Chapter 364

Little Ningguang nodded, a hint of disappointment on her chubby little face.

"Hahahaha."

Jiang Yan suddenly burst out laughing. This little girl—how could she be this cute!

He vigorously rubbed Little Ningguang's soft, smooth hair.

"No one is born suited to a single thing."

"Your talent is very high. As long as you study diligently, I don't think there's anything you couldn't be equal to."

"Then it's decided—starting today, you are my, Jiang Yan's, first disciple!"

Jiang Yan laughed heartily, giving Ningguang no chance to refuse at all.

In truth, the test was just a gimmick. Whether she passed or not, Jiang Yan would have taken her in as a disciple.

After all, this was Ningguang—the successor he had chosen for the Yuheng five hundred years ago!

Who could refuse a soft, cute, adorable little disciple?

"Big brother..."

Ningguang's little face looked flushed red, like a ripe apple, making one unable to resist wanting to take a bite.

"Still calling me big brother?"

Jiang Yan said with a smile.

"... Master!"

Ningguang hesitated for a moment, but in the end still called out those two words.

"Come on, I'll take you to meet all my friends. In the future you'll need to learn some things from them as well."

Jiang Yan took Ningguang's little hand and strolled slowly down the great street of Liyue.

Perhaps even Jiang Yan himself would never have imagined that the well-behaved, adorable eldest disciple before his eyes would one day lead the other disciples he took in to overthrow him, becoming a disciple who defied her master.

Of course, all that is a story for later.

Chihu Rock—a place where a storyteller resided.

A young man in a brown robe sat quietly here.

"Yo! Zhong Li, drinking tea?"

Jiang Yan walked over with a smile and sat down beside him with Ningguang.

"Hmm? Aren't you busy with work at Moonsea Pavilion? How do you have the free time to come find me?"

Zhong Li—Morax—took a sip of his strong tea and said mildly.

"You made quite a stir this time. Logically speaking, you should be very busy."

"Hehehe, no matter how busy I am, I still have to come see an old friend, don't I?"

Jiang Yan said with a smile.

Then, he said to Ningguang beside him:

"Come here, Ningguang. This is your martial uncle."

"Hello, martial uncle~"

Ningguang called out obediently.

Morax's tea-drinking hand suddenly paused.

On that face as still as an ancient well, a rare expression of surprise appeared.

"Your disciple?"

Morax asked Jiang Yan.

"That's right."

Jiang Yan said with a smile.

Morax sized Ningguang up and down, thought for a moment, then stretched out a hand and gently tapped Ningguang's brow.

A faint glow appeared, and a Geo Vision materialized before Ningguang.

"I came out in a hurry and didn't bring anything good on me. I'll just use this as a meeting gift."

Morax said with a smile.

Although as the Geo Archon, the granting of Visions was not bestowed by his will.

He was still capable of using the authority of the Geo Archon's Heart to make a Vision.

"Not bad at all—this time you're actually being so generous!"

Jiang Yan said with a smile.

"I've always been very generous."

Morax calmly took a sip of his 310-clear tea, then looked at Ningguang.

"If you have any questions you don't understand in the future, you can come find me."

"Great—with that word from you, my disciple has really hit the jackpot."

Jiang Yan laughed heartily and patted Morax on the shoulder.

Ningguang's eyes went wide. She hadn't expected her martial uncle to be this nice to her on their very first meeting!

At a glance, her martial uncle was no ordinary person.

At this moment, little Ningguang still didn't know that the thing her martial uncle had given her was a Vision.

She looked toward Jiang Yan, a questioning look in her eyes.

"Take it. The two gifts your martial uncle gave you are an absolute windfall."

Jiang Yan rubbed Ningguang's hair.

Afterward, after chatting with Morax for a while, Jiang Yan took Ningguang and went off to wander around other places again.

"Master, who exactly is that martial uncle of yours?"

Little Ningguang asked Jiang Yan curiously.

"Him? He has a name you both already know."

Jiang Yan walked along the road, holding Little Ningguang's little hand, and said with a smile.

"His name is Rex Lapis."

Hearing this title, Little Ningguang's whole body trembled, and she stood frozen on the spot.

Rex Lapis?!

That martial uncle who leisurely drank tea and listened to storytelling, who looked as young as Master — was actually Rex Lapis?!