Chapter 114: What Is There to Be Reluctant About in Giving Her Something to Eat?
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
"Roar!"
"Boom!"
As a tremendous sound echoed forth, even White Deer Peak trembled.
Shang Qi, who was drinking tea in his courtyard, shook the teacup in his hand and nearly spilled it on himself.
"Dean, that Miss Bai has been making a commotion in the north for over a month now. The current students are all talking about it, and it feels like the impact is quite negative," Qi Daoming said helplessly.
For over a month now, a barren mountain north of White Deer Academy had been producing tremendous sounds from time to time.
Besides this, one could also hear dragon roars one after another.
When the scholars of White Deer Academy looked up, they could sometimes see a white dragon and a green dragon continuously circling above the mountaintop.
White Deer Academy's Dean Shang Qi had issued a notice that no one was permitted to approach that barren mountain by even a single step but human curiosity was just like that, the more you conceal something, the more curious people become. Not to mention those were two flood dragons circling in the air, creating such a huge commotion as if opening mountains.
"Sigh," Shang Qi sighed. "I know, but Miss Bai said she wanted to do some things, and I agreed. She even said she owes me a favor, what can I do?"
Shang Qi drank his tea and said calmly, "Let's endure it a bit longer. Just consider it our White Deer Academy helping the human race win over the North Sea. Miss Bai said it would take at most two or three months, and now a month and a half has passed, so it should be about finished."
"Rumble!"
Just as Shang Qi finished speaking, another tremendous sound came over, and the entire mountain peak shook once more.
This time Shang Qi couldn't hold his teacup steady. The cup fell to the ground and had a small corner chipped off.
The old scholar looked very distressed.
"Roar!"
Above the mountain peak north of White Deer Academy, dragon roars echoed forth.
The surrounding animal spirits and even fierce beasts all trembled in fear.
That suppression from superior bloodline made their lives quite uncomfortable these past days.
"Rumble!"
Giant rocks were shattered by a single breath of dragon's breath from the white dragon.
A stream slowly flowed downward.
Originally, this place was just a small pond but after over a month of Bai Ruxue and Little Green opening mountains and channeling water, the original small pond had become a lake, with living water continuously flowing in, and the lake water flowing down through the carved stream channels.
Most importantly, around this lake, a formation had been arranged.
This formation could gather the scholarly fortune that dispersed from White Deer Academy.
The scholarly fortune would not dissipate as the lake water flowed away.
It would continuously condense in the lake, and because of this scholarly fortune, the lake water was now slowly turning an ink color.
"Sister, this should be about enough, right?"
Little Green descended from the clouds, transformed into human form, and wiped the fine perspiration from her forehead.
"Still a bit more needed. Go to the North Sea again and bring back some Spirit Gathering Profound Stones. The scholarly fortune needs to be locked in place with spiritual power."
Looking at the lake before her, Bai Ruxue was quite satisfied in her heart.
"Oh right, also bring back some spirit flowers and grass to plant around the lake's edge.
Some spiritual fish, shrimp, and crabs that live in fresh water can all be brought over.
Sister also plans to build a pavilion in the center of the lake, it will definitely look beautiful.
Additionally, move that Sea and Mountain Disk here to suppress at the lake bottom. Then I'll drip in a few drops of essence blood, and when Xiao Mo returns, we can have this lake recognize Xiao Mo as its master.
This way, all the scholarly fortune absorbed by this lake can be fed back to Xiao Mo."
Little Green bit her thin lips tightly and looked at her sister with complex eyes, "Sister, building this lake, those heavenly materials and earthly treasures really aren't much of anything but Sister, you've already spent a lot of essence blood, and Sister's cultivation might be delayed as a result, yet it's all just to build this lake.
Is it necessary, Sister?"
Hearing her younger sister's words, Bai Ruxue turned around, reached out her hand, and gently patted Little Green's head.
"Little Green, you've handled affairs for Sister too long, so you're always calculating carefully.
Although this lake takes great effort and can only bring Xiao Mo small benefits, Little Green, as long as it's for him and can bring him advantages, even if it's just a little, for Sister, it's all necessary.
Even if this lake has no use at all, but as long as he smiles when he sees it and praises Sister once, then whatever Sister does is worth it."
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After the assessment ended, Xiao Mo sat in the courtyard reading books.
Xiao Mo was now just waiting for Senior Brother and Senior Sister to finish their assessments so they could return to White Deer Academy together.
"Junior Brother Xiao."
Near noon, a light and familiar voice came over. Xiao Mo looked up and saw Senior Sister Shang and Senior Brother Luo walking toward him step by step.
Xiao Mo walked forward, saw the tokens hanging at their waists, smiled and bowed in congratulation, "Congratulations to Senior Brother and Senior Sister for passing the assessment. From today, Senior Brother and Senior Sister are academy deans and can establish mountain peaks."
"What's so special about that? In comparison, Junior Brother's Righteous Gentlemen' jade token is much more difficult to obtain," Shang Jiuli said with a light laugh, covering her face. "At that time, your Senior Brother Luo only got a 'Gentleman' token."
"You took the 'Gentleman' exam twice," Luo Yang didn't want to pay attention to her and walked forward to return the courtesy to his junior brother. "Congratulations, Little Junior Brother. I didn't expect Junior Brother to achieve the highest grade and become an Righteous Gentlemen' in one leap. Junior Brother is the first person in Confucian academies in fifty years."
"Just good luck," Xiao Mo said modestly.
"I don't think it was luck, it was all ability. Junior Brother, your page-turning wind even reached Flower Bright Peak and really brought us honor," Shang Jiuli waved her small fist emphatically.
Just as Xiao Mo was about to say something more, a crane's cry sounded from the sky.
"Xiao Mo achieved the 'Gentleman's Highest Grade,' awarded one Scholarly Fortune Orb. May you remain neither arrogant nor impatient, and devote yourself to learning."
The white crane spoke human words, then dropped a scholarly fortune orb.
Xiao Mo reached out to catch it.
"Junior Brother Xiao, this orb can be consumed. After consuming it, you can gain the protection of scholarly fortune, and it can even reduce karmic consequences during tribulation," Shang Jiuli said happily for Xiao Mo. "Junior Brother, quickly take it and see."
"Is that so?" Xiao Mo put it away. "I won't take it then. I'll let Ruxue have a taste later."
Hearing Xiao Mo's words, Luo Yang and Shang Jiuli exchanged glances. Luo Yang looked at Xiao Mo and advised, "Junior Brother, only scholars who achieve the highest grade can receive such a reward. This is extremely rare. Are you really willing to give it to her?"
Xiao Mo looked at his senior brother and sister and smiled frankly, "What is there to be reluctant about in giving her something to eat?"