two attributes, and then let the other two attributes mutually generate and restrain each other to reach a certain balance.

Operating the Five Elements Breathing Technique, the Earth and Metal attributes within Su Ling's body began to increase.

The five attributes gathered in the Dantian within Su Ling's body. The Five Elements restrained each other. Fortunately, the Five Elements Breathing Technique was miraculous; the Five Elements Qi circulating through the Dantian meridians actually automatically reached a state of balance.

After a night passed, the Dantian inside Su Ling's body already contained quite a bit of Five Elements Qi, or rather, this should be called Five Elements Soul Power.

"Did it succeed?"

Su Ling only had a small portion of Soul Power converted; the majority of his Soul Power had not been converted into Five Elements Soul Power.

After pondering for a moment, Su Ling reached a conclusion.

The Five Elements Breathing Technique was to replenish the existing Soul Power in the body with the Five Elements and then convert it into Five Elements Soul Power, but this could not increase his Soul Power.

Currently, if he wanted to increase his Soul Power, he still had to rely on the Water Moon Bow to Cultivate Water attribute Soul Power.

Overall, the greatest use of the Five Elements Breathing Technique was when absorbing a spirit ring.

When the Five Elements were chaotic, he could use the Five Elements Breathing Technique to stabilize the several different attributes of Soul Power in his body and then reach a balance; it could save his life at a critical moment.