Volume 2 Chapter 61 / Chapter 148: Zhuang Hu, What's it to Me?
The moonlight gently illuminated Xiao Yunluo’s face, revealing a trace of fatigue and vulnerability. Although she had tried her best to hide her discontent, she couldn’t escape the scrutiny of Ye Anping’s eyes.
This girl had just cried, and it seemed she had her heart broken.
But Ye Anping could understand. It’s normal for teenage girls to cry when they’re heartbroken. It would pass with time.
So, he didn’t pay attention to her tears and instead focused on inspecting the condition of his meridians with his spiritual sense. Although the spiritual energy in his meridians was extremely abundant, his cultivation hadn’t increased much, at best, it’s just a step away from reaching the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
This was somewhat unexpected for him. Previously, when he had killed Wu Yue, it had boosted his cultivation by a level. This time, even without considering Li Feng, he should have encountered three Core Formation stage demonic cultivators, which should have at least allowed him to reach the middle or even late stage of Foundation Establishment.
However, after examining for a while with his spiritual sense, he understood the reason.
The spiritual energy that he got was indeed enough to directly elevate his cultivation to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. But most of the spiritual energy seemed to be wandering aimlessly in his body, not settling down.
If he guessed correctly, he had hit a bottleneck.
He had thought that his “Golden Finger” could directly help him bypass the bottleneck and forcefully increase his cultivation. But now it seemed that the “Golden Finger” wasn’t as heaven-defying as he had imagined. Even a cultivator with dual spiritual roots couldn’t avoid hitting a bottleneck.
However, thinking about it, hitting a bottleneck was also a good thing.
The power of his body is still at the Peak of Qi Refining, if his cultivation kept skyrocketing from one level to another, at one point, he would just explode from the abundance of spiritual energy inside his body.
Fortunately, the matter of the Chi Dragon Mansion had been settled, and he had plenty of time in the future to settle his cultivation and improve his techniques gradually.
Ye Anping opened his eyes, exhaled heavily, and then looked at Xiao Yunluo, saying, “Senior Sister Xiao, please help Young Mistress Li handle the internal affairs of the Chi Dragon Mansion for the next few days. She is feeling quite down and needs some time to adapt.”
Xiao Yunluo didn’t give him a good look, crossed her arms, and turned her head away. “Humph! Even if you don’t tell me to, I will still help her.”
“Mm.” Ye Anping felt somewhat helpless. It seemed that this girl would not give him a good look for a long time. But he didn’t say anything more and turned to look at Pei Lengxue.
“Junior Sister, are you feeling better? If you are, I’ll go back first.”
“Mm…”
However, just as Ye Anping withdrew his hand from Pei Lengxue’s shoulder and took a step forward, he suddenly felt his legs go weak, lost his balance, and fell forward. Pei Lengxue was startled and quickly grabbed his right hand to prevent him from falling.
Seeing this, Xiao Yunluo, who was still feeling quite sad and holding her chest, also looked horrified. Subconsciously, she stepped forward, leaned against him with her body, and then placed her left hand on his left shoulder to support him.
With a worried look on her face, Xiao Yunluo was about to ask, but she suddenly realized that Ye Anping seemed to have fallen asleep.
“Ye Anping, how did you— ah, did you just fall asleep like this?”
As she said this, Xiao Yunluo suddenly realized that Pei Lengxue was still present.
Would Lengxue be angry if she suddenly came so close to Ye Anping?
Xiao Yunluo swallowed nervously, weakly turned her head to glance at Pei Lengxue, seeing her expressionless gaze, she quickly tried to explain herself, “Lengxue, your injuries haven’t healed yet, right? I— I can help you support him inside together, Bu– But if you don’t want to, then forget it.”
Pei Lengxue hesitated for a moment, pursed her lips, and nodded.
Although she wanted to carry Ye Anping by herself, she really didn’t have much strength left at the moment.
And most importantly, Yunluo was “safe”.
She had promised herself that she would never develop feelings for Ye Anping.
“Yeah, thanks, Yunluo.”
Surprised that Lengxue agreed, Xiao Yunluo’s eyes lit up and she quickly replied, “It– It’s no trouble at all!, he’s my accompanying disciple after all! It’s only natural for me to take care of him— Hmph.”
Xiao Yunluo immediately took a step closer to Ye Anping’s embrace, allowing him to lean half of his body on her shoulder. Together with Pei Lengxue, they supported Ye Anping as they slowly moved into the rear hall.
However, neither Xiao Yunluo nor Pei Lengxue noticed that there had been a pair of eyes watching them since a moment ago.
Xiaotian was currently hanging on the wall, with its upper body outside and lower body inside, like wall furniture.
From the moment Ye Anping kissed Pei Lengxue earlier to Xiao Yunluo’s secretive smile just now, it saw everything.
Seeing the two of them supporting Ye Anping into the room, it withdrew its head back into the wall, and took a glance at Feng Yudie.
Seeing that Feng Yudie had no idea what was happening outside, it got angry and immediately rushed back, grabbing her fluffy hair and kicking her head wildly.
That Ye lad was about to be stolen away by the other girls!
Yet this girl didn’t do anything to prevent that!
『Yudie, you useless girl!』
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Feng Yudie slowly opened her eyes, not understanding why Xiaotian suddenly scolded her again.
“What did I do!? Why are you scolding me again!?”
『Your dao partner is about to be stolen away by those lass!!』
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“What?”
Feng Yudie looked confused, not understanding.
At this moment, the three people outside also came in. Seeing them, Feng Yudie stood up with her fluffy hair erect and limped over.
“Junior Sister Pei, what happened to him?”
“He fell asleep.”
Feng Yudie looked at Ye Anping sleeping on their shoulders and suggested, “Then, let Senior Sister Xiao take Young Master Ye to find a place to lie down first. Junior Sister Pei, you should rest for a while. I’ll transfer some of my true essence to you. My true essence is particularly effective for healing injuries.”
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Xiao Yunluo was slightly surprised to hear this proposal.
These idiots actually came up with such a brilliant suggestion!
She quickly nodded eagerly and continued, “Right, Lengxue, Ye Anping is very tired. Why don’t you two stay here tonight to rest, and I’ll carry Ye Anping to find a place to rest— You also need to rest.”
Pei Lengxue quickly shook her head, “No, my husband said that he wants to go back now.”
As she spoke, she turned to look at Big Brother Zhuang, who was sitting on the ground recovering, and softly called out, “Big Brother Zhuang.”
“…”
Big Brother Zhuang opened his eyes at the sound, glanced at Ye Anping and the three girls beside him, then suddenly saw Xiao Yunluo glaring at him with her eyes, feeling awkward.
He understood.
Right now, Young Mistress Xiao wanted him to persuade Ye Anping junior sister to agree to let Ye Anping stay and rest at the Chi Dragon Mansion.
“…”
I want to rest, why drag me into this?
Zhuang Hu felt a little annoyed.
If he said he would take Ye Anping back to the Jiang Residence now, Young Mistress Xiao would be unhappy with him. If he said to leave Ye Anping at the Chi Dragon Mansion, Ye Anping junior sister would be unhappy with him.
After a moment of silence, Zhuang Hu lowered his voice and asked, “Have you reached an agreement yet? Are you going to leave him here or go back?”
Pei Lengxue was decisive, she still wanted to go back to continue their kissing session, so she resolutely replied, “Go back!”
Xiao Yunluo quickly argued, “Junior Sister Pei, Jiang Residence is quite far from her, isn’t it better to let Anping rest here for the night?”
“No! We are going back!” Pei Lengxue furrowed her brow and turned to look at Xiao Yunluo. “My husband said we’re going back.”
“…”
Seeing Xiao Yunluo being overpowered by Pei Lengxue, Zhuang Hu sighed, got up with some effort, and walked over to take Ye Anping from the shoulders of the two girls, carrying him on his back. He then turned to Pei Lengxue and asked, “Can you control a flying sword?”
“Yes, I can.”
“That’s good then. Young Mistress Xiao, Miss Feng, goodbye.”
Zhuang Hu nodded slightly to the two of them, then carried Ye Anping on his back with Pei Lengxue and left the rear hall. He summoned a flying sword and flew away towards the Jiang Residence.
After the three left, Xiao Yunluo sighed, pursed her lips, and then glanced at Feng Yudie beside her.
“Yudie, how’s your injury?”
“Hehe, I’m fine! My body is tough.” Feng Yudie blinked and smiled. “Look, the wound on my shoulder has scabbed over, I’ll probably recover after a good night’s sleep.”
Xiao Yunluo glanced at the lump swelling on Feng Yudie’s shoulder and poked it with her hand.
Feng Yudie jumped back in pain, clutching her chest, and asked, “Ah—! Senior Sister Xiao, what are you doing?”
“Your injury is healing too quickly, so I got curious.” Xiao Yunluo shrugged, waved her hand, and said, “Forget it, let’s go back and rest. Tomorrow, I have to help Qianjin with the Chi Dragon Mansion matter.”
“Oh, okay!”