Chapter 51: Do Not Rejoice Too Soon

That sentinel’s spiritual sea just now offered too much resistance to him. This unconscious one should allow him to observe Junior Sister Ye Moxie’s operations better, right?

Ye Moxie’s spiritual power smoothly entered. Oh! This sentinel’s spiritual energy body turned out to be an otter?

It's just that spiritual energy bodies are never truly fluffy; they aren't fun to pet!

She began rapidly clearing away the black energy clusters. Wu Gang, Ye Mingming’s nephew, also imitated her appearance, using his spiritual power to condense a small hammer and begin tapping away.

The sentinel on the treatment bed suddenly began to shake as if having a seizure, startling Madam Fengxi and Ye Mingming.

Soon, Ye Moxie withdrew.

"What happened just now?"

Wu Gang scratched his head in embarrassment.

"I just tried to copy Junior Sister Ye’s method of clearing those black energy clusters. Clearly, when Junior Sister Ye cleared the black energy clusters, his spiritual sea was very calm, but when I started clearing them on my own, his spiritual sea fluctuated wildly..."

Neither Madam Fengxi nor Ye Mingming understood why, but Madam Fengxi quickly pacified the sentinel’s spiritual sea.

This sentinel’s berserk value was not particularly high; after the recent round of operations, it had already dropped by seven points.

When he sat up, steadying his head, Ye Mingming asked, "How does it feel? How is it different from your previous treatments?"

The sentinel said solemnly, "I felt as if someone was hitting my skull with a hammer the whole time... It hurt a little bit, but right now I feel my spiritual sea is much calmer."

He had never had the honor of receiving treatment from Madam Fengxi, but he had spent interstellar coins to hire other guides to treat him. To be honest, although it could lower the berserk value, the treatment process had always been very painful for him... and for that guide as well!

He had also asked other companions, and they all said that the process of spiritual soothing by guides was very painful, but because it could lower the berserk value, everyone just endured it that way.

However... however, although he had been tapped with a hammer for half a day just now, it didn't actually hurt much. On the contrary, after Madam Fengxi smoothed out the chaotic spiritual threads in his spiritual sea, he felt that his spiritual sea was unprecedentedly calm!

Ye Mingming recorded everything very earnestly.

Although they usually followed this exact routine, she was exceptionally focused today.

"Moxie, this is wonderful! Attack-type guides are truly going to step back into the public eye..."

"Don't celebrate too early!"

Ye Moxie patted her shoulder.

"The Chief of the Guides' realm... If Chief Michael is unwilling to reopen the attack-type guide department and redefine the two major branches of guides, the few of us are nothing more than a drop in the ocean!"

Ye Mingming was stunned for a moment.

That's right! Why were attack-type guides excluded from the guide system within the guide department? Because attack-type guides were only good at expelling black energy clusters and fundamentally did not know how to comb through spiritual threads, let alone soothe spiritual seas!

And the default expectation for a guide was that they should be capable of the full routine: expelling black energy clusters, combing spiritual threads, and soothing the spiritual sea...

In fact, just now Ye Moxie had even let Wu Gang try to rearrange the psychological landscape of the sentinel's spiritual sea. Although Wu Gang could only make a very small part of the modifications, he did indeed alter the landscape of the sentinel's spiritual sea—something Madam Fengxi had been completely unable to do before.

Therefore, attack-type guides should actually be responsible for clearing and remodeling, while soothing-type guides were responsible for combing and comforting...

I wonder if the guide lineage had experienced a generational break in the past? Otherwise, how could a proper heritage change its flavor as it was passed down?

Ye Moxie guessed blindly.

Today's task was quickly completed. Madam Fengxi and the others were still left wanting more, but Ye Moxie called a halt anyway; they could continue tomorrow anyway.

Since everyone had signed confidentiality agreements, there was no fear of those sentinels running their mouths outside. Feng Yanling happened to finish his training and came to pick up Ye Moxie.

"We hunted a moon rhinoceros today, and I brought back a piece of the most tender meat. Shall we have hot pot tonight?"

"Alright! I'll let Mother know..."

Feng Yanling pulled Ye Moxie back slightly.

"Mother is going to Father's place... Tonight, it's just the two of us..."

Ye Moxie's face instantly turned red.

"If you're not ready yet..."

Ye Moxie raised her hand to cover his mouth.

"We're still outside, how can you just say anything..."

"Alright! We'll talk about it back home..."

Feng Yanling’s eyes were filled with smiles as he pulled Ye Moxie into his arms.

"The apartment I applied for... isn't the family quarters. I think if it's just the two of us living there, it's enough."

Ye Xixi-mo would enlist in the First Legion in the future, but by then he could apply for his own apartment or apply for family housing after getting married.

Considering that Ye Moxie still had to attend school and wouldn't usually come over very often, Feng Yanling chose an apartment where most residents were single high-ranking officers, sparing them from a lot of petty domestic trifles.

The apartment was on the third floor, featuring two bedrooms and a living room, making it much more spacious than the dormitories at the Academy of Talents.

Feng Yanling turned the bedroom with the best lighting into their master bedroom and the other into a study. The living room was large and featured a great balcony with several planting troughs set up.

Dinner was hot pot.

Speaking of hot pot, Ye Moxie suddenly remembered that Ye Xixi-mo wanted to give the Rhodes family some recipes; if handled properly, the Rhodes family could own a well-regarded restaurant. However, the Rhodes family had fixated on Xingxuemo's milk tea and cakes, constantly lingering and pestering them about it. Later, Ye Xixi-mo proposed hot pot instead, but Ye Moxie had refused!

Ye Moxie wanted to open a large restaurant featuring morning tea and hot pot herself, but her energy was limited, and she couldn't yet control the subsequent quality and reputation of the dishes, so she temporarily shelved the idea.

After dinner, Feng Yanling went to handle official business while Ye Moxie lay on the sofa, scrolling through the interstellar network for a while.

Back when she was in the fringe star system, she had once bought a pair of nunchucks forged by a weapon array master who seemed to be a fellow countryman from her original world, and that array master had released new products...

Ye Moxie had also seen her sell pots that could expand and contract, metallic folding fans, Zisha teapots, and even the phoenix hairpin of a certain Korean queen... rustic, heavy, and somewhat deceitful items. The only things that had moved Ye Moxie to actually buy them were those two nunchucks—even though she had initially complained that the utility didn't match the price!

However, those two nunchucks were genuinely useful! They could transform shapes, and coincidentally, they were both styles she had learned from the elderly uncles in her residential community!

This time, the new product was a shimmering, iridescent metallic... cat bed!

She wondered if buying it back would give Suzaku a proper place to nest? When Feng Yanling returned to the apartment, he would release Suzaku's beast soul, but the creature always wanted to find a place to curl up, and yet, being fire-attributed, ordinary objects really couldn't withstand it.

A cat bed forged by an array master like this... I wonder if it would work?

Thinking about it, Ye Moxie placed the order anyway.

"Moxie, the water temperature is ready, come take a bath."

"Oh!" Ye Moxie acknowledged, putting down her optical computer and standing up.

Upon entering the bathroom, she realized Feng Yanling hadn't left, and she looked up in confusion.

"I thought you might need to familiarize yourself with my body first..."