"No, no! Am I going crazy?! What the hell am I thinking?!"

Qian Renxue shook her head violently, startled by her own dangerous and "magnanimous" thought, and quickly suppressed it.

Meanwhile, Xuan Hao had no idea how outrageous Qian Renxue's beautiful little brain had already imagined their future "married life" to such an extent.

In fact, he was simply suppressing his boiling blood and forcing himself to calm down so as not to damage Qian Renxue's confidence, who was just a newbie.

Otherwise, given this girl's haphazard and ineffective approach, he absolutely couldn't possibly manage it, let alone just one morning, even if he kept her up until dark.

Seeing Qian Renxue's tired yet shy appearance, Xuan Hao gently ruffled her blonde hair and said softly, "Alright, I've been here for several days now, it's time to go back and check on Rongrong and the others, so they don't overthink things in the hotel."

Upon hearing that Xuan Hao was leaving, Qian Renxue, who was currently huddled tightly under the covers, simply gave a muffled "hmm".

Her mind was now filled with the unspeakable, stimulating images of that morning, and her face was as red as a ripe apple. What embarrassed her most was that after finally managing to extinguish this guy's passion with all her might, during this intimate contact, her own previously untouched body had actually been aroused...!

Worried that Xuan Hao would notice her unusual behavior, Qian Renxue pulled the blanket over half her face and said with a shifty look in her eyes, "Then you should go quickly. I'm tired too, and I need to rest."

Xuan Hao smiled, bent down, and kissed her forehead.

However, the moment their lips touched, Xuan Hao keenly sensed something was wrong. Her skin was incredibly hot, even her breath felt unusually scorching!

"What's wrong?" Xuan Hao frowned slightly, looking at her with a puzzled expression. "Do you have a fever?"

"No...it's nothing, I was just tired and a little dizzy." Qian Renxue didn't dare to look him in the eye and stammered her excuse.

Xuan Hao's expression turned strange as he looked at her with longing in her eyes, her legs awkwardly rubbing together, and her face flushed. He leaned closer to her ear and whispered, "Xue'er...you didn't...you didn't get aroused when you were helping me earlier, did you?"

Qian Renxue was instantly filled with shame and indignation after her secret thoughts were exposed. She bit her lip tightly and buried her head in the pillow, not daring to reply.

Looking at her alluring yet pitiful appearance, a dark glint flashed in Xuan Hao's eyes. After thinking for a moment, he simply lifted the corner of the blanket and crawled back into bed.

"What...what are you doing?!" Qian Renxue panicked instantly, shrinking back like a startled deer. "You wouldn't be thinking of...no way!"

"Don't be nervous. I've said before, it's too early now. I'll wait until you're truly ready."

Xuan Hao gently pulled her back into his arms, stroking her soft blonde hair lightly. "But... you've worked so hard to help me all morning. It's only right to reciprocate. Now, it's my turn to help you relax."

Qian Renxue's face instantly turned bright red, her mind going completely blank: "Help me? How can you help me..."

"Relax, leave it to me."

Before he finished speaking, Xuan Hao lifted the brocade quilt covering the two of them. He slid down in the process, under Qian Renxue's extremely shocked and ashamed gaze.

"Ugh—! Xuanhao! You...don't..."

Qian Renxue was struck dumb, jerking her long neck back and letting out a sweet but broken gasp. Her fair hands gripped the sheets tightly, her knuckles turning white from the force.

However, her feeble resistance and rejection were nothing more than a drop in the ocean.

Qian Renxue trembled violently as if she had been electrocuted, then completely collapsed onto the bed, unable to lift even a finger.

Xuan Hao crawled out from under the covers and looked at Qian Renxue, who was lying on the bed with dazed eyes, rapid breathing, and almost unconscious. He was really worried about leaving her on the wet bed like that.

He simply picked up her limp, delicate body and carefully carried her to the large, comfortable sofa outside the secret room. Then, he took out a precious dragon spirit mushroom leaf from his soul tool and gently fed it to her to help her recover her energy. He then put on a black robe and quietly stayed by her side.

After a long while, Qian Renxue's disoriented eyes finally refocused.

Recalling the absurd and utterly shameful scene from just moments ago, Qian Renxue no longer had the courage to even glance at Xuan Hao. She gripped the sofa cushions tightly, covering her face, her voice barely audible, trembling with a mixture of anger and embarrassment: "You...why aren't you leaving yet..."

Xuan Hao was speechless when he saw her shy and bashful appearance, as if she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

He reached out and removed the pillow from her face, pinching her burning cheek with a hint of annoyance: "You're so exhausted, and the bed is unusable. Do you think I'm just going to leave like this?"

"Rest well, little newbie." Xuan Hao chuckled softly and placed a light kiss on her forehead. "Lie still and wait until you've fully recovered your strength before I leave."

Chapter 258 I really went to take care of important business, can you guys be serious for once?

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As evening fell and the city lights began to twinkle, the evening began to come on.

After a long day of quiet rest and nourishment with elixirs, Qian Renxue, who had been slumped on the sofa, finally regained her strength, and the soreness and weakness disappeared.

However, as soon as he regained his strength, the first thing this arrogant Crown Prince did was to blush and ruthlessly kick Xuan Hao out of the Crown Prince's residence!

This time, she absolutely dared not leave this great deity behind again.

What a joke! A man and a woman alone in a room, what if she accidentally arouses this guy's lust again, or... her own unreliable body recalls what happened this morning and gets aroused again.

Wouldn't that mean we'd fall into that incredibly shameful "death loop" again?!

No! We absolutely cannot continue like this! If this continues, her authority as the Crown Prince will be shattered beyond repair.

Xuan Hao naturally saw through Qian Renxue's awkward little thoughts. In addition, since he had been away for the past few days, he really needed to go back and check on those girls to avoid making them worry. So he didn't continue to shamelessly stay here. He went down the steps, left the Crown Prince's residence, and quickly headed towards the Tian Dou Royal Hotel.

……

As soon as Xuan Hao pushed open the door to the penthouse suite he had booked long-term at the hotel, he saw the lobby brightly lit. Na'er, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and their group were all sitting neatly on the sofa, clearly having been waiting for him.

Seeing Xuan Hao finally walk in unharmed, the girls immediately swarmed around him like cats smelling fish.

"Well, you've got some nerve! Didn't you say you were just going to appease His Highness the Crown Prince? How come you've been gone for days and we haven't even seen a trace of you!"

Ning Rongrong put her hands on her hips, sniffed Xuan Hao like a puppy, then looked him up and down with an ambiguous and suspicious gaze, before asking a startling question: "You two, all alone together... ugh, all alone together, what have you been doing in the Crown Prince's residence these past few days? You weren't really doing 'that kind of thing,' were you?!"

Ning Rongrong felt her guess made more and more sense as she spoke, but then she frowned and muttered, "But... even if you two are really passionate, you don't have to do it for several days in a row, do you? Aren't you still deficient in qi and blood? Are you trying to kill yourself?"

"Snapped!"

Hearing these increasingly outrageous and inappropriate words, Xuan Hao raised his hand speechlessly and flicked Ning Rongrong's smooth forehead.

"Ouch!" Ning Rongrong covered her forehead, glaring at him with a wronged expression.

"Can you all stop having all this nonsense and lewd drivel in your heads all day long?" Xuan Hao sighed wearily and clarified irritably, "I haven't been back for the past few days because I've been staying at the Crown Prince's residence to handle official business and cultivate in seclusion!"

As he spoke, in order to dispel the explicit images in the minds of these young girls, Xuan Hao's expression turned serious. He closed his eyes, instantly concentrated his mind, and directly activated the soul core that had just begun to take shape deep within his dantian.

"Om-!"

With a deep hum, an immense and terrifying suction force suddenly erupted from Xuan Hao's body!

To everyone's astonishment, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the suite and even within a radius of several hundred meters seemed to be under some irresistible and forced summoning. It actually transformed into a visible stream of light, which, like rivers flowing into the sea, was forcibly drawn in and frantically poured into Xuan Hao's body!

Sensing the domineering and terrifying speed at which this energy was devouring her, Na'er, who had been standing quietly to the side, showed a clear surprise and delight in her clear purple eyes.

"Brother, you...you actually managed to condense the 'Soul Core'?"

Hearing Na'er's exclamation, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and the others were all completely bewildered. They exchanged glances, their minds filled with questions: "Soul Core? What's a Soul Core? What's it used for?"

Seeing that no one understood, Na'er smiled slightly and patiently explained the science to everyone.

"The so-called soul core is a profound and dangerous soul power compression technique. Simply put, it is to forcibly compress the originally gaseous or liquid scattered soul power in the body into a constantly rotating energy vortex in the dantian."

Na'er, observing the extraordinary phenomenon of Xuan Hao continuously absorbing spiritual energy, explained softly, "Once a Soul Core is condensed, a Soul Master can not only increase their total Soul Power reserves, but more terrifyingly, the Soul Core will act like a perpetual motion machine, constantly and automatically absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world. This means that a Soul Master with a Soul Core will reach a terrifyingly inhuman level in terms of Soul Power recovery speed and sustained combat ability!"

"hiss--!"

After listening to Na'er's easy-to-understand explanation of the science, everyone gasped and stared wide-eyed.

In the common knowledge of the Douluo Continent, the amount and speed of soul power recovery depend entirely on the quality of the martial soul and one's own level. They had never heard of such a heaven-defying, almost "cheat-like" cultivation method in this world!

"Alright, don't think of this thing as something mystical. I'm just using a trick."

Xuan Hao slowly withdrew the suction force within his body, opened his eyes, looked at the group of girls who were too shocked to speak, and explained with a smile: "The soul core in my body is currently only an extremely unstable prototype. In order to make it completely stable and unleash its full power, I need to cultivate to at least the level of a level 90 Title Douluo."

"However, even if it's just a prototype, it's more than enough to deal with the current situation for now."

Xuan Hao stepped forward and gently patted Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong's heads one by one. His gaze swept over Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and the others, his tone filled with encouragement and expectation:

"So, you all need to work hard from now on. Once you break through to the level 70 Soul Saint realm, if your physical fitness and mental strength meet my requirements, I can personally help you try to condense your own Soul Core."

"Otherwise... you'll have to suffer through the long grind to reach level 90 Title Douluo before gambling on that minuscule probability of condensation. Do you understand?"

Upon hearing Xuan Hao's promise to help them condense their soul cores after they reached level 70, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others' eyes lit up, and they all nodded to indicate that they understood.

These past few years, following Xuan Hao's side and watching him rise to prominence, a sense of powerlessness, like gazing at the stars, has always weighed heavily on the hearts of these proud and ambitious girls. They didn't want to be nothing more than pretty but useless ornaments to Xuan Hao.

"Don't rush this. You have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to take cultivation one step at a time."

Xuan Hao waved his hand, bringing the topic back on track, and asked with a frown, "By the way, a few days ago when I was resting, you all rushed in, shouting something like 'Something happened at Shrek Academy'? What exactly happened?"

"Ah, this..."

Reminded by Xuan Hao, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and the others immediately showed a hint of embarrassment.

They rushed into Xuan Hao's room, only to be met with a bombshell scene: Xue Qinghe, disheveled, straddling Xuan Hao's waist. It was utterly shocking! It was like their brains were being violently rubbed into the ground!

After that, their minds were filled with those bizarre and perverted "male-male gossip," and they didn't care about any of the messy things at Shrek Academy anymore. They had completely forgotten about it!

Chapter 259 Precisely Stepping on Landmines: Avalanche's venomous tongue and Dai Mubai's "ultimate shame"!

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Hearing Xuan Hao ask again, Ning Rongrong suddenly realized what was going on and slapped her thigh, quickly reporting, "Oh dear! I almost forgot about the important matter! The Shrek Academy group has come to Tiandou City, and they went straight to the Tiandou Royal Academy."

“However…” Ning Rongrong curled her lips with a strange expression, “They encountered a major incident on their way to the Royal Academy. They got into a fight with Prince Xue Beng and his gang, and it escalated so much that it almost triggered a massive school-wide brawl! In the end, it was only by having Meng Shenji and the other two members of the Education Committee personally intervene that they were able to barely quell the situation.”

"However, after such a farce, Shrek Academy's group obviously couldn't bring themselves to talk about 'exchange learning' or 'joining the Heaven Dou Royal Academy' anymore. At the time, the entire student body was indignant and wanted nothing more than to devour them alive. No matter how much the three education committee members valued their talent, they couldn't keep them in the face of such public opinion."

"They've started fighting?" Xuan Hao raised an eyebrow in surprise. "What's going on? Even if Xue Beng causes trouble, Qin Ming is still the teacher in charge. He wouldn't just stand by and watch the Shrek Academy students clash with the Heaven Dou Royal Family, would he?"

Ning Rongrong turned to look at Dugu Yan sitting to the side: "I'm not entirely clear on the specific details either, so let Sister Yan tell you. She and Lingling happened to be having class at the Tiandou Royal Academy that day, and they saw the whole thing clearly."

Upon hearing this, Dugu Yan continued, "To put it simply, those country bumpkins from Shrek Academy were warmly invited by Senior Qin Ming to visit the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and find a backer. As a result, not long after these people stepped into the school gate, they ran into that spoiled brat Xue Beng."

“You know how unruly Xue Beng is.” Dugu Yan curled her lip, her tone tinged with disdain. “Although you’ve kept him submissive all these years, making him cower like a dog in front of you, he’s still the arrogant Fourth Prince of Tian Dou in front of other commoners and outsiders. That’s why he got into a very heated argument with those equally proud and rebellious troublemakers from Shrek Academy in just a few words.”

Dugu Yan paused, "Of course, it wasn't just because of a few words. The main trigger was... that guy named Dai Mubai."

"Dai Mubai?" Xuan Hao was taken aback. "What happened to him?"

"Didn't you... cripple his thing back in Soto City?"

Dugu Yan gestured, barely suppressing a laugh, and said, "Now, whether it's his voice or his usual behavior, he exudes a strange, effeminate aura. That foul-mouthed Xue Beng noticed something was off immediately and mocked him in front of everyone as a 'dead eunuch without testicles'!"

"Pfft!" Hearing this vivid and sarcastic remark, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong couldn't help but burst out laughing, clutching their stomachs.

"For an extremely arrogant man, this is the ultimate humiliation, worse than death!" Dugu Yan continued gloatingly. "Dai Mubai went completely mad on the spot, his eyes bloodshot. He activated the White Tiger Vajra Transformation and charged forward like a mad dog, pinning Xue Beng to the ground and giving him a brutal beating. How could Xue Beng's meager cultivation stop him? He was almost beaten to death on the spot!"

"If Flander hadn't reacted quickly and intervened in time to stop Dai Mubai..." Dugu Yan sneered, "it wouldn't have been as simple as just being expelled from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Openly assaulting and even attempting to murder a prince right under the imperial city's nose, those Shrek students would probably already be on the Heaven Dou Empire's most wanted list, facing a massive manhunt!"

"Tsk, Avalanche's mouth is really sharp, always hitting landmines with perfect timing." Xuan Hao clicked his tongue, then asked with some doubt, "So what happened next? What about that 'school-wide brawl' you mentioned? What does Avalanche getting beaten up have to do with the other students?"

"Isn't this all thanks to you?!"

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