Chapter 361 - 248: Tuantuan and Yuanyuan
Chapter 361: Chapter 248: Tuantuan and Yuanyuan
After eating the Spirit Fruits, Tuantuan enthusiastically welcomed them, leading them to explore their "new home." Soon, the four little ones were playing together happily.
The team that delivered the pandas was very relieved to see the three newcomers settling in happily here.
The manager who had joked around earlier was deeply impressed with Li Xiang. "I thought they would need some time to adjust to the new environment, but I didn’t expect them to fit in so quickly."
As for the Spirit Fruits Li Xiang had fed them earlier, no one gave it much thought. They just assumed they were some wild fruits from the mountains. ’They look weird, so they can’t be worth much. Otherwise, why would this village chief be willing to just toss them to the pandas?’
’These pandas belong to the state, not to him personally, right?’
All five of these giant pandas naturally belonged to the state. Just like Tuantuan, the newcomers—Yuanyuan, Huanhuan, and Lele—all had official records and serial numbers. Since Tuantuan and his mother were living well here, with expert teams regularly visiting for check-ups and to collect fecal samples, the leaders of Sichuan Province felt confident letting the three other pandas come live here as well.
Li Xiang organized some people to build a fence around this stretch of Bamboo Mountain. Its main purpose was to prevent tourists from wandering in, not to restrict the freedom of Tuantuan and the others.
The territory on the mountain was vast, more than enough for Tuantuan and his friends to play around in.
That night, Li Xiang came over and secretly used his Earth Superpower to create three caves, each about one and a half meters high and two meters wide. He even lined them with soft straw. In this freezing weather, living in a cave would be much warmer and provide a greater sense of security.
The pandas were quite fond of the caves Li Xiang had built.
They usually paired off like this: Tuantuan’s mother in one, Tuantuan and Yuanyuan in another, and Huanhuan and Lele in the third.
It had to be said, Yuanyuan had truly taken a liking to Tuantuan. She was very forward every day, and Tuantuan, unable to resist her advances, was finally conquered one night.
Although Tuantuan was still young, he was exceptionally robust and had long since possessed the ability in that department.
When Jiang Cai’Er was on break from school, Li Xiang took her out for a walk one evening. They had originally intended to visit the pandas, but they ended up stumbling upon that scene. The two of them naturally beat a hasty and quiet retreat, not wanting to disturb Tuantuan and Yuanyuan’s special moment.
Having witnessed the not-safe-for-kids scene, Jiang Cai’Er nestled into Li Xiang’s arms, deeply stirred. However, Li Xiang strictly adhered to his boundaries and made no move to cross the line.
Jiang Cai’Er was actually a little jealous. She had learned that by following Li Xiang, Luo Feifei had earned a first-class merit and a second-class merit, and had even obtained the rank of Captain, while she had nothing. ’If I went on missions with him,’ she thought, ’maybe I could earn medals and a military rank too.’
"You’re still in school. Besides, you’re my ultimate trump card. I think it’s better to keep you a secret for now," Li Xiang said comfortingly, gently stroking her hair.
Li Xiang had to use many of his special skills, and it took him a full two hours before he managed to coax her back into a smile.
"Fine, I won’t hold it against you anymore. What’s yours is mine, anyway," Jiang Cai’Er chuckled.
Seeing each other only once a month, the two naturally had endless sweet nothings to whisper, but they also inevitably exchanged insights on their cultivation.
Jiang Cai’Er had already advanced to Tier Three, with three Spiritual Power Vortexes inside her body. Her newly awakened Superpower was exceptionally peculiar.
"I gave it a name myself. I call it ’Imaginary Number Corridor: Ring of the End’," Jiang Cai’Er said.
"What does it do?" Li Xiang asked.
Jiang Cai’Er then explained in detail. It was essentially an advanced version of her previous Illusion Realm. The "Imaginary Number Corridor" was actually a "closed-loop logic maze," and it was on a whole other level compared to her old Illusion Realm in terms of both scale and power.
"Inside this ’closed-loop logic maze,’ the answer to every problem becomes the premise for the next one, like in Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. If someone gets an answer wrong, it drains their Spiritual Power and feeds it back into the maze as one of the energy sources to sustain it."
"Then, I can also consume my Spiritual Power to deploy a ’Knowledge Forbidden Area’ in the real world. This forces any enemies within its range to communicate in a specific language, like ancient Sanskrit, binary, or some extremely rare dialect. Anyone who violates this rule suffers from neural overload."
As for the consequences of this overload, it goes without saying. They could end up as an imbecile or an idiot, or even die from their brain exploding.
"Of course, if I move them out of the area in time, their life can still be saved."
"Also, this ability is too overpowered. If I use it without restraint, there are side effects. It might cause ’infinite loop partitions’ to appear in my Memory Palace, and I’d need to periodically organize my consciousness using prime number sequences."
"So, I won’t use it lightly unless it’s a critical moment. Another thing is that the range of this ’Knowledge Forbidden Area’ is still relatively small, only covering a radius of a few hundred meters. In the future, as my Cultivation grows, the range will expand, and its power will increase accordingly."
Jiang Cai’Er had referenced philosophical concepts like the *Klein Bottle* and the *Godel Machine* when naming this Superpower.
Li Xiang’s head was spinning listening to all this. He was completely baffled for a moment.
"What’s wrong?"
"In plain English!"
"Pfft~" Jiang Cai’Er laughed. "I was already trying my best to explain it in simple terms~"
Li Xiang sighed softly. "A genius is a genius, I guess. I can’t give you any more guidance on your cultivation."
He didn’t even understand what Jiang Cai’Er was saying, so how could he guide her? At least he could comprehend Luo Feifei’s Superpower. But this one from Jiang Cai’Er was truly beyond his scope of understanding, even though he also had a university degree.
But Jiang Cai’Er had absorbed an unfathomable amount of knowledge. You could say she was the most erudite person in the world. As she digested this knowledge and constantly innovated with her "Quantum Computer," she had already reached a Realm that was difficult to even fathom.
Jiang Cai’Er smiled brightly and nestled back into his arms. Leaning against his firm chest, she gently toyed with his taut eight-pack abs and said coquettishly, "No matter how powerful I become, I’m still your little wifey. Actually, there is still a way you can help me."
"How can I help?" Li Xiang’s interest was piqued. No man could refuse the chance to show off in front of the woman he loved.
Jiang Cai’Er leaned close to his ear and whispered a few words.
Li Xiang understood, but he hesitated.
Because Jiang Cai’Er was talking about Dual Cultivation. Indeed, if the two of them were to engage in Dual Cultivation, they could complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Their Spiritual Power would be mutually beneficial, nourishing each other. He could definitely enhance Jiang Cai’Er’s Spiritual Power cultivation and help her perfect her unique Spirit Body.
"How about we wait until after your college entrance exams? After our engagement party," Li Xiang said.
Li Xiang came from a poor background, and in his mind, the college entrance exams had always been something sacred. It was like someone who couldn’t afford instant noodles as a child, or whose parents forbade them from eating it. Once they grew up and became very wealthy, they would buy tons of instant noodles to treat themselves. It was a kind of psychological compensation.
Furthermore, this Dual Cultivation would be the first time for both Li Xiang and Jiang Cai’Er. He hoped for it to happen on a very important day, in a completely relaxed state, and with a strong sense of ceremony—not rushed through so carelessly.
"Mm." Since Li Xiang had said so, Jiang Cai’Er didn’t insist. A girl had to be a little reserved, after all. The only reason she had even brought it up was, one, because she felt a sense of crisis, afraid that Luo Feifei would beat her to it, and two, because her super-powered brain had calculated and deduced that this was the most effective way for Li Xiang to help her with her cultivation.
Her cultivation was rather unique; relying on just eating Spirit Fruits was no longer enough for rapid improvement.