"How do you know Qing Lan reads books at night? Or is it Zhengwei talking with you about his life secrets?"

"Of course not, why would Zhengwei tell me such things? It's what she told me before going to bed."

Even through the mechanical sound, Le Yu could hear Yin's disdain and shock: "You actually..."

"After all, I happened to go find Zhengwei to report work that night."

"Ah, I see."

"But I know Zhengwei wasn't home that night. I purposely used this reason to enter his backyard."

"What, you..."

"So I didn't expect Qing Lan to not leave with Zhengwei."

"Oh, so that's how it is."

"But at that moment, the bow was drawn, there was no turning back. In order to prevent Qing Lan from revealing my secret, I had to make her submit to me, so I rushed towards the big bed before she could react..."

"Le Yin, I can't believe you actually..."

"Knelt down and begged her not to snitch on me to Zhengwei, promising three boxes of gold coins and countless jewels afterwards, and help her keep an eye on Zhengwei for any other women."

This time, Yin was silent for a long time: "Are you messing with me?"

Le Yu sighed: "What, you only realized now? This is a famous joke, recorded in the 'Odd and Funny Stories' section of Youth Daily."

"Most of the 'Odd and Funny Stories' are crude jokes, I usually skip them."

"That's arrogance and prejudice. Crude jokes are a cultural treasure of humanity, revealing local social ethics and serving as a social weapon. When two strangers share a smile over a crude joke, their relationship instantly improves. Think about it, Combat Technique is passed down from the ancestors, crude jokes are passed down from the ancestors too, if they're useless would they be passed down? Clearly not, so crude jokes are as important as Combat Technique, Combat Technique protects humanity, crude jokes proliferate humanity..."

"Are you messing with me again?"

"No, I'm just looking for something."

"Looking for what?"

"Looking for an excuse to chat with you."

"You... wasted so much time on me." Having chatted online with Le Yu for a while, Yin had learned many of Le Yu's modern colloquialisms: "That's it for tonight, good night."

"Good night."

Putting the metal badge into a tin box, Le Yu shook his head. Ever since he had mentioned 'Silver Blood's Five Outstanding Qing Lan' in class a couple of days ago, the academy's bulletin board was unsurprisingly blown up, with many students stopping him to inquire about Qing Lan's story.

For Qing Lan, unlike the previous four figures, Jing Qingfu, Listening Ancient, Le Yin, even Yin Minghong were naturally expected to be influential, coming into power and resources, and even Yin Minghong had White Night's support. Therefore, while students marveled at their achievements, they weren't particularly impressed and even carried some confidence like 'I could do it too given the chance.'

However, Qing Lan rose from nothing, without even a chance to build her own power. In Le Yu's depiction, she seemed to rely solely on cunning strategies, accomplishing her objectives without shedding a single drop of blood, a true beginning with nothing, single-handedly slaying the Salary King. Coupled with the fact she was a fragile woman, it only made her more legendary—the very goal of Le Yu, elevating Qing Lan as an enemy and presumably boosting her political capital.

The response was indeed enthusiastic, catching Le Yu somewhat off guard. After thorough research, he found that Qing Lan's type of 'legendary story' surprisingly did not exist, inadvertently pioneering a new market for novels.

Female protagonists' legendary stories certainly exist, but they have one common trait: beating a man's head to pulp. For instance, the legendary Demon Queen Xiangyu, a terrestrial goddess, mastered the Inner Scenic Combat Technique to the extent of achieving 'Eternal Youth,' still stunningly beautiful in her sixties, wreaking havoc on the court.

In truth, male protagonists' legendary stories are pretty much the same, mastering Combat Techniques and then smashing their enemies' heads. Glory people have long known relying on others is unreliable, relying on oneself is the true path, and remarkably, they really can rely only on themselves.

If one's to dream, why not directly visualize one's invincibility, with just a sway of the kingly aura others will bow? After all, there are real-life examples.

Consequently, most legendary tales are centered around powerful protagonists or farming protagonists, but someone like Qing Lan, purely an intelligence-driven adventure hero, naturally garners attention.

What's unexpected is even Yin has gotten interested in Qing Lan, surprising Le Yu—Yin hasn't discussed the previous four outstanding figures with Le Yu.

Indeed, smelly men aren't worth discussing, only beautiful young women warrant singular attention. Le Yu needs to seriously consider whether to replace the remaining three outstanding persons with females, or turn them into females—after all, they're all deceased, wouldn't it be fine to feminize them a bit?

Changing clothes, Le Yu left the teacher's dormitory. Although tonight isn't the Immortal Palace's gathering night, he had to go out for something—his shift for patrolling.

Previously resolved in the faculty conference was the 'Temporary Regulations for Teachers' Night Patrol Duty,' naturally requiring Le Yu to work overtime. To avoid overtime, the 'Vice' from 'Vice Principal' needs to be removed.

Yet he was happy with it; essentially, he worked every three days for two nights, leading in patrol frequency among all teachers, a true champion of the hardworking, with rumors spreading in the academy that Le Yin might succeed Cha Huan, hence he's making the effort appear authentic to gain recognition from other faculty and students.

The truth is, Le Yu wanted to take advantage of the patrol to locate the Blood Essence Stone. He had searched the Imperial Academy during the day but found nothing—if they were to act during the day, Cha Huan would already have stripped and hung them upside down at the entrance of the Imperial Academy as a public warning—thus, Le Yu speculated whether they might come out at night.

Carrying his dazzling lantern to the central square, a graceful silhouette sat waiting on a bench. She stood up upon seeing Le Yu: "Principal Le Yin, good evening."

"The principal can't hear you now, better call me Teacher Le," Le Yu said, "Let's go, Teacher Ning."

Patrolling teachers work in pairs; Le Yu's teammate was either Yan Yi or Ning Xinyuan, not sure how they're scheduled—the male teachers must've read the Youth Daily's statement 'Zhengwei Upright and Unyielding, Le Yin Crystal Clear and Pure', right?!

The two walked silently and quietly along the campus avenue to patrol. Le Yu paid attention to the shadows where the streetlights couldn't reach, while the two remained silent and still.

But Ning Xinyuan wasn't as calm inside. The reason she and Yan Yi constantly partnered with Le Yin to patrol was naturally to find the Blood Essence Stone through him.

However, Le Yin was an interesting person, evening contact at eight o'clock was the moment Ning Xinyuan most looked forward to daily. Friendships had been established online, and she also wanted to deepen relations offline with Le Yin—or rather, a one-sided face-to-face meeting.

While she believed she was merely gathering intelligence on the enemy, whether there were a few special feelings in her heart, that's unspeakable...

Moreover, Le Yin never initiates conversations during patrol, being such a gentle yet unostentatious man, which, coupled with his good looks, naturally earned significant bonus points.

She wanted to chat but couldn't find a reason, so she directly used the topic from earlier: "Teacher Le, you mentioned in class that Qing Lan reads before bed, how did you know that?"

Le Yu: "I made it up."

"..." Ning Xinyuan: "Then is Qing Lan's story also made up?"

Le Yu: "No, I copied it. I was just too lazy to prepare lessons, so I randomly stole someone else's story."

"..." Ning Xinyuan changed the subject: "I heard you assigned homework to students, asking them to write about their 'Eight Outstanding Radiance,' do you have a goal? Do you want to work with students to collectively identify the eight greatest figures in history?"

Le Yu: "I want the students to be so worn out by the homework they don't bother me."

"..." Ning Xinyuan changed the subject again: "Have you heard, a student from the Disaster System ate thirty-three buns and got so stuffed they went to the school Medical Bureau, the current students really lack restraint..."

Le Yu: "Oh? Which shop's buns are so delicious?"

Ning Xinyuan was stumped again.

I don't know!

How am I supposed to respond!

You weren't like this when chatting online!

Why are you so lacking in charm in face-to-face conversation!?

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