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Chapter 084: Not knowing what’s what
Su Tingyun helps Xiao Mei up. At that moment, they see someone squeeze himself out from the crowd, calling out, “Granny?”
She looks back and sees a handsome young man, clad in dark clothes and wearing a jade crown. His cultivation is also in the Foundation Establishment period. He is in his twenties, and he carries a long sword on his back.
“Du Xizhi.”
Su Tingyun smiles, and once he’s come close enough, she takes the opportunity to rub his head, just like before. It’s just that her hand, which had to reach down before, now has to reach up.
“Granny, you’ve become much younger, and your cultivation level has risen. Later, we’d have to change how to call you…” He contemplates for a bit, then says with some hesitation, “Big sister?”
A corner of her mouth twitches, still smiling and with slitted eyes.
Next to Du Xizhi, Fang Dingyuan wants to slap his own face— why didn’t he come up with that? Why didn’t he go with sweet talking? Look at Granny smiling with Du Xizhi’s words.
After a short exchange with Du Xizhi, Su Tingyun discovers that Su Lijiang’s other disciples had already left, just around the time when the Qiankun Array Hall was hidden from the world.
They are all sword cultivators, and the Qiankun Array Hall specializes in formations, and basically has no knowledge on swordsmanship. At that time, other people scraped up everything in the Sect’s Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, leaving nothing behind. And the Array Hall wasn’t able to pick up any high level sword arts.
Sword cultivators that stay here would learn nothing useful.
As a result, harsh reality and having no other option forced the others to leave. Only Du Xizhi remains.
Some time ago, he even refused Bai Su’s invitation to the Qianji Pavilion, so how could he leave?
After the mountain went into hiding, Du Xizhi wasn’t able to hear any news from the outside world. He doesn’t even know where his master is right now, or if he had forgotten about Du Xizhi, his apprentice.
His junior sister Yin Li, who had been following him before, also left. At her time of departure, she said, “Senior brother, if you insist on staying in the Array Hall, you won’t have any opportunity to advance, and you would be considered as lodging under another’s roof. And with the way you usually talk, careless, dumb and stupid, what if someone bullies you?”
She continued to say, “Senior brother, you should sweet-talk more in the future, praise other people more when you meet them, like I usually do, you know?”
He is very foolish. He just thinks that he still has a master, and this master hasn’t expelled him. Why would he change Sects when his master wouldn’t be there?
Back then, he was planning to go to the Luminous Moon Sect, but there were people who would come and make trouble in the Array Hall every day. As he’s one of them, he couldn’t shrink away from the fights. Afterwards, the people from Qianji Pavilion came over and quietly hid the Array Hall within a formation. Others can’t get in, but neither could he get out.
“Sister Yun, do you know where my master is? How is he right now?” Du Xizhi asks excitedly.
Su Tingyun feels that this new way of addressing her is very corny, she could feel goosebumps coming up. The honest brat from the past has now grown into a handsome, elegant and impressive young man, but has seemed to smear honey all over his mouth. No matter how she looks, he’s just too different from the past.
She reaches out and rubs Du Xizhi’s head again, only to hear him say, “Granny, I’m all grown up, you can’t rub my head anymore.”
Some female cultivators behind him laugh out loud, and Su Tingyun’s hand directly clenches into a fist and boinks him on the head.
She takes her hand back, “Your master is fine, he still thinks of you. But he’s recently gone into closed-door cultivation and couldn’t come out. If you want to see him, you’ll have to wait for some time.”
When her next business is over, and if she gets an opportunity to talk to Su Lijiang, she will mention Du Xizhi. If the other party really doesn’t plan to take care of this boy, she could just take Du Xizhi to the Obliteration Sword Tower.
In any case, they’re all sword cultivators, and the masters in the Obliteration Sword Tower are all very reliable.
They don’t chat for long, Xiao Mei can barely keep standing. Fang Dingyuan extends a hand to help her, and just as his hand touches her sleeve, his heart beats like a drum. She’s still the same as she was ten years ago, black silken hair like a waterfall, skin like congealed fat, so beautiful that he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
Li Xinmei’s cheeks are flushed. She had said so much in their daily chats, but they’ve never really touched before. She is shy and annoyed, but she pretends to be calm and purses her lips. Her beautiful eyes are half-lidded, and she looks a little cold. However, the fine curled eyelashes tremble gently like a pair of small fans, spilling the secret currently hiding in the depths of her heart.
Her primordial spirit has just returned to her physical body, and she needs a good rest.
Ning Xuzi’s big fat hands peels Fang Dingyuan off like a palm-leaf fan, and helps Xiao Mei himself, “Off. My precious apprentice is tired and needs to rest.”
Fang Dingyuan: “…”
From top to bottom, the entire Qiankun Array Hall gets quite busy. Ning Xuzi volunteers his own cultivation cave, and a few elders arrange a temporary spirit-gathering Array in the cave so that Xiao Mei could recover better.
Su Tingyun could stay by Xiao Mei’s side, but Fang Dingyuan is too miserable. Several elders guard the entrance and simply wouldn’t let him in. That is to say, from the time Xiao Mei opened her eyes, up until she entered the cave, he wasn’t able to hug her.
He couldn’t even speak a few words to Xiao Mei…
Fang Dingyuan feels so heartsick that he has no energy to do anything.