The Strongest Talent Tree

When the two found Miao Feng, the kid was leading a group of beautiful girls from the Dance Team to gather medicinal herbs.

"Xiaomiaozi, you’re living the good life, huh!" Feng Hao arrived riding Chief Black Cat, immediately drawing gasps from countless girls.

Miao Feng, who was diligently picking herbs, turned his head. Seeing Feng Hao, he walked over in pleasant surprise. "S-Senior Brother, what brings you back?"

Feng Hao chuckled and got off the cat. He casually tossed Xu Zhenzhen’s Communication Jade Scroll to him and said, "Came back to see how you all are doing. Here, Xu Zhenzhen asked me to bring this to you."

"Zhenzhen wrote to me?" Miao Feng accepted the jade scroll, his face filled with pleasant surprise.

"Look at you, all giddy," Feng Hao teased. "You look busy, so I won’t disturb you. Come back to the Miao Medicine Tower tonight. I want to see if you’ve been slacking off these past six months."

Miao Feng nodded earnestly. "Don’t worry, Senior Brother. I won’t disappoint you."

"That’s good." Feng Hao nodded in satisfaction.

The pretty girls of the Dance Team could no longer hold back and swarmed over, chattering away. "Instructor, didn’t Sister Zhenzhen write to us?"

"The girls in the team really miss Sister Zhenzhen. Could you pass a message to her for us?"

Li Ting, the pretty girl Feng Hao had once driven to tears, was also there. It seemed she had become the new leader of the Dance Team. "By the way, Feng Hao, Sister Zhenzhen isn’t getting bullied at the Five Provinces Academy, is she?"

Seeing the large crowd of beautiful girls around him, Xi Yueyao was suddenly displeased. She yelled, staking her claim, "What are you all doing? Feng Hao is mine!"

"Hehe... Don’t worry, Little Sister Xiyue, we won’t try to steal him from you," Li Ting said, covering her mouth with a light laugh.

"That’s more like it." Xi Yueyao pouted her lips in satisfaction.

Feng Hao amusedly patted Yao Girl’s head, then turned to the girls of the Dance Team. "Don’t worry. Your Sister Zhenzhen is doing great. She even won the dance competition championship a while ago."

"Really?" Li Ting and the others were overjoyed. "We knew Sister Zhenzhen wouldn’t let us down!"

Hearing everyone’s questions, Xi Yueyao seemed to think of something. Her gaze grew distant as she asked, "How is my sister? No one’s bullying her, right?"

Feng Hao couldn’t help but laugh. "Don’t worry, no one at the academy dares to mess with her."

"Hee hee, my sister is amazing, just as I thought," Xi Yueyao said with a happy nod.

Feng Hao glanced at Miao Feng, who was secretly reading the message on the side, and said with feigned annoyance, "Stop looking, Xiaomiaozi. Remember to come back to the Miao Medicine Tower tonight."

"Right, right." Miao Feng hastily hid the jade scroll behind his back, speaking with embarrassment.

Feng Hao shook his head with a secret smile, then vaulted back onto his cat and quickly vanished from everyone’s sight.

...

The rest of the day was naturally spent with the girl, Xi Yueyao. Having not seen each other for more than half a year, their feelings had grown even stronger. They walked down the street, his large hand holding her small one, with Chief Black Cat trailing behind them. It was about as cool a sight as you could imagine.

After a full day of fun that still left them wanting more, the sky gradually darkened, and he escorted Xi Yueyao back to Xiyue Manor.

Then, under the little girl’s reluctant gaze, he returned to the Miao Medicine Tower.

Miao Feng, that little angel, had already rushed back to the Miao Medicine Tower to wait, holding Xu Zhenzhen’s Communication Jade Scroll and grinning foolishly. When he saw Feng Hao return, he immediately straightened up. "Senior Brother, you’re back?"

"Enough chitchat. Follow me to the Alchemy Room." Feng Hao gave an exasperated laugh and pulled him directly into the Alchemy Room.

He looked around at the furnishings in the Alchemy Room, feeling a sense of nostalgia. "What are you spacing out for? Hurry up and refine a few pills for me. Let me see if you’ve slacked off these past six months."

"Yes, Master." When it was just the two of them, Miao Feng naturally switched to calling him Master.

He confidently laid out the medicinal herbs and began to refine them with intense focus. Since this was a test from Feng Hao, he naturally had to give it two hundred percent of his effort.

Feng Hao watched Miao Feng’s refining details closely from the side, and a gratified expression soon appeared on his face.

As it turned out, Miao Feng hadn’t slacked off at all in the past six months. His Alchemy Techniques were already approaching the peak level of a Level 5 Alchemist—a huge improvement.

What surprised Feng Hao even more was that Miao Feng had actually managed to refine an Experience Pill.

’I thought you needed the help of a game-like interface to refine an Experience Pill, but it seems you can make one as long as your Alchemy Techniques reach a certain level.’

"Not bad, not bad at all. You’ve made great progress." Feng Hao nodded in satisfaction. He looked at the slightly crude Experience Pill in his hand and said thoughtfully, "It’s a good thing that you can refine Experience Pills, but it’s best not to reveal this to others easily. Do you understand what I mean?"

"This disciple understands," Miao Feng said with a solemn nod.

Feng Hao nodded and said with a smile, "You must have accumulated a lot of difficult questions over the past six months, right? If there’s anything you don’t understand, just ask."

"Yes." Miao Feng nodded with delight and began asking Feng Hao about the problems and points of confusion he had encountered over the past six months.

Their discussion lasted the entire night. The master and disciple pair felt no fatigue, completely immersed in the ocean of alchemy. From pharmacology to technique, Feng Hao explained every detail with care, and Miao Feng was able to quickly grasp the mysteries within.

In just one night, Miao Feng’s alchemy level could be said to have advanced by leaps and bounds. He was now only a single step away from becoming a Sixth-level Alchemist.

Early the next morning, Xi Yueyao burst into the Miao Medicine Tower like a whirlwind, grabbing Feng Hao and pulling him outside, as cheerful as a little bird.

Miao Feng, meanwhile, stayed contentedly in the Alchemy Room, diligently digesting all he had learned the previous night.

As for Xi Yueyao, ever since kissing Feng Hao the day before, she had become addicted to the feeling. From time to time, she would find all sorts of excuses to get Feng Hao to give her a kiss.

Feng Hao, of course, would not refuse. His kissing skills grew more and more practiced with each session.

Before they knew it, the two had arrived at the small woods on the back hill of Rongcheng Academy. Returning to this place filled with memories, they couldn’t help but look at each other and smile, then sat down on a familiar rock.

"Oh right, I have a small gift for you." Looking at Xi Yueyao, who was snuggled in his arms as sweet and clingy as a kitten, Feng Hao was suddenly reminded of the MP3 player he had made.

Xi Yueyao paused for a moment, her eyelashes fluttering. "A gift? Quick, let me see."

Feng Hao smiled faintly and took out a small, exquisite player. "Here, it’s this thing."

"What is this? A Magic Energy Mechanism?" Xi Yueyao asked curiously.

"Watch closely." With a mysterious look in his eyes, Feng Hao manipulated the Consciousness Switch. The next moment, a dynamic beat blasted from the player, echoing throughout the small woods.

DOOF-TSS-DA-TSS... DOOF-TSS-DA-TSS...

The moment she heard the DOOF-TSS-DA-TSS sound, Xi Yueyao’s eyes lit up. "Wahahaha, what an awesome track!"

’Tsk tsk, as expected of my girl. She has great taste!’ Feng Hao thought with a secret smile and nod. He recalled Yu Xiaoxiao’s reaction when she heard a DJ-style track and couldn’t help but secretly look down on her in his heart.

As he thought this, he saw Xi Yueyao press the player to her ear, bobbing her little head rhythmically to the beat.

"Girlie, next time you get into a fight, turn this on. It’ll definitely let you overwhelm your opponent with pure presence," Feng Hao said with a completely straight face.

As it turned out, this was right up Xi Yueyao’s alley. There was nothing that excited her more than being the center of attention.

"Really? Then I can use it for the combat assessment tomorrow," Xi Yueyao said with a delighted nod.

Watching Xi Yueyao’s excited expression, Feng Hao had to suppress a laugh. He really wanted to see what kind of sensation the little girl would cause during the competition tomorrow when she showed up with her own BGM.