"Oh..." Zhong Yongliang was in the middle of washing his hair and did not pay it any mind. He gave a casual reply, and then he heard the bathroom door click shut.

"Did you get it?" Gu Mengyao asked, looking at Shen Yushu, who had slipped out of the bathroom with a grin all over her face.

"Yes!" Shen Yushu held up the undergarment in her hand and said smugly.

"You're not even bothered by how filthy it is—Zhong Yongliang wore that." Gu Mengyao curled her lip.

"Ugh... for Arrow Brand Bro's sake, I'll endure it." Shen Yushu stuffed Zhong Yongliang's mid-grade golden cicada undergarment into a bag...

About ten minutes later, Zhong Yongliang finished his shower too and came out of the bathroom, freshly dressed. As for his jacket, it had been stained with some of the dirty water as well, so he had not put it back on. "Xiaoshu, Yaoyao, I'm done washing—much fresher now. That water was really filthy... By the way, where did all that dirty water come from?"

"Someone else's mopping water," Shen Yushu said.

"Oh. Yaoyao, how are you doing? Feeling any better? Do you need to go to the hospital?" Zhong Yongliang had not noticed in the slightest that his mid-grade golden cicada undergarment had been swapped out.

"No need. I'll be fine after a little rest. I'm a bit sleepy..." Gu Mengyao said with a yawn.

"Sleepy, huh..." Zhong Yongliang was taken aback, and hesitation crept into his heart. If Gu Mengyao went to sleep, how could he bring himself to keep staying here? And even if he did stay, was he supposed to sit around chatting with Shen Yushu?

He certainly did not want to talk to Shen Yushu. Judging by his years of experience, spending too long alone with Shen Yushu usually meant nothing good would come of it!

"Mm, I'll sleep for a bit..." Gu Mengyao said, and closed her eyes.

"Little Liangzi, you've already come to see Sister Yaoyao, so you can scram now, right?" Shen Yushu turned to look at Zhong Yongliang and asked.

"This... all right then. Yaoyao, get a good rest. I'll come see you another day!" Zhong Yongliang said helplessly. He did not want to leave, but leave he must.

"That's enough, Little Liangzi. Sister Yaoyao is already asleep—are you still talking to her?" Shen Yushu shot Zhong Yongliang a glare.

"Then... I'll be going..." Though Zhong Yongliang felt some regret in his heart, at least his relationship with Gu Mengyao seemed to have eased considerably, and that made him secretly delighted.

He did not know why, but even now he still could not let go of Gu Mengyao. By rights, with his current strength, finding a pretty girl should have been an easy matter. Perhaps it was that stubborn attachment in his heart that made it so hard to forget his deeply engraved love for Gu Mengyao.

After Zhong Yongliang left, Gu Mengyao got out of bed. She had not caught a cold at all. Instead, she frowned and said, "Have someone come disinfect the bathroom in a bit. The last thing I need is to catch some disease..."

Gu Mengyao's disgust for Zhong Yongliang had already reached a certain level, and she was a person with a cleanliness obsession—naturally it was impossible for her to share a bathroom with Zhong Yongliang! To her mind, it was a thoroughly disgusting thing.

"It's all for Arrow Brand Bro..." Shen Yushu picked up the phone and dialed the student service company.

This was a work-study service company established by the student council, offering students on campus cleaning, errand-running, tutoring referrals, and other such services! University was different from the aristocratic high school of before. Though there was no shortage of students from wealthy families here, there were also students whose families were not well off, and the student council gave them a chance to work and study—a genuinely good thing.

Professional dormitory cleaning was one of its services, provided specifically for the sons and daughters of wealthy families.

Of course, neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu was the type to have clothes handed to them and food spoon-fed to them. Ordinarily they still cleaned their own dorm, but right now they had no professional disinfection equipment.

When the professional cleaners arrived, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu left. They were not worried that these people might steal anything—the valuables in the dorm were all locked in their respective cabinets, and the students responsible for cleaning were all registered with the student council, so petty theft was out of the question.

After Wei Zhao returned home, he sent Han Xiaopo back first. He wanted to shut himself in and study the fine things he had obtained at the cultivators' market.

In his room, Wei Zhao sorted through his haul this time: a piece of blue crystal, an inner core from a Heaven Rank earth-attribute spirit beast, and a piece of pure yellow jade. Though it looked like a mere three items, each one was exceedingly precious.

Counting this Heaven Rank earth-attribute spirit beast inner core, Wei Zhao now possessed five spirit beast inner cores in total, which meant he could refine the essence vitality necklace according to the method he had obtained from the Tagan family. But one of those cores had been given to him by that ghostly thing which surpassed the Heaven Rank, and it had warned him not to use it recklessly. Wei Zhao truly did not dare use it casually to refine the essence vitality necklace—that seemed a bit too wasteful. That core was clearly different from the others!

Thinking of this, Wei Zhao decided to postpone refining the essence vitality necklace for now, and wait until he had gathered one more spirit beast inner core.

Wei Zhao glanced at that ghostly thing in the jade pendant space. It was still curled up in a corner of the space, motionless. By now Wei Zhao had grown used to its presence and simply ignored it, for aside from occupying a small patch of space, it did not interfere with any other part of his life.

Putting away the spirit beast inner cores, Wei Zhao took out from his drawer the "Jade Pendant Condensation Method" he had copied down, along with the colored steel and pure yellow jade he had collected earlier.

By comparison, the material he had the most of at present was pure yellow jade; the colored steel and blue crystal were only a small piece each.

Laying the materials out neatly, Wei Zhao opened the "Jade Pendant Condensation Method" and began reading carefully. There were two prerequisites for condensing the jade pendant space. The first was to collect all the materials; the second was that the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art had to reach the second layer of great perfection!

Wei Zhao's cultivation speed had been fast of late, but he was still somewhat short of great perfection. Still, this condition could be met through his own efforts—he did not need to spend time and energy searching for it.

Reading on, Wei Zhao understood why Jiao Yazi had said that only with the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art at great perfection could the jade pendant space be condensed. It was because condensing the jade pendant space required a forging fire, and the prerequisite for forming that forging fire was the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art at great perfection!

As long as the forging fire could be formed, the jade pendant could be condensed and refined.

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