River dam.
Jiang Ning withdrew his spell, having witnessed Wang Longlong's experiences in the Source World.
He had thought that once Wang Longlong arrived in the Source Realm, he would realize the danger of his situation and strive to improve his cultivation. Eventually, the "carrier" would nourish his soul and bring Jiang Ning the Law Fragnt.
But on his very first night, Wang Longlong had shirked his duties and ford a Dragon Team instead.
Could it be that inheriting the original host's mories, he felt no sense of crisis at all?
Jiang Ning pondered.
He rembered how, during his first venture into the Cultivation World, faced with a perilous environnt, he was utterly obsessed with cultivation, wishing he could split every minute in two for fear of falling behind others.
Yet what Wang Longlong showed him was negligence.
Ultimately, Jiang Ning decided to observe for a few more nights to see how things would unfold.
Each soul transfer happened only after the people in the real world fell asleep, and if they awoke, the souls would return.
Wang Longlong could still attend classes during the day and wouldn't feel exhausted from the traveling.
Jiang Ning got up to cook.
The day before, Xue Yuantong had said she wanted to eat sticky rice and date porridge. Porridge took ti, and she was prone to sleeping in and wouldn't get up early.
Upon leaving his house, he found the weather still cold, the outside soil frozen hard.
He arrived at Xue Yuantong's doorstep, flicked his finger, and the door opened.
The water pipes on the walls of the courtyard were wrapped in a layer of insulation material. Without it, the pipes would probably freeze solid.
Or he could slightly open the water faucet at night to let the water drip continuously, keeping it moving to prevent freezing.
Apart from a coal stove, Xue Yuantong's house also had a gas stove. However, the river dam area wasn't connected to natural gas, so they used bottled liquefied gas.
Previously, Jiang Ning had always felt gas cylinders were unsafe, fearing a sudden explosion so much that he'd avoid using them, sticking to an induction cooker instead.
Actually, gas cylinders are quite safe as long as you don't shake them; incidents are very rare.
There was once in college, a dance teacher using liquefied gas in his cooking t with an accident.
Jiang Ning couldn't rember clearly whether it was the gas cylinder that exploded or it triggered a fire. The dance teacher was seriously burned, and at the ti, he was crowdfunding for dical expenses.
Waving his hand, Jiang Ning made a handful of sticky rice fly out of the bag; with another gesture, ten dates flew over.
Dates were a type of dried fruit, made by mixing green dates with sugar and then drying them. If eaten dry, they could be very cloying, but cooking them with sticky rice in porridge was just right.
After rinsing the rice, Jiang Ning added the dates and then water to the pot. He placed a stear rack in the pot and put a few buns on it.
As the porridge cooked, the buns would steam, staying hot and moist thanks to the steam.
He didn't use liquefied gas but instead threw the pot into the air, shooting out a fla that enveloped the pot to heat it.
With Jiang Ning's alchemy-level fire control skills, the cooking was faster and the resulting porridge tastier.
If Xue Yuantong saw it, she'd probably be so startled she'd swallow the pot.
After finishing these preparations, Jiang Ning didn't cook any dishes since there were so leftovers from last night. In the below-freezing conditions, leftovers were easily preserved, and so vegetables, like eggplants, even beca tastier.
As the porridge neared readiness, he also ward the dishes.
At that mont, Xue Yuantong, drawn by the delicious sll, ran into the kitchen.
Jiang Ning looked at her and comnted disdainfully, "Your hair is a ss."
Xue Yuantong responded gloomily, "Aren't you the one always ssing with it?"
"Go wash your face. If you keep dawdling, I'll eat your al," Jiang Ning said.
Once Xue Yuantong had washed, the two sat down to eat.
Xue Yuantong looked into her bowl and saw not a single date!
She leaned forward slightly to check Jiang Ning's bowl and saw three dates.
She suggested, "Jiang Ning, let's switch bowls."
"Sure," Jiang Ning said.
They swapped bowls.
Xue Yuantong poked her bowl with her chopsticks, finding three dates.
Unconvinced, she poked at Jiang Ning's bowl, only to find hidden at the bottom one, two, three, four...
A total of seven dates!
Xue Yuantong was furious, feeling tricked, "Jiang Ning, did you do this on purpose?"
Jiang Ning looked serene, "You asked to swap bowls. Your greed did you in."
"I don't care. You tricked on purpose, you're so an!"
Xue Yuantong reached with her chopsticks to grab the dates from Jiang Ning's bowl.
"Don't touch my dates," Jiang Ning said.
"Hehehe." Xue Yuantong took a bite, the originally overly sweet dates mixed with glutinous rice porridge, diluted the sweetness, making it more delicious.
"Are you going for another bite?" Jiang Ning urged her.
"Hehehe."
After a while, Xue Yuantong exclaid,
"Where's my shrimp bun?"
Jiang Ning: "Hehehe."
"You're too much! There was only one shrimp bun, and you ate it all, wuu wuu wuu."
"Hehehe."
...
After finishing breakfast, Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong to school.
Xue Yuantong puffed up her cheeks, not speaking to Jiang Ning.
So infuriating!
Today she brought an apple, deciding to let Jiang Ning watch her eat it as a punishnt for upsetting her.
When Jiang Ning arrived in class, as the chemistry class representative, he had to collect the chemistry test papers Teacher Guo Ran had distributed during last night's self-study session.
Wang Longlong sat dazed at his desk, not watching Ma Shicheng play gas, but with a complex and profound look in his eyes.
His mory of last night's encounter was blurred, unable to recall the specific details of the dream, but he roughly knew what had happened—it was a fantastical adventure:
'I once traveled to a mysterious world, saw bustling ancient cities, established a massive Dragon Team, and was revered by countless people as the Dragon King!'
Jiang Ning knocked on his desk, producing a "clanking" sound.
"Wang Longlong, are you going to turn in your chemistry test paper?"
In an instant, Wang Longlong snapped back to reality, hastily saying,
"Yes, for sure, Brother Ning, can I copy from one of your test papers?"
Wang Longlong asked cheekily.
"Sure, feel free to take one."
Wang Longlong pulled out a test paper, which turned out to be Dan Kaiquan's. He cursed under his breath and hurriedly drew another one from below, Bai Yuxia's.
Holding the test paper, he began copying: "Brother Ning, wait for to finish copying, and I'll bring it right over to you."
"No problem."
Jiang Ning continued collecting test papers. The test papers assigned by Teacher Guo Ran had the highest submission rate in the class, but there were exceptions, like Ma Shicheng, who now disdained even copying.
Though Teacher Guo Ran was beautiful, Ma Shicheng thought beauty couldn't satiate hunger; he'd rather spend his extra ti gaming.
As for his grades?
He didn't care, by the ti he reached his second year of high school, he'd make a dramatic coback and astonish everyone!
After making his rounds, Jiang Ning returned to his seat with the collected papers.
Then he t the gaze of Dan Kaiquan from across the aisle.
Ever since Chen Siyu had taken over his spot, Dan Kaiquan had reluctantly moved across the aisle, sitting opposite Bai Yuxia.
Dan Kaiquan gave Jiang Ning a friendly nod. He had previously made a small request for Jiang Ning to always pair his test paper with Bai Yuxia's whenever collecting them.
This way, even if they couldn't sit together, Dan Kaiquan would still feel very happy, feeling a constant presence around her.
He wanted to accompany her forever in the corners unknown to Bai Yuxia.
After greeting, Dan Kaiquan put on his gold-rimd glasses and continued studying, determined to surpass Chen Siyu and win back Bai Yuxia.
Jiang Ning's Divine Sense glanced over Dan Kaiquan's lenses, finding no curvature; they were not prescriptions for nearsightedness, but plain glasses.
Once, during a casual conversation, Bai Yuxia had ntioned that boys wearing glasses looked scholarly, so the next day, Dan Kaiquan got himself a pair of glasses.
Wang Longlong ca over with his copied test paper: "Jiang Ning, I'm off."
Dan Kaiquan suddenly turned his head, his gold-rimd glasses flashing a vigilant look.
'Bai Yuxia's test paper, once taken by Wang Longlong, was tainted!'
Dan Kaiquan felt deeply distressed, hurriedly wiped Bai Yuxia's test paper to remove soone else's essence, and stuffed it back under his own.
Wang Longlong returned to pondering his strange dream, which occupied him for an entire morning self-study, yet he still couldn't figure it out.
So, he sought advice from the philosophy master, Brother Ma:
"Brother Ma, have you ever had a dream?"
Ma Shicheng was puzzled: "What kind of dream?"
Wang Longlong felt that the content of his dream was sowhat embarrassing, reluctant to tell Ma Shicheng, so he said vaguely:
"Ah, that kind of dream."
"Brother Ma, you know what I an."
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