Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

Nangong Siyao's consciousness twitched as she teased Xiao Ye, "I can see everything the Golden Dragon sees too, you know. Xiao Ye, do you like this sort of thing? I can do it in the future too."

Xiao Ye was a bit embarrassed, but he couldn't help it. At moments like this, Assistant Instructor Liu Ya was like a target, always attracting him like an arrow to a bullseye.

*Besides, what guy wouldn't want to look?*

The System's mechanical, icy notification echoed in Xiao Ye's ear.

[Congratulations, Host, mission complete, entered Top Ten of Kunpeng Combat Academy's Ranking.]

[Mission reward, two Creation Rule Fragment Crystals.]

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*That was pretty abrupt.*

*So abrupt that Xiao Ye was a little surprised.*

*Why did he break into the Top Ten? Was it from slaying that wolf pack and a few Grandmaster demon beasts? Must have been it.*

With these two, he now had sixteen Creation, five Dark Element, one Gold, one Fire, one Ice Rule Fragment Crystals.

*Seriously, when it rains it pours; look at all these Creation Fragments—I'm starting to get annoyed by how many there are, and still they keep coming!*

Creation Type, "How picky are you? I'm oil-fried bread, and you'd still complain!"

With his objective met, Xiao Ye and the other three headed home.

The Holy Two-tailed White Fox and Three-Toed Golden Dragon exited Summoned Beast Form, and, following Cat-Eared Lady Liu Ya, trotted toward the exit of the Practical Training Base.

At that moment, inside the castle base, three musclebound Deputy Directors seized their chance and hurriedly said,

"Let's go check on the teacher, and also visit our junior brothers and sisters."

"Right, we really ought to meet these young and monstrous new juniors!"

With that, the three Deputy Directors headed straight toward the base's exit.

At the iron gate,

they arrived before Xiao Ye's group of four.

But they overheard some words that really angered them, coming from a few brawny Gate Guards leaned against the gate.

"Hey, you see how Liu Ya the widow is dressed all slutty? Must be trying to entice us."

"Exactly, you can tell she's not serious. Who else wears so little—with her whole leg showing off?"

"And there are plenty of rumors about her, you know. People say she's the Vajra Venerable's kept mistress."

"Could be true, I mean, what woman goes a hundred years without a man!"

The brawny Gate Guards bantered loudly, until suddenly a chilly voice spoke from behind them,

"So, you all want to spend the night with her, maybe taste some lips?"

"Duh, who wouldn't?" "Totally, she's got so many male disciples, and a ton of admirers." "Yeah, don't tell me you wouldn't want that too?"

The five Gate Guards turned their heads—and,

"Holy shit!" They jumped, immediately straightening up and saying respectfully,

"Greetings, Deputy Directors!" "Greetings, Deputy Directors!"

The three musclebound Deputy Directors stood there, their faces dark, eyes burning with anger as they scolded,

"You all must be too idle, standing post till you lose your damn minds and slandering people!"

"Do you even realize Liu Ya is our teacher?"

"What? The Deputy Directors' teacher?" The guards' expressions grew fearful as dread filled their hearts.

The Deputy Directors barked, "You five, all your salary and bonuses for the year are docked. And tomorrow, you report yourselves to the customs frontline."

"Hmph! Gate Guard duty is so comfy, right? Well, now you're off to the frontline fighting Sea Beasts. If you don't make quota even once in the next ten years, plan on getting stuck at that border post for life." The latest chapters are always available first on MV5LEMPYR.

Upon hearing this, the guards' faces turned to despair, groaning,

"No, Deputy Directors, we know we were wrong!"

"Guys die at the border all the time, we don't want to go!"

"Dock my pay for two years—no, five years even, just please don't send us to the border!"

The customs border was the national frontier, constantly under assault by sea beast tides, with soldiers dying there every day.

The three Deputy Directors grunted coldly, sticking to their orders, "Report to the customs frontline tomorrow, or get out of Devil City for good."

*Who the hell did they think they were, trash-talking the teacher we respected most, calling her a slut, someone's mistress?*

*As her students, how could we tolerate that?*

*Granted, we also all harbored a bit of a crush on Liu Ya. Once, we even sneaked a look at her washing her feet—that innocent kind, just rolling up her pants legs.*

*Those sparkling jade feet, honestly, made you want to pick them up and gnaw right on them.*

*But that didn't mean we'd ever let anyone drag Liu Ya's name through the mud with vulgar gossip!*

"Hey, is that the teacher coming?"

One of the muscle Deputy Directors saw that beautiful silhouette behind layer after layer of iron doors, his eyes suddenly lighting up.

Soon enough, the five gates guards witnessed the three, who were above them moments before, switch to respectful deference in an instant.

"Hello, Teacher!" "Greetings, Teacher!" "Teacher, it's been too long—still as beautiful as ever!"

Liu Ya's beautiful eyes flashed with surprise; she hadn't expected to run into these three students she'd taught eighty years ago.

She used to take on a few disciples every four years.

"Hello, all," Liu Ya nodded her snow-white chin with a smile.

With most students, you only ever saw your teacher in class—and if you had questions about study or cultivation, you could only ask during lessons.

Being a disciple, though, was a whole different deal—the teacher held special sessions to deal with all manner of study and cultivation problems, and you'd see each other all the time. She'd even help out with life stuff, like a family elder would.

And Liu Ya never charged her disciples anything—it didn't matter if you were rich or struggling, she always treated everyone the same.

That was why every disciple held Liu Ya in such deep respect and admiration!

"Heh, are these three the new disciples you're mentoring now, Teacher? Damn, one look and you can tell they're handsome and impressive!"

"And these two junior sisters are gorgeous too—junior brother, you lucky bastard."

Seeing Xiao Ye and company looking confused, Liu Ya giggled, "Just call them senior brothers."

Her stunning smile felt like flowers blooming, dazzling everyone around her.

The five guards and all three Deputy Directors just stared, dumbstruck.

*Xiao Ye was used to hanging out daily with campus beauties—he'd built up an immunity, so he managed not to lose his cool.*

"Hello, senior brothers."

"Gulp!" One of the Deputy Directors swallowed hard, then wrapped an arm around Xiao Ye's shoulder, grinning,

"Junior brother, doesn't it feel great killing demon beasts?"

"Hell yeah." Every time he killed a Grandmaster demon beast, he scored a Rule Fragment Crystal. Of course Xiao Ye was stoked.

The Deputy Director laughed boisterously, "Come by whenever! We know what kind of demon beasts roam every kilometer of this entire base. You hit us up, we'll take you hunting ourselves."

"That'd be awesome!" Xiao Ye's eyes lit up.

He figured the Template Adjuster only extracted crystals matching the demon beast's attributes, so if he wanted more of a certain kind, he'd just check the attributes and go for those beasts.

Liu Ya laughed as she introduced them, "These three are Deputy Directors now, at the Great Venerable Realm. The Director normally only steps in for big events, so they're the ones managing the Practical Training Base day-to-day."

"Xiao Ye, you can come straight here in the future—you don't need to ask your class instructor."