Don't try to cultivate immortality; mortals live longer than immortals.

"Thank you, senior."

"You're welcome." The girl's face showed a hint of admiration: "Your homeroom teacher is Teacher Tang, the top student in the rocket class. No wonder you're so amazing. But then again, even among the top classes of all years, very few people have reached the peak of Qi Refining in just three months."

"Hehe, I already said it was luck."

"Alright, I was just expressing my opinion. I have no right to interfere, and you don't need to explain."

After the girl finished speaking, she reached out and lightly tapped the touchscreen with her fingertips. With a soft "click," two frosted, sealed bottles popped out from the smart cabinet below the window. The bottles were printed with dynamic anti-counterfeiting school badges, and their surfaces had a faint glow, exuding a mysterious sense of technology.

The girl pushed two bottles of Foundation Establishment Pills out the window, smiled, and looked up at the two geniuses: "These are Foundation Establishment Pills for you, one bottle each, nine pills per bottle. Only top students like you with your heaven-defying cultivation speed can have such a quota."

"Nine?"

Duan Xuan was bewildered, thinking, "Is it really necessary? Why does it have to be so much?"

However, before the thought could even finish, the senior's voice reached her ears again, carrying a hint of teasing and perhaps a touch of envy, yet her tone sounded like she was offering a casual blessing.

"Junior brothers and sisters, you are the most talented people I have ever seen. If you finish this bottle of Foundation Establishment Pills and your cultivation is still stuck at the Qi Refining stage, you are welcome to come to me for more. I wish you both to consume several more bottles of Foundation Establishment Pills and hopefully break the school's record since its founding."

"By the way, what's the record for Foundation Establishment Pills at our Shuiyun Daoyun Academy?"

As the girl spoke, she tapped the touch panel and quickly got her answer: "Yes, eighteen. Good luck, you two!"

What do you mean?

Duan Xuan was completely confused and bewildered. He wondered if there was something wrong with his ears. The senior student looked all smiles; surely she wasn't teasing him.

Jiang Yaoguang, standing to the side, remained completely calm, replying lightly, "Alright, thank you for your kind words, senior."

After saying that, she put the bottle containing the Foundation Establishment Pill into her earring, her expression completely calm.

Duan Xuan remained in a daze, looking utterly confused. He thought to himself, "What do you mean by 'we can come back for more after we've finished eating them,' as if you're wishing us to eat a few more? Shouldn't Foundation Establishment Pills guarantee a successful Foundation Establishment after consumption? Even if we fail, we should only need two or three at most. What on earth is all this about?"

"Senior..."

He wanted to ask a question, but Fairy Yaoguang pulled him out: "Alright, Ah Xuan, what are you still standing here for? Let's go."

Duan Xuan tried to resist, but found that the other party was very strong and was dragged out of the logistics department.

Looking at the blue sky and white clouds outside, his expression remained blank, as if he were dreaming: "Yaoguang, why did you pull me? And what exactly did that senior girl mean? Why can't I understand her at all?"

"It's understandable that you don't understand. It's your own fault for not studying properly, daydreaming in class, and playing games after class."

Jiang Yaoguang looked at him with disdain.

Duan Xuan: "..."

Duan Xuan was speechless. I can only say that it's because I'm too talented, so the courses are all too easy. And who's like you, spending all your time in the library these days?

Of course, he only dared to mutter these words to himself. After all, Fairy Yaoguang had a very strong personality, and he couldn't afford to offend her if she really got angry.

So he scratched his head and chased after her: "Yaoguang, don't rush off! What did Senior Sister mean by that? What did she mean by using more Foundation Establishment Pills? And that we could apply for more from her? Foundation Establishment Pills aren't something you can get through with just one or two pills, are they?"

Jiang Yaoguang ignored her, keeping walking without even turning her head, only to tossing out a light remark: "You didn't listen in class, you didn't study after class, and now you know to ask? Go look up the information yourself, borrow books from the library, check the school forum, don't wait for others to feed you everything."

After speaking, she paused, turned her head to the side, and glanced at the medicine bottle in Duan Xuan's hand out of the corner of her eye. Her tone was a little disgusted, but also a little admonishing: "Anyway, don't be like those slackers who rush to break through after getting the medicine. You'll waste your genius quota."

"Hey, what exactly do you mean? Can you explain yourself clearly?" Duan Xuan was getting impatient.

"It's very simple. The more Foundation Establishment Pills you take, the better. If you dare to break through after only two or three pills and ruin your foundation, believe me, I'll beat you every time I see you in the future."

What kind of nonsense is this?

Duan Xuan was completely confused and had no idea why he needed to take more Foundation Establishment Pills. Watching the other person's decisive departure, he could only glare at the air and mentally curse this lady eight hundred times.

Only after Fairy Yaoguang walked away and her figure completely disappeared at the end of the road did Duan Xuan's expression of being both bewildered and angry gradually ease, replaced by a slight upturn of the corners of his mouth, revealing a carefree smile.

"Tch, fine, don't tell me then. I wasn't expecting you to ask anyway, but in that situation, it would have been strange not to ask."

As for going to the library and campus forums?

Duan Xuan had no interest in wasting time; he had a more efficient way to figure it out. With a faint smile, Duan Xuan mentally called out to the system: "Yun'er, you should know what happened just now. Tell me, what exactly happened?"

However, there was no reaction whatsoever.

It's as if the system never existed from beginning to end.

Duan Xuan was stunned.

What happened?

He quickly called out in his mind several more times, "Yun'er, Yun'er, where are you?"

However, there has still been no response.

Duan Xuan waited for a good ten seconds, and now he was truly panicking: "What's going on? Has the system really malfunctioned?"

Before transmigrating, he had read many online novels, but he had never encountered this situation before, nor had he ever heard of a system that could quietly unbind and run away.

Just as he was completely at a loss, Lingyun's voice finally reached his ears, but it lacked its usual liveliness and instead sounded mechanical and perfunctory: "What are your instructions, host?"

Duan Xuan was initially delighted, but then his heart began to pound. Although this girl usually called him "host," it always carried a hint of intimacy. Today, however, it sounded like a machine reading a script.

"Yun'er, what's wrong?"

"Host, just say what you have to say. Otherwise, I have other things to do."

"What kind of things do you, a system, have to do?"

Duan Xuan was speechless, but he dared not say it aloud at this moment. He could only tentatively ask, "Regarding what happened just now, why do you need to take several Foundation Establishment Pills, and the more the better?"

"This matter is beyond the system's authority. The host can go to the library or browse the relevant campus forums himself."

Duan Xuan: "..."

Lingyun hadn't finished speaking; her voice remained cold and formulaic: "Not listening in class, not reviewing after class, and only asking others when you encounter problems—that's not a good habit."