After the Seven-Colored Egg and its little pets achieved a great victory last time, the ghosts of the Heaven-Defying Gang were completely subdued.
Upon seeing the Seven-Colored Egg, they still had to address it as "Brother Egg."
Living in familiar surroundings, with all the familiar people and things around.
The Seven-Colored Egg gradually recalled some memories: the Machine Ball, Little Flower, the Fire Fox...
Even Xu Nan, who always stayed in the lotus pond behind the Eighteenth Hall, had some impression on the Seven-Colored Egg.
The more it remembered the past, the angrier the Seven-Colored Egg became.
I brought you back, let you meet the Master, and gave you the chance to recover to your current state.
And in return, you turned around and started competing with me for the Master?!
Is it just because you're a little fairer and tenderer, a little quicker at memorizing, and a little more self-motivated in your studies?
It, it can do that too!
With the awakening of its heritage, knowledge and strength would surge!
Thinking of the Master's attention to Xu Nan, and the satisfied expression when checking his homework completion.
The two balls of fire in the Seven-Colored Egg's eye sockets flickered, as if two bright flames were burning.
...
“?”
The Seven-Colored Egg's gaze was too direct and too obvious.
Xu Nan couldn't ignore it.
In the lotus pond, within the red pavilion.
Xu Nan looked up from the book in front of him, towards the source of the gaze.
At the other end of the pavilion's corridor, a bone dragon was staring at him without blinking.
It was about a foot long, entirely made of bone, with two bright flames emanating from its eye sockets.
It exuded an undeniable aura of majesty.
“...Seven-Colored Egg?”
Xu Nan remembered it; it was the one that brought him back to the underworld.
Captain Jiang Lin had also told him that the bone dragon was the Seven-Colored Egg's evolved form.
“Did I do something to offend it?”
Xu Nan was puzzled.
Later, when he encountered the Machine Ball, he specifically asked.
Had he done something that upset the Seven-Colored Egg?
Upon hearing this, the Machine Ball blinked its eyes.
The reason was not complicated, nor was it simple...
It was just a machine ball.
In the end, the Machine Ball shrugged, “Don't try to guess what your senior feels~”
Xu Nan: “???”
Because of that intense gaze, which occurred every few days.
Xu Nan had to spend some time observing what was going on.
Fortunately, within two days, he found the reason.
Because,
The Seven-Colored Egg was very simple and easy to understand; everything was written on its face.
Happy was happy, disliked was disliked.
When Xu Nan lived in Xu Ran's body before, he had heard of similar situations.
It was roughly like an old pet being hostile towards a new pet.
Or in a family with two children, the elder child being jealous of the younger one, thinking that the younger one had taken away the parents' love.
Having found the reason, the rest was how to solve the problem.
“As long as it feels that I'm not a threat, that should be enough, right?”
Although Xu Nan's body was still that of an infant, he considered himself an adult.
Competing for favor with little pets was truly unnecessary.
Moreover, he had come to the Eighteenth Hall only because Jiang Lin had said he could come to find him.
The Eighteenth Hall could offer him a path to choose.
Early morning.
At 6:40 AM, over the lotus pond.
Xu Nan checked the time, put away the cultivation technique on the stone table, and ended his morning practice.
Holding his books, he walked out of the red pavilion and directly towards the hall.
Soon... the teaching area should start classes.
...
“Let’s go, class is about to start.”
The Seven-Colored Egg and the Machine Ball flew out of the lounge one after the other.
Since they were back, the classes they should attend still had to be attended.
However, after attending classes for two days, the Seven-Colored Egg developed another worry.
The first, of course, was Xu Nan.
The other was...
It discovered that it basically knew everything taught in the practical combat class.
Learning was effortless and skillful.
Even the character recognition and sentence construction in the general teaching area were covered in its heritage.
At least the basic courses were completely fine.
Machine Ball: Isn't this a good thing?
Seven-Colored Egg: ...It is a good thing.
But, the moment it thought about how much time it had spent learning those things before, it felt a pang of sadness.
If it had known that its heritage contained these, why would it have spent so much time and effort learning them?
How much better it would have been to use that time for other things.
e=(´o｀＊))) Alas~
Now,
Except for the Yin Realm Law and Yin Realm Common Knowledge that still needed to be learned, the Seven-Colored Egg's basic courses were completely fine.
It also wanted to use this free time to accompany the Master on missions.
That way, the Master would know how capable it had become, truly, truly capable!
It would definitely be able to help a lot!
Regarding this, the Machine Ball commented: Senior, you have happy troubles!
As the dragon and the ball just walked out of the entrance of the Eighteenth Hall, they saw Xu Nan standing beside them.
Holding a book, not making a sound, they didn't know how long he had been waiting there.
“Are you trying to scare ghosts here?”
The Seven-Colored Egg rolled its eyes.
Hmph, taking advantage of its absence to sneak in.
Annoying (〝▼皿▼)!
Just as it was about to pull the Machine Ball away quickly, it saw Xu Nan's fair and tender face break into a smile.
Sweetly and crisply, it said, “Senior, good morning!”
The Seven-Colored Egg flew forward two steps, then abruptly turned back.
“?！？！”
What did he just say?
He actually called me Senior?!
However, Xu Nan didn't say anything more. After greeting them, he left first.
As if he just wanted to say hello.
After that, Xu Nan would greet the Seven-Colored Egg every morning and evening:
“Senior, good morning.”
“Senior, good evening.”
After a week passed like this, Xu Nan found that the intense gaze, the feeling of being watched, gradually disappeared.
The Seven-Colored Egg was indeed quite easy to understand and coax.
“Just like Xu Ran when he was little.”
Xu Nan smiled, recalling the past.
A moment later, he shook his head.
He collected his thoughts and focused his attention on the books in front of him.
What was past was past.
...
Meanwhile, the Machine Ball curiously observed the Seven-Colored Egg diligently doing its homework.
Today it didn't go to stare at Xu Nan as usual?
Asking if there was a problem: “Senior, don't you hate Xu Nan anymore?”
The Seven-Colored Egg looked up, “I don’t want to, but... he called me Senior.”
Senior, Senior, it sounded much cooler than ‘senior’.
In the Seven-Colored Egg's subconscious, the word 'Senior' was an acknowledgment of its strength and seniority.
“Since he calls me Senior, if I continue to act like that, wouldn't I seem petty?”
After all, it was the Senior!
“Oh...”
The Machine Ball looked at the colorful light emanating from the Senior, who seemed very happy.
It tilted its metallic head, seeming to understand but not quite.
...