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The next day.
As the first rays of dawn shone through the curtains into the bedroom, Xuanhao groggily opened his eyes and found that the spot next to him was empty again.
"He's destined to be a workaholic."
Xuan Hao yawned and sat up.
Yesterday, Bibi Dong spent the whole day indulging in absurdity with him in the palace, accumulating a large amount of political affairs.
In addition, it is currently a sensitive period of the All-Continent Elite Competition of Advanced Soul Master Academies, with a mountain of intelligence and emergencies piling up in the Papal Palace.
She really doesn't have time to play around with him anymore.
Xuan Hao dressed neatly, washed up briefly, and walked familiarly toward the Hall of State Affairs.
However, he wasn't here to cause trouble or make a scene; he genuinely intended to lend a hand and lighten the load for this tireless empress.
Push open the heavy doors of the government affairs hall.
As expected, Bibi Dong, dressed in a magnificent dark purple papal robe and wearing a nine-curved purple-gold crown, sat upright in the spacious main seat, her expression cold and focused as she reviewed the mountain of memorials and intelligence reports piled on the table.
Xuan Hao walked over quietly.
Under Bibi Dong's somewhat wary and suspicious gaze, he didn't crawl under the table as he had yesterday.
Instead, he went directly to the other side of the desk and unceremoniously picked up the stack of urgent memorials that was half a meter high and hadn't been reviewed yet.
Then he pulled up a chair, picked up a quill pen, sat down with an air of authority, and began to scrutinize the document at lightning speed.
"Xuanhao, what are you trying to do now?!"
Bibi Dong's eyes twitched violently, and she slammed her pen down in her hand, scolding him impatiently.
"I'm really busy today, please don't make things worse for me, okay?
These are important intelligence reports from the front-line cities and the major martial spirit halls, not for you to scribble on for fun!"
"Why don't you take a look at my approval first and then you'll know?"
Xuan Hao didn't even raise his head. With his quill pen flying across the paper, he simply pushed the first two memorials he had just finished reviewing directly in front of Bibi Dong.
"I guarantee I didn't mess around."
Bibi Dong frowned with suspicion, picked up the two memorials and glanced at them.
Upon seeing this, her expression, which had been slightly angry, immediately changed.
The memorial's approval of the allocation of resources for local branch halls and its opinions on handling small-scale border frictions with the Tiandou Empire were not only clear and well-organized, but more importantly, the wording and approach were exactly the same as her usual style!
In some details, she was even more thoughtful and ruthless than she herself had thought of!
"You…" Bibi Dong looked at him in disbelief, "You can handle these political affairs?"
"Teacher, aren't you underestimating me?"
Xuan Hao's hands didn't stop moving; the quill pen scratched lightly on the paper.
He twitched his eye slightly and muttered:
"I've been the president of the Tiandou Self-Improvement Association for years, okay?
I manage such a large chamber of commerce and intelligence network.
I've handled all sorts of complicated and messy matters, resource allocation, and personnel transfers over the years."
"All political affairs in the world, though different in approach, lead to the same goal.
Besides, I've been watching you for so long that I've figured out your criticism habits and personality bottom line.
I'm just going to follow your line of thinking and criticize directly.
How could I possibly make a mistake?"
Bibi Dong watched his practiced movements with an extremely strange expression: "You...you really are a complete freak."
She was truly convinced.
Xuan Hao is not only a once-in-a-millennium monster in martial arts cultivation, but he also displays an outrageously terrifying talent in learning anything.
Except for a very few things like art and music that require specific sensory talents, he can really learn anything that is based on logic and learning.
He can grasp the core rules completely at a glance!
"I've always been this smart, you've known that for a long time."
Xuan Hao shamelessly boasted, then pulled the thick stack of memorials in front of him:
"Alright, you've had a long day yesterday, so just rest today.
If you really can't stay idle, help me out and take a look at these I've approved.
If you find anything you don't like, you can revise it.
I'll take care of all the paperwork today."
Seeing Xuan Hao's serious expression, Bibi Dong felt a warmth in her heart and stopped being polite to him.
She simply stood up and gave the spacious and comfortable seat to Xuan Hao, while she pulled up a chair and sat down beside him, holding a cup of black tea, quietly watching him review the documents.
...
A morning passed in the blink of an eye.
As the midday sun streamed into the Hall of State Affairs, Bibi Dong sat to the side, watching Xuan Hao casually toss the last memorial into the "approved" basket, completely dumbfounded.
That's the amount of work she usually has to work overtime, a whole day, to barely finish!
But Xuanhao only used four hours in one morning!
The speed at which this batch of data was reviewed is simply outrageous!
He would receive the memorial almost instantly, glance at the information on it, and then begin writing his comments with a quill pen.
Many of these are complex issues involving the balancing of interests among multiple forces, requiring Bibi Dong to stop and carefully consider the proposed solutions.
When it came to Xuan Hao, he didn't even pause; he just picked up the pen and started writing, as if he already knew the standard answer and was just copying it directly!
"Where did you learn this information processing skill from?"
Bibi Dong put down her teacup and stared at him with a strange expression.
Xuan Hao tossed the quill pen onto the table, stretched out a big yawn, and grinned smugly:
"Because I'm smarter than you."
Bibi Dong's face darkened instantly, and the slight emotion she had just felt vanished in anger at those crude words.
Seeing that the Pope was about to lose his temper, Xuan Hao quickly waved his hands to explain:
"Don't misunderstand, don't misunderstand. I'm not saying you're not smart. What I mean is, my brain processes information differently than yours.
Teacher, when you usually handle these official documents, you don't use mental energy to speed up your brain's thinking process, do you?"
"Mental power accelerates thinking?"
Bibi Dong paused for a moment, her delicate brows furrowing slightly. "I'm not a pure spirit-attribute Soul Master.
I mainly use my mental power to intimidate and lock onto targets. How could I possibly use it to accelerate my thinking?"
"Yes, this skill was taught to me by Na'er in private."
Xuan Hao leaned back in his chair and patiently explained, "The most time-consuming part of doing these complicated political affairs is actually the brain's process of weighing the pros and cons."
"We high-level Soul Masters possess far greater mental strength than ordinary people.
We can actively stimulate and accelerate the brain's operation through a special mental energy vibration frequency.
What may appear to be only a moment to the outside world is actually the result of hundreds or thousands of deductions and considerations in our minds."
Xuan Hao paused for a moment, then continued, "Although this method may initially make your brain feel swollen and tired, and create a strong sense of tearing and disharmony between your mind and body, once you get used to the frequency over time, it will become as easy as drinking water."
"The principle is actually similar to the distraction control of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, but it is more extreme.
It allows me to process several different problems in my mind at the same time. So I can write the reply to this memorial while already thinking about the solution to the next memorial in my mind."
"By completely separating the body's muscle memory from the brain's high-frequency thinking, I was able to process these documents so quickly."
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