Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

The man’s embrace had a familiar warmth and a faint scent of herbs.

In an instant, Qin Xin felt as if she had returned to the serene bamboo courtyard, leisurely spending days with Master Tuantuan in the hot spring pool.

Yet, the cold wind in the forest blew, bringing her back to reality.

This was the examination ground of the supernatural world, where is the leisure?

Moreover, that smelly master didn’t even acknowledge her as a disciple; it was because she had noticed so many pine nuts along the way, fueling her suspicions. She intentionally stopped to climb a tree and pretended to fall, forcing the smelly master to reveal himself, humph.

She pouted slightly, looking up at the man’s bamboo mask.

Waiting to see how the man would explain his sudden appearance.

Not a second early, nor a second late, he happened to catch her just as she was falling, hmm?

Behind the bamboo mask, the man’s deep eyes visibly froze for a moment.

Then, he slowly averted his gaze.

Qin Xin: ”...”

Goodness, she didn’t expect that the man would just adopt an ostrich tactic and not explain at all?

She unhappily hooked her arm around his neck, pulling back his gaze, ”Master Tuantuan, you...”

”Let go of my master!”

”Let go, roar——!”

The three cute pets had already climbed down from the tree. Except for Little Dongju, who hesitated a bit, Little Ginger Snake and Fire Lion were full of aggressive protectiveness.

Especially the Fire Lion, which instantly reverted to its original form, swelling to two stories tall, as if it could stomp the man under its paw.

However.

The man lightly raised his eyes, glancing at it once.

The starlight in his eyes was as sharp as ice, causing the Fire Lion to involuntarily step back.

How strange, it couldn’t sense a single trace of Spiritual Power from this man, yet was intimidated by his aura.

It submitted to its master because of the master’s overwhelming spiritual pressure, and also because he had so many candies, and was beautiful and handsome.

But this man had no Spiritual Power, no candies, and was wearing an ugly mask. So what was it afraid of?

The man calmly glanced at the three cute pets guarding Qin Xin, slightly retracting his long arms, gently setting Qin Xin down from his embrace, and steadied her on her feet.

He took out a rare collection of nuts from within his white robe, gathering them into her small hands until they were overflowing.

”Hazelnuts? They smell so good...” Little Ginger Snake licked its tongue.

”It’s so hard to find hazelnuts of this size...” Little Dongju said in a low voice.

”Hey, can giving nuts make up for it? That guy hasn’t even apologized; how could he just hug our master...” Fire Lion grumbled discontentedly.

Staring at the man’s back as he left after handing over the nuts, Qin Xin’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Logically, if he could teach, Master Tuantuan wasn’t mute... why keep his distance from her, acting like a stranger?

She reversed the nuts to her cute pets, keeping only one for herself.

The taste was nice, lingering with fragrance, and the shell conveniently had a split for easy peeling.

But, was she lacking nuts?

She was lacking someone to peel the nuts!

Smelly master.

==

The hunting that lasted a day and a night was nearing its end.

A helicopter circled above the forest, lowering a rope ladder to pick up the students one by one.

The mentors greeted them with smiles outside the forest, checking each of their trophies.

”Jing Zhichen, 10 Spiritual Pearls, size qualifies.”

”Ao Xinghao, 8 Spiritual Pearls, size qualifies.”

”Si Moyu, 9 Spiritual Pearls, size qualifies.”

”Bai Chi, 10 Spiritual Pearls... size, um, a bit small, barely qualifies.”

”Ding Dou, 3 Spiritual Pearls, size qualifies.”

”Ding Yu, 1 Spiritual Pearl, size, um, how is it smaller than your entrance exam one? Fine, fine, you’re a mentor’s relative, it qualifies.”