Gu Qingxue looked at her junior sister's earnest expression and nodded gently.
She glanced around the cramped room, which had only a single bed. After a brief hesitation, she asked softly, “Could I... get onto your bed to talk...?”
Whoosh!
Before the final word could even leave her mouth, Jiang Ye immediately sprawled out on the bed, forming the shape of a “tai” character—no, wait, a “da” character!
He closed his eyes tightly, the corners of his mouth curving up wildly as he blurted out, “Alright, Senior Sister! I agree! Come, please ravage me to your heart's content!”
Internally, Jiang Ye was frantically beating gongs and drums:
Holy crap! Are NPC dialogues always this blunt nowadays?! And this explicit?!
She's a grand Golden Core True Disciple, yet she's coming here in the dead of night to initiate an unwritten rule with a tiny Qi Condensation outer sect disciple like me?!
Is this reasonable? It's extremely reasonable!
Should I accept, or should I just not resist?!
If I knew maxing out an NPC's favorability would unlock this kind of hidden yuri CG, I wouldn't have just chased after the “combat high”! I would've definitely chosen the “complete high” instead!
Jiang Ye just lay there with his eyes closed.
One second. Two seconds. Three seconds.
Huh? Why is there no movement yet? Did it bug out again?
Jiang Ye opened his eyes in confusion.
He saw the usually cold and noble Senior Sister Gu now pinned flat against the door, her entire face as red as a ripe apple, with even her slender neck flushed pink!
She pointed a trembling, slender finger at the flat-lying Bai Zhirou (Jiang Ye), her voice shaking so much it went out of tune: “Junior... Junior Sister Bai! What... what on earth are you blabbering about?!”
Jiang Ye clicked his tongue in disappointment. He sat straight up on the bed, slapped the mattress in annoyance, his disappointment written all over his face.
“Oh, after all that, you just wanted a serious chat.”
“Go ahead and sit then. Saying such exciting things in the middle of the night, honestly.”
Inside her mind.
Bai Zhirou had completely broken down.
She covered her face with both hands, feeling like her purity and reputation for this entire lifetime had been completely squandered today.
Right at that moment, Jiang Ye's voice rang out in her mind:
“What a waste of my expressions. Little Bai, you flirt with the girl you attracted yourself. I'm not taking any more boosting orders that are just pure chatting without even a CG. Logging off!”
Buzz.
The moment he finished speaking,
Bai Zhirou's body trembled slightly.
Feeling her body return to her own control, Bai Zhirou wanted to cry but had no tears. She screamed inwardly:
How the hell is this a girl I attracted?!
You're clearly the one talking nonsense and doing weird things all day, and in the end, I'm the one who has to take the blame for everything!!
Instantly, the room fell into an awkward silence so heavy that even the air seemed to stop flowing.
Bai Zhirou lowered her head, her fingers gripping the corner of her robe and twisting it frantically.
The corner of her robe was practically about to start smoking from all the twisting!
Both of her ears were so red they looked ready to drip blood.
Standing by the door, Gu Qingxue took dozens of deep breaths before she barely managed to calm the frantic, rabbit-like thumping in her heart.
She took a few long strides over to the bed, but extremely cautiously, she only sat down with half her bottom resting on a tiny corner of the mattress.
Gu Qingxue selectively skipped the previous topic.
She cleared her throat, her face returning to its usual solemnity, and spoke slowly, “Junior Sister Bai, I came to find you tonight specifically because I wanted to tell you something important. Your talent is extremely high, and a Heavenly Spiritual Root is one in ten thousand. Breaking through realms might be as simple as eating and drinking for you. But remember! The path of cultivation requires steady progress. If you do not settle your energy and consolidate your meridians properly, it is very easy to end up with an unstable foundation. Once hidden flaws are left behind, it will be extremely detrimental to your future cultivation, and you might even suffer qi deviation.”
The corner of the robe in Bai Zhirou's hands was still twisting frantically. Like an elementary school student who had done something wrong, she nodded her head like a chicken pecking at grain, answering with utmost respect, “I understand, Senior Sister Gu! Don't worry, I will definitely consolidate my cultivation properly!”
However,
Jiang Ye, who was still secretly eating popcorn in her mind, curled his lips in disdain:
“Tch.”
“No one knows cultivation better than me, alright?”
“Their cultivations were all achieved through their own blind fumbling, making them incredibly unstable. Meanwhile, mine was raised bit by bit by defeating monsters and leveling up.”
“The difference is clear as day!”
Bai Zhirou completely ignored Jiang Ye, who was confidently holding forth in her mind.
Like an exemplary student listening to a homeroom teacher's lecture, she sat perfectly straight with her hands resting neatly on her knees, fully focused on Gu Qingxue's explanation of cultivation insights.
Whenever she reached a profound point, she would nod responsively, making chiming sounds like “Mhm, mhm” and “I see.”
Seeing her junior sister's studious and eager attitude, the fondness in Gu Qingxue's eyes grew even deeper.
With a flick of her wrist, three jade slips appeared out of thin air in her palm, and she handed them over, “Junior Sister Bai, this is the 《Azure Ox Body Tempering Art》. Although it is only a basic body-tempering technique of the sect, its advantage lies in its balanced and peaceful nature, making it unlikely for anything to go wrong. This is exactly what you asked me to find for you earlier. The other one is called 《Flowing Cloud Moon-Treading Steps》, a low-grade Profound-grade movement technique. It is what I promised you before. The last one is the standard sword technique distributed to the Sword Peak's outer sect, called 《Nine Connected Clouds Sword》, a high-grade Yellow-grade technique.”
Gu Qingxue thoughtfully advised:
“If you have time, you can try to comprehend the first two techniques. A movement technique can save your life, and a strong physical body will also be of great benefit when you cross the Foundation Establishment tribulation in the future.”
At this point, Gu Qingxue seemed to recall something and asked, “By the way, that body-tempering technique requires soaking your body in demon beast essence blood. Do you have any essence blood on hand? If not, tomorrow I can go to the storehouse...”
“I have it, I have it!”
Bai Zhirou nodded vigorously, her small hands tightly clutching the three jade slips.
Gu Qingxue nodded slightly and stood up, “Yes, it is correct to train your physical body when you have the time. It is getting late, so I will head back first.”
Bai Zhirou hurriedly stood up and respectfully escorted Gu Qingxue all the way out the door.
Only after watching Gu Qingxue's cold and beautiful figure vanish into the night sky on her flying sword did Bai Zhirou let out a long sigh of relief, close the door, and turn back into the room.
Right on cue, Jiang Ye's teasing voice rang out in her mind, “Yo? It's the middle of the night, and you didn't ask her to stay over?”
Bai Zhirou: “...”
To some extent, Bai Zhirou had developed a bit of immunity to Jiang Ye's daily teasing.
But hearing words like “stay over” and “spend the night,” her face still couldn't help but flush slightly.
She forcefully ignored Jiang Ye's teasing and stiffly changed the subject, “Senior! Then... should I start comprehending these two techniques first thing tomorrow morning?”
“Comprehend my foot. Who has the luxury of time to sit around and meditate?”
Jiang Ye said in an extremely casual tone, “Just hold those three jade slips tightly in your hands right now, and leave the rest to me.”
Bai Zhirou did as she was told.
The moment her hands tightly pressed against the three jade slips,
three game notification boxes instantly popped up on Jiang Ye's game panel:
【Detected mid-grade Yellow-grade technique 《Azure Ox Body Tempering Art》】
【Would you like to learn it?】
【Yes / No】
Jiang Ye instantly selected “Yes” without a second thought!
Ding! 【Learning successful!】
Following the same pattern, he also clicked to learn both the movement technique and the sword technique.
Jiang Ye curled his lips and muttered,
“Even though they're all common trash, they'll do for now.”
In this game, as long as you clicked to learn a skill book, you would instantly master it completely! However, proficiency still required frequent casting to increase, and the higher the proficiency, the greater the skill's power.
The moment the learning succeeded, Bai Zhirou's delicate body shuddered violently!
She felt as if all the knowledge of the three techniques had appeared out of thin air inside her brain.
Even though she hadn't even flipped through the three manuals a second ago, in the next instant, she could actually recite every single chant and every node of true qi circulation of these three techniques backwards, as if she had painstakingly cultivated them for over a decade!
Bai Zhirou sucked in a breath of cold air.
Even though she had already witnessed this senior's various outrageous actions over the past few days,
at this moment, this terrifying ability of “instant enlightenment” still made her gasp in amazement from the bottom of her heart.
This was simply a dimensional strike!
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