Su Yao: “…”

It seems that this person is also quite ruthless, scaring her relatives so much that they dare not come to see him.

Unknowingly, she had gnawed on half a deer leg clean.

The robot also filled the dining table with the remaining barbecue and carefully arranged the table.

Dozens of large and small gold-inlaid crystal plates, strip-shaped and round complement each other, the golden or dark red meat exudes an attractive oily sheen, and colorful dips are placed next to the neatly arranged meat slices.

In the center, a set of exquisite glass bottles holds several delicate pink and white double-petaled flowers.

It resembles a rose, but the flowers are larger, with dewdrops on the petals, and the stems below extend thin filaments, floating in the water like tentacles.

Su Yao slowly wiped her hands and decided to take a picture first.

She took a series of photos from different angles and found that these pictures didn’t even need filters.

The color scheme of the barbecue, table, and plates, plus the lighting from the restaurant’s floor-to-ceiling windows, everything was perfect.

She nodded at the brain with satisfaction, selected three of her favorites, chose the hottest social platform currently available, and posted the pictures to her newly registered account.

The previous owner also had an account, but only forwarded some interesting news.

And that account also followed some classmates, and they almost didn’t know that she had become the new Duke Su.

Su Yao didn’t want to contact those people anymore, so she used a new account and only added a few food-related tags.

She reached for a plate of grilled fish and bought the most expensive membership at the same time.

This would give her published content priority in the feed, making it easier for those who followed the #food #barbecue #breakfast tags to see these photos.

Su Yao didn’t really want to gain followers, she just hoped that more people would like her posts.

And she had too much money to spend.

During this time, Kai sent her another message.

[Still an illegal nickname]: What about you?

Su Yao glanced at it and replied helplessly to this seemingly nonsensical question.

[Hold on, don’t block me yet]: Refer to the previous text, are you asking about my relatives? I don’t think they’ll be causing trouble again in the short term.

[Still an illegal nickname]: So they’re still alive?

Su Yao: “?”

Does this guy have some misunderstanding about her?

Does she look like someone who would kill her relatives without a word?

Su Yao stared at this message for a long time until Saturday reminded her that there were new visitors to the castle.

“Who is it?”

Su Yao closed the chat window and dragged out the surveillance system window, seeing an unfamiliar spaceship at the entrance of the airport.

The spaceship was quickly scanned, and its holographic projection appeared on her table.

She turned the projection around and found a dragon lizard emblem with outstretched wings on the side of the ship, surrounded by a golden-yellow flame ring.

—This is the family crest of the Olai royal family.

Su Yao dragged over a plate of fried meat strips, dipping them in sauce and eating them, “Contact them and ask what they’re here for.”

Half a minute later.

Saturday’s voice rang out, “They claim to be spirit body trainers sent by the king to formulate a training plan for you, and they have also presented relevant documents.”

Su Yao looked at the time, “They didn’t make an appointment?”

“No.”

“Then let them wait.”

Half an hour later, Su Yao finished a table of barbecue and let Saturday let them in.

Soon, two young men and women walked through the garden towards the living room.

One had blond hair and the other brown hair. Their steps were light and their postures were agile, clearly professionally trained.

Both were dressed in formal attire, with serious expressions and an arrogant air of superiority in their eyes, even a little disdain when looking at her.

They tried to hide this emotion, but still revealed a little.

“Duke, we are sent by the king to teach you to condense your spirit body.”

The blond trainer said lightly, “As the fiancée of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you have an obligation to condense your spirit body as soon as possible.”

Su Yao also observed the two of them.

No subtitles.

Their scent was somewhat unfamiliar, perhaps she had never met anyone of the same bloodline as them.

“Duke?”

The silence made them impatient.

The brown-haired trainer frowned at her, “Do you have anything to say?”

Before he finished speaking, Su Yao’s brain buzzed.

The two’s expressions worsened.

“It seems that we’ve disturbed you.”

The brown-haired trainer said, but there wasn’t much apology on his face, “Did you have other arrangements?”

“Oh, no,” Su Yao opened her brain to look, “It’s the likes on the breakfast photos others took for me.”

The two trainers: “…”

“Duke.”

The blond trainer said coldly, “Among all the S-levels in the kingdom, only you can’t condense your spirit body—”

“I’m also the youngest,” Su Yao interrupted him, “What are your names?”

The blond trainer was stunned, “We’ve already shown our IDs.”

Su Yao glanced at him, “I’m too lazy to look.”

“…I’m Johnson.”

“White.”

A man and a woman reported their surnames in succession.

Su Yao remembered these two.

They were indeed trainers hired by the royal family, and they were also sparring partners for those royal family members.

These two got along better with the Crown Prince and admired him quite a bit.

And because they appreciated Ruan Jiao’s talent and accomplishments in spiritual power, their relationship with Ruan Jiao was also good.

The attitude of these two now made sense.

“Did His Majesty the King send you?”

Su Yao asked back, “When did he give the order?”

“Two days ago,” White spoke softly, but the words weren’t very polite, “His Majesty the King is very dissatisfied that you haven’t been able to condense your spirit body until now.”

Su Yao understood.

At that time, the breakup hadn’t been mentioned yet.

Now the king might be busy investigating Ruan Jiao and forgot to cancel this order.

Or.

The king still remembered this matter, but deliberately sent them over?

“Duke, if you think the royal family’s divine therapists can solve everything, then you’re wrong, after all, they don’t have much compatibility with the Crown Prince.”

Johnson said coldly, “Your bloodline levels are the same, and your compatibility is over 50%, after comfort, it’s possible to establish a spiritual link, and the efficiency of future comfort will be accelerated.”

“Is that so?”

Su Yao was quite doubtful, “Spiritual link? I heard that it’s not easy to achieve that, either the two people’s personalities are very compatible, or they have to be particularly good at spiritual power, I think you’re overthinking it.”

“You shouldn’t doubt His Highness’s ability, with your level and compatibility, if you can’t achieve this, it’s only your problem.”

White shook her head, “And, it’s true that you are the youngest S-level, but the training of the spirit body doesn’t start after adulthood, at your age, even if you can’t reach the standard of condensation, you should at least be able to show a part—”

Su Yao laughed, “Oh, just like the rabbit Miss beside the Crown Prince?”

The two didn’t speak.

Johnson looked like he was about to nod.

Su Yao sighed.

The unlucky cannon fodder female supporting character, the Crown Prince’s fiancée, was from beginning to end just there to set off the female lead.

In the original work, the female supporting character also found trainers, and worked hard for months without any progress.

This process was not described positively.

But when the female lead was able to fully condense her spirit body, the male lead commented, “Su Yao trained for more than half a year without any effect, you are much better than her.”

The female lead was someone with “low bloodline level, but self-reliant, insightful, and talented.”

Therefore, she moved the Crown Prince in many ways.

And the cannon fodder female supporting character was just a scumbag with only bloodline.

“Alright.”

Su Yao sat down on the sofa next to her, “Tell me first, what kind of training do you think I need?”

“…Duke.”

Johnson said in a deep voice, “Spirit body training is a very serious matter, you must first correct your attitude.”

Su Yao took a glass of juice from the robot’s tray, “Do you have noble titles?”

“If you want to know, we are both B-level.”

White glanced at her, “Rest assured, with your level, we are qualified to teach you.”

Su Yao smiled, “I’m just curious, since you’re B-level, why don’t you have titles? Oh, if you want to be a noble, you have an obligation to go to the battlefield when war comes, you don’t like that, right?”

The two’s faces changed slightly.

Applying for a noble title is just an empty identity, and the benefits are limited.

Only those who are extremely lucky can inherit a relative’s title, a title from an ancient family, and thus obtain a large amount of property.

“Hmm?”

Su Yao swirled the stirrer in her cup, “Did I guess right? Actually, you don’t need to worry. There are countless incompetent nobles and royal relatives. They dare to inherit titles, probably thinking that if there’s a war, they’ll just go to the front lines to slack off.  You wouldn’t be worse than them, would you?”

“This has nothing to do with our teaching.”

White pursed her lips, “Madam, please be serious.”

“Am I not being serious?”

Su Yao put down her cup, “Aren’t I asking you for advice? Where should the training start?”

Johnson frowned at her, “The first three stages of spirit body training are condensation, solidification, and separation. Condensation is the external manifestation of the spirit body’s shape. Outsiders cannot directly touch the condensed spirit body, but the condensed spirit body can touch other spirit bodies.”

This was basic knowledge almost everyone knew. He repeated it quickly as usual, and then began to add.

“Those who have truly completed the condensation step can clearly show the shape of their spirit body. If there is only a vague outline, it cannot be called mastering condensation.”

Su Yao nodded, “Just like only growing a tail can’t be called a primary awakening, right? It’s at most just an introduction?”

Johnson frowned again, “Yes, but you haven’t even reached the introductory stage, right? Your spirit body cannot be shown at all, not even a vague form?”

Su Yao spread her hands, “No.”

Johnson twitched the corner of his mouth, “You’re an adult now, and you have a strong ability to withstand things, so to train someone like you, we usually use hypnosis to stimulate the appearance of your spirit body.”

Su Yao blinked, “So are you going to hypnotize me? Do you mean literally putting me to sleep? Or controlling me to do other things?”

“…You’ll know soon.”

Johnson’s deep blue eyes suddenly lit up, and a circle of white light seemed to shine in his irises.

Su Yao looked at him for a moment, then froze.

The trainer’s eyes showed a little contempt, staring at her and slowly opening his mouth, saying word by word, “Stand up.”

At that moment, Su Yao felt her head a little dizzy.

She fell into a muddled state again, not knowing what she was doing.

The whole world became chaotic, with countless chaotic sounds exploding in her ears, the only clear thing was that voice.

—Stand up.

She leaned forward, her leg muscles exerting force, subconsciously about to stand up.

Wait.

Su Yao couldn’t explain what was going on, but she instinctively felt something was wrong.

In her awakened state, she lost her normal thinking ability, but she could still kill the enemy who attacked her, and she could still remember to pay for things.

At this moment, in the brief chaos and confusion, she still felt something was wrong.

“…”

The two trainers were somewhat surprised.

White murmured, “Withstood it? She really couldn’t condense her spirit body?”

Johnson’s face was a little embarrassed.

He was several years older than this young duke. Although his awakening progress was poor, he had always been known for his spiritual power and always considered himself to have superior talent.

Spirit body and awakening are not the same thing.

Most people, before and after adulthood, will fully determine their bloodline and attempt a primary awakening.

However, the training of the spirit body doesn’t need to wait that long. Even if they don’t know their bloodline, young people can do related training.

Everyone’s spirit body has a different form, some are beast-shaped, some are human-shaped, and some are even objects.

Su Yao had already turned eighteen, but her spirit body didn’t even have a shadow, clearly showing a lack of aptitude in this area.

But why could she still resist his hypnosis?!

Johnson gritted his teeth and released more spiritual power.

A golden light faintly flickered behind him.

“Stand—”

Su Yao suddenly felt a headache.

It was like someone had hit her head with a hammer, and the surrounding sounds became more and more chaotic.

The commanding voice was louder and clearer.

But this only made her feel irritated.

That’s right.

She grasped that faint feeling of irritation, didn’t suppress it, but amplified it.

She let it occupy her thoughts and reason.

A surge of anger rose from her chest, overwhelming the influence of that voice.

She wanted to bite and scratch something, wanting to destroy all the living things around her that could breathe.

In front of the sofa, the black-haired girl reached out, supported the coffee table, slowly stood up, and looked at him expressionlessly.

Johnson wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

He looked smug, thinking he had already controlled the other party, “Just as His Highness said, these pampered nobles, with only bloodline, cannot exert the power of their bloodline. Do you believe that, now even if I make her kneel—”

The next second, Su Yao bent down, grabbed the table leg, lifted the entire coffee table, and smashed it down on his head.

“Want me to kneel down, huh?!”

The hard alloy material, the sharp-edged tabletop, smashed his forehead in.

“I’ve never knelt down to a living person in my life!”

Johnson didn’t even have time to scream before he fell silent, his nose crushed, his eyeballs burst, and blood splattered for a moment.

If he weren’t B-level, his entire skull would probably have been shattered.

“Of course, trash like you, even if you’re dead, you don’t deserve me to burn incense for you—”

“Duke!”

White exclaimed in shock, “How dare you?! We are—”

Su Yao turned around and grabbed her neck, threw her to the ground, then grabbed her hair and slammed her face hard against the ground.

“I don’t care what you are?!”

One. Two. Three.

“If you dare to come to my house to cause trouble and show off again, next year today will be your death day—”

The crisp sound of a broken nose, the brow bone and cheekbone groaned together.

The splashing blood stained her sleeves.

Su Yao let go, “Do you still think I dare not?”

White practically crawled away, collapsing on the ground.

Johnson was still unconscious, his entire face a horrific sight, a piece of his head smashed, with no sign of waking up.

In comparison, White’s injuries were much lighter, but she was still terrified, even subconsciously trembling.

“You, you—”

White looked at the girl in front of her in disbelief, as if it wasn’t a person, but a ferocious beast that could go berserk at any time.

“…”

Su Yao licked the tip of her tiger teeth, and at the same time looked down, her tail and claws didn’t appear.

Good.

She didn’t enter the awakened state at all.

Without using her tail and claws, it wasn’t particularly easy for her to kill a B-level person with her bare hands, of course, this is relative to the speed of killing with a tail hook and poison.

“You bunch of idiots…”

Su Yao slowly opened her mouth, “When the Crown Prince said that a waste like me couldn’t exert the power of my bloodline, he was speaking from the perspective of an S-level powerhouse.”

No matter how much she disliked the male lead, she had to admit that he was still capable.

Su Yao took two steps back, “I can’t destroy a city or even a planet, but with more time, turning you two into minced meat is still possible.”

White didn’t dare to speak.

Johnson seemed to be seriously injured, but for a B-level, this wasn’t even a fatal injury, let alone that they both had healing abilities.

But she could also see that if Duke Su continued to go crazy and beat them to death on the spot, it wouldn’t be difficult.

As for whether the Duke herself would be punished for this, what price she would have to pay?

That would be after they were dead.

White certainly didn’t want to gamble with her life.

“Also, you damaged my house, so give me a sum of money for repairs.”

Su Yao looked around, “Otherwise, your ship is mine.”

White: “…”

She felt that this money shouldn’t be paid by the beaten ones.

But she didn’t want to be beaten again, so she nodded silently.

Su Yao received the transfer with satisfaction, “Saturday, is the money enough?”

The brain’s reply indicated that it was more than enough.

Su Yao waved her hand, “Take your colleague and get lost. Go back and tell those people, since we’re going to break up anyway, don’t do these unnecessary things.”

White was shocked, “What?”

“Oh? You don’t know?”

Su Yao smiled, “Now you know.”

White left in a daze, dragging the unconscious Johnson along.

Su Yao sat back on the sofa, watching the robots who had rushed to lay the floor, and silently opened her brain.

She looked around her friend list, then closed the window, opened the game community chat interface, and sent a message to Kai.

[Hold on, don’t block me yet]: I beat someone up again. I beat up two trainers.

The other party’s reply still came quickly, and he seemed to be really free.

And, at this time, ordinary people might first ask what happened.

Kai’s reaction was still unconventional.

[Still an illegal nickname]: I’ve done that too.

Su Yao fell silent after seeing this reply.

[Hold on, don’t block me yet]: …Why did you do that?

[Still an illegal nickname]: They started picking a fight first, wanting to verify something about the power of bloodline or something.

Su Yao’s pupils quaked.

Are all the trainers in this world the same?

[Hold on, don’t block me yet]: Wait, what’s your bloodline?

She thought the other party might refuse to answer, or simply give an answer.

However—

[Still an illegal nickname]: What about you?

Su Yao looked at this question in a daze, and a strange feeling of emotion almost arose in her heart.

This guy asked about her situation?

She thought he would never do that.

However, how should she answer?

Without considering other problems, if she told the truth, she would probably be considered a lunatic or a liar.

[Hold on, don’t block me yet]: I’m a Golden Chinchilla.

Five seconds later.

[Still an illegal nickname]: I’m a red-eyed hawk lizard.

Su Yao quickly searched and found that this was a small lizard that people had kept as pets since the ancient Blue Star era, with a body length of about twenty centimeters.

It’s said to be very timid and can suddenly die for various reasons.

Such as environment, food, various external stimuli.

It can also be scared to death.

Su Yao: “…”

She must have met a brave one.