Chapter 385: Appreciating the Dance

Moments later, Xie Yan received Yuan Yao's reply.

"Thank you, Xie Yan."

Xie Yan took out an emerald-green jade gourd and asked, "Do you really want to thank me?"

Meanwhile, upon hearing those words, Yuan Yao's heart jumped a few beats; she always felt this was a trap.

Yuan Yao bit her lower lip, weighed her words, and replied, "Of course."

"Good." Xie Yan replied with just a single word.

And then there was no further text.

Yuan Yao thought he was hiding some big move, but unexpectedly he let it go lightly; she breathed a sigh of relief, yet felt a little disappointed.

Yuan Yao slapped her own cheeks to clear her head.

She thought of Lu Xiangxiang.

Lu Xiangxiang will surely continue to rely on her past-life memories to seize mystic treasures across the cultivation world ahead of time; thus, she will also cultivate faster by obtaining these heavenly materials.

Yuan Yao thought of this, and her sense of urgency grew stronger.

Afterward, she continued to study the Saint-grade Formation Manual.

Over the next five days, Yuan Yao still practiced swordsmanship by day and studied formations, mental power, and puppet techniques by night.

On the sixth day, Qianjue Shan had to go out on an errand.

Yuan Yao couldn't help but ask, "Master, where are you going?"

"Feiyun Island." Qianjue Shan replied.

"Master, when will you return?"

"As short as three days, as long as half a month."

Yuan Yao said solemnly, "Master, even while you're away from the Carefree Sect, I will diligently cultivate."

Qianjue Shan gazed at her for a moment, nodded gently with a warm expression, and said, "Good."

Three days later, Qianjue Shan left the Carefree Sect.

And on that very day, Cang Li returned to cooking, preparing two bowls of fragrant braised egg noodles.

Cang Li ate the noodles in big mouthfuls while sighing, "As soon as the master left, I felt my whole body relax. So refreshing."

Yuan Yao: "……"

Seeing Yuan Yao silent, Cang Li lifted his eyes and asked, "Don't you feel the same?"

Yuan Yao silently shook her head.

For a moment, Cang Li felt betrayed, showing a look of being hard hit.

Yuan Yao couldn't help but laugh and said, "Third Senior Brother, even though the master isn't here now, we mustn't neglect our cultivation. After we finish the noodles later, remember to keep training hard."

Hearing this, Cang Li instantly slumped like a deflated balloon, sitting limp in his chair and muttering, "Ah, you've completely changed! You're no longer the innocent, cute, and lazy little junior sister from before!"

Yuan Yao picked up some noodles, put them in her mouth, took a bite, and curiously asked, "Third Senior Brother, what does it feel like to grow stronger?"

"Not really much of a feeling." Cang Li thought seriously, mainly because he had been staying in the Carefree Sect to cultivate, without any external combat experience.

Cang Li shifted the topic: "However, I feel my cultivation has risen quickly; previously it would take one or two years to break through a cultivation realm, but now I've reached the early Nascent Soul Realm in just over three months."

Saying this, the young man's handsome face broke into a smug smile.

"My mood is naturally good."

Yuan Yao also laughed.

At this moment, she recalled something and sighed softly, "I don't know when Eldest Senior Brother and the others will leave seclusion; I wanted to spar with them."

Cang Li said, "After we finish the noodles later, accompany Third Senior Brother to the rear mountain to practice a few moves."

Yuan Yao thought it over and nodded in agreement.

"Alright."

…

After the two finished sparring, it was already the third watch (late night).

Yuan Yao returned to the bamboo hut, took off her dirty clothes, and changed into another set of sect attire.

Immediately, she extended her divine sense into the Yaoguang Space.

Over the past three months, Tianxue has been nursing its wounds; now it has fully recovered. Yet it did not actively approach the Golden Egg, the Little Fox, or Yuan Batian, because it felt they were somewhat abnormal.

The Golden Egg rolls around on the grass every day, or floats on the lake.

Meanwhile, the Little Fox spends most of its time earnestly cultivating; when not cultivating, it plays in the water with the Golden Egg.

And Yuan Batian is even more bizarre.

Every day it performs a weird dance; sometimes it suddenly transforms, with twelve hands each holding weapons, fighting itself, making crackling sounds.

Moreover, of the 100,000 top-grade spirit stones the master placed in the Yaoguang Space, half have been absorbed by it.

The other half has been refined by the Little Fox and the Golden Egg.

Tianxue finds them noisy.

However, the three of them are like old acquaintances, constantly swaying before its eyes.

Especially Yuan Batian; before each dance, it comes to pat its paw, letting it focus its attention on it, to appreciate its dance posture.

At this moment, Tianxue discovers Yuan Yao has entered; as it rises, it instantly transforms into human form.

Appearing as a girl about eight or nine years old, with white hair and golden pupils, eyelashes and eyebrows tinged gold, a pair of small horns on her head, looking like a little elf, very beautiful.

She shouted, "Master!"

Yuan Yao smiled, reached out, and touched her head, asking, "How do you feel today?"

"Pretty good." Tianxue was a bit unaccustomed to her touching its head, but it didn't avoid it.

"Master!"

At this moment, the golden egg, little fox, and Yuan Batian all rushed toward Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao's gaze fell upon the golden egg.

The golden egg sensed something was off, and the next moment it heard Yuan Yao's voice coming.

"Golden egg, I give you one year; if you still can't break your shell, I'll boil you."

Golden egg: No!!!

Yuan Yao raised her eyebrows slightly, let out a cold snort, "You're so lax about cultivation and breaking your shell. What use is keeping you? Better to boil you."

Golden egg: Master, you can't treat me like this! I've been by your side for so long; don't you feel any old affection?

Yuan Yao sighed lightly, "So I gave you a year to break your shell; if you can't, I'll have to boil you. You know I love eating eggs."

Upon hearing this, the golden egg rolled on the ground as if hearing terrible news: Master, wuwuwu! You can't be so heartless!

At this moment, the little fox lifted its beautiful heterochromatic eyes, looked at Yuan Yao, raised a paw and promised: "Master, I will definitely cultivate well! I am already a peak second-rank spirit beast; after a while, I will surely break through to third rank!"

Yuan Yao nodded satisfactorily, "Good!"

Actually, the little fox's promotion speed is much faster than she imagined!

You should know, a spirit beast's peak second rank is equivalent to the late peak of the human Foundation Establishment Realm!

Yuan Batian also raised the puppet's hands, as if saying: I've become stronger too.

Yuan Batian absorbed so much spiritual energy from those top-grade spirit stones, naturally increasing its overall strength considerably, and its spiritual intelligence and limb agility also improved.

Yuan Yao crouched down, extended two fingers, and shook hands with Yuan Batian.

Immediately after, she also rubbed the little fox's head.

When the golden egg approached, Yuan Yao slapped it into the lake, making it skip across the water.

Golden egg: Ahhhh wuwuwuwuwu!