Li Yao's face blushed. He stammered for a long time but couldn't say anything.
Yuan Manqiu misunderstood and comforted him.
"All the students of the Grand Desolate War Institution are adults. The school doesn't forbid teachers and students from practicing together. Besides, your situation is quite special. You have passed the Refiner Registration Examination and trained in the Thunder Training Camp for three months. With such strength, you have already reached the graduation standard and can directly stay in the school as a researcher. Therefore, you don't need to worry about your identity."
"No, Professor."
Li Yao explained with a guilty conscience, "Ding Ling Dong and I were just practicing together."
As soon as he said this, a sour taste floated in his heart. It was a faint sense of loss.
Li Yao was dazed. He didn't understand why he was guilty and why he felt lost.
Yuan Manqiu was slightly stunned. She stared at her disciple for a long time before she suddenly said:
"Li Yao, I've read the analysis report of the Thunder Training Camp, which summarized the advantages and disadvantages of your training in the past three months. The Thunder Training Camp has a very high evaluation of you. You are impeccable in every aspect except for one thing, which is that your training is too crazy."
Li Yao was puzzled: "Is it not good to train crazily?"
Yuan Manqiu was silent for a long time. Then she changed the topic. Her voice was somewhat gloomy:
"Li Yao, do you know what I regret most in my life?"
"A year ago, on the night before we thought that Project Mystic Skeleton was about to succeed, Old Mo suddenly said in high spirits that he had booked a restaurant with a very good environment and wanted to have dinner with me alone to celebrate the upcoming success in advance."
"Once the super-compressed crystal reactor was successfully refined the next day, the entire Refining Department would be boiling with excitement. Everyone would celebrate together. There would be no private space left for us."
"In the end, I refused. Because there was a piece of data that was not very important to calculate. "
"In the past decade or so, we've been researching and cultivating like crazy. We devoted all our energy to Project Mystic Skeleton and paid little attention to each other. Every day, if it's not the school cafeteria, it's instant noodles and boxed lunches. A large group of people gathers together noisily. I don't even remember when was the last time I solemnly went out to eat alone with Old Mo. "
"At that time, I always thought that these things were not important. Cultivation and research are more important. "
"What's more, when Project Mystic Skeleton succeeds, we will have a lot of time to share."
"I was wrong."
"You know what happened the next day."
"I don't regret leaving Deep Sea University. I don't regret embarking on the path of the grassroots refining faction. Even the fact that Old Mo died in a cultivation accident cannot shake my Dao heart."
"But I really, really regret that I didn't go out with him that night. Let's have a good meal. "
"Even if the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit is successfully refined one day, and the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution becomes famous all over the world... I won't be able to sit at the dining table and review the ups and downs of the past few decades with Old Mo and share the joy of success. "
Li Yao's nose twitched as his heart stirred.
Yuan Manqiu heaved a sigh and said in a sincere and heartfelt manner:
"Cultivating crazily is of course a good thing. If you don't go crazy, you won't survive. If you want to break through the firmament of the cultivation world, how can you do it without a little crazy drive? But you have to know, cultivation, cultivation. It is to cultivate yourself into a real person. Ultimately, you are still a human being, not a cultivation machine. "
"Qi Refinement, Building Foundation, Jin Dan, Yuanying, Divinity Transformation... The path of cultivation. There is no end to it. "
"The sea of stars, the three thousand Sectors, the vast and boundless universe, there is no end to it."
"But in life, there are some very precious things, like a flash of brilliance, that disappear in a flash."
"Once you miss it, even if you become a Daluo Golden Immortal, even if you shatter the entire universe, you won't be able to find it back."
"Remember, you are a human being first and a cultivator second. Cultivation is very important, but being a human is even more important."
"So, I hope that you can pull yourself away from the crazy cultivation and discover the beauty of life first."
"Only after tasting the beauty of life can you have the courage to face the cruel battle; only when you find something to protect can you understand the true meaning of cultivation."
Li Yao gently bit his lips. His breathing was somewhat rapid. Deep inside his eyes, two rays of light were emitted little by little.
His mind was in a mess.
Countless memory fragments, like mottled Coloured Glaze, condensed into a big smiley face.
It was a smiley face that had no image at all, a smiley face that would bring everyone together.
Ding Ling Dong...
Yuan Manqiu said seriously.
"Miss Ding's mother is a teacher of the Grand Desolate War Institution. She and I have been colleagues for decades. Although our fields of study are different and we don't have much interaction, I have watched Miss Ding grow up. She is a good girl, but the accident that happened to her parents was a big blow to her. She has dug herself into a dead end and can't pull herself out."
"For so many years, she is just like you, an out-and-out cultivation maniac. Her head is filled with cultivation, cultivation, cultivation, and cultivation."
"And you are the first person to make her forget about cultivation and mess up her heart."
Li Yao opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.
Yuan Manqiu glared at him.
"Don't tell me that you were alone in a room at two or three in the middle of the night just to cultivate! Why didn't you come to me at two or three in the middle of the night to cultivate? "
Li Yao shut his mouth. He didn't know what to say.
Yuan Manqiu glanced at him and threw out a heavy bomb casually. "The day before you spread the news, everybody thought that you were dead in the Thunderous Sound Mountain. Ding Ling Dong was the only one who insisted on going to the Dark Desolate Domain to look for you. I'm told that she was so anxious that she even cried in front of the principal."
Li Yao's brain went blank. The whole world seemed to have turned into a giant cloud, and he couldn't step on anything at all.
He jumped to his feet and rushed out of the door.
"I'm going to find her right now!"
…
On the campus avenue, Li Yao was rushing forward.
The autumn air was refreshing. Red leaves were everywhere, and the avenue was like a frozen fire. Li Yao's feet seemed to be on fire. He only wanted to go faster, faster, faster!
He had contacted Ding Ling Dong a few days ago. But in the spiritual message, Ding Ling Dong had been laughing and joking all the time. She never mentioned that she was going to the Dark Desolate Domain to rescue him.
Why didn't she tell me?
Was she really so anxious that she cried?
Every moment that the two of them had spent together in the past year flashed in Li Yao's head one after another.
He didn't realize that he remembered everything so clearly until now. There seemed to be a greedy monster living in his heart that wouldn't let go of Ding Ling Dong's smile.
"BAM! BAM! BAM!"
After running for a few steps, Li Yao was sweating profusely. His heart was beating like a drum. He was more nervous than when he was fighting the two low-level demon generals.
He rushed all the way and took a lift to a floating mountain of the Combat Department.
Yuan Manqiu told him that Ding Ling Dong was teaching a physical training class for the freshmen of the Combat Department.
From afar, Li Yao saw Ding Lingdang on a large field. She was as graceful as the wind, and her attacks were as fierce as fire. She knocked down dozens of freshmen in an instant. Then, she roared loudly and made the freshmen run while carrying barbells that weighed hundreds of kilograms.
Li Yao couldn't help but smile.
She was still full of energy, like a fiery phoenix that would never fall to the ground.
Li Yao sat cross-legged next to the playground. He rested his chin on his hand and waited for Ding Ling Dong's class to end.
Or maybe, he would never end the class. It would be nice to watch her dance in silence.
Soon, Ding Lingdang also saw him and immediately smiled like a flower.
"Look!"
"Miss Ding is smiling, and she's smiling so gently!"
"It can't be. This is the first time I've seen such an expression on Miss Ding's face. What's going on? Is she possessed by an extraterrestrial devil?"
The freshmen were all dumbfounded. Many of them had hit their feet with the weights, but no one cried out in pain. The atmosphere was very strange.
They had only been in school for a few days, but they had already experienced Ding Lingdang's brutal methods. This Little Teacher Ding was simply an out-and-out cultivation demon. Her incomparably crazy cultivation methods made even the most fanatical new students complain incessantly.
After inquiring with the seniors, they also learned of the marvelous military exploits of the human-shaped tyrannosaurus in the past.
Other than anything else, the fact that she was the only female president in the history of the Iron Fist Club was enough to prove her toughness.
But out of everyone's expectations, Ding Ling Dong's face was beaming with the most 'charming' expression just now. All the freshmen were dumbfounded.
"Who is that man? He is so intimidating, like a beast that has just crawled out of the woods!"
"He seems to have come here specifically for Miss Ding. Look, Miss Ding's eyes have never moved away from him since he showed up. Wow. She's smiling again. Did you see that? Such a feminine smile. Miss Ding must've been bewitched!"
"Miss Ding walked over. Miss Ding opened her arms. Wow. The two of them hugged. They really hugged. It was not a capture, but a hug!"
"Is the man Vulture Li Yao, the legendary strongest expert of the new generation of the Grand Desolate War Institution?"
"Vulture Li Yao? The super ruthless person who used a year to blast out 40,000 credits, and the one who fought against 2,000 people in the Challenge Competition? "
"Yes. It should be him. But the reason why he is recognized as the strongest expert of the new generation is not because of credits or the challenge match, but because he is very likely to be Miss Ding's boyfriend!"
"What!"
For a moment, countless admiring eyes were fixed on Li Yao.
Even a human-shaped tyrannosaurus rex was conquered by him. No wonder he was the legend of the new generation of the Grand Desolate War Institution.
…
Night fell.
The roof of Ding Ling Dong's house was surrounded by a bamboo forest. Lying on the roof, one would feel as if they were drifting in the sea of bamboos. Listening to the splashing sound of the waves, one would feel extremely tranquil.
In the sky, the stars were shining brilliantly. Every jumping star gradually condensed into a big smiling face.
Li Yao shook his head and rubbed his cheeks hard.
Ding Ling Dong crawled out of the skylight. She was amused. "What are you doing? Making a funny face?"
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