Chapter 592: Chapter 444: Descent of the Divine

"This..."

The Kung Fu Snail actually understood this custom too.

But thinking about it, he felt he didn’t really have anything decent on him lately.

"How about I give you this, then."

So he handed over the crystal that led to the Snail Realm; he had several of these anyway.

And just like that, the straw man officially completed the apprenticeship ceremony.

Half a day later, the Round Penguin returned to the lakeside.

"What? You’re going to stay here?!"

But when it heard the Kung Fu Snail’s decision, it was instantly dumbfounded.

The straw man was going to stay and keep soaking in the bath, and in order to fulfill his duties as a master, the Kung Fu Snail decided to stay by his side.

Didn’t that mean that for next month’s Kung Fu Tournament, this old thing was definitely going to participate??

Its dream of retaining the King of Kings title was gone.

"Hohohoho, relax, I didn’t bring my underlings this time."

The Kung Fu Snail just chuckled at that.

He’d originally planned to go to the Snail Realm to grab a few beasts to pad out the second half of the tournament anyway; who knew he’d be late again.

But now, none of that mattered anymore.

As for Li Pu, after asking the Round Penguin a few detailed questions, he headed back.

When he left, Li Pu had already seen the Kung Fu Snail teaching the straw man Snail Fist hand-in-hand; who knew what it would manage to learn this time.

The three of them walked for half a day and arrived at the little stream the Round Penguin had mentioned—Little Kung Fu Creek.

Having Chang Shoushang and Tong Qinxin wait where they were, Li Pu planned to walk a bit downstream along the creek, get out of their line of sight, and then wash himself.

This little creek was somewhat similar to Kung Fu Spring, but it was simply split into black and white from the middle and didn’t form a Taiji pattern.

According to the Round Penguin, the white paint on his body had to be washed off in the black half of the creek, while the black paint had to be washed off in the white half.

"Hm?"

But as he walked, Li Pu suddenly noticed something off.

He saw a furry figure in the white half of the downstream creek.

He quietly walked over and took a peek—well, well, wasn’t that the panda disciple under the Kung Fu Panda?

Or maybe now, he really shouldn’t be called a panda disciple anymore.

"So this guy... is some kind of polar bear, huh."

Watching the other gradually wash off the black on his body, Li Pu muttered as he came to a realization.

No wonder that guy had used ice manipulation on the arena instead of the Thunder Force of the Kung Fu Panda clan.

Turns out it was a bear-man from some other race pretending to be one.

"Looks like the underhanded one isn’t just that fat penguin."

Thinking back carefully, this polar bear’s level was indeed pretty decent.

In the seven matches of the second half, he only lost to him and Alpaca Bro; he was a lot stronger than the average underling, no wonder he was invited in as outside support.

But that was other people’s business; Li Pu had no intention of meddling.

He hid himself, and only after the polar bear looked around warily and left did he enter Little Kung Fu Creek to wash all the paint off his body.

By the time he returned to the school training ground, it was already midnight.

The three said their goodbyes and went back to their dorms; before going to sleep, Li Pu organized his cards again, and only then did he drift off peacefully.

The next day, before Wu Guinan could head to class, he was grabbed.

Li Pu had Wu Guinan make a call to summon his newly promoted phone soldier—Ah Yajun—to the dorm.

After Ah Yajun arrived, he called Qian Shanshan as per Li Pu’s instructions.

The result was that she said she didn’t have time to run any dungeons today, because lately the whole combat department was on a surprise cram session.

On this, Li Pu could only say the combat department of Imperial University was truly pitiful.

There was actually such a thing as being randomly ambushed with extra classes.

Since they couldn’t run dungeons, he had no plans to laze around either.

He had Ah Yajun contact Li Fan, hoping to get some money out of it.

He didn’t expect Li Fan to be looking for him as well, so he told Li Pu to come by Seven-Star Street in the afternoon.

"Where’s Seven-Star Street?"

Hanging up, Li Pu shoved the phone back into Ah Yajun’s hand.

"I know. I’ll take you this afternoon, I’m free anyway."

Ah Yajun replied.

"Okay."

Li Pu nodded.

After the two settled on a time, Ah Yajun went off to the card room to grind ranked matches.

There was still a long while until afternoon; after letting Bu Bu and Ugly Little Wolf out to roam around, Li Pu went alone to the training ground.

Reaching the third stage of Gravity Field had given him a new understanding of this Summoner skill.

It was about time to explore that linked version of Sprint.

After a whole morning of calculation and practice drills, he actually gained quite a bit.

Then Li Pu left school with Ah Yajun and headed for Seven-Star Street.

Once they arrived, Ah Yajun started introducing the place to Li Pu like an old hand.

Very soon, Li Pu had a grasp of how things worked here.

The street vendors along the road caught his attention, and he lingered there for quite a while.

But after checking out several stalls, he still didn’t find any card that seemed interesting.

After that, the two followed the address Li Fan gave them and stopped in front of a shop.

"Huh? I don’t think this shop was called that before."

But when Ah Yajun looked up at the signboard, he found the name had changed.

Fan-Fan Card House

The fresh coat of paint on the four large characters showed that the sign had only been put up recently.

Li Fan, meanwhile, was sitting with his legs crossed, smoking and leisurely lounging at the tea table inside.

"Come in."

Seeing the two of them, he hooked a finger at them, not even bothering to stand up.

"Teacher, this place is..."

Li Pu was a bit confused.

This shop name obviously had everything to do with Li Fan.

This shop name also clearly wasn’t anything good.

"I’ve taken over this place again."