Chapter 27.1

Like a Date (1)

Shen Rongyu stood on the beach and stared at her.

He was keenly observant, and he had already noticed the subtle changes in Ji Qingzhou.

For example, she was wearing the dress she put on her pillow yesterday, then again, her dress was extraordinarily neat today.

It looked like… she had dressed up carefully for the occasion.

To his surprise, the piece of wood had actually thought of a way to dress herself up. This was indeed rare.

When Ji Qingzhou saw Shen Rongyu’s deep and probing eyes, she instantly regretted it. She blamed the system for saying that it was a date. She had actually believed it.

She was three feet away from Shen Rongyu when she stopped. She was originally lifting the hem of her skirt, so that it wouldn’t get stained with the mud in the forest, but then her hands loosened.

Shen Rongyu looked down, and with a whirl of his fingertips, a fine layer of air current lifted her skirt.

“Don’t you know what day it is today?” Shen Rongyu asked her.

“What day?” Ji Qingzhou looked down at the tip of her shoe and asked in a mosquito-like voice.

“The Xuanyun Sect is open today, so you can go shopping at the market outside the sect,” Shen Rongyu informed her slowly.

As an immortal cultivation sect, the internal management of Xuanyun Sect was very strict. The disciples were not allowed to leave the sect without permission before passing the internal check. However, the mountain gate would be opened every half of the month, allowing the disciples to go out to buy daily necessities, or to contact their family.

In fact, since Ji Qingzhou got started at the sect, she had missed the opening day many times. She didn’t even think about buying anything.

The Xuanyun Sect would give all disciples monthly spirit stone allowance, 100 medium-grade spirit stones per person. They were quite generous. As for the other expenses of the disciples, their master was responsible for them. It was Yu Sukong’s first time having a disciple, and he didn’t have much experience, so he had forgotten to give Ji Qingzhou spirit stones. Of course, Ji Qingzhou couldn’t take the initiative to ask.

She just threw the hundreds of medium-grade spirit stones she received into a jar and hid them under her bed. The purse she carried with her was too small to hold the shiny stones.

On hearing that they were going to go out to the market, Ji Qingzhou touched her shriveled purse. There were three coins of silver in it, as well as the spiritual harness Shen Rongyu had given her on the day of the Immortal Ascension Conference.

“I-I’ll go fetch my spirit stones,” Ji Qingzhou excused herself.

Shen Rongyu caught her wrist and dragged her back: “I have some.”

Technically speaking, he could be counted as a rich cultivator in the Xuanyun Sect. The Dongshan royal family was a prosperous clan, and was once the royal clan among mortals. They had mountains of long-accumulated wealth, and with him being the only successor, he naturally inherited all of it.

Ji Qingzhou did not quite feel like spending Shen Rongyu’s money, so she said to him, “Then I’ll pay you back when we return.”

“Okay,” Shen Rongyu only answered briefly.

Ji Qingzhou was taken on his Burial Snow Sword again. She was now used to the height of the sword and was no longer afraid of facing the oncoming wind.

She wasn’t actually afraid of external objects… She just wasn’t used to… or she should say she had hardly ever been in contact with someone.

Shen Rongyu was still wearing his pure white outfit, and the Queen of the Night in his sleeves was blooming in the wind, elegant like a celestial being.

There were multiple entrances to the mountain gates in Xuanyun Sect. The one on Yunshui Peak, which opened during the Immortal Ascension Conference, was only a relatively remote one, while the mountain gate facing the cultivation world was even more majestic and solemn.

The divine clouds concealed the tall mountain gates, and the two huge peaks hugged each other, forming a natural entrance, where invisible ripples of spells swirled. Every cultivator who passed through felt as if crossing the door of space and time, swinging the ripples for the barrier away.

Only the cultivators of the Xuanyun Sect could enter and leave the inside. Once outsiders entered, they would be stopped.

The figures of the cultivators flying in front of the huge Xuanyun Sect’s mountain gates were as tiny as insects. At the sight of the structure, Ji Qingzhou felt a sense of wonder, as if the vastness and oppression were intertwined. It was as if a clear piece of blue sky was sinking down towards her.

The cultivation world is indeed spectacular, she inwardly thought. She was seeing sights she had never seen before.

“Is it your first time?” Shen Rongyu seemingly caught the unfamiliarity and surprise in her eyes.

“En.” Ji Qingzhou nodded. She had never seen such a vast and real blue sky. “It’s magnificent here.”

“Magnificent?” Shen Rongyu’s voice contained a trace of a meaningful smile.

While going out of the mountain gate, they encountered a lot of cultivators. Whether they were disciples who started earlier than Shen Rongyu, or junior disciples who walked with them through the Immortal Ascension Conference, some of them would stop and greet Shen Rongyu, “Shen-shixiong” after seeing him.

His status in the Xuanyun Sect was indeed special. After all, the most powerful and high-ranking Perfected Yuan Wu in the Xuanyun Sect was his master, the leader of the righteous path in the cultivation world. It seemed that only Shen Rongyu could shoulder the burdens of such a heavy title.

Ji Qingzhou really couldn’t understand how a future villain could be the apprentice of the leader of the righteous path. It was just quite outrageous. Moreover, she still didn’t know what Shen Rongyu had experienced and what he wanted to do.

It must be impossible that he really came to Xuanyun Sect to learn the arts from his master, right?

Just as Ji Qingzhou was standing side by side with Shen Rongyu on the Burial Snow Sword, ruminating about these questions, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind her.

“I ran out of spiritual materials for my Alchemy Class again. This time when I go back, I’m going to ask Father to search some more for me.” Qiu Mingxue and Ying Xiu both used a Flight Spell with the Air Control Technique to fly together out of the mountain gates.